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<i>The Atlantic </i> Politics & Policy Daily: Devin Nunes and the Mystery on the White House Grounds

The House Intelligence Committee chairman met with a source who allegedly gave him intelligence information about Trump transition officials.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes that he was on White House grounds to meet with a source, who’d allegedly given the congressman intelligence information about Trump transition officials. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer didn’t rule out the possibility that Nunes met with a source from the White House, but he added that the idea “doesn’t that the Senate Intelligence Committee will question Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, about his meetings with Russian officials. During a White House press briefing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that local governments seeking federal funding that they are not “sanctuary cities” and are in compliance with federal-immigration law. An Associated Press analysis that North Carolina’s “bathroom bill,” the law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people, will cost the state $3.76 billion over 12 years.

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