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President Trump said Bill Pulte will start as acting DNI on June 19. Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton is scheduled for June 17:
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"I don't know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today," President Trump said on a telerally supporting GA Lt. Governor Burt Jones. "They have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon, something that we insisted on; that was the whole purpose. That was 95 percent of it."
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WH officially sends Jay Clayton DNI nom to the Senate
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Asked about Randy Feenstra losing the GOP primary for Iowa governor after he backed him, Trump says, "Had I been given the proper information, which I don't think I was, I probably would have endorsed the other person. Or not endorsed at all. But I would have endorsed the other person. The other person was much more Trump, as you know, than Randy."
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President Trump says Vice President JD Vance will potentially be at an agreement signing with Iran as soon as this weekend: "The strait (of Hormuz) will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be soon -- very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe. I won’t be able to be there, but JD will be there."
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"Just made a great settlement of the war with Iran," President Trump says in the Oval Office, calling the agreement "subject to finalization of documents." "We should get done over the next few days, probably have a signing, maybe in Europe."
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President Trump says he's canceled "the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening" "Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly"
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OG ANUNOBY WITH THE PUTBACK. KNICKS COMPLETE THE 29-PT COMEBACK FOR THE WIN. LARGEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY 🤯
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"Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files" is the title of @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan's explosive excerpt from their forthcoming book "Regime Change." Now comes the freakout over the "freakout" article. The New York Times published the "Regime Change" excerpt at 6 a.m. ET today, and it immediately intensified the White House's anxiety about the book. Haberman and Swan have detailed reporting from inside the Situation Room, "a guarded space used not to weigh a foreign threat but to steer the president around a political problem concerning a notorious dead pedophile." They describe highly sensitive conversations about containing the scandal and convey quotes from President Trump, VP JD Vance, chief of staff Susie Wiles and many others. After digesting the in-the-room detail, readers can't help but wonder: Who leaked and why? Triggered by the book, "there is a massive leak hunt underway," a person who has detected the hunt told me this morning. All of this, of course, is likely to stoke even more interest in the book, which comes out June 23... cnn.it/4amyNBy

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Marjorie Taylor Greene on President Trump claiming he never guaranteed no war on the campaign trail: "[His staff] should be showing him his previous videos, because the internet does not forgive."
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Taylor and her friends wearing Stevie Knicks tshirts at the game. Big Knicks fans.
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President Trump spoke to Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst from the Situation Room telling him bombing will halt shortly, after top Iranian officials called asked him to stop. Yingst says at one point he was put on speakerphone during the call and VP chimed in
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Algae cleanup at the Reflecting Pool this morning. Interior Dept says it’s "residual algae from the supply lines which have been sitting dormant for 8 weeks. It’s part of the normal startup process. We are removing the algae, and the nanobubblers will maintain the pool and keep it algae free.”
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I walked out there this morning to ask people for their thoughts on the renovation when one person pointed out that he saw algae. Walking along the waters edge, I spotted a worker vacuuming it up. Interior says they should have a firmer timeline tomorrow on when the residual algae will be cleared tomorrow.
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President Trump today: "Last month, I directed our Great U.S. Military to execute a secret mission to support Oil Tankers and other Commercial Ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, I am pleased to announce that this effort has resulted in more than 100 MILLION Barrels of Oil making its way through the Strait, and into the Open Market. More than 200 Commercial Ships have safely traveled through the Strait. This wildly successful effort is because the UNITED STATES of AMERICA CONTROLS the Strait of Hormuz — NOT Iran."
🚫CLAIM: Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels during transits through the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE. ✅TRUTH: Project Freedom has not resumed, and U.S. forces are not currently escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
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