The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.
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🎧 ‘The Daily’: The Anonymous Senior Administration Official | New York Times
The New York Times published an account by an unnamed member of the Trump administration about resistance figures operating inside the government. “I would know,” the official wrote. “I am one of them.” The story behind an unsigned Op-Ed that describes a secret effort within the Trump administration to protect the country from the president.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: A 30-Year Plan to Transform the Courts | New York Times
Republicans have created a pipeline of conservative lawyers to help carry out a sweeping reconfiguration of the federal judiciary.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Why Believing Putin Will Be Hard This Time | New York Times
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin are meeting just three days after the U.S. charged 12 Russians for hacking the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Why Peter Strzok Wanted to Testify | New York Times
We look at what happened when the embattled F.B.I. agent appeared before lawmakers to explain his controversial text messages.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: The (Misunderstood) Story of NATO | New York Times
President Trump called U.S. allies “delinquent” on military spending and attacked Germany as “captive” to Russia. We examine the source of his frustration.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Brett Kavanaugh’s Change of Heart | New York Times
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee once made the case for impeaching a president. He now says that was a mistake.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Trump’s Supreme Court Finalists | New York Times
With the president expected to announce his choice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, we look at the top candidates.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: One Family’s Reunification Story | New York Times
Since President Trump ended the practice of separating migrant children from their parents, few families have been reunited. Those that have are becoming national symbols.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: The U.S. as a Place of Refuge | New York Times
As large groups of Central American migrants approach the U.S. border, the Trump administration is making it more difficult for them to apply for asylum. Is the president undermining the original concept of asylum, or is he restoring it?
🎧 The Daily: Deployed in the U.S., Just Waiting for the Caravan | The New York Times
The midterm elections are over, and President Trump’s talk of the migrant caravan has dwindled. But thousands of troops sent to the southwest border are still there.
At nearly every turn, President Trump’s own generals tried to persuade him not to deploy active-duty troops to the United States border with Mexico. So what are 5,000 troops doing there?
On today’s episode:
Helene Cooper, who covers the Pentagon for The New York Times.
Background reading:
Here’s what life is like for the soldiers deployed to the southwest borderon a mission that is expected to last until Dec. 15.
Since Election Day, President Trump has tweeted about the caravanexactly once.
The president has seemed to relish the spectacle of being commander in chief, but top Defense Department officials say he has struggled with the role.
This is just the height of stupidity and government waste. Government institutions keep being eroded by Trumps ineptitude and fear-mongering. This is money and deployment help that would have been far better spent in Puerto Rico for the hurricane.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Why U.S. Bombs Are Falling in Yemen | New York Times
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has renewed criticism of Saudi Arabia more broadly, including the kingdom’s role in the war in Yemen. It’s a war that has created what has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world — and one that the United States has backed from the beginning.
👓 Trump Claims Nafta Victory but Deal Faces Long Odds in U.S. | The New York Times
The president said gaining congressional approval would not be much of a problem. Democrats disagree.
👓 George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94 | The Washington Post
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the father of the 43rd, was a steadfast force on the international stage for decades, from his stint as an envoy to Beijing to his eight years as vice president and his one term as commander in chief from 1989 to 1993.
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He negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, a measure that was ratified by the Senate in President Bill Clinton’s first term. ❧
Interesting that he dies on the same day that Trump declares victory over the death of NAFTA.
November 30, 2018 at 11:42PM
He lost to New York billionaire Donald Trump, ❧
Is he really a “billionaire”?! I thought the Times’ own reporting had refuted this pretty soundly?
December 01, 2018 at 12:14AM
👓 Scott opposes controversial judicial nominee | CNN
Republican Sen. Tim Scott announced Thursday he would oppose President Donald Trump's nominee to be a US district judge in North Carolina, effectively ending the nomination that had been plagued with accusations that Thomas Farr supported measures that disenfranchised African-American voters.