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*Wednesday, June 13, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Rips Trump’s Agreement With Kim. <#S1>

• Biden Says Democrats “Better Run Scared” In Midterms. <#S2>

• Beau Biden Recognized For His Work On Protecting Children From Child
Abuse. <#S3>

• Local TV Stations Highlight Biden’s Slated Stop In Charlotte Today. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Touts “Great Progress” On North Korea To Media Skepticism,
Democratic Criticism. <#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: Trudeau’s Criticism Of US Tariffs Will “Cost Him A Lot Of Money.”
<#S6>

• Rouhani Asks Macron For Action To Save Nuclear Deal. <#S7>

• Israeli Minister: Social Media Monitoring Has Thwarted Hundreds Of
Attacks. <#S8>

• Bolton Got $115,000 To Speak At Ukrainian Steel Magnate’s Foundation’s
Events. <#S9>

• Norway To Invite More US Marines Amid Russia Tensions. <#S10>

• May Wins Parliament Vote Over Brexit Plans. <#S11>

• US Unveils “Unofficial Embassy” In Taiwan. <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Media Analyses: Court Decision On AT&T-Time Merger A Loss For Trump, DOJ.
<#S13>

• Rosenstein Threatened To Subpoena House Intelligence Committee. <#S14>

• South Carolina Rep. Sanford’s Loss Among Host Of Primary Results
Yesterday. <#S15>

• Sessions Defends Decision On Restricting Asylum. <#S16>

• Azar Says He Wants To Preserve Protections For Preexisting Conditions.
<#S17>

• Trump Reportedly To Nominate CFPB Head Next Week. <#S18>

• Kwame Kilpatrick Asks Trump For Sentence Commutation. <#S19>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: AI May Be Better At Identifying Skin Cancer Than Dermatologists.
<#S20>

• Texas HPV Coalition Launching Education Campaign To Boost Vaccination
Rates. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Biden Rips Trump’s Agreement With Kim.

The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden blasted
President Trump’s “deal with North Korea on denuclearization Tuesday,
saying Mr. Trump got taken to the cleaners by Kim Jong-un. ‘Talking to
dictators is one thing; embracing them is another,’ Mr. Biden said” in a
statement. He added, “So far, this is not a deal that advantages the United
States or makes us safer.” Biden, “who hasn’t ruled out a bid for the
presidency in 2020, said Mr. Trump’s deal has ‘reduced our leverage and
signaled a weakening of our alliance in return for vague promises to begin
nuclear negotiations – the same kind of promises that the North Korean
regime has made to American presidents of both parties in the past – and
broken repeatedly.’” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Cloud) also reports Biden’s reaction – in a story headlined “Trump’s
Decision To Halt Military Exercises With South Korea Leaves Pentagon And
Allies Nervous” – and The Hill
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(6/12, Anapol) reported that Biden said Trump “gave Kim ‘many sought-after
wins up front without getting anything in return.’” Biden “also argued that
the deal between Trump and Kim shows an inappropriate embracing of a
dictator, and that it does not make the US safer. ‘While we should never
refuse to speak with our adversaries, neither can we ignore the horrendous
human rights abuses North Korea’s leaders perpetrate against their own
people,’ Biden said.”

Mediaite
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(6/12, Feldman) reported that Biden “is also troubled by the lack of prep
Trump said he took in advance of the meeting: ‘By his own admission, the
President did not prepare for the Singapore meeting – an inexcusable and
irresponsible approach to a high-stakes negotiation. Going forward, I hope
that the President and his team will focus on what’s necessary for our
safety and security– – the complete, verifiable, and irreversible
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. That is a goal we all
share.’” On CNN’s
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(6/12), host Brooke Baldwin read Biden’s statement.
Biden Says Democrats “Better Run Scared” In Midterms.

The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Bedard) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is putting
Democrats on notice that they better ‘run scared’ to keep their jobs in the
2018 elections. ‘Pretend it’s Wednesday, November 7, 2018: the day after
this year’s midterm elections. Now, pretend the headlines all say the
Republicans held the House and the Senate,’ he said in an email to
supporters.” Biden went on to write, “Now, I’m not saying we’re going to
lose. But I learned a long time ago that you better run scared if you want
to win.” Biden added “that he is confident in his party in the fall
elections, but not overly. ‘We have to stay motivated; we better run
scared. We won’t win if we don’t,’ he emailed to supporters of his group,
American Possibilities.” National Review
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(6/12, McArdle) similarly reported on Biden’s email.
Beau Biden Recognized For His Work On Protecting Children From Child Abuse.

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Philadelphia (6/12) reported that the National Children’s Alliance on
Tuesday “recognized the late Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden for his
commitment to protecting victims of child abuse. Former Vice President Joe
Biden accepted the award in Washington on behalf of his son.” KYW-TV
broadcast Biden saying, “It all came down to his passion to protect
children. It’s the one thing that drove his public service. And it’s why
this matters so much to our family that you recognized it.” WFOR-TV[image:
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Miami (6/12) broadcast Biden making the same remark, and added that he
“also said Americans don’t take enough about preventing sexual abuse,
especially in the wake of several prominent sex-abuse scandals.” WSHM-TV[image:
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Springfield (MA)'s CBS 3 News (6/12) also reported on the award honoring
Beau Biden.
Local TV Stations Highlight Biden’s Slated Stop In Charlotte Today.

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Charlotte, NC (6/13) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden today
“will be in Charlotte as part of his ‘American Promise Tour.’ He’ll discuss
the biggest political moments of his career, the life altering choices he
made and what has helped him get through some of the toughest times. Former
Charlotte Mayor and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will join
Biden. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Belk Theatre.” WCNC-TV[image:
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Charlotte, NC (6/13) and WXII-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Winston-Salem, NC (6/13) this morning similarly report on Biden’s scheduled
stop in Charlotte.
Leading the News
Trump Touts “Great Progress” On North Korea To Media Skepticism, Democratic
Criticism.

Following his historic Singapore summit, President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Heading back home from Singapore after a truly amazing visit.
Great progress was made on the denuclearization of North Korea. Hostages
are back home, will be getting the remains of our great heroes back to
their families, no missiles shot, no research happening, sites closing...”
He later added
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“Got along great with Kim Jong-un who wants to see wonderful things for his
country. As I said earlier today: Anyone can make war, but only the most
courageous can make peace!”

Further, Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much
safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from
North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive
experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!” He added in a
second tweet
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this morning, “Before taking office people were assuming that we were going
to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our
biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer – sleep well tonight!” In a
later tweet
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this morning, Trump added, “We save a fortune by not doing war games, as
long as we are negotiating in good faith – which both sides are!”

The summit, however, sparked widespread skepticism from the media,
which criticized the joint statement signed by the leaders as too vague,
and generally cast Trump as having accomplished little. In fact, the
coverage is so skeptical that Axios
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(6/12, Shin) ran an analysis pointing out to its readers that
“denuclearization could still happen despite Trump’s lack of a plan.”
Reuters
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(6/12, Spetalnick), however, says the summit “appears to have failed to
secure any concrete commitments by Pyongyang for dismantling its nuclear
arsenal,” while to Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Talev, Olorunnipa) the meeting “was unquestionably a success – for
Kim.” Another Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Wadhams) analysis says that the “biggest winner” – aside from Kim –
was the government of President Xi Jinping. The AP
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(6/12, Talmadge) reports that “probably even his own surprise,” Kim “got”
what he wanted out of Trump “and a whole lot more,” and the Washington Post
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(6/12, Hudson) cites “experts” who state the North Korea deals brokered by
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were far stronger than the agreement and
diplomatic process touted by Trump, and that the Administration handed Kim
a big win by agreeing to the summit.

Democrats were of the similar mind. As USA Today
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(6/12, Gaudiano) reports, “Democratic congressional leaders
blasted...Trump...for granting concessions to...Kim...in exchange for a
deal to work toward ‘complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula’
that offered scant details on how to achieve it.” Whereas “Republican
leaders reacted with cautious optimism,” Senate Minority Leader Schumer
said yesterday, “Trump has granted a brutal and repressive dictatorship the
international legitimacy it has long craved.” House Minority Leader Pelosi
similarly stated, “In his haste to reach an agreement...Trump elevated
North Korea to the level of the United States while preserving the regime’s
status quo.” Sen. Robert Menendez, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign
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(6/12), “This is the most anemic communique that has ever come out of a
US-North Korea engagement. Very little substance on anything. ... All we
got here was a promise for more promises and we’ve been down that road
before.”

Townhall
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(6/12, Brown) highlights the Democratic leaders’ criticism, while Breitbart
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(6/12), Dana Bash “suggested there is a double standard to the extent there
would be a call for impeachment a Democratic president engaging in the
style of diplomacy in which Trump has engaged with...Kim.” Said Bash,
“There would be a call for impeachment.” Along similar lines, media
analyses are uniformly critical both of Trump and of the signed agreement.
Mark Landler writes in a New York Times
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(6/12) analysis that the statement “was as skimpy as the summit was
extravagant. It called for the ‘complete denuclearization’ of the Korean
Peninsula but provided neither a timeline nor any details about how the
North would go about relinquishing its weapons.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Bender, Gordon, Cheng) reports that Trump failed to secure specific
new commitments from Kim – even as he launched a new phase of personal
diplomacy.

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(6/12, lead story, 5:15, Holt) said “the accomplishments of their first
face-to-face meeting are being held up to the light, especially what wasn’t
in” the agreement Kim and Trump signed. ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(6/12, lead story, 4:55, Muir) reported that “Trump headed home today,
confident the biggest gamble of his presidency had paid off,” but the
agreement he and Kim signed is “short on specifics.” The White House
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(6/12, lead story, 4:10, Glor) said a “jubilant” Trump left Singapore “with
what he said was an historic new relationship with North Korea and a
commitment from” Kim “to eventually give up nuclear weapons.” Margaret
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(6/12, story 3, 2:55, Glor) that Trump “gave himself a lot of wiggle room
today” by saying, “I may stand up here I six months and say, ‘hey, I was
wrong.’” But the President “also gave the North Koreans room to maneuver as
well.”

The Washington Post
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(6/12, Nakamura, Rucker, Fifield, Gearan) says that at “just over a page
long,” the statement “was perhaps most notable for its lack of details.”
Kim, it says, “made no specific commitment to relinquish his nuclear arms
and ballistic missiles and gave no timeline for which he would do so.
Rather, he committed solely to abiding by a mostly symbolic agreement he
had made during a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April.”
Asked
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why his negotiating team had not locked down specific promises from
Pyongyang, Trump replied: “Because there’s no time. I’m here one day ...
But the process is now going to take place.”

Under the headline “Trump, Kim Claim Big Summit Success, But
Details Are Scant,” the AP
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(6/12, Miller, Lucey, Lederman, Klug) says the statement “largely amounts
to an agreement to continue discussions, echoing previous public statements
and commitments.” Still, the two leaders “left Singapore Tuesday, praising
their face-to-face progress.” During a press conference after the talks,
Trump “acknowledged that denuclearization won’t happen overnight,” but
contended, “Once you start the process it means it’s pretty much over.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Kim) characterizes the framework as “a vaguely worded agreement that
contained no concrete plan for disarmament.” While the Times concedes the
agreement “is no small achievement considering that the two leaders were
threatening each other with nuclear war last summer...it was far less than
the ambitious arms control deal Trump hoped to gain when he agreed to the
summit in March.” CNN
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(6/11, Liptak) similarly says Tuesday’s “unprecedented” talks
“culminated...with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague
pledges of nuclear disarmament.” USA Today
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(6/12, Jackson) notes the agreement “did not provide specifics about what
Kim means by ‘denuclearization.’”

The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/12, Gertz), however, says that while the “historic meeting...failed to
produce a dramatic breakthrough,” it did “set the stage for future talks on
what was billed as a new relationship.” To the AP
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(6/12, Lemire, Pennington), moreover, Trump staged “a shift from the
nation’s asserted stance as the globe’s moral leader” and “a sharp break
from the position of presidents from both parties to set America as the
exemplar shining city on a hill for other nations to emulate.” The AP
analysis adds that “it has been much the same at home,” as when “he
pointedly refused to exclusively blame neo-Nazis and white supremacists for
last summer’s deadly clash with anti-racist demonstrators.”

James Hohmann writes in a Washington Post
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(6/12) analysis that Trump “expressed a bewilderingly high degree of
confidence” after Tuesday’s meeting with Kim. Trump told reporters, “My
whole life has been deals. I know when somebody wants a deal. … I just feel
very strongly – my instinct… – they want to make a deal.” Hohmann, however,
says the President “is giving someone the benefit of the doubt who has done
little or nothing to earn it.”

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(6/12, story 2, 1:20, Glor) that “the front page of the newspaper in North
Korea today...is covered with pictures of Kim...with President Trump. And
that’s one of the big things that Kim...got out of this. He looks like a
confident world leader on the world stage. He doesn’t look like the leader
of an isolated nation.”

A USA Today
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(6/12, Korte) analysis, meanwhile, says Tuesday’s summit “hearkens back to
a bygone era of high-risk summits where the outcome is not preordained,”
but it “suits” Trump’s “negotiating style: Size up your adversary,
establish a rapport and make a deal.” Ted Anthony writes for the AP
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(6/12) that the summit “is being vigorously debated across the planet for
what it did, what it didn’t do and who emerged on top. ... But what if
that’s not the whole point? What if, on a sunny tropical morning in
Singapore, the spectacle itself was the most substantial thing of all?”

*Kim Accepts Trump’s Invite To Washington. *The New York Post
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(6/12, Hicks) reports that “fresh off the Singapore summit,” Kim “has
accepted...Trump’s invitation to visit Washington.” The Daily Caller
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(6/12, Pickrell) reports the state-run Korean Central News Agency said
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Kim invited Trump “to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump
invited Kim Jong Un to visit the US. ... The two top leaders gladly
accepted each other’s invitation.”

*Trump Reiterates Optimism About Denuclearization, US-North Korea
Ties. *Trump took to Twitter again later on Tuesday, writing
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“There is no limit to what NoKo can achieve when it gives up its nuclear
weapons and embraces commerce & engagement w/ the world. Chairman Kim has
before him the opportunity to be remembered as the leader who ushered in a
glorious new era of security & prosperity for his citizens!” He later added
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“I want to thank Chairman Kim for taking the first bold step toward a
bright new future for his people. Our unprecedented meeting – the first
between an American President and a leader of North Korea – proves that
real change is possible! ...
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The World has taken a big step back from potential Nuclear catastrophe! No
more rocket launches, nuclear testing or research! The hostages are back
home with their families. Thank you to Chairman Kim, our day together was
historic!”

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(6/12) after the summit, moreover, Trump said, “They are going to get rid
of their nuclear weapons, and...I think they want to do it relatively
quickly. ... I think they will. I really believe that [Kim] will. I’ve
gotten to know him well in a short period of time. ... He’s denuking the
whole place and he’s going to start very quickly. I think he’s going to
start now.” In an interview conducted in Singapore after Tuesday’s summit
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(6/12) that without the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, “we could
not have had a deal. We want to de-nuke the entire peninsula. We want to
de-nuke that whole situation – that is hotbed and you know what has been
happening for years and nobody did anything about it. You have to, we have
no choice. We had to. The relationship was really good. ... I talked about
early on in the relationship and the feeling, well, we had a really good
feel right from the beginning and we were able to get something very
important done and actually some things happened after that was signed,
where we are getting rid of certain missile research areas and certain
missile testing sites, we are getting rid of a lot.”

The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) reports that Trump also told Sean Hannity that “he’s certain
that his warlike rhetoric last year against...Kim...convinced Mr. Kim to
negotiate over giving up his nuclear weapons.” Trump told Fox News’
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(6/12), “Without the rhetoric we wouldn’t have been here, I really believe
that. We did sanctions and all the things that you would do but I think
without the rhetoric, other administrations, I don’t want to get specific
on that, but they had a policy of silence. If they said something very bad,
very threatening and horrible, just don’t answer. That’s not the answer.
That’s not what you have to do. I think that rhetoric, I hated to do it.
Sometimes I felt foolish doing it. But we had no choice.”

*Trump Called Into Senate GOP Lunch To Discuss Summit. *The Hill
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(6/12, Carney) reports Trump “called into the Senate GOP lunch from Air
Force One on Tuesday to discuss North Korea, according to a senator who
attended the gathering.” Sen. John Barrasso told reporters after the caucus
lunch, “We just got off the phone with the President of the United States
from Air Force One on his plane back from Singapore. He sounded confident
and upbeat, as he should.”

*Republicans Offer “Measured Praise,” Rubio Slams Media “Hypocrisy”
Over Summit Coverage. *Meanwhile, says the Washington Post
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(6/12, Wagner, Debonis), “leading Republicans in Congress offered measured
praise...of...Trump’s high-profile summit” even as “they emphasized the
difficult road” ahead. Along those lines, the AP
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(6/12, Kellman) notes that Senate Majority Leader McConnell, meanwhile,
hailed the meeting as a “major first step.” Dana Milbank writes in the
Washington
Post
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(6/12) that “Republican lawmakers filled Twitter with applause emojis for
Trump after he did the very thing they denounced Obama for even
suggesting.” Democrats, “were they inclined to be demagogic, could have
attacked Trump for sitting down with a murderous dictator. Most didn’t.”
There is an “asymmetrical partisanship in our current politics: Republicans
are blithely hypocritical in praising Trump for doing the same thing they
blasted Obama for suggesting, but at least some Democrats retain enough
integrity not to dismiss diplomacy just because it is being attempted by
their opponent.”

The New York Times
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(6/12, Fandos) reports, however, that “lawmakers from both
parties...greeted the joint agreement...coolly on Tuesday,” and “even some
Republicans who have largely declined to challenge the president” on this
issue saying “it was unclear what, if anything, had been gained by the
United States.” The Times backs up that assertion by quoting Sens. Bob
Corker and Lindsey Graham, who “called the talks a good ‘first step’ but
little more.” Graham told NBC’s Today[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/12, Guthrie), “I don’t think canceling a war game is going to matter
over the arc of time,” though “one thing I would violently disagree with is
removing our troops. I can’t imagine I would vote for any agreement that
requires us to withdraw our forces because that would destabilize Asia.”

The Washington Times
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(6/12, Chasmar) reports Sen. Marco Rubio “on Tuesday slammed American media
for their ‘hypocrisy’ in covering...Trump’s historic meeting with...Kim.”
Taking to Twitter, “Rubio said the media’s coverage of the meeting again
exposed a double standard in how they cover the Republican president
compared to his liberal predecessor, Barack Obama.” Rubio tweeted
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“I too have concerns about how all this with #NorthKorea will turn out,”
but “I don’t recall all the ‘experts’ criticizing Obama when he met with a
brutal dictator in #Cuba who also oversaw a police state & also killed &
jailed his opponents. #DoubleStandard” He added, “Presidents meeting with
#KJU exposed incredible hypocrisy of many in media. ... When Obama did
these things, he was described as enlightened. When Trump does it he is
reckless & foolish. 1 yr ago they attacked Trump for leading us towards
war, now attack for being too quick for peace.”

Author Paul Brandus writes in USA Today
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(6/12), “Here’s how hyperpartisan our bizarro world has become: Many of the
same folks who, a few years ago, blasted...Obama for going to Cuba and for
working with other global powers to rein in Iran’s nuclear program, are
gushing over the fact that...Trump just flew 10,000 miles to meet with
Kim,” and “conversely, if you praised Obama’s actions then, there’s a good
chance you’ve been critical of Trump’s now.”

*Sanders, Gabbard Break With Democrats On Summit. *In what Breitbart
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(6/12, Binder) calls “a revolt against the Democratic Party establishment,”
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) “praised Trump’s summit
with Kim,” calling it an “important first step” towards peace and a
“positive step in de-escalating tensions.”

*Editorial Pages Critical Of Trump. *Criticism of Trump is also the
norm in today’s editorial pages. The Washington Post
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(6/12) editorializes that the summit “was, without question, a triumph for
Kim,” who “was able to parade on the global stage as a legitimate
statesman, praised by the president of the United States as ‘very talented’
and worthy of trust.” Washington Post
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(6/12) columnist Max Boot writes that Kim “won an invaluable propaganda
windfall” after being “recognized as an equal by the leader of the world’s
sole superpower – not just an equal, indeed, but a valued friend.” The New
York Times
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(6/12) editorializes that “Trump has made major concessions, while Mr. Kim
made fewer commitments than North Korea has made to past administrations
and merely reaffirmed a goal of ‘denuclearization’ that North Korea first
announced in 1992.” And as Trump “gushed about the virtues of the North
Korean dictator, just a day after he savaged some of America’s closest
democratic allies, he even endorsed the North Korean view of such joint
exercises” with South Korea “as ‘provocative.’” To Nicholas Kristof of the New
York Times
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(6/12), meanwhile, “it sure looks as if...Trump was hoodwinked in
Singapore.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12) also expresses skepticism in its editorial, indicating that for all
of Trump’s faith in North Korean denuclearization, so far there was been
little evidence that Kim is indeed willing to move forward with his
commitment.

Less critical was an editorial in the Los Angeles Times
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(6/12), which says Trump has “de-escalated the rhetoric dramatically” and
“may have begun a process that will succeed in reining in North Korea’s
nuclear ambitions,” but “for all the spectacle, the meeting was at best a
down payment on that change.” Along similar lines, USA Today
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(6/12) editorializes that that “the world has certainly come a long way
since last year,” that the summit was “a welcome relief from all the
warmongering,” and that “the agreement signed by Kim and Trump was historic
and potentially groundbreaking.” However, “the sense of hopefulness
emerging from the summit, however, has to be leavened with a heavy dose of
skepticism.”

In a second editorial, the New York Times
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(6/12) writes that “as a model for diplomacy, the Singapore Summit had its
highs and lows. But as a platform for displaying the singular performance
art of Donald Trump, it was a solid 10.” The Times adds that “if Mr. Trump
can crack this nut, he’ll surely get the adulation – not to mention the
Nobel Peace Prize – that he is so desperate for.”

*Suspension Of “War Games” Sparks More Criticism. *Reports also
cast Trump’s decision to suspend joint US-South Korean “war games” as a
concession that took Seoul by surprise. The New York Times
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(6/12, Landler) reports Trump’s decision to suspend the war games, which it
calls “a major concession,” “appeared to take South Korea by surprise.”
Reuters
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(6/12, Holland) calls it “an unexpected concession to the North,” and the AP
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(6/12, Klug) says the decision “rocked the region with the stunning
announcement.” It adds that Trump’s “surprise, almost offhand” remarks
“contradicted countless previous declarations by US political and military
officials over the years that the drills are routine, defensive and
absolutely critical.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Kim) reports Trump told reporters that halting the drills would save
“a lot of money” and he called them “provocative,” a “complaint North Korea
often made.”

The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) and Politico
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(6/12, Cook, Nelson, Toosi), among others, similarly report the move, which
Politico says caught “South Korea and US military officials by surprise”
and drew “criticism that he was giving away too much for little in return.”
The New York Times
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(6/12, Choe) says Trump’s remarks “apparently blindsided South Korea.” The
office of President Moon Jae-in and the Defense Ministry in Seoul both said
they were scrambling to “figure out the exact meaning and intentions in
President Trump’s comments.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(6/12, story 3, 1:30, Muir) too said the South Korean Defense Ministry was
“caught off-guard, saying there was a need to discern the exact meaning and
intent of President Trump’s comments.” However, a second ABC World News
Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/12, story 11, 1:40, Muir) segment said “there were cheers in South
Korea” on Tuesday.

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(6/12, story 2, 2:05, Holt) reported that Trump “not only surprised the
South Koreans but US forces in the region, too.” NBC (Engel) added that
American forces in South Korea “said they... received no updated guidance
on execution or cessation of training exercises.”

Trump told Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/12) later on Tuesday, “One of the things that I’m very happy about, we
are not going to play the war games anymore. You know how expensive that
is? We are flying these massive bombers in for practice from Guam? ... I
hate to sound like a pure businessman, but I kept saying, what is this
costing? I look at them coming in from the sea and bombs exploding, and I
said what does this cost? I don’t even want to tell you, but it’s a lot. So
we are not going to be doing that as long as we are negotiating in good
faith, which I think we will be.”

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(6/12), Jim Sciutto said, “There’s a clear imbalance in specifics. The US
has made very specific commitments to end the exercises. The President even
brought up withdrawing US troops from the peninsula, a security guarantee
to...South Korea. That’s very specific.” Sciutto added that, on the other
hand, North Korea “gave no specifics on a timeline for denuclearization,
[and] no specifics on how that will be verified over time.” Likewise,
on MSNBC’s
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(6/12), Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass said that a
“concerning” aspect of the framework is that North Korea “talked
aspirationally about ‘denuclearization,’” while the US “offered up
something tangible, which was the suspension of all military exercises.”

The Washington Post
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(6/12, Kim), meanwhile, says Trump’s decision to halt the joint military
exercises also “touched off confusion on Capitol Hill as an influential GOP
senator asserted the exercises would nonetheless continue. That was
apparently the message delivered by Vice President Pence to Senate
Republicans during a private lunch earlier Tuesday,” according to Sen. Cory
Gardner,” although that was immediately disputed by Pence’s office.”
Gardner told reporters, “I think what the vice president said today – and
we’ll continue to clarify what the President had talked about – exercises
will continue with South Korea.”

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(6/12), “You had confusion on Capitol Hill about what this really meant.
You had confusion about whether we were, in fact, going to stop exercises
or so-called war games. You saw the Vice President trying to talk to Senate
Republicans and the Republicans leaving confused about what would actually
occur.”

*WPost: Japanese Officials “Appeared Satisfied.” *The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Murphy, Oda) reports Japan “was left Tuesday without what it wanted
most from the Singapore summit: a clear declaration that North Korea would
reopen talks over the abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago.”
Nevertheless, Japanese officials “appeared satisfied with what they got:
President Trump’s public promise that he raised the issue with...Kim...and
that the North was ‘working on that.’”

*China, Russia Looking To Loosen Sanctions Against North Korea. *The
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(6/12, story 2, 1:20, Glor) that China – which is “quite happy” about the
“cessation of those military exercises” since it’s something Beijing has
“asked for for a long time” – is also “floating the idea of easing
sanctions on North Korea before there really is big progress.” National
security analyst Samantha Vinograd said on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(6/12), “I think it is unknowable right now what the United States will
gain, but what we do know is that there were clear winners here. Russia and
China won out after the summit because the United States announced we that
would be rolling back our military operations in the region, that has been
a goal of Russia and China, and that we would engage in the diplomatic
process further.”

*Trump Showed Kim Video Of Possible Future For North Korea. *The New
York Times
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(6/12, Rich) reports Trump used an iPad to show Kim “a slick, bombastic
video
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– essentially a Hollywood-style trailer presenting the North’s possible
future, featuring fighter jets and missile launches cut together with
images of dancing children, artisanal pizza and time-lapse sunrises over
skyscrapers.” The video – “which the White House also showed to the
traveling press corps before Mr. Trump answered questions at a rambling
news conference – showcased the president’s reality television
sensibility.” According to the Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer), the video depicted Kim and Trump “as two men who could
change the course of history.”

The AP
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(6/12, Thomas, Miller) reports the video was “reminiscent of a movie
trailer” and “shows images of warplanes and artillery while a narrator
suggests in English and Korean that ‘a new world can begin today, one of
friendship, respect and goodwill.’” Trump said, “We had it made up. I
showed it to him today, actually during the meeting, toward the end of the
meeting and I think he loved it.” Trump said the video “was played for
about eight members of the North Korean delegation, ‘and I thought they
were fascinated by it.’” According to the Washington Post
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(6/12, Selk), reporters who viewed the video initially assumed it was North
Korean propaganda.

*Trump Instructed US Diplomats To Seek POW Deal. *The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Rein, Hudson) reports that “nestled” in Tuesday’s joint statement
“was a short bullet point that addresses a long-running concern of US
veterans groups: the recovery of the remains of thousands of American
troops who were killed or captured in North Korea during the Korean War.”
The Post says the statement “represents a significant victory for veterans
groups that lobbied forcefully behind the scenes for a renewed effort to
recover remains.” Ahead of the summit, Secretary of State Pompeo told his
negotiating team, led by US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, that
the POW issue is important to Trump, and he “instructed Kim to negotiate
for it,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.

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(6/12), “One of the things I will to you that I’m most happy about, and as
you know is a big sticking point, is bringing back the remains of thousands
of soldiers that were killed. ... I said, would it be possible because I
get letters all the time from families who lost a son, lost a brother, lots
of father in Korea. That was a rough fight. ... I get so many letters from
people who lost a loved one in North Korea essentially...and I would say, I
am going to try.’ And I brought it up and I tell you what, it was almost
immediate. Now in the past, you couldn’t even talk about it. But it was
really a nice response.”

*Media Analyses: Trump Mostly Mum On Human Rights. *NBC
Nightly News[image:
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(6/12, story 3, 2:25, Holt) reported, “One issue that did not receive much
discussion during this summit was the brutal reality of life in North
Korea.” The Washington Post
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(6/12, Nakamura) reports that while “galvanizing international condemnation
of North Korea last year,” Trump “often invoked the authoritarian nation’s
brutal mistreatment of foreign prisoners and its own people.” But on
Tuesday, Trump “didn’t mention human rights in his opening remarks” at his
press conference, and the issue “wasn’t included in a joint statement
signed by the two leaders.” Major Garrett similarly said on the CBS Evening
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(6/12, lead story, 4:10, Glor), “Last year, the President called North
Korea with its abysmal human rights record ‘wicked and depraved.’ Today, he
said he trusts the dynastic young dictator after just one face-to-face
meeting.” Trump: “He’s smart. He loves his people. He loves his country. He
wants a lot of good things, and that’s why he’s doing this.”

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(6/12, story 2, 3:35, Muir) reported on Trump’s interview with George
Stephanopoulos, who asked how he can trust a “brutal dictator” like Kim.
Trump replied in part: “I can only tell you from my experience, and...I’ve
spoken with him, and I’ve met him. ... I think that he really wants to do a
great job for North Korea.”

*Hannity: Summit Exceeded Administration’s Expectations. *On Fox
News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/12), Hannity described his interview with Trump last night, and said
that after seeing the President, Pompeo, Chief of Staff Kelly, and National
Security Adviser Bolton, “it was obvious this had exceeded all of their
expectations,” and “it was very obvious everybody felt really good about
it, especially the President.”

*Commentators Note Change In Tone In US-North Korean Ties. *Ian
Bremmer of the Eurasia Group said on CBS This Morning[image: Image removed
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(6/12, O'Donnell), “The biggest win is that six months ago we were talking
about the possibility of military preemption against North Korea. It’s
almost inconceivable now that there’s a short-term risk of military
conflict.” However, Bremmer added, “It’s a very high bar to go from here to
‘complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.’”

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(6/12), Victor Cha, former Asia director at the National Security Council,
said, “If we weren’t doing this we would probably be near an armed
conflict. That’s certainly where we were headed in December of 2017. So, in
that sense, yes, this is a good first start in terms of the diplomacy, but
there’s still a very long way to go. And if you look at the balance sheet,
it seems like Kim got a lot more out of this meeting than Trump did.”
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(6/12, Kotb), Cha said, “What we got was a very broad statement, which will
require negotiations to try to put some meat on the bones. But the
statements on denuclearization, which we care about the most as Americans,
are so broad, you can drive a truck through them.”

Cha also writes today in the New York Times
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(6/12, Cha) that Trump deserves “credit. Only five months ago, based on my
conversations with this administration, I thought we were headed down an
inexorable path toward a devastating war.” He says “Trump’s diplomacy,
however unconventional, has pierced the isolation bubble of the North
Korean leadership, which no previous president could do,” and adds that
“despite its many flaws, the Singapore summit represents the start of a
diplomatic process that takes us away from the brink of war.”

Gerald F. Seib argues in the Wall Street Journal
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(6/12) that the prospects for Tuesday’s summit turning into lasting change
rest on whether Kim is prepared to shift away from a quest for more
powerful arms into a quest for a more powerful economy.

Thomas Countryman, former assistant secretary of state for
international security and nonproliferation, and Daryl G. Kimball,
executive director of the Arms Control Association, write for USA Today
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(6/12) that the summit “offers a moment of cautious hope,” but “we should
have no illusions that the denuclearization effort would be simple. There
is no precedent for a country with a nuclear arsenal and infrastructure as
substantial as North Korea’s to give up its nuclear weapons program.” They
urge President Trump to “resist the urge to abandon diplomacy and to return
to irresponsible threats” if “early results are not fully satisfactory.”

*Trump Campaign Manager: CNN’s Acosta Should Lose Credentials.
*The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Wagner) reports Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Tuesday
called for CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta to have his media
credentials pulled “for asking questions while Trump and North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un were signing an agreement at their Singapore summit.”
Parscale tweeted
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“Jim @Acosta should immediately have his press credentials suspended. He is
an absolute disgrace!” The Post notes that as Trump and Kim were signing
the document in front of a small group of reporters, Acosta asked: “Mr.
President, did he agree to denuclearize?”

*Politico: Trump Places “Big Midterm Bet” On Trade, North Korea. *
Politico
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(6/12, Cadelago, White) says that “to President Donald Trump’s camp, his
scorched-earth challenge to key US allies over trade and his valedictory
denuclearization pact with Korean dictator Kim Jong Un amount to a
compelling midterm pitch.” Politico, however, cautions that the President’s
“big moves of the past few days also represent a giant bet that he can keep
his negotiating partners at the table between now and November.”

Dan Balz writes for the Washington Post
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(6/12) that Trump “is now embarked on two ambitious foreign policy
initiatives – redrawing the rules of international trade and defanging a
nuclear-armed North Korea – that represent significant personal gambles.
The question is, can he gain something politically from these efforts in
the absence of demonstrable accomplishments?” Balz argues that Trump’s
“biggest gamble could be his confidence that his unorthodox approach,
regardless of the outcomes, will produce tangible political dividends for
2018 and especially 2020.”

*White House Thanks Rodman For Being “Helpful” In North Korea. *The New
York Post
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(6/12, Tacopino) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders” thanked
Dennis Rodman for his ‘positive’ comments and being ‘helpful’” in bringing
Trump and Kim together. In a phone call Monday, Sanders is quoted as
telling Rodman, “The President had seen some of your comments over the last
several days. He just wanted me to reach out and thank you for some of the
positive things you said and appreciate you being helpful in this process.”

*USA Today’s Robbins: “Anti-Trump Mania” Driving Media
Narrative. *James
S. Robbins, writing for USA Today
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(6/12), “Last fall,” Trump and Kim “were trading personal insults and
threatening nuclear war. Fast-forward to the Singapore summit, and the two
men are smiling and talking on the Island of Tranquility. Just like that,
peace broke out.” While “there has been no lack of criticism of the
summit...anti-Trump mania drives most of the critical narrative, rather
than a reasoned analysis of strategic opportunity.”

Margaret Sullivan, meanwhile, writes for the Washington Post
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(6/12) that “although every legitimate news organization made efforts, some
better than others, to bring context and even a measure of skepticism into
their mix of stories, the event overall was a triumph of Trumpian
stagecraft. And the media played its accustomed role.” Sullivan says that
“to their credit, news organizations tried to bring context to the
pageantry, but it was largely lost.”
Foreign Policy
Trump: Trudeau’s Criticism Of US Tariffs Will “Cost Him A Lot Of Money.”

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(6/12) that President Trump is “waiving off concerns he’s favoring
America’s enemies over allies following discord at the G-7” this weekend.
“However,” Brown continued, Trump “did call out Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau for criticizing US tariffs” at the end of the G-7 summit,
with Trump calling Trudeau “quote, ‘obnoxious.’” CNN also showed Trump
telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I actually like Justin. ... But he
shouldn’t have done that. That was a mistake that will cost him a lot of
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(6/12, story 4, 2:15, Muir) also reported that “just hours after heaping
praise on North Korea’s dictator,” Trump “escalated his war of words
with...Trudeau, declaring Canadians would pay a price.” On Tuesday though,
Trudeau “insisted the President’s tariffs will end up hurting Americans.”
Trudeau was shown saying, “This is not in the interest of two countries
that have the closest and best trading relationship and alliance in the
history of the world. We’re gonna continue to stand for that.” Fox News
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(6/12) reported that Navarro “says his language was inappropriate.”

*Navarro Apologizes For “Special Place In Hell” Comment. *ABC World
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(6/12, story 4, 2:15, Muir) reported that while Trump is “not backing away
from this fight,” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro “apologized
to...Trudeau” after saying this weekend that “there’s a special place in
hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy
with...Trump.” The AP
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(6/12) reports that Navarro said Tuesday during a Wall Street Journal
conference, “Let me correct a mistake I made...In conveying that message I
used language that was inappropriate.” Politico
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(6/12, Cassella) quotes Navarro as adding, “My mission was to send a strong
signal of strength. ... The problem is that in conveying that message I
used language that was inappropriate.” The New York Times
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(6/12, Rappeport) notes Navarro also said, “I own that, that was my
mistake, those were my words.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Mauldin) says Navarro made it clear his remarks referred to Trudeau.

The Hill
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(6/12, Samuels) says Navarro “apologized” after Canadian Foreign Minister
Chrystia Freeland said his Sunday remarks were “particularly appropriate or
useful,” and after a “number of US lawmakers” and other foreign officials
like European Council President Donald Tusk “were quick to condemn” his
comments. According to Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Leonard, Pickert), “Navarro’s apology could ease tensions after
Canada’s parliament condemned the personal attack on Trudeau and as
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland gets ready to meet with members
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday in Washington.” Sen.
Bob Corker, chairman of the committee, “said on Tuesday that he’s ‘glad’
that Navarro admitted that he misspoke.”

However, Reuters
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(6/12) reports that “Canada reacted coolly to the apology, with Trudeau
declining to answer when reporters asked him whether he accepted it.”
The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Wagner) notes that Navarro’s “broadside against Trudeau followed
Trump’s decision over the weekend to pull the US endorsement of a Group of
Seven economic agreement” after Trump took “umbrage over comments made by
Trudeau about the need for Canada to stand up to the United States on trade
tariffs.”

*Corker Chides GOP Colleagues After His Tariff Measure Is Blocked
In Senate. *The Hill
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(6/12, Carney) reports legislation authored by Sen. Bob Corker “reining in
President Trump’s tariff authority was blocked from getting a vote in the
Senate on Tuesday.” Corker “tried to bring up his bill and schedule a vote
but was blocked” by Sen. James Inhofe, “who is managing the defense bill
for Republicans.” Inhofe “noted he had talked to members of the House, who
were ‘strenuously’ objecting to the inclusion of Corker’s amendment in the
defense policy bill.” The Washington Post
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(6/12, Werner) says “the leadership move, which blocked Corker from
including his legislation as an amendment on a pending defense bill,
probably killed it for good – and with it, Congress’s best chance of taking
any action to confront Trump on trade.”

Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Litvan) reports that Corker, “who is retiring in January, is
increasingly open about his frustrations with Trump’s trade and other
policies,” and “on the Senate floor, Corker accused Republicans lawmakers
of being afraid to ‘poke the bear’ when they find themselves on the other
side of the president.” The AP
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(6/12, Freking) recounts that “sounding exasperated, Corker said Republican
senators overwhelmingly agree with the concept behind his bill, but are
afraid of upsetting the president.” Said Corker, “We might poke the bear is
the language I’ve been hearing in the hallways. ... The United States
Senate right now on June 12th is becoming a body where, well, we’ll do what
we can do, but my gosh if the President gets upset with us, then we might
not be in the majority, so let’s not doing anything that might upset the
President.”

The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Weaver) reports that “as his voice went up an octave,” Corker added
yesterday, “I can’t believe it!