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Mike Pence Swears His Loyalty on the Sunday Shows

The vice president calls an anonymous anti-Trump op-ed in <em>The New York Times</em> “un-American” and says he’d take a polygraph “in a heartbeat” to prove he didn’t write it.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Source: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

By all rights, Brett Kavanaugh’s dramatic confirmation hearings should have been the big story last week. But if the Sunday shows are a reliable barometer, the Senate Democrats’ concerted, if mostly ineffectual, assault on the very conservative D.C. appellate-court judge couldn’t compete with Bob Woodward’s incendiary new book, Fear, or the New York Times op-ed by an anonymous Trump administration official who thinks the president is unfit to govern.  

The shows kept wending their way back to the “quiet resistance” inside the administration, from Woodward’s report of

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