WTF Just Happened Today

Monday, March 5, 2018

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1/ Robert Mueller's grand jury issued a subpoena requesting all communications involving Trump and his associates.

2/ Sam Nunberg plans to defy a subpoena to appear in front of Mueller's grand jury.

3/ A Belarusian escort claims to have more than 16 hours of audio recordings that prove Russia meddled in the U.S. elections.

4/ The author of the Trump dossier told Mueller's team that Russia asked Trump not to hire Mitt Romney as secretary of state.

5/ Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel the nondisclosure agreement about her alleged affair with Trump 12 days before the election.

6/ Trump praised President Xi's consolidation of power in China and joked that he wouldn't mind doing the same for himself.

7/ The Trump Organization ordered a set of Presidential Seal replicas for its golf course tee markers.

8/ The State Department has spent $0 of the $120 million it has been budgeted for combating foreign interference in U.S. elections.

NOTABLES.

• Senate Republicans and more than a dozen Democrats are preparing to repeal major banking regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis.

• Paul Ryan urged the Trump administration not to move forward on new tariffs on steel and aluminum.

• Canada and Mexico pushed back against Trump's suggestion that tariffs could be waived if they signed a new and "fair" NAFTA deal.

• Jared Kushner has "got to go" if reports about his role in the Qatar blockade are true.

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