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<i>The Atlantic</i> Politics & Policy Daily: The Love Fest Continues

President Trump characterized his meeting with Republican senators on Tuesday as a “love fest.”
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President Trump that he did not “specifically” authorize the mission in Niger that resulted in the deaths of four U.S. service members in early October. Trump his meeting with Republican senators on Tuesday as a “love fest” and dismissed criticism from Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake. Ivanka Trump Capitol Hill to advocate for the expansion that the State Department investigated him over “insensitive or inappropriate” comments he made at an event in Samoa. Bruce Douglas Paddock, the brother of Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock, on child pornography charges.

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