1. Former Trump campaign aide says the Special Counsel’s focus is Russian collusion, President Donald Trump lies again
— Michael Caputo says Mueller’s team knows “more about the Trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there” and says they are still very much interested in collusion.
— Trump and his team continue to make his life worse by going on Fox News and exposing the president’s lies about Stormy Daniels, and Rudy Giuliani appears to acknowledge a potential campaign finance violation.
2. Republicans in Congress nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize as North Korea releases U.S. detainees
— North Korea has freed three U.S. citizens from a forced labor camp and has sent them to the nation’s capitol for medical treatment. They will be released to Trump on the day of the U.S.-North Korea summit.
— Like the president of South Korea, a group of 18 House Republicans led by Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana sent a letter Wednesday to members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
3. The Republican Lieutenant Governor’s race is much closer than the Governor’s race; 61 percent are undecided
— Current President of the Public Service Commission Twinkle Cavanough is leading the field with 24 percent of respondents choosing her, State Representative Will Ainsworth and State Senator Rusty Glover have eight and seven percent respectively.
— Former Madison County Democrat Chairman Clete Wetli was asked on the radio about the Democrat candidates for Lt. Gov. and he had no clue who was running. That should tell you how confident Democrats feel about their statewide chances.
4. Teachers win and students lose again as a judge rules that a Montgomery charter school cannot open
— The Alabama Education Association argued, successfully, because there are only nine members currently on the ten member board, that five is not a majority and the school cannot open.
— The AEA has declared war on all charter schools, school choice, and any type of voucher program that threatens their strangle-hold on one of America’s worst statewide school systems.
5. Alabama’s Attorney General joins a lawsuit to end the DACA program
— Texas AG Ken Paxton wants the courts to declare DACA unlawful and bar the federal government from issuing permits through the program created by President Barack Obama via executive action, courts have stopped the President from ending the program.
— Alabama has joined the lawsuit, with Marshall calling on Congress to pass immigration laws if the county is to go down this path, saying, “It is on Congress to act in this theatre because it’s their responsibility, not the president’s to grant status to certain individuals.”
6. Proving that it is never too early to poll anything, Trump crushes his Republican rivals in 2020
— Trump easily beats both Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake one-on-one in New Hampshire, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachutes is leading Democrats.
— These polls are absurd, a 2014 poll in 2016 had then-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in the lead while Trump was not even included in the polling.
7. Although, no one really covered it, students around the country staged a walk-out in support of gun rights
— The organization “Stand for the Second” led a walkout that took place in at least 40 different states.
— A nationwide walkout for gun control garnered round the clock news coverage in the lead up and live shots during the event, but this did not happen for the alternative event.
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