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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Brower: Biden “Regrets Not Being President.” <#S1>

• Kotb On Bidens’ Book-Signing Appearance: “It Was A Cool Surprise.” <#S2>

• Biden, Obama Cast As Crime-Solving Duo In New Novel “Hope Never Dies.”
<#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Nominates Kavanaugh To Supreme Court. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Remains Confident Kim Will “Honor” Pledge To Denuclearize. <#S5>

• Trump Keeps Up Pressure On NATO Members Ahead Of Summit. <#S6>

• Media Analyses: Future Of May Government In Doubt After Ministers Resign.
<#S7>

• Merkel: Germany Still Committed To Iran Nuclear Deal. <#S8>

• Pompeo: US Willing To Engage In Peace Talks With Taliban. <#S9>

• Merkel, Chinese PM Tout Strong Ties After Signing Deals Worth $23.6
Billion. <#S10>

• Trump Denounces “Failing NY Times Fake News Story” On Breastfeeding Vote.
<#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Judge “Encouraged With The Progress” Toward Reuniting Immigrant Families.
<#S12>

• Trump Blasts Drug Makers Over Price Increases. <#S13>

• Former FBI Lawyer Page To Testify Before House Judiciary Committee
Tomorrow. <#S14>

• Bishop Criticizes Priests Who Attended Trump Rally In Montana. <#S15>

• Tim Ryan Again Considering Pelosi Challenge After Elections. <#S16>

• Study: Police Killings Affect African-American Mental Health. <#S17>

• WSJournal: Legacy Admissions Make Diversifying Colleges More Difficult.
<#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: Cancer Patient End-Of-Life Care May Depend On Doctor Preferences.
<#S19>

• CMS Ended Plan To Pay For Cancer Treatment Amid Concerns Over Industry
Role. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
Brower: Biden “Regrets Not Being President.”

Writing for Politico Magazine
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(7/10), Edward-Isaac Dovere discusses an interview he recently conducted on
Politico’s “Off Message” podcast with “First in Line” author Kate Andersen
Brower. Dovere quotes Brower as saying that former President Barack Obama
and former Vice President Joe Biden were “the only president and vice
president who grew closer over those eight years.” Their “relationship,
though, does have at least one hitch: Biden knows the lengths Obama went to
steer the 2016 Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton and urge him out of
running. Brower asked Biden whether he harbors remorse. ‘Nothing on the
record, obviously, but yes, I think he seemed,’ she says. ‘He said to me,
of course he regrets not being president.’”
Kotb On Bidens’ Book-Signing Appearance: “It Was A Cool Surprise.”

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(7/9), co-host Hoda Kotb spoke briefly about the surprise appearance made
by former Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at Kotb’s Saturday
book-signing event in Rehoboth Beach. Asked whether she and Biden are
close, Kotb said, “No. He just came. I mean, I guess he was being nice. It
was so nice. It was a cool surprise. The crowd went crazy for him.”
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Salisbury, MD (7/9) broadcast the same clip from NBC’s “Today,” and
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Philadelphia's News at 4PM (7/9) also broadcast a brief report on the
story.
Biden, Obama Cast As Crime-Solving Duo In New Novel “Hope Never Dies.”

Writing for the Washington Post
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(7/9), NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Andrew Shaffer’s new book,
“Hope Never Dies,” in which former President Barack Obama and former Vice
President Joe Biden “have been reimagined as a dynamic detective duo in a
thriller about the opioid epidemic.” Corrigan says, “The whole allure of”
the book “is encapsulated in [the] paperback novel’s brilliant cover
illustration: Joe grimacing in determination behind the wheel of his Camaro
convertible, with Barack rising up beside him on the passenger side, tie
flying, right arm pointing forward. That image all but shouts: ‘Yes We Can’
. . . solve this crime! And, by extension, ‘Yes We Can’ . . . set a rotten
world right again!”

Brian Truitt of USA Today
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(7/9) also reviews the book, saying “it goes all in on pulpy, far-fetched
absurdity while also trying to find nuance in political characters who are
figuring out their private lives after running the country for eight
years.” Truitt adds, “Since Biden is the book’s narrator, it has a definite
Democratic bent. Potshots are fired at Fox News, Sarah Palin and John
Boehner’s tan; Barack and Joe bemoan the current administration dismantling
‘everything we’d built’; and both are afraid of getting on Michelle Obama’s
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New York (7/10) highlighted Truitt’s review of the book.
Leading the News
Trump Nominates Kavanaugh To Supreme Court.

Media reports cast President Trump’s selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to
the Supreme Court as setting the stage for a partisan free-for-all that
could galvanize both parties’ bases – but particularly conservatives –
ahead of the midterm elections. As McClatchy
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(7/9, Clark) reports, “Democrats have few options to prevent or even delay
the confirmation” and “Republicans are aiming to seat a new justice before
the November election, offering a point of pride to GOP senators facing
tough elections.” Ultimately, says Politico
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(7/9, Nussbaum), “the night was one of near-jubilant celebration for
Republicans, a moment of ringing unity even as some within the party remain
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coverage of Trump’s announcement, Chuck Todd called Kavanaugh a “very
confirmable pick,” adding he “has already got the support once of the two
moderate Republican senators, Murkowski and Collins,” and “he’ll likely get
it again.” Jeffrey Toobin also said on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time[image: Image
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(7/9) that “the only two votes that appear to be in play,” Collins and
Murkowski, “have voted for every single judicial appointment that...Trump
has made,” so “the odds of peeling them off are difficult.”

The Washington Post
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(7/9, Sonmez, Costa, Barnes) reports “Republican leaders...see the coming
confirmation fight as a chance to galvanize their voters ahead of this
year’s midterm elections, where the GOP’s 51-seat Senate majority is at
risk.” CQ Roll Call
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(7/9, Bennett) similarly casts Trump as “seeking a rightward shift on the
Supreme Court and to force vulnerable Senate Democrats into a tough vote,”
while the New York Times
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(7/9, Landler, Haberman) predicts the issue “will galvanize Democrats and
Republicans in the months before the midterm elections.” The Times also
reports that “for Mr. Trump, whose presidency has been marked by personnel
upheaval, an uneven legislative record and persistent questions over his
ties to Russia, the nomination offers a chance for a clear victory” and
“fulfills, for a second time,” his “promise to his political base to name
conservative judges in the mold of Justice Scalia.”

Bloomberg News
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(7/10, Stohr, Jacobs, Epstein) reports “the White House wants Kavanaugh to
be in place by Oct. 1, when the court’s next term formally opens, and
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will vote to confirm
Kennedy’s successor in the fall.” McConnell, “who called Kavanaugh a
‘superb choice,’ hasn’t explicitly said whether his goal is to complete a
confirmation before the November midterm elections.”

Trump’s selection was viewed as unsurprising. Axios
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(7/9), for example, says Kavanaugh “was the frontrunner from the start –
and a favorite of White House Counsel Don McGahn.” Politico
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(7/9, Nussbaum) says that he “was seen as safe choice for Trump,” and
the Washington
Examiner
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(7/9, Quinn) that he “was considered the favorite to succeed” retiring
Justice Anthony Kennedy, “as he is considered to be a textualist and
originalist.” USA Today
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(7/9, Jackson, Wolf), meanwhile, calls Kavanaugh “a pivotal choice that
could move the court in a more conservative direction for decades,” and
says he was “long seen as the front-runner for the position because of his
academic pedigree, sterling reputation and lengthy career in government
service.” Politico
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(7/9, Cadelago, Cook, Restuccia) reports that after Kennedy told “Trump he
would relinquish his seat on the Supreme Court, the president emerged from
his private meeting with the retiring jurist focused on one candidate to
name as his successor: Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Kennedy’s former law clerk.”
Trump “was always leaning toward accepting Kennedy’s partiality for
Kavanaugh while preserving the secret until his formal announcement,
sources with knowledge of his thinking told POLITICO.”

The New York Times
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(7/9, Baker) reports Kavanaugh’s nomination “culminates a three-decade
project unparalleled in American history to install a reliable conservative
majority on the nation’s highest tribunal, one that could shape the
direction of the law for years to come.” The nomination “holds the
potential of changing the balance of power rather than simply replacing a
like-minded justice with a younger version.” The Washington Post
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(7/9, A1, Marimow) says the nominee’s “record suggests he would be more to
the right than the man he would replace on the Supreme Court,” and the New
York Times
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(7/9, A1, Liptak) that “as a judge, though, he has been a conservative
powerhouse, issuing around 300 opinions.” Kavanaugh’s “dissents have often
led to Supreme Court appeals, and the justices have repeatedly embraced the
positions set out in Judge Kavanaugh’s opinions.”

Along those lines, the AP
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(7/10, Lucey, Miller, Sherman) says Kavanaugh is “a favorite of the
Republican legal establishment in Washington,” and the Los Angeles Times
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(7/9, Savage) that he is “a well-credentialed Washington insider who
compiled a long record as a reliable conservative,” while the Wall Street
Journal
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(7/10, Nicholas, Radnofsky) offers a similar analysis. The Daily Caller
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(7/9, Daley) similarly estimates “the appointment will likely precipitate a
sharp shift in the Court’s balance of power, solidifying a conservative
majority on the panel for the foreseeable future.”

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(7/9, story 3, 4:35, Moran) cited Kavanaugh first among Trump’s options,
though it added that his service “in key positions in the Bush White
House...could be a turnoff for Trump, who has attacked the Bushes.” The CBS
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(7/9, lead story, 3:10, Glor) called Kavanaugh “the favorite of the
conservative legal establishment” and “an intellectual force,” while NBC
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(7/9, story 3, 2:30, Jackson) also mentioned Kavanaugh first among Trump’s
potential choices, and remarked on “the reality show President drumming up
drama ahead of a decision that could define his presidency.” The Hill
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(7/9, Fabian, Wheeler) touched on a similar theme as it reported that Trump
“made the announcement during a reality TV-style event in the East Room of
the White House.”

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(7/9) that Kavanaugh “was selected from a previously released list of 25
originalist justices, making that one more example of why this President is
most transparent President in history and also keeping a clear promise to
the American people. Clearly this was not a decision the President took
lightly.” Hannity added, “By the way, to all of you Never Trumpers out
there, you tried so hard to prevent the presidency. Are you happy at all?
Are you happy about tax cuts, promises made and promises kept? Are you
happy this was not Hillary Clinton tonight appointing a judicial activist
or a left-wing activist to the Supreme Court? Are you happy you don’t have
two radical justices on the Supreme Court? Would you rather have Hillary
Rodham Clinton making this decision?”

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(7/9) about criticism of Kavanaugh from the left, said, “You are going to
see a lot of scare tactics. Justice Kennedy was for the most part a
conservative justice, especially on issues of separation of powers,
federalism, areas of religious freedom, free exercise in particular. We saw
the last term he voted with the conservative majority 75% of the time. This
is hyped up. This is really hyped up. Of course, we know why. Because the
left wants to have a court that is outcome-based. They want to make sure
that they get results from the Court they know they can’t get through the
political process.”

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(7/9), “One thing we should point out is that there are two different
careers of Brett Kavanaugh. One is the career as a judge. He’s been on the
DC Court of Appeals,” but “the other is he’s been a political operative
works in the worlds of conservative lawyers, conservative operators, and
this is where I think it’s going to be very contentious in the Senate
because more than a decade ago when he was up for his first judgeship,
Schumer referred to his nomination, Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, as not
just a dash of salt in the partisan wounds, but the whole shaker.” CNN’s
Ryan Struyk tweeted
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“Kavanaugh in 2012 law review article: ‘Congress might consider a law
exempting a President – while in office – from criminal prosecution and
investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or
defense counsel.’”

Moments after the announcement, the Washington Post
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(7/9, Board) editorialized that “the court is in danger of becoming viewed
as an instrument of politics rather than an independent, nonpartisan branch
of government,” and “that is why senators must be even more exacting than
usual when they evaluate Mr. Kavanaugh. They should insist on a justice who
would rule with modesty and genuine independence of mind – and a
willingness to resist abuses of power by this and future presidents.” The
Post also says that “just as Democrats should not have ruled out Mr.
Trump’s pick before it was announced, Republicans should not duck their
responsibility to bring a critical eye to the coming confirmation process.”

Also minutes after Trump’s announcement the New York Times
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(7/9) sounded a pessimistic note on Democrats’ chances to stop Kavanaugh,
stating in an editorial that Republicans “will almost certainly win,” but
“it’s a victory that will come at great cost to the nation, and to the
court’s remaining legitimacy.” Illustrating the tone of the debate ahead,
the Times placed the nomination in the context of “a global movement
against the idea of liberal democracy” as seen “in places like Hungary and
Poland,” and says “Trump and Senate Republicans appear happy to ride this
wave to unlimited power.”

*In Tweet Today, Trump Thanks Supporters, Says “Really Big Progress
Being Made.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Thank you to all of my great supporters, really big progress
being made. Other countries wanting to fix crazy trade deals. Economy is
ROARING. Supreme Court pick getting GREAT REVIEWS. New Poll says Trump, at
over 90%, is the most popular Republican in history of the Party. Wow!”

*Red-State Democrats Up In November Declined White House Invite To
Announcement. *The Washington Times
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(7/9, Boyer, Swoyer) notes “at least four red-state Democratic senators
were invited to the White House announcement: Heidi Heitkamp of North
Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Joe
Donnelly of Indiana,” and they “all turned down the invitation.” The New
York Post
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(7/9, Tacopino) points out “all three are up for re-election in November
and voted in favor of Gorsuch,” and “are expected to come under intense
pressure to do the same for Kavanaugh.” McClatchy
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(7/9, Clark) also reports “Democrats from states that Trump won in the 2016
election will be under particular scrutiny as they seek to court Trump
voters, while not turning off Democrats.” The Indianapolis Star
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(7/9, Groppe) reports that Donnelly, “who was already in the hot seat over
the Supreme Court opening, turned down an offer to be at...Trump’s
unveiling of his nominee.” Said Donnelly, “While I appreciate the
invitation from the White House to attend this evening’s announcement...I
declined so that I can meet first with the nominee in a setting where we
can discuss his or her experience and perspectives.”

The Washington Times
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(7/9, Boyer) reports, “A conservative group plans to launch an ad campaign
in four states with Democratic senators Monday.” The Judicial Crisis
Network “will spend $1.4 million on national cable, digital ads supporting
the nominee in Alabama, Indiana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, featuring
an introductory biography about the jurist.” The Hill
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(7/9, Birnbaum) notes Donnelly, Heitkamp and Manchin “are among those being
targeted, as is Sen. Doug Jones (Ala.), they noted. Unlike the others,
Jones is not up for reelection this year.”

*Hawley’s First TV Ad Of Senate Campaign Targets McCaskill On
SCOTUS Vacancy. *The AP
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(7/9, Peoples) reports state Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) – who is
expected to face off this fall against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) – warns
“voters that ‘our way of life is at risk’ in a new television ad that
seizes on the Supreme Court vacancy to mobilize voters against” McCaskill.
Hawley, “who previously clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, began
running the new ad on Monday. ‘The eyes of the nation are on Missouri. We
decide which values control the Senate, and the Supreme Court,’ Hawley says
in the ad, his campaign’s first television spot of the year. He added: ‘I
know our way of life is at risk.’” Hawley launched the ad before President
Trump on Monday night announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the nominee to
succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
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(7/9, Raasch) reported, “In the ad, Hawley says that the eyes of the nation
are on Missouri. ‘We decide which values control the Senate, and the
Supreme Court,’ he says. McCaskill, Hawley says in the ad, wants ‘liberal’
justices. She voted against Trump’s first court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, last
year. Hawley’s ad also highlights his experience as a Supreme Court clerk,
where he says he was ‘defending religious liberty.’”

The Missouri Times
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(7/9, Peters) reported that in the ad, Hawley says, “Missourians want a
justice who will faithfully follow the law the people wrote. Claire
McCaskill has endorsed activist liberals every time. She needs to finally
make a break with Chuck Schumer and represent the people of Missouri.” In
response, the McCaskill camp “said that McCaskill has voted for ‘over 70
percent’ of...Trump’s judicial nominees and said that Trump has signed more
than 25 bills that McCaskill has sponsored or aided.” Politico Morning Score
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(7/9, Montellaro) reported, “Hawley’s campaign has placed at least $505,000
on cable and broadcast behind the ad, according to data from Advertising
Analytics.”

*Kyl Tasked With Shepherding Nomination. *Breitbart
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(7/9, Caplan) reports, “Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl will guide...Trump’s
Supreme Court nominee through the confirmation process.” White House Deputy
Press Secretary Raj Shah “announced...Kyl will serve as the ‘Lead Sherpa’
for the...nominee and will help guide the pick as he or she begins
corresponding with members of Congress.” Breitbart adds that “similarly to
what Kyl’s duties will entail, former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte
guided Judge Neil Gorsuch through his nomination process last year.”

*Kavanaugh Won Senate Confirmation By 57-33 Vote In 2006. *Reuters
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(7/9, Hurley) describes Kavanaugh as “a conservative federal appeals court
judge who survived a previous tough Senate confirmation battle and helped
investigate Democratic former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.”
The Washington
Times
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(7/9, Swoyer) also says that Kavanaugh has “been through the process
before, having won confirmation to the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia on a 57-36 vote in 2006.” The Times adds “his
nomination process then was dominated by his record in the Bush
administration.” The Washington Post
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(7/6, Kranish, Marimow) reports that “after working on the recount that put
George W. Bush in the White House, Kavanaugh played a central role in
Bush’s administration and was rewarded when his boss nominated him to a
federal circuit court.” However, “Democrats held up his nomination” for a
time, “concerned he was too partisan, and his meteoric rise stalled.”

*McCain Praises Kavanaugh’s Selection. *The Washington Examiner
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(7/9, Weaver) reports Sen. John McCain “praised...Kavanaugh after his
nomination Monday evening to the Supreme Court as someone with ‘impeccable
credentials’ and who is a ‘fair, mainstream judge.’” Added McCain, “In
selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy left by Justice
Kennedy, President Trump has chosen a nominee with impeccable credentials
and a strong record of upholding the Constitution.”

*Schumer Says He Will Fight Kavanaugh “With Everything I Have.” *USA
Today
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(7/9, Shesgreen) reports, “Let the pitched, partisan battle begin.” USA
Today quotes Senate Minority Leader Schumer as saying, “I will oppose Judge
Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have, and I hope a bipartisan
majority will do the same. ... The stakes are simply too high for anything
less.” The Washington Times
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(7/9, Dinan) notes Schumer also said that “the nominee must ‘share their
personal views’ on abortion in order to be confirmed.”

*Pelosi Vows To “Avenge President Obama If It’s The Last Thing I
Do.” *Ahead of Trump’s announcement, the Daily Caller
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(7/9, Hasson) reported that House Minority Leader Pelosi “promised to
‘avenge’ former President Barack Obama in a bizarre fundraising email sent
out on Monday afternoon.” Pelosi “claimed that Republican ad-buys on behalf
of Trump’s nominee will ‘eviscerate our chance to make Republicans pay for
the Supreme Court seat they STOLE from President Obama.’” She added, “But
I’m determined to avenge President Obama if it’s the last thing I do.” The
DC goes on to point out that the House “doesn’t play a role in confirming
Supreme Court nominees, which the Constitution leaves to the Senate.”

*Yale Professor Who Backed Clinton In 2016: Kavanaugh “A Superb
Nominee.” *Under the headline “A Liberal’s Case For Brett Kavanaugh,” Yale
professor Akhil Reed Amar, a supporter of Hillary Clinton in 2016, writes
in the New York Times
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(7/9) that Kavanaugh’s nomination is Trump’s “finest hour, his classiest
move. Last week the president promised to select ‘someone with impeccable
credentials, great intellect, unbiased judgment, and deep reverence for the
laws and Constitution of the United States,’” and “in picking...Kavanaugh,
he has done just that.” Amar goes on to state that Kavanaugh “commands wide
and deep respect among scholars, lawyers and jurists,” and that he is “a
superb nominee.”

*Trump Jr. Ribs Liberals, Warns Of Their Tears “Flowing Like
Niagara Falls.” *Donald Trump Jr. tweeted
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ahead of the announcement, “Flash Flood Warning Tonight at 9PM EST* This is
not a joke. Liberal tears will be flowing like Niagara Falls when #POTUS
announces his second #SCOTUS pick. Please take all necessary precautions &
bring an inner tube or boogie board to ride this blue wave.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Remains Confident Kim Will “Honor” Pledge To Denuclearize.

The AP
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(7/9, Superville, Pennington) reports President Trump on Monday “voiced
confidence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “would ‘honor’ his
commitment to denuclearize, despite Pyongyang’s accusation that the US is
making ‘gangster-like’ demands in negotiations.” It was Trump’s “first
public response since North Korea gave an angry send-off at the weekend to
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo” after talks there. Similarly, the Washington
Post
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(7/9, Wagner, Hudson) reports Trump “expressed confidence that
...Kim...would make good on pledges to denuclearize, despite contentious
rhetoric coming out of the country after” Pompeo’s visit. In a tweet
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Trump “cited an agreement that he and Kim signed during last month’s summit
in Singapore and said ‘our handshake’ was even more important to his
assessment of Kim’s commitment.”

USA Today
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(7/9, Jackson) reports following that the “rebuff” of Pompeo, Trump “sent a
semi-threatening message” to Kim “to live up to their denuclearization
agreement.” Trump tweeted, “I have confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor
the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake. We agreed
to the denuclearization of North Korea. China, on the other hand, may be
exerting negative pressure on a deal because of our posture on Chinese
Trade-Hope Not!” Reuters
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(7/9, Heavey) says Trump’s “suggestion that China was behind North Korea’s
tougher stance on denuclearization talks echoes a comment by Republican
Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday.” The Washington Times
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(7/9, Muñoz) and Politico
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(7/9, Murray), among other sources, similarly report Trump’s tweet.

An AP
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(7/9, Moritsugu) analysis says North Korea’s “vitriolic criticism of the US
following a first round of nuclear negotiations went out of its way to
spare one person: President Donald Trump.” North Korea may “be betting that
Trump, the real estate developer-turned-president, will be more willing
than his negotiators to ease off his administration’s hard-line positions
to make a deal.” The North Korean statement was “was widely seen as a
negotiating tactic to put the US on the back foot as talks get underway.”

*Pompeo On North Korea Visit: “We Made Progress.” *NBC Nightly
News[image:
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(7/9, story 6, 1:50, Holt) said “Pompeo, in Afghanistan,” brushed off
“North Korea’s charge that his disarmament demands were ‘gangster-like.’”
Pompeo was shown saying, “We have a long ways to go, but the commitment
they made, particularly chairman Kim personally made to President Trump
remains as reinforced.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(7/9, story 5, 2:00, Muir) noted that “on his two previous trips to North
Korea, Pompeo met directly with Kim Jong-Un. Friendly encounters. Not this
time. No meeting with Kim. Still, leaving Pyongyang, the Secretary sounded
upbeat.” Said Pompeo, “These are complicated issues, but we made progress
on almost all of the central issues.”

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(7/9), George Stephanopoulos said the denunciations of the Administration’s
demands from the Kim regime and the subsequent remarks from Pompeo are “a
far cry from the kind words between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un.”
Jonathan Karl added, “by all accounts,” Pompeo’s trip “did not go well,”
and “looks like a serious setback.” On MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image
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(7/9), Joe Scarborough described Pompeo as a “very smart man,” who has been
“dealt a very bad hand of cards, a horrific hand of cards, but he’s doing
what he needs to do.” Scarborough added, “We know how this story ends. ...
Donald Trump wanted cheap headlines. The North Koreans wanted legitimacy.
They both get what they wanted. And now North Korea is done.”

*Pompeo: Repatriation Of US Remains Would Build Trust. *Reuters
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(7/9, Pearson) reports Pompeo also said Monday the “the return of remains
of US troops who went missing during the 1950-53 Korean War could help
build trust between North Korea and the United States.” On Twitter, Pompeo
said
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Vietnam “had handed over the remains of two US military personnel before he
arrived in Hanoi on Sunday.” Pompeo added, “This same act 45 (years) ago
built trust between our nations. Today we have a strong relationship. DPRK
committed to repatriate remains as well.”
Trump Keeps Up Pressure On NATO Members Ahead Of Summit.

Reuters
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(7/9, Chiacu) reports President Trump “berated fellow NATO members” on
Twitter Monday “for not contributing enough to the alliance while
maintaining a trade surplus with the United States, keeping up a recent
drumbeat of criticism before meeting European leaders this week in
Brussels.” On the eve of his departure for the NATO summit in Brussels,
Trump “linked two well-worn gripes: funding for the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and other countries’ trade practices.” He tweeted
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“The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country.
This is not fair, nor is it acceptable. While these countries have been
increasing their contributions since I took office, they must do much
more.” In a second tweet
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Trump “complained about Europe’s trade surplus with the United States.”

Meanwhile, Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Getting ready to leave for Europe. First meeting – NATO. The
U.S. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect
them. Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer. On top of that we lose $151 Billion on
Trade with the European Union. Charge us big Tariffs (& Barriers)!”

The Washington Times
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(7/9, Muñoz) reports that ahead of this week’s summit, Trump said “member
states have been improving, but insisted they ‘must do much more,’” and
according to USA Today
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(7/9, Korte), Trump “singled out Germany, which spent an estimated 1.24
percent of its 2017 economic output on defense, according to the latest
figures from NATO.” Bloomberg News
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(7/9, Dopp, Nix) says the comments “come the day after US NATO Ambassador
Kay Bailey Hutchison said efforts to prod members into increasing their
defense spending are finding success.” Politico
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(7/9, Nelson), among other outlets, also report Trump’s tweets. The New
York Times
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(7/9, Davis) reports that ahead of the summit, “Trump is widely seen as a
wild card among allies who are seeking to show solidarity against Russian
threats, fixated instead on his spending grievances and primed for a bitter
confrontation that could further isolate the United States.” Trump’s
“increasingly strident complaints about NATO and apparent willingness to
give the benefit of the doubt” to Russian President Vladimir Putin have
“worried America’s staunchest allies — and some within his own
administration — and threaten to transform the gathering in Brussels into a
showcase for dysfunction rather than unity.”

The Washington Post
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(7/9, Ryan, Jaffe) says that for Defense Secretary Mattis, “this week’s
NATO summit presents a central test: how to preserve a US-European alliance
that he sees as crucial to America’s security while not crossing a boss who
doesn’t share that view.” Trump and Mattis “have differed on...the value of
America’s alliances as it confronts an increasingly aggressive Russia,” but
Mattis “has compensated by keeping a low profile” and “downplaying
differences with Trump.” Reuters
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(7/9, Stewart) says that while Mattis “will only play a supporting role” to
Trump at this week’s NATO summit, Mattis’ “small part belies his high
standing among NATO allies, which has only risen as they become
increasingly bewildered by Trump’s policies.”

*Ukraine Gets US Assurances Ahead Of Trump-Putin Summit. *Reuters
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(7/9, Zinets) reports Ukraine “has secured US assurances” that Trump “will
not betray its interests when he holds his first bilateral summit meeting
with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16. But Trump is
known for his spontaneous and sometimes erratic style of doing diplomacy,
and Kiev fears that behind closed doors he may prove susceptible to Putin’s
efforts to win US acceptance of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from
Ukraine.” An unnamed Ukrainian diplomat said, “We received clear assurances
from the American side that Ukrainian interests will be confirmed and
protected (at the summit).”

*EU Extends Sanctions On Moscow As Officials Meet In Brussels.
*The Washington
Times
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(7/9, Boylan) reports EU leaders have gathered with Ukrainian officials for
a summit “to discuss Russia, the same day EU sanctions on Moscow have been
extended because of the Kremlin’s annexation of the Crimea and continuing
support of separatists in eastern Ukraine.” The Times notes the summit
comes just days before a NATO summit and talks between President Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

*Sen. Kennedy Warns Trump Against Trusting Putin. *The AP
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(7/9, Mascaro) reports Sen. John Kennedy (R), who just returned from a
congressional trip to Russia, warned President Trump against trusting
President Vladimir Putin, saying that dealing with the Russian government
is like “dealing with the mafia.” Kennedy told reporters on Capitol Hill on
Monday, “There is no political philosophy in Russia. It’s sort of like
saying, what’s the political philosophy of the mafia.” He added, “You can’t
trust Putin. I think the best we can do is try to contain him.”

David J. Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state in the
George W. Bush Administration, writes in the Washington Post
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(7/9) that “it may be harder to predict what the American president — vs.
his Russian counterpart — will say at the July 16 summit in Helsinki.
Indeed, President Trump’s unpredictability contrasts with a rather
easy-to-read Vladimir Putin. And that should make many people nervous.” On
the other hand, “with his KGB training, Putin will be well prepared for
this meeting.”

*UK Suggests Russia Behind Latest Nerve Agent Case. *The New York
Times
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(7/9, Pérez-Peña) reports British police “scoured the area around
Salisbury, England, for a container of a deadly chemical weapon on Monday,
as high-ranking British officials suggested for the first time that Russia
was probably responsible for a second set of nerve agent poisonings in the
region.” British officials have said that a couple who were sickened this
month “had been poisoned with the same powerful nerve agent used in March,
a few miles away, against a former Russian spy and his daughter. But while
government officials have accused the Kremlin of responsibility for the
first poisonings, until Monday they refrained from assigning blame for the
second, though they acknowledged a strong possibility that the two were
related.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(7/9, story 7, 1:50, Glor) reported British police believe the two latest
victims, Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley, “came across a
contaminated item left over” from the earlier attack in March, likely “a
syringe or a vile. She struggled with alcohol problems. He’s reportedly a
registered heroin user. They were known to search dumpsters, looking for
drugs, says City Councilor Matthew Dine.”

USA Today
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(7/9, Onyanga-Omara), meanwhile, reports that a Kremlin spokesman
“expressed condolences over the death of a British woman who was poisoned
by a Soviet-developed nerve agent.” Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow “is
deeply concerned over the continuous cases of these poison elements” in
Britain, but cautioned that linking Russia to the poisoning would be
“absurd.”
Media Analyses: Future Of May Government In Doubt After Ministers Resign.

The AP
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(7/9, Lawless, Kirka) reports British Prime Minister Theresa May has “dug
in her heels...after the resignation of two top government ministers over
Brexit negotiations whipped up a storm that threatened to topple her
fragile minority government.” Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson “quit with a
resignation letter accusing May of flying ‘white flags’ of surrender in
negotiations with the European Union.” Johnson “followed Brexit Secretary
David Davis out the door as a hard-won government consensus on future trade
ties with the bloc disintegrated less than three days after it was forged,
and nine months before Britain is due to leave the EU.” Bloomberg News
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(7/9, Penny, Donaldson, Hutton, Ross) says Johnson’s resignation letter
“amounted to a savage attack on May’s record, accusing her government of
postponing ‘crucial decisions’ and not doing enough to prepare for a
potential ‘no-deal’ departure from the EU.” The Wall Street Journal
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(7/9, Fidler, Douglas) reports Davis, in his resignation letter, said the
government’s Brexit policy “will leave us in at best a weak negotiating
position, and possibly an inescapable one.”

As a result of the resignations, the Washington Post
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(7/9, Booth, Adam) reports, “hard-line Brexiteers are openly debating a
no-confidence vote that could sweep [May] from power.” The New York Times
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(7/9, Castle) also says the resignations “reopened speculation about a
challenge to her leadership, something that Mrs. May’s official spokesman
said she would fight.” The Times adds that “with the Brexiteers in the
party in full revolt, Conservative insiders predicted further resignations
unless and until Mrs. May drops her plan.”

Nevertheless, Reuters
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(7/9, Piper) says that “as Monday drew to a close, May was cheered and
applauded by many Conservative lawmakers at a private meeting.” According
to Reuters, “Both euroskeptics and loyalists said she had stood her ground
and appeared to have kept her job, at least for now.” USA Today
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(7/9, Hjelmgaard) reports May later named Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary
“and one of her most loyal ministers,” to replace Johnson as foreign
secretary.

*Trump Shrugs Off Turmoil, Looking Forward To Talks With May. *NBC
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(7/9, story 5, 0:30, Holt) reported the “high drama” in London took place
“just days before President Trump is set to visit.” The Washington Times
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(7/9, Miller) reports Trump “wasn’t fazed Monday by political turmoil in
the British government, ahead of his visit this week to the UK, said the
White House.” Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, “The President continues
to look forward to his working visit with the Prime Minister on July 13,
and further strengthening the US-UK special relationship.”

*Poll: UK Voters Losing Confidence In May’s Handling Of Brexit. *
Reuters
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(7/9, Faulconbridge) reports voter approval of May’s handling of Brexit
negotiations “has fallen to 29 percent, the lowest level since the poll
began in November 2016, according to the ORB International pollster.”
According to the poll of “around 2,000 adults, 56 percent of voters were
not confident May would get the right deal while 26 percent thought she
would get the right deal and the rest didn’t know.”
Merkel: Germany Still Committed To Iran Nuclear Deal.

Reuters
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(7/9, Escritt) reports Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany “remains
committed to the nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Iran,” but
individual firms needed “to decide if they wanted to invest there.” At a
news conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Merkel said companies
needed to make their own decisions on taking the risk of doing business in
Iran, which could result in punitive sanctions. Said Merkel, “We remain
committed to the nuclear agreement. We think it was well negotiated.”

*German Regulators Reviewing Iranian Plan To Move Cash From German
Bank. *Bloomberg News
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(7/9, Jennen, Comfort) reports the German Finance Ministry says regulators
are reviewing a “plan by Iran to repatriate money from a Hamburg-based
bank,” including “an agency charged with detecting terrorism funding.”
Finance Ministry spokeswoman Jeanette Schwarmberger said the case “involves
the European-Iranian Trade Bank, a conduit for companies doing business
with Iran for more than 40 years.” However, Schwarmberger “declined to
comment on a Bild newspaper report that the bank intends to fly home 300
million euros ($353 million) in cash to help avoid a squeeze once expanded
US financial sanctions take effect this year.” The Washington Free Beacon
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(7/9, Kredo), however, reports that “top Trump administration officials are
working to stop Germany” from agreeing to the Iranian plan, “according to
conversations with senior US diplomats and officials.”

*Shaming Of Young Iranian Dancer Draws Backlash. *The New York Times
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(7/9, Erdbrink) reports that “like many teenage girls, Maedeh Hojabri liked
to dance in her bedroom, record it and post clips to Instagram.” Hojabri,
who lives in Iran “where women are not allowed to dance,” was “quietly
arrested” in May. Last Tuesday, Hojabri appeared on state television on a
show called “Wrong Path,” where she “admitted that dancing is a crime.” The
“public shaming” of Hojabri and “the arrest of others who have not been
identified have created a backlash” in Iran. Since Hojabri’s televised
confession, “scores of Iranians have posted videos of themselves dancing in
protest, while thousands more have posted pictures of her and written
supportive posts on their Instagram pages.”
Pompeo: US Willing To Engage In Peace Talks With Taliban.

Reuters
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(7/9, Brunnstrom) reports Secretary of State Pompeo on Monday made a
“surprise visit to Afghanistan” where he “promised support for President
Ashraf Ghani’s bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the
United States would be willing to take part.” According to Reuters, Pompeo
said President Trump’s “strategy...of sending more troops to increase
pressure on the Taliban and push them toward negotiations was working, and
would reassure Afghans ‘that we will support them as they continue fighting
to liberate their country and their people.’” Likewise, the Washington Post
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(7/9, Constable, Hudson) reports that Pompeo “said his brief visit showed
him that the Trump administration’s strategy of maintaining an active US
military role, while setting conditions rather than timelines for success
in the war against Taliban insurgents, ‘is indeed working.’”

To the AP
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(7/9, Lee), Pompeo used Mondays’ visit “to step up the Trump
administration’s calls for peace talks between the Afghan government and
the Taliban.” After talks with Ghani, Pompeo told reporters, “The United
States will support, facilitate and participate in these discussions,”
stressing that any talks would be “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.” The Wall
Street Journal
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(7/9, Nelson) reports standing alongside Pompeo, Ghani praised the
Administration, whose policy he described as a “game-changer.” Bloomberg
News
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(7/9, Wadhams) reports that the “optimistic note sounded by Pompeo
and...Ghani contrasted with security measures that were taken for his
trip.” Politico
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(7/9, Nelson) notes that “in addition to meetings with Afghan officials,
the secretary of state also met with US troops at Bagram Air Base.”

The New York Times
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(7/9, Harris) notes the visit marks Pompeo’s first as secretary, and says
his “willingness to brave the risks in traveling to Kabul and the
presidential palace stood in stark contrast to his predecessor, Rex W.
Tillerson,” who “was so concerned about safety that in his visit last year
he refused to leave Bagram Air Base.”
Merkel, Chinese PM Tout Strong Ties After Signing Deals Worth $23.6 Billion.

The AP
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(7/9, Rising) reports that in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang “stressed their commitment to
a multilateral trade system...in the wake of Washington’s decision to
impose widespread tariffs, saying it was to everyone’s benefit.” Li,
“speaking in Berlin after the two countries signed deals worth” $23.6
billion, “told reporters the projects demonstrated how nations could work
together.” Reuters
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(7/9, Escritt) reports that the deals “involving German industrial giants
including Siemens, Volkswagen and BASF come with the two leading exporting
powerhouses being forced into an unlikely alliance in defense of the open
global trade on which both their economies depend.” German Finance Minister
Olaf Scholz “agreed with Chinese central bank chief Yi Gang that German
banks would promptly get market access in the financial sector in China.”

Bloomberg News
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(7/9, Donahue, Jennen) says Merkel “praised China for opening up to foreign
investment, drawing a contrast with trade conflicts burdening both
countries’ relations with the US.” However, Merkel said Germany “reserves
the right to block Chinese investments under existing laws that allow such
restrictions for sensitive technology or on national security grounds.”

*NYTimes: Short-Term Effect Of Chinese Tariffs On US Soy Farmers
Will Be Minimal. *According to the New York Times
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(7/9, Zhong), even though the Chinese government “placed a 25 percent
tariff on American soybeans last week in retaliation for the Trump
administration’s levies on Chinese-made goods,” US “soy-producing states
like Iowa and Illinois might not feel the tariffs’ impact right away”
because China “buys so much soy from the United States – $14 billion last
year – that it can hardly switch to new suppliers overnight.” The Times
adds that in 2017, “soy growers in the United States sold nearly one third
of their harvest to China,” and, “in dollar terms, only airplanes are a
more significant American export to China.”

*NYTimes: Trump’s Tariff Fight Has Introduced New Variable To
County Fairs. *The New York Times
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(7/9, Blinder, Fuller, Davey) reports that “Trump’s global face-off over
tariffs” has introduced “a new variable” to county fairs around the nation
this year. Fairs are “places to contemplate the variables of farm and ranch
life. Beyond rain, drought and finicky machinery, this year offers a new
subject: a global face-off over tariffs.” To “get a glimpse at a summer of
uncertainty,” the Times reports from county fairs in three states – Ohio,
California, and Indiana.

*WTimes: China Dominates Armed-Drone Market By Selling To Customers
In “Terrorist Hotbeds.” *The Washington Times
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(7/9, Wolfgang) reports China’s “no-rules approach to armed drone exports
has Beijing positioned to dominate the rapidly growing multibillion-dollar
market, frustrating American companies while presenting real national
security dangers for the Trump administration.” According to “industry
watchers,” the Administration is “scrambling to fashion a coherent policy
toward military unmanned aerial systems (UAS) sales that allows American
firms to tap the huge international demand for drones while ensuring that
state-of-the-art weapons don’t fall into the wrong hands.” By contrast,
China “has shown itself willing to sell to just about anyone, including
customers in terrorist hotbeds such as Pakistan.”
Trump Denounces “Failing NY Times Fake News Story” On Breastfeeding Vote.

The AP
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(7/9) reports on Twitter Monday, President Trump said the Administration
“opposed a World Health Assembly resolution to encourage breastfeeding
because it called for limits on the promotion of infant formula, not
because of objections to breastfeeding.” Trump wrote
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“The failing NY Times Fake News story today about breast feeding must be
called out. The US strongly supports breast feeding but we don’t believe
women should be denied access to formula. Many women need this option
because of malnutrition and poverty.” According to the AP, Trump
“criticized the New York Times
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for reporting that US officials sought to remove language that urged
governments to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, along with
language calling on policymakers to limit the promotion of food products,
such as infant formula, that can be harmful to young children.” The AP says
the Times “reported that the US delegation embraced the interests of
infant-formula manufacturers.”

Politico
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(7/9, Murray) reports the New York Times “defended its reporting in a tweet
to the president, and provided a link to the story in question.” The Times
tweeted
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“Our report is accurate. You can read it here.” The Hill
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(7/9, Greenwood) reports an HHS spokesperson “defended the US opposition to
the measure, saying that it would impede women’s access to vital baby
formula when breastfeeding is not an option.”

The Washington Post
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(7/9, Johnson, Erickson), meanwhile, reports that “an aggressive effort by
US officials to weaken an international resolution to promote
breast-feeding this year is the latest example of the government taking an
industry’s side in global public health, advocates said.” Advocates said
the incident “is a throwback to a time when the US government defied the
world to protect the infant-formula industry.” The Post notes that in 1981,
the US was the “sole dissenting vote” when the WHO “passed a code to combat
the aggressive advertising of breast milk substitutes and provision of free
formula to new mothers.”

In an editorial, the New York Times
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(7/9) writes that “the push by United States delegates to the World Health
Organization to water down or scrap a simple resolution meant to encourage
breast-feeding in underdeveloped countries was...bullying, anti-science,
pro-industry, anti-public health, and shortsighted.” The Times says the
move was unsurprising and represents “just one of several recent examples
of the administration’s zeal for badgering weaker countries into tossing
public health concerns aside to serve powerful business interests.” While
“common sense ultimately triumphed in this round of bullying, and the
measure passed without much alteration,” the Times says US officials” are
using the same tactics in other, similar situations, and there’s still
concern that they could succeed on those fronts.”

*Medical Experts Criticize Trump’s Stance. *The New York Times
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(7/9, Rabin) reports that the Administration’s “aggressive attempts to
water down an international resolution supporting breast-feeding goes
against decades of advice by most medical organizations and public health
experts.” Global health experts said the President’s stance “suggested a
lack of knowledge about breast-feeding and the history of the marketing of
powdered formula to poor women in developing countries.” Powdered formula
mixed with unclean water, the Times notes, “can be dangerous for babies.”
Domestic Policy
Judge “Encouraged With The Progress” Toward Reuniting Immigrant Families.

The Los Angeles Times
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(7/9, Davis) reports that the Administration, which is “under court order
to reunite children under age 5 with their parents