Tipsheet: Mueller report won’t end Trump’s legal woes

View in your browser     The Memo: Mueller report won’t end Trump’s legal woes BY NIALL STANAGE President Trump will not be out of legal peril even after special counsel Robert Mueller delivers his final report — especially given that investigations by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, among others, are pressing in on him.  Legal experts who spoke to The Hill stressed the importance of the New York investigation in particular, which encompasses scrutiny of everything from apparent hush money payments to women to the funding of the president’s 2017 inauguration. Read the full story here     Trump steps up attack on Planned Parenthood BY JESSIE HELLMANN President Trump is intensifying his attack on federal funding for Planned Parenthood with the introduction of new rules on Friday that are widely seen as a way of gutting federal funding to the group. Read the full story here     Trump says he'll '100 percent' veto measure blocking emergency declaration BY JOHN BOWDEN President Trump said Friday that he will veto a resolution brought by House Democrats in an attempt to counter his national emergency declaration over illegal border crossings. Read the full story here     Trump selects Kelly Craft for United Nations ambassador BY JESSE BYRNES President Trump announced Friday night that he has selected Kelly Craft, the current U.S. ambassador to Canada, to serve as his administration's top diplomat to the United Nations. Read the full story here       Graham: 'Handful' of GOP senators will vote to block Trump's emergency declaration BY JORDAIN CARNEY Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Friday that a "handful" of Republicans will back a resolution to block President Trump's emergency declaration to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall.  Read the full story here     Pentagon won't say if it will seek congressional approval to move billions for wall BY ELLEN MITCHELL Pentagon officials on Friday would not say whether the Defense Department will seek approval from Congress before it moves billions of dollars from its counter-drug program coffers to fund President Trump’s southern border wall. Read the full story here     Trump administration directs 1,000 more troops to Mexican border BY JOHN BOWDEN The Pentagon announced Friday that it would direct an additional 1,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to install barbed wiring along existing border fences. Read the full story here     Trump on Robert Kraft charge: 'Very sad' BY JOHN BOWDEN   President Trump said Friday that news of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft facing charges in a prostitution sting was "very sad." Kraft, 77, is facing two charges of soliciting prostitution.  Read the full story here     Dems set up Tuesday vote to block Trump's emergency declaration BY MIKE LILLIS House Democrats are wasting no time in their effort to block President Trump's emergency declaration at the southern border, scheduling a floor vote Tuesday on the disapproval resolution introduced Friday by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). Read the full story here     Dems call on Trump to fire Acosta BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE Three House Democrats are collecting signatures for a letter calling on President Trump to demand the resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta after a federal judge ruled that Acosta and other federal prosecutors acted illegally in making a plea deal with accused child sexual abuser and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein before speaking with his victims.  Read the full story here     Chicago media teaches master class with careful coverage of Smollett story BY JOE CONCHA Opinion | National media ran with Jussie Smollett's story of an alleged attack as absolute fact despite the obvious questions. Thankfully, local Chicago media took a much more careful, skeptical tone.  Read the full story here     Defending the First Amendment, even for Roger Stone BY MARK PENN Opinion | Roger Stone can no longer criticize Judge Amy Berman Jackson, but I sure can. She should be removed from the Stone case without delay for her threats to jail him over mere speech and the extreme prejudice she has expressed against the defendant. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Justice Department, Democrats brace for fight over access to Mueller report BY DEVLIN BARRETT AND KAROUN DEMIRJIAN The Justice Department and Democratic lawmakers are bracing for a fight over access to the evidence uncovered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III during his nearly two-year investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump obstructed justice. Read the full story here     The New York Times: At Venezuela’s Border, a Strange and Deadly Showdown Over Aid BY NICHOLAS CASEY, ANATOLY KURMANAEV AND ERNESTO LONDOÑO  The political showdown over the delivery of aid to Venezuela turned deadly Friday when its security forces fired on protesters near the country’s Brazilian border, killing two and wounding a dozen in a confrontation that could signal a more violent and destabilizing struggle over who can claim to be the country’s legitimate leader. Read the full story here     CNN: Donald Trump's plan for 2020 Democrats: Cause chaos and sow division BY JEFF ZELENY AND KAITLAN COLLINS One presidential candidate is following the Democratic primary fight far closer than you might imagine. His name is Donald J. Trump. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: At Trump-Kim Summit, Host Vietnam Blazes Trail for North Korea BY NIHARIKA MANDHANA When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Trump in Hanoi next week, the venue itself will carry a message for the dictator: If you cooperate with the U.S., you could command an economic transformation like Vietnam’s. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted BY SARAH EL DEEB They were living in holes in the ground, with only dry flatbread to eat at the end. Those injured in an intense military campaign had no access to medical care, and those who were sick had no medicine. Yet, if it were not for the call from their leaders to leave, they would have stayed. Read the full story here   Did a friend forward you this email? 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