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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Mueller’s Indictments, Ryan’s Tax Plan and the Future of the Republican Agenda

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, the Special Prosecutor filed his first indictments in his investigation into the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia. Later in the week, House Speaker Paul Ryan revealed the details of the Republican tax plan. Does the Russia probe jeopardize the Republicans’ final effort to pass significant legislation before the 2018 campaign season begins? John Cassidy joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the two issues that will be consuming Trump and Congress in the coming months.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Friday, November 3rd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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On Monday, Robert Mueller announced the indictment of Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort,

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and an associate, Richard Gates. He also unsealed documents revealing that one of the president's

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foreign policy advisors during the campaign, George Papadopoulos, has pled guilty to lying to FBI

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agents. Yesterday, on Capitol Hill, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, and Kevin Brady, the chairman

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of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the Republican tax bill.

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Ryan was asked by CNN about whether the indictments would affect their plan.

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I don't see it as distracting.

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We have Russia investigations right here.

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