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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, November 27th.

In today's news, General Motors will lay off 15,000 American workers.

President Trump defends the use of tear gas against children at the border.

And Democrats look for an upset in today's Senate special election in Mississippi.

But first, the big idea.

Special counsel Bob Mueller's team of prosecutors accused Paul Manafort of lying to them

after pleading guilty.

Manafort denies doing so intentionally, but both sides agreed in a court filing

late Monday night that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson should set sentencing immediately.

The collapse of Manifort's cooperation is the latest stunning turnaround in his case, and

it exposes the longtime Republican consultant,

Trump's former campaign chairman,

to at least a decade behind bars

after he pleaded guilty in September

to charges of cheating the IRS,

violating foreign lobbying laws, and attempting to obstruct justice. I.

Violating foreign lobbying laws and attempting to obstruct justice.

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