President Trump held an impromptu press conference on

1. President Trump held an impromptu press conference on Wednesday following a comment made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Trump was "engaged in a cover-up." Trump indicated that he was unwilling to work with Democrats until "phony investigations" into him end. The president also cut short an infrastructure meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer due to the "circumstances," Trump told reporters.  — BI           1a. After holding a closed-door caucus meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump is engaged in a "cover-up." The speaker said Democrats believe it's important to follow the facts, and that "no one is above the law, including the president of the United States." The comments follow multiple attempts by the White House to resist House investigations. Many top Democrats are still against impeachment. — NBC           1b. On Tuesday, President Trump sent a letter to top Democrats requesting that they first pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), before taking up infrastructure legislation. "Once Congress has passed USMCA, we should turn our attention to a bipartisan infrastructure package," Trump wrote. The president sent the letter one day before Democrats were scheduled to meet with the White House to outline how they would spend the proposed $2 trillion on improvements for the nation's infrastructure. — REUTERS           2. Representative Adam Schiff announced that the Justice Department and the House Intelligence Committee reached an agreement over a subpoena issued for the unredacted Mueller report and its supporting evidence. On Tuesday, the DOJ offered to give the panel access to a less-redacted version of the report and some documents if the committee would be willing to drop its pursuit of a contempt citation against Attorney General William Barr. Due to the new agreement, Schiff said a Wednesday subpoena enforcement vote has been canceled, but the subpoena will remain until the DOJ has met the terms of the new deal. — CBS           A MESSAGE FROM TOP LEVEL DESIGN Get Your Free .design Domain Name! Thinking of building your portfolio? .design is like .com and .net, but it's more relevant to what you do as a designer. Your .design name comes with free email, SSL, & a Site Builder. Claim Your .design Domain Name, Before It's Gone! 3. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas for testimony and documents from former White House officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson. Hicks served as the White House communications director from August 2017 until March 2018 and Donaldson served as former White House Counsel Don McGahn's deputy from February 2017 to December 2018. Democrats plan to hold McGahn in contempt for skipping a Tuesday testimony at the direction of the White House. — ABC           4. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday to discuss President Trump's foreign policy positions. Tillerson met with Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Mike McCaul (R-TX), the committee's top Democrat and Republican. Talks went on for several hours and ranged in topics. Tillerson, who served as secretary of state for around one year, volunteered for the meeting after hearing the panel was interested in speaking with him. — POLITICO           A MESSAGE FROM IBM WATSON Join us to build your AI plan. Bring your team (and your lunch) to a one-of-a-kind, interactive online workshop with IBM Watson experts on Wednesday, May 29, from 1 to 2 pm ET. Join us to identify your top pain points, brainstorm your AI use cases, and walk away with an actionable plan to accelerate AI deployment across your business. Save your spot 5. White House officials briefed Congress on the intelligence that led to an escalation of tensions with Iran in recent weeks. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford told lawmakers that the decision to deploy military resources to the region worked. "We have deterred attacks based on our reposturing of assets," Shanahan said. The Tuesday briefing was the first time all members of Congress had the option to question the White House's policy on Iran. Some Democrats felt the intelligence was misrepresented and criticized the officials' remarks. — THE HILL           6. President Trump nominated Barbara Barrett to be the next Air Force secretary. Barrett previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Finland, the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and as the vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. 7. California and its high-speed rail authority sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over the White House's decision to withhold $929 million in funds granted for the project in 2010. California argued in the lawsuit that the Trump administration didn't have the authority to pull the funds allocated by the former Obama administration almost ten years ago. 8. Russian bombers were intercepted for a second time in two days. The North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement that the aircraft "at no time entered U.S. or Canadian sovereign airspace." 9. President Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania two days after former Vice President Joe Biden held his official campaign kickoff in the state. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania in approximately two decades. 10. White House legislative director Shahira Knight is stepping down for a position in the private sector. "She was outstanding for us and for our Country," President Trump wrote on Twitter.

2. A judge ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp must comply with a subpoena to hand over financial records pertaining to President Trump, his family, and his businesses

2. A judge ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp must comply with a subpoena to hand over financial records pertaining to President Trump, his family, and his businesses. This is the second judge in a week to deny Trump's effort to block the release of his financial documents. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos ruled that, although the president's lawyers made good arguments, they did not outweigh Congress' authority. — USA TOD 3. Throwback Thursday: May 23, 2018 On this day in 2018, a federal district court judge ruled that President Trump can't block people on Twitter over their political views. US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald found that Trump's Twitter account was considered a "public forum" and that "blocking of the plaintiffs based on their political speech constitutes viewpoint discrimination that violates the First Amendment." Seven Twitter users and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued the president and members of his administration. "President Trump's Twitter account has become an important source of news and information about the government," Knight Institute's executive director Jameel Jaffer said. Therefore, blocking people "because they've simply disagreed with the president" is unlawful, he stated. Some of the citizens on the lawsuit included a professor, a police officer, and a former professional athlete. — BI