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Week in politics: Major media outlets differ on timing of Mueller report release, previewing Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam and more

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 2019 White House Business Session with the Nation’s Governors, in State Dining Room at the White House on February 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 2019 White House Business Session with the Nation’s Governors, in State Dining Room at the White House on February 25, 2019 in Washington, DC
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Week in politics: Major media outlets differ on timing of Mueller report release, previewing Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam and more

AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the headlines you might have missed over the weekend and looks ahead to the week in politics news. Here are the headlines we’re watching this week:

  • Mueller report – will it drop soon? CNN said last week it’d be this week, others say it’s not coming (Neal Katyal had a NYT op-ed talking about what to expect)

    • Memo on Manafort says he “brazenly violated” law

    • Michael Cohen to testify before Congressional panel this week

  • Dems looking to vote on resolution blocking Trump admin’s national emergency declaration & former national security officials sign letter opposing emergency declaration

  • Trump admin cuts off talks with CA over fuel efficiency standards

  • Dianne Feinstein’s exchange with kids on climate change (here is the full clip for context)

  • President Trump to meet with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam

  • 2020 candidates: How foreign policy could be Biden’s “lane” in crowded Dem field, plus a look at how candidates treat their staff and how that translates with voters, and how #MeToo has impacted it recently

  • HHS finalizes rules seeking to expel Planned Parenthood from federal family planning program

  • CA GOP elects new chair

  • North Carolina elections board orders new race in disputed House district

Guests:

Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University; he tweets

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