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US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just shook hands at the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the border that separates the two Koreas.

This is the first time the two leaders have met since their February summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, which ended abruptly without an agreement.

Earlier today, Trump had hinted that a third summit might be on the cards.

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President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s face-to-face meeting on trade relations in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday “went better than expected,” Trump said after the talks.

Trump described the meeting as “excellent” and said the U.S. and China were “back on track” in trade talks but added that “negotiations are continuing.” He told reporters he would announce the results of the talks at a news conference later Saturday.

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President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday. (Associated Press)

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said the two leaders agreed to restart trade talks “on the basis of equality and mutual respect,” saying the leaders had reached a cease-fire on trade and that Trump also agreed to forego new tariffs on Chinese imports.

The meeting between the two leaders at the G-20 summit was their first in seven months, although the two leaders reportedly also met at a dinner for the Group of 20 leaders, where Trump said much was accomplished.

The de-escalation is a pattern for Trump and Xi, whose agreements often break down over negotiation details.

President Donald Trump, center, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as they gather for a group photo at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday. (Associated Press)

In the meeting, Trump and Xi were expected to focus on issues including trade and a dispute over Huawei Technologies.

“We’ve had an excellent relationship,” Trump said to Xi before the talks, “but we want to do something that will even it up with respect to trade.”

Trump told reporters he thought they would have a “very productive” meeting. “I think we can go on to do something that will be truly monumental and great for both countries,” he added.

Xi said, “Cooperation and dialogue are better than friction and confrontation.”

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Trump has already put tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports this year and has threatened to tax an additional $300 billion. China retaliated with its own tariffs on American exports.

After the meeting with Xi, Trump met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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A formal complaint has been filed against Oregon Republican state Sen. Brian Boquist, who drew criticism for threatening state police amid a GOP walkout over climate legislation, the chairman of the state’s conduct committee said Saturday.

Sen. Floyd Prozanski, who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Conduct, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the complaint will receive a hearing in early July. He declined to elaborate on the substance of the complaint, and would not say who filed it.

“I will not make any comments as to what’s alleged or what’s in the report because it is pending before the committee,” Prozanski said. “As the chair, I do not believe it’s appropriate for me to make comment until we, as a full committee, take what actions we’re going to take.”

Sen. Brian Boquist came under fire this month after saying Oregon State Police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed” if they attempted to bring him to the Capitol amid a Republican walkout that shut down the Senate for nine days.

Republicans, who make up the minority in the Legislature, refused to come to the Capitol in protest of legislation aimed at lowering the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Democrats have an 18 to 12 majority in the Senate but need at least 20 members — and therefore at least two Republicans — present to vote on legislation.

Gov. Kate Brown deployed the Oregon State Police to track down the missing Republicans and hit them with a $500 fine for every day they missed.

Boquist publicly lashed out against the Senate president just prior to the walkout, saying “if you send the state police to get me, hell’s coming to visit you personally.”

Days later, the Senate leader ordered the Capitol closed because of a “possible militia threat” from far-right groups, who said they would join a peaceful protest organized by Republicans. The threat, however, never materialized.

One of those groups, the Oregon Three Percenters, joined an armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016 and has offered safe passage to senators on the run.

Boquist was one of three senators not to appear on the floor Saturday morning, though Republican staff members expected him to return later in the afternoon. He did not return requests for comment.

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A popular website dedicated to 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden was apparently created by a Republican operative to mock the former vice president.

At first glance, JoeBiden.info looks like a pro-Biden site, and even sells T-shirts with his face on them.

But on closer inspection, the posts on the site make fun of the Democrat with gifs that show him touching women, and criticism of his political record, including his opposition to court-ordered busing in the 1970s, and a vote against abortion rights in 1982.

A disclaimer at the bottom of the website says it’s “intended for entertainment and political commentary only and is therefore protected under fair use,” and is a project “BY AN American citizen FOR American citizens.”

The New York Times reported Saturday, the site was indeed created by an American, just not one who backs Biden.

The paper said Republican strategist Patrick Mauldin, who makes videos and other digital content for President Trump’s re-election campaign, is behind the site.

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2020 Democratic hopeful Kamala Harris was the target of a birtherism-like attack — retweeted and then deleted by President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. — targeting her identity as “not an American Black.” Her rivals for the Democratic nomination jumped to her defense on Saturday, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who she confronted about race at Thursday’s debate.

Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who had emigrated to the U.S. from India and Jamaica. The viral tweet by right-wing personality Ali Alexander — whose Twitter bio claims that he “exposed” Harris and includes the hashtag #NeverKamala — mentioned her parents’ background and said “I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting. Now using it for debate time at #DemDebate2? These are my people not her people.”

The tweet appeared to get the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who has more than three million followers. Trump Jr. wrote “Is this true? Wow” on Thursday, but soon deleted it. A spokesman told The New York Times Trump Jr. was “asking if it was true that Kamala Harris was half-Indian because it’s not something he had ever heard before.”

Harris has often resisted sharing her personal background on the campaign trail. But during Thursday’s debate, she confronted Biden about his history opposing busing and said she herself had been bused to a public school. 

Kamala Harris is seen as a child in an undated photo released by her presidential campaign during the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida, U.S. June 27, 2019. 

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Harris’ campaign manager, Lily Adams, said in a statement to CBS News “this is the same type of racist attacks used to attack Barack Obama. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.” 

Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, expressed his gratitude on Twitter to those who came to his wife’s defense. “…Thx to all the 2020 candidates and everyone else for calling out this crap for what it is”… Emhoff tweeted.

On Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was the first 2020 candidate to tweet in support of Harris. “The attacks against @KamalaHarris are racist and ugly. We all have an obligation to speak out and say so. And it’s within the power and obligation of tech companies to stop these vile lies dead in their tracks,” Warren tweeted.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey chimed in with a tweet saying “@kamalaharris doesn’t have sh[**] to prove.” Strong remarks also came from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Biden, the current frontrunner, tweeted on Saturday “The same forces of hatred rooted in ‘birtherism’ that questioned @BarackObama’s American citizenship, and even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris. It’s disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it. Racism has no place in America.”

President Trump was one of the leading voices, along with a group of conspiracy theorists, who questioned whether former President Obama was really born in the U.S. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, would not directly answer whether the president’s birther conspiracy against Mr. Obama was racist. 

Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as she visits the outside of a detention center for migrant children on June 28, 2019 in Homestead, Florida.

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Alexander fired back at the 2020 candidates who defended Harris on Twitter Saturday, claiming there is a “racist Democratic smear campaign against him.” A Howard University Professor directly responded. 

“Shut down the weaponized ignorance,” said professor Greg Carr, Howard University’s chair of Afro-American Studies. Carr pointed to the 2016 presidential primary campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

Cruz, who was born in Calgary, Canada, also faced criticism from the then-frontrunner, Mr. Trump, but Carr and other civil rights activists say Cruz did not face anywhere near the “crowd swell of birtherism” that former President Obama and now Harris have faced. Carr called birtherism race-based and absolutely racist.

There has been social media criticism of Harris and Booker — who is African American and from Newark, New Jersey — propelled by an online campaign that operates under #ADOS: American Descendants of Slavery. Online, the group says they “seeks to reclaim/restore the critical national character of the African American identity and experience.”

Carr believes their social media discussion around reparations may be driving a conversation to separate those who are “black” and “African American” — or “American Black” as Alexander put it. Carr made sure to emphasize that ADOS has nothing to do with major national groups fighting for reparations, like the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. He connects ADOS to a group that attempts to create controversy or issues in black communities that might lead to nefarious goals, like suppressing the African American vote.

“What good does it do to any of us to assert pride of privilege in oppression,” said Carr. 

Carr said he would tell Ali “stop standing between attempts to solve our collective problems and people’s attempts to understand how best to do it. This doesn’t add anything positive to public discourse. And of course my next question would be if you are not in fact just acting out of ignorance, ‘Who are you working for?’ because we’ve seen this show before.”

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When it comes to brokering a deal between North Korea and the United States, South Korean President Moon Jae-in is out and China’s Xi Jinping is in. 

China started on the sidelines: It’s a dramatic reversal from months ago, when Moon looked on track for a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the two parties together and securing both an historic summit between himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and later between Kim and Trump.

While China supported this effort, North Korea’s traditional ally seemed at risk of being sidelined, as Pyongyang looked south for support both economic and diplomatically.

Xi’s increasing influence: After the second Kim-Trump meeting fell apart in Hanoi without a deal, Xi’s influence has increased again.

Meanwhile, Pyongyang has tested short-range weapons and unleashed a propaganda broadside against Seoul, in apparent punishment for Moon’s failure to keep the peace process moving along and unwillingness to provide sanctions relief where Washington will not. 

Where things stand now: Trump is in South Korea Sunday for his first visit to the Korean Peninsula since talks with Pyongyang began, and is expected to visit the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two countries, where he has teased that he may meet Kim in person. 

While he has framed any potential meeting as more of a photo-op than anything else, the US President appears to be in a deal making mood, buoyed by a successful meeting with Xi at the G20 after which he rolled back some of Washington’s restrictions on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. 

Xi appears to have gotten what he wanted then from the meetings in Osaka, it remains to be seen now if he will use his influence on Kim to get Trump something he wants in South Korea. The three leaders are in a diplomatic triangle, each relying on the others to get them what they desire.

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“We’ll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we’re not going to have a deal at all and that’s OK too,” President Donald Trump said at his re-election rally. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

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The president is running for reelection with a major unfulfilled campaign promise — a trade deal with China.

OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump departed a gathering of world leaders Saturday without striking his long-sought trade deal with China, leaving him with a major unfulfilled campaign promise just as he revs up his reelection bid.

But the leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed that their teams should resume negotiations that had broken down several weeks ago with Trump pushing off another round of tariffs on $300 billion on Chinese imports.

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That incremental step is far from what he promised Americans when he was on the campaign trail in 2016 pledging to beat China — the so-called “enemy” that cost the U.S. jobs, spied on U.S. businesses and stole U.S. technology.

Trump will now need to try to persuade supporters — some of whom have been hurt by rising prices due to his many trade disputes — that not accepting a bad deal with China is actually a win.

“I don’t think they will see this as a failure. I think they will see this as him fighting,” said Jonathan Felts, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and now lives in the swing state of North Carolina and remains close to the Trump White House. “What they see is a man who is doing exactly what he said he would.”

At a rally kicking off his reelection campaign in Florida earlier this month, Trump, a businessman who prides himself on making shrewd deals, tried to put a positive spin on his failure to secure a deal with China.

“We’ll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we’re not going to have a deal at all and that’s OK too,” Trump told the crowd.

Trump held a series of meetings in Japan while he attended the G-20, an annual gathering of the world’s biggest economies, but did not announce any major agreements with those he spoke with, including the leaders of Japan, Germany and Russia.

Most of the attention, however, was on trade. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and their top aides talked for more than an hour at a meeting closely watched by foreign leaders and business executives worried that the trade impasse will continue to hurt the global economy.

“You know, we’ve never really had a deal with China,” Trump said at a news conference Saturday. “Tremendous amounts of money was put into China — $500 billion a year. And I mean, you know, not just surplus and deficit. I’m talking about real, hard cash. And it should have never, ever been allowed to have happened for all of our presidents over the last number of years.”

Trump had already hit China with two rounds of tariffs after unsuccessfully pushing Beijing to change longstanding trade practices that he deems unfair. China retaliated with its own set of tariffs.

“I think you’ve heard the president say publicly on a number of occasions that he’s quite comfortable with where we are, and he’s quite comfortable with any outcome of those talks,” a senior administration official said.

On Saturday, at least, they agreed to the ceasefire.

A former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House said Trump still looks engaged on the issue in contrast to lawmakers of both parties who try to tackle tough issues, such as immigration, only to give in when they can’t initially work out a deal. “The minute things got tough, they bailed,” the former adviser said. “He’s going to keep talking.”

But David Dollar, who served as economic and financial emissary to China for the Treasury secretary and is now a leading expert on China for the center-left Brookings Institution, said Trump was never going to leave his meeting with Xi this week with a win when the two sides hadn’t been talking for weeks.

“There hasn’t been enough preparation for there to be a really detailed trade deal between China and the United States,” he said.

Now, after more than two years of negotiations and his reelection campaign looming, Trump faces intense pressure to find a compromise before his yet-to-be-named opponent criticizes his lack of deal-making skills and his tariff threats continue to cost Americans money, including in states that helped him win in 2016.

And some of Trump’s allies fear that the tariffs could put a dent in the economy — his strongest reelection selling point — though they note the economy has stayed strong despite earlier Trump-imposed tariffs.

“Exporters are suffering from the retaliatory tariffs from China,” Matthew Goodman, who served as director for international economics on the National Security Council staff and is now senior adviser for Asian economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“It’s causing some political blowback for the president. His polls in some states that are red states and farm states are not as good as he would like. And so, you know, it’s possible that he has an incentive to do a deal.”

Scott Jennings, who worked under President George W. Bush and is close to the Trump White House, said Trump still has plenty of time left in his term to make good on this campaign promise.

“Trump is in a strong political position,” he said. “He’s put so much effort in for them to roll over and accept less is not an option.”

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President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to confuse a Civil Rights-era practice of school integration referred to as “busing” with the use of buses as a general mode of transportation for students.

The president took questions from the media on Saturday following this week’s Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Osaka, Japan. In response to a question from NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker about the use of court-ordered busing to integrate school districts in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Trump did not comment on the policy but instead observed that “there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools.”

Busing worked its way into the news this week, as leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has had to face questions about his previous opposition to the practice. In the second day of Democratic primary debates on Thursday, Senator Kamala Harris and the former vice president wrangled over Biden’s efforts to curb federal support for busing as a senator in the 1970s, while Harris said she benefited from the practice as a schoolgirl in California the late 1960s.

Biden said that while he supported busing to desegregate racially homogenous school districts, he opposed mandates from the federal government requiring the practice. Harris countered that federal intervention is often the only way to ensure recalcitrant local governments comply with civil rights law.

The president’s remarks received near-instantaneous scorn, with some questioning whether he even understood what the practice of desegregation busing was.

Lawyer George Conway, husband to senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, mocked the president: “everyone said Trump was so smart because he could tell the busing wasn’t good enough and that no one was a better judge of busing than Trump.”

Historian Kevin Kruse compared Trump’s contribution to the busing discussion as tantamount to singing “The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round.”

Atlantic writer Adam Serwer said that the comments suggested “Trump thinks busing refers to literally how children get to school, not to the school integration policy Biden and Harris were [arguing] about.”

While busing has widely been phased out as a standard method of school reintegration, many school districts across America have remained largely homogenous in their students’ racial makeup.

According to a 2017 survey from the Pew Research Center, nearly two-thirds of public school students in the United States attend schools where 50 percent or more of the student body is composed of the same race.

The survey found that since 1995, black students have become slightly less isolated from students of other racial groups, while Hispanic students grew more isolated.

Whites comprise the largest share of public school students who attend racially homogenous schools. Nearly 82 percent of white students attend schools where more than half of the student body is also white, according to the survey.

Trump had evaded an earlier question from ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl about federally mandated busing, pivoting quickly to an attack on his 2020 Democratic opponents.

“Well, first of all, before I get into that, I thought that [Harris] was given too much credit,” Trump assessed. “[Biden] didn’t do well, certainly. And maybe the facts weren’t necessarily on his side.”

Alluding to the busing issue at the center of Karl’s question, Trump said: “I will tell you in about four weeks.”

“Because we’re coming out with a certain policy that’s going to be very interesting and very surprising, I think, to a lot of people,” he claimed.

It is unclear what policy the president was referring to in his response.

The apparent busing gaffe came on the same day that Trump appeared to misunderstand the term “western liberalism.” When asked about this topic — the predominant political philosophy in the West — the president’s response seemed to be about the liberal leanings of politicians in America’s western states like California.

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Mr. Garre said the two newest justices are a study in contrasts. “Both have shown themselves to be confident and happy to go their own ways, even when it means joining the more liberal justices,” he said. “But Justice Gorsuch is more frequently on the right end of the court, and Justice Kavanaugh, so far at least, has gravitated more toward the center.”

Even before the stormy end of the term, the court had not always succeeded in staying out of the spotlight. In an extraordinary exchange in November, for instance, Chief Justice Roberts tangled with Mr. Trump, who had criticized an asylum ruling by saying it had been issued by an “Obama judge.”

The chief justice responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges” but only “an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”

Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard, said the court helped prove the chief justice right with its unpredictable voting, singling out its three most junior members.

“Although the large number of closely divided votes was inconsistent with the chief justice’s stated preference for unanimity, the shifting membership of those in the majority and dissent was very much in keeping with the chief’s admonition that there are not Bush, Obama or Trump judges and justices,” he said. “There was a striking number of cases in which the votes of individual justices, especially Kagan, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, defied such ready political labels.”

The chief justice joined the court’s four liberal members — Justices Kagan, Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor — to form a majority in 5-to-4 decisions just once, in part of the census case. Justice Gorsuch voted with the liberal bloc in such cases four times. Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas each voted with that bloc once.

“The justices also seemed happy to celebrate such voting behavior,” Professor Lazarus said. “In many of those cases, the senior justice in the majority rewarded the justice who defied expectations by assigning them the job of writing the opinion for the court, including in big cases that a junior justice would otherwise be unlikely to get.”

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      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/29/us/harris-biden-black-people-forgiveness-analysis/index.html

      The United States and China have been here before.

      After threatening to impose potentially devastating tariffs, President Donald Trump pulled back in the wake of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Japan on Saturday.

      Trump and Xi, who both tout their strong personal relationship, reached a similar agreement at the previous G-20 summit in Argentina at the end of the last year.

      But those talks ultimately failed and tariffs today are much higher than they were even as recently as early May.

      And if history is any guide to the future, the gentlemen’s agreement struck between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies over the weekend in Osaka offers no clear path to rolling back tariffs and ending a trade war that threatens to tip the global economy into recession.

      “It’s a temporary timeout,” Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group, told CNBC. “I don’t see any path to a deal and we’re stuck with 25% tariffs on $250 billion of goods.”

      Boockvar isn’t alone. The Eurasia Group, for its part, sees only a 45% chance that a trade deal gets done this year.

      And Trump is no rush. The president said as much after departing the G-20 summit and made clear that the tariffs currently in place are unlikely to be reduced any time soon. 

      In a Fox Business News interview before the G-20, the president he was “very happy with where we are now, ” claiming that the U.S. is  “taking in a fortune, and frankly [it’s] not a very good thing for China, but it is a good thing for us. “

      The business community by and large disagrees.

      More than 600 U.S. companies, including Target and Walmart, had urged Trump not to impose additional tariffs, warning that such a move could cost 2 million American jobs.

      And while business groups Saturday welcomed the renewed talks, they made clear they’re still anxiously waiting for a final deal. According to Boockvar, there’s little reason to celebrate.

      “If I’m a CEO, waiting on how this weekend was going to go, do I feel any better? If I’m in manufacturing, maybe I feel a touch better it’s not worse in the short term, but I still have to deal with this 25% tariff and the threat of more tariffs hanging over,” he said.

      Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/29/g20-summit-trump-and-xi-agree-to-talks-but-offer-no-clear-path-to-end-the-trade-war.html

      The musical stylings of Weird Al Yankovic rarely offer clarity about the state of legislation in Congress.

      But Weird Al’s 1984 hit “Eat it” (a parody on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”) was inadvertently invoked this past week to crystallize the conundrum facing House Democrats after the Senate approved a crucial border spending bill 84-8.

      HOUSE OKS BORDER BILL AFTER PELOSI REVERSES COURSE

      House liberals were either going to hold out against the Senate measure in favor of their own – or accept the Senate bill.

      Amid these deliberations, former Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, a veteran of such impasses, ambled by the Speaker’s Office late Wednesday afternoon as a coterie of reporters stood watch in the hallway. Lott advised that if he were still running the Senate – where the overwhelming 84-8 vote spoke volumes – there would be only one clear path.

      “I’d say ‘Eat it, House,’” Lott said with a laugh.

      It’s exactly what they did.

      But not without a fiery fight first within the House Democratic Caucus – and one that threatens to keep burning for weeks and months to come.

      House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced a huge challenge as she sought to both assuage the concerns from her left flank and engineer a bill that could actually pass.

      The House had approved its own version of the border legislation Tuesday night, 230-195. But the Senate devised a different, more bipartisan piece of legislation. Not as many controls and consequences for those charged with caring for children. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., wrote the measure alongside Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the top Democrat on the panel. The committee approved the bill 30-1. The Senate then followed suit with a staggering roll call tally of 84-8.

      TRUMP REVIVES ICE RAID THREAT

      “The administration opposes what the House is going to do,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We believe they support what we’re going to do.”

      The House and Senate were out of alignment, approving competing bills. The front-runner for final passage, though, was fairly evident: The Senate bill secured more than 60 yeas, making it filibuster-proof, while the White House threatened to veto the House measure.

      The House still held out hope, engineering a revised bill on Thursday as the plan came back across the Capitol from the Senate.

      But the administration wouldn’t budge. McConnell wouldn’t budge. Things looked bleak for the House bill, even as it was apparent the House could approve the Senate version with most Republicans and many Democrats.

      But Democrats faced a more immediate problem as the House began a pre-debate on the revamped measure Thursday afternoon. House rules allow members to vote on something called “adopting the previous question.” In short, it’s known as a “PQ.” If the House approves the PQ, things continue as normal. However, if the House defeats the PQ, the minority seizes control of the floor for an hour and gets to call up whatever legislation it wants. The majority rarely loses a PQ vote. The House hasn’t defeated a PQ (thus, turning over the floor to the other side) since 2010. If Republicans defeated the PQ, they would bring up the Senate bill. Losing control of the floor in such a fashion would be a major embarrassment for Democrats. But this was a distinct possibility. There was near unanimity on the GOP side for the Senate plan and dozens of Democrats were prepared to join them.

      So, the House Democratic brain trust changed course. Pelosi dashed off a letter to her colleagues.

      “The children come first,” wrote Pelosi. “We have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available. Therefore, we will not engage in the same disrespectful behavior that the Senate did in ignoring our priorities. In order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the Senate bill.”

      So, the Senate jammed the House. And Pelosi relented because the math simply wasn’t on her side.

      The House ultimately moved the Senate package 305-102. Pelosi lost 95 Democrats. But there were 129 Democratic yeas. So, despite the sniping from the liberal wing of the Democratic caucus, Pelosi still marshaled a majority of the majority. But Pelosi couldn’t get to 217 yeas (the magic number in the House right now to pass bills) exclusively on the Democratic side.

      That’s the same issue that tormented former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan. They couldn’t quite move some bills with only GOP support when Republicans were in the majority. This was mostly due to protestations from the House Freedom Caucus. So, Boehner and Ryan often turned to the other side for assistance to pass major legislation. Pelosi did the same Thursday.

      In a statement, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said “what happened today is unacceptable and we will not forget this betrayal.”

      A number of moderate Democrats privately vented their frustrations about the internecine warfare among Democrats. One Democrat said it would be “shameful” and “immoral” not to do “something.” Another moderate Democrat groused about liberals placing a premium on “ideological purity.” One Democrat noted that a yes vote on the more tempered Senate bill was a good vote for moderate and conservative Democrats who face tough races in 2020. After all, members from swing districts are why Democrats won the House.

      One senior House Democratic leadership source told Fox News that some liberals will understand why Pelosi did what she did. But the source noted that many far-left Democrats “won’t get it. They’ll keep pushing.” The source said some Democrats will take notice of Pelosi fighting for the original House bill and only losing four Democrats. But the leadership source also suggested that Pelosi should have taken one more run at the issue. Perhaps pass the re-retooled bill, forcing McConnell to flush it back to the House and then accepted the Senate package.

      This could be a seminal moment for Democrats. Is their tent big enough to accept both liberals and moderates? This is a distillation of what’s going on nationally in the presidential sweepstakes. Democrats may control the House. But they don’t have the Senate, or the White House. And while the bill may not be perfect, it was the right measure for most Democratic districts. By the same token, a no vote was likely the proper disposition for lawmakers representing the most liberal of districts.

      Earlier in the week, Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., was asked if the “perfect was the enemy of the good” in the border bill negotiations.

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      “I hate that expression,” said Cardenas. “You don’t want to settle for less than what you’re capable of.”

      Many liberal Democrats may agree with Cardenas’s assessment. Otto von Bismarck famously compared passing law to making sausage. And as both Weird Al, Trent Lott and many House Democrats now know, you sometimes just have to eat it.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-makes-house-eat-it-in-border-funding-fight-as-liberals-fume-at-betrayal

      SALEM, Ore. — Some Republican lawmakers returned to the Oregon Senate on Saturday, ending a walkout over a carbon-emissions bill they said would harm their rural constituents.

      Nine of the 12 minority Republicans returned after Senate President Peter Courtney said the majority Democrats lacked the votes to pass the legislation aimed at countering climate change. The House had previously passed the bill, one of the centerpieces of Oregon’s 2019 legislative session, which is scheduled to end on Sunday.

      Democrats have an 18 to 12 majority in the Senate but need at least 20 members — and therefore at least two Republicans — to vote on legislation.

      Democrats had said the climate legislation was critical to make Oregon a leader in the fight against climate change and will ultimately create jobs and transform the economy. They made dozens of concessions to respond to concerns from conservatives and industry leaders, but they didn’t go as far as Republicans hoped.

      The GOP senator walkout began June 20. Many left the state after Gov. Kate Brown ordered the state police to bring them to the Capitol.

      “Our mission in walking out was to kill cap and trade,” Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger told reporters Friday. “And that’s what we did.”

      The bill, if passed, would have been the second in the nation to cap and trade pollution credits among companies. It aimed to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases by 2050 by capping carbon emissions and requiring businesses to buy or trade for an ever-dwindling pool of pollution “allowances.” California has a similar program.

      Baertschiger said he received assurances from the Democratic Senate president and the governor that the climate bill won’t move forward this session. More than 100 bills remain to be addressed. Baertschiger said he’s confident the Senate can work through dozens of measures before the legislative session ends.

      Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who chairs the committee in charge of funding decisions, said she felt “relief” that Republicans agreed to return to get through the rest of the legislative agenda, including added funding for critical services such as child welfare and public safety.

      Steiner Hayward said a climate change bill will likely come up again in the future.

      “Nobody’s giving up,” she said.

      Brown could call a special session to handle outstanding bills.

      Democrats have a supermajority in both the House and Senate, enabling them to pass bills — including ones to raise revenue — if they vote as a bloc. But if Republicans stay away, the Democrats lack a quorum to convene.

      The Republicans wielded power disproportionate to their numbers this session. They walked out of the Senate last month to block a school funding tax package. They returned only after Brown brokered a deal in which Democrats dropped legislation on gun control and children’s vaccination requirements, upsetting backers of those measures and leaving gun-control proponents and those concerned about disease outbreaks feeling betrayed. The Senate, with a quorum established, passed the school funding measure.

      In the House, Republicans in May forced a clerk in the Oregon Legislature to read aloud every word in nearly every piece of legislation, giving granular details about farm loans, motor vehicle taxes and other government minutiae as the minority party used the stalling tactic.

      “This is not how our democracy is supposed to work,” said Tara Hurst, executive director of the lobbying group Renew Oregon, which helped craft the climate proposal. “Continuing to capitulate to demands of a small minority, which has taken our Legislature hostage, will only lead to more of the same because there are no consequences.”

      Rep. Rachel Prusak, a freshman Democrat from a Portland suburb, said she is “heartbroken over the state of our Legislature.”

      Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-republican-senators-end-walkout-over-carbon-bill-n1024976

      President Trump says Kim Jong Un responded to his offer to shake hands at the Korean demilitarized zone — but he isn’t saying if the North Korean leader accepted.

      Trump told reporters in Seoul, South Korea, that officials received a response to the tweeted offer.

      “We have, yes,” Trump said, regarding whether he heard from Kim.

      “It will be very interesting,” Trump said Saturday night local time, divulging no details, but indicating the Sunday trip will happen. Asked if there would be a three-nation summit including South Korea, Trump said, “Well, we’re going to see.”

      After trading letters this month, Trump tweeted, “if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”

      Trump has sought to build a relationship with the 35-year-old dictator, meeting first in June 2018 in Singapore, and then in February in Vietnam. The second summit collapsed when Trump walked out over Kim demanding sanctions relief before dismantling his country’s nuclear weapon program.

      Since the second round of talks collapsed, North Korea has used at times harsh rhetoric. Last month, the state-run Korean Central News Agency called National Security Adviser John Bolton a “defective human product.”

      Trump added the brief stop in South Korea in mid-May, and journalists long suspected he would seek to meet Kim at the border.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-says-kim-jong-un-responded-to-dmz-handshake-offer

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      Source Article from https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/judge-haywood-gilliam-blocks-defense-funds-border-wall.html

      Libya’s internationally recognized government says it seized four pricey U.S.-made weapons from troops loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar.

      The Javelin antitank missiles cost more than $170,000 each. Markings indicate they were sold by the U.S. to the United Arab Emirates in 2008, the New York Times reports.

      If the Emirati government voluntarily transferred the missiles, the Times reports that may have violated the sales agreement.

      Haftar, who has controlled most of eastern Libya since 2014, seeks to end a long-running civil war by conquering the national capital Tripoli. The cache of American-made missiles and Chinese-made weapons were discovered by Tripoli’s forces in Gharyan, which is south of Tripoli and was used by forces loyal to Haftar as a base, following a surprise attack.

      Critics see Haftar — a former member of Muammar Gaddafi’s government, an ex-CIA asset, and a naturalized U.S. citizen — as a would-be dictator. But supporters see him as a crucial bulwark against Islamism in the region.

      Haftar has been supported by Egypt, France, and the UAE. His original rivals were Islamists who refused to accept defeat in a parliamentary election. That side was backed by Qatar and Turkey.

      In a statement, the State Department said, “We are aware of these reports and are seeking additional information. We expect all recipients of U.S. origin defense equipment to abide by their end-use obligations.”

      Although the U.S. and the United Nations recognize the Tripoli government, President Trump and Haftar spoke on the phone in April, with Trump praising the general’s work “fighting terrorism and securing Libya’s oil resources,” according to the White House.

      Last month, the Trump administration declared a national emergency citing tensions with Iran to bypass congressional review of more than $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the UAE.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/libyan-government-seizes-us-made-weapons-from-warlords-forces

      President Donald Trump tentatively de-escalated the ongoing trade war with China on Saturday when he announced he will cancel a planned 25 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.

      “We’re holding on tariffs, and they’re going to buy farm product,” Trump told reporters at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

      Neither Trump nor Xi offered details on which farm products China would buy while talking to reporters, and an earlier 25 percent duty will remain in place on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods.

      US farmers have been been squeezed by the trade war; China’s retaliatory tariffs cover a range of farm goods, including soybeans, almonds, pork, and apples. Chinese buyers once accounted for roughly 60 percent of the US’ agricultural exports, but that number has declined since the tariffs began, with Minnesota’s exports to the country dropping about about 25 percent since 2018.

      Trump has promised farmers relief before, announcing Mexico would increase its agricultural imports as part of a trade deal. Mexico later said it had not agreed to do so — it remains to be seen whether the bump in Chinese exports will actually come to pass.

      In a major concession to China, Trump also said US companies will once again be able to sell technology to Chinese industry giant Huawei.

      Xi hoped to make easing restrictions on Huawei a pre-condition for a new trade deal. Since 2018 — when the Trump administration first introduced Chinese tariffs — the US has used a ban on the company as a bargaining chip in negotiations between the two countries as Vox’s Alex Ward reported:

      The US has led a global effort to stop allied nations from using technologies made by Huawei, arguing that the Chinese government — which exerts significant control over domestic companies — could use those technologies to spy on citizens of other countries. The US has already banned Huawei from doing any work with the federal government, a major move meant as an example for other countries to follow.

      There’s also a financial motivation behind the US push to stop countries from using Huawei products: US and Chinese firms are both vying to lead the world in providing 5G technology, which offers lightning-fast internet connectivity that will allow billions more devices — from cellphones to self-driving cars to even robots performing surgery — to operate better.

      Trump also promised further easing of restrictions on Huawei, but was not specific about what this would entail.

      In a second concession, the president expressed his desire to reform US visa policy, saying he’d like to investigate ways to grant Chinese students who obtain American diplomas green cards in what he called a “smart person’s waiver.”

      Immigration is a key issue for Trump; at a rally in late May, he told supporters “our country is full” and said, “We don’t want people coming here.” He also recently announced — then cancelled — a massive ICE operation that would have targeted roughly 2,000 families.

      At the G20 summit, however, the president signaled he sees Chinese immigrants as different than other types of immigrants and asylum seekers, telling the press, “We want to keep them here.”

      The trade war has hurt all sides

      Over the year the Trump administration has escalated its trade war with China, American farm exports to China have gone from $26 billion (under President Obama) to $6 billion this year. China has met every duty on its goods with tariffs of their own, including a 25 percent tariff on 5,000 goods in June.

      Although both Democrats and Republicans believe China has taken advantage of the US economy, critics say that Trump’s scorched earth strategy does more harm than good. The resulting trade war has not only hurt Chinese and American consumers but could also stunt the global economy, as Ward reported:

      Trump’s misguided views about how tariffs work are also likely playing a big role in the administration’s hardline approach. Trump insists that tariffs force China to pay money to the US Treasury — which just isn’t true. When a tariff is placed on a Chinese good, it is the company importing that product or a consumer buying it who pays a higher price — not China. In other words, these tariffs are effectively a tax on Americans.

      But for whatever reason, Trump continues to proclaim that tariffs are “paid to the United States by China” and that they result in “billions” of dollars pouring into the US Treasury.

      And experts worry that his misguided strategic and personal views on tariffs may end up seriously damaging the world economy. “Trump is dragging a dangerous misconception into a critical moment in his standoff with the Chinese,” Chad Bown, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said last week. “And American businesses and consumers stand to pay the price.”

      Negotiations to end the trade war between the US and China reached a dead end last May after Trump said China “broke the deal.” In Osaka, Trump proclaimed: “We’re right back on track.”

      Both China and the US have incentive to make a deal; for instance, China wants to continue to grow firms like Huawei (which pulled in $27 billion in revenue in the first quarter of this year despite its use as a trade war pawn) and US companies and farmers want to again reap the benefits of their former relationships with buyers in the country.

      However, there is no timeline for the next round of negotiation’s conclusion, and major impediments to progress, including differing views on intellectual property protections and technology sharing. And despite making plans to resume talks, even President Trump remained cautious.

      “This doesn’t mean there will be a deal,” Trump said. “They would like to make a deal. I can tell you that. If we can make a deal it would be historic.”

      Source Article from https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/29/19870814/us-china-trade-negotiations-restart-donald-trump-tariff-huawei-concessions

      The musical stylings of Weird Al Yankovic rarely offer clarity about the state of legislation in Congress.

      But Weird Al’s 1984 hit “Eat it” (a parody on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”) was inadvertently invoked this past week to crystallize the conundrum facing House Democrats after the Senate approved a crucial border spending bill 84-8.

      HOUSE OKS BORDER BILL AFTER PELOSI REVERSES COURSE

      House liberals were either going to hold out against the Senate measure in favor of their own – or accept the Senate bill.

      Amid these deliberations, former Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, a veteran of such impasses, ambled by the Speaker’s Office late Wednesday afternoon as a coterie of reporters stood watch in the hallway. Lott advised that if he were still running the Senate – where the overwhelming 84-8 vote spoke volumes – there would be only one clear path.

      “I’d say ‘Eat it, House,’” Lott said with a laugh.

      It’s exactly what they did.

      But not without a fiery fight first within the House Democratic Caucus – and one that threatens to keep burning for weeks and months to come.

      House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced a huge challenge as she sought to both assuage the concerns from her left flank and engineer a bill that could actually pass.

      The House had approved its own version of the border legislation Tuesday night, 230-195. But the Senate devised a different, more bipartisan piece of legislation. Not as many controls and consequences for those charged with caring for children. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., wrote the measure alongside Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the top Democrat on the panel. The committee approved the bill 30-1. The Senate then followed suit with a staggering roll call tally of 84-8.

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      “The administration opposes what the House is going to do,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We believe they support what we’re going to do.”

      The House and Senate were out of alignment, approving competing bills. The front-runner for final passage, though, was fairly evident: The Senate bill secured more than 60 yeas, making it filibuster-proof, while the White House threatened to veto the House measure.

      The House still held out hope, engineering a revised bill on Thursday as the plan came back across the Capitol from the Senate.

      But the administration wouldn’t budge. McConnell wouldn’t budge. Things looked bleak for the House bill, even as it was apparent the House could approve the Senate version with most Republicans and many Democrats.

      But Democrats faced a more immediate problem as the House began a pre-debate on the revamped measure Thursday afternoon. House rules allow members to vote on something called “adopting the previous question.” In short, it’s known as a “PQ.” If the House approves the PQ, things continue as normal. However, if the House defeats the PQ, the minority seizes control of the floor for an hour and gets to call up whatever legislation it wants. The majority rarely loses a PQ vote. The House hasn’t defeated a PQ (thus, turning over the floor to the other side) since 2010. If Republicans defeated the PQ, they would bring up the Senate bill. Losing control of the floor in such a fashion would be a major embarrassment for Democrats. But this was a distinct possibility. There was near unanimity on the GOP side for the Senate plan and dozens of Democrats were prepared to join them.

      So, the House Democratic brain trust changed course. Pelosi dashed off a letter to her colleagues.

      “The children come first,” wrote Pelosi. “We have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available. Therefore, we will not engage in the same disrespectful behavior that the Senate did in ignoring our priorities. In order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the Senate bill.”

      So, the Senate jammed the House. And Pelosi relented because the math simply wasn’t on her side.

      The House ultimately moved the Senate package 305-102. Pelosi lost 95 Democrats. But there were 129 Democratic yeas. So, despite the sniping from the liberal wing of the Democratic caucus, Pelosi still marshaled a majority of the majority. But Pelosi couldn’t get to 217 yeas (the magic number in the House right now to pass bills) exclusively on the Democratic side.

      That’s the same issue that tormented former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan. They couldn’t quite move some bills with only GOP support when Republicans were in the majority. This was mostly due to protestations from the House Freedom Caucus. So, Boehner and Ryan often turned to the other side for assistance to pass major legislation. Pelosi did the same Thursday.

      In a statement, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said “what happened today is unacceptable and we will not forget this betrayal.”

      A number of moderate Democrats privately vented their frustrations about the internecine warfare among Democrats. One Democrat said it would be “shameful” and “immoral” not to do “something.” Another moderate Democrat groused about liberals placing a premium on “ideological purity.” One Democrat noted that a yes vote on the more tempered Senate bill was a good vote for moderate and conservative Democrats who face tough races in 2020. After all, members from swing districts are why Democrats won the House.

      One senior House Democratic leadership source told Fox News that some liberals will understand why Pelosi did what she did. But the source noted that many far-left Democrats “won’t get it. They’ll keep pushing.” The source said some Democrats will take notice of Pelosi fighting for the original House bill and only losing four Democrats. But the leadership source also suggested that Pelosi should have taken one more run at the issue. Perhaps pass the re-retooled bill, forcing McConnell to flush it back to the House and then accepted the Senate package.

      This could be a seminal moment for Democrats. Is their tent big enough to accept both liberals and moderates? This is a distillation of what’s going on nationally in the presidential sweepstakes. Democrats may control the House. But they don’t have the Senate, or the White House. And while the bill may not be perfect, it was the right measure for most Democratic districts. By the same token, a no vote was likely the proper disposition for lawmakers representing the most liberal of districts.

      Earlier in the week, Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., was asked if the “perfect was the enemy of the good” in the border bill negotiations.

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      “I hate that expression,” said Cardenas. “You don’t want to settle for less than what you’re capable of.”

      Many liberal Democrats may agree with Cardenas’s assessment. Otto von Bismarck famously compared passing law to making sausage. And as both Weird Al, Trent Lott and many House Democrats now know, you sometimes just have to eat it.

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