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

202 for Friday, July 20th. In today's news, the Trump administration proposes a major rollback of the Endangered Species Act.

The president attacks the Fed chair he appointed for raising interest rates and

the Senate's only black Republican torpedoes Trump's

nominee for the Ninth Circuit.

But first, the big idea.

Tensions have ratcheted up dramatically here in Washington

after the White House announced Thursday

that President Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to visit the United States in the fall.

Sarah Huckaby Sanders announced that Vladimir Putin to visit the United States in the fall.

Sarah Hookaby Sanders announced that discussions are already underway.

As she said that in an afternoon tweet,

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates was on stage at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

He was being interviewed by NBC's Andrea Mitchell when she asked about the news and he said

that he was out of the loop.

Here's his exchange with Andrea.

We have some breaking news.

The White House has announced on Twitter

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