Tipsheet: GOP to White House: End summit mystery

View in your browser     GOP to White House: End summit mystery By Alexander Bolton   Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are worried that Russian President Vladimir Putin may use his one-on-one meeting with President Trump in Helsinki to drive a wedge between NATO allies by claiming secret side deals with the United States. Read the full story here     Questions mount over Trump-Putin discussions By Morgan Chalfant   The White House is facing mounting pressure to disclose details of President Trump’s discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin from this week’s summit in Helsinki. Read the full story here     Trump demands Roger Goodell 'make a stand' on players kneeling for anthem By John Bowden President Trump singled out NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a tweet on Friday, calling on the football executive to further punish players who protest at games by kneeling during the national anthem. Read the full story here     Anti-Trump protests outside White House continue into fifth night By Aris Folley A former adviser to Hillary Clinton brought a hip hop band and dancers to the White House for the fifth night of a multi-day protest on Friday. Read the full story here       Trump does not take questions as he departs for weekend By Jacqueline Thomsen President Trump didn’t take questions from reporters on Friday as he departed Washington, D.C., for the weekend, amid fallout from his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and a bombshell report that his personal lawyer secretly recorded a conversation with Trump about a payment to a former Playboy model. Read the full story here     Busy Trump, Congress keep K Street booming By Megan R. Wilson K Street’s earnings spree is rolling on well into President Trump’s second year in office, with lobbyists busy keeping clients up to speed on the administration's dizzying array of policy changes and congressional action. Read the full story here     Sunk judicial pick spills over into Supreme Court fight By Jordain Carney Democrats are seizing on the failed nomination of Ryan Bounds, President Trump’s unsuccessful circuit court pick, as they look for leverage in a fight over confirming Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Read the full story here     Congress won't block Trump's deal to save Chinese telecom giant ZTE By Jordain Carney and Rebecca Kheel Lawmakers have reached an agreement to strip a provision from the must-pass defense policy bill that would have sunk President Trump's deal to save Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE. Read the full story here     White House: Trump 'not considering' Ukraine referendum By Jacqueline Thomsen The White House said Friday that President Trump is “not considering supporting” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to hold a referendum in eastern Ukraine. Read the full story here     Pompeo 'hopeful' Trump-Putin meeting happens in DC By Jacqueline Thomsen Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that he’s “very hopeful” that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Washington, D.C., this fall. Read the full story here     Pack the center: How Democrats and Republicans can fix the Supreme Court, together By Alex Kaplan OPINION | Whether you believe Justice Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court is cause for celebration or misery, the last thing American democracy needs now is a nasty fight that further drags our nation’s highest court through the mud of politics. Read the full story here     Going forward, both parties should commit to a ‘Cyber Election Pledge’ By Donna Brazile OPINION | Earlier this week, the president of the United States stood beside the man responsible for interfering with the 2016 elections and said he doesn’t believe he did it. The next day the president reluctantly walks back that statement. The day after that the president denies — in direct opposition to his own Director of National Intelligence — that the attacks are still continuing. And later in the same day, the White House denies that he said that. By the time you read this, I don’t doubt there have been several more pendulum swings. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Big money is flowing into the 2018 fight for the US Senate By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Anu Narayanswamy  The big-money race for the Senate is heating up. Groups aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) together raised $22.9 million in the second quarter of 2018 and entered the third quarter with nearly $44 million in cash on hand, according to figures provided by the groups and Federal Election Commission records filed Friday evening. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Michael Cohen secretly taped Trump discussing payment to Playboy model By Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt  President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Facebook suspends analytics firm on concerns about sharing of public user-data By Kirsten Grind   Facebook Inc. suspended another company that harvested data from its site and said it was investigating whether the analytics firm’s contracts with the U.S. government and a Russian nonprofit tied to the Kremlin violate the platform’s policies. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: The problem of Kavanaugh’s lengthy paper trail By Lisa Mascaro   Judge Brett Kavanaugh has a long record of judicial and executive branch service to recommend him as President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. And that’s part of the problem in getting him confirmed by the Senate. Read the full story here     Reuters: US open to lifting sanctions off aluminum giant Rusal By David Lawder The U.S. Treasury is open to removing Russian aluminum producer Rusal from a U.S. sanctions list, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, adding the objective was “not to put Rusal out of business.” Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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