Reporter for Congressional Quarterly
Reporter for Congressional Quarterly
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Adam Graham-Silverman
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FROM Adam Graham-Silverman
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Study Recommend US Should Lower Profile in Iraq In a week of dark assessments about Iraq, a panel of experts has delivered more grim news, this time about the police force. A twenty-member commission led by a retired Marine general found that the Iraqi army was slowly improving, but that the police force is so riddled with militias that it could not be trusted and ought to be disbanded. Adam Graham-Silverman of Congressional Quarterly joins us from the Senate Press Gallery.
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.