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Day 270: Season of war.


1/ Mitch McConnell and Trump met for lunch today after Steve Bannon called for a "season of war" against the Senate majority leader and the rest of the GOP establishment.

2/ After his meeting with McConnell, Trump said they are "closer than ever before."

3/ Rex Tillerson refused to answer whether he called Trump a "moron," dismissing the question as the "petty stuff" of Washington.

4/ Robert Mueller’s team interviewed Reince Priebus.

5/ Paul Manafort's financial ties to a Russian oligarch total around $60 million over the past decade.

6/ Trump said that Pence "wants to hang" all gay people.

7/ Trump's top allies aren't sure if he realizes his feuds with Republicans and lack of legislative wins are putting his presidency at risk.

8/ Eighteen states sued the Trump administration to stop him from scrapping subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses.

9/ Steven Mnuchin: repealing the estate tax "disproportionately helps rich people."

9/ A woman who said Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about "any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately."

10/ The firm behind the Trump dossier is objecting to subpoenas issued by the House Intelligence Committee.

11/ Trump will declare a national opioid crisis next week and will be "looking into" his drug czar nominee.

poll/ 58% of Americans believe the current reforms being discussed would favor the rich.


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 October 16, 2017  7m