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By ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc), JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman), DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman) and ZACH MONTELLARO (zmontellaro@politico.com; @ZachMontellaro)


THE SCHEDULE FOR THE BIG DAY ... PRESIDENT TRUMP will leave his hotel at 8 a.m. Singapore time for the Capella, where he'll meet with Kim Jong Un. He will arrive at 8:20 a.m., and at 9 a.m. he will participate "in a greeting" with Kim. From 9:15 until 10 a.m., he will have a one-on-one meeting with Kim, followed by an expanded session until 11:30 a.m. He will lunch with Kim at 11:30 a.m., and then has a media availability at 4 p.m.

TRUMP is flying back through Guam and Hawaii, and will arrive in D.C. on Wednesday morning. THE WHITE HOUSE announced he will depart at 8 p.m. Singapore time, meaning the talks between the two leaders are unlikely to be extended to a second day.

WAPO'S PHIL RUCKER (@PhilipRucker): "Fascinating night in Singapore. Kim Jong Un, isolated no more, has stolen the pre-show with Trumpian theatrics. He's toured the gleaming Marina Bay Sands and waterfront sights, soaking in the kind of prosperity he hopes normalized relations with U.S. could bring to Pyongyang."

SARAH BLAKE (@sarahblakemedia), U.S. correspondent for News Corp's Australian pubs: "Kim Jong un cheered a like a rockstar on his arrival at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore #trumpkimsummit". 38-second video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c7126ba602d7f680b718bba9437f77be987210f9d23e36860edc24fc8ded4d678df93627d2170ee5fe98

-- CNN'S KAITLAN COLLINS (@kaitlancollins): "A reminder that the guy being cheered is someone who executed his uncle and dozens of other officials, had his half-brother killed and starved his people in favor of building up a nuclear arsenal."

COVERING THE COVERAGE -- HOW MANY ON-AIR CORRESPONDENTS ARE ON THE GROUND IN SINGAPORE ... -- NBC/MSNBC - 7: Lester Holt, Andrea Mitchell, Peter Alexander, Hallie Jackson, Kelly O'Donnell, Jonathan Allen, Bill Neely ... ABC - 7: George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, Martha Raddatz, Jonathan Karl, Tara Palmeri, Tom Bossert and Karen Travers ... CNN -- 8: Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour, John Berman, Jim Acosta, Jim Sciutto, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond ... CBS - 3: Jeff Glor, Major Garrett and Ben Tracy. FOX News: at least 4: Chris Wallace, John Roberts, Ed Henry and Sean Hannity (http://bit.ly/2JDqQK6). (They didn't respond to requests for who they had on the ground)
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PRE-SUMMIT READING ... WaPo's PHIL RUCKER, ANNE GEARAN and JOHN HUDSON: "Meanwhile, Trump and Kim's representatives labored Monday here at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to find agreement on the substance of an eventual nuclear arms deal. The talks were preceded by negotiations over the previous month in New York and the Panmunjom truce village in North Korea, in the demilitarized zone with South Korea.

"The working-level sessions, including those led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have foundered repeatedly over basic issues of what the summit should be about and an inability to close fundamental gaps in understanding over North Korean denuclearization. ...

"A key stumbling block in the negotiations has been what comes first. The North Koreans want a firm security guarantee, meaning a promise that the United States will not attack or seek to overthrow Kim. The Americans want a substantive denuclearization pledge." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712869ae0eb131d24ae83a468359a004b14247b2be005e6d7d3fad1debc165806bdd03c19a5190adbdc

-- "U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit," by NBC News' Ken Dilanian http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712083c9a5c2313052bfc3211cd836ad5d7dcf02f7333e06c39da8ca9eb7c42a0b81457b8771622c4a7

-- NYT: "The Nine Steps Required to Really Disarm North Korea" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71283a0cda57a39ebe58a72417373c3a82baad5b19a3a1fafc56d66b95fe6a555235bcd2ba849648042

A MESSAGE FROM IVANKA -- @IvankaTrump at 9:06 a.m.: "'Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.' -Chinese Proverb".

THE EDITOR WRITES ... THE ATLANTIC'S JEFF GOLDBERG: "A Senior White House Official Defines the Trump Doctrine: 'We're America, B***h'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71248780e2e5c774d06bde7dfe8b8913696ffae00dd04410e24a2734e73fca63162b9229ee522f72e1c

Good Monday afternoon. PLAYBOOK NEWS... Our very talented producer ZACH MONTELLARO is leaving Playbook next week to join POLITICO's campaign team and write the Morning Score newsletter -- covering the final stretch leading into the 2018 midterm and beyond. Subscribe to Morning Score http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71233823c40623b4ca5aeaccd6b8b49e902e039ebf97a06a213d095feb2d59c93a023e8e874fdeed90d

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FROM THE HIGH COURT -- "Supreme Court upholds Ohio voter purges," by Josh Gerstein: "A narrowly divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's system for culling its voter rolls, blessing a process that could undercut Democrats by reducing the turnout of minority and younger voters. The 5-4 ruling found that Ohio's practice of stripping voters from its rolls if they don't vote over a six-year period and don't respond to mailed warnings did not violate a pair of federal laws.

"Writing for all the court's Republican appointees, Justice Samuel Alito said Ohio's process of sending a notice to people who don't vote during a two-year period, then removing them if they don't respond to a second notice or vote in the next two federal general elections, complies with the requirements Congress set out back in 1993." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71210ef2064cc9638343a77c1fd9c36b5c0471fa11d6f051b307677f4dc06cb5ebca10712e7602073c9

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VEEP TO THE RESCUE -- ALEX ISENSTADT and ELENA SCHNEIDER: "Pence heading to Ohio for latest special election scare": "[Vice President Mike] Pence is slated to host a fundraiser for state Sen. Troy Balderson, who's competing in an Aug. 7 special election in a district President Donald Trump won by 11 points in 2016, according to a person familiar with the vice president's plans. The seat was recently vacated by former GOP Rep. Pat Tiberi." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712ec885ca8ae3ac62d2ec5a1c9023cd9f5fbb2e8a10e1bdb2b0dfeb350baf509762e821b583e6a4d9d

THE RUSSIAN INFLUENCE MACHINE -- "Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign," by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon in McClatchy: "Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, according to photographs and an NRA source. ...

"[I]nfluential Russians who met with NRA representatives during the campaign include Dmitry Rogozin, who until last month served as a deputy prime minister overseeing Russia's defense industry, and Sergei Rudov, head of one of Russia's largest philanthropies, the St. Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. The foundation was launched by an ultra-nationalist ally of Russian President Putin.

"The Russians talked and dined with NRA representatives, mainly in Moscow, as U.S. presidential candidates vied for the White House. Now U.S. investigators want to know if relationships between the Russian leaders and the nation's largest gun rights group went beyond vodka toasts and gun factory tours, evolving into another facet of the Kremlin's broad election-interference operation." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71205d73f8d7e8cf27728157f1125e19be01f036dd752f684823d72d329705b0d127137520bb34eae68

-- "New Russian Media Venture Wants to Wage 'Information War' in Washington, D.C.," by The Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay: "In April, Russia's Federal News Agency (FAN) announced the creation of an American outlet called 'USA Really.' Its website and accompanying social media pages sprang up in May and quickly began promoting a mid-June rally to be held in front of the White House in protest of 'growing political censorship... aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation.'

"At the helm of the project is Alexander Malkevich, a Russian media executive and a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, a body created by President Vladimir Putin in 2005 to advise government policymaking." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712b3b98d94fcf3ea00541f237110aa644cd425118d39b3eb8df4ac0096746990c4186395a2ef4ca4ea

BUT... -- "U.S. unveils new Russia sanctions over cyberattacks," by CNN's Donna Borak: "The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed fresh sanctions on five Russian entities and three individuals, including a firm that's controlled by Russia's Federal Security Service. The latest step by the Trump administration comes in response to Russian cyberattacks on the US and its allies, including the NotPetya cyberattack and cyber intrusions of the US energy grid." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712380a4e808e8c431b758885951633e35d91111762edd5293e09cf72e71e151e43ba3f998c617cd6a8

MAKING NICE -- "Trump officials kick into damage-control mode with Canada," by Megan Cassella: "A day after President Donald 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 U.S.' nearest ally.

"In one step of the change in tone, the Department of Agriculture announced Monday that Secretary Sonny Perdue would head to Canada later this week to meet with his counterpart Lawrence MacAulay. The trip and photo-op is intended to showcase ongoing cooperation between the two countries on agriculture -- and it will fall amid repeated criticism from Trump himself about Canada's high tariffs on U.S. dairy products in particular that enter the Canadian market." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71217dfb59b81a99f2b961cc294d6089bdae0d518c6b58727eabaa84584459055d7e5320b1c8541558f

MEDIAWATCH -- DCist has officially re-launched today as part of WAMU. Note from DCist editor in chief Rachel Sadon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712b71105829b81aa4b3a5aa2c14da13be23080b6553869a9716fa288ec419367933c1276d13fad814f

SPOTTED: Sean Spicer walking in Woodley Park by the National Zoo this morning.

TRANSITIONS -- Paige Decker will start tomorrow as the coordinator of member services and collections for the majority on the House Ways and Means committee. She was previously at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. ... Brielle Appelbaum starts this week as Patrick Morrisey's Senate campaign's finance director. She is an alum of the RAGA and was Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) campaign manager.

ENGAGED -- Max D'Onofrio, press secretary for Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), proposed to Kelsey Montgomery, a consultant at Deloitte and a John Barrasso and Mike Enzi alum, last Thursday atop the Kennedy Center. Pics via Rachel Vliem http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712a7c2c3134bc7230da58984fd9c1723dbef6ac62d80d36304052a0f6d5c8f9d1a9a67c98efc390e23 http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712710cc6d76f4923802c1efc932c9605bfe81f84c971626502cde2a653dade83f50fc388939b1f3672

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Brianna Keilar, CNN senior Washington correspondent and anchor, and Fernando Lujan post on Facebook: "Surprise! Antonio Allen Martinez Lujan arrived almost a month early on Friday night at 5:53 p.m., completely catching his parents off guard. Fernando was in Japan when Brianna went into labor Thursday night and scrambled to get back to D.C. with a little help from friends, Lieutenant Commander Chad Kalocinski, who drove the getaway car from DCA, Sara Bonjean following behind with dad's luggage and Carol Lee holding the reigns as birthing partner and delivery room entertainment. Dad made it to Georgetown University Hospital with only forty minutes to spare." Pics
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712f5ba562e2981cf8980c7e5976a55d80be2ba0c284ec0fd518777bebff5be6334e8f3a175af0e9c26 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c7126e7ec7f25961f9437aed68f79b57b8062995ac2e67b72c03e8a0ed91e5c5690be69298571739e36c ... With big brother Teddy Lujan, Brianna's stepson http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c71271249e82624f02ffcb413be4676c0f8223fcec06c1bcc1a7a9931fe9cc77446b109aff34c6850e1d

- T.A. Hawks, a partner at Monument Policy Group and a Thad Cochran and Senate Ag alum, and Ann Woods, legislative counsel to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), on Saturday welcomed William Isaacs Hawks, who came in weighing 7lbs, 3ozs and he is 21in long. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712e7960391d5e9d2e564113bad15ee328414bf945c9851473c37ad6aee6f2f5059b33de7758c7e425f

WEEKEND WEDDING -- John Bozzella, president and CEO of Global Automakers, and Rhonda Bentz, founder of Bentz Strategies, were married Saturday afternoon at Saint Luke Church in Westport, Connecticut. Pool report from Todd Harris and Ieva Augstums: "Post nuptials, guests walked across the street to the newlywed's home, where they were treated to live music and a pig roast with all the fixin's. ... The cops showed up as the festivities were winding down. They were assured the band was done playing, and were provided cigars for their trouble." Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c65bc605696c712cd07250cda03f8587360f81fff316c82922f9303e06f316626d91663e0e1b5ac36a71e1cbc9900a6

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