1/ Melania Trump made an unannounced trip to the southern border to visit a detention center for immigrant children wearing a jacket that says “I really don’t care, do u?� Melania was seen wearing the $39 jacket from Zara as she boarded her plane from Andrews Air Force Base where the temperature was 80 degrees, but was changed her outfit before she disembarked in McAllen, Texas. Her spokeswoman responded to questions about the jacket with: “It’s a jacket.� Donald Trump, meanwhile, tweeted that Melania’s jacket “refers to the Fake News Media.� (CNN / New York Times / Variety / Daily Mail)

"As the temperature climbed to 80 degrees at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, Mrs. Trump boarded her plane wearing an olive green coat that read, in white capital letters, “I really don’t care. Do U?� @katierogers https://t.co/Rd7zeok6xK

FLOTUS spox confirms Mrs. Trump wore a jacket to visit border kids that reads: "I really don't care. Do you?" Spox says: "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today's important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn't going to choose to focus on her wardrobe." pic.twitter.com/Bp4Z8n455G

“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?� written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!

2/ The Trump administration has not provided a plan to reunite at least 2,300 undocumented children with their families. The executive order Trump signed yesterday temporarily stopped his policy of separating children from their parents at the border, but does not address the uniting of families already separated. Instead, existing policies put the onus on parents to find their children in Department of Health and Human Services custody. In a letter to Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said: “It seems that the administration lacks a plan, intention, and a sense of urgency to begin reuniting these children.� (CNN / Politico / Los Angeles Times...

1/ Trump signed an executive order to reverse his administration’s policy of separating families at the border. Trump said that while the order “will solve that problem� of children being separated from their parents, it wouldn’t end his administration’s “zero tolerance� policy of prosecuting everyone caught attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The plan potentially violates a 1997 consent decree that prohibits the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention for more than 20 days. (New York Times / Politico / Washington Post / NBC News)

2/ Separating migrant children from their parents costs the Trump administration more than keeping them with their parents. The “tent cities� to house children cost $775 per person per night, compared with $256 per person per night to hold the children in a permanent housing facility. To house children with their family costs $298 per person per night. The increased cost is due to additional security, air conditioning, medical workers, and other government contractors to staff the tent cities. (NBC News)

Babies and young children separated from their families at the border are being sent to “tender age� shelters in South Texas. Doctors and lawyers who visited the shelters described the facilities as clean and safe, but that the kids were hysterical, crying and acting out. (Associated Press)

Corey Lewandowski replied “womp womp� to mention of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being separated from her parents by the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Trump’s former campaign manager later clarified his remark, saying he simply “mocked a liberal who attempted to politicize children as opposed to discussing the real issue which is fixing a broken immigration system.� (Politico)

Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled by protesters who chanted “Shame!� and “End family separation!� while she was having dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C. Diners at the restaurant applauded the protesters. The Homeland Security secretary paid her check and was escorted out of the restaurant by Secret Service agents after 15 minutes of chanting. (Washington Post / Politico)

3/ Michael Cohen resigned from his post as the deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee’s Finance Committee. Cohen cited the ongoing special counsel investigation as one reason for his departure. (ABC News / Politico)

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1/ Michael Cohen has signaled that he is “willing to give� investigators information on Trump in order to alleviate pressure on himself and his family. Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in the federal investigation into his business dealings and wants Trump to pay his legal fees. (CNN / Wall Street Journal)

2/ Trump accused Democrats of wanting “illegal immigrants … to pour into and infest our country.� Trump also rejected a proposal by Senator Ted Cruz to end family separations, calling the plan to hire thousands of new immigration judges “crazy� and suggesting the judges could be corrupt. Trump argued that undocumented immigrants could “game the system� by taking counsel from immigration lawyers and reading statements prepared for them. (CNN / BuzzFeed News / New York Times / Washington Post)

Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!

3/ The Trump administration has lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children – thousands more than the Department of Health and Human Services had previously acknowledged. HHS placed more than 42,497 unaccompanied children with sponsors in fiscal year 2017. Officials tasked with reaching out to sponsors and children to check on their well-being said 14% of calls were not returned – meaning the Trump administration has lost track of 5,949 children. (McClatchy DC)

4/ More than 600 members of Jeff Sessions’ church filed a formal complaint accusing him of “child abuse,� “immorality,� and “racial discrimination� for his “zero-tolerance� immigration policy that has led to children getting separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. (ABC News)

5/ Trump threatened to shut down the government in September if Congress doesn’t provide $25 billion for his border wall. Senators are currently willing to send Trump $1.6 billion this fall. If Trump follows through with his threat, a g...

1/ Hundreds of children separated from their parents are living inside cages in an old warehouse in south Texas while they wait to be turned over to shelters funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. The cages were described as the the type you’d see at a batting cage or a dog kennel. More than 1,100 people are being held inside the facility, which is divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children, solo adults, and mothers and fathers with children. (Associated Press / NBC News)

Ann Coulter called the children crying at the border after being separated from parents “child actors.� Trump Jr., meanwhile, liked a Breitbart tweet that quoted Coulter, who said the separated children had been “coached� by liberals and “given scripts to read.� (The Hill / Newsweek)

Audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility captures a Border Patrol agent joking above crying children: “Well, we have an orchestra here. What’s missing is a conductor.� (ProPublica)

2/ Lawmakers from both parties demanded that Trump stop his policy of separating children from their parents at the border. Republican lawmakers, Laura Bush, a conservative newspaper, and a former Trump adviser joined with Democrats in condemning the policy that has removed nearly 2,000 children from their parents over the last six weeks. Melania Trump, meanwhile, placed the blame on “both sides,� saying that she “hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together.� (New York Times)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will not deploy National Guard troops from his state to the U.S.-Mexico border, citing the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance� immigration policy as justification for the move. (The Hill)

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker canceled the deployment of the state’s National Guard troops to the border, “because the federal government’s current actions are resulting in the inhumane treatment of children.� (WGBH)

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order barring state resources from being used for the purpose of separating children from their families for violating federal immigration law. (ABC News)

All four living former first ladies condemn Trump’s border policy. (NBC News)

Jeb Bush called on Trump to end the “heartless policy� of separating parents and children who cross the U.S. border illegally, saying “children shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool.� (

1/ A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail while he awaits trial after Robert Mueller accused Trump’s former campaign chief of witness tampering. “I cannot turn a blind eye to this,� Judge Amy Berman Jackson said. Manafort had posted a $10 million bond to remain at home while awaiting his September trial on charges that include money laundering and false statements. He will now remain in pretrial detention until his trial. (New York Times / NBC News / Washington Post)

2/ Rudy Giuliani on Mueller’s investigation: “When the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons.� The comment came shortly after Manafort was sent to jail and his bail revoked following an attempt to tamper with two witnesses in the Russia investigation. Giuliani claimed he had seen no evidence to warrant Manafort being sent to jail. (New York Daily News / Axios)

3/ Giuliani called on Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein to “redeem themselves� by suspending the Robert Mueller investigation today. Giuliani also called for Peter Strzok to be put in jail over a series of text messages he exchanged with fellow FBI agent Lisa Page during the 2016 election campaign. “Mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought in, impartial people to investigate these people like Strzok,� Giuliani said. “Strzok should be in jail by the end of next week.� (Politico)

4/ A federal judge refused to grant Michael Cohen a restraining order against Michael Avenatti to stop him from speaking to the media about the Stormy Daniels case. Cohen argued that Avenatti’s “publicity tour� of more that 100 television interviews since March is unethical, and harms Cohen’s ability to have a fair trial by turning the case into a “media circus.� U.S. District Judge James Otero said Cohen had not shown he would suffer “immediate, irreparable injury.� (Politico / CNN / Reuters)

5/ Federal prosecutors have pieced together 16 pages of shredded documents seized from Michael Cohen and recovered 731 pages of encrypted text messages during the FBI’s April raids of his home, office, and hotel room. Cohen has argued that most of the material is subject to attorney-client privilege. (New York Daily News / Business Insider / BuzzFeed News)

Michael Cohen has told family and friends that he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators. The treatment from Trump and Rudy Giuliani has l...

1/ The New York State attorney general sued Trump and his three eldest children for “persistent illegal conduct� at the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The lawsuit alleges that Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit, violating campaign finance laws, engaging in self-dealing to decorate one of his golf clubs, and illegally coordinating with his presidential campaign to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway during a 2016 campaign event. The state asked to dissolve the foundation and distribute its remaining $1 million in assets to other charities, and force Trump to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties. Trump attacked the lawsuit on Twitter, calling it an attempt by the “sleazy New York Democrats� to damage him. He vowed not to settle the case. (New York Times / Washington Post)

The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...

....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.

2/ The Inspector General Report: James Comey “deviated� from FBI and Justice Department procedures while investigating Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server. The report concluded that Comey’s decisions were not “the result of political bias,� but that his “decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.� Trump has argued that FBI agents tried to rig the Clinton investigation to help her win the presidency. The report also concludes that the text messages exchanged by FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page did not improperly affect the investigation, but “the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation.� (Bloomberg / New York Times)

Comey Responds: I was wrong, but disagree with some of the conclusions. (New York Times)

I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG’s people for hard work.

1/ Michael Cohen is expected to cooperate with federal prosecutors in the criminal investigation into his business dealings as the law firm handling his case is not expected to represent him moving forward. No replacement counsel has been named at this time. Cohen has until Friday to complete a review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April 9 raids of his New York properties and law office. (ABC News / Wall Street Journal / CNBC)

2/ A State Department appointee has been compiling a list of career diplomats who are loyal to Trump. Mari Stull, better known as the wine blogger “Vino Vixen,� has been reviewing social media posts from State Department staffers and UN workers for signs of deviating political views. Stull was appointed two months ago by the Trump administration. (Foreign Policy)

3/ Trump Twitter declared there is “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea� a day after meeting with Kim Jong Un. Trump said that “everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,� and claimed his meeting with Kim was an “interesting and very positive experience.� He urged Americans to “sleep well tonight!� (CNN / Washington Post)

Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!

4/ Rod Rosenstein plans to call on the House general counsel to investigate the conduct of House Intelligence Committee staff. Committee staffers claimed Rosenstein threatened to “subpoena� emails, phone records and other documents during a tense meeting earlier this year, which one aide described as a “personal attack.� The Justice Department disputes the account, saying Rosenstein “was making the point – after being threatened with contempt� by House Republicans that “he would have the right to defend h...

1/ The Justice Department argued that Trump could continue to profit from foreign governments visiting his hotel in Washington, D.C., if he didn’t explicitly provide something in return. A federal judge criticized the argument that Trump’s financial interest in the Trump International Hotel in D.C. is constitutional. The lawsuit, brought by the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland, claims that Trump’s profits from the hotel violate the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits government employees from receiving financial benefits outside of their official salary. The judge promised to decide by the end of the July whether to allow the case to proceed to the next stage. (New York Times / BuzzFeed News / CNN)

2/ Michael Cohen told friends he believes he will soon be indicted and arrested as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump’s campaign and Russia. Investigators are probing Cohen for bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations. (NY Daily News)

3/ Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump earned at least $82 million in outside income while serving as Trump’s advisers during 2017. Kushner reported more than $5 million in income from a Kushner Companies apartment complex in Plainsboro, N.J. (Washington Post)

4/ Ivanka Trump personally made $3.9 million last year from her stake in the Trump International Hotel. She made an additional $5 million from businesses connected to her personal brand, as well as roughly $2 million in 2017 in pay and severance from the Trump Payroll Corp. Her reported income in 2017 was up “substantially� from spring 2017, when she reported about $2.4 million in income from the hotel since it opened in September 2016. (Politico)

5/ Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee want to interview Ivanka Trump as part of the investigation into Russian election interference. The committee wants to interview Ivanka about “two separate national security questions.� Sen. Ron Wyden said investigators should ask about her role in connecting a Russian weightlifter, Dmitry Klokov, with Michael Cohen. Klokov offered to connect her father to Putin in order to facilitate building a Trump Tower in Moscow[^1]. The other issue Wyden said investigators should ask about is China’s decision to grant Ivanka trademarks around the same time her father promised to help Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE stay in business. (

1/ Trump refused to endorse the G7 statement, threatened to impose tariffs on foreign auto imports, and accused Justin Trudeau of being “meek,� “very dishonest and weak� after Canada’s prime minister pledged to retaliate against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum products. In a pair of tweets aboard Air Force One, Trump said he believes that countries are ripping off the U.S. through high tariffs and threatened to stop all trade with any country that did not lower or eliminate tariffs. The pair of tweets came hours after Trump and European leaders had agreed on a joint communiqué, which included a pledge to engage in “free, fair, and mutually beneficial trade and investment.� (Washington Post / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / NBC News)

PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, “US Tariffs were kind of insulting� and he “will not be pushed around.� Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!

Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!

Trump delivered “a long, frank rant� to trade allies at the G7 that the United States has been treated unfairly by its trading partners. (Reuters)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she found the G-7 summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience and adds that European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade https://t.co/O2uYHz3raV pic.twitter.com/6aZ9usXKcE

German chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe will implement counter-measures against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum. Merkel characterized Trump’s Twitter withdrawal as “sobering and a bit depressing.� (

1/ Robert Mueller filed witness tampering criminal charges against Paul Manafort and Russian national Konstantin Kilimnik. The superseding indictment charges the two men with obstructing justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and witness tampering. Kilimnik was indicted as part of the existing money laundering case against Manafort, who is also accused of illegal foreign lobbying and lying to federal officials. It’s the first time Kilimnik was named, who was referred to as “Person A� and described as having links to Russian spy agencies in previous court filings. (CNBC / Bloomberg / New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / Reuters)

2/ A former Senate Intelligence Committee aide was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI about contacts with three reporters as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. James Wolfe repeatedly denied contacts with the reporters despite having been in a three-year relationship with New York Times reporter Ali Watkins. The Justice Department seized Watkins’ phone and email records, which news media advocates consider to be an intrusion of First Amendment freedoms. (New York Times / NPR / NBC News)

3/ Trump called on the G7 to reinstate Russia after it was kicked out for annexing Crimea four years ago, putting him at odds with world leaders who have insisted that Moscow remain ostracized. “Russia should be in this meeting,� Trump said. “Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting? … Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run.� Trump also threatened to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, and is now engaged in a series of trade wars with numerous countries in Europe, North America and Asia. Trump will leave the G7 summit early. (Washington Post / New York Times / Politico)

4/ The Trump administration will not defend the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate from a legal challenge to its constitutionality brought by Texas and 19 other states. The Justice Department said the ACA provision requiring most Americans to buy health insurance has become unconstitutional. The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate in 2012 as the government’s power to tax. The Justice Department argues that since Congress repealed the tax last year, the mandate and the law’s consumer protections are no lo...