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-- Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi called on Acosta 
to step down, as did most of the 2020 Democratic 
candidates. "Congressional Republicans supported Acosta, 
saying issues about the plea deal were vetted at his 
confirmation hearing in 2017. Acosta's critics said he was 
not fit to lead an agency that has oversight over human 
trafficking offenses," John Wagner and Lisa Rein report. 
"Some attorneys for victims questioned Acosta's tweet 
saying the evidence was new." 
-- Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is 
privately urging Trump to dump Acosta, Politico's Eliana 
and Burgess Everett report: "Acosta critics, 
including Mulvaney, have argued that he has not been 
aggressive enough in stamping out Obama-era workplace 
regulations and employment discrimination lawsuits, and 
they are using the Epstein lawsuit to push him out the door. 
Mulvaney on Tuesday acknowledged the tension with Acosta 
but said it was merely part of the job. 'I push all of the 
Cabinet Secretaries on the deregulatory agenda, as it is a 
top priority of the President,' Mulvaney said in a statement. 
... One move that has particularly rankled conservatives is 
Acosta's decision to allow an employment discrimination 
lawsuit to proceed against Oracle, the rare Silicon Valley 
company that is not entirely hostile to the GOP." 
Democrats demand Acosta resign over Epstein deal 
-- The Justice Department said Attorney General 
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William Barr will not recuse himself from the current 
prosecution of Epstein, but he will not engage in "any 
retrospective review" of the 2008 plea deal. Matt 
Zapotos_ky reports: "Barr had telegraphed at his confirmation 
hearing in January that he might have to step aside from any 
Justice Department reviews of Epstein's case, because 
another lawyer at his then-firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had 
represented the wealthy financier. The other lawyer, Jay P. 
Lefkowitz, helped secure [the previous deal]. The split nature 
of Barr's recusal suggests that federal prosecutors in New 
York — who unsealed new sex trafficking charges against 
Epstein on Monday — might not be investigating authorities' 
handling of the previous allegations. The Justice 
Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has been 
reviewing the handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal for 
possible misconduct, and Barr is recused from that." 
-- The Miami Herald has reported that Lefkowitz, Barr's 
colleague at the time, had a one-on-one meeting with 
Acosta at which the then-U.S. attorney agreed not to 
prosecute Epstein in federal court. 
-- Epstein amassed a network of powerful connections 
as authorities say that he was simultaneously abusing 
dozens of young girls. Marc Fisher reports: "Even as 
dozens of women were looking to police, prosecutors and 
courts to hold Epstein to account for his alleged sexual 
abuses, he was amassing a stunning list of contacts and, in 
some cases, defenders across the worlds of Hollywood 
moviemaking, medical research, diplomacy, finance, politics 
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ana law. ... he donated large sums toward neuroscience 
research at Harvard and a California lab. He invited 
researchers to his New York house and talked math with 
them over equations scrawled on a blackboard in his dining 
room. He flew former president Bill Clinton and actor 
Spacey to Africa to promote AIDS awareness. He was a 
member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on 
Foreign Relations." 
-- The criminal case against Epstein had gone cold, but 
Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown kept pursuing the 
story and forced authorities to pay attention. The 
Times's Tiffany Hsu reports: "Months ago, she published a 
meticulously researched series of articles about the secret 
plea deal. ... Her work identified some 80 alleged victims ... 
She worked on the award-winning series with Emily Michot, 
a visual journalist at The Herald. While Mr. Epstein moved 
about freely, reportedly building a new compound in the 
Virgin Islands, Ms. Brown continued to dig, accumulating 
enough documentation to fill a spare bedroom in her Florida 
home. ... Geoffrey Berman, a federal prosecutor, said at a 
news conference that his team had been 'assisted by some 
excellent investigative journalism.-
-- Trump once threw a party with "28 girls" at Mar-a-
Lago. He and Epstein were the only men there. The 
Times's Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman dig into the 
relationship', "The year was 1992 and the event was a 
'calendar girl' competition, something that George Houraney, 
a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream 
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arranged to have some contestants fly in,' Mr. Houraney 
recalled in an interview on Monday. 'At the very first party, I 
said, 'Who's coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.' It was 
him and Epstein.' Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with 
Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was 
surprised. 'I said, 'Donald, this is supposed to be a party 
with V.I.P.s. You're telling me it's you and Epstein?" In fact, 
that was the case, an indication of a yearslong friendship 
between the president and Mr. Epstein that some say ended 
only after a failed business arrangement between them. ... 
"The full nature of their eventual falling out is not clear. 
... The relationship with Mr. Trump turned so toxic that Mr. 
Epstein at one point told friends that he blamed Mr. Trump 
for his legal problems with the Palm Beach County police. 
But while Mr. Trump has dismissed the relationship, Mr. 
Epstein, since the election, has played it up, claiming to 
people that he was the one who introduced Mr. Trump to his 
third wife, Melania Trump, though neither of the Trumps has 
ever mentioned Mr. Epstein playing a role in their meeting." 
Trump says he had a 'falling out with Epstein years ago 
SELECTIVE AMNESIA: 
-- Trump has a pattern of quickly minimizing ties with 
people who criticize him or who find themselves facing 
an onslaught of negative attention that reflects poorly 
on him. Epstein and Darroch are only the two latest 
examples. Josh Dawsey reports: "Trump sat across from 
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Darroch during the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch on Capitol 
Hill in March, inquiring about Brexit and bragging of his 
strong political standing. ... Trump interacted with Darroch 
on a number of occasions in London and Washington. ... 
But after leaked cables showed Darroch criticizing Trump's 
administration as 'inept' and the president as 'insecure,' the 
president seemed to have a memory lapse. 'I don't know the 
Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool,' 
Trump wrote Tuesday on Twitter. ... Asked Tuesday about 
Epstein, Trump said that he was 'not a fan' of his. ... 'I don't 
think I've spoken to him for 15 years,' Trump said. In a 2002 
interview with New York Magazine before Epstein was in 
trouble, Trump sang a different tune. 'I've known ■ 
for 15 
years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said 
that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of 
them are on the younger side,' Trump said. ... 
"Among those who have gotten the 'I barely know the 
guy' treatment: Former acting attorney general Matthew 
G. Whitaker, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, 
former lawyer Michael Cohen, fired FBI director James B. 
Comey, former senior White House aide Stephen K. 
Bannon, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former 
State Department official Brett McGurk, longtime adviser 
Roger Stone, former White House aide Cliff Sims, former 
campaign aide George Papadopoulos and even the rapper 
Lil Jon, who starred on Trump's reality TV show 'Celebrity 
Apprentice.' The people change, but the comments are 
eerily similar — and are something of a joke among some 
Trump advisers." 
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-- He is the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do president: Trump 
attacked the "Radical Left" last night for encouraging 
boycotts against companies whose owners support 
him, even though he has repeatedly advocated the 
exact same tactic in the past against his perceived 
critics. Trump was rallying to the defense of Home Depot 
and its co-founder, Bernard Marcus, who have been at the 
center of a boycott from liberal customers after the billionaire 
said he plans to spend part of his fortune supporting 
Trump's 2020 campaign. 
"Among the companies he has targeted are Macy's, 
which once carried his clothing line but abandoned him after 
he called Mexicans `rapists' in his campaign kickoff speech 
in 2015, and Apple, which he urged to release the cellphone 
information of the perpetrators of the 2015 shooting in San 
Bernardino, Calif.," Isaac Stanley-Becker recalls. "Last year, 
he celebrated plans to boycott Harley-Davidson when the 
motorcycle company said it would move some production 
overseas because of steel tariffs imposed by the president. 
He has also implored his Twitter followers to boycott Megyn 
Kelly's show on Fox News and suggested that dropping 
AT&T could compel CNN to improve its coverage of him. 
The president has argued that Nike and the NFL would 
encounter `anger and boycotts' as long as they support 
players who kneel during the national anthem to protest 
police brutality and racial injustice. He struck a different tone 
on Tuesday, saying it was unfair to penalize a company 
because one of its co-founders supported `your favorite 
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Sater offers few details after House panel appearance 
THERE'S STILL A BEAR IN THE WOODS: 
-- A congressional panel grilled former Trump 
associate Felix Sater for more details on the 
president's failed Moscow project. Karoun Demirjian and 
Tom Hamburger report: "Sater met privately with House 
Intelligence Committee staffers investigating interference in 
the 2016 presidential election and questions surrounding 
Trump's business interests in Russia in 2016. At issue is 
Michael Cohen's false testimony before the same committee 
in 2017 and whether Trump was compromised by his 
organization's effort to build in Moscow. When pressed 
Tuesday to provide information about his knowledge of 
Cohen's testimony, Sater at one point cited lawyer-client 
privilege and declined to respond, according to accounts of 
the exchange described by Sater's attorney and a 
spokesman for the committee." 
-- Federal prosecutors no longer want Michael Flynn to 
testify against his former partner because they doubt 
his version of events, according to a court filing. 
Rachel Weiner reports: "The move could have implications 
for Flynn in D.C. federal court, where he is awaiting 
sentencing in a case brought by the special counsel. ... 
Flynn had been expected to be a key witness in the Virginia 
trial of Bijan Rafiekian, with whom he ran a consulting 
business. A court filing from Rafiekian's attorneys includes 
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an email that Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Gillis ended 
by saying prosecutors `do not necessarily agree' with Flynn's 
'characterizations' of how he came to make an inaccurate 
filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act for an 
influence campaign that benefited the Turkish 
government. According to the email, Flynn says he did not 
provide false information to his attorneys at the time, did not 
read the FARA filing before signing it and was not aware 
that it contained falsehoods. In their filing, Rafiekian's 
lawyers say they 'interpreted the email's final sentence as a 
euphemism for, `we've concluded [Flynn] is lying.' 
"The decision by prosecutors could imperil Flynn's 
ability to avoid incarceration for lying to the FBI unless 
he is pardoned by Trump. Flynn's defense attorney, 
Sidney Powell, said in a statement that 'General Flynn is still 
cooperating with the government even if they don't call him 
as a witness.'" 
-- The Justice Department directed two former 
members of Mueller's team, Aaron Zebley and James 
L. Quarles, not to testify before Congress. The Times's 
Nicholas Fandos and Katie Benner report: "It is unclear what 
effect the Justice Department's intervention will have on the 
men's eventual appearances, but it raises the prospect that 
a deal lawmakers thought they had struck last month for 
testimony from Mr. Mueller, the former special counsel, and 
the two prosecutors could still unravel. Both Mr. Zebley and 
Mr. Quarles have left the Justice Department and are now 
private citizens, meaning that the department most likely 
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cannot actually block their testimony. But the department's 
view — depending on how strongly it is expressed — could 
have a chilling effect on two longtime employees and give 
them cover to avoid testifying." 
-- The House Judiciary Committee will vote tomorrow 
on whether to subpoena 12 individuals with 
connections to Trump, including Jared Kushner and 
Jeff Sessions, for their investigation on whether the 
president obstructed justice. Colby Itkowitz reports: "The 
panel will also vote to subpoena documents related to the 
Trump administration's zero tolerance policy on migrants 
entering the country illegally, which led to the separation of 
thousands of children from their parents in 2018. ... In 
addition to seeking subpoenas for Kushner and Sessions, 
the committee will vote to subpoena former White House 
chief of staff John Kelly; [Flynn]; former Trump campaign 
manager Corey Lewandowski; former deputy attorney 
general Rod J. Rosenstein; former White House deputy 
chief of staff Rick Dearborn; assistant attorney general Jody 
Hunt; former White House staff secretary Rob Porter; 
National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard; American Media Inc. 
chief executive David Pecker; and Keith Davidson, former 
attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels." 
-- Ahead of the former special counsel's testimony next 
week, many lawmakers admit that they have not read 
Mueller's report in full. Politico's Darren Samuelsohn 
reports: "Trump can't give a straight answer about the 
subject. More than a dozen members of Congress readily 
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admitted ... that they too have skipped around rather than 
studying every one of the special counsel report's 448 
pages. And despite the report technically ranking as a best-
seller, only a tiny fraction of the American public has actually 
cracked the cover and really dived in. `What's the point?' 
said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). ... The result, say 
lawmakers, historians and cultural critics, is a giant literacy 
gap in the country when it comes to the most authoritative 
examination into Russian interference in the 2016 
presidential election and whether Trump obstructed that 
investigation." 
Pelosi said she will not address "anything more that 
[Barr] has to say" because he "has lied to Congress." 
Pelosi's comments came a day after the attorney general 
accused Democrats of trying "to create some kind of public 
spectacle" by calling for Mueller to publicly testify next week. 
"I don't even want to address him," Pelosi said in response. 
"He has lied to Congress as the attorney general of the 
United States. He's lied under oath. I'm not speaking to 
anything more that he has to say." (John Wagner) 
-- Russian intelligence agents appear to have been the 
first people to promote the conspiracy theory that DNC 
staffer Seth Rich was killed by assassins working for 
Hillary Clinton. Yahoo News's Michael Isikoff reports: 
"Russia's foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, 
first circulated a phony `bulletin' — disguised to read as a 
real intelligence report —about the alleged murder of the 
former DNC staffer on July 13, 2016, according to the U.S. 
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federal prosecutor who was in charge of the Rich case. That 
was just three days after Rich, 27, was killed in what police 
believed was a botched robbery while walking home to his 
group house in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of 
Washington, D.C., about 30 blocks north of the Capitol. ... 
In a graphic example of how fake news infects the internet, 
those precise details popped up the same day on an 
obscure website, whatdoesitmean.com, that is a frequent 
vehicle for Russian propaganda. The website's article, which 
attributed its claims to `Russian intelligence,' was the first 
known instance of Rich's murder being publicly linked to a 
political conspiracy." 
-- Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, was 
interviewed for 16 hours last month as part of the 
investigation by Michael Horowitz, the Justice 
Department's inspector general. Politico's Natasha 
Bertrand reports: "The extensive, two-day interview took 
place in London while Trump was in Britain for a state visit, 
[two] sources said, and delved into Steele's extensive work 
on Russian interference efforts globally, his intelligence-
collection methods and his findings about Trump campaign 
adviser Carter Page, who the FBI ultimately surveilled. ... 
The interview was contentious at first, the sources 
added, but investigators ultimately found Steele's 
testimony credible and even surprising. The takeaway 
has irked some U.S. officials interviewed as part of the 
probe — they argue that it shouldn't have taken a foreign 
national to convince the inspector general that the FBI acted 
properly in 2016." 
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After crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on June 13, Karla 
Yadira Rivera, 36, cries as she walks to Border Patrol agents with her daughters 
Karla, 11; Andrea, 12; and Emilia, 17, in El Paso. (Carolyn Van Houten/The 
Washington Post) 
THE IMMIGRATION WARS: 
-- Border arrests are dropping as Mexico's crackdown 
on migrants takes effect. Nick Miroff reports: "The number 
of people taken into custody along the U.S. southern border 
fell 28 percent in June, a drop that U.S. authorities say 
reflects the early impact of Mexico's crackdown on Central 
American migration. Border crossings typically rise in the 
spring and slump during the scorching summer months, but 
the drop registered from May to June was significantly larger 
than in previous years, according to Homeland Security 
statistics." 
-- Migrant children in an overcrowded detention center 
in Yuma, Ariz., are making sexual assault allegations 
and saying they fear retaliation from U.S. agents when 
they complain about poor treatment. NBC News's Jacob 
Soboroff and Julia Ainsley_report: "A 16-year-old 
Guatemalan boy held in Yuma, Arizona, said he and others 
in his cell complained about the taste of the water and food 
they were given. The Customs and Border Protection agents 
took the mats out of their cell in retaliation, forcing them to 
sleep on hard concrete. A 15-year-old girl from Honduras 
described a large, bearded officer putting his hands inside 
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her bra, pulling down her underwear and groping her as part 
of what was meant to be a routine pat down in front of other 
immigrants and officers. The girl said `she felt embarrassed 
as the officer was speaking in English to other officers and 
laughing' during the entire process, according to a report of 
her account." 
-- California became the first state to offer health 
benefits to adult undocumented immigrants. NPR's
Bobby Allyn reports: "The measure signed by Gov. Gavin 
Newsom on Tuesday extends coverage to low-income, 
undocumented adults age 25 and younger for the state's 
Medicaid program. Since 2016, California has allowed 
children under 18 to receive taxpayer-backed healthcare 
despite immigration status. And, state officials expect that 
the plan will cover roughly 90,000 people. ... In California, 
extending health benefits to undocumented immigrants is 
widely popular. A March survey conducted by the 
nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that 
almost two-thirds of state residents support providing 
coverage to young adults who are not legally authorized to 
live in the country." 
-- Two active-duty Marines were arrested for allegedly 
trying to smuggle three undocumented Mexican 
immigrants through California. Meagan Flynn reports: 
"Lance Cpls. Byron Darnell Law II and David Javier Salazar-
Quintero, based in Camp Pendleton, Calif., were arraigned 
Monday in federal court on charges of transporting 
undocumented immigrants `for financial gain,' accused of 
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taking jobs from `recruiters' and following instructions from 
unknown people in Mexico to make extra cash on the side. 
They are among several active-duty U.S. troops charged or 
convicted in recent years of helping immigrants cross the 
border in exchange for money, highlighting how smugglers 
have sought to offer the shield of a uniform or credentials to 
assist desperate immigrants on the journey north." 
Footage shows hate crime being committed at Glenelg High School 
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA: 
-- "A black_principal,Joiir white teens and the `senior 
prank' that became a hate crime," by Jessica Contrera: 
"This was the last day of the year for the class of 2018 at 
Glenelg High School. There was going to be an awards 
ceremony, a picnic, that end-of-a-journey feeling that always 
made [Principal David Burton] so proud of his job. But as he 
was on his way to work at 6:25 a.m., the assistant principal 
had called, agitated and yelling about graffiti. 'It's 
everywhere,' he kept saying, so Burton had leaned on the 
gas and rushed the last few miles. ... He turned a corner 
and saw something written in large capital letters on the 
sidewalk: `BURTON IS A NIGGER.' He paused only for a 
moment, looking at the words, trying to comprehend that all 
of this was real. Later, school district officials, county 
administrators and prosecutors would have a name for what 
happened here. They would repeat it, condemn it and vow to 
prevent it from occurring again. Hate crime." 
-- A white man who called 911 on a black man in his 
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building apologized for his actions, explaining that 
they were informed by a tragic family history — his 
father was murdered after confronting a mentally ill 
man who showed up on his driveway. The man, 
Christopher Cukor, called the cops on Wesly Michel, a man 
who was going up to a friend's apartment in the same 
building without using the call box. The video of their 
encounter went viral online. (Eli Rosenberg) 
-- Elijah Al-Amin, a black teenager, was stabbed to 
death at a convenience store in Arizona by a white 
man, allegedly because he was playing rap music in 
his car. The man, Michael Adams, stabbed the 17-year-old 
two days after Adams was released from prison, where he 
had completed a sentence for assault and theft. (NBC 
News) 
-- The Chicago Defender, the legendary newspaper 
read by generations of black Americans, printed its 
final copy. The newspaper will cease its print editions after 
today but will continue its digital operation. (New York 
Times) 
-- A graphic artist who went viral for calling out 
Google's lack of a doodle celebrating Juneteenth was 
contacted by the search giant about a job. Davian 
Chester created his own Google doodle to celebrate the 
holiday marking the end of slavery, which quickly spread 
across social media and attracted the company's interest. 
Chester said he is still in talks with Google about the job, but 
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in the meantime, his hometown of Columbus, Ga., has put 
up a billboard of the doodle. (Allison Klein) 
Tom Steyer: 'Fundamental Change' I Campaign 2020 
2020 WATCH: 
-- Billionaire activist Tom Steyer formally entered the 
Democratic presidential primary with an announcement
video outlining his pledges to reduce corporations' 
political influence and address climate change. Chelsea 
Janes reports: "In January, when he announced he would 
not run for president, Steyer said that rather than entering 
the race he would turn his attention fully to pressuring 
members of Congress to start impeachment proceedings 
against [Trump]. ... On Tuesday, as he announced his 
presidential bid, Steyer did not mention impeachment or 
Trump, although the president was briefly seen in the video. 
Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was 
also seen in the video being led down a hallway in 
handcuffs. ... Steyer will have one week to accumulate 
65,000 donors to qualify for the second Democratic debate, 
which will take place at the end of the month." 
Biden told a voter he'll "go further" than cutting 
incarceration by 50 percent. BuzzFeed News's Katherine 
Miller reports: "In a video shared ... by the ACLU, Biden tells 
a man, Keith Albert, who identifies himself as an ACLU 
voter, that he'd 'go further than' cutting incarceration by half. 
'Would you commit to cutting incarceration by 50%?' Albert 
asks Biden. 'More than that. We can do it more than that,' he 
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responds. Last month in Concord, New Hampshire, another 
self-identified ACLU voter asked if Biden would 'commit to 
cutting the prison population overall, and specifically the 
federal prison population, in half' — a slightly different 
wording." 
-- CNN announced its rules for the next Democratic 
presidential debates. From CNN's Mark Preston: "The 
upcoming Democratic presidential debates will feature 
opening and closing statements and two hours of debate 
time each night ... While candidates will not officially learn if 
they make the Detroit stage until July 17, Tuesday's call with 
the 20-plus Democratic campaigns was held to help them 
prepare for the debate should their respective candidates 
qualify, a CNN spokesperson said." The rules include: 
• Colored lights will be used to help candidates manage 
their remaining response times. 
• A candidate attacked by name by another candidate will 
be given 30 seconds to respond. 
• There will be no show of hands or one-word questions. 
• A candidate who constantly interrupts others will have 
their time reduced. 
• Questions posed by moderators will appear on the 
screen for viewers. 
-- The DNC announced that the third debate, which will 
be hosted by ABC News and Univision, will be held in 
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Senate and energize liberals. 
Costa reports: "That 
effort gained new momentum on Tuesday as Amy McGrath, 
a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and combat pilot, 
announced she would challenge McConnell (R-Ky.) and 
blamed him for turning Washington into 'something we 
despise' in a campaign video that drew millions of views. 
While McGrath faces a steep climb against McConnell in 
ruby-red Kentucky, which President Trump carried by 30 
percentage points in 2016, she is expected to raise 
significant funds from national Democrats and provide the 
party with a relentless and high-profile opponent." 
-- Though Sen. Pat 
(R-Kan.) won't make an 
endorsement in the Republican primary race to replace 
him, he said former Kansas secretary of state Kris 
Kobach faces a "very difficult" path to the Senate. The 
Kansas City Star's Bryan Lowry reports: "'It seems to me if 
you have just lost a statewide race, that the chances of you 
winning another statewide race would be very difficult,' 
told reporters. 'I have not talked to Kris about this. I 
did talk to him earlier, but that was all about allegedly being 
the head of DHS. But the votes weren't there.' ... Kobach's 
campaign manager Steve Drake rejected 
' analysis 
of the race and also hit back against the criticism from 
national Republicans. ... Kobach's entry could ramp up 
efforts to recruit Secretary of State 
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candidates who refuse to use the party's newly 
established online fundraising tool, WinRed, as 
tensions over the future of the party's grass-roots 
fundraising efforts reach a breaking point. Politico's. 
Isenstadt reports: "The moves illustrate how Republican 
leaders are waging a determined campaign to make WinRed 
the sole provider of its small donor infrastructure — and to 
torpedo any competitors. On Monday, the RNC sent an 
eight-page cease-and-desist letter to Paul Dietzel, a 
Republican digital strategist who earlier this month launched 
Give.GOP, a fundraising platform that includes a directory 
through which donors can give to party candidates and 
organizations. In the letter, RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer 
writes that while Give.GOP has a page inviting donors to 
give to the RNC, the committee hasn't yet received any 
funds from the platform or received any outreach from it. 
Riemer also accuses Dietzel of using the committee's 
trademark and logo without its permission." 
-- Sarah McBride, a transgender activist who made 
waves after speaking at the Democratic National 
Convention in 2016, is now running for Delaware state 
Senate. Deanna Paul reports: "If she wins the 2020 race to 
succeed Sen. Harris McDowell, who is retiring at the end of 
his term, McBride will be the state's first elected transgender 
senator. ... Now serving as national press secretary for the 
Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGTBQ 
lobbying group, she has continued to be a force for the 
movement through the Trump-Pence administration, which 
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Mexico's finance minister, Carlos Urzua, speaks as President Andres Manuel Lopez 
Obrador looks on during a news conference in February. (Henry Romero/Reuters) 
THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 
-- Mexican Finance Minister Carlos Urzila abruptly 
resigned, dealing a major blow to President Andres 
Manuel Lopez Obrador's government. Mary Beth 
Sheridan reports: Urzba quit after accusing Lopez Obrador's 
government of making decisions "that were not grounded in 
evidence and of naming officials who were ignorant of 
economics. ... Lopez Obrador has sought to woo the 
business community by pledging a balanced budget and a 
stable peso, even as he has launched ambitious social 
programs to help youth and the poor. But the peso 
immediately slid after UrzCia announced his resignation on 
Twitter, falling more than 2 percent, to about 19.3 pesos to 
the dollar. It later recovered some ground after Lopez 
Obrador named a U.S.-educated technocrat, Arturo Herrera, 
as Urzua's replacement." 
-- Iran's release after four years in prison of a Lebanese 
businessman was meant to be seen as an opening for 
U.S.-Iranian talks. But the gesture wasn't enough for 
Washington. Reute ' l
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Landay and Arshad Mohammed report: ""It was a missed 
opportunity." one U.S. source said of Nizar Zakka's June 11 
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