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VOL. CLXVI . .. No. 57,610 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017 $2.50 Party vs. Base: KUSHNER IS SAID Rift on the Left TO HAVE MULLED Over RUSSIA CHANNEL Pressure for Victory in a Georgia Runoff TRUMP TOWER MEETING

By JONATHAN MARTIN Aim Was a Secret Means and ALEXANDER BURNS BOZEMAN, Mont. — The for Communications Democratic defeat in a hard- fought special House election in During Transition Montana on Thursday high- lighted the practical limitations on liberal opposition to President This article is by Maggie Ha- Trump and exposed a deepening berman, Mark Mazzetti and Matt rift between cautious party lead- Apuzzo. ers, who want to pick their shots in WASHINGTON — Jared Kush- battling for control of Congress in ner, President Trump’s son-in-law 2018, and more militant grass- and senior adviser, spoke in De- roots activists who want to fight cember with Russia’s ambassador the Republicans everywhere. to the about estab- , the Democratic lishing a secret communications nominee in Montana, staked his channel between the Trump tran- campaign on the Republican sition team and Moscow to dis- health care bill, but he still lost by cuss strategy in Syria and other six percentage points, even after policy issues, according to three his Republican opponent for the people with knowledge of the dis- state’s lone House seat, Greg Gi- cussion. anforte, was charged with assault- The conversation between Mr. ing a reporter on the eve of the Kushner and the ambassador, election. Sergey I. Kislyak, took place dur- The margin in this race was rel- ing a meeting at Trump Tower MELISSA GOLDEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES atively small in a state that Mr. that Mr. Trump’s presidential Trump carried by more than 20 transition team did not acknowl- Women on the March percentage points last year. But edge at the time. Also present at Pvt. Kayla Padgett, right, with her squad. The first women to complete Army infantry training see a towering milestone. Page A12. Mr. Quist’s defeat disappointed the meeting was Michael T. Flynn, grass-roots Democrats who fi- the retired general who would be- nanced nearly his entire cam- come Mr. Trump’s short-lived na- paign while the national party de- tional security adviser, the three clined to spend heavily on what it people said. considered, from the outset, an all- It is unclear who first proposed G.O.P., Foiled Mild in Mideast, but Elbows Are Out in Europe but-lost cause in daunting political the communications channel, but territory. the people familiar with the meet- Mr. Cohn said, “I think the presi- This tension — between party ing said the idea was to have Mr. On Health Bill, dent learned how important it is By MARK LANDLER Trump Is Rattling a leaders who will not compete for Flynn speak directly with a senior and MICHAEL D. SHEAR for the United States to show lead- seats they think they cannot win military official in Moscow to dis- May Move On ership.” TAORMINA, Sicily — “Trump Continent Eager and an energized base loath to cuss Syria and other security is- shoves his allies,” read the front Still, the tone was a notable de- concede any contests to Republi- sues. The communications chan- page of ’s Le Soir. “Boor in to Jab Back parture from the visit to the Mid- cans — risks demoralizing activ- nel was never set up, the people By JENNIFER STEINHAUER chief” declared Germany’s finan- dle East, where Mr. Trump ists who keep getting their hopes said. and ROBERT PEAR cial newspaper Handelsblatt. An scrupulously avoided lecturing up. It also points to a painful reali- The three people were not au- the Saudis on human rights or the ty for Democrats: Despite the WASHINGTON — Shortly af- editorial in Le Monde called him Mr. Trump’s bluster. thorized to discuss the December Israelis on their construction of boiling fury on the left, the resist- meeting and spoke on the condi- ter President Trump took office, “brutal and heavy-handed.” “Everybody sees that he’s try- President Trump is winning as Jewish settlements in the West ance toward Mr. Trump has yet to tion of anonymity. The White Senator Mitch McConnell of Ken- ing to be a tough negotiator with many headlines in Europe as he Bank. His harsh statements in Eu- translate into a major electoral House declined to comment on tucky, the majority leader, met pri- the Europeans, whom he appar- did in the Middle East. But as he rope suggested that he could be victory. Friday night. vately with his colleagues to dis- ently views as a bunch of weak- arrived in the beguiling seaside most divisive American leader to In part, this is because the few cuss the Republican agenda. Re- lings,” said Daniel Gros, the direc- News of the discussion was first town of Taormina for a meeting of join this rarefied club since it was special elections for Congress so pealing the tor of the Center for European Pol- reported by . the Group of 7 countries on Friday, first organized in 1975. far have taken place in red-lean- was at the top, he said. But replac- icy Studies, a think tank in Brus- The revelation has stoked new the smooth statesman celebrated In Brussels on Thursday, he told ing districts, where the near-daily ing it would be really hard. sels. “But nobody sees any use in questions about Mr. Kushner’s in Saudi Arabia and Israel is now European leaders that Germany barrage of new controversies in- Mr. McConnell was right. firing back. They think there will connections to Russian officials at being portrayed as the ugly Amer- was “very bad” and complained volving Mr. Trump has not dam- The many meetings Republi- be very little action on trade. Ulti- a time when the F.B.I. is conduct- ican, trampling America’s friends aged him irreparably and where cans held to discuss a Senate about “chronic underpayments” ing a wide-ranging investigation and trashing the trans-Atlantic al- mately, they think it’s harmless.” health care bill have exposed deep Continued on Page A7 Continued on Page A16 Continued on Page A15 liance. On Friday evening, White fissures within the party that are Whether it was lecturing NATO House officials reported that Mr. almost as large as the differences members for their inadequate Trump’s first day of meetings with between Republicans and contributions to the alliance, the leaders of Britain, Germany, Democrats. Elements of a bill that scolding Germany for its trade France, , Canada and passed the House this month have surplus with the United States, or had been lively and productive. divided Republicans. pushing the leader of Montenegro The leaders discussed terrorism, Mr. McConnell faces an increas- out of his way at a photo shoot, Mr. North Korea, Iran, trade and cli- ingly onerous math problem. He Trump has switched from mate change, they said, and there can afford to lose only two Repub- diplomat to disrupter. was even hope that the United licans if he is to get a bill through It is a more familiar role for the States and Europe might stake out the Senate, and that would require president, one his aides say will some common ground on the fu- the help of Vice President Mike pay dividends for the United ture of the Paris climate accord. Pence, who would have to cast the States in the form of better trade Gary D. Cohn, the director of tiebreaking vote. But at least deals and more equitable security the National Economic Council, three senators in the party are dia- arrangements. compared the atmosphere to a metrically opposed to the views of But critics say that his behavior family dinner with his three at least another three, so the path overlooks the fact that America’s daughters, in which all those at to agreement is narrow. most durable alliances are in Eu- the table are confident about their Republicans are roughly split rope, not the Middle East, and that views. “There was a lot of what I Continued on Page A14 Europeans are not likely to buy would call pushing and prodding,”

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, 1928-2017 A Security Adviser With Decades of Influence

ministrations, including that of ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES By DANIEL LEWIS Donald J. Trump, whose election Eric Trump, who manages the family’s golf business, at a tournament in Virginia on Thursday. he did not support and whose for- Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawk- eign policy, he found, lacked co- ish strategic theorist who was na- herence. tional security adviser to Presi- Mr. Brzezinski was nominally a dent Jimmy Carter in the tumul- Ethical Hazards Dot the President’s Fairways tuous years of the Iran hostage Democrat, with views that led him crisis and the Soviet invasion of to speak out, for example, against cept this scene was playing out on the pitfalls associated with a busi- Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died the “greed,” as he put it, of an This article is by Eric Lipton, a course here in suburban Wash- nessman president unwilling to on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. American system that com- Steve Eder and Ben Protess. ington owned by the president of make a clean break with his com- He was 89. pounded inequality. He was one of the United States. mercial empire, particularly in the His death, at Inova Fairfax Hos- JACK MANNING/THE NEW YORK TIMES the few foreign policy experts to STERLING, Va. — On the green The tournament that opened golf business, where Mr. Trump is pital in Falls Church, was an- Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1981. warn against the invasion of Iraq at the 11th hole, the golf stars John Thursday at Trump National Golf testing the limits of his own ethics nounced on Friday by his daugh- in 2003. Daly and Rocco Mediate sized up Club represents a milestone in a policy. ter, Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of with considerable influence in But in at least one respect — his their opening tournament putts. strategy that has propelled golf to Over the past decade, the Trump the MSNBC program “Morning global affairs, both before and rigid hatred of the Soviet Union — Nearby, a Golf Channel crew the center of the Trump family’s Organization has stockpiled golf Joe.” long after his official tour of duty he had stood to the right of many swung its cameras into place. And fortune. courses, spending hundreds of mil- Like his predecessor Henry A. in the White House. In essays, in- Republicans, including Mr. Kissin- a pack of spectators lined up to As the first P.G.A. tournament lions of dollars to buy, remake and Kissinger, Mr. Brzezinski was a terviews and television appear- ger and President Richard M. watch it all. held at one of Donald J. Trump’s upgrade a dozen different clubs foreign-born scholar (he in Po- ances over the decades, he cast a Nixon. And during his four years It looked like an ordinary day on courses since he entered the White and resorts from the Hudson Val- land, Mr. Kissinger in Germany) sharp eye on six successive ad- Continued on Page A9 the professional golf circuit — ex- House, the event also illustrates Continued on Page A11

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