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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Backs Clyde’s Bid For Ohio Secretary Of State. <#S1>

• Arkansas Writer Praises Biden’s Book, Appearance In Memphis. <#S2>

• Brower: Biden’s Mother “Helped Convince Him To Take The Job” Of Vice
President. <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Begin Reuniting Families. <#S4>

• Media Analyses: First Lady’s Jacket Overshadows Visit With Immigrant
Children. <#S5>

• House Leaders Postpone Vote On Compromise Immigration Bill. <#S6>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Bolton Will Travel To Moscow To Discuss Potential Trump-Putin Meeting.
<#S7>

• Trump: North Korea Blowing Up Test Sites, “Total
Denuclearization...Already Started.” <#S8>

• Ross Defends Trump Tariffs, Says US Economy Can Withstand Retaliation.
<#S9>

• Media Analyses: US Team Faces Obstacles In Middle East Trip. <#S10>

• US, Afghan Forces Push ISIS Out Of District. <#S11>

• Assad Presses Attacks In Southwest Syria. <#S12>

• Iraqi Supreme Court Endorses Manual Recount Of Votes. <#S13>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Mulvaney Outlines Sweeping Federal Government Reorganization. <#S14>

• House Passes Farm Bill Including Stricter Work Requirements For Food
Stamps. <#S15>

• Democrats Plan Fierce Opposition To Kraninger Confirmation As CFPB Chief.
<#S16>

• Trump Vows To Open Minnesota’s Superior National Forest To Mining. <#S17>

• Sessions Says Strzok “Has Lost His Security Clearance.” <#S18>

• Supreme Court Rules Online Shoppers Can Be Forced To Pay Sales Tax. <#S19>

• Krauthammer Dead At 68. <#S20>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI Grants $2.6 Million To Kentucky Cancer Registry. <#S21>

• Review: Having More Body Fat May Reduce Premenopausal Breast Cancer Risk.
<#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S23>

• Washington Post. <#S24>
Biden in the News
Biden Backs Clyde’s Bid For Ohio Secretary Of State.

The Kent (OH) Record-Courier
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(6/21) reports that Vice President Joe Biden is endorsing state Rep.
Kathleen Clyde’s (D) bid for Ohio Secretary of State. In a statement, Biden
said in part, “Clyde has fought her whole career for fair districts and
fair elections because she knows that voting is a fundamental freedom, and
that is why I am proud to support her.” In response, Clyde said she was
“honored” to have the support of Biden.
Arkansas Writer Praises Biden’s Book, Appearance In Memphis.

In a piece for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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(6/22), freelance writer Dana D. Kelley says that he attended former Vice
President Joe Biden’s recent book-tour stop in Memphis, and writes, “I came
away inspired to hope for the better from our hyper-polarized political
environment.” Kelley also discusses Biden’s book, “Promise Me, Dad,”
writing that “it’s the poignant story of his son Beau Biden’s losing battle
with brain cancer.” Kelley says, “The book is political enough that pundits
have wondered aloud whether its publication and tour constitute another set
of feelers put out to gauge public sentiment regarding a possible” 2020
White House bid. Kelley adds that Biden “could never get my vote because we
differ too fundamentally on too many foundational issues. But I admire and
applaud him as a father and family man who has known bereavement at a level
that is incomprehensible to me, and yet leaned on his faith to let hope not
just survive, but prevail in his life.”

*Austin Community College President Calls Biden Book “A Great
Family Story.” *eCampus News
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(6/21, Ullman) reported that it “asked higher-ed leaders: What is the best
book you’ve ever read and why?” Among the responses highlighted in the
article was that of Austin (TX) Community College President and CEO Richard
Rhodes, who said, “I most recently read Promise Me Dad by Joe Biden. It’s a
great family story. I’m an avid reader and enjoy all genres, from history
to Western.”
Brower: Biden’s Mother “Helped Convince Him To Take The Job” Of Vice
President.

Kate Andersen Brower, author of a new book on vice presidents titled,
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Tucson, AZ (6/21) to talk about the relationship between former Vice
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama. Brower said, “At the
very beginning, it was really tough. Biden didn’t really want to take the
job at first. I have a story about how his mother, who was in her 90s at
the time, helped convince him to take the job, because he said, ‘Look, I
would be a better president.’ There was some jealousy there and his mom
said, ‘You’ve got to take this position working for the first
African-American president. When you’re someone who fought for civil
rights, you cannot turn this down.’ And so it’s incredible to think his mom
played a role in that.”
Leading the News
Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Begin Reuniting Families.

President Trump said Thursday that he is ordering federal agencies to being
reuniting parents and children separated at the border after entering the
country illegally. Trump’s comments came after he issued a series of tweets
calling for changes to the nation’s immigration laws and blasting
congressional Democrats as weak on crime and border security. Media
coverage of the Administration’s handling of the controversy surrounding
the family separations, while somewhat lighter than earlier in the week,
continues to be negative, with several reports suggesting that the
Administration appears not to have a plan for reuniting the families.

Early on Thursday, Trump tweeted
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“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous
immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall,
hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based
on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.” Minutes later,
he wrote
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“The Border has been a big mess and problem for many years. At some point
Schumer and Pelosi, who are weak on Crime and Border security, will be
forced to do a real deal, so easy, that solves this long time problem.
Schumer used to want Border security – now he’ll take Crime!” Later in the
morning, Trump tweeted
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“Democrats want open Borders, where anyone can come into our Country, and
stay. This is Nancy Pelosi’s dream. It won’t happen!” He followed that with
a tweet
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saying, “My Administration is acting swiftly to address the illegal
immigration crisis on the Southern Border. Loopholes in our immigration
laws all supported by extremist open border Democrats...and that’s what
they are – they’re extremist open border Democrats....”

Reuters
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(6/21) reports that in a Cabinet meeting later on Thursday, Trump said that
“he was directing federal agencies to begin reuniting children and parents
separated at the US-Mexico border after entering the country illegally, a
first step to implementing his executive order reversing an administration
policy that had drawn global condemnation.” Trump said he “had directed the
departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services ‘to
work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the
immigration process and to reunite these previously separated
groups.’” Bloomberg
News
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(6/21, Pettypiece) says the White House did not “provide further details on
the directive.”

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(6/21, lead story, 3:10) that “left unanswered by his order is what to do
about reuniting thousands of parents and children already separated.” Holt
described “mixed messages and apparent confusion” from “the agencies
charged with enforcing the crackdown.” Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez added
that “more than 2,300 children separated from their parents are in limbo”
amid “mounting questions about how they’ll be reunited and growing
confusion within the government,” and correspondent Gio Benitez said on ABC
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(6/21, story 2, 3:00, Muir) reported that “more than 2,300 children sit in
limbo, waiting to be reunited with their parents with no clear timetable.” USA
Today
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(6/21, Johnson) reports that although Trump’s order ending the separations
was “supposed to offer relief,” it “was generating widespread confusion.”
The AP
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(6/21, Merchant, Bryan) likewise describes “confusion and uncertainty” and
said the Administration has “no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300
children already taken from their parents.”

The Washington Post
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(6/21, A1, Sieff) says that while the government “spent months developing
the family-separation system...authorities were struggling on Thursday to
figure out how to reunite detained parents with children.” Kristen Welker
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(6/21, story 2, 2:25, Holt) that a day after Trump “retreated on the issue
of separating families, there’s still no public plan in place to reunite
those roughly 2,300 children with their parents. DHS Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen on Capitol Hill, unable to answer basic questions about their
fate.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/21, A1, Caldwell, Texas, Radnofsky) also describes confusion in
Washington and along the southern border in a front-page story, and the Los
Angeles Times
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(6/21, Bierman) says that “confusion ensured the president’s self-inflicted
political and humanitarian crisis would continue as government officials,
attorneys and immigration advocates scrambled to understand and implement
the revised policy.”

Politico
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(6/21, Morin) says that Senate Minority Leader Schumer and House Minority
Leader Pelosi on Thursday called on Trump “to release a plan to quickly
reunite undocumented children who authorities separated from their parents
at the border.” Schumer and Pelosi wrote in a letter to Trump, “It seems
that the administration lacks a plan, intention, and a sense of urgency to
begin reuniting these children – many of whom have suffered serious
emotional anguish – with their parents. ... The administration has the
authority and the resources to immediately begin the process of family
reunification. ... Any delay in doing so is simply unacceptable. We request
that the administration present its plan to Congress and the country as
soon as possible, and immediately begin steps to implement it.”

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(6/21) that Trump “bailed out the Democrats and Republicans in Congress
who, by the way, this is their mess. This is their law, not his. ... No one
wants children separated from parents. The President has been saying that
[since] day one. This action now literally, transcends these stupid laws
that are on the books. ... This is not a permanent solution. In fact, it’s
not going to hold up in a court system. The real answer, the real long-term
answer, the real solution, if you care, the correct answer, the
constitutional answer is Congress to do their job. Pass a bill. Send it to
the White House.”

*In Tweets Today, Trump Blasts Democrats On Immigration, Urges
Midterms Vote For GOP. *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Even if we get 100% Republican votes in the Senate, we need
10 Democrat votes to get a much needed Immigration Bill – & the Dems are
Obstructionists who won’t give votes for political reasons & because they
don’t care about Crime coming from Border! So we need to elect more R’s!”
Trump added in a second tweet
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this morning, “Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the
finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the
world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing
but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE!” Trump said
in a third tweet
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on the topic, “Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration
until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems
are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this
decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!”

*Rasmussen Poll: 54% Of Likely Voters Say Immigrant Parents To
Blame For Separations. *The Daily Caller
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(6/21, Athey) reports that a new Rasmussen poll found that “a majority of
Americans blame illegal immigrant parents for the child crisis on the
border over the U.S. government.” According to the poll, “54 percent of
likely voters...said that they think the parents are more to blame for
breaking the law,” while “only 35 percent said the government is more to
blame for the crisis.” In addition, “54 percent of voting Americans agree
with President Trump’s assertion that ‘The United States will not be a
migrant camp. And it will not be a refugee-holding facility – it won’t
be.’”

*Sessions: Administration Never Intended To Separate Families.
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Broadcasting Network
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(6/21) reports that in an “exclusive interview” Thursday, Attorney General
Sessions “addressed some of the criticism he and the White House have
received in recent weeks regarding the administration’s immigration
policy.” Sessions “acknowledged the negative optics” of children being
separated from their families at the border, saying, “It hasn’t been good
and the American people don’t like the idea that we are separating
families. ... We never really intended to do that. What we intended was to
make sure that adults who bring children into the country are charged with
the crime that they have committed.”

*DOJ Seeks To Hold Immigrant Children With Families Longer Than 20
Days. *The AP
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(6/21, Merchant, Bryan) reports the Justice Department asked a federal
judge Thursday “to change the rules regarding the detention of immigrant
families who enter the country illegally, seeking permission to detain them
for longer than 20 days in an effort to keep children with their parents.”
In a move “aimed at stopping the separation of children from their families
amid a new policy where anyone caught crossing the border is charged
criminally,” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/21, Rubin) reports DOJ lawyers told the court that the Flores
settlement, which requires children to be released from immigration
detention after 20 days, “interferes with the president’s order.” They
wrote, “Under current law and legal rulings, including this Court’s, it is
not possible for the US government to detain families together during the
pendency of their immigration proceedings. It cannot be done.”

The Washington Examiner
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(6/21, Cohen) reports that a DOJ spokesman “said regardless of the
forthcoming decision by US District Judge Dolly Gee in the US District
Court for the Central District of California, it is still ‘incumbent for
Congress’ to pass immigration reform.”

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(6/21) that “the law here is very clear that within 20 days, those children
can no longer be held in custody. I know the Trump Administration is
seeking an extension of that time period but it’s not likely that the court
is going to give them that and then we are going to have another huge
problem on our hands.” Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) said on CNN’s Situation
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(6/21), “This shows you how malicious this President’s intent is because
what they promised is that if they are unsuccessful in this challenge to
Flores, then they are going to go back to separating families. This is only
a temporary reprieve by this President.”

A Washington Post
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(6/21) editorial says Trump’s executive order ending family separations
“stands on uncertain legal ground,” and calls on Congress to “pass a bill
barring a return to Mr. Trump’s barbaric policy of child separation.”

*HHS Asks Pentagon To Prepare Housing For 20,000 Migrant Children. *The
New York Times
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(6/21, A1, Shear, Cooper) reports that HHS has asked the Pentagon “to make
preparations to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on
American military bases.” According to the Times, “New, makeshift detention
facilities are being envisioned to house thousands of immigrant families
that are crossing illegally into the United States.” The Times adds that
“the request comes as federal agencies on Thursday offered competing and
contradictory explanations of what was happening to immigrant families in
the hours after Mr. Trump’s order, leaving it unclear where families were
being held and whether they were being prosecuted.”

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(6/21), “Today they say we’re going to set up camps for 20,000 family
detentions. You can’t do that either under the Flores decision. So, none of
it makes sense. None of it follows the law. I think what this is really
about is making a robust political statement. ‘We’re strong on the border.
We have an infestation,’ and the children are the pawns in this national
debacle.” The New York Times
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(6/21, McKinley, Robbins, Correal) reports that Cuomo said he toured a
residence for detained children in New York “to make sure that the children
there were being well cared for, and he excoriated the Trump administration
for not informing him of the presence of the separated children in New York
earlier.” Said Cuomo, “They’re placing children in state-certified
facilities, state-regulated facilities, and not even communicating with
us.”

*Pentagon To Help DOJ Prosecute Immigration Cases. *The New York
Times
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(6/21, Benner) reports that “as federal prosecutors face skyrocketing
immigration caseloads along the southwestern border, the Defense Department
agreed Wednesday to help the Justice Department prosecute the cases.” The
Pentagon announced that “twenty-one lawyers for the Defense Department
‘will work full time, assisting in prosecuting reactive border immigration
cases, with a focus on misdemeanor improper entry and felony illegal
re-entry cases.’”

*WPost: Border Patrol To No Longer Refer Immigrant Families For
Prosecution. *Citing an anonymous “senior US Customs and Border Protection
official,” the Washington Post
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(6/21, A1, Miroff) reports that the US Border Patrol “will no longer refer
migrant parents who cross into the United States illegally with children to
federal courthouses to face criminal charges.”

The Daily Caller
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(6/21) notes that the Post initially reported that the Administration “will
no longer prosecute parents when they enter the United States illegally.”
After the Post’s article was published, DOJ Spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores
said, “There has been no change to the Department’s zero tolerance policy
to prosecute adults who cross our border illegally instead of claiming
asylum at any port of entry at the border.” The Hill
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(6/21, Thomsen) says DOJ “flatly denied that Trump is ending his ‘zero
tolerance’ policy shortly after the Post story was published, saying that
the Post ‘never reached out’ and that the report is ‘not accurate.’”

*Email Says Charges Against Immigrants Separated From Children Will
Be Dropped. *The El Paso (TX) Times
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(6/21, Martinez) reports that an email it obtained says the US Attorney’s
Office for the Western District of Texas “will dismiss all illegal entry
immigration cases where children were separated from their families.” The
email sent by Maureen Scott Franco, head of the Federal Public Defenders
Office of the Western District of Texas, “to all defense lawyers who are
part of the Western District of Texas Criminal Justice Association,” said
“that federal prosecutors will dismiss the cases and no further charges
will be filed against the parents.”

*Administration Awarded Contracts To Run Facilities For Children
Ahead Of “Zero Tolerance” Policy. *The Wall Street Journal
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(6/21, Elinson, Lovett) reports that in the months before it began its
“zero tolerance” policy, the Administration awarded contracts and grants to
private companies and nonprofits to run facilities for migrant children.
The New York Times
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(6/21, Fernandez, Benner) reports on the “billion-dollar” business of
“housing, transporting and watching over migrant children detained along
the southwest border.” According to the Times, Southwest Key Programs “has
won at least $955 million in federal contracts since 2015 to run shelters
and provide other services to immigrant children in federal custody,” and
it is “but one player in the lucrative, secretive world of the
migrant-shelter business. About a dozen contractors operate more than 30
facilities in Texas alone, with numerous others contracted for about 100
shelters in 16 other states.”

*Jeh Johnson: Obama Administration Expanded Family Detentions. *
Breitbart
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(6/21, Caplan) reports that in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell
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Thursday, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson “reminded MSNBC anchor Andrea
Mitchell...of the Obama administration’s decision to expand the number of
immigrant family detentions.” Johnson said that “illegal migration...reacts
sharply to perceived changes in enforcement policy – in the short term –
but it always reverts back longer term to the longer term trends given the
underlying condition of the so-called push factors in central America. So
that is what President Trump and his administration have seen now over the
last year. ... So in 2014 – to deal with the spike than with the families —
we did a number of things; including by the way, working with the
government of Mexico and obtaining their cooperation on securing their
southern border, uh, but we also expanded family detention, which was, I
freely admit, controversial.” The Daily Caller
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(6/21, Brest) also highlights Johnson’s comments.

*US To Return Seven-Year-Old Guatemalan Boy To His Mother.
*The Washington
Post
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(6/21, Hsu) reports that US authorities said Thursday that “a 7-year-old
Guatemalan boy is being reunited with his mother after being detained at
the US border while claiming asylum.” The Post says that “shortly before a
scheduled federal hearing on the separation,” attorneys for HHS said in a
court filing that “the woman’s child was in the process of being returned,”
and that the suit be dismissed because it would soon be moot.

*El Salvador Won’t Accept US Deportees Unless They Are Reunited
With Their Children. *The Washington Times
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(6/21, Dinan) reports that El Salvador’s government said Thursday that it
will not accept deportees from the US “unless it’s certain they have gone
through the full legal process and have been reunited with their children.”

*California, Nine Other States To Sue Administration Over Family
Separations. *The Los Angeles Times
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(6/21, McGreevy) reports that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
said Thursday that his state is joining nine others “in filing a lawsuit
against the Trump administration, alleging its family separation policy for
immigrants in the country illegally violates due process.” Becerra said in
a statement, “Children belong with their families, not alone and fearful in
metal cages. ... We are filing this lawsuit because ripping children from
their parents is unlawful, wrong and heartless.”

*Pelosi: Trump Immigration Policy “Outside The Circle Of Civilized
Human Behavior.” *Breitbart
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(6/21, Key) reports that House Minority Leader Pelosi slammed Trump’s
immigration policies during her weekly press conference Thursday, calling
them “outside the circle of civilized human behavior.” Pelosi said, “The
Democrats have taken full responsibly for securing our borders. We know
that that is a responsibility that we have. But we don’t think that we have
to put children in cages to do it. There is a better way. ... The president
is either not knowing, not caring, delusional, in denial about his own
policies being outside the circle of civilized human behavior.”

*TIME Cover Shows Crying Immigrant Child Looking Up At Trump. *USA
Today
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(6/21, May) reports that TIME magazine’s July cover “places the blame” for
the separation of “thousands of immigrant children...from their parents at
the US-Mexico border,” on Trump. The cover
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shows “the iconic image” of a crying 2-year-old Honduran girl “glaring up
at an image of Trump looking down at her. Cover text simply states:
‘Welcome to America.’”

*Mayors Turned Away From Texas Immigration Detention Facility. *
Breitbart
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(6/21, Caplan) reports that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and “more
than 20 other mayors” were turned away Thursday as they tried to visit “an
immigrant detention facility in Tornillo, Texas.” De Blasio told reporters,
“This is our federal government denying access, and not allowing
information, and it’s not America. It’s crazy. ... I’ve never seen anything
like this. ... These are public facilities paid for with taxpayer dollars.
How on earth are we not allowed to see what’s happening to these children?
It’s astounding, and it feels really un-American.”

*Lawsuit Alleges Abuse, Forced Medication At Youth Shelters. *USA
Today
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(6/21, Cummings) reports that a federal lawsuit filed by the Center for
Human Rights and Constitutional Law says that “migrant children suffered
physical abuse, including forced injections of psychotropic drugs, at
private youth shelters contracted by the US government to house
undocumented minors.” While the group filed the suit in April after
Attorney General Sessions “announced the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’
policy on undocumented immigrants,” many “of the allegations in the filing
date back to unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border during
the Obama administration, long before immigration officials began
systematically separating migrant families.”

*Northam Orders Probe Of Abuse Allegations At Virginia Detention
Facility. *The AP
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(6/21) reports that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered an
investigation of “claims made by immigrant teens of severe physical abuse”
at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center. Northam’s announcement came
“after The Associated Press reported on a half-dozen sworn statements from
Latino teens held” at the facility. The teens say “they were beaten while
handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left
nude and shivering in concrete cells. Detainees also say the guards
stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed
over their heads.”

*Miller Has Been Silent Amid Controversy Over Family Separations. *
Politico
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(6/21, Cook) reports that President Trump’s senior adviser for policy,
Stephen Miller, who designed Trump’s “hard-line immigration policies,” was
deliberately out of the public eye this week “as the White House first
vociferously defended and then caved on separating migrant children from
their parents.” There is “a sense” among “White House insiders” that he “is
a bad front man for the issue he’s most passionate about.” Politico adds
that while it is “hard to overstate Miller’s influence on the
administration’s positions on immigration,” the “the backlash over the
policy has opened cracks in Miller’s support network on Capitol Hill and
among Republicans both inside and outside the White House.”

*DOJ Reviewing Conduct Of Employee Who Heckled Nielsen. *The Washington
Examiner
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(6/21, Nelson) reports that the Justice Department is reviewing the conduct
of Allison Hrabar, a Department paralegal specialist, “helped chase
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from a Mexican restaurant on
Tuesday, but First Amendment scholars say that she may be immune from
workplace consequences.” A DOJ official said that “Hrabar’s conduct remains
under internal review,” but “experts say Hrabar is probably in the clear,
though analysis depends on the legality of her protest and whether the
restaurant requests charges for trespassing or disturbing the peace.
Messages left with the business and its celebrity chef Todd English were
not returned.”

*Speaker’s Bureau Drops Lewnadowski In Wake Of “Womp Womp” Remark. *
CNN
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(6/21, Byers) reports on its website that the Washington speaker’s bureau
Leadership Authorities, Inc. has cut ties with Corey Lewandowski after the
former Trump campaign manager “dismiss[ed] the story of a 10-year-old girl
with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after
crossing the border illegally.” Lewandowski has faced “widespread
criticism” for saying, “Womp womp” as former senior Democratic National
Committee adviser Zac Petkanas discussed the girl. Asked about the remark
on Fox News Wednesday, Lewandowski “refused to apologize,” saying, “An
apology? ... I owe an apology to the children whose parents are putting
them in a position that is forcing them to be separated?”

Lewandowski said on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/21), “Of course I never meant to insult anybody with Down syndrome. Who
I was talking to was Zac. I understand what the perception is here and what
the media wants to talk about. But what Zac was attempting to do was to use
a child with Down syndrome to politicize an issue. What he didn’t tell you,
what you need to understand was that person, that poor child was not taken
from her parent because she came to this country illegally. That poor child
was taken from her parent because her mother has been suspected of being a
material witness in a smuggling ring. We have to understand the difference.
Let me be as clear as I can be. I would never degrade a child. I’m a father
of four. I understand that. We have to get past using children as political
tools and come up with real solutions.”

*Krugman Decries Nation’s “Plunge Into Barbarism.” *In his New York
Times
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(6/21) column, Paul Krugman laments the “speed of America’s moral descent
under Donald Trump,” writing that “we’ve gone from a nation that stood for
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children
from their parents and puts them in cages.” Krugman adds that “this plunge
into barbarism is that it’s not a response to any actual problem. The mass
influx of murderers and rapists that Trump talks about, the wave of crime
committed by immigrants” are not happening and are “just sick fantasies
being used to justify real atrocities.” Krugman argues that “the real
crisis is an upsurge in hatred” and “anyone making excuses for that
hatred...is, in effect, an apologist for crimes against humanity.”
Media Analyses: First Lady’s Jacket Overshadows Visit With Immigrant
Children.

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday made an unannounced visit to the New
Hope Children’s Center in McAllen, Texas. While the visit was aimed at
showing support for the children who have been separated from their parents
after entering the country illegally, much of the media coverage focuses on
a jacket the First Lady wore with stenciling that read, “I Really Don’t
Care, Do U?”

The AP
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(6/21, Superville) reports that the First Lady “got a first-hand look at
some of the migrant children sent there by the US government after their
families entered the country illegally.” Her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham
said the visit “was intended to lend support to some of the more than 2,300
children who remain separated from their parents.” The McAllen (TX) Monitor
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(6/21) reports that after a roundtable discussion with the facilities’
staff, the First Lady “thank[ed] them for their efforts before leaving to
an undisclosed location.” In its lead story, NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(6/21, lead story, 3:10) did not mention the jacket. Lester Holt said that
the First Lady’s visit to the shelter “offer[ed] some damage control after
President Trump was backed into a political corner, and yesterday ordered
an end to the family separation policy he had supported.”

In a tweet
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Thursday evening, the First Lady wrote, “Today’s visit to #Texas to spend
time with children & thank the many hardworking individuals helping to care
for them was very meaningful. Thank you to @SecAzar @HHSGOV for traveling w
me today & the care you are giving these children in such a difficult
time.”

However, coverage of the First Lady’s trip is dominated by
discussion of the jacket. For example, Cecilia Vega reported in the lead
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(6/21, lead story, 5:10, Muir) that the trip was “meant to send a message
of compassion, until another message emerged.” Jeff Glor said in the lead
story for the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/21, lead story, 3:15) that while the First Lady “went to visit detained
children at the border,” it was “the jacket she wore that captured many of
the headlines.” Similarly, David Begnaud said, “The First Lady’s tour was
nearly overshadowed by her choice” to wear the jacket. Bloomberg News
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(6/21, Talev, Pettypiece) says the First Lady “managed to generate a new
controversy with her choice of apparel,” as “photographers caught her
wearing a jacket with stenciling on the back that read ‘I Really Don’t
Care, Do U?’”

The New York Times
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(6/21, Rogers) says the First Lady wore the jacket as she boarded her plane
at Andrews Air Force Base where “the temperature climbed to 80 degrees.”
She did not wear it while visiting with the children, “but she did wear it
upon her return to the capital, in full view of the news photographers who
had gathered to capture her arrival.” The Washington Post
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(6/21, Heil) says the First Lady’s message in Texas “was obliterated” by
the “controversy” over he jacket, and USA Today
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(6/21, Puente) says the jacket seemed to deliver “a contradictory message
for Trump’s mission to Texas where she hoped to demonstrate how much she
cares about the migrant children separated from their parents and housed in
shelters there.”

Politico
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(6/21, Morin) says the jacket “threatened to severely undercut the
compassionate photo-op.” Grisham “said there was nothing to read into the
choice of Zara jacket,” in a statement, “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden
message. After today’s important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn’t
going to choose to focus on her wardrobe.” In a tweet, she wrote, “Today’s
visit w the children in Texas impacted @FLOTUS greatly. If media would
spend their time & energy on her actions & efforts to help kids – rather
than speculate & focus on her wardrobe – we could get so much accomplished
on behalf of children. #SheCares #ItsJustAJacket.”

In a tweet Thursday afternoon, the Washington Times
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(6/21, Morton) reports, President Trump said the jacket “was a jibe at the
media.” The President wrote
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“‘I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written on the back of Melania’s jacket,
refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are,
and she truly no longer cares!”

*Stormy Daniels Says She Will Visit Southern Border. *USA Today
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(6/21, Hayes) reports that Stormy Daniels “says she is planning a trip to
the US southern border in an apparent hope to help migrant families who
were separated when entering the country.” In response to a tweet “asking
her to help these families,” Daniels wrote “that she would be heading down
‘in a week.’” Daniels wrote, “Don’t worry. ... Just figuring out my best
course of action to maximize my resources.”
House Leaders Postpone Vote On Compromise Immigration Bill.

House Republican leaders on Thursday postponed until next week a vote on a
compromise immigration measure. The move came after the House, as expected,
rejected a conservative immigration measure. The Washington Post
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(6/21, Debonis, Wagner) reports that GOP leaders “abruptly postponed” the
vote on the compromise measure, which “appeared headed to defeat, despite
President Trump’s last-minute lobbying.” The Post cites “multiple
Republican aides” who said they “did not expect the delay – and a scheduled
Thursday afternoon meeting of all Republicans – to change the outcome.” The
Post adds that “several GOP hard-liners” said there was “nothing leaders
could do to convince them to vote for the bill.”

The Hill
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(6/21, Zanona) reported Thursday afternoon that a meeting of the Republican
conference was planned for Thursday to “give GOP leaders one last chance to
rally the party around the legislation and convince the remaining holdouts
to get on board with the plan.” But, while the Washington Examiner
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(6/21, Ferrechio) says “the hope is that leaders can convince more
Republicans to support” the compromise bill, Politico
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(6/21, Bade, Caygle, Bresnahan) says Republican leaders “are under no
impression that they’ll be able to secure the 218 votes needed in the next
24 hours to pass the measure, and they only agreed to the postponement
under pressure from conservative members who are opposed to the legislation
in the first place.”

Meanwhile, Reuters
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(6/21, Becker) reports that even if the measure clears the House, Senate
Democrats “are expected to block its passage.” USA Today
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(6/21, Collins, Shesgreen) reports that if the compromise bill fails, “it
will be a blow to [House Speaker Ryan’s] leadership as he tries to keep an
already fractious caucus together and prepares for his own retirement at
the end of this Congress,” while the AP
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(6/21, Mascaro) says the defeat of both bills “would represent an
embarrassment for President Donald Trump, who had embraced them.”

CQ Roll Call
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(6/21, McPherson) says GOP leaders “have spent the past 24 hours or so”
working with the President “to whip support for the compromise bill,
hauling Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen to meet with House Republicans in the Capitol, House
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows pointed out during a conservative
member press event with reporters.” However, the New York Times
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(6/21, Kaplan, Fandos) says the President “may have helped seal the bill’s
defeat, venting his frustration on Twitter
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that even if the House passed a broad immigration bill, it would require
Democratic support to clear the Senate.” Trump essentially “suggested that
voting for the bill might be a pointless exercise – not exactly a
persuasive message for conservatives on the fence about whether to support
a bill that could rile up their right flank.”

Nancy Cordes said on the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/21, story 2, 2:40, Glor) that in the Senate “you’ve got Republicans
arguing that perhaps the most realistic approach is to actually come up
with something that’s far narrower, that only addresses the
family-separation issue. And then, of course, you’ve got Democrats in both
chambers who say Congress wouldn’t have to do anything right now if the
White House were willing to change its policy.” Bloomberg News
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(6/21, Litvan, Edgerton, Olorunnipa) reports that it was “increasingly
clear Thursday that a speedy resolution from Congress was unlikely,” which
“means the issue likely will continue to roil the country as voters and
lawmakers begin focusing on the November elections that will decide control
of Congress.”

*Trump: “Mexico Is Doing Nothing For Us.” *USA Today
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(6/21, Fritze) reports that during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on
Thursday, President Trump slammed Mexico “for what he described as a
one-way relationship in which the United States is disadvantaged on
immigration and trade.” Trump said repeatedly that Mexican President
Enrique Peña Nieto’s government could solve the immigration crisis, but has
chosen not to. Trump said, “Mexico is doing nothing for us except taking
our money and sending us drugs. ... They could solve this problem in two
minutes.” Trump added that immigrants “walk through Mexico like it’s
walking through Central Park. It’s ridiculous.”

*Networks Highlight Gang Violence In El Salvador. *On NBC Nightly
News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/21, story 3, 2:00, Holt), Richard Engel reported from El Salvador, where
he spoke to a woman who “hear her granddaughter’s voice” on “the audiotape
of detained children crying out for the families” after being separated
from their parents when they crossed into the US. Engel asked the
grandmother, “Why are so many families with children risking everything to
leave El Salvador? ‘We can’t even go out at night,’ she says. This country
is torn apart by gang violence.” Engel added that with El Salvador “gripped
by a war between two gangs, the MS-13 and another gang called the 18th
Street.” the homicide rate in the country is “15 times higher than in the
US.”

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(6/21, story 3, 2:15, Glor), Omar Villafranca also reported from El
Salvador, saying that the “two main gangs...have tremendous power, and
they’re not afraid to resort to violence.” Villafranca quoted one man as
saying, “‘The violence is worse now than it was in the civil war.”
Villafranca noted that the US sent $72 million in aid to El Salvador in
2017, “but it’s down to $46 million this year.”

*Judge Orders ICE To Stop Threatening Iraqi Detainees. *Bloomberg
News
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(6/20) reports that US District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit “ordered
the Trump administration to stop immigration authorities from using
coercion, intimidation or misinformation to pressure a group of about 130
Iraqis who are long-term US residents into agreeing to be deported.” Judge
Goldsmith on Wednesday “granted a request for an emergency order sought by
the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of detainees it
describes as persecuted ethnic or religious minorities who may face torture
or death if they return to Iraq.”

*Orlando To Become First US Airport To Scan Faces Of All
International Travelers. *USA Today
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(6/21, Jansen) reports that Orlando International Airport will become the
first US airport “to process all arriving and departing passengers with
facial-recognition equipment, officials announced Thursday.” USA Today says
the move represents “an expansion of a Customs and Border Protection
experimental program that already placed cameras at 13 airports to screen
passengers leaving the country or returning from overseas.” CBP
Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said, “We are at a critical turning point in
the implementation of a biometric entry-exit system, and we’ve found a path
forward that transforms travel for all travelers.” The AP
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(6/21, Schneider) reports that “some privacy advocates say there are no
formal rules in place for handling data gleaned from the scans, nor formal
guidelines on what should happen if a passenger is wrongly prevented from
boarding.” The AP notes that airports in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston,
Las Vegas, Miami, New York and Washington “already use face scans for some
departing international flights.”
Foreign Policy
Bolton Will Travel To Moscow To Discuss Potential Trump-Putin Meeting.

The New York Times
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(6/21, Kramer, Baker) reports National Security Adviser Bolton will travel
to Moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting between President Trump
and Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Times, a Kremlin
spokesman “took pains on Thursday to emphasize that so far the sides had
reached no agreement on a meeting that Russian news media outlets reported
may occur in Vienna in July.” The Times says “some administration officials
have expressed hopes of persuading Mr. Trump not to go forward with such a
meeting,” but the President “has insisted, pushing his national security
team to reach out to Moscow and set up the meeting.”

The Washington Times
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(6/21, Miller) reports NSC spokesman Garrett Marquis confirmed Bolton’s
travel plans, tweeting
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“On June 25-27, US National Security Advisor John Bolton will meet with
U.S. allies in London and Rome to discuss national security issues, and
travel to Moscow to discuss a potential meeting between Presidents Trump
and Putin.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/21, Salama, Kurmanaev) recounts that it reported earlier this month that
the White House has already started to prepare for the potential summit,
adding that Putin has been pushing European leaders to help set up a
concrete date for such a meeting. Politico
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(6/21, Restuccia, Murray) reports that when asked if he is considering a
meeting with Putin in July, Trump told reporters, “We’re looking at the
possibility.”

Noting that Trump is expected to attend the NATO summit in Brussels
July 11-12, Reuters
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(6/21) says that the Kremlin asserted that “there are no plans for a
meeting between Trump and Putin before the NATO summit, Interfax reported.”
The AP
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(6/21, Press) reports Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Peskov said, “We have
nothing to say yet, and if and when we are ready, we will make the relevant
statement.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “emphasized that ‘we are
ready for contacts,’ adding that ‘if the agreement on a high-level meeting
is reached, it will be announced.’”

The AP
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(6/21, Lee, Lederman) notes that Bolton will “travel to Moscow...after
stops in London and Rome.” According to the AP, “Bolton’s stops in Britain
and Italy may be designed to assuage nervous Europeans about Trump’s
intentions for the Putin meeting,” but his “discussions in the European
capitals are unlikely to smooth over what are becoming widening fractures
in the trans-Atlantic relationship that the president has seemed to
welcome.” USA Today
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(6/21, Jackson) similarly reports the “potential meeting is already drawing
attacks from critics who say Trump is overly solicitous of Putin in the
wake of Russian interference in the 2016 US election and Trump’s ongoing
disputes with G7 and NATO allies over trade and defense policy.”

*State Department Official: Trump Policies Seek To Strengthen The
West. *Reuters
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(6/21, Emmott) reports Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell said
President Trump’s Iran policy, tariffs on European Union metal imports, and
demands for higher defense spending in Europe are, in Reuters’ words, “part
of a strategy to strengthen the West.” He said, “The long term costs of
neglecting these things far outweigh political unity.” Mitchell added, “We
are committed to finding a common way forward, we are committing to acting.
We can debate, we can strategize, we can coordinate, but we must act.”

*NYTimes Urges Europe To Stand Up To Trump’s “Bullying.” *In an
editorial, the New York Times
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(6/21) writes that President Trump “blithely alienated America’s friends
and allies, canceled hard-won accords, dumped on trade treaties, threatened
trade wars, lauded ruthless despots and cheered populist demagogues,” and
it isn’t clear whether this is because he is “a mean, impulsive and
narcissistic bully” or seeks to destroy the postwar order as “an
ideological mission.” Either way, “Europe’s response to Mr. Trump must
begin with a hard look at realities”: it is “badly splintered” and “not
paying its fair share for Western security.” However, the Times calls for
Europe to “hold firm against Mr. Trump’s bullying” and “proclaim that
rules, relations and values assembled over generations do matter and are
worth fighting for.”

*Ignatius Hopes Trump Fails To Wreck Transatlantic Alliance. *David
Ignatius writes in his Washington Post
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(6/21) column, “Trump’s ‘America First’ policies have shaken many of the
nations that looked to Washington as their ally and protector.” Europeans
are “now talking about ways to fight back.” It took decades to create the
transatlantic alliance, and “the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency
is assaulting it, piece by piece. Here’s hoping Trump fails.”

*UN, Russia Urge US To Reconsider Leaving Human Rights Council. *The
AP
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(6/21, Danilova, Jordans) reports UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
urged the US on Thursday to rethink its decision to pull out of the UN
Human Rights Council, calling it “a key tool...to promote and to protect
human rights around the world.” Similarly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said, “We hope that this decision is not final and that the US will
re-establish its commitment to the United Nations.”
Trump: North Korea Blowing Up Test Sites, “Total Denuclearization...Already
Started.”

Reuters
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(6/21) reports President Trump said Thursday that North Korea was blowing
up four of its big test sites and that a process of “total
denuclearization...has already started taking place.” Speaking at a Cabinet
meeting, Trump said, “They’ve stopped the sending of missiles, including
ballistic missiles. They’re destroying their engine site. They’re blowing
it up. They’ve already blown up one of their big test sites, in fact it’s
actually four of their big test sites. And the big thing is it will be a
total denuclearization, which has already started taking place.” The Washington
Times
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(6/21, Miller) quotes Trump as saying, “We’ve had some very good news even
over the last couple of days. They want to get it done, we want to get it
done, and we are moving quickly.” According to the Times, Trump did not
specify the “good news” he received or the nature of that “good news.”

*US Official Identifies Missile Test Site Kim Pledged To Destroy. *
Reuters
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(6/21, Spetalnick) reports a US official says the missile engine test site
that Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had committed to destroy
“is a major facility in the western part of the country that has been used
for testing engines for long-range missiles.” The US official identified it
as the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, which North Korea has used “to
test liquid-propellant engines for its long-range ballistic missiles.” The
AP
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(6/21, Riechmann, Pennington) reports the official “would not answer
questions about whether the site was already being destroyed, but said the
administration would continue to monitor it as negotiations move forward.”

*AP/NORC Poll: 55% Approve Of Trump’s Handling Of North Korea. *The
AP
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(6/21, Swanson, Lucey) reports that in a new AP/NORC poll
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of 1,109 adults nationwide, conducted June 13-18, 55 percent of respondents
“approve of...Trump’s handling of U.S. relations with North Korea, a change
that comes after his historic summit with that country’s leader, Kim Jong
Un. But most don’t believe Kim is serious about addressing the
international concerns about his country’s nuclear weapons program.” The AP
adds that Trump’s 55 percent approval on North Korea is “up from 42 percent
in March and 34 percent last October.”

*Pompeo To Hold Talks With North Korea At “Earliest Possible Date.”
*Reuters
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(6/21, Wroughton) reports State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said
Thursday that Secretary of State Pompeo plans to meet with North Korean
officials “at the earliest possible date” to discuss this month’s summit
between the US and North Korean leaders. Nauert added, “We don’t have any
meetings or travel to announce at this time.”
Ross Defends Trump Tariffs, Says US Economy Can Withstand Retaliation.

Bloomberg News
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(6/21, Pickert, Westin) reports Commerce Secretary Ross “disputed concerns
raised by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and others that US
companies are becoming so anxious about the prospect of a trade war that
they’re postponing investment and hiring decisions.” Ross said during a
Thursday interview with Bloomberg TV
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(6/21), “Anyone who thinks the economy is being wrecked doesn’t know what
they’re talking about.” Bloomberg reports that in response to a question
about Powell’s concerns, Ross said “I don’t think that that’s true, that
there’s some big change.” Reuters
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(6/21) reports that in an interview yesterday with CNBC
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Ross said, “What we have to do