WTF Just Happened Today

Friday, January 5, 2018

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1/ Trump ordered the White House's top lawyer to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation.

2/ Paul Ryan supported House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes' threat to hold officials at Justice and the FBI in contempt of Congress.

3/ Republican senators recommended possible criminal charges for the author of the Trump-Russia dossier.

4/ The FBI is actively investigating allegations of corruption related to the Clinton Foundation.

poll/ 61% of Americans believe marijuana should be legalized.

NOTABLES.

• North and South Korea will sit down for their first formal talks in more than two years next week.

• Scott Pruitt told friends and associates that he'd like to be attorney general.

• Pence's chief lawyer and domestic policy director are leaving his office.

• The White House asked to screen "The Post."

• Comcast fired about 500 salespeople, despite saying that the company would create thousands of new jobs in exchange for a big tax cut.

• The economy added 148,000 jobs in December, which means 2017 had the slowest rate of job growth in six years.

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