Year: 2017

The FBI director gave an impassioned defense of his decision to reopen the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private server 11 days before the election.

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Hillary Clinton predicted the president would tweet his reaction to her assertion that she would be president had it not been for FBI Director James Comey’s letter and Russia’s meddling in the election. And Trump delivered.

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House Speaker Paul Ryan and his deputies attempted to rebrand the party’s troubled health care plan as providing “layers of protection” for people with preexisting conditions, even as members of their caucus continued to defect from backing the legislation. Ryan told reporters Tuesday morning. Republic Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority whip, read aloud a letter from a constituent with a preexisting condition who said Obamacare did not help him.

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Historians Monday valiantly tried, and mostly failed, to understand and interpret President Trump’s remarks about President Andrew Jackson. Among other comments, Trump seemed to assert that Jackson, who died in 1845, could have prevented the Civil War, which began in 1861, and that the causes of the bloodiest conflict in the nation’s history have not been addressed or discussed. “I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” said Trump in an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.

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