President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Tuesday that Trump will not agree to an interview with the special counsel until prosecutors allow the president’s legal team to review documents related to the FBI’s use of an informant to interact with members of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“We need all the documents before we can decide whether we are going to do an interview,” Giuliani said in an interview with The Washington Post, using Trump’s term “spygate” to refer to the FBI actions, which former officials have said were well within bounds.

Giuliani’s latest demand further ratcheted up the pressure that Trump and his lawyers are trying to place on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as his investigation into alleged coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia reaches a key juncture.

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Josh Dawsey and John Wagner, WaPo today.

America's Mayor, Mr. 9/11 was booed at Yankee stadium over the weekend--on his birthday: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a20950012/rudy-giuliani-booed-yank...

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By Steve Levine @ Axois.com, May 27

The death of the U.S. retail mall will be worse than forecast — with just a quarter of the current 1,200 or so surviving, says former J.C. Penney CEO Mike Ullman.

Quick take: Until now, most experts have said that a quarter of the malls will close. But, speaking on a panel at a conference at the Dallas Fed on technological disruption Thursday, Ullman reversed the numbers, estimating that only about 300 malls will make it. The rest will close over the next five years, becoming victims of decades-long changes in consumer taste, including the recent impact of Amazonization 

The background: [....]

They arrived and began opening up Congress. They ended up inadvertently institutionalizing a distinctly partisan and confrontational style that permeates contemporary American politics today.

By John A. Lawrence @ Book Club @ Politico Magazine, May 26

John A. Lawrence is a visiting professor at the University of California's Washington Center and the author of The Class of ’74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship, from which this piece was adapted. He worked in the House of Representatives for 38 years, the last eight as chief of staff to Speaker and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Letter from the UK by Sam Night @ NewYorker.com, May 26

[...] (Roman) Abramovich’s visa expired a few weeks ago, and the British government is not rushing its renewal. His personal Boeing 767 was last seen in London on April 1st.

Abramovich is Britain’s thirteenth-richest man. Since he bought Chelsea—a purchase that made him a household name—Abramovich, more than any other Russian billionaire, has personified to the British public what oligarchs do and are. They buy soccer teams. They buy art. They get divorced. They are absentee governors of remote parts of Siberia. Their fortunes rise and fall according to their relationships with Vladimir Putin. They buy expensive London townhouses and dig out huge subterranean extensions.  (Abramovich’s house in Kensington, which he bought from the Russian Embassy, reportedly cost ninety million pounds.) They die sudden, unexplained deaths. If the U.K. has decided it is no longer willing to take Abramovich’s money or—at the very least—to help him transform it from one asset class into another, this is quite a departure. (The government has refused to comment on the case.) [.....]

By Gary Cross @ TheAtlantic.com, May 27

Something is missing in the lives of today’s adolescents: that magical coming-of-age feeling when a whole world opened up.

By David Boroff @ NYDailyNews.com, May  27

China approved five new trademarks for First Daughter Ivanka Trump's business earlier this month — around the same time that President Trump said he would try to provide a job boost to the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE.

The trademarks were applied for in March of 2017, according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The trademarks give the White House adviser's company rights for bath mats, textiles and baby blankets, according to CREW [....]