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Gates admitted to concealing millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts on the former Trump campaign chairman’s behalf and to falsifying documents to help Manafort obtain more in bank loans.  James Pindell The trial is now in its second week. Here’s a recap of where we’re at.  Google, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify, and other services have for weeks had faced calls that they remove Infowars content.  Opinion | Richard North Patterson His legacy?

Gates admitted to concealing millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts on the former Trump campaign chairman’s behalf and to falsifying documents to help Manafort obtain more in bank loans.  James Pindell The trial is now in its second week. Here’s a recap of where we’re at.  Google, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify, and other services have for weeks had faced calls that they remove Infowars content.  Opinion | Richard North Patterson His legacy?

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace challenged national security adviser John Bolton about earlier Sunday accused journalists of “purposely” causing “division & distrust” in the country, and continued to label them the "enemy of the people." she does not believe the press is the enemy of the people, a rare public break with her father. The president has had a tense relationship with the media since he hit the campaign trail in 2015.

MORE on Sunday ratcheted up his attacks on the news media as the “enemy of the people,” saying they “can also cause War.” He accused journalists in an early morning tweet of “purposely” causing “division & distrust” in the country. “The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE,” he said. “I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People." “They purposely cause great division & distrust,” he added. “They can also cause War!

Allies and aides for MORE said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Conway and national security adviser John Bolton argued in separate Sunday show appearances that the president has a more narrow focus in mind when he repeatedly calls the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.” "The hoax is the idea that the Trump campaign was a beneficiary of a concerted effort together with the Russians to affect the 2016 election," Bolt

An effort to slap new financial penalties on Russia ahead of the midterms is facing pushback from Senate Republicans who question whether that's the best approach. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are under pressure to act amid growing concern that Moscow is trying to influence the November elections, with control of Congress hanging in the balance. MORE’s probe and reports of Russian hacking efforts against Democratic senators have increased scrutiny on what action, if any, Congress will take to respond. But GOP senato

MORE is leading the Democratic field in some early polls asking voters about the party’s prospective presidential candidates in 2020. But in his old stomping grounds in the U.S. Senate, there are plenty of skeptics who point to the former vice president’s age, his support for the Iraq War and his two failed presidential bids as reasons to doubt he would be successful. “It’s hard to see someone [winning] who voted for the Iraq war.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein American politics is under attack. Who, exactly, is leading the fight back? Last week brought news that Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office was the subject of a phishing attempt that appears to be linked to Facebook pages and accounts playing on divisive political issues. The former attempt was thwarted by Microsoft.