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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Monday, August 6th.

In today's news, President Trump admits that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was really

about getting dirt from the Russians on Hillary Clinton. Republicans are in danger of losing

a solidly red House district in an Ohio special election

and Venezuela detains more opposition leaders after an alleged assassination

attempt on its president. But first, the big idea.

Race continues to be a blind spot for Trump one year after Charlottesville.

One week before the first anniversary of his botched response to the racial violence in Virginia,

President Trump again sparked controversy this weekend with personal attacks on the intelligence of three prominent African Americans,

basketball great LeBron James, CNN anchor, Don Lemon, and 13-term California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

Here's the president at a rally on Saturday night in Ohio.

Maxine, she's a real beauty. Maxi.

A seriously low IQ person.

On Friday night, the president was hate watching CNN.

Lemon was interviewing James about a new charter school he's opening to help

underprivileged kids in Ohio.

Then they started talking about Trump.

Now the president used to praise James as one of the greatest basketball players of all time,

but after watching LeBron criticize him, he tweeted that Lemon is quote,

the dumbest man on television, and added,

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