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This Barr presser seems mostly like an opportunity to offer up quotes that can be used in news stories. Why not let the report speak for itself?
He's explicitly denied "collusion" between the campaign and the Internet Research Agency and the GRU efforts.
Now Barr is explicitly offering context for why Trump might have acted in ways that seemed like obstruction.
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Trump's tweet about apprehensions is not only 180 degrees from what he said in 2017, it also disparages his own position from 2017 as bad. wapo.st/2Gv4vht
When apprehension data looked like this, it was proof that Trump's policies worked. wapo.st/2Gv4vht
Now that apprehension data looks like this, it's proof that Trump's policies work. wapo.st/2Gv4vht
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Philip Bump
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It was interesting to watch Bernie Sanders easily sidestep Fox News anchors' efforts to trip him up -- and fascinating to see how quickly the network machinery repaired the damage. wapo.st/2KHEBfG
Since it apparently doesn't go without saying: It's good for journalists to challenge candidates and try to find weaknesses in their arguments.

The questions Sanders faced, though, largely centered on a line of reasoning that he was able to handle fairly easily.
A battery of questions about why Sanders targets the rich if he's a millionaire is not going to knock Sanders for a loop.

And if, when Sanders suggests that you ask Trump about his taxes, you invite Trump's daughter-in-law on to laughingly wave it away, that's not great either.
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Philip Bump
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This was always something that seemed like it was looming.
Weirdly, on CNN right now is not this but instead the 2,000th interview with Howard Schultz.
"we have a killer scoop getting at the heart of trump's relationship with the limits of executive authority"
"ok great but first things first"
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