President Barack Obama talks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, before the start of a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, June 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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11:0: PBO attends the second G-20 plenary session
1:30: Attends the third G-20 plenary session
2:45: Attends a working lunch
5:20: Attends the closing ceremony of the G-20 Summit
5:45: Holds a bilateral meeting with President Hu of China
7:30: Holds a press conference
8:40: Departs Los Cabos, Mexico
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TPM: A majority of voters agreed with President Obama’s decision to halt deportation of young undocumented immigrants, according to a new Bloomberg Poll out Tuesday … 64 percent of likely voters agree with the new policy, while just 30 percent disagreed.
Along party lines, only Republicans disagreed the move, with 56 percent of likely GOP voters opposed to the policy. Close to 9 in 10 Democrats (86 percent) liked the move. A large majority of independents, 66 percent, backed the decision, while just 26 percent opposed it.
…. Yesterday, a Latino Decisions poll showed that enthusiasm for Obama among Latino voters jumped significantly after the announcement.
More here
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Eugene Robinson: Sí, se puede. Yes, it can be done.
President Obama showed last week that it’s possible to find a reasonable, humane solution for at least 800,000 young people who were illegally brought into this country as children. All you need is a moral compass and a heart.
Seems to me that Obama’s unilateral decision to let these non-citizens remain here without fear of deportation should have quieted critics who bray and whine about a supposed lack of bold presidential leadership. It didn’t, of course.
Where is Mitt Romney on all of this, you ask? Excellent question…..
…. It’s tiresome having to spend so much time trying to figure out what Romney really believes. If anything, I mean.
Full article here
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ThinkProgress: The 7 Major Issues Mitt Romney Won’t Take A Position On….
1. Romney won’t say whether he would undo Obama’s decision to end deportations of DREAM-eligible immigrants….
2. Romney won’t say whether he’d support the Paycheck Fairness Act…..
3. Romney won’t specify which tax loopholes he’d close….
4. Romney won’t say which federal agencies he’d eliminate….
5. Romney won’t say whether he supports the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
6. Romney won’t say whether he’d support full reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act….
7. Romney won’t say whether say whether he’d eliminate the “carried interest” tax break for private equity partners….
Full post here
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Love this from BuzzFeed – ‘Gingrich ditches the press, but no one wants his autograph at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s meeting in Washington, D.C.’
Look at that line!
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Morning everyone 
President Obama arrives at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos
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NYT: President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, finally had their face-to-face meeting on Monday, as Mr. Obama pressed Mr. Putin to work with him to ease President Bashar al-Assad of Syria out of power, a move increasingly viewed by the West as the only way to end the bloodshed that has been under way there for more than a year.
But after a two-hour meeting, it was unclear whether Mr. Obama had had any success bringing Mr. Putin around. “We agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war,” Mr. Obama said, sitting next to the Russian leader.
Mr. Putin said, “We have found many common points on this issue.” He said the two countries would continue discussions.
Mr. Obama described the meeting — rescheduled after Mr. Putin canceled his trip to an economic summit meeting Mr. Obama hosted at Camp David last month — “candid, thoughtful and thorough.”
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…. with French President Francois Hollande
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… with Australian PM Julia Gillard
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…. with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
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… with Mexican President Felipe Calderon
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From yesterday:
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U.S. residents in Mexico celebrate as President Barack Obama’s motorcade drives past in Los Cabos, June 18
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Lunch with Barack, June 15th – Photo by Christopher Dilts for Obama for America
President Barack Obama departs O’Hare International Airport in Chicago for Los Cabos, Mexico to attend the G20 summit.
The President will be at the Summit until Tuesday evening when he returns to DC.
