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Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Dear Jong Un Letter
President Trump cancelled his June 12 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, writing in a letter that Kim “has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great prosperity and wealth.”
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Thou Shalt Not Block
A federal judge ruled that it’s unconstitutional for President Trump to block people from his Twitter account.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Tale of Two Staceys
Two progressive women—Stacey Abrams and Stacey Evans—are running in Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Obama Pivots to Video
Netflix announced that former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama signed a multi-year deal with the company.
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David J. Phillip/ AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: ‘I’ve Always Kind of Felt Like Eventually It Was Going to Happen Here, Too’
Nine students and one teacher were killed after a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Madame Director
The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel as CIA director.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Full-ish Disclosure
The Office of Government Ethics released President Trump’s financial disclosure, which included a reimbursement of more than $100,000 to his lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Gina Hasvotes
Virginia Senator Mark Warner announced his support for President Trump’s pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel.
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Manu Fernandez / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: FYI on ZTE
Trump defended his recent push to ease up on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: AT&Teachable Moment?
In a memo to employees, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant “was a serious misjudgment.”
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KCN / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Singapore Fling
Shortly after greeting three American prisoners just released from North Korea, President Trump announced that he will meet with Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore.
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Mary Altaffer / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Better Call Cohen
Shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president, Novartis, one of the world’s largest drug companies, signed a $1.2 million contract with Michael Cohen for consulting work, the company disclosed Wednesday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Withdrawal Symptoms
President Trump announced the U.S. will pull out from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions against the country.
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Steve Helber / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Trump Tries to Sink Blankenship
President Trump discouraged West Virginians from voting for former coal executive Don Blankenship in the state’s Republican primary on Tuesday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Rudy or Not?
President Trump told reporters that Rudy Giuliani needed to “get his facts straight” after the former mayor said that Trump reimbursed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Hotline Sting
NBC News reports that federal authorities have been monitoring the phone lines of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, since before the raids on Cohen’s offices and home.
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Williams & Connolly The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Après Cobb, Le Déluge
Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer in charge of dealing with the Russia investigation, will retire at the end of the month and be replaced by Emmet Flood.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Doctor Estranged
President Trump’s longtime personal physician, Harold Bornstein, told NBC News that Trump’s bodyguard and lawyer “raided” his office in February 2017 and took medical files.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Four-Star Review
NBC News reports that comments from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly have “eroded morale in the West Wing in recent months,” leading some officials to believe he’ll leave by July.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Sprechen Sie Trump?
During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Trump criticized the trade relationship between the United States and Germany and other European nations.
