Brett Talley, 36, a Harvard Law School graduate, has worked for numerous political campaigns and written partisan blog posts but has limited experience as a practicing attorney.
The White House is cooperating, but a small group of Trump supporters is building a case that Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller must step down — or worse.
Barack Obama reported for jury duty in Cook County and was dismissed. NPR's Scott Simon says the fact that former presidents show up for jury duty says something vital about the political system.
"What we're talking about is the new concept of so-called hybrid war, which a government wages but won't admit to," Gennady Gudkov, a retired KGB colonel, tells NPR. "It's extremely hard to prove."
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina about what's in the tax legislation from Senate Republicans and how the party plans to get it passed by the end of the year.
Democrats won several state and local elections this week. Progressive superPAC co-founder and ex-Obama campaign staffer David Cohen talks with Scott Simon.
President Trump and Russian President Putin met briefly during a summit in Vietnam. Trump said he asked Putin about Russian interference in the U.S. election last year and that Putin again denied it.
The words "thoughts and prayers" are often criticized after mass shootings. Scott Simon talks to David French of National Review, who argues prayer can be the most rational and effective response.