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*Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• WPost: Book Tour Has Provided Springboard For Possible 2020 Biden Run.
<#S1>

• Politico’s Dovere Discusses Report On Obama Meeting With Potential 2020
Candidates. <#S2>

• Vanity Fair, Page Six Report On Tiffany Trump, Naomi Biden In The
Hamptons. <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump, Kim Pledge “Complete Denuclearization” After Historic Summit. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Pompeo Confident G7 Ties Will Remain Strong Despite Clash. <#S5>

• Treasury Imposes Sanctions On Russian Firms Tied To Power Grid Attacks.
<#S6>

• Israelis Upset Over Conditions In Obama-Era US Aid Agreement. <#S7>

• Pompeo Urges UN Cooperation As Fighting Flares In Yemen. <#S8>

• Ahead Of Ceasefire, Bombings In Afghanistan Kill At Least 18. <#S9>

• Turkey Expanding Attacks On Kurdish Positions In Iraq. <#S10>

• Critics Say “Murky” US Drone Policy Could Serve As Model For Other
Nations. <#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Hails High Court Ruling Allowing Ohio To Drop Inactive Voters From
Rolls. <#S12>

• Sessions Makes It More Difficult For Domestic Abuse Victims To Apply For
Asylum. <#S13>

• DOJ Backs Lawsuit Challenging University Of Michigan’s Free Speech
Policies. <#S14>

• Freedom Partners To Launch Prison Reform Effort. <#S15>

• Kudlow “In Good Condition” After “Very Mild Heart Attack.” <#S16>

• Illinois’ GOP Congressmen Urge Trump Not To Commute Blagojevich’s
Sentence. <#S17>

• AP, NYTimes: Judge May Soon Rule Against Trump In Emoluments Lawsuit.
<#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• New DNA “Spit Test” For Identifying Elevated Prostate Cancer Risk. <#S19>

• Study: CRISPR-Cas9 May Increase Cancer Risk In Cells. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
WPost: Book Tour Has Provided Springboard For Possible 2020 Biden Run.

Writing for the AP
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(6/11, Kane), Paul Kane says that this week to mark the conclusion of
former Vice President Joe Biden’s book tour. Kane adds, “No final decision
will be made on another presidential bid until after the midterm
elections.” But while Biden “remains as popular as any Democrat in the” US,
“it’s unclear whether a white 70-something man whose first political
impulse is to urge compromise is going to be the right fit for today’s more
diverse, combative primary voters. But the book tour and campaign work have
given him a chance to keep his message and delivery honed.” Biden has
stumped “for nine House or Senate candidates this year, in addition to four
other Democrats in” 2018, and “has been able to go to places where most
Democrats cannot, such as Alabama, where his friend, Sen. Doug Jones (D),
won a special election last December, and southwestern Pennsylvania, where
Rep. Conor Lamb (D) won another in March.”

Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Antle) offers an early look at the field of potential 2020
Democratic presidential contenders, saying, “The candidate at the top of
the national surveys is former Vice President Joe Biden,” who “is the
closest thing to a frontrunner, although it is far from certain that he
will actually run. Democratic insiders believe that the fire in the belly –
the presidential ambitions that led to Biden candidacies in 1988 and again
20 years later in 2008 – still burns.” The Examiner adds, “The case for
Biden is that he can compete with Trump for working-class whites, bringing
states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan back to the Democratic fold,
without alienating younger and nonwhite voters.” The chief “arguments
against are age – he would be 78 when sworn into office – and a reputation
for being ‘handsy’ with women.”

*Local TV Station Highlights Biden’s Coming Visit To Memphis. *
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Memphis, TN (6/11) reported that former Vice President’s Joe Biden’s
“‘American Promise Tour’ will be at the Orpheum [Theatre] in downtown
Memphis this Friday. H’s planning on talking about the biggest political
moments of his career, the loss of his son, Beau, and finding his purpose.
Biden has not formally declared his intention to run [for president] in
2020, but he’s already considered a Democratic frontrunner.”

*Washington Examiner Reports On Wilmington Stop Heckling
Incident. *Drawing
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from the Wilmington News Journal, the Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Correll) said that Biden’s “book tour stop in his hometown of
Wilmington, Del., was disrupted by a man who accused Biden of molesting
children during a Senate swearing in ceremony. ‘What about the girls you
molested on C-Span at the Senate swearing in?’ the man” shouted “after
Biden had been discussing his late son Beau’s disgust regarding a
pediatrician who had been convicted of raping and molesting children. In
response, Biden said ‘This is not Trump world,’ prompting the crowd to
cheer.” The Examiner offered a link to a video of the incident.
Politico’s Dovere Discusses Report On Obama Meeting With Potential 2020
Candidates.

Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere on Monday appeared on a couple of cable news
outlets to discuss his report
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published earlier in the day, that former President Obama has been meeting
privately with a number of potential 2020 Democratic presidential
candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden. Asked if “there’s
even any inkling” Obama “was encouraging” to Biden, Dovere said on MSNBC
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(6/11) that Obama “has generally taken the approach, both when Biden was
looking at the 2016 race and in this race, of letting Biden come to his own
decision, and being there as a friend to counsel him, but not as a
cheerleader and not as, at least directly, a detractor of the idea Biden
should run.”

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(6/11), host Wolf Blitzer said that of the various potential Democratic
contenders with whome Obama has met, “I assume he’s the closest to...Biden,
who does seem to be giving some suggestions that he’s seriously”
considering a White House run. Dovere said that Biden “is seriously
thinking about it.” Biden “will make a decision based on his family and his
feelings about the race and toward the end of the year – into the beginning
of next year.” Dovere added that Biden and Obama “are actually
friends...and so they have been in touch as friends. But Biden was in the
office...in January – that’s the last time he was in in person. But like
the other, spent a lot of time one-on-one with” Obama.

Hours after Dovere’s article was published by Politico, CNN
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(6/11, Merica) – in an online piece – offered a very similar report, saying
that “Obama has met with several Democrats considering running for
president in 2020,” according to “a Democrat close to the former
president.” CNN said that Obama offered “them advice on running in the
Trump era and discussing how to position the party going forward.” CNN
added that “to date, according to the Democrat, Obama has met with Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; former Vice
President Joe Biden; former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick; New Jersey
Sen. Cory Booker; former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu; Los Angeles
Mayor Eric Garcetti; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Peter Buttigieg; former
Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander; and former Attorney General Eric
Holder.”
Vanity Fair, Page Six Report On Tiffany Trump, Naomi Biden In The Hamptons.

In continuing coverage, Vanity Fair
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(6/11, Harwood) reported that President Trump’s daughter Tiffany “was busy
this past weekend in the Hamptons, where she was Insta-Storied hanging out
with none other than Joe Biden’s granddaughter, 23-year-old Naomi Biden.
The two young women both graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in
2016, with both Joe Biden and Donald Trump attending the graduation
ceremony. ... If the future of politics includes more Trumps and Bidens,
the world can rest easy knowing that, at least as of this weekend, they
seem to get along just fine.” Page Six
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(6/11, Siegler) also briefly reported on the story.
Leading the News
Trump, Kim Pledge “Complete Denuclearization” After Historic Summit.

At Tuesday’s historic summit in Singapore, President Trump and North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un signed a joint statement
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committing to the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
Details of the agreement were still emerging early Tuesday morning, but
initial media reports are critical of its lack of specifics. Reuters
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(6/12, Kim), for example, says the statement “gave few details,” the Wall
Street Journal
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(6/12, Bender, Gordon, Cheng) refers to a lack of specific
commitments, and Bloomberg
News
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(6/12, Wayne, Sink) says the two leaders “laid out goals...without
specifying what immediate steps either side would take.” CNN
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(6/11, Liptak) reports “there was no mentioning the previous US aim of
‘complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.’ And Kim’s
commitments did not appear to go beyond what he already pledged to do in
April when he met South Korean President Moon Jae-in.”

According to the AP
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(6/12, Miller, Lucey, Lederman, Klug), Trump pledged unspecified “security
guarantees” to the North. The two leaders “coupled the summit agreement
with lofty promises” by Trump to handle “a very dangerous problem” and
Kim’s prediction for “major change.” The AP says the document “largely
amounted to an agreement to continue discussions,” and “did not include an
agreement to take steps toward ending the technical state of warfare
between the US and North Korea.”

The New York Times
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(6/12, Landler) reports Trump concluded the meeting saying that
denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula would begin “very quickly.” In the
statement, which Trump called “comprehensive,” Trump “committed to provide
security guarantees” to North Korea, and Kim “reaffirmed his firm and
unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula.” According to the Times, the statement “was short on details,”
but Trump told reporters, “We’re starting that process very quickly – very,
very quickly – absolutely,” referring to denuclearization. The statement
said the two nations would hold “follow-on negotiations” led by Secretary
of State Pompeo and a high-level North Korean official “at the earliest
possible date, to implement the outcomes” of the summit meeting.

The AP
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(6/12) reports that during a “free-wheeling press conference before
returning to the US,” Trump told reporters he thinks “we’ll probably need
another summit” — or at least a second meeting — with Kim. He also insisted
that Kim “understands what the US has been pushing for in the talks.” Said
Trump , “I think he’s going to do these things.”

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Washington Post
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(6/12, Nakamura, Rucker, Fifield, Gearan) reports, Trump said he had
“developed a very special bond” with Kim, but the document “is an outline,
with no specifics or deadlines and leaves the details on key issues such as
how the United States would verify that North Korea had given up its
nuclear program for future talks.” Still, Trump “cast his meetings with Kim
in the most positive light.” The President told reporters, “We are very
proud of what took place today. I think our whole relationship with North
Korea and the Korean Peninsula is going to be a very much different
situation than it has in the past. We both want to do something, we both
are going to do something. We have developed a very special bond.”

USA Today
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(6/12, Jackson) likewise says Trump “claimed success,” saying, “We had a
really fantastic meeting” that went “better than anybody could have
expected, top of the line, really good.” To the Los Angeles Times
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(6/11, Bierman), the two leaders “appeared to open a new chapter...in
America’s long-hostile relations with North Korea.” At the signing
ceremony, Kim said, “The world will see a major change,” adding that he and
Trump “decided to leave the past behind.” Politico
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(6/11, Johnson, Toosi) says that while the “text of the agreement contained
few concrete steps,” Trump called the document “pretty comprehensive” and
Kim “a worthy negotiator.” Kim, the Washington Times
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(6/12, Miller) reports, said the meeting “was the start of a working
relationship between the two countries.” Fox News
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(6/12, DeMarche) reports that during a press conference after the talks,
Trump “did not refer to the document as a treaty or agreement,” and “said
Kim agreed to destroy a ‘major’ missile testing site, but did not offer
specific details.”

The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Morrongiello) reports Kim “departed the summit site at around 2 p.m.
Tuesday, just as hundreds of journalists were shuttled over for a late
afternoon press conference with Trump.” Reuters
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(6/12) says Kim “is due to leave Singapore at 9 p.m. local time, two
sources familiar with the plans said.”

*Trump: US-South Korean Military Exercises On Hold. *NBC News
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(6/11, Allen) reports that after Tuesday’s talks, Trump “confirmed military
exercises involving American and South Korea forces would be put on hold
for now.” The AP
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(6/12, Miller, Lucey, Lederman, Klug) says Trump “announced that he will be
freezing US military ‘war games’ with...South Korea while negotiations
between the two countries continue.”

*Trump Shows Kim His Presidential Limousine. *Breitbart
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(6/11, Spiering) reports that after Tuesday’s talks, Trump “showed Kim the
interior of his presidential limousine ‘The Beast’ as they walked together
outside the hotel.”

*Number Of US Journalists Permitted To Cover Talks Limited. *According
to Politico
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(6/11, Schwartz), “the number of American journalists allowed to witness”
the ceremony “was limited to seven – a smaller group than would usually be
present for such a summit, and one that excluded representatives from the
major wire services.” The size “appeared designed to match the number of
North Korean ‘journalists’ present, according to a press pool, and led to
tension between US media and White House officials on the ground in
Singapore.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told Politico, “We
have worked very hard to provide access to the media at this event and
continually expanded coverage throughout the morning.”

*Trump To Depart Singapore Early. *Reuters
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(6/11, Holland) reports the White House said Monday that discussions with
North Korea had moved “more quickly than expected” and Trump would leave
Singapore on Tuesday night. He had earlier been scheduled to leave on
Wednesday. Two US officials told Bloomberg News
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(6/11) that Kim “set a deadline for ending” the summit, prompting Trump “to
set an earlier-than-expected departure time.” The officials said Trump “had
been willing to stay longer if negotiations were progressing, but since Kim
set definite plans for departure, so did Trump.” The AP
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(6/11, Miller, Lucey, Lederman) too says Trump announced on the eve of the
meeting “that he will be leaving Singapore early because the nuclear
negotiations have moved ‘more quickly than expected.’ That was before the
two had even met, and it was not clear whether it was good news or not.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s summit, Trump tweeted
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“Meetings between staffs and representatives are going well and
quickly...but in the end, that doesn’t matter. We will all know soon
whether or not a real deal, unlike those of the past, can happen!” He added
in a second tweet
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“The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the
haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle
launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the
beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!”

*Pompeo: Denuclearization “Ultimate Objective” Of Summit. *Ahead of
today’s summit, Reuters
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(6/11, Spetalnick, Brunnstrom) reports Secretary of State Pompeo said the
“ultimate objective” of the summit had not changed and the US was “eager to
see” if North Korea was sincere about denuclearization. Pompeo told
reporters Trump was “fully prepared” for the talks, and was optimistic that
the outcome would be “successful,” while warning that there was still “lots
of work left to do.” Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Jacobs, Olorunnipa, Tweed) reports Pompeo also said the US plans to
keep sanctions in place until North Korea denuclearizes yet is prepared to
offer “unique” guarantees to the regime. In what Bloomberg calls a “stern
message to Pyongyang,” he also stressed that complete denuclearization “is
the only outcome that the United States will accept” from North Korea.
Breitbart
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(6/11, Caplan) reports Pompeo said the US is prepared to take actions to
provide North Korea with “sufficient certainty” that denuclearization “is
not something that ends badly for them.” The Washington Times
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(6/11, Miller) likewise says Pompeo said the US “is prepared to offer new
security assurance,” but “refused to elaborate.”

To the Los Angeles Times
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(6/11, Bierman), Pompeo also “publicly downplay[ed] expectations that the
nuclear summit will lead to anything beyond future talks,” and the Washington
Post
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(6/11, Nakamura, Rucker) says Trump too “has sought to lower expectations
for the summit in recent days, suggesting that it would be the start of a
lengthy process to get Pyongyang to begin dismantling its nuclear and
ballistic missile programs.”

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(6/11), “This President knows that sometimes negotiations like this take
one, two, three, four, five or more meetings. You can’t change 70 years of
war and a country that has isolated itself from most of the rest of the
world as it becomes nuclear capable. And you can’t expect that to turn
around in a day or a meeting. Let’s remember what’s changed from past
President attempts. It is the leadership and the vision of President Trump.
It’s his ability to reframe the way we look at relations around the globe.
And I will tell you, this is not an American issue. The denuclearization of
the Korean Peninsula is everybody’s business.”

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(6/11), “There has been a lot of talk will they be talking beyond
denuclearization about human rights? Will he they be talking about possible
reunification of North and South Korea somewhere down the line? All of
those issues, I’m sure, will be discussed at some point. But as the
President was very clear when he left Washington, he was saying this is a
process. There will be nothing signed here, he said. He said this might
take two, three, four, five meetings or maybe even more. But it is
certainly worth it if we can make the world a safer place. But, again, the
core argument and mandate of the United States and this is very clear. It
is complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula.”

*Hannity To Interview Trump After Summit. *Axios
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(6/11, Swan) reports that it has learned Trump’s “first sit-down television
interview after his historic summit” with Kim is expected to be with
Hannity, “his friend and confidant.” A Fox News spokeswoman “confirmed the
interview” will air in full on Fox News’ Hannity on Tuesday.

*WPost: Trump’s Feud With Trudeau “Looks Like A Stunt.” *Callum
Borchers writes for the Washington Post
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(6/11) “The Fix” blog that Trump’s “rationale for lashing out at Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not add up.” In a tweet, Trump pointed
to “Justin’s false statements at his news conference” and “the fact that
Canada is charging massive Tariffs.” But Borchers notes that Canadian
tariffs “were in place long before the summit and did not prevent Trump
from initially endorsing the G7 statement on trade.” He notes that “what
was new was Trudeau’s news conference Saturday, where he said that
Canadians ‘will not be pushed around.’” According to Borchers, “It appears
as though Trump is the one performing a stunt, raging at Trudeau in
theatrical fashion without a clear reason to be so worked up. In fact,
[White House economic adviser Larry] Kudlow suggested in his appearance on
CNN that Trump’s anger at Trudeau is an act for an audience of one: North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un.”

*Kim Takes Late-Night Sightseeing Tour In Singapore. *Reuters
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(6/11, Holland) reports that Kim, “one of the world’s most reclusive
leaders, made an evening tour of sites on Singapore’s waterfront.” He was
joined by Singapore’s foreign minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, “who took a
selfie.” Reuters says the “rare public appearance of Kim, waving and
smiling to onlookers, adds to the more affable image of the young leader
that has emerged since his summit in April with South Korean leader Moon
Jae-in.” Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Zhai, Lee) similarly says the trip “marked a rare outing in a modern
metropolis for a reclusive leader” who has “sought to overhaul his image
this year.” To the Washington Post
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(6/11, Fifield), “the Singaporean hosts seemed to be daring Kim to think
big, to dream of the kind of glittering future his country could have if it
opens up to the outside world, as they took him on the late-evening tour.”

*Dennis Rodman: Kim “Trying To Progress His Country.” *Dennis
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(6/11), “If President Trump goes in there with a great heart, with his
heart on the table, and lets Kim Jong-un see him, really emotional, as far
as speaking to him.” Kim, Rodman added, “is trying to progress his country.
And Donald Trump is going to do a great job and try to reach out and make
sure our hands, America’s hands always open.... If Trump can pull this off,
more power to him.”

The Gateway Pundit
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(6/11, Taylor) notes that Rodman wore a red Trump “Make America Great
Again” hat during his “emotional interview” with CNN.

*Politico Magazine: “Trump Made Diplomacy Great Again.” *Blake
Hounshell writes for Politico Magazine
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(6/11) that when “candidate Barack Obama said in a 2007 debate that he’d
meet with the leaders of rogue states – including North Korea – without
preconditions, critics pounced. ... Flash forward to today, and what are
Republicans saying about the current president’s willingness – eagerness,
even – to cut a nuclear deal with the most roguish leader of them all,
North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un?” Not much, according to Hounshell, who
notes that Democrats “have largely welcomed Trump’s North Korea diplomacy.”
He argues that “whether he succeeds or fails, to his supporters, is almost
beside the point – the president is making diplomacy great again.”

*NYTimes Editorial Board Member Suggests Summit A Distraction From
Russia Probe. *The Daily Caller
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(6/11, Nista) reports New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay
suggested Monday on MSNBC that today’s summit “exists to distract from the
Russia investigation.” Said Wallace, “This is not just a meeting about
foreign policy, this is about Donald Trump’s political survival. He has
said to friends that he plans on taking a win in North Korea to the voters.
That’s their midterm message; that’s all they’ve got.”
Foreign Policy
Pompeo Confident G7 Ties Will Remain Strong Despite Clash.

Reuters
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(6/11, Brunnstrom, Spetalnick) reports Secretary of State Pompeo said
Monday “he was confident that relations between the United States and G7
countries would continue to move forward, in spite of a major clash over
trade at a weekend summit in Canada.” Speaking to reporters in Singapore,
Pompeo said, “There are always irritants in relationships. I am very
confident that the relationships between our countries...will continue to
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(6/11, story 4, 2:50, Muir) said Pompeo, when pressed if he agreed what
President Trump said about Trudeau, “said there are irritants in the
relationships,” and to NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(6/11, story 5, 2:15, Holt), Pompeo “seems to be trying to mend some fences
today, praising those European allies, saying it’s their diplomatic work
that in part helped make this Singapore summit happen in the first place.”
Reuters
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(6/11, Spetalnick) likewise says Pompeo “praised European countries for
helping to bring about the North Korea summit, alluding to their
enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang.”

The Washington Post
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(6/11, Rucker) says Pompeo “played down the rift over Trump’s behavior
during and after” last weekend’s summit, but “stopped short of offering
words of support for Canada or any other ally.” And after being asked
directly whether he agreed with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro
that there was a “special place in hell” for Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, Pompeo “demurred, declining to disavow the inflammatory
statement.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/11, Zumbrun) and New York Post
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(6/11, Moore) also say Pompeo played down the rift, while on the CBS
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(6/11, story 2, 1:00, Glor), Major Garrett said there is unlikely to be any
fallout from the G7 at Trump’s talks in Singapore with North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un, saying, “Pompeo said no, not at all. It’s a clear signal to
the North Koreans that America has allies but they will drive a tough
bargain, and President Trump will drive a hard bargain with him.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/11, Vieira, Muñoz), however, reports on the fallout from the G7 on the
ongoing NAFTA talks, which it says were already under strain. Canadian
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said negotiations would continue and
that while she remains optimistic, the “ad hominem attacks” from Trump
economic advisers “are not a particularly appropriate or useful way to
conduct relations with other countries.”

Politico
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(6/11, Cassella), meanwhile, reports that a day after Trump and his top
advisers “went on the attack against Canada, members of his Cabinet are
taking steps to preserve and strengthen ties with the US’ nearest ally.” In
a “sign of the change in tone,” the Department of Agriculture announced
Monday that Agriculture Secretary Perdue would travel to Canada later this
week to meet with his counterpart Lawrence MacAulay. A USDA spokesperson,
however, “pushed back against the idea that Perdue was heading north to
patch things up with Canada, noting that the visit has been in the works
for weeks.”

The New York Times
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(6/11, Solomon) profiles Navarro, who said Sunday that there was a “special
place in hell” for Trudeau. According to the Times, “provocative statements
are nothing new for Mr. Navarro,” who “has taken a leading role in
overseeing Mr. Trump’s trade policy” after “ascend[ing] in part by fanning
Mr. Trump’s protectionist instincts.” Gloria Borger said on CNN’s Situation
Room[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/11), “What I think the President has right now on his staff are
enablers. This is what he has wanted. This is the new Donald Trump. He has
enablers. He doesn’t have people pulling him back and saying, ‘You know,
Mr. President, not a great idea.’ Instead, they take what he said and they
notch it up, which makes for a very difficult situation with our allies.”

*Trump Draws Attention To Canada’s “Extraordinarily High” Tariffs
On US Dairy Products. *Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Wingrove, Hertzberg) reports that Trump “spent much of the G7
complaining about Canadian dairy tariffs,” and “seized on one number in
particular: Canada’s 270 percent tariff on certain products.” Bloomberg
says Canada charges a 241% tariff on imported milk that is beyond the quota
established by the Canadian government. Bloomberg says Canadian officials
“argue that all countries subsidize dairy, including the US,” and that
Canada “essentially does so indirectly by closing its borders and capping
production.” However, the Washington Post
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(6/11, Bump) notes that Canada “has a substantial net deficit on dairy
trade,” which “makes up a tiny portion of trade between the United States
and Canada.” According to the Post, dairy “was about 0.2 percent of the
total value of goods exported to Canada in 2017.”

*NYTimes: Republicans “Largely Stood By The President.” *The New
York Times
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(6/11, Stolberg) reports that “congressional Republicans largely stood by
the president on Monday, insisting they were not worried about a possible
deterioration of relations with the West.”

Manu Raju on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(6/11) reported, however, that “Republican after Republican are raising
serious concerns about what they heard from the President this weekend and
from the trade adviser who said there would be ‘a special place in hell’
for Justin Trudeau. A number of Republicans told me that’s going to
undercut the White House going forward.” However, “a lot of Republicans are
not publicly speaking out. One reason why, is what Jeff Flake told me, they
are reluctant – it’s an election year.”

David Swerdlick of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Situation
Room[image:
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(6/11) that Republican lawmakers “see trouble down the road in terms of
trade negotiations and they also see what’s clear to most people: that this
is highly disrespectful to a country that’s our next-door neighbor, our
military ally, a country that fought alongside us in Afghanistan.”

Sen. Rand Paul said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
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(6/11), “We have a very mutually beneficial trade with Canada. Are there
some places in that trade where Canada is doing things unfair? Yes. ...
Let’s isolate on the problem, which are two different segments of our
economy” – dairy and lumber – “where we want to sell things to them and
they are closing the door and protecting their economy from our goods.
Let’s work on those. Let’s have some tough negotiations. Let’s don’t
discount that on 80%, 90% of the industries we have pretty free and open
trade and it’s of great benefit to the United States to trade with Canada.”
He added, “I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. I wouldn’t
say we’re going to threaten all trade or try to ratchet up tariffs with
Canada.”

Rep. Mike McCaul (R) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(6/11), “NAFTA is very important to my home state of Texas. We – Mexico is
our largest trading partner and we don’t want to see that relationship or
Canada’s impacted such that that document is shredded. And in my energy
sector, they rely on steel, and so the tariffs are not productive for them.
And you have to look at my district.” He added, “We have our allies and we
have our enemies and this is important to make that distinction clear.”

*UK’s May Warns Against Unilateral Action On Trade. *Reuters
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(6/11, Smout, Schomberg) reports British Prime Minister Theresa May said
Monday that the G7 summit had been “difficult” and that countries should
avoid taking unilateral action in order to protect the global trading
system. May told Parliament, “This was a difficult summit with, at times,
some very candid discussions.” She added that trade “cannot be done by
taking unilateral action against your partners. So at this summit, we
expressed deep disappointment at the unjustified decision of the United
States to apply tariffs to steel and aluminum imports.”

*EU “Stands Fully Behind” Trudeau After Summit. *The AP
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(6/11) reports the EU on Monday backed Trudeau after Trump branded him
“dishonest” and “weak” following a Group of Seven summit of leaders.
European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said the EU “stands fully
behind” the joint statement issued at the end of the summit. He added, “The
European Union will continue to stand up for an international, rules-based,
multilateral system.”

*Americans Launch #ThankCanada Campaign In Wake Of Attacks On
Trudeau. *The Washington Post
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(6/11, Freeman) reports Canada’s House of Commons “adopted an unusual
unanimous resolution Monday backing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he
was harshly criticized by President Trump, while Americans lent support to
their northern neighbor on Twitter through a special hashtag #ThankCanada.”

*Norwegian PM: US Losing Its Global Sway. *Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Sleire) reports Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in an
interview Monday that the US “just isn’t as important anymore.” Said
Solberg, “It’s important to remember that the US isn’t the same driving
force as it used to be. The world economy has more legs to stand on and
there are far more economies that are growing.” Bloomberg notes that the
prime minister was “a special guest” at last weekend’s G7 summit in Canada.

Meanwhile, a Washington Post
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(6/11, Parker) analysis says the President is increasingly “going it alone.
That he is often doing so in defiance of his own advisers, longtime US
allies and Congress – including members of his own party – seems to only
heighten his pleasure.”

*WPost, NYTimes Editorials: Canada Has Every Right To Be Insulted;
US Isolated. *The Washington Post
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(6/11) editorializes that Canada “has every right to be insulted that Mr.
Trump would invoke national security in their trade dispute. Canada has
stood with the United States in every modern war and crisis. There is no
doubt that the United States could rely on Canadian steel and aluminum if
another crisis developed, obviating the stated rationale for imposing the
tariffs.” Trump’s “trade offensive,” it argues, “is an insult.”

The New York Times
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(6/11) writes on its editorial page that last weekend’s G7 summit was “a
confirmation that so long as Mr. Trump is in the White House, and maybe
beyond that, something fundamental in the community of Western democracies
will be missing. America, the leader of the free world and the architect of
so much of the modern world order, had decided to go its own way.” The
Times argues that “it’s past time to recognize that this president has
transformed ‘America First’ into ‘America Alone,’ and that this is the last
place a great and powerful nation wants to be.”

*CNN: Trump May Withdraw From NAFTA. *On CNN’s New Day[image: Image
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(6/11), Paula Newton reported from Ottawa that she “heard from both
American and Canadian officials” during last weekend’s G7 summit that Trump
might “unilaterally pull out of NAFTA in the coming weeks.”

*Mexican Economy Minister Meeting With Japanese Counterparts As
NAFTA Talks Slow. *Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Martin) reports that Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo “is
traveling to Japan this week as” Mexico “seeks to diversify exports and
investment amid an impasse in Nafta talks.” According to Bloomberg,
Guajardo “said he still sees a high chance of a deal to update” NAFTA, but
“Nafta talks are on the back burner ahead of Mexico’s election on July 1.”

*Quinnipiac Poll: 55% Of Swing Voters Support Tariffs On Chinese
Imports. *Breitbart
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(6/11, Binder) reports that according to the latest Quinnipiac University
Poll, 55% of swing voters “support tariffs on Chinese imports, as President
Trump has sought to do.”

*Deutsche Bank Researches Say US Has $20 Billion Surplus With
China. *Bloomberg News
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(6/11, News) reports that according to research by Deutsche Bank, the US
“has a surplus of $20 billion with China and $1.4 trillion with the rest of
the world.” Those numbers represent an “‘aggregate sales surplus’ which
measures both direct trade and the sales of multinational companies.”
According to Deutsche Bank economists, looking only “at the goods and
services trade deficit is misleading and doesn’t capture the true size of
U.S. business interests.” Although “trade and corporate data aren’t usually
combined, if you add up all trade data, sales by U.S. companies in foreign
countries and foreign firms in the U.S., ‘U.S. companies have sold more to
the rest of the world than other countries have sold to the U.S. in the
past ten years,’ writes chief China economist Zhang Zhiwei in the report.”

*Chinese Foxconn Employees Who Make Amazon Products Forced To Work
Long Hours. *AFP
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(6/11) reports that “electronics giant Foxconn announced Monday it had
started an investigation after a labour group alleged illegal working
conditions at one of its Chinese factories producing Kindles, tablets and
smart speakers for Amazon.” According to AFP, China Labor Watch “found
workers put in 100 hours of overtime per month during peak periods, vastly
exceeding the 36 overtime hours allowed by Chinese labour law.” In
addition, Foxconn “used middle-men labour companies to provide 40 percent
of workers so they were not directly employed by Foxconn,” which allowed
them to “dodge some provisions of China’s labour laws.”

*Senators Reach Deal On Effort To Roll Back Trump’s Plans For ZTE. *The
Washington Times
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(6/11, Dinan) reports that senators have reached a deal on a measure that
would block Trump’s “plans for dealing with Chinese telecom firm ZTE.” The
Commerce Department “last week weakened penalties on ZTE, reducing a
near-death sentence to a $1 billion fine and continued oversight.” In what
would be “the first major step to rein in President Trump’s trade
policies,” senators “proposed a rollback and announced Monday that this
will be included as part of the new defense policy bill the chamber began
debating.”
Treasury Imposes Sanctions On Russian Firms Tied To Power Grid Attacks.

The AP
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(6/11, Lee) reports that earlier today, the Treasury Department “slapped
sanctions on several Russian companies and businessmen for engaging in
cyberattacks and assisting Russia’s military and intelligence services with
other malicious activities.” Sanctions were imposed on “five Russian firms
and three executives from one of them under legislation passed last year
and an executive order aimed at punishing efforts to hack into U.S.
computer systems.” According to the AP, Treasury “said the sanctions were a
response to a number of cyberattacks, including last year’s NotPetya
attack, as well as intrusions into the U.S. energy grid and global network
infrastructure.”

Reuters
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(6/11, Chiacu) quotes Treasury Secretary Mnuchin as saying, “The United
States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working
at the behest of the Russian Federation and its military and intelligence
units to increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities.” Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Mohsin) reports that “at least a dozen U.S. power plants – including
one nuclear facility – have been breached as part of the coordinated
attacks.” Bloomberg says the sanctions are target at Digital Security, “and
two firms that it owns or controls.” Bloomberg adds, “None of the
individuals sanctions were publicly identified by the U.S. as Russian
oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin.”
Israelis Upset Over Conditions In Obama-Era US Aid Agreement.

The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/11, Isaac) reports that in May, senior Israeli officials “complain[ed]
about American assistance, with one describing it as a drug addiction,” a
sentiment that is “surprising to hear” since “AIPAC, the major pro-Israel
lobby in the United States, considers its efforts to secure this aid its
No. 1 priority.” The Free Beacon explains the Israeli officials’ “outburst
centers around two innovations introduced into the 10-year Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU), the official name for the American aid agreement,
which was negotiated between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations in
2016,” that insist “on two Israeli concessions: 1. That Israel spend 100
percent of the aid in the United States (Israel had been allowed to spend
roughly 26 percent of U.S. aid on its own defense industry); and 2. Israel
can’t go to Congress to ask for additional funds while the MOU is in
effect.”

*Prince William To Meet Netanyahu, Abbas On Mideast Trip. *Reuters
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(6/11, Holden) reports Prince William will meet Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a
“landmark trip to the region later this month,” his office said Monday. The
prince’s communications secretary Jason Knauf said, “Now is the appropriate
time and the Duke of Cambridge is the right person to make this visit,”
adding that the “non-political nature of his royal highness’s role – in
common with all royal visits overseas – allows a spotlight to be brought to
bear on the people of the region.”
Pompeo Urges UN Cooperation As Fighting Flares In Yemen.

Reuters
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(6/11, Heavey) reports that amid new clashes in Yemen, the US on Monday
called on factions to work with the UN “to end the more than three-year-old
conflict.” Secretary of State Pompeo, in a statement, said the US was
closely monitoring the situation near Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah
and that he had spoken with leaders of the neighboring United Arab
Emirates. “We expect all parties to honor their commitments to work with
the UN,” Pompeo said, adding that they should also “support a political
process to resolve this conflict, ensure humanitarian access to the Yemeni
people, and map a stable political future for Yemen.”

The New York Times
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(6/11, Coker) reports the UN was withdrawing its staff on Monday from
Hodeidah, “after member countries were told that an attack by forces led by
the United Arab Emirates was imminent, according to two diplomats briefed
on the matter.” The evacuation followed “a weekend of frantic diplomacy by
international officials to stave off what many see as an impending
humanitarian and military catastrophe.”

The Washington Post
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(6/11, Al-Haj) reports the escalation of clashes between Saudi-backed
Yemeni force and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have “killed more
than 600 people on both sides in recent days, security officials said
Monday.” Yemen’s pro-government forces “have been advancing along the
western coast in recent weeks as they battle” the Houthis, and the
“fighting has escalated as government forces close in on the Red Sea port
of Hodeida, a vital lifeline through which most of Yemen’s food and
medicine enters.” Also, the top United Nations official for humanitarian
affairs and relief coordination, Mark Lowcock, “said Monday that it is
critical to prevent ‘a battle’ for Hodeida.” He cautioned “that ‘90 percent
of food, fuel and medicines in Yemen are imported’ – and 70 percent come
through the port, including desperately needed aid for more than 7 million
people.”
Ahead Of Ceasefire, Bombings In Afghanistan Kill At Least 18.

The New York Times
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(6/11, Sukhanyar, Nordland) reports that suicide bombers attacked a
government building in Kabul on Monday, killing “at least 17 people, Afghan
officials said. Another government office, in the eastern city of Jalalbad,
was also a bombing target on Monday, but no one was killed. A bomb
detonated prematurely in a third location, killing one person.” The deaths
came on the eve of “separate but overlapping cease-fires, one declared by
the Afghan government and the other by the Taliban,” to mark the end of
Ramadan. The Washington Post
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(6/11, Salahuddin) notes that the ceasefire “does not cover the Islamic
State or other foreign militants in Afghanistan.”

The Washington Times
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(6/11, Muñoz) says while US forces have so far “refrained from taking
action against the Taliban, US troops continue ongoing operations against
Islamic State’s Afghan faction, known as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria –
Khorasan Group or ISIS-K, and remaining al Qaeda elements.” US and Afghan
forces are engaged in “a massive offensive – dubbed Operation Hamza –
against ISIS-K in Nangarhar, a known Islamic State redoubt in the country.”
The head of the US forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, “said his
forces planned to ramp up operations against the Islamic State in the
country during the anticipated lull in fighting against the Taliban.”
Turkey Expanding Attacks On Kurdish Positions In Iraq.

Bloomberg News
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(6/11, Hacaoglu) reports that Turkey’s military has “expanded its offensive
against Kurdish militants further inside Iraq, raising the specter of a
broader conflagration as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks support from
nationalist voters ahead of this month’s elections.” Bloomberg says
“Turkish military jets have in recent weeks pounded PKK positions near
Mount Qandil, along Iraq’s border with Iran.” According to Bloomberg,
“Turkish forces entered northern Iraq in March to confront fighters of the
Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, who have bases there,” and have “been
battling for decades to secure an autonomous Kurdish homeland in
southeastern Turkey.”

*Sadr Warns Of Civil War After Ballot Box Fire. *Reuters
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(6/11, Aboulenein) reports Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr “urged Iraqis on
Monday to unite rather than squabble over a possible rerun of the election
his bloc won last month, a message apparently tailored to defuse political
tension after a ballot box storage depot caught fire” on Sunday. Sadr
warned that “certain parties are trying to drag Iraq into civil war.”
Reuters notes that parliament has ordered a manual recount of the election,
but a storage site holding “half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes went up in
flames on Sunday” in what Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi denounced as a
“plot to harm the nation and its democracy.”
Critics Say “Murky” US Drone Policy Could Serve As Model For Other Nations.

The Washington Times
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(6/11, Wolfgang) reports that the “rapid proliferation of military drone
technology is reaching the point that other nations – and even non-state
actors such as Mexican drug cartels – could engage in the kinds of deadly
strikes” pioneered by the US. Specialists “say the near-monopoly America
had on drone technology last decade is evaporating and the seemingly lax
rules could be used as guiding precedents by Russia, China and other
nations that are rapidly advancing their own unmanned systems programs.”
Critics argue that US policy on drone strikes “is murky at best and that
the U.S., perhaps unintentionally, has laid out a blueprint that the rest
of the world could follow – with potentially chaotic results.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Hails High Court Ruling Allowing Ohio To Drop Inactive Voters From
Rolls.

President Trump took to Twitter
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yesterday to write, “Just won big Supreme Court decision on Voting! Great
News!” Trump was referring to a case involving Ohio, which is receiving
widespread print media coverage this morning. The AP
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(6/11, Sherman) reports that the Supreme Court has ruled that states “can
target people who haven’t cast ballots in a while in efforts to purge their
voting rolls.” In a “5-4 vote that split the conservative and liberal
justices, the court rejected arguments in a case from Ohio that the
practice violates a federal law intended to increase the ranks of
registered voters.” The AP adds “Ohio’s contested voter purge stems from an
inoffensive requirement in federal law that states have to make an effort
to keep their voter rolls in good shape by removing people who have moved
or died.” Ohio “pursues its goal more aggressively than most, relying on
two things: voter inactivity over six years encompassing three federal
elections and the failure to return a card...asking people to confirm that
they have not moved and continue to be eligible to vote.”

CNN
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(6/11, De Vogue, Vazquez) cautions on its website that “at least six other
states have similar laws, and the ruling could embolden others to follow
suit and enact what critics say are aggressive purges of voter rolls.”
The Washington
Times
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(6/11, Dinan), in fact, reports “the ruling is already boosting
conservative groups pushing to have other states clean up their voter
rolls.”

Politico
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(6/11, Gerstein) calls the ruling “a victory for the Trump administration,”
and NPR
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(6/11, Totenberg, Montanaro) noted that “the Obama Justice Department had
sided with the lead plaintiff in the case, Larry Harmon, a software
engineer from the Akron area,” but “once [President] Trump was elected, the
DOJ did an about-face and switched positions.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(6/11, Savage) says “the legal dispute played out against a backdrop where
two major parties had opposite views. Republicans spoke of ‘voter fraud’
and election rolls they said were stocked with ineligible and illegal
voters, while Democrats complained of “voter suppression” by GOP states
which, they said, made it harder for minorities and the poor to cast
ballots.” To USA Today
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(6/11, Wolf), along those lines, “the ruling could be a major victory for
Republicans, who tend to benefit from lower voter turnout, and a stinging
loss for Democrats, who do best in high-turnout elections.” That is
“because minorities, young people and those with lower incomes are most
likely to be disenfranchised by the state’s policy.” Newsweek
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(6/11, Goodkind) also reports “a number of civil rights groups argued that
the decision would likely aid Republicans but hurt Democrats and voters of
color.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(6/11, Eaton) notes “Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted called the ruling
in the case known as Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute ‘a victory for
election integrity, and a defeat for those who use the federal court system
to make election law across the country.’” Husted “is Attorney General Mike
DeWine’s running mate in this year’s governor’s race.” DeWine said
yesterday, “I am pleased that the United States Supreme Court agreed that
Ohio was following federal law in maintaining accurate voter rolls. ... I
congratulate our attorneys throughout this case for their exceptional work
in documenting how this process used by Democrat and Republican secretaries
of state is indeed lawful.” The Columbus (OH) Dispatch
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(6/11, Torry, Ludlow) reports Sen. Sherrod Brown, “a former secretary of
state, assailed the ruling, saying ‘Ohio should be working to make voting
easier, not harder. Instead, today’s decision empowers Ohio to further
strip away the right to vote for thousands of Ohioans, threatening the
integrity of our state’s election process.’”

CQ Roll Call
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(6/11, Ruger) reports House Minority Leader Pelosi “called the decision
dangerous and ‘a grave step backward in our nation’s progress to advance a
future in which every person can enjoy their full, equal right to be heard
at the ballot box.’”

It was, Reuters
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(6/11, Chung) reports, “a ruling powered by the five conservative justices
and denounced by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor as an endorsement of the
disenfranchisement of minority and low-income Americans.” The Columbus (OH)
Dispatch
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(6/11, Torry, Ludlow) reports that in his ruling, Justice Alito said Ohio’s
system “does not violate federal laws approved in 1993 and 2002 by
Congress.” Wrote Alito, “We have no authority to second-guess Congress or
to decide whether (the Ohio’s law) is the ideal method for keeping its
voting rolls up to date. ... The only question before us is whether it
violates federal law. It does not.”

Meanwhile, says the Washington Post
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(6/11, Barnes), Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, “Communities that are
disproportionately affected by unnecessarily harsh registration laws should
not tolerate efforts to marginalize their influence in the political
process, nor should allies who recognize blatant unfairness stand idly by