WEATHER: 87F, Cloudy POTUS and the Administration Obama prods Vietnam on rights after activists stopped from meeting him REUTERS // MATT SPETALNICK AND MARTIN PETTY U.S. President Barack Obama chided Vietnam on political freedoms on Tuesday after critics of its communist-run government were prevented from meeting him in Hanoi, a discordant note on a trip otherwise steeped in amity between the former foes. Tens of thousands turned out to welcome Obama on the second leg of his visit, Ho Chi Minh City, which was called Saigon until April 1975 when North Vietnamese tanks rolled in to bring U.S.-backed South Vietnam under communist rule. Many in the crowds lining the streets chanted "Obama, Obama," some held handwritten signs reading "Obama, we love you," and one woman held a boy dressed in a Captain America costume, complete with shield. Underlining the importance of the growing economic ties between the countries, Obama held an open forum with young entrepreneurs and laid out the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact between 12 Pacific Rim countries. Business groups push White House, Congress to improve US-India relationship THE HILL // VICKI NEEDHAM U.S. businesses groups are urging President Obama and Congress to make progress on the U.S. economic relationship with India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's June visit to Washington. In letters sent to the president and congressional leaders, the Alliance for Fair Trade with India, which includes a broad range of groups from manufacturers to pharmaceutical and telecommunications firms, said that Modi's trip presents an important opportunity to discuss and resolve many important commercial matters that are limiting India's own trade engagement and growth. "We hope you will use this visit to engage with the Prime Minister to advance both discussions and concrete action to produce a stronger and more-promising U.S.-India commercial relationship," they wrote. "A strong and vibrant U.S.-India relationship is beneficial not only to our two countries, but also to greater growth and opportunity throughout the world." Obama returning to Elkhart, Ind., for town hall meeting next week USA TODAY // MAUREEN GROPPE Nearing the end of his presidency, President Obama is returning next week to the first city he visited as president - Elkhart, Ind. - to highlight the economic progress made during the past seven years. "The story of Elkhart's recovery is the story of America's recovery," Obama said in a statement. He touted improvements in employment, mortgage foreclosures, high school graduation rates and health insurance coverage. "This progress is thanks to the effort and determination of Americans like you," Obama said. "And it's a result of the choices we made as a nation." Elkhart had been hit harder by the Great Recession than almost anywhere in America, prompting Obama to promise Hoosiers in 2009 that "if we worked together ... we could not only recover, but put ourselves on a better, stronger course." Obama said Tuesday the nation has recovered from the crisis and is on the cusp of a resurgence. Elkhart - home to many recreational vehicle manufacturers -- has regained nearly all the jobs it lost during the recession, according to the White House. DOJ seeks death penalty for man charged in Charleston shootings POLITICO // BRIANNA GURCIULLO Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty in the case of the 22-year-old man charged in the shooting and killing of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last year. In July, a federal grand jury indicted Dylann Roof on 33 counts that included charges of hate crimes. Photos discovered online of the white man with the Confederate flag and white supremacist symbols ignited debates across the country about the use of the flag in public places. "Following the department's rigorous review process to thoroughly consider all relevant factual and legal issues, I have determined that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty," Lynch said in a statement. "The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision." Roof allegedly went to a nighttime Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston last June and shot each of the nine parishioners multiple times. He reportedly reloaded his gun five times during the massacre. Senators call for VA chief to resign over Disney remark WASHINGTON POST // JOE DAVIDSON AND PAUL KANE After a barrage of criticism for his remarks comparing wait times for veterans who are VA patients to lines at a Disney amusement park, the secretary of veterans affairs is trying to explain. The remarks led at least two Republican senators to call for Secretary Robert McDonald's resignation Tuesday. McDonald was criticized for his statement to reporters about the relative importance of measuring wait times or the overall experience at VA facilities, which he said veterans rate highly. "When you go to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line? Or what's important?" McDonald said at a breakfast Monday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "What's important is, what's your satisfaction with the experience?" Then, in a statement late Tuesday, McDonald said "it was never my intention to suggest that I don't take our mission of serving Veterans very seriously. ... If my comments Monday led any Veterans to believe that I, or the dedicated workforce I am privileged to lead, don't take that noble mission seriously, I deeply regret that. Nothing could be further from the truth." Democrats Warren escalates attack on 'small, insecure' Trump POLITICO // ZACHARY WARMBRODT Elizabeth Warren is taking her war with Donald Trump to a new level, and it goes well beyond her usual 140-character Twitter attacks on the likely GOP presidential nominee. The Massachusetts senator on Tuesday night dedicated a speech to rallying opposition against Trump - calling him a "small, insecure moneygrubber" who she said is "kissing the fannies of poor, misunderstood Wall Street bankers." "He inherited a fortune from his father, and kept it going by scamming people, declaring bankruptcy and skipping out on what he owed," Warren said in prepared remarks, calling into question Trump's bona fides as a populist champion. The assaults on Trump are becoming Warren's signature contribution to the Democratic Party's attempt to retake the White House. The speech was the second time Tuesday that she stepped into the national political fray, a sign that she's becoming increasingly vocal in the presidential race, positioning herself as a power player for the progressive left. Warren is expected to play a big role in uniting the party after the presidential primary. Clinton has a new weapon against Trump: Elizabeth Warren WASHINGTON POST // ABBY PHILLIP AND KAREN TUMULTY Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has a new partner in her battle against Donald Trump: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who gave a speech Tuesday mirroring Clinton's own talking points accusing Trump of profiting from the housing crash of 2008. Warren (D-Mass.) has stayed out of the ongoing Democratic primary race between Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont - she is the only Democratic woman in the Senate who has not endorsed Clinton - but she recently has become more aggressive in taking on Trump on his favorite medium, Twitter. Warren's speech, at the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala in Washington, struck what are familiar themes for her. "Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown - because it meant he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap," Warren said. "What kind of a man does that? Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for people to lose their jobs? Root for people to lose their pensions?" Elizabeth Warren: Donald Trump 'Will Never Be President' ROLL CALL // NIELS LESNIEWSKI Sen. Elizabeth Warren is throwing down the gauntlet, calling Donald Trump "a small, insecure moneygrubber," and telling progressives they must work to ensure he is never elected president. And in doing so, she might be paving the way to become her party's uniter-in-chief. "Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown - because it meant he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap," the Massachusetts Democrat said of Trump in prepared remarks for the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala. Warren was referring to a 2007 quote , in which Trump said he was "excited" for housing prices to fall, since "I've made more money in bad markets than in good markets." "What kind of a man does that?" Warren asked in her speech. "Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for people to lose their jobs? Root for people to lose their pensions? Root for two little girls in Clark County, Nevada, to end up living in a van? What kind of a man does that?" Inquiry Highlights Terry McAuliffe's Ties to Chinese Company NEW YORK TIMES // NICHOLAS CONFESSORE AND STEPHANIE SAUL Four years ago, one of China's largest agricultural importers sent representatives to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., hoping that meetings with elite party officials might yield business opportunities. The company, the Dandong Port Group, was particularly focused on the governors in attendance, according to an interview with Dandong's general counsel broadcast by Chinese state television. "If you really want to influence, let's say, U.S.-China policy," he said, "it's almost worth it to have emphasis and influence on the state level." The meetings, arranged by a former South Carolina governor, marked a period of expansion in the United States for Dandong and its affiliated companies, involving negotiations with officials in Washington, Arkansas, South Carolina and Virginia. But now, the company's widening influence is coming under scrutiny by federal prosecutors, who are examining the relationship between Dandong's wealthy and connected chairman, Wang Wenliang, and Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a Democrat who was elected in 2013. Virginia governor joins friend Hillary Clinton under an unwelcome FBI spotlight WASHINGTON POST // ANNE GEARAN The surprise news of an FBI inquiry into Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has uncomfortable parallels to an FBI security review of his friend and political patron Hillary Clinton's email system, but Clinton allies said it is unlikely to do her lasting harm. McAuliffe (D) said Tuesday that he is "very confident" that the FBI will find no wrongdoing in its investigation of donations to his 2013 campaign and his personal finances. He said his reaction to news of the probe, which may have been underway for a year, was "shock." McAuliffe has many things in common with Bill and Hillary Clinton, his political benefactors and close friends. Along with overlapping business, political and social spheres, he shares their history of prodigious Democratic fundraising and financial dealings that have drawn scrutiny. And now he shares the unwelcome news that the FBI is looking into the propriety of decisions or actions taken in his name. 'Little House' actress ends congressional bid THE HILL // JESSE BYRNES Former "Little House on the Prairie" actress Melissa Gilbert is ending her congressional bid in Michigan, citing health issues. Gilbert said in a statement on Tuesday night that head and neck injuries she suffered in a pair of accidents in 2012 have worsened. "As much as it breaks my heart to say this, my doctors have told me I am physically unable to continue my run for Congress," Gilbert wrote. "As the only candidate to file enough valid signatures, I plan to vacate the Ballot in accordance with the law." Gilbert, who portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder in the 1970s NBC television series, announced in August her intention to run as a Democrat in Michigan's 8th Congressional District to challenge first-term Rep. Mike Bishop (R). The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday picked up reports of Gilbert withdrawing from the race after the state filing deadline to needle Democrats, calling it "another high-profile embarrassment" for their Democratic counterparts. Republicans Reeling From 2016 Chaos, G.O.P. Mulls Overhaul of Primaries NEW YORK TIMES // JEREMY PETERS Leaders of the Republican Party have begun internal deliberations over what would be fundamental changes to the way its presidential nominees are chosen, a recognition that the chaotic process that played out this year is seriously flawed and helped exacerbate tensions within the party. In a significant shift, Republican officials said it now seemed unlikely that the four states to vote first would all retain their cherished place on the electoral calendar, with Nevada as the most probable casualty. Party leaders are even going so far as to consider diluting the traditional status of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina as gatekeepers to the presidency. Under one proposal, those states would be paired with others that vote on the same day as a way to give more voters a meaningful role much sooner. But in a move that would sharply limit who can participate in presidential primaries, many party activists are also pushing to close Republican contests to independent voters, arguing that open primaries in some states allowed Donald J. Trump, whose conservative convictions they deeply mistrust, to become the presumptive nominee. Ted Cruz's Backers Push to Shape GOP Convention WALL STREET JOURNAL // REID EPSTEIN AND JANET HOOK Ted Cruz will head to the Republican National Convention with more clout than any GOP runner-up since Pat Buchanan in 1992. Mr. Buchanan used his influence to deliver his fiery "Culture War" speech at the Houston convention and to push his party to the right on such social issues as abortion. Mr. Cruz's backers are taking a lower-profile approach and one that could have more lasting impact on the party's presidential process. They plan to push for a series of rule changes that could slow or prevent an outsider candidate like presumptive nominee Donald Trump in the future, and give more sway to the sort of conservative activists who backed Mr. Cruz. Some are also considering a proposal to create a "conscience exception," which they could invoke if they can't bring themselves to support the candidate that won the nominating contests. "We'd like to see the grass-roots empowered," said Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general who is leading the effort. "People are tossing ideas around right now. What we're in now is the brainstorming phase." Former Republican candidate Santorum endorses Trump for president REUTERS // ERIC BEECH Former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Tuesday endorsed Donald Trump for president, saying he was swayed by Trump's list of possible Supreme Court nominees. Santorum, who dropped out of the presidential race in February and threw his support to Senator Marco Rubio, told Fox News: "The most important issue is preserving the Constitution of this country and a liberal Supreme Court will destroy it." Last Wednesday, Trump unveiled a list of 11 judges he would consider, if elected, to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Advocates Praise Senate Bill on Sexual Assault Victims' Rights NEW YORK TIMES // EMMARIE HUETTEMAN Advocates for victims of sexual assault on Tuesday praised the Senate's unanimous approval of a bill that would establish a set of rights for victims, including the right to be informed of the results of forensic tests and to have evidence preserved. The Senate vote on Monday appeared to give momentum to an issue that has drawn bipartisan interest. The measure now moves to the House, where the Judiciary Committee is examining it. Rebecca O'Connor, vice president for public policy at the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, said the proposed protections were an important part of the effort to tackle the complex concerns of sexual assault victims. "It's kind of this tangled web of programs that all complement one another, and this is just another piece of that pie," she said. Advocates said that more work remained, with hundreds of thousands of rape kits - collections of evidence from assaults - still untested in police stations and crime laboratories across the country. Political Battles Color Congressional Feud Over Zika Funding NEW YORK TIMES // DAVID HERSZENHORN The feud on Capitol Hill over responding to the rapidly spreading Zika virus would seem to be largely a fight over how much money is needed to fight the mosquito-borne scourge. But lurking just beneath the surface are issues that have long stirred partisan mistrust, including Republicans' fears about the use of taxpayer money for abortion and possible increased use of contraception, and Democratic worries about protecting the environment from potentially dangerous pesticides. Public health officials warn that the virus will not stop to check party affiliation - the mosquitoes that carry it bite Republicans and Democrats alike. "This is no way to fight an epidemic," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. Lawmakers see path ahead for Puerto Rico rescue plan REUTERS // SUSAN CORNWELL, RICHARD COWAN, AND PATRICK RUCKER A Congressional plan to help Puerto Rico shed billions of dollars in bad debt can win enough support to make its way to a vote in the House of Representatives, U.S. lawmakers who support the measure said on Tuesday. Under the rescue plan, an independent panel would erase some of Puerto Rico's $70 billion debt load that has crippled the island state already facing a 45 percent poverty rate and the Zika epidemic. U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a Republican, has endorsed the fix and the fate of the measure could help define his tenure as party leader which began in October. But Ryan can rely on some Democrats who say the rescue will aid the ailing island even if some of the legislation's provisions are too punitive of Puerto Rico. "This is the only bill that will attract enough support from our colleagues on the Republican side to pass in a Congress they control," said Rep. Raul Grijalva, the leading Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee. House GOP Mulls Changing Amendment Process for Spending Bills ROLL CALL // LINDSEY MCPHERSON House Republicans may soon require members who wish to amend spending bills to file their proposals in the Congressional Record before a floor vote - a maneuver designed to prevent surprises like the amendment on LGBT discrimination that led to chaos on the floor last week. Speaker Paul D. Ryan presented the idea of a pre-printing requirement during a House Republican Conference meeting Tuesday. It comes after members said they were confused about exactly what they were voting for Thursday when New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney offered an amendment designed to prevent discrimination against LGBT workers. The Maloney amendment, which failed 212-213 after some Republicans changed their votes, would have upheld President Obama's 2014 executive order banning federal contractors from factoring a person's sexual orientation or gender identity in their hiring decisions. But some Republicans apparently confused the amendment with other LGBT issues in the news. Feds scrutinizing Corker's finances POLITICO // JOHN BRESNAHAN AND ANNA PALMER The FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission are scrutinizing Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker's personal finances, including stock transactions involving one of the nation's top developers of shopping centers and malls, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe. Corker, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and potential vice presidential pick, failed to report millions of dollars in assets and income on his annual financial disclosure until the Wall Street Journal revealed the discrepancy last fall. In the wake of that report, Corker was forced to revise years' worth of disclosure reports. Corker denies any wrongdoing in how he has conducted his personal finances, and he declined to comment Tuesday when asked if he had been contacted by federal investigators. Corker said his office would have a statement on the issue. A Corker spokeswoman blamed a watchdog group, Campaign for Accountability, for filing a complaint with the SEC last year that led to the current federal probe that has ensnared the Tennessee Republican. U.S. Probes Real-Estate Firm With Ties to Sen. Bob Corker WALL STREET JOURNAL // BRODY MULLINS AND ARUNA VISWANATHA A real-estate firm that has been a favored investment of Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker is under investigation by federal law-enforcement officials for alleged accounting fraud, according to people familiar with the matter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are focusing their examination of CBL & Associates Properties Inc. on whether officials at the Chattanooga, Tenn., company falsified information on financial statements to banks when applying for financing arrangements, the people said. Law-enforcement officials have talked to former CBL employees who allege the company inflated its rental income and its properties' occupancy rates when reporting those figures to banks, the people said. The FBI and SEC officials have also separately asked questions about the relationship between the company and Mr. Corker, who is close with senior executives at the firm and has made millions of dollars in profits trading the company's stock in recent years. Authorities don't believe that Mr. Corker was involved in the company's potential accounting issues, but they are interested in learning more about the senator's trading in CBL's stock, the people said. North Carolina's GOP Senator Says State's Anti-LGBT Law Goes 'Too Far' HUFFINGTON POST // JENNIFER BENDERY Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Tuesday that Republican lawmakers in his state went too far when they passed a sweeping anti-LGBT law this year, and said they need to rein it in before a judge does it for them. "Yeah, I've got issues," Burr told The Huffington Post when asked if he has problems with his state's new law, also known as HB 2. "The legislature botched what they were trying to do," he said. "It was far too expansive." The law, signed in March, is one of the most extreme in the nation when it comes to allowing for discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Among other things, it bars transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity, and it prevents municipalities from passing LGBT anti-discrimination ordinances. Cities like Charlotte and Raleigh had such ordinances in place before HB 2. They are now invalid. Ohio's Limits on Early Voting Are Discriminatory, Judge Says NEW YORK TIMES // RICHARD PEREZ-PENA An Ohio law that curtails early voting and prevents people from registering to vote and casting ballots on the same day illegally discriminates against black voters, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, ordering a crucial swing state to change its rules before the fall elections. Democrats had challenged the law, describing it as one in a long series that Republicans in several states had enacted to suppress voting by blacks and Hispanics, who are more likely than others to vote early and to vote Democratic. Republicans denied that charge, saying the law combated voter fraud. Judge Michael H. Watson, of Federal District Court in Cincinnati, wrote in his findings that voter fraud was very rare and that the law did nothing to prevent it. It is unclear what effect the ruling will have on turnout. Republicans would not say immediately whether they would appeal, but they noted that even with the provision the judge struck down, Ohio had one of the longest early voting periods in the United States, starting four weeks before an election. Ohio violated voting rights by reducing early voting: U.S. judge REUTERS // GINA CHERELUS A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Ohio violated voters' rights in 2014 by cutting the number of days in which people were allowed to cast early ballots to 28 from 35. Judge Michael Watson of U.S. District Court in Columbus ordered Ohio to reinstate the 35-day period and also to grant residents a week-long opportunity to register and cast a ballot at the same time - a period known as "Golden Week." If the ruling stands, voters in Ohio will be able to vote a full 35 days before the general election on Nov. 8. Watson said the earlier changes violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and were unconstitutional. Ohio's Republican-controlled legislature changed the system two years ago. The move was challenged by the state's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. Federal court questions whether Texas voter-ID law can offer accommodations WASHINGTON POST // ROBERT BARNES With a U.S. Supreme Court deadline looming, judges on a federal appeals court here Tuesday questioned whether accommodations could be made to protect minority voters and save Texas's strictest-in-the- nation voter-ID law. Among the 15 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit who heard oral arguments Tuesday morning, there did not seem to be much support for striking down the law or blocking its use in November's presidential election. But several questioned why Texas did not have more fallback provisions - as other states do - for voters who lack the kinds of identification that the state requires. Three other courts have said the Texas law discriminates against African American, Hispanic and poor voters, who are less likely to have the specified ID documents. 2016 Democrats Clinton, Seizing On Trump's 2006 Remarks, Opens Line of Attack NEW YORK TIMES // MAGGIE HABERMAN For weeks, Hillary Clinton and her campaign have struggled to find a line of attack that could work against Donald J. Trump , one of the most atypical and nonideological candidates the Republicans have prepared to nominate for president. On Tuesday, she appeared to have found one. Mrs. Clinton seized on a comment that Mr. Trump made when he was running Trump University in 2006, in which he appeared to root for a housing bubble collapse because, he said, people like him could make money off it. In a style similar to Twitter attacks against Mr. Trump by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mrs. Clinton's team repeatedly posted that her main rival was ultimately looking out only for himself. California Looms as Delegate Prize, and as One More Democratic Battlefield NEW YORK TIMES // THOMAS KAPLAN AND YAMICHE ALCINDOR With two weeks before California's delegate-rich primary, Hillary Clinton stopped here on Tuesday and went on the attack against a rival. Just not the one she is currently running against. Mrs. Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont courted voters in California, but had their sights focused on distinctly different places: Mrs. Clinton again skewered Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, while Mr. Sanders continued to angle for an upset in the state, which has more delegates to divvy up than any other. That divergence was on display during the two Democratic candidates' dueling days of campaigning on Tuesday, which showed just how differently they are approaching the coming contest. California, the nation's most populous state, would be a lustrous prize for Mr. Sanders, though one that is largely symbolic given Mrs. Clinton's nearly insurmountable delegate lead. He is hoping for a marquee victory here that he could showcase at the party's summer convention in Philadelphia and is campaigning vigorously even as Mrs. Clinton tries to apply her energy to Mr. Trump. Clinton berates Trump over housing market crash THE HILL // JESSE BYRNES Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday unloaded an attack on Donald Trump, going after the businessman-turned-presumptive Republican presidential nominee for his past comments looking forward to a housing market crash. "He actually said he was hoping for the crash that caused hard-working families in California and across America to lose their jobs," Clinton said at a campaign event outside Los Angeles, according to The Wall Street Journal. "All because he thought he could take advantage of it to make some money for himself." "How cruel do you have to be to actually root for a crisis that would devastate millions of families, all to pad your own pockets?" Clinton added on Tuesday afternoon in one of a series of tweets. "We need a president who's fighting to raise incomes for all Americans, not one who tries to profit at their expense." Clinton's campaign released an ad noting that millions of Americans lost their homes and jobs as a result of the housing market crash in 2008. The ad included audio of Trump from 2006 that was unearthed last week in which the businessman says he was almost hoping for the housing bubble burst. "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," Trump said in the 2006 audiobook for his now-defunct Trump University that was published by CNN. "If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money." Clinton blasts Trump for cheering housing bubble burst REUTERS // AMANDA BECKER Democrat Hillary Clinton, seeking to dampen Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's growing appeal with working-class voters, on Tuesday accused him of having cheered on the 2008 housing market crash. Clinton's campaign released an ad with audio that the presumptive Republican nominee recorded in 2006 for his now-defunct Trump University venture. Trump, a billionaire real estate developer, in remarks on a "bubble burst," said: "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy" property and "make a lot of money." Clinton's campaign and her surrogates have seized on the recording to argue that she would take better care of the U.S. economy. Clinton is seeking to blunt the inroads that Trump has been making with voters in crucial states such as Florida and Ohio. Trump, in a statement released Tuesday afternoon, defended the comments as the mark of shrewd dealmaking, saying he would bring that sort of sharp business acumen to the White House. Clinton allies dig in for scorched-earth ad campaign POLITICO // GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI Hillary Clinton's campaign team and her allies don't expect Donald Trump to stop dominating national cable news or occupying television studio couches anytime soon. They just hope to own the commercial breaks. Accustomed to seeing images of Trump plaster television screens, Democrats are preparing for a scorched-earth general election in which they increasingly believe they'll have to carpet-bomb the presumptive GOP nominee over the swing state airwaves to combat his singular ability to get in front of a camera. While the efficacy of television ads in elections has come under question as more refined and cost-efficient methods of reaching voters have surfaced in recent years, strategists close to the pro-Clinton effort believe the real estate tycoon's mastery of so-called earned media presents a new kind of challenge - one that demands meeting him where he lives, before anything else. Such a campaign will be enormously expensive: The likelihood that Trump will maintain his singular hold on TV programming in the coming months has convinced Democrats - who were especially frustrated by two days of wall-to-wall coverage of his visit to Washington earlier this month, complete with live video of his parked plane - that they'll need to outspend him. Clinton on Beyoncé's Lemonade: 'I do like it' THE HILL // JESSE BYRNES Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she's a fan of Beyoncé's "Lemonade" visual album as the Democratic presidential front-runner fielded questions from Facebook users. "I have seen parts of it and I do like it," Clinton said during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" streamed on Facebook when asked if she'd seen the album. Beyoncé has been a strong supporter of the Obama administration, most recently appearing at the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll. Clinton reminded many of the pop star's hit single "Formation" when she said in an interview last month that she carries around her own hot sauce wherever she goes. On Tuesday, Clinton was asked, if elected, whether she could push for legislation to permanently prevent presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from running in a future election. "I doubt it, but it's worth looking into," Clinton responded amid laughs. Jeff Weaver: Barbara Boxer lied about feeling threatened POLITICO // ALI BRELAND Bernie Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said Tuesday he doesn't think Barbara Boxer is telling the whole truth on what went down in Nevada. On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Weaver told host John Berman that he doubted the California senator's version of events during the 2016 Nevada Democratic State Convention on May 14, because of a video that surfaced from the convention. Weaver said it shows Boxer was definitely not in fear of the crowd. "I don't want to see Sen. Barbara Boxer walking off the stage claiming she's in fear of her life while she's contemptuously blowing kisses at Sanders supporters," Weaver said to Berman. "No, absolutely not." Sen. Bernie Sanders aims to maximize impact on Democratic platform USA TODAY // NICOLE GAUDIANO One is a climate activist who has led major acts of civil disobedience. Another is a civil rights leader who was arrested as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. There are no shrinking violets among the supporters Sen. Bernie Sanders chose to represent him on the committee that will draft the platform at the Democratic Party's national convention in July. But even as Sanders says the convention could be "messy" -- as he says democracy often is -- his backers vow they will find ways to work with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton to have a significant impact on the platform. "There still are deep differences," said Jim Zogby, a Palestinian rights activist and DNC official who will represent Sanders on the drafting committee. "I think that they're all bridgeable." Representation on convention committees has been a flashpoint for Sanders, who says that representation should reflect his delegate count. To make the process inclusive, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Monday that she allowed Sanders to choose five members of the 15-member drafting committee, just one fewer than Clinton. The panel sends its draft to the Platform Committee, one of the three standing convention committees. Sanders dings Disney near Disneyland POLITICO // NICK GASS Bernie Sanders spent his Tuesday morning campaigning mere miles from Disneyland, a.k.a. "The Happiest Place on Earth." But the Democratic candidate devoted a portion of his speech to supporters in Anaheim, California, ripping into The Walt Disney Company, or the "Disney corporation," as he referred to it, for unfairly compensating its workers and representing another corporation benefiting from an unjustly rigged economy. Much as he has with his frequent invocations of Wal-Mart as an example of a rigged economic system, Sanders stared right at the Dumbo in the room. "Let me just start off and be very blunt. We're here in Anaheim. Everybody knows the major economic force here in Anaheim is the Disney corporation. Anybody here work for Disney?" Sanders asked. The crowd cheered. Sanders then asked, "Anybody here making a living wage from Disney?" The audience responded with a louder, "No!" Sanders then boasted, "I'm probably the only politician to come to Anaheim and say this. I use Disney not to pick on Disney but as an example of what we are talking about when we talk about a rigged economy." 2016 Republicans Trump wins Washington State POLITICO // KYLE CHENEY Donald Trump marched closer to the Republican nomination on Tuesday, winning Washington State's primary unopposed. With the win, the mogul closed in on earning the 1,237 pledged delegates he needs to claim the nomination, a threshold he's certain to cross on June 7, when Republicans in the final five primary states cast ballots. That election will kick off a six-week lull before Republicans convene in Cleveland to formally bestow the party's nomination. Washington's GOP has a conservative streak that Trump's former rival Ted Cruz once hoped to capitalize on as he worked to block Trump from claiming the nomination. But without Cruz in the race, Trump has begun consolidating support among primary voters - and the results showed on Tuesday, when the Associated Press called the race for Trump. However, the New Yorker's win followed another sign of lingering division within the Republican Party after a bitter primary season; At a state GOP convention over the weekend, Cruz's allies overwhelmed the event and elected 40 Cruz supporters (of 41 slots available) as delegates to the national convention. Four months after fundraiser, Trump says he gave $1 million to veterans group WASHINGTON POST // DAVID FARENTHOLD Almost four months after promising $1 million of his own money to veterans' causes, Donald Trump moved to fulfill that pledge Monday evening - promising the entire sum to a single charity as he came under intense media scrutiny. Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, organized a nationally televised fundraiser for veterans' causes in Des Moines on Jan. 28. That night, Trump said he had raised $6 million, including the gift from his own pocket. "Donald Trump gave $1 million," he said then. As recently as last week, Trump's campaign manager had insisted that the mogul had already given that money away. But that was false: Trump had not. In recent days, The Washington Post and other media outlets had pressed Trump and his campaign for details about how much the fundraiser had actually raised and whether Trump had given his portion. Why Trump is dredging up 1990s attacks against the Clintons CNN // STEPHEN COLLINSON Donald Trump is campaigning like it's 1999. The presumptive Republican nominee is reintroducing Americans to a panoply of dormant scandals, personal transgressions and partisan controversies that rocked Bill Clinton's White House and first lady Hillary Clinton in two turbulent presidential terms leading up to the end of the 20th Century. The goal is to link them with a flurry of more recent dramas such as those over Clinton's private email server secretary of state and Benghazi, to depict her potential presidency as a return to unsavory days of rumor, innuendo and alleged malfeasance that would exhaust and disgust voters. In effect, making the 2016 election a referendum on the Clintons, and the baggage that has always haunted their successful and resilient political careers. Case in point: a new Instagram video that pictures Bill Clinton chomping on a cigar and revives claims of wrongdoing against him by several women, which ends with the sound of Hillary Clinton laughing and a slogan: "Here we go again?" GOP fundraisers once mocked by Trump now rallying to support his bid WASHINGTON POST // MATEA GOLD Donald Trump spent much of the Republican presidential primary contest inveighing against politicians for leaning on wealthy contributors for support. Now he's doing the same. On Tuesday, some of the GOP's best-connected fundraisers signed on to help raise as much as $1 billion for Trump and the Republican National Committee, part of an effort to rapidly build out a finance operation that the candidate has lacked until now. Half a dozen of the party's elite money players - including New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks - have agreed to serve as vice chairs of the Trump Victory fund, a joint fundraising committee between Trump's campaign, the RNC and 11 state parties, the party announced Tuesday. Johnson served as finance chairman for former Florida governor Jeb Bush's presidential bid, while Hendricks donated $5 million to a super PAC supporting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Donald Trump's Breathtaking Flip-Flop On 'Self Funding' HUFFINGTON POST // IGOR BOBIC Donald Trump on Monday met privately with New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, a top GOP fundraiser who previously supported former presidential candidate Jeb Bush, according to The New York Times. On Tuesday, Trump's campaign announced that Johnson would serve as a vice chair for the Trump Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee set up by the campaign and the Republican National Committee. Donors to the apparatus may contribute far larger amounts than in previous elections - up to $450,000 apiece. (Likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton struck a similar agreement with the Democratic National Committee.) But Trump has boasted, time and time again, about self-funding his campaign. It is one of his most popular lines among his supporters. Moreover, he has repeatedly accused his rivals of being beholden to billionaires, special interests and lobbyists simply by taking their money. During a February speech in New Hampshire, Trump suggested that Johnson, who was born to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical family, would impede Bush from renegotiating Medicare drug prices, as Trump has promised to do. Trump Unveils Stable of Republican Donors BLOOMBERG // JENNIFER JACOBS, BILL ALLISON, AND ZACHARY MIDER Donald Trump's road to raising $1 billion for the general election just got a lot smoother. A group of 20 Republican donors, a who's who of the party's financing apparatus, pledged Tuesday to help bring in cash to fund Trump's run for the White House. The announcement could help quell predictions that Trump wouldn't get enough support from traditional GOP donors and bundlers, many of whom have been openly critical of him up to now. A joint press release from the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee listing the donors came as the candidate holds his first two fundraisers in coordination with the RNC- Tuesday night in New Mexico and the following night in California. Guests for the two events have already committed to give more than $5 million combined, Trump aides told Bloomberg Politics. Other well-heeled supporters are starting to line up behind the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, more than 40 influential Republicans have called the campaign offering to host bashes for Trump in the coming weeks in the Hamptons, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Texas and elsewhere. Trump intro speaker jokes about death of Clinton, Sanders POLITICO // BEN SCHRECKINGER A speaker introducing Donald Trump at a campaign rally jokingly suggested that the drowning of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would be good for the country on Tuesday evening. "If Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are on a boat together - if they're on a boat together and it sinks. Who survives? America!" said local attorney David Chavez in introductory remarks at Trump's rally. Chavez, a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, also cracked of the former secretary of state, "Even Bill Clinton chose other women, so you should, too." Trump and his surrogates have been criticized for the violent tinge of some of their rhetoric, including Trump's repeated remarks onstage at rallies that he would like to punch protesters in the face. Ohio Town Could Be a Bellwether in Race Between Clinton and Trump BLOOMBERG // KENDALL BREITMAN New Waterford, Ohio, is a battleground within a battleground. Located near the Eastern border of Ohio -- halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh -- the town was evenly split during the 2012 presidential election. Both Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney took 263 votes each. In 2008, Obama edged out John McCain in the village by just 18 votes. This year, as all-but-certain nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton battle to win Ohio, the perennial swing state, New Waterford is once again looking like a tossup. "Out of 500 or so average voters we have, you may have 100 complete Democrats or Republicans," New Waterford Mayor Shane Patrone said. "The other 400 ... like to remain independent. They don't like to be labeled." Voters in New Waterford show little reluctance to vote across party lines. Even Adam Booth, the director of the Columbiana County board of elections and the vice chairman of the county's Republican party voted for Patrone, a Democrat, when he ran for mayor in 2012. In 2016, the decision to cross party lines is being complicated by what is perceived as a lack of good choices in either party. Group Backing Donald Trump Hires Ex-Aides to Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki NEW YORK TIMES // MAGGIE HABERMAN One of the "super PACs" supporting Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that it was hiring former aides to Rudolph W. Giuliani and George E. Pataki to advise the group as it seeks to raise money. Great America PAC is bringing aboard Jake Menges, a longtime adviser to Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, and Rob Cole, a veteran adviser to Mr. Pataki, the former governor of New York. Mr. Cole was also an adviser to the Mitt Romney presidential effort in 2008. The pair will join Edward J. Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist, and the group plans to deploy Mr. Giuliani to help in its effort in the coming months. The pair will join Edward J. Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist. Officials with the group approached Mr. Giuliani several weeks ago about the possibility of hosting events, and they hope to be able to deploy him in the coming months. Carson: Trump attacks on Clinton 'who we have become as a nation' CNN // TOM LOBIANCO Ben Carson on Tuesday defended Donald Trump's focus on Bill Clinton's affairs and recent attacks on Hillary Clinton, saying that the presumptive Republican nominee's hits are "part of who we have become as a nation." "It probably is a part of who we have become as a nation," Carson told CNN's Erin Burnett on "Erin Burnett Out Front." Carson was asked about recent clips where Trump nailed Bill Clinton as "the worst abuser of women in the history of politics" and accused Hillary Clinton herself of bullying other women. But Carson, who was at one time mocked by Trump in the heat of the primaries, argued that Trump would be naive to be a "nice guy" with the Clintons. "Would I love to see a situation where the candidates sat down and actually talked about the issues and about the ideas so that people could really make the right kind of decision not based on emotionalism? I would love that, I think we would all love that. But that's not where we are as a nation," Carson said. Editorials/Op-Eds The Supreme Court Rights a Racist Wrong THE NEW YORK TIMES // THE EDITORIAL BOARD In 1987, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an 18-year-old black man from Georgia, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a 79-year-old white woman named Queen Madge White. On Monday, the Supreme Court invalidated Mr. Foster's conviction and sentence because prosecutors had struck every black prospective juror at his trial - a violation of his constitutional rights. The ruling sends the case back to the Georgia courts, where the state may choose to retry Mr. Foster. This was clearly the correct result. The prosecutors in Mr. Foster's case kept notes that served as a remarkably explicit road map of how to discriminate in jury selection. For example, they highlighted the names of black prospective jurors on one list with a "B" and, on another list, ranked them against one another, in case "it comes down to having to pick one of the black jurors." Those notes were locked away in prosecution files for nearly 20 years, until lawyers for Mr. Foster obtained them through a state open-records law. Before then, the prosecutors got away with lying about their motivations thanks to Georgia courts that looked the other way. Even after the notes were revealed, prosecutors continued to concoct far-fetched explanations for their behavior. Trump vs. Clinton on Gun Rights WALL STREET JOURNAL // THE EDITORIAL BOARD Donald Trump is famous for his flights of political exaggeration, but every so often he lands on the truth. Witness his claim to the National Rifle Association on Friday that "the Second Amendment is on the ballot in November" and that Hillary Clinton "wants to abolish the Second Amendment." This has offended Mrs. Clinton's media bodyguards who claim she merely favors background checks and minor regulation. Mrs. Clinton took to Twitter to claim that Mr. Trump is "wrong," and "We can uphold Second Amendment rights while preventing senseless gun violence." Let's go to the audiotape. If Mrs. Clinton "gets to appoint her judges, she will as part of it abolish the Second Amendment," Mr. Trump told the NRA. He added that Mrs. Clinton had rebuked the Supreme Court for its 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller establishing that the Second Amendment included an individual right to bear arms. The government isn't protecting you from dangerous chemicals. Congress must fix that. WASHINGTON POST // THE EDITORIAL BOARD Industrial Chemicals are in countless products, but the government's system to ensure they are safe is broken, and has been for decades. The past few years showed why fixing it has been so hard: As some members of Congress attempted to negotiate bipartisan reforms, others made the perfect - or the perfectly political - the enemy of the good. This impasse looks as though it's about to end, at long last, as Congress considers a bipartisan chemical safety reform bill this week. On its merits, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act should pass by acclamation. Under current law, the Environmental Protection Agency is hobbled in all sorts of dangerous ways. The agency cannot subject chemicals to safety testing without evidence that they are potentially risky - which is hard to obtain without testing. Consequently, the EPA has managed to examine a mere 200 chemicals since 1976, though thousands are produced and sold every year. The corporate tax mess: Our view USA TODAY // THE EDITORIAL BOARD The U.S. corporate tax system is an unholy mess. This is evident in the piles of cash that U.S. companies hoard overseas, where it is not subject to the punitively high 35% American corporate tax rate. USA TODAY reported Monday that five top tech companies alone - Alphabet, Apple, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Oracle - collectively held $504 billion in cash at the end of last year, 87.5% of which was parked abroad. That money is earning paltry amounts of interest rather than being reinvested in America or given to shareholders in the form of dividends. The mess is also evident in so-called corporate inversions, a favored ruse whereby a U.S.-based company buys a smaller overseas company and claims its country (with its lower tax rates) as its new corporate home. This spring, the Treasury Department reworked its rules to thwart a plan by drug-maker Pfizer to purchase Allergan and move its incorporation to Ireland.


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For your FREE copy of the recent report, Protecting Your Earnings: Managing the FASB 133 Challenge, click here or visit -------------------------------------------- NATURAL GAS FUTURES Henry Hub 12 Month Strip 2.7447 +0.0504 18 Month Strip 2.9106 +0.0583 | Month | High | Low | Close | Change | | OCT | 1.970 | 1.880 | 1.925 | +0.015 | | NOV | 2.350 | 2.260 | 2.300 | +0.010 | | DEC | 2.730 | 2.650 | 2.690 | +0.030 | | JAN | 2.930 | 2.855 | 2.895 | +0.042 | | FEB | 2.925 | 2.860 | 2.893 | +0.048 | | MAR | 2.885 | 2.820 | 2.860 | +0.057 | | APR | 2.820 | 2.760 | 2.803 | +0.063 | | MAY | 2.850 | 2.810 | 2.828 | +0.063 | | JUN | 2.890 | 2.850 | 2.880 | +0.065 | | JUL | 2.940 | 2.890 | 2.926 | +0.067 | | AUG | 2.975 | 2.930 | 2.968 | +0.067 | | SEP | 2.980 | 2.930 | 2.968 | +0.063 | ------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Gas Futures Up Slightly on Short-Covering Natural gas for October delivery on the NYMEX ended the day up $0.015 to $1.915 as the market awaits the AGA storage data due out today. The November contract gained $0.025 to $2.30 per MMBtu. The market managed to recover partially from Monday's sell-off in active pre expiration trading. Much of the gain was due to a late session short-covering rally, and short term traders expect a nominally higher open today. The locals are still wanting to push prices lower to a target of $1.80. There is just a negative bias to natural gas, as well as all the energies right now. There is just no demand, and the long term weather forecasts are not promising. The October contract expires today and has lost 25% over the past 6 sessions. NYMEX continues to hold abbreviated floor trading sessions this week. The natural gas open outcry sessions runs from 10:30 AM to 1:45 PM EDT, except today when the close will be extended until 2:45 PM to allow trading after the release of AGA storage data about 2:00 PM. Look for and an injection of 70 - 80 Bcf to be reported for last week. A year ago inventories rose 77 Bcf, and on average over the last 5 years, stocks have gained about 72 Bcf this week. Total inventories of 2.757 Tcf are 432 Bcf, or 19% higher than a year ago, and 248 Bcf above the 5-year average. NOAA expects 25 CDDs for this week, which would be 7 below normal and 9 below a year ago, and could mean another large build in next week's AGA report relative to the year-ago figure, particularly with spreads to winter still encouraging injections. However, storage is about 87% full and will soon begin filling up. The latest National Weather Service forecast for early next month calls for below normal weather along the East Coast, extending into East Texas, and above normal from eastern California into the upper Plains. Natural gas for next day delivery across the US and Canada was generally flat to down $0.05 per MMBtu yesterday. 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Here's the morning joe link on Vantage—I think you need to make a youtube request if you want the link (starts around 7:33)  From: Paustenbach, Mark Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 11:57 AM To: RR2 Subject: FOR RR2: Donald Trump's Ongoing Support for a Muslim Ban SL: Donald Trump's Ongoing Support for a Muslim Ban Donald Trump's ongoing support for his dangerous and divisive ban on Muslims entering the United States remains strong, despite broad agreement that such a despicable measure would only make America less safe. · When asked whether he would stick by his ban in the general election, Trump said, "I don't care if it hurts me. I'm doing the right thing when I do this." [Do we have a link? … Morning Joe, MSNBC, 5/4/16] · According to interviews with The New York Times, Trump plans to have his immigration Muslim ban in place within his first 100 days as President. · Trump's website still notes that he "is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on. According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim populations." · Trump has said he did not care if his call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States was "politically incorrect." He argued that, "We Have No Choice. We Have. No. Choice." · This week, after Donald Trump reiterated his plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., London's newly-elected mayor Sadiq Khan rejected the insulting idea that he could be one of Trump's "exceptions." [New link too]


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