WTF Just Happened Today

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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1/ Steve Bannon was subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury as part of Mueller's Russia probe.

2/ Bannon met with the House Intelligence Committee this morning behind closed-doors.

3/ The government could shutdown if lawmakers can't agree on a spending bill by Friday.

4/ Trump preemptively blamed democrats for a shutdown.

5/ Senate Democrats have 50 votes in favor of restoring net neutrality.

6/ Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Trump can't be racist because he was on "The Apprentice."

poll/ The number of uninsured Americans rose by 3.2 million in Trump's first year in office.

unsettling/ Watch Orrin Hatch remove a pair of glasses he's not wearing.

NOTABLES.

• Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee want Devin Nunes to release the Fusion GPS transcript.

• U.S. counterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch.

• Kim Jong-Un called Trump's nuclear button tweet the "spasm of a lunatic."

• Sixty-four trade groups, foreign governments, Republican candidates and more stayed at or held events at Trump properties during his first year in office.

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