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NYT tracks Turkish security detail during last week's attack on protesters - HILLARY slams Trump - FBI
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By ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc), JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman), DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman), ZACH MONTELLARO (
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Good Friday afternoon. Downtown D.C. is significantly less crowded than usual today. The Hill seems dead. The beginning of the summer is here.
BULLETIN at 12:32 p.m. "WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon plans first-ever intercept test of an intercontinental-range missile like the one North Korea is developing."
IMPRESSIVE JOB BY THE NYT - "Did the Turkish President's Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows," by NYT's Malachy Browne, Chris Cirillo, Troy Griggs and Natalie Reneau: "The New York Times reviewed videos and photos to track the actions of 24 men, including armed members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail, who attacked protesters in Washington last week. Many of the protesters were American citizens. ... The State Department has condemned the episode, and some American lawmakers have called for the men to be prosecuted. But none have been charged with a crime. Here's what video of the main actors shows about the identities of the men and the roles they played in the clash." With a detailed analysis of different angles http://nyti.ms/2s3d5v1
TRUMP INC. -- "FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say," by ABC News' Josh Margolin, Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross: "The FBI is investigating an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization, summoning President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, for an emergency session with the bureau's cybersecurity agents and representatives of the CIA, officials tell ABC News.
"Law enforcement officials who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity confirmed the attempted hack and said the subsequent meeting took place at the FBI's New York headquarters on May 8, the day before Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Spokesmen for the FBI, CIA and Secret Service all declined to comment. Reached by phone, Eric Trump, an executive vice president of the family company, would not confirm or deny that he and his brother had met with the FBI but told ABC News that the company had ultimately not been infiltrated." http://abcn.ws/2s3Euwz
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CLEAN-UP DUTY -- @PhilipRucker: "Gary Cohn clean-up: 'We're not lowering our sanctions on Russia. If anything, we would probably look to get tougher on Russia.'... Gary Cohn on Trump's climate talks at G7: 'His views are evolving. He came here to learn. He came here to get smarter.'"
QUOTE OF THE DAY -- "I don't want to be president. I drink red wine. I smoke cigarettes. I golf. I cut my own grass. I iron my own clothes. And I'm not willing to give all that up to be president." -- Former House Speaker John Boehner at the KPMG Global Energy Conference, per trade publication Rigzone. He also said that the "border adjustment tax is deader than a doornail... tax reform is just a bunch of happy talk."
NOTE: The "l-don't-want-to-be-president" shtick is a longtime Boehner riff. Dumping on Paul Ryan's tax priority is a bit surprising.
-- "Boehner: Trump's term 'disaster,' aside from foreign affairs," by AP's Mary Clare Jalonick: "Former House Speaker John Boehner says that aside from international affairs and foreign policy, President Donald Trump's time in office has so far been a 'complete disaster.'... Speaking at an energy conference Thursday in Houston, Boehner praised Trump for his approach abroad and his aggressiveness in fighting Islamic State militants, according to the energy publication Rigzone. 'Everything else he's done (in office) has been a complete disaster,' the Ohio Republican said, according to the publication. 'He's still learning how to be president.'
Boehner said he's been friends with Trump for 15 years, but still has a hard time envisioning him as president. He also said Trump shouldn't be allowed to Tweet overnight." http://apne.ws/2rYOOSO
HILLARY ON OFFENSE -- Hillary Clinton lit into Donald Trump while giving the commencement address at Wellesley, her alma matter "Look at the budget that was just proposed in Washington. It is an attack of unimaginable cruelty," she said. She also implicitly compared Trump to Nixon and decried a fact-free environment. "When people in power invent their own facts, and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society," she said. "That is not hyperbole, it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done." More from Nolan McCaskill http://politi.co/2r5Bp1Q
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MEANWHILE... -- "Barack Obama Is Having a Blast on Vacation in Italy Playing Golf" from TMZ. 13 pix http://bit.lv/2r5Lf3U
STILL AT WAR -- "Service member dies in vehicle rollover in Syria," by Military Times' Todd South: "The official release did not include identifying information or the
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service member's military branch - only that the person died as a result of the injuries on May 26. There are about 6,000 American troops spread between Iraq and Syria, where this week Marine Corps artillery crews established a firebase from which U.S. forces intend to attack Islamic State targets in and around Raqqa." http://bit.ly/2s3ogUd
LAUNCHING TODAY - ACROSS THE POND - POLITICO'S UK election tracker: As campaigning resumes in Britain, download the tracker for iPhones and we'll keep you up to date with the latest poll-of-polls and breaking news in the run-up to the June 8 vote Click here on iPhone http://bit.lv/2r4s8VO
PSA FOR TRAVELERS - "Where - and When - You'll Find America's Worst Traffic This Memorial Day Weekend," by Wired's Aarian Marshall http://bit.lv/2s3C9lv
AFTERNOON READ -- "Senator John Kennedy (No, Not That One) Embraces Anonymity," by NYT's Matt Flegenheimer: "John Neely Kennedy, a 65-year-old Republican freshman on this baffling campus, is almost certainly not going to be president of the United States. He is, in fact, the only senator for whom a simple Google search is a humbling exercise, thanks to that nettlesome John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
"Yet in an era of self-promotion, self-importance and transparent bids for national prominence among even the greenest of lawmakers, Mr. Kennedy has negotiated his first months on the job as something of a throwback in Washington's crackling tumult - a Southern-fried Waldo for the Trump age, drifting through the volatility in plain sight, if only anyone were looking." http://nyti.ms/2s3BNLE
TRANSITIONS -- Chris Garcia has been named the new acting national director of the Minority Business Development Agency at the Department of Commerce. Chris is a graduate of Pepperdine University.
SPOTTED -- Dining separately at the Four Seasons this morning: Vernon Jordan, Tom Nides, Patrick Steel and Alan Fleischmann, Don Baer and Melissa Moss. ... Cathy McMorris Rodgers having coffee at Ebenezers on the Hill Friday.
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