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Week in politics: Remembering Senator John McCain, plus Trump announces he’s ‘terminating’ NAFTA — can he do that?

Arizona Sen. John McCain speaks at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Week in politics: Remembering Senator John McCain, plus Trump announces he’s ‘terminating’ NAFTA — can he do that?

Our weekly political roundtable recaps the headlines you might’ve missed this weekend and looks ahead to what’s to come this week in political news:

  • McCain remembrance and who takes his place in the Senate?

  • U.S. and Mexico reach prelim NAFTA deal

  • Recap of headlines from last week: Follow up to Cohen plea, maybe Manafort verdict as well, Reports: Trump Org. finance chief gets immunity, so does National Enquirer publisher

  • Trump, Sessions trade barbs over recusal from Mueller probe

  • Why Dems are talking more about missing Kavanaugh documents than abortion in SCOTUS battle

  • DNC changes rules for how superdelegates participate in nomination process

  • Trump delays SOS Pompeo’s visit to North Korea

  • A check-in on the charges against Duncan Hunter

Guests:

Matt Rodriguez, Democratic strategist and founder and chief executive officer of Rodriguez Strategies. He is also a former senior Obama advisor in 2008; he tweets

Carson Bruno, assistant dean and adjunct lecturer at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and former research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; he tweets