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Good morning.

I'm James Helmin from the Washington Post

and this is the Daily 202 for Wednesday, August 22nd.

In today's news, President Trump's top economic advisor hosted a white nationalist

at his birthday party.

Brett Kavanaugh reassures Susan Collins on abortion,

and Trump's endorsement fails to get a candidate for governor across the finish line in a Wyoming primary.

But first, the big idea.

In perhaps the worst day of his presidency thus far,

Trump's former longtime attorney and his

2016 campaign chairman were separately declared guilty on Tuesday of eight crimes

each. And a guilty plea entered in a Manhattan federal courthouse,

former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen implicated the president directly in some of his acts,

saying he arranged to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming

public before election day.

At nearly the same moment, a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted former Trump campaign

boss Paul Manifort on eight of the 18 tax and bank fraud charges against him

...