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TOP NEWS
House democrats will hold a press conference this morning at 9am ET where they are expected to announce two articles of impeachment: obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.
Speaker Pelosi is expected to announce this morning at 10am ET that she has reached an agreement to approve the USMCA trade deal.
Trump and Sec of State Pompeo meet with Russia’s foreign minister today at 2:30pm ET.
Trump criticized his own FBI director for accepting the findings of the inspector general’s report into the origins of the Trump + Russia investigation. The report found no bias in the opening of the investigation and while there were errors in how FISA was obtained for Carter Page, the investigation was legitimate and properly authorized.
THE ELECTION
THE COMMENT
“President Trump and his allies spent months promising that a report on the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation would be a kind of Rosetta Stone for Trump-era conspiracy enthusiasts — the key to unlocking the secrets of a government plot to keep Mr. Trump from being elected in 2016.
On that point, the report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, did not deliver, even as it found serious problems with how F.B.I. officials justified the surveillance of a Trump campaign aide to a federal court.” - Mark Mazzetti, New York Times
THE STRANGEST
THE AV ROOM