May 15, 2017

Trump welcomes Abu Dhabi Crown Prince

Associated Press

President Trump welcomed a United Arab Emirates leader, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to the White House Monday. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he thinks the Crown Prince loves the U.S., which he said was important.

Get smarter: The Crown Prince-Trump meeting comes ahead of a meeting with Saudi Arabia that could serve as a reset for U.S.-Middle East cooperation ever since Obama's decision to not follow through on the red-line Obama set on Syria's chemical weapons, per Fox Business News. Plus, the OPEC meeting is coming up as America's shale oil is flooding the market and checking OPEC's influence — read Axios' Ben Geman's preview of the OPEC meeting here.

Trump heads to Saudi Arabia to kick off his first foreign trip at the end of this month.

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Rebecca Falconer, Orion Rummler

Updated 2 mins ago - Politics & Policy

Protests for George Floyd continue for 10th day

Thousands of protesters march over the Brooklyn Bridge on June 4 in New York City. Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

All four former Minneapolis police officers have been charged for George Floyd’s death and are in custody, including Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, who were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

The latest: A man in Buffalo, New York bled out of one ear and lay motionless on the ground after police pushed him backward at a protest. He was later taken to the hospital and appeared to be alert, per a local reporter on the scene. Officers arrested five people during the protests in Niagara Square, a Buffalo Police Department statement noted.

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Orion Rummler

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Trump says he will campaign against Lisa Murkowski after her support for Mattis

Trump with Barr and Meadows outside St. John's Episcopal church in Washington, D.C. on June 1. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

President Trump tweeted on Thursday that he would endorse "any candidate" with a pulse who runs against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

Driving the news: Murkowski said on Thursday that she supported former defense secretary James Mattis' condemnation of Trump over his response to protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing. She described Mattis' statement as "true, honest, necessary and overdue," Politico's Andrew Desiderio reports.

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Dave Lawler

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The president vs. the Pentagon

Trump visits Mattis and the Pentagon in 2018. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty

Over the course of just a few hours, President Trump was rebuffed by the Secretary of Defense over his call for troops in the streets and accused by James Mattis, his former Pentagon chief, of trampling the Constitution for political gain.

Why it matters: Current and former leaders of the U.S. military are drawing a line over Trump's demand for a militarized response to the protests and unrest that have swept the country over the killing of George Floyd by police.

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