Tipsheet: Trump makes history, crossing into North Korea, before announcing nuclear talks will restart

View in your browser     Trump makes history, crossing into North Korea, before announcing nuclear talks will restart BY KYLE BALLUCK President Trump made history on Sunday by crossing into North Korea as part of a meeting with Kim Jong Un in which he and the North Korean leader agreed to restart stalled nuclear talks. Trump and Kim shook hands across a concrete slab forming the line between to the two nations at the Demilitarized Zone, according to a reporter traveling with the president. “Good to see again,” Kim said, according to a translator. He added he would have “never expected” Trump “at this place.” Trump then became the first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea. Read the full story here     Trump defends election meddling remarks to Putin BY JESSICA CAMPISI President Trump on Saturday defended his remarks to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he appeared to make light of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read the full story here     Internal cracks emerge in GOP strategy to avoid shutdown BY JORDAIN CARNEY Senate Republicans are struggling to unite behind a plan to fund the government after budget talks have ground to a halt.  Read the full story here     Supreme Court stokes DACA fight for 2020 BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN The Supreme Court's decision to hear cases on whether President Trump lawfully ended Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants is teeing up the program as a key issue for Democrats in the 2020 presidential election. Read the full story here       5 key questions for Democrats ahead of fundraising deadline BY MAX GREENWOOD   They’ve spent months crisscrossing the country, building out elaborate campaign operations and pleading for the support of small donors. Now, Democratic presidential hopefuls are barreling toward a crucial fundraising deadline anxious to make a splash. Read the full story here     2020 Democrats defend Harris over conspiracy theories about race, citizenship BY TAL AXELROD A slate of Democrats running for president defended fellow White House contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) after right-wing personalities and bots amplified conspiracies about her. Read the full story here     Graham says Harris will 'be a force to be reckoned with' BY RACHEL FRAZIN  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sen. Kamala Harris will be "a force to be reckoned with" following her performance in the first Democratic debate this week. Read the full story here     Trump administration delays implementation of 'conscience protection' rule BY TAL AXELROD The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is delaying the implementation of its “conscience protection” rule until November to give the administration more time to deal with a lawsuit over the policy. Read the full story here     Trump says he brought up Khashoggi murder with Saudi crown prince BY JESSICA CAMPISI President Trump insisted Saturday that he raised the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, CNN reported. Read the full story here     Erdoğan says Trump will not impose sanctions over Russian missile deal BY JOHN BOWDEN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that President Trump told him he would not impose U.S. sanctions on Turkey following the country's move to purchase a Russian missile defense system. Read the full story here     Democrats and Trump are all in on immigration for the 2020 election BY JONATHAN TURLEY Opinion | If politics were poker, this week would represent the moment when President Trump and his opponents both went all in on immigration. The Supreme Court granted a wish for Trump by accepting a challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by President Obama in 2012. That followed the first Democratic primary debates in which virtually all 20 candidates not only supported the decriminalization of illegal immigration but full medical coverage for undocumented persons. Read the full story here     The justices hand down a (mostly) commonsense decision on census BY GLENN C. SMITH Opinion | The divided Supreme Court decision putting a stop sign in the path of the Trump administration’s plan to have 2020 Census respondents answer a question about their citizenship status is a surprising and (mostly) welcome development. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Beyond ‘Freedom’s Frontier,’ Trump scores his biggest live show yet in North Korea BY DAVID NAKAMURA A president who often thinks like a director and producer pulls off a historic handshake that played out on live television. It marked another in a series of remarkable set pieces that Trump has used over the past two years.  Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Analysis: Trump’s diplomacy puts relationships over results BY ZEKE MILLER AND JONATHAN LEMIRE For President Donald Trump, a four-day visit to Asia is shaping up to be more about relationships than results. Read the full story here     Reuters: China warns of long road ahead for deal with US after ice-breaking talks BY BEN BLANCHARD AND MICHAEL MARTINA China and the United States will face a long road before they can reach a deal to end their bitter trade war, with more fights ahead likely, Chinese state media said after the two countries’ presidents held ice-breaking talks in Japan. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Kamala Harris raises $2 million in 24 hours after debate BY REID J. EPSTEIN Ms. Harris collected donations from 63,277 people, according to a campaign aide. The aide said 58 percent of those donors had not contributed to her campaign before. Read the full story here     CNN: 'Unless we do something pretty miraculous': Trump expects ICE raids to happen after July 4 BY CAROLINE KELLY President Donald Trump said that his administration still plans to launch a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids starting in about a week, sometime after the July Fourth holiday. Read the full story here   Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet     You might like         Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.