Tipsheet: Nadler hits gas on impeachment

View in your browser     Nadler hits gas on impeachment BY MIKE LILLIS AND OLIVIA BEAVERS Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is hitting the rhetorical gas on Democratic efforts to impeach President Trump.  The Judiciary Committee chairman this week boosted his case that the panel has already launched impeachment proceedings into potential presidential wrongdoing, applying the "formal" label to the process for the first time while amplifying vows to draft impeachment articles if his ongoing probes reveal the type of misconduct to merit them. Read the full story here     Trump flirts with action on gun control BY BRETT SAMUELS President Trump is flirting with taking action on gun control in the wake of a pair of mass shootings that left 31 people dead and shook a country clearly tiring of a seemingly endless series of shootings. Read the full story here     Five proposals Congress is eyeing after mass shootings BY JORDAIN CARNEY Last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, are putting a renewed focus on what action, if any, Congress will take to curb gun violence. Here are some that are getting the most attention. Read the full story here     Police say El Paso suspect said he was targeting 'Mexicans,' confessed to attack BY TAL AXELROD The suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, reportedly told police he was targeting “Mexicans” and confessed to carrying out the attack when he surrendered to law enforcement. Read the full story here       Trump seeks powers to rein in alleged tech bias BY HARPER NEIDIG AND EMILY BIRNBAUM   President Trump is doubling down on his attacks against Silicon Valley as the White House reportedly considers an executive order that would task the federal government with overseeing social media platforms’ handling of online political speech. Read the full story here     Trump: Biden 'not playing with a full deck' BY BRETT SAMUELS President Trump on Friday mocked former Vice President Joe Biden after the Democratic presidential candidate committed a gaffe by telling supporters that “poor kids” are “just as talented as white kids” before correcting himself to say “wealthy kids." Read the full story here     Democrats pounce on Trump in bid for rural voters BY REID WILSON The parade of Democratic hopefuls in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Friday highlighted their pledges to help rural areas, and blasted President Trump's trade war that has cost farmers in Iowa already struggling to keep their small businesses afloat. Read the full story here     DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews BY OLIVIA BEAVERS The FBI on Thursday released the bureau's notes from its Russia probe interviews with Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official who has come under GOP fire for his ties to the Steele dossier. Read the full story here     Twitter unlocks McConnell's campaign account after GOP boycott BY EMILY BIRNBAUM Twitter on Friday announced that it has unlocked the campaign account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after a rash of national GOP groups threatened to stop advertising on the social media site. Read the full story here     Half of Republicans say US deficit needs to be dealt with immediately BY TESS BONN Just over half of Republicans — 51 percent — said in a new Hill-HarrisX poll that the federal deficit is a problem that the government needs to deal with immediately.  Read the full story here     New right-wing domestic terrorism defense: The president made me do it BY GREGORY J. WALLANCE Opinion | Is the ideology of Trumpism inspiring right-wing domestic terrorism — and providing the surviving terrorists with a legal strategy for staying out of prison? Read the full story here     The depressing futility of ICE workplace raids BY JULIA G. YOUNG Opinion | This Wednesday, agents from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raided seven work sites across the state of Mississippi, rounding up 680 illegal immigrants. Yet within a few weeks, those plants almost certainly will be staffed with a new group of undocumented workers once again. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Trump’s Trip to Dayton and El Paso: The Back Story BY KATIE ROGERS, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND RICK ROJAS By the time President Trump arrived in El Paso on Wednesday, on the second leg of a trip to meet with people affected by mass shootings, he was frustrated that his attacks on his political adversaries had resulted in more coverage than the cheery reception he received at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio. So he screamed at his aides to begin producing proof that in El Paso people were happy to see him. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: As his environment changed, suspect in El Paso shooting learned to hate BY NICK MIROFF AND DAMIAN PALETTA Authorities think Patrick Crusius, 21, closely noted the shift in the sprawling north suburbs of Dallas where he grew up and spent countless hours on the Internet studying the white supremacist theory known as “the great replacement.”  Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Senior Voters, Some Wavering on Trump, Figure to Shape 2020 Election BY MICHELLE HACKMAN The fastest-growing segment of the U.S. electorate is seniors. They supported President Trump in 2016 but aren’t squarely in his camp as the 2020 campaign picks up. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Trump-McConnell 2020? Senate leader glues self to president BY LISA MASCARO It’s not quite “Trump-McConnell 2020,” but it might as well be. As he runs for reelection, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is positioning himself as the president’s wingman, his trusted right hand in Congress, transformed from a behind-the-scenes player into a prominent if sometimes reviled Republican like none other besides Donald Trump himself. Read the full story here     Reuters: Hong Kong hit by another weekend of protests BY CLARE JIM & KEVIN LIU Hong Kong began another volatile weekend on Saturday, with anti-government protests taking place across the city, including one at the international airport for a second day. 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.