Trump could release US-Saudi citizen accused of being ISIS fighter in the next 72 hours

The Trump administration wants to release a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen accused of being an ISIS fighter by the week's end.

According to court documents filed Wednesday, the administration wishes to release him in an undisclosed Syrian town in the next 72 hours.

Known only as John Doe, the man has been held as an enemy combatant in U.S. custody in Iraq since September after he was turned over by Syrian Democratic Forces, an American-backed militia group.

SDF apprehended him at the border of Turkey and Syria.

Doe, however, insists he was in Syria to "report" on ISIS rather than lend support to the organization.

In the June 6 petition before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Justice Department attorneys on behalf of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis gave notice to Doe that the U.S. government intended to release him in "a town or outside an Internally Displaced Person camp."

"Petitioner [Doe] did not identify a preference between the two locations and would not agree to the release as Respondent [the Trump administration] described it," the document reads.

"Accordingly, out of an abundance of caution, the Department is filing this Notice of its intent to release Petitioner in the town specified in the Declaration no sooner than 72 hours hence," it continues, referring to an attached declaration not publicly available.

NEW: DOJ says the government plans to release John Doe, the American suspected of ties to ISIS who has for months been challenging his detention by the US military in Iraq. Plan is to release him in Syria, per filing https://t.co/O9JQ51PKKh pic.twitter.com/1uKulWBMYh

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 6, 2018

The ACLU, which is representing the man in his habeas corpus petition, slammed the Trump administration's decision on Wednesday as "a death warrant" as opposed to a release.

"Instead of offering a safe release, they want to dump an American citizen onto the side of the road in a war-torn country without any assurances of protection and no identification," ACLU attorney Jonathan Hafetz said in a statement.

"Our fight for our client's right to due process has also become a fight for his right to life. We'll be asking the court to immediately intervene and ensure the safe release of our client," he added.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in May denied a previous Pentagon request to transfer Doe to Saudi Arabia, where he also has citizenship.

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-could-release-us-saudi-citizen-accused-of-being-isis-fighter-in-the-next-72-hours

NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia With Multiple War Games Of Unparalleled Scale

This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last till June 15. The scope of the exercise has been steadily expanding with every year. It was 11,000 troops in 2017, 9,000 in 2016, 6,000 in 2015, 4,700 in 2014 and 2,000 in 2013 – that’s how a relatively small drill turned into the regular deployment of substantial force in the proximity of Russia’s borders. Moscow expressed its concern about it at the NATO-Russia Council’s session held on May 31.

The annual multination training event organized every year since 2010 is being held across the training areas in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Non-NATO countries taking part are Finland and Macedonia. Air assault landings are part of the scenario to hone the skills for launching offensive operations.

Sabre Strike is timed with Swift Response airborne drill in Latvia to culminate on June 8. It involves 800 paratroopers from US, Latvia, Lithuania, Israel and Poland.

There will be more exercises held in 2018 near Russia’s borders, including Trident Juncture, a really big one to take place in late October-early November to involve 35,000 troops from 30 nations along with 70 ships and about 130 aircraft and Anakonda organized by Poland in November. The latter will involve 100,000 servicemen, 5,000 vehicles, 150 aircraft and 45 warships. The scale is mind-boggling. One can imagine how much it costs! The Anakonda scenario includes preemptive strikes. If it’s not an open preparation for war than what is? US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley believes it is. According to him, “Having large-scale NATO forces in the Baltic States and Poland, as well as the lack of transparency – we see serious preparation for a great war.” He knows what is talking about.

In May, NATO held a large Siil (Hedgehog) exercise in Estonia and northern Latvia involving more than 15 thousand troops. The series of training events are conducted against the background of the proposal put forward by Poland to deploy US troops on its soil with Warsaw shouldering the financial burden of base construction. A NATO annual summit in July will consider the issues related to further reinforcement of forces in Europe, including the eastern flank.

It has been revealed recently that the alliance plans to create an addition to the NATO Response Force (NRF) increasing its strength from 20,000 to about 50,000 by creating a pool of 30,000 troops with organic aviation and ships ready to be operationally deployed within 30 days. The initiative belongs to the US with Germany to take the lead. The bloc’s defense chiefs will discuss the issue at their upcoming meeting on June 8-9 before putting it on the agenda of NATO summit to be held on July 11-12. NATO war preparations against Russia include the new crisis response command center in Ulm, southern Germany, and another one in the US state of Virginia.

This force as well as other units will become part of training events and the soldiers will be deployed on temporary basis but holding regular exercises presupposes the creation of infrastructure to be used by troops upon arrival for launching offensive actions. Correspondingly, logistics are being beefed up.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/nato-sabre-strike-exercise-scaring-russia-multiple-war-games-unparalleled-scale

Bombshell Claim Raises New Questions: Mueller Threatened To Charge Papadopoulos As Unregistered Agent Of Israel

Special Counsel Robert Mueller threatened to charge former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos as an unregistered agent of Israel, according to his wife.

Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, an Italian attorney who married Papadopoulos roughly 90 days ago, claimed that Mueller had evidence her husband had worked on behalf of Israel without registering as a foreign agent during his time as an energy consultant, and prior to joining the Trump campaign. The claim was made in interviews with the Daily Caller and the Washington Post - where Simona also said George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to avoid the Israel-linked charges.

“I know he doesn’t have anything to do with Russia,” she told The Post. “We know he was under scrutiny because of his ties to Israel, not his ties to Russia. So what’s this about?”

In October 2015, Papadopoulos wrote a column for the Israeli publication Haaretz entitled “Natural Gas Isn’t Just about Israel.” He also attended a series of energy conferences in Israel, including one held in April 2016, just days after he was named to Trump’s campaign, according to Israeli media accounts.

During those years, he became acquainted with Eli Groner, who has served since 2015 as a top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. -WaPo

Simona's new claims are vastly different than what she said in January before she and George married - when she suggested to the Washington Post that Papadopoulos would be remembered like John Dean, the former White House counsel who flipped on Nixon's administration and became a key witness.

“There’s a lot to come,” she said then. “He was the first one to break a hole on all of this.”

On Tuesday, however, her tune had changed - saying that her earlier comments were misinterpreted and that she and George had reassessed events after learning that Cambridge professor Stefan Halper had been conducting espionage on the Trump campaign for the FBI. Halper hired Papadopoulos to write an energy paper in London in the fall of 2016, paying him $3,000 for his efforts.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/bombshell-claim-raises-new-questions-mueller-threatened-charge-papadopoulos

Americans Evacuate From US Consulate In China After Debilitating Sonic Attacks

Several US citizens have been evacuated from the US consulate in Guangzhou, China, after falling ill with various neurological symptoms from mysterious "sonic attacks" similar to incidents reported in Havana Cuba which left 20 State Department employees with serious injuries.

On Wednesday night, consulate worker Mark Lenzi and his family were evacuated after hearing strange noises over the course of several months, which Lenzi described as "marbles bouncing and hitting a floor then rolling on an incline with a static sound," according to the Washington Post.

At first, he and his wife thought that their neighbor — a fellow Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China — was responsible. The neighbor denied having anything to do with it.

A few months later, the headaches started — excruciating pain that lasted for days at a time. Lenzi, his wife, and their 3-year-old son experienced the same symptoms, which soon included chronic sleeplessness as well. Lenzi says that he asked his superiors for help but that they dismissed his concerns. Consulate doctors prescribed painkillers and Ambien, which did nothing to address the underlying causes of the problem. -WaPo

Lenzi then learned that his next-door neighbor had been evacuated from the consulate and flown back to the United States to undergo a thorough medical assessment - which concluded that the person was suffering from "mild traumatic brain injury."

The State Department issued a statement on May 23, warning that an unnamed "U.S. government employee in China recently reported subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure,” and urging anyone with “concerns about symptoms or medical problems that developed during or after a stay in China” to “consult a medical professional.”

The statement also said that the U.S. government was unaware of any other cases — a point strongly disputed by Lenzi, who insists that he had repeatedly informed both the embassy in Beijing and State Department headquarters in Washington of his family’s predicament. “Mark is a very capable guy,” says political consultant Michael Getto, a longtime friend of Lenzi’s. “If he says something is wrong or amiss, then it is.” -WaPo

The description of the sound - which the victim said produced abnormal sensations and pressures - sound eerily familiar to a series of similar "sonic attacks" that afflicted US embassy personnel in Havana, beginning shortly after President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race.

On May 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted the comparisons between the China incidents and the Cuban attacks during a House hearing, stating "The medical indications are very similar, and entirely consistent with, the medical indications that were taking place to Americans working in Cuba."

Meanwhile, a team of scientists at the University of Michigan say they may have found the source of the mysterious sounds. They said that two sources of ultrasounds - such as eavesdropping - may have been placed too closely together, provoking an intense sound like the one described by the victims, according to the Miami Herald.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/americans-evacuate-us-consulate-china-after-debilitating-sonic-attacks

"We Cannot Defy The US": European Refiners Fold To Trump, Will Stop Buying Iran Crude

For all of Europe's bluster, and increasingly vocal "resistance" to Trump unique approach to international politics, especially when it comes to Iran when Brussels swore it would defy the US president and continue business as usual with Tehran, it took Europe about a month to fold, and as Reuters reports European refiners are now unofficially winding down oil purchases from Iran, closing the door on a fifth of the OPEC member’s crude exports.

And since the only true leverage that Iran had vis-a-vis Europe was its deeply discounted crude oil, the shuttering of crude purchases from the Islamic republic will suddenly make European governments especially ambivalent whether to continue fighting Trump in hopes of salvaging the Iranian nuclear, when there is only downside left.

How did Trump win? By the implicit threat to sanctioning and cutting off Europe's financial institutions, and although European governments have not - yet - followed Washington by creating new sanctions, banks, insurers and shippers are gradually severing ties with Iran under pressure from the U.S. restrictions, making trade with Tehran complicated and risky, and if anything, all cash (or bitcoin).

Immediately after Trump announced on May 4 announced that the US is quitting the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, effectively making Iranian exports "radioactive" on the global scene, ministers from Germany, France and Britain protested vocally and repeatedly, urging U.S. officials to shield European companies from the sanctions, but the refiners have decided to not take any chances.

“We cannot defy the United States,” a senior source at Italy’s Saras, which operates the 300,000-barrels-per-day Sarroch refinery in Sardinia, told Reuters. Saras is determining how best to halt its purchasing of Iranian oil within the permitted 180 days, the source said, adding: “It is not clear yet what the U.S. administration can do but in practice we can get into trouble.”

Saras is hardly alone: virtually all other European brand refiners, including France’s Total, Italy’s Eni, Spain’s Repsol and Cepsa as well as Greece’s Hellenic Petroleum are preparing to halt purchases of Iranian oil. These refiners account for most of Europe’s purchases of Iranian crude, which represent around a fifth of the country’s oil exports.

Iran’s crude sales to foreign buyers averaged around 2.5 million bpd in recent months; and while the bulk of the exports go to Asia, roughly 500kbp/d in Iranian output will now be mothballed.

There is a few months before all purchases are cut off: the companies will continue to purchase cargoes until the sanctions take effect, after the 180-day wind down period ends on Nov. 4.

Europe’s largest refiner, Total, does not intend to request a waiver to continue crude oil trading with Iran after Nov. 4. Eni said it had an oil supply contract outstanding for the purchase of 2 million barrels per month, expiring at the end of the year.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/we-cannot-defy-us-european-refiners-fold-trump-will-stop-buying-iran-crude

Czech PM Rejects Merkel's "Flexible" EU Immigration Plan As Aftermath of Migrant Crisis Intensifies

European Union member states remained mostly divided to start June over how to embrace and share burdens of the aftermath of the migrant crisis in a troubling sign, that political divisions will continue to develop.

While millions of people have escaped the world’s worst war zones and poverty-stricken areas in Africa and the Middle East, they have made the treacherous journey by land and sea to Europe. In 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in Europe peaked at 1.26 million and triggered the current migration crisis, which has created unwanted stress for numerous member states in the Eurozone.

In particular, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has had enough with Brussels. Babis on Monday rejected a new “flexible” European Union strategy for refugee migration peddled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/czech-pm-rejects-merkels-flexible-eu-immigration-plan-aftermath-migrant-crisis

>>1657794

I agree with your hypothesis, the whole thing smells spy on both of their behalves like the movie, I think it was called the Smiths?

"Dollar Is King": Indonesia Joins India In Begging Fed To Stop Shrinking Its Balance Sheet

It's getting a little tight around the neck for emerging market central bankers.

On the same day that the governor of Malaysia's central bank quit, and just days after Urjit Patel, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, took the unprecedented step of writing an oped to the Federal Reserve, begging the US central bank to step tightening monetary conditions, and shrinking its balance sheet, thereby creating a global dollar shortage which has slammed emerging markets (and forced India into an unexpected rate hike overnight), Indonesia’s new central bank chief joined his Indian counterpart in calling on the Federal Reserve to be "more mindful" of the global repercussions of policy tightening amid the ongoing rout in emerging markets.

As Bloomberg reports, in his first interview with international media since he took office two weeks ago, Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo - who bears a remarkable resemblance to what Jamie Dimon would look like if he were about 40 pounds overweight - echoed what Patel said just days earlier, namely that the pace of the Fed’s balance sheet reduction was a key issue for central bankers across emerging markets.

As a reminder, the RBI Governor made exactly thew same comments earlier this week, arguing that slowing the pace of stimulus withdrawal at a time when the US Treasury is doubling down on debt issuance, would support global growth, as the alternative would be an emerging markets crisis that would spill over into developed markets.

In a thinly veiled warning addressing the Fed, Warjiyo said that "we know every country must decide their policy based on domestic circumstances but look, you have to take account of your actions and the impact of your actions to other countries, especially the emerging markets."

Actually, no it doesn't: the only thing the Fed has to take into account is what its private owners (see "Bernanke's Former Advisor: "People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned") ask and proceed accordingly.

The growing complaints from EM central bankers come at a time when the Fed continues to tighten monetary policy, and with another interest-rate hike expected next week, emerging markets across the globe are bracing for a further selloff. Bank Indonesia has already raised its key rate twice to help bolster its currency, while the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday became the latest to move, increasing its policy rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%, surprising a majority of analysts who expected no change.

“Communication is very important,” Warjiyo said. “We are looking for the Fed to communicate more clearly the intention of their policy so the market can understand clearly and also react and all the central banks can also anticipate and consider it in their policy making.”

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/dollar-king-indonesia-joins-india-begging-fed-stop-shrinking-its-balance-sheet

Elite Soldiers Testing Lockheed Martin ONYX Exoskeleton

Elite soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York, will be the first to test exoskeleton technologies from Lockheed Martin that reduces the metabolic cost of transport to improve endurance and reduce fatigue on the modern battlefield.

The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), a developer and tester of new material systems for U.S. Army soldiers, including the Future Force Warrior System, partnered with the 10th Mountain Division in February to prepare the transfer of the exoskeleton technology to the Army.

According to the Army Times, NSRDEC has spearheaded the movement in transferring exoskeleton technologies to the Army. One of the more advanced exoskeleton technologies that will soon be fielded is designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

Army Times spoke with Lockheed officials about the next-generation powered lower-body exoskeleton, ONYX, which has demonstrated its overall capacity to enhance mobility and dramatically reduce fatigue of its users during previous pilot tests.

“Despite the variation in cost of transport difference between participants, the knee-exoskeleton consistently decreased the cost of transport of walking up an incline with a load,” said a report from the University of Michigan in a 2017 evaluation of ONYX.

Lockheed officials said the ONYX device would complete three phases of testing with the Army, starting as early as Fall 2018

ONYX™ boosts leg capacity for physically demanding tasks such as lifting or dragging heavy loads, walking with load, or walking up or down hills. (Source: Lockheed Martin)

“The first phase will include a six-month development effort in which researchers work on the quality of life portions of making the knee- and hip-focused device fit comfortably and correctly to the soldier’s body,” said Keith Maxwell, senior program engineer of Lockheed Martin’s exoskeleton technologies.

The second phase of the program will start in 1Q19 to upgrade “faster, quieter actuators to the device,” said Army Times. Then the NSRDEC will transition into the third phase in late 2019 for ruggedized operational tests. Army officials told the Army Times that the exoskeleton could be fielded in a combat zone as early as 2021.

ONYX is embedded with sensors that report speed, direction, and angle of movement to a micro-computer attached to the user’s hip. Based on the compilation of data in real-time, the machine works with the human using electromechanical actuators at the knees, to assist knee flexion and extension with limited latency to complete a task.

Among other benefits, ONYX enforces orthopedic alignment to help evenly distribute weight and avoid skeletal overstress and pressure injuries. (Source: Lockheed)

In other words, ONYX will enable the solider to go the extra mile while carrying mission-essential equipment by boosting leg capacity. Lockheed Martin said the solider can now carry heavier weapons, increase the ability to cross rugged terrain and complete combat missions without overstressing the body.

“Despite the variation in cost of transport difference between participants, the knee-exoskeleton consistently decreased the cost of transport of walking up an incline with a load,” said Lockheed Martin in a statement.

It seems as the Army is just that much closer in turning its soldiers into cybernetic organisms, which will eventually lead to Skynet robots.

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-06/elite-soldiers-testing-lockheed-martin-onyx-exoskeleton

>>1657855

Yes and Comey's former place of employment as well, interesting to me was the use of the name

Skynet robots. Wondering if this is possibly a Sky Event…..

>>1657823

Did anyone consider the scene, This is a FEMA meeting, wouldn't there be a connection with California's new water restrictions? >>1656981

>>1657857

I definitely agree with that line of thinking.

>>1657884

I remember reading sometime ago that California had actually caused their drought problems through the use of engineering re-routing water to other area's cutting off important contributaries. This could be a warning to CA to fix the problems they created on their own.

>>1657908

Yes, both embassies, Cuba, China, and the White House also…had issues in certain rooms.

Lockheed wins $928 million missile contract as hypersonic arms race heats up

Lockheed Martin, the defense company behind the Joint Strike Fighter, won a contract worth as much as $928 million to develop an Air Force missile that can fly five times faster than the speed of sound.

The air-launched weapon is part of the U.S. effort to catch up to countries such as China and Russia in so-called hypersonics, missiles capable of speeds of Mach 5 or higher, while honing America's edge in military technology.

Hypersonics are among an array of state-of-the-art equipment in which the U.S. faces a 21st-century arms race, according to a strategy outlined by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in January. Developing the weapons, along with capabilities such as robotics, directed energy or lasers and biotechnology, is vital to "ensure we will be able to fight and win the wars of the future," he wrote.

The U.S. government's concerns about military readiness were heightened earlier this year when Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged about the creation of new strategic nuclear weapons systems including a maneuverable hypersonic glider that he said could pierce U.S. defenses.

Adversaries are investing heavily in such weapons with the goal of deploying them in "the next few years," Air Force Gen. John Hyten of U.S. Strategic Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March "We need to prioritize and accelerate development if we are to field our own capability in the near term.

The hypersonic contract awarded to Lockheed, which has flown more of the missiles than any other U.S. company, covers stages of development from design through flight testing and early operational capability. Primary work sites will be in Huntsville, Ala; Valley Forge, Pa.; and Orlando, Fla.

"Our goal is rapid development and fielding,” said John Snyder, the company's vice president of Air Force Strategic Programs, "and this contract is the first step in achieving that goal."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business/lockheed-wins-928-million-missile-contract-as-hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up

New shutdown threat looms as Democrats oppose spending bill

House Democrats are threatening to vote against the first wave of fiscal 2019 spending bills, forcing Republicans into a familiar fight with themselves over government funding that could leave them headed for another government shutdown threat in September.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is urging Democrats to vote against an upcoming “mini-bus” package that pulls together a few spending bills into one bill.

Without Democratic support, the measure could falter thanks to the usual opposition from staunch fiscal conservatives.

The House plans to vote Friday on the first bill — the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2019. It’s the first in what House and Senate Republicans plan as a series of minibus measures that would allow Congress to avoid a yearslong habit of passing nearly all federal spending in one massive omnibus package.

Pelosi, however, told fellow Democrats to vote against the bill, even though the top-line funding for all 2019 nonmandatory spending will adhere to a bipartisan deal secured in March.

Pelosi’s opposition stems from provisions within each bill that many Democrats oppose, such as one permitting firearms on land controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers and language that would repeal an Obama-era water regulation and place new limitations on the Clean Water Act.

“The GOP mini-bus package on the Floor this week is partisan, wrong-headed and dangerous,” Pelosi wrote to fellow Democrats.

If Democrats uniformly oppose the measure, Republicans could have a hard time passing it on their own.

The House Freedom Caucus, made up of three dozen fiscal conservatives, isn’t sure it wants to support the bill yet, which boosts spending by billions of dollars above what President Trump requested and is part of an overall fiscal 2019 spending agreement that will increase the deficit.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said he fears the House is following a strategy that will hold the most difficult-to-pass bills for much later in the year, leaving little time for a resolution and requiring a last-minute omnibus once again.

“If you start off with the easy ones to pass we’re going to end up with an omnibus in September,” Meadows said. “For me, I want to see what the ultimate strategy is. We’re not taking an official position. I think we’ve got to get back together and talk to some of our folks.”

Republicans need many in the Freedom Caucus to help pass the minibus if Democrats oppose it.

Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, a key appropriator, said he believes the Freedom Caucus lawmakers will ultimately support the bill.

“In the end, I think they will,” Simpson said. “At least I hope.”

Pelosi is wishing for the opposite result, and she told Democratic colleagues that this outcome would empower the minority party in the spending negotiations that still lie head. Republicans would have to turn to them for support.

“House Democrats’ strong opposition to Republicans’ cynical strategy last year gave us powerful leverage in the omnibus,” Pelosi wrote to Democrats. “That leverage enabled us to fight off Republicans’ poison pill riders and secure dramatic increases in funding for key priorities, such as veterans, health and biomedical research, the opioid crisis, education and child care, and election security. That included nearly doubling funding for Child Care Development Block Grants, achieving a $3 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health, and providing $380 million in Election Security Grants.”

Freedom Caucus conservatives know they too have leverage and are withholding support, at least for now.

“I have not decided on that,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key Freedom Caucus member who is also running to succeed Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told the Washington Examiner.

If the minibus measures can’t pass Congress, Congress could be forced to consider another omnibus measure before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.

Fights over the size and contents of past omnibus measures has provoked spending fights and constant threats of partial federal government closures. It’s a scenario the GOP majority has been striving to avoid on the orders of Trump, who warned Congress in March he won’t sign another massive omnibus.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is keeping the Senate in session through most of August in part to pass spending bills, he said Tuesday.

He was asked what would happen if the House can’t pass minibus measures and send them to the Senate, which is now an increasing possibility.

“I’m not going to answer every hypothetical,” McConnell responded.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/new-shutdown-threat-looms-as-democrats-oppose-spending-bill

Trump May Invite Kim Jong-Un To Mar-A-Lago Hotel If Summit Goes Well

President Donald Trump may invite North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, for a hopefully friendly post-summit get-together, Bloomberg reports.

Next week, the president is expected to meet with Jong-Un in Singapore for a highly anticipated summit to discuss North Korea’s hopeful denuclearization.

Officials say that Trump is ready to walk out of the meeting if it does not go well. If it does go well, however, he is willing to invite the Korean dictator to his Mar-a-Lago resort.

As Kellyanne Conway said there may be several meetings before any action takes place. As she told reporters, “There could be more than one meeting — more that one conversation.”

Though no summit schedule has been released to the public, the meeting is set to happen at the Capella Hotel at 9:00 a.m. on June 12 and last for two days.

http:// www.dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/trump-invite-jong-un-mar-a-lago/