<i>The Atlantic </i> Politics & Policy Daily: McConnell: Nothing to See Here
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CNN that the White House has paperwork ready to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Jeff Arpaio, after President Trump hinted that he would do so at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night. House Speaker Paul Ryan he doesn’t think lawmakers are interested in shutting down the government over funding for Trump’s border wall, as two Confederate statues to signal the city mourning the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed August 12 when a white-nationalist driver drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi before traveling to Israel to continue Middle-East peace discussions. Despite Trump’s recent criticism of Mitch McConnell, the majority leader he and Trump are working together on “shared goals” and those who say otherwise are “clearly not part of the conversation.”
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