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-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) Today in 5 Lines Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, signaled that he’s willing to cooperate with the special counsel, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he plans to “put family and country first.” Trump said he’s interviewed four candidates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and plans to meet with at least two more. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that the disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a third woman in 2006. The FBI arrested a man for allegedly plotting a terror attack on a Fourth of July parade in Cleveland. The White House announced that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will leave for North Korea on July 5 to continue talks about denuclearization. Today on The Atlantic ‘His Brother’s Keeper’: As the chief spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department, it’s T.J. Smith’s job to announce each new homicide. On July 2, 2017, he informed the city about homicide victim 173: his younger brother. (Luke Mullins) ‘I Am Not a Villain of This Story’: In an interview with ABC, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said he plans to “put family and country first.” Will he turn on Trump? (David A. Graham) A Court Without Kennedy: There’s still a great deal of uncertainty about what the future of abortion rights will look like, writes Mary Ziegler. Populism South of the Border: Mexico’s new president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has promised to take the country in a new direction. It can go one of two ways.

ABC has announced that they are canceling the show Roseanne after star Roseanne Barr's racist comments. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching…

Despite the possibility of a breakthrough with North Korea, former CIA and National Security Agency head retired Gen. Michael Hayden had some chilling words on ABC’s “Powerhouse Politics” podcast. “Overall, we are less safe” as a country under President Donald Trump, said Gen. Hayden, who blamed the current instability under Trump in part on a “post-truth culture.” One big change, he said, is that under Trump, America can’t be trusted as the same force for stability that it’s been historically. We are the most disruptive force in the world today,” he said. “It’s not just this administration, but American society is broadly in a post-truth culture in which decisions are based less on data and fact and evidence and more on emotions, preference, fear, and anxiety.” When they came on air, hosts Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein had just learned the news that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had three Americans freed from North Korea with him on a plane, returning to the United States. Hayden said the nation should celebrate this moment and congratulate the administration on its diplomatic breakthrough and the hostage release. But he still had serious doubts about trusting North Korea's dictator Kim Jung Un. Hayden also wonders if the North Korean leader is playing his own game of cat-and-mouse. “The most dramatic progress made on North Korean missiles and nuclear efforts has taken place in the last 18 months, and we may be where we are because Kim’s decided he’s got what he needs now. He can park the car. He gets a sense of equivalency on the international scene.“

The government agreed to do this in the form of an inquiry into the ABC’s competitive neutrality – and broadened it to include SBS. And now we know the shape of this competitive neutrality inquiry. This all seems perfectly reasonable, until you remember this is mainly about online media. Read more: In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC Mark Scott foresaw this when he was managing director of the ABC and drove the broadcaster hard into the digital sphere. There, it refers to the requirement in the ABC Act that the ABC “take account of the broadcasting services provided by the commercial and community broadcasting sectors of the Australian Broadcasting system.” In other words, the ABC is discouraged from just replicating what the commercial broadcasters do. Just its news services. That’s the part of the ABC that Hanson detests. Yet, if there is one category of program content that most obviously and unmistakably distinguishes the ABC from commercial broadcasters, it’s news. Time for responses Then the issues paper asks “other stakeholders” – basically the ABC and SBS’s commercial broadcasting rivals - a range of questions about ways in which they think they may have been harmed by any undue competitive advantage enjoyed by the public broadcasters. Read more: The ABC is not siphoning audiences from Fairfax It also acknowledges in the issues paper that it has to dance its way between a number of other current inquiries, including the Australian and Children’s Content Review, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s digital platforms inquiry and the broader Treasury review of the country’s overall competitive neutrality policy.

Today in 5 Lines During an interview on ABC’s The View, adult-film star Stormy Daniels released a sketch of the man she claims threatened her to “leave Trump alone” in 2011. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced that his office may have discovered evidence of criminal wrongdoing by state Governor Eric Greitens, who denied the allegations. Representative Charlie Dent said he will resign from Congress “in the coming weeks,” after announcing in December that he would not seek reelection in 2018. Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the Supreme Court’s four liberal justices to strike down a law that allowed the government to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes. During a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Trump said North and South Korea have his “blessing” to discuss the end of their 68-year war. Today on The Atlantic More Sean News: Sean Hannity denies that Michael Cohen was his lawyer, but Rosie Gray reports that the Fox News host has used the legal services of two other lawyers with close links to Trump. : To understand what happens next in the Michael Cohen case, here are all the people you need to know about. (Natasha Bertrand) The Sanctions That Never Came: The White House’s backpedaling on new sanctions against Russia reveals a broader policy battle churning within the administration. (Krishnadev Calamur) The Oldest Trick in the Book: One of the easiest ways to hack America’s democratic institutions is through racism, writes Vann R. Newkirk II. Snapshot What We’re Reading He’s Doing It Wrong: Jack Shafer argues that former FBI Director James Comey doesn’t seem to realize that his self-righteous posturing in recent television interviews is actually evoking sympathy for Donald Trump.

Former senior FBI agents have accused James Comey of damaging the agency’s reputation and “playing a dangerous game” with the Russia investigations by going on the offensive with an explosive book and media interviews. Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth Lies, and Leadership, is being published on Tuesday and has been previewed in the Guardian and some other outlets. And in a lengthy interview with ABC on Sunday night, the former director of the FBI said Donald Trump was morally unfit to be president. There is a total lack of dignity. He, and a number of other FBI employees who worked directly for him, have damaged the agency,” Nancy Savage, executive director of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, said of Comey’s book and interview. Savage, who was an agent for 30 years and was president of the FBI special agents association while serving, before she retired in 2011, told the Guardian it was highly inappropriate for Comey to talk about matters relating to the president that are currently under investigation. These issues are among those under investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller and two Senate committees. Former senior agent Bobby Chacon said: “The majority of people I have spoken to since Sunday night think it’s unfortunate timing. He said there were “still plenty of people” in the agency who supported Comey but many were upset at him “standing on a soapbox”. But he said that he believed, and had heard from serving agents, that Comey’s speaking out was only fuel to Trump’s criticism of the agency.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt is under increasing pressure over a rental arrangement he had with a leading energy sector lobbyist. Veterans affairs chief David Shulkin says he was fired: 'I did not resign' Read more Leading opposition figures went on the offensive on Sunday, the Democratic Alabama senator Doug Jones saying Pruitt was in “real trouble” and “may be on his way out” over the deal, which was first reported by ABC, Bloomberg and the Associated Press. The Vermont independent Bernie Sanders said the former attorney general of Oklahoma was “nothing more than a front man for the fossil fuel industry” and should appear before the Senate environment committee. Pruitt was already one of a number of Trump appointees dogged by controversy over the use of public money for travel and other expenses. Nonetheless, as a professed climate science skeptic he has thrived in the Trump administration, slashing environmental regulations often established under Barack Obama. Over about six months in 2017, the AP reported this week, Pruitt paid $50 a night to stay in a Capitol Hill condominium in which three units belong to a corporation co-owned by the wife of J Steven Hart, chair and chief executive of lobbying firm Williams and Jensen. The firm’s clients include Exxon Mobil and liquefied natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy, both with billions at stake in decisions over which Pruitt presides. At least once while renting the room, Pruitt met a lobbyist from Hart’s firm at the EPA. Veterans affairs secretary David Shulkin, who faced controversy over travel taken with his wife but opposed privatisation of his department, left his job this week. Shulkin said he was fired.

Today in 5 Lines During a speech meant to promote his infrastructure plan, President Trump touted his proposed border wall and discussed topics ranging from North Korea to ABC’s Roseanne. Hours after President Trump announced that White House physician Ronny Jackson would replace David Shulkin as secretary of veterans affairs, Shulkin published an op-ed in The New York Times in which he blamed his ouster on “the ambitions of people who want to put VA health care in the hands of the private sector.” Russia said it will expel 60 U.S. diplomats, matching the number of Russian diplomats the Trump administration ordered to leave the country this week in response to the poisoning of a former intelligence agent in England. Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that John Huber, a Utah prosecutor, is investigating Republican accusations against the FBI. A federal judge denied a motion from Stormy Daniels’s attorney to depose Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen. But the machines are unable to provide it. (Megan Garber) Who Is Person A? : The latest court filing from the special counsel alludes to an operative associated with Russia’s intelligence services, Paul Manafort, and Rick Gates. (Rachel Donadio) How Do Mormons Make Time for Their Families? (Jasmine C. Lee, The New York Times) Testing, Testing Hi readers, Elaine here. We’ll highlight the day’s news and The Atlantic pieces making sense of it all.

After quitting Twitter late last year, Roseanne Barr is dipping her toe back into social media, but this time politics is off limits. The outspoken star of ABC’s revival of comedy hit Roseanne (Tuesdays, 8 ET/PT), announced her retirement from social media in December after getting into an online feud with people who responded harshly to tweets praising President Trump and criticizing his election foe, Hillary Clinton, and former president Obama. In response to the blowback, she tweeted: "i won't be censored or silence chided or corrected and continue to work. bye!" In the series, Barr's character also is a Trump supporter, a political perspective not regularly seen on film and TV. She fights with but still loves her sister, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), a Jill Stein voter. I don’t want to get anyone mad at me. I’ll try to find another way to say what is important for me,” says Barr, acknowledging she didn’t want to hurt her iconic show’s return. “I want people to watch it and love it.” Part of the problem is that many people don’t separate Roseanne the character from Roseanne the person. “I’m fine with that.