Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence.
On Monday Trump announced his DNI replacement, a partisan GOP congressman who has among other things attacked the Mueller investigation. By Friday, Trump withdrew the nomination.
The GOPs only black member of Congress, who is also from Texas, announced he would not run again in his competitive district.
A Jake Tapper source: “The senior national security official on those comments: ‘Everyone at this point ignores what the president says and just does their job. The American people should take some measure of confidence in that.’”
The Democrats had their second round of debates, this time in Detroit.
Immigration News
The New York Time reports: More than 900 children have been removed from an adult — usually a parent — with whom they arrived at the southern border since June of 2018.
Saturday morning a gunman shot and killed 20 people in an El Paso shopping mall.
He wrote and published a white nationalist manifesto minutes before the shooting began.
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Trump’s Job Approval: 42.3%