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<title><![CDATA[Alexis Simendinger - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19133.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alexis Simendinger]]></description><category domain="19133">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Seeks to Speed Up Hill Deliberation on Taxes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s what tax reform advocates don&rsquo;t have this week: actual legislation; lots of time this year; consensus.
Here&rsquo;s what they do have: a seriously impatient president.
To add some octane to what he sees as a slow-moving Congress, President Trump is preparing this month...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump to Congress: Help Dreamers, Secure Borders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/07/trump_to_congress_help_dreamers_secure_borders.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump and lawmakers from both parties did little Wednesday to clarify what ultimately becomes of the Obama-era exceptions that allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented migrants to work and go to school in the United States since 2012. 
A day after terminating the Deferred Action for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Ends DACA, Tosses 'Dreamers' Fate to Congress]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump, relying on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as his spokesman Tuesday, rescinded a program created by President Obama that allowed children of undocumented immigrants in the United States to attend school and obtain work permits without citizenship.
The president&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Tax Reform Pitch, Trump Draws Bead on Missouri Dem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/30/in_tax_reform_pitch_trump_draws_bead_on_missouri_dem_134883.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Urging Congress to pass tax legislation at a time when Washington has no draft bill, few details, and no apparent urgency proved a tough sell for President Trump on Wednesday. 
With images of life-and-death dramas after Hurricane Harvey dominating the airwaves before Labor Day weekend,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump to Launch Tax Reform Push, But Hurdles Are Steep]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/28/trump_to_launch_tax_reform_push_but_hurdles_are_steep_134854.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump, after prioritizing the federal government&rsquo;s focus on hurricane-ravaged Texas early this week, is scheduled to kick off his party&rsquo;s next big policy push: enactment of major tax relief this year as a way to rev economic growth.
While a quarter of Texas&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Pledges Swift Financial Aid to Harvey's Victims]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/28/trump_pledges_swift_financial_aid_to_harveys_victims.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Monday assured hundreds of thousands of disaster victims that Congress and his administration will swiftly deploy federal funding to Texas and perhaps Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve pledged our full support,&rdquo; he said.
The category 4...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Two Faces: Uniter, Divider]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/24/trumps_two_faces_uniter_divider.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump delivered two sober speeches this week, sandwiched around a third public appearance -- Candidate Trump&rsquo;s grievance-laced live theater in Phoenix, where he entertained boisterous fans with eyebrow-raising tales about enemies, both foreign and domestic. 
Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Pivot, Trump Vows to 'Win' in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/22/details_few_but_trump_vows_to_win_in_afghanistan_pivot_134805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s first prime-time address Monday night leaned on themes of national unity, love of country, and America&rsquo;s fears since 2001 of terrorist attacks.
Aware that his decision to deploy more U.S. troops to Afghanistan would be controversial, the president wove...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Doubles Down on Pyongyang Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/10/trump_doubles_down_on_pyongyang_warning_134721.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump rejected criticism that his threat of &ldquo;fire and fury&rdquo; against North Korea this week baited an enemy closer to war, describing his statements as &ldquo;maybe not tough enough.&rdquo;
Speaking to reporters outside his New Jersey golf club Thursday, and again...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sessions: FBI Has Stepped Up Efforts to Find Leakers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/04/sessions_fbi_has_stepped_up_efforts_to_find_leakers_134675.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Days after President Trump again admonished his attorney general (via Twitter) to crack down on leaks, Jeff Sessions announced on Friday that the Justice Department has been doing just that.
At a Department of Justice news conference alongside Dan Coats, the director of national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Senators Push Plan to Cut Legal Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/02/trump_backs_senators_bill_to_curb_legal_immigration_134655.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump and two Republican senators unveiled a proposal Wednesday to prioritize a skills-based approach to legal immigration while curbing the number of new immigrants into the United States by half in the next decade.
Trump&rsquo;s support of the measure added immigration to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, GOP May Shift Strategy to Get Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/01/trump_gop_may_shift_strategy_to_get_tax_reform.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump and congressional Republicans may forgo trying to pass tax legislation in the Senate with the narrowest possible GOP majority, instead looking for politically nervous Democrats as potential allies, a senior White House official said Monday.
&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defiant GOP Lawmakers Make Bad Day for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/28/defiant_gop_lawmakers_make_bad_day_for_trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If President Trump&rsquo;s efforts to enact a significant agenda with Congress come to naught in 2017, the warnings of implosion might snake back to Thursday.
Republican lawmakers &ndash; without mentioning his name &ndash; defied the president, challenged his assumptions, ignored his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[West Wing to Empty Out for August Construction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/25/west_wing_to_empty_out_for_august_construction_134563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s working vacation away from Washington in August will allow some major maintenance and construction to take place in the West Wing, which will require the president&rsquo;s staff to work elsewhere temporarily, sources familiar with the project told...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Hire to Tout Boss's Wins 'More Aggressively']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/22/trumps_new_hire_to_tout_bosss_wins_more_aggressively.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After six months of upheaval, firings, legislative flameouts and mounting investigations, President Trump reshuffled his White House staff Friday, naming Wall Street hedge fund financier Anthony Scaramucci to become his communications director, while accepting the resignation of Press...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Election Panel Hunts for Voter Fraud Evidence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/20/trump_election_panel_hunts_for_voter_fraud_evidence_134521.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tweet by President Trump launched a nationwide search for something widely viewed as so fictional &ndash; a U.S. election swayed by fraudulently cast ballots &ndash; that the first meeting Wednesday of the president&rsquo;s new voter fraud commission attracted mostly skepticism from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump 'Surprised' by Senate GOP Revolt on Health Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/19/trump_surprised_by_senate_gop_revolt_on_health_bill.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump sounded perplexed in the wake of the Senate GOP&rsquo;s health care debacle this week, and unclear about what exactly his divided party should do next.
There was a time when he promised supporters that ridding the country of President Obama&rsquo;s signature legislative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Jr.'s Russia Meeting Dogs President in Paris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/13/trump_jrs_russia_meeting_dogs_president_in_paris.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five days after President Trump helped his eldest son draft an explanation for a controversial meeting with a Russian attorney more than a year ago, he offered another take on what occurred.
He defended his son&rsquo;s keen interest in receiving potentially damaging campaign information...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Email, Trump Jr. Responded Eagerly to Russia Meeting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/12/in_email_trump_jr_responded_eagerly_to_russia_meeting.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday was a rocky day for President Trump on the investigative front.
In a terse statement, the president commended his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., for making public a string of emails Trump Jr. exchanged last year before he met with a Russian woman he believed might help his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH: No Collusion With Russia by Trump Jr. or Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/10/wh_no_collusion_with_russia_by_trump_jr_or_campaign_134433.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian attorney to discuss potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton last June but did not collude with the Russians to influence last year&rsquo;s presidential contest, a White House spokeswoman said Monday in an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At G20, a 'Good Start' to Future U.S.-Russia Talks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/07/at_g20_a_good_start_to_future_us-russia_talks_134414.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has never been coy about what he wanted from Russia and from President Vladimir Putin: relations with the United States that are substantively better than they were under President Obama.
By any metrics in the early months of his administration, the president did not get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Vote-Fraud Panel Feels Heat After States Seal Data]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/06/trump_vote-fraud_panel_feels_heat_after_states_seal_data.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump and Vice President Pence have expressed no misgivings about the administration&rsquo;s newly formed Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, whose first move a week ago sparked a rebellion among more than a third of states prior to the panel&rsquo;s first official...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Twitter Fit Eclipses Big Policy Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/30/trump_twitter_fit_eclipses_big_policy_day_134341.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a day in which President Trump&rsquo;s advisers wanted their boss to focus on an energy speech, his imperiled legislative agenda, and a sit-down with South Korea&rsquo;s president to dissect how to halt North Korea&rsquo;s nuclear ambitions, he surprised them.
Trump aimed a Twitter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate GOP Delays Health Vote in Search for Support]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/27/senate_gop_delays_health_vote_in_search_for_support_134310.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly seven years into the GOP effort to replace Obamacare, Senate Republicans and President Trump openly entertained the possibility Tuesday that a health care bill still lacking sufficient support -- which forced them to delay a crucial vote -- won&rsquo;t be in any better shape after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry: Trump Is Revving Up U.S. Energy Potential]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/27/perry_trump_is_revving_up_us_energy_potential_134303.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is &ldquo;energy week&rdquo; at the White House, which turns out to be less about detailed policy and more about thematic aspirations. 
White House advisers -- eager to counter-program President Trump&rsquo;s preoccupation with the Russia investigations and the bumpy GOP efforts to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Changes Will Trump Make to WH Communications?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/20/what_changes_will_trump_make_to_wh_communications.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump thinks he should get better press coverage and be able to control his message, and he may soon retool his White House team with those goals in mind.
That&rsquo;s been the news since January. But on Monday, those headlines re-circulated after media outlets learned that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Plans Partial Rollback of Expanded Ties With Cuba]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/16/trump_plans_partial_rollback_of_expanded_ties_with_cuba_134211.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s decision to rewind some of America&rsquo;s two and a half years of openness with Cuba will not be a wholesale retrenchment of President Obama&rsquo;s policies, many of which are favored by the business community and among advocates for trade and commerce with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Eager to Rebut Comey Testimony Under Oath]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/09/trump_eager_to_rebut_comey_testimony_under_oath_134158.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beneath an almost cloudless sky in the Rose Garden Friday, President Trump accused James Comey of lying under oath before Congress the day before and said he was &ldquo;100 percent&rdquo; prepared to make that case himself to the special counsel heading the Russia probe. 
The president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey Asks Public to Weigh His Veracity Against Trump's]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/09/comey_asks_public_to_weigh_his_veracity_against_trumps.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Comey&rsquo;s sworn testimony Thursday did not, by itself, heighten President Trump&rsquo;s risks of confronting obstruction-of-justice charges or articles of impeachment. 
But it did inflame ferocious new rounds of political mud-slinging in the wake of Comey&rsquo;s vivid account...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey Details 9 Trump Contacts on Eve of Hearing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/08/comey_details_9_trump_contacts_on_eve_of_hearing_134131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Simendinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Comey will confirm Thursday that he reassured President Trump he was not a target earlier this year in any FBI investigation, but will testify the president asked him less than a month after his inauguration and a day after dismissing Michael Flynn to &ldquo;drop&rdquo; an FBI...]]></description>
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