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Good morning.

I'm James Holman from the Washington Post

and this is the Daily 202 for Thursday August 23rd.

In today's news, Betsy Devas might let schools use federal money to buy guns for teachers.

Brett Kavanaugh may have leaked sensitive grand jury information to the press.

And the White House is trying to use the murder of an Iowa college student to refocus the national

conversation on immigration. But first, the big idea. Michael Cohen's guilty plea raises the likelihood that he will

attempt to leverage the secrets he knows about Donald Trump. Lanny Davis, an attorney for the president's former fixer, went on a media blitz in the wake of Cohen's guilty plea.

He repeatedly floated the idea that Cohen is willing to be a witness against Trump and his associates in state

and federal investigations including the Special Counsel's probe into Russian

interference in the 2016 campaign. New York's state tax collection agency took

Davis up on that. On Wednesday a spokesman for the agency said it had issued a

subpoena to Cohen for information related to an investigation of Trump's

Charitable Foundation. Cohen reportedly responded by personally calling the agency to see how he could help.

Potentially more significant, Davis repeatedly said Cohen would be willing to assist Bob

Mueller and suggested that he may be able to tell Mueller that Trump had advanced knowledge of the hacking of Democratic emails.

We're also learning more about why Cohen decided to flip after saying just a few months

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