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| Happy Friday. I'm proud of you; you made it. |
| It was a busy week for the resident of the Oval Office. Let's get into it. |
| President Donald Trump headed to Arizona Tuesday, touring a facility that makes masks and speaking with Native American leaders about the impact of coronavirus on their community. (He didn't wear a mask in the mask factory, and that became a bit of a thing.) |
| As he was taking off, news began to circulate that the White House was going to be winding down its coronavirus task force. |
| "We have to open our country. Will some people be affected, badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open," Trump said when asked about the decision. |
| But the announced change lasted less than a day. On Wednesday, Trump made clear that the task force was going to continue on "indefinitely" after hearing from people who thought it should remain. "I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday when I started talking about winding down," he said. |
| That was the morning. By the afternoon, Trump had moved on to vetoing a bipartisan measure that would have limited his ability to unilaterally launch a military attack in Iran. The president did not have kind words for the Republicans who joined Democrats in supporting the measure and getting it through Congress, calling it "insulting." |
| "The few Republicans who voted for it," Trump said, "played right into their hands." |
 | | Donald Trump and Michael Flynn back in 2016. | | George Frey, George Frey | |
| And then Thursday happened, and Trump got good news: The DOJ was dropping charges against his former national security adviser. |
| Michael Flynn had pled guilty to lying to investigators about his contact with a Russian agent. But he had sought to withdraw that guilty plea, and the DOJ said Thursday the FBI's interview with Flynn was "unjustified." |
| Democrats were incensed. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee's, said the decision "does not exonerate" Flynn. |
| "But it does incriminate (Attorney General) Bill Barr. In the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history," he said. |
Biden accuser Tara Reade gives interview to Megyn Kelly |
| After Joe Biden last week firmly denied Tara Reade's allegation of sexual assault, former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly announced on Thursday she had sat down for an interview with Reade. In a snippet released Thursday afternoon, Reade said she wished Biden would leave the race. |
| "I wish he would (withdraw from the race)," Reade said. "But he won't. But I wish he would. That's how I feel emotionally." |
| A few hours later, the Biden campaign released a lengthy statement that read, in part "... Vice President Biden knows it is paramount that women should come forward and be heard respectfully. But it is also the duty of the press to base their assessments of claims on careful and exhaustive review of the facts. And an inescapable fact in the case of these false allegations is that more and more inconsistencies keep emerging." |
| It was not immediately clear when the full interview between Reade and Kelly would be published. |
| Thanks as always for reading, and we'll see you next week. -- Annah Aschbrenner |
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