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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Thursday, November 1st.

In today's news, President Trump says he might end up sending 15,000 troops to the border.

Several states report record-shattering early vote totals,

and the nature of hate crimes is evolving. But first, the big idea. History nerds are geeking out this morning. The National Archives

on Wednesday night revealed one of the last great secrets of the Watergate investigation.

It's the backbone of a long sealed report used by special prosecutor

Leon Jaworski to send evidence to Congress

in the legal case against Richard Nixon.

It's a much more complicated process than you might assume if you're not a lawyer

because the proceedings of a grand jury are supposed to stay secret.

The release of the referral, which was delivered in 1974 as impeachment proceedings were being weighed, came after a former

member of Nixon's defense team and three prominent legal analysts filed separate lawsuits seeking

for it to be unsealed after more than four decades of being held back under those grand jury

secrecy rules.

The legal analysts argued that the report could offer a precedent and guide for Special

Council Bob Mueller as he addresses the present day challenge on whether and if so how to make

public the findings of his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016

election and whether President Trump tried to obstruct justice in shutting down that investigation.

Jaworski faced a problem similar to the one that may soon confront Mueller.

He had relevant evidence but but not, Jaworska concluded, the constitutional authority to indict a

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