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Attorney General William Barr will testify before the Congress on Tuesday, reports the hill.

He will be here to testify about the Justice Department's budget request for the 2020 fiscal year, but may be wondering about special advice Robert MuellerThe report of Russia, for which he faces increasing pressure.

The hearing is scheduled for the House Appropriations Committee at 9:30 Tuesday, according to the Hill.

Joe Biden CNN reports that his team was photographed in his home town of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This could be a sign that he is preparing for the launch of the presidential campaign.

A very unfavorable book review in the Washington Post for "Healthy Holly," the Baltimore Mayor's book Catherine Pugh this triggered a scandal and led the mayor to absentee.

New Poll Finds Most Voters Worryingly Making Touching Claims Against Former Vice President Joe Biden should not disqualify him from being president.

In the Hill-HarrisX survey, 56% of respondents said that Biden's conduct should not be considered a disqualifying decision, while 23% had been and 21% were uncertain.

Former Vice President Joe Biden He began his participation in a union event by criticizing his delicate tendencies.

He came in and embraced the IBEW President Lonnie Stephenson, BuzzFeed Reports. "I just want you to know that I've had permission to kiss Lonnie," he says.

This is Biden's first public event since many women said he had touched them in a way that made them feel uncomfortable.

By putting his arm around a young boy in a sequence broadcast on CNN, Biden also said, "By the way, he gave me permission to touch him."

In addition to her proposal to end the filibuster, the senator Elizabeth Warren In her speech to the National Action Network, she praises her universal care plan – highlighting the disproportionate impact of lack of access to child care for women of color while telling her own struggles, according to several journalists covering the speech .

Mayor of New York Bill of Blasio, appearing in Brian Lehrer's WNYC show, defended his latest controversial fundraising maneuvers as he envisioned a candidacy for the presidency.

senator Bernie Sanders, like other Democratic hopefuls, told the Reverend Al Sharpton he would sign a bill to study reparations and attack Donald Trump as a racist. More highlights from his speech of journalists covering the convention of the national action network:

The next speaker is Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is pleading today for the removal of the filibuster.

senator Kamala Harris, speaking at the National Action Network, promised to sign a bill to create a commission to study reparations for slavery, Newsday reports. She also touted her plan to increase teachers' salaries.

Harris also called for doubling the size of the Department of Justice's civil rights division and was greeted with a standing ovation, according to journalist Celeste Katz.

Governor John Hickenlooper also said that he would sign the reparations bill, although it apparently took a few moments.

Donald Trump all the time because "it's fun", his former director of communications, Anthony Scaramucci said this morning.

"He does it because he thinks it's fun. And he's doing it too because he likes the fact that you're talking about it, "Scaramucci told CNN. "He understood that there was a very large group of people in our population who, when he did it and the media talked about it, they laughed."

Scaramucci said he asked Trump not to "tell these fables", but he has been lying about real estate for years and "finds it amusing".

Here is the motion filed today to block the Trump administration 's attempt to divert $ 1.6 billion in federal funding for the construction of a border wall.

The states filed suit in January to challenge Trump 's emergency declaration, which he uses to obtain federal money for a wall without congressional approval. The new motion, filed in the Northern District of California, calls for an immediate injunction to prevent Trump from using $ 1.6 billion in funding from Congress to agencies charged with enforcing the law. local and local laws.

To find out more about the New York Attorney General's Office, Letitia James:

In the motion, the coalition claims that, with its illegal actions of the executive, President Trump ignored the congressional will and the principles of separation of powers enshrined in the US Constitution. The Trump administration is ultimately attempting to divert up to $ 6.7 billion in funding from the Treasury's forfeiture fund, the Department of Defense's Drug Enforcement Account, and construction projects. military through its emergency declaration. These illegal actions are doing great harm to the states, who have relied on Treasury confiscation funds to purchase the equipment needed for law enforcement, personnel and support of ongoing operations. In addition, any misappropriation of funds and resources towards the construction of a border wall will result in environmental damage in New Mexico and other border states.

The coalition also claims that the measures taken by the Trump administration to divert funds:

• Lack of statutory authority because the federal government can not meet the criteria on which it relies to divert funds and resources;
• Violate the principles of separation of powers from the US Constitution by using powers of appropriation of the Congress;
• Ignore the National Environmental Policy Act by proceeding with construction plans in New Mexico without preparing the required environmental impact study; and
• Inflicting imminent environmental damage to ecologically sensitive areas on the New Mexico border, where border wall construction is imminent.

After the Democrats officially asked for his tax returns at the IRS, Donald Trump stated that the decision to release them is "to whoever takes care of them."

"From what I understand, the law is 100% on my side," said Trump, who refused to release his taxes, claiming once again that "I am audited".

There is no known law prohibiting the publication of the president's income tax returns if they are audited. The IRS's policy is to check all the statements produced by a sitting president, but the former presidents have nevertheless published theirs.

House Committee on Ways and Means Richard Neal officially asked Wednesday for Trump's taxes, under a law authorizing the chairman of this committee to obtain statements from all citizens.

Donald Trump said that he withdrew the appointment of Ron Vitiello at the head of immigration and customs because he wants someone who will be "harder" on immigrants.

"We are going in a different direction," Trump told reporters as he left the White House.

"Ron is a good man," he says. "We want to go in a more difficult direction."

Donald Trump claims to be a "very good messenger" to criticize the former vice-president Joe BidenManageable behavior, despite the many accusations of sexual assault against Trump.

Trump pinned at the top of his Twitter account a fake Biden mocking video after several women told him that he had touched them in a way that put them uncomfortable.

"I think I'm a very good messenger, and people have had a good shot," Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday. "You have to somehow smile."

Trump went on to say that he did not see Biden's candidacy as a threat.

"I think he's only a threat to himself. I do not see it as a threat. He has been here for a long time. His record is not good, "said Trump, adding Democratic presidential candidates," I would be happy with any of them, to be honest. "

Biden is expected to speak later this morning at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, his first public event since the publication of the allegations.

secretary of state Mike Pompeo says that he is "confident", there will be a third summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Pompeo told CBS this morning that he hoped the next summit would take place "in a short time". A recent meeting between the two leaders in Hanoi collapsed without agreement on the North Korean nuclear program.

"We have not advanced as much as the world is demanding," said Pompeo, but added that Trump and Kim had gained a "deeper understanding of each other".