<em> The Atlantic</em> Daily: Making the Case

What We’re Following

Public Investigations: At a White House briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders argued that the former FBI Director James Comey should be prosecuted for releasing memos to The New York Times about the events leading up to his firing. New details have emerged about the business dealings that Michael Flynn failed to disclose before becoming President Trump’s national-security adviser. And Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia continues with the help of at least two federal grand juries. Here’s what witnesses from past political scandals say about what it’s like to testify in such a probe.

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the. Though the legislation is unlikely to pass anytime soon, it has much more support today than when Sanders last introduced it in 2013. His Republican colleagues Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy countered the proposal with —but that long-running effort has likely lost all its momentum.