<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Shadow of 2016
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‘Dangerous Questions’: A list of questions leaked to The New York Times reveals what Robert Mueller plans to ask President Trump if he agrees to be interviewed in the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Among other matters, the questions deal with Trump’s decision to fire James Comey as FBI director, and what the president knew about the contacts that members of his team had with Russia. According to Clint Watts, a former FBI agent, the risk of Trump contradicting accounts given by other witnesses makes these “very dangerous questions for the president.”
Since her election loss in 2016, Hillary Clinton has going forward, Michelle Cottle writes. Congressional Republicans haven’t moved on from 2016 either, at least in one respect: They haven’t matched their counterparts’ commitments not to in their campaigns. As for the lawmakers set to leave office in this year’s midterms, recent history suggests that rather than leaving Washington, D.C., behind,
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