Adult film star Stormy Daniels was allegedly threatened with "physical harm" in relation to her claims that she had an affair with President Trump in 2006, her lawyer told the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday.

"Was she threatened in any way?" co-host Mika Brzezinski asked lawyer Michael Avenatti, who confirmed "yes." Brzezinski followed up by asking, "Was she threatened physical harm?" Avenatti again confirmed "yes," although he stopped short at elaborating if it was by the president himself, or what exactly the threats were, and pushed for Americans to tune into Daniels' 60 Minutes interview on March 25 for details.

Daniels signed a nondisclosure agreement with Trump's attorney in October 2016, receiving $130,000. Trump has denied that the affair occurred. His attorney, Michael Cohen, has said he helped "facilitate" the payment to Daniels. Jeva Lange

With November creeping ever closer, the Democrats' chances of flipping the Senate are looking dimmer and dimmer. A "brutal" new poll by Axios/SurveyMonkey shows that the party is on track to lose three seats in the midterm elections: Republican Rick Scott has a 3 point lead on Sen. Bill Nelson (D) of Florida, Kevin Cramer has a 5 point lead on Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) of North Dakota, and Mike Braun has a 2 point lead on Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) of Indiana.

Democrats look likely to pick up two GOP seats, with Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema out-polling all three Arizona Republican candidates and Nevada's Jacky Rosen out-polling Sen. Dean Heller (R) by 3 points. Republicans look assured to hold their seat in Tennessee, where Marsha Blackburn has a 14-point lead on Democrat Phil Bredesen.

Still, that won't be enough to put Democrats over the edge — they would need to hold all 10 seats in Trump-friendly states, plus pick up an extra two. "It's looking nearly impossible for Democrats to take back the Senate," Axios concludes.

The poll reached 12,677 total registered voters between June 11 and July 2; you can read the state-by-state margins of error here. Jeva Lange

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left North Korea last week without having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and though he passed along a letter from President Trump to Kim, he didn't deliver the president's gift: a Trump-signed CD of Elton John's Honky Chateau album, which includes the song "Rocket Man."

Trump said Tuesday that his gift-giving plans are undeterred. "They didn't give it. I have it for him. They didn't give it. But it will be given at a different period," he told reporters at the White House. "I actually do have a little gift for him, but you'll find out what that gift is when I give it."

"Little Rocket Man" was Trump's preferred insult for Kim at the height of their war of words in the past year and a half, and Trump has claimed the nickname helped bring Kim to the negotiating table in Singapore last month.

As the president heads to Europe for the upcoming NATO summit, perhaps he can put together a few more presents on the way. Does Elton John have a song titled "Justin from Canada"? Bonnie Kristian

Is it a miracle, or is it science? That was the question posed by the Thai Navy SEAL team after the completed rescue of all 12 Thai youth soccer players and their 25-year-old coach on Tuesday. The boys became trapped in the Tham Luang cave on June 23 while exploring the cave system, as rising waters forced them deeper and deeper into the cavern. The boys were finally located, miraculously alive, after nine days of searching — and then the rescue efforts began. Here are 7 facts about the rescue. Jeva Lange

1. Many of the boys did not know how to swim and were given anti-anxiety medications before being helped out by divers. [The New York Times, The Telegraph]

2. It took 11 hours for a diver to make the five-mile roundtrip to reach the boys. [ITV]

3. All the while, hundreds of gallons of water were being pumped out of the cave — the equivalent of 48 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a 75-hour period. In an effort to stop the flooding, authorities also dammed streams that flowed into the caves. Natural shafts that dumped water into the caves were also plugged. [Sky, Reuters]

4. Divers used "Heyphones," a 20-year-old technology, to communicate with the rescue base. The ultra-low frequency transmitters are able to penetrate through rock and send divers' locations and messages. [Wired]

5. Approximately 90 divers were involved in the rescue. About 50 were foreigners. [AFP]

6. After being in the dark for two weeks, the boys have to wear dark sunglasses after they emerge, until their eyes adjust. [NYT]

7. After being removed from the cave, the boys went straight to the hospital — and into quarantine. Doctors are worried about diseases that might have been in the cave waters or spread by animals. All the boys have been treated with antibiotics and received vaccinations for tetanus and rabies. Two boys might have pneumonia, but the doctor called all of the first eight rescued "in good health, with no fever, and in a good mood." [NYT]

It's always the emails.

While Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy, worked as an aide to former President George W. Bush, he produced tens of thousands of emails and memos that are public record. But Fix the Court, a Supreme Court watchdog group, said Monday that the documents are being withheld by the Department of Justice.

The group filed requests in 2017 to see "more than a million" documents from Kavanaugh's five years in the Bush White House, but the DOJ and the National Archives and Records Administration, tasked with preserving government records, hasn't released them. When Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was first nominated to her seat, Talking Points Memo points out, all of her documents from her time working under former President Bill Clinton were published online. Those public records became a part of the debate over her eventual confirmation.

All of Kavanaugh's public records, including documents from his time as a law clerk for Kennedy, should have been released by now, according to Freedom of Information laws. Fix the Court on Tuesday sued the federal government to uncover the records, criticizing officials as making it "as difficult as possible to obtain public records from Supreme Court nominees." The group urged the Trump administration to release Kavanaugh's documents immediately, "so the American people and their representatives in the Senate can make a more informed judgment on the nominee." Summer Meza

President Trump renewed his criticism of NATO allies ahead of his Tuesday departure for a summit that starts Wednesday in Brussels, accusing them of failing to contribute enough to the alliance while Europe maintains a trade surplus with the U.S. "The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country," Trump tweeted Monday. "This is not fair, nor is it acceptable... they must do much more." On Tuesday, he elaborated:

Madeleine Albright and 15 other former foreign ministers from around the world sent Trump a letter saying he could "take some credit" for getting other NATO members to increase defense spending, Politico reported. They urged him to bolster America's "deteriorating relationship" with its Western allies, and to avoid cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet in Helsinki after the NATO gathering. Harold Maass

President Trump departed with his wife on Tuesday morning for Brussels, where he will attend a NATO summit, followed by a visit to Britain and then Finland, where he is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Assessing the week ahead, Trump told reporters before his departure: "I have NATO, I have the U.K., which is somewhat in turmoil, and I have Putin. Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of them all — who would think?"

It might be surprising for the American president to suggest that his meeting with Putin will be easier than meetings with U.S. allies, especially when the United States envoy to Moscow, Jon Huntsman, has told The New York Times that Trump plans to "hold Russia accountable for its malign activities," like election meddling and the annexation of Crimea. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, warned, however, that Putin is "very clever."

"He can charm Trump into changing his position or dropping longstanding U.S. positions if he's alone with him for too long," said Vershbow. Jeva Lange

All 12 soccer players and their 25-year-old coach have been rescued from a Thailand cave where they were trapped by floodwaters for two weeks, Thai Navy Seals confirmed. The final group of boys and the coach were removed from the cave Tuesday.

The divers began the rescue operation Sunday morning, extracting four boys. Four more were rescued Monday.

The soccer team was stuck in the cave when monsoon rains struck unseasonably early. It took divers 11 hours roundtrip to extract each boy. One diver died during the rescue efforts last week. Learn more about how the boys were saved from the cave, and how complicated the process was, here. Jeva Lange