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Double Drama: Kavanaugh, Rosenstein Await Trump’s Return from UN Conference

By John T. Bennett

Posted September 24, 2018 at 9:52pm

By John T. Bennett and D.A. Banks

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White House correspondent John T. Bennett says it’s shaping up to be the most consequential week of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office. With less than 50 days before the pivotal midterm elections, the administration faces a battle to confirm a conservative jurist to the Supreme Court and is likely to decide the fate of the man overseeing the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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