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Day 257: The end of everything.


Tuesday, October 3, 2017

1/ Trump said he’ll "be talking about gun laws as time goes by.

2/ Robert Mueller's top legal counsel is researching limits on pre-emptive presidential pardons.

3/ The Justice Department overruled memos that concluded presidents cannot appoint their relatives to the White House staff or presidential commissions.

4/ Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump used a third private email address for government business.

5/ The Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants to know if White House officials used private emails for diplomacy.

6/ The CIA denied a request by the Senate Judiciary Committee to let them view information about Russian meddling.

7/ Russian operatives used Facebook's retargeting tool to target specific ads and messages to voters.

8/ Trump visited Puerto Rico today despite aides urging him to put off the trip citing concerns of protests about the slow relief effort.

9/ Trump called for Puerto Rico to be “very proud” that more didn't die in “a real catastrophe like Katrina."

10/ Pence’s chief of staff called for wealthy donors to "purge" Republican lawmakers that don’t support Trump’s agenda.

11/ Scott Pruitt has held almost daily meetings with top corporate executives and lobbyists from all the sectors that he regulates.


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