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Roger Stone cites fifth amendment and says he won't give documents to Senate – as it happened

Roger Stone invoked his fifth amendment.
Roger Stone invoked his fifth amendment. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Tuesday in Washington: a summary

It’s been another busy day in Washington as the nation pays tribute to the 41st president, a lawsuit claiming Donald Trump is profiting from the presidency enters a new phase and we await a sentencing memo that will detail the degree to which the president’s former national security adviser is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. Here’s what else happened today:

  • Bipartisan group of senators left a briefing with CIA director Gina Haspel convinced that crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in Jamal Khashoggi’s death.
  • Trump ally Roger Stone invokes his Firth Amendment right .
  • Georgia will elect a secretary of state and Public Service Commissioner in two run-off elections.
  • Former VP Joe Biden said he is the “most qualified” candidate to be president, stoking 2020 speculation.
  • Michael Avenatti took himself out of contention for the presidency in 2020, citing family concerns.
  • The stock market plunged as investors lost faith in a trade truce between the US and China
  • DC, Maryland attorneys general to subpoena Trump Organization, IRS
  • The emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack, according to Politco.

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We’re waiting on tenterhooks for special counsel Robert Mueller to file a memo revealing the extent to which former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been assisting his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

Here’s Jon Swaine on what to expect tonight.

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US stock markets plummeted as investors lost faith in the agreement between the US and China that had been negotiated by Donald Trump at last week’s G20 summit, reports The Guardian’s Dominic Rush.

Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, reached a 90-day trade truce after a dinner at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Saturday. But differing reports on the terms of the truce from Chinese and US officials rattled investors fearful of a full-on trade war between the two economic superpowers.

After the meeting Trump told reporters: “It’s an incredible deal. If it goes down, certainly, if it happens, it goes down as one of the largest deals ever made.”

But details of the deal have since unravelled. White House officials have struggled to explain, for example, whether China has actually agreed to drop its 40% tariffs on US autos.

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Roger Stone to plead the fifth in Senate Russia investigation

Trump’s longtime political ally Roger Stone invoked his Fifth Amendment right and refused to share documents and testimony with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to a letter posted by the panel’s ranking Democrat, senator Dianne Feinstein.

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Earlier today Republican senator Mike Lee appeared optimistic that criminal justice reform legislation could pass the chamber before the end of the year.

Update: it’s not looking good.

An all-star crew visits Capitol Hill

Democratic leaders are demanding CIA Director Gina Haspel brief the full Senate after she met with a small group of lawmakers on Tuesday to discuss the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A bipartisan group of senators left the classified briefing on Tuesday morning convinced that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in Khashoggi’s death.

“While I will not discuss the content of the Haspel briefing, it reinforced the need for a strong response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi,” said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who attended the briefing. “CIA Director Haspel should brief the full Senate without delay.”

“Every Senator should hear what I heard this afternoon,” senator Dick Durbin, the minority whip, added in a statement.

Here’s some more details from the Associated Press on the emoluments lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland, which accuses Trump of profiting off of the presidency.

The flurry of subpoenas came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Peter J. Messitte approved a brisk schedule for discovery in the case alleging that foreign and domestic government spending at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel amounts to gifts to the president in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

The subpoenas target more than 30 Trump-linked private entities and the federal agency that oversees the lease for Trump’s D.C. hotel. Subpoenas were also being sent to the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture and the IRS, all of which have spent taxpayer dollars at the hotel.

The subpoenas focus on answering three questions: which foreign domestic governments are paying the Trump International Hotel in Washington, where that money is going and how Trump’s hotel is affecting the hospitality industry in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

To help answer those questions, the subpoenas are asking for records of payments to Trump from state government and federal agencies that patronized the hotel. They’re also seeking information proving that hotel revenues are going to the president through his affiliated entities, including The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Most of the records are being requested back to Jan. 1, 2015.

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Inbox: Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduce resolution honoring the late president George HW Bush

“President George HW Bush was a dedicated family man and husband of 73 years,” reads the resolution. “[He] showed unwavering love and devotion to his family, the United States, and the world.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will pay her interns “at least” $15 an hour. She has called out members of Congress who offer unpaid internships, which often limits the posts to children of means.

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Meet the nine-year-old who took on the man and won the right to legally throw a snowball.

“I thought it was crazy,” Colorado minor, Dane Best, said. “Little kids should be allowed to throw snowballs at each other.”

A prohibition-era ordinance in Severance, Colorado barred residents from launching “missiles” at people, places or animals. The definition included tightly packed balls of snow. No longer.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union and George Shultz, the former US secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, have penned a joint op-ed in the Washington Post urging the US not to exit the landmark 1987 arms control agreement know as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Abandoning the INF Treaty would be a step toward a new arms race, undermining strategic stability and increasing the threat of miscalculation or technical failure leading to an immensely destructive war.

The answer to the problems that have come up is not to abandon the INF Treaty, but to preserve and fix it. Military and diplomatic officials from the United States and Russia should meet to address and resolve the issues of verification and compliance. Equally difficult problems have been solved in the past once the two sides put their minds to it. We are confident this can be done again. ...

We were both at Reykjavik and participated in the negotiations before and after that led to the first agreements. We understand that nuclear weapons raise difficult issues. But we are convinced the United States and Russia must resume progress on a path toward the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons. The alternative, which is unacceptable, is the continuing threat of those weapons to our very existence.

BuzzFeed has gotten its hands on a letter signed by more than 400 former Justice Department who say they are “disturbed” by President Donald’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.

“Because of our respect for our oaths of office and our personal experiences carrying out the Department’s mission, we are disturbed by the President’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker to serve as Acting Attorney General,” the statement signed by former DOJ officials and attorneys reads, according to BuzzFeed. “Mr. Whitaker has not been confirmed by the Senate, his qualifications to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer have not been publicly reviewed, and he has not been fully vetted for any potential conflicts of interest.”

Whitaker assumed the position on November 7th after Trump forced out his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff, was not confirmed by the Senate.

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DC, Maryland attorneys general to subpoena Trump Organization, IRS

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Many observers are noticing just how respectful – even presidential – Donald Trump has been in the wake of the death of Georgie HW Bush. The White House released a glowing statement on Bush’s legacy and Trump immediately moved declared Wednesday a National Day of Mourning. On Monday, the president and first lady visited the Capitol to salute the late president.

For a convention-defying president who wields “Bushie” as an insult and who dithered on lowering the flags after the death of senator John McCain, none of these gestures were a given.

The LA Times explains why this might be.

Trump’s allies say he is likely to be on his best behavior during the tributes to Bush, however, in gratitude that he was at least invited to the funeral.

“That’s all he ever wanted from the McCain family as well,” said Michael Caputo, a former political advisor, “and the McCain family did not feel the need or the desire to simply respect the office.” [eds. note: Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral.]

Caputo, who worked for Bush as well, said the Bush family had arguably more reason to resent Trump than did the family of McCain, whose military service was mocked by Trump.

“Yet the entire Bush family has pushed that aside because that’s the kind of people that they are,” he said. “That will have a remarkable effect on President Trump as it does on all of us.”

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Elle Magazine asked 27 newly-elected female congresswomen to recite the preamble of the US constitution. The sleek, black-and-white production – replete with a line en español – is a stark reminder of just how young, diverse and female the next freshman class will be.

Bannon 'unavailable' to keynote sex robot conference

You read that right.

The Montana Kaimin, the University of Montana’s newspaper, is reporting that former White House strategist Steve Bannon will no longer deliver a keynote speech at a joint conference on sex robots later hosted by the university later this month.

An email sent to people registered for the event, the Athenian Parrhesia Free Speech Forum, stated: “Postponement: Due to the unavailability of Mr. Stephen Bannon this event is postponed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

It was the third event to be canceled since the announcement that Bannon would be a speaker at the conference, the paper said.

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The next Congress will convene on January 3rd – without Florida governor Rick Scott.

Scott, who ousted Democratic senator Bill Nelson in November, will remain governor until January 8, when he will be sworn in to the Senate in a special ceremony in the Senate.

The move means he’ll be the least senior senator in the chamber when he takes office.

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Former senator Bob Dole salutes late president George HW Bush.

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Sully the service dog who was by the side of President George HW Bush until his death on Friday, joined mourners in paying respects to the late president.

The two-year-old yellow Labrador arrived in the cavernous Capitol rotunda alongside Americans in wheelchairs who have benefited from the Americans with Disabilities Act that Bush signed, according to the AP. Sully lay for several moments on the marble floor near the flag-draped casket as members of the public said farewell to his companion.

sully
Former US President Bush’s service dog Sully looks on as Bush’s body lies in state in the Rotunda at the US capitol. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

For the haters, here’s a Slate piece that takes the “well, actually” position on Sully.

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Update: An advisory from press secretary Sarah Sanders announces that the president will hold a “brief meeting at the White House with three German Automakers including - Herbert Diess, Volkswagen, Dieter Zetsche, Daimler and Oliver Zipse, BMW.”

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Senators have emerged from a classified briefing by CIA director, Gina Haspel, saying they are certain that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.

“If the crown prince went in front of a jury he would be convicted in thirty minutes,” Bob Corker, the Republican chair of the Senate foreign relations committee told journalists immediately after the Haspel meeting.

A handful of leading senators from both parties attended the secure briefing from Haspel, who flew to Turkey to hear tapes of the 2 October killing from Turkish intelligence intercepts.

This wasn’t on his public schedule today:

Graham on Khashoggi murder: 'There’s not a smoking gun, there’s a smoking saw'

After a briefing by CIA director Gina Haspel on the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he maintains “high confidence that my initial confidence” that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is responsible for the journalist’s death.

He vowed to support a measure that would end US support for Saudi Arabia’s coalition in Yemen, an extraordinary rebuke of president Trump.

Republican senator Bob Corker said that a court would take “30 minutes” to “unanimously” convict the Saudi crown prince in the murder. He added that there is “no question” of his involvement.

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The guest list for the funeral of George HW Bush includes all living US presidents, several lawmakers and a handful of foreign leaders and dignitaries.

Last night, progressive leaders Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a town hall on Monday night to discuss their climate agenda, known as a Green New Deal.

The affair drew plenty of eyeballs – but delivered few details on how the left will overcome Republican opposition to achieve their goal of limiting rising temperatures, reports The Guardian’s Emily Holden who in the room last night.

In the event, neither lawmaker discussed details or how to pursue [a Green New Deal] when Donald Trump has denied manmade climate change, planned to exit an international climate pact and slashed environmental protections.

Speakers framed the conversation around work that could begin in 2020, if Democrats take back the Senate and the White House. But scientists say the world must have plans in place soon to avoid the worst of a heating Earth.

Democratic leaders – even those who will soon be in charge in the House – do not have a strategy to ratchet down climate pollution. Ocasio-Cortez participated in a sit-in at the office of the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, to urge her to come up with a plan. Pelosi has said she will pursue restarting a select committee on climate change.

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The incoming majority leader Steny Hoyer tells the Washington Post that Democrats could refuse to seat North Carolina Republican Mark Harris, amid concerns of election fraud in the campaign for Congress in the Ninth District.

The election result, which had Harris beating Dan McCready, his Democratic opponent, by 905 votes, was thrown into doubt as state regulators investigate voting “irregularities” and questions involving the handling of absentee ballots.

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And then there were ... 37: Avenatti will not run for president

Celebrity lawyer and Trump antagonist Michael Avenatti has announced that he will not seek the White House in 2020.

“I do not make this decision lightly – I make it out of respect for my family. But for their concerns, I would run,” Avenatti , who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels in her legal suits against Trump, said in a statement posted to Twitter.

In the statement, he said Democrats must put up an aggressive candidate in 2020 and warned that many of the potential contenders are “not battle-tested and have no real chance at winning.”

“We will not prevail in 2020 without a fighter,” said Avenatti, who has tried to position himself as a leader of the anti-Trump resistance.

The announcement comes after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence against his now former girlfriend, actor Mareli Miniutti. The district attorney of Los Angeles declined to bring charges against him and referred the allegations to the city attorney’s office for a possible misdemeanor case. Miniutti was granted a restraining order after accusing him of dragging her by the arm across a bedroom floor.

Avenatti has called the allegations “completely false”.

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Politco: Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack

Politico is reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP campaign arm, suffered a major hack during the 2018 election that exposed thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder.

“The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months,” Politico reported citing three senior party officials.

“The intrusion was detected in April by an NRCC vendor, who alerted the committee and its cybersecurity contractor. An internal investigation was initiated and the FBI was alerted to the attack, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident.”

According to the report, senior House Republicans — including Speaker Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise – learned about the hack only when contacted by Politico on Monday with questions about the episode.

The incident comes as campaigns and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about the threat of after the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta during the 2016 election cycle.

Read the full story here.

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Read between the lines: Mexico is not paying for the wall.

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Little Rock could elect its first black mayor – six decades after Arkansas’ capital city was at the center of a school desegregation fight, according to the Associated Press.

Frank Scott and Baker Kurrus are in Tuesday’s runoff for the nonpartisan, open seat.

If Scott wins, he would be the first African American elected mayor of Little Rock, where divisions linger long after nine black students were escorted past an angry white mob into Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

The city has had two black mayors, but both were elected city directors later chosen for the post by fellow board members.

The 35-year-old Scott was an adviser to former Gov. Mike Beebe and served on the state Highway Commission. Kurrus is a 64-year-old attorney and businessman who was superintendent of Little Rock schools after the district was taken over by the state.

Elise Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman from upstate New York, has a plan to address what she has called a “crisis level” of GOP women in Congress.

Despite the much-heralded Year of the Woman, the gains in gender parity were limited to the Democratic party, while Republican women saw their numbers dwindle.

But Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer, the newly elected chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, thinks her strategy to play in primaries is a “mistake”.

Stefanik shot back: “Newsflash: I wasn’t asking for permission”.

The New York congresswoman told Roll Call that she wants to “refocus and expand her leadership PAC to support women and what she called nontraditional candidates.”

When the next congress convenes in January, House Democrats will have 89 women in their conference, including 35 female freshmen. By contrast, House Republicans will have just 13.

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Republican senator Mike Lee suggests there are enough votes in the Senate to pass criminal justice reform might. In an interview with the Washington Post Live, the Utah Republican said at least 26 Republicans and nearly all Democrats support the prison and sentencing reform bill.

“This bill needs to pass this year,” Lee said.

Trump blessed the effort, which was championed by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and urged Congress to take up the bill before wrapping up for the year.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has give no indication that he intends to tackle criminal justice reform before Congress leaves.

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Last night, the president’s son had some *thoughts* on the marriage between his father’s senior advisor, Kellyanne Conway, and her husband, George Conway, who is a persistent critic of the Trump.

Eric Trump said George Conway’s public criticism of the president showed “utter disrespect” to his wife, who was Trump’s campaign manager in 2016 and remains one of his most loyal defenders.

This morning, George Conway hit back, retweeting comments that suggest the young Trump’s commentary was, perhaps, a bit hypocritical.

Conway, an attorney, shared a tweet by author Reza Aslan, who wrote: “Wait. Did I miss something? Did George Conway pay money to have sex with a porn star right after his wife gave birth?”

Aslan is referring to the allegation that Donald Trump had an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2006 just months after his wife Melania Trump gave birth to their son, Barron. Trump’s then-fixer Michael Cohen told a court that the future president had ordered him to pay Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about the alleged dalliance.

Conway also retweeted Ian Bassin, founder of Protect Democracy, who said: “Of all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect the Trumps show toward the rule of law, the presidency and its place of work, and everything this nation has fought SO hard to achieve might top them all. Donald Trump is terrible person and frankly his actions are horrible.”

Kellyanne Conway has poked fun at the media’s preoccupation with her husband’s criticism of her boss and briefly changed her Twitter bio to read: “The ‘Kellyanne Conway’ in ‘Kellyanne Conway’s Husband’”.

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The Associated Press reports that an 11th-hour settlement has been reached in the lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein, a politically-connected Florida financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls. The deal, which comes just before jury selection was slated to begin, means that, at least for now, none of his accusers will testify against him.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law, served 13 months in jail and became a registered sex offender.

In an expose published last week, The Miami Herald detailed how now-labor secretary Alexander Acosta cut a non-prosecution deal with Epstein that avoided a possible life term.

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Trump's truce with China: 'I am a Tariff Man'

Trump, who refuses to use Twitter’s thread function, has appeared to finish his thoughts on the ongoing trade negotiations with China. The series in full:

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In what has been celebrated as an only-in-Trump’s-Washington moment, journalist and DC socialite Sally Quinn on Monday sat down with pornographic actor Stormy Daniels at Politics and Prose, a Capitol City establishment co-owned by a former Hillary Clinton advisor.

“I’ve watched Stormy’s porn, and it’s good,” Quinn said to laughter, according to the Washington Post. “She knows what she’s doing.”

The interview was to promote Daniels’ book, Full Disclosure, which charts the adult film star’s life, including her alleged dalliance with Trump more than a decade ago.

Daniels was paid a handsome six-figure sum by Trump’s then-fixer Michael Cohen to keep her from discussing the alleged affair during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has broadly denied that he is at fault though his statements have shifted.

“I’m a lot of things — a lot of things,” Daniels said, according to the New York Times after recounting her alleged encounter with Trump. “But I’m not a liar.”

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Michelle Obama said the Queen eased the former first lady’s fear of breaching royal protocol during a visit to Windsor Castle by dismissing the formalities as “rubbish”.

I had all this protocol buzzing in my head, and I was like ‘don’t trip down the stairs and don’t touch anybody, whatever you do,’” Obama said during a live interview with author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London on Monday. “And so the Queen says ‘just get in, sit wherever’ and she’s telling you one thing and you’re remembering protocol and she says ‘Oh it’s all rubbish, just get in,’” the Evening Standard reports.

She also revealed that her husband, former president Barack Obama, is such an admirer of Her Majesty in part because she reminds him of his grandmother, Toot.

In her book, Becoming, Michelle Obama describes meeting the Queen for the first time.

“You’re so tall,” the diminutive monarch told Obama to break the ice.

“‘Well,’ I said, chuckling, ‘the shoes give me a couple of inches. But yes, I’m tall,’” Obama writes.

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What’s on the president’s mind this morning:

At 9.22am

Eight minutes later...

2020 intrigue

For those keeping track at home, billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer – two of at least three dozen Democratic candidates openly flirting with running for president – are visiting important primary states on Tuesday.

Bloomberg, the New York money man who only recently became a registered Democrat, is set to visit three towns in Iowa on Tuesday, while investor and climate activist Tom Steyer, perhaps best known as the face of a well-funded effort to impeach Trump, will host a town hall in Charleston, South Carolina.

Bloomberg and Steyer spent millions during the 2018 cycle to help Democrats regain control of the House. Jumping off that success, their travel on Tuesday will give them new opportunities to test their message and, perhaps most importantly, gauge the interest of Democratic primary voters and activists in the potential candidacies,” reports the Associated Press. Go deeper.

Meanwhile Missoula, Montana, on Monday night, former Vice President Joe Biden, said he is the “most qualified person” to be president, CNN reports. He said he would make a decision in the next two months while acknowledging a potential weakness: that he’s a “gaffe machine.”

“I’ll be as straight with you as I can. I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president,” Biden said during a stop on his book tour. “The issues that we face as a country today are the issues that have been in my wheelhouse, that I’ve worked on my whole life.”

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Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington has previewed the effort by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin to curtail the powers of incoming Democratic governor, Tony Evers, who denied Republican governor Scott Walker a third term in one of the party’s most celebrated midterm victories. But it’s not just Wisconsin, he writes.

A month after the midterm elections on 6 November, several states continue to be convulsed by bitter partisan fighting in which Republicans are being accused of flagrantly undemocratic attempts to steal victory from the clutches of their Democratic rivals.

The most intense battle is playing out in Wisconsin, where Republican lawmakers are attempting a power grab that would strip key functions from the state’s incoming Democratic governor and attorney general. Opponents are denouncing the move, which sparked protests on Monday, as a blatantly undemocratic negation of the November election results.

Similarly contentious efforts are afoot in Michigan, where Democrats regained three important statewide positions in November – that of governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Instead of accepting the will of voters, Republican lawmakers are now seeking to reduce the control of those post-holders over campaign finance and legal proceedings involving the state before the Democratic victors take office.

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Politics comes to halt on Capitol Hill while the nation pays its respects to former president George Bush.

Elsewhere, Trump will sign the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 at 3.30pm. He will also meet privately with the Bush family at the Blair House.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to deliver a memo that will reveal the extent to which former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn is cooperating with the investigation into Russian interference and possible collusion. The court filing is due by midnight on Tuesday.

CIA Director Gina Haspel is expected to brief a group of lawmakers on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers on Tuesday will attempt to curb the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general – both Democrats.

And in Georgia, votes are headed to the polls in two runoff elections for secretary of state and Public Service Commission. Who Georgians elect to oversee their elections is significant after accusations by Democrats that the previous office holder and current governor-elect Brian Kemp made it more difficult for people of color to vote in the state.

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Nation pays respects to former president George Bush

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of goings on in Washington and around the country.

Former president George Bush, who died on Friday at the age of 94, will lie in state at the US Capitol until his funeral on Wednesday.

On Monday, the political world join the Bush family, including his son, former president George HW Bush for a solemn ceremony. Donald Trump did not attend but he and the first lady, Melania Trump, arrived at the Capitol later on Monday night to pay their respects. They stood in front of the casket for several moments before the president raised his arm in salute.

Before the sun rose on Tuesday, members of the public arrived to pay their respects to the country’s 41st president. His flag-draped casket sits in the Capitol’s rotunda atop the Lincoln Catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 funeral.

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