Saturday, August 11, 2018

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Joshua Johnson, 1A) 2018-08-10

This week, primaries and special elections in five states set the tone as midterms inch closer.

On Tuesday, voters in Ohio, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington had their say — and the results were mixed.

Here’s a take from The Washington Post on the winners and losers. In the latest on the Russia probe, the president’s lawyers again declined an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.

And new revelations came out of the Paul Manafort trial. According to an IRS revenue agent, Manafort didn’t declare more than $16 million in income to the U.S. Treasury, and Rick Gates admitted to committing a slew of crimes with Manafort, his former boss.

Finally, the president might be away from the White House, but he’s still on Twitter. A rebroadcast of Don Lemon’s interview with LeBron James sparked the following tweet...
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-08-10/friday-news-roundup-domestic

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