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<i>The Atlantic</i> Politics & Policy Daily: AT&Teachable Moment?

In a memo to employees, AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson said that hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant “was a serious misjudgment.”
Source: Jose Luis Magana / AP

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