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A new report from the New York Times claims that former President Donald Trump wanted to send as many as a quarter of a million American troops to guard the southern border from undocumented immigrants.

According to the Times, then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper believed that the plan was "outrageous" and scrambled to talk the former president out of it when he floated it last year.

Former president Donald Trump falsely claimed that Thomas Jefferson was "a principal writer of the Constitution" on Tuesday.

Trump made the error in a statement criticizing the the removal of a Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City Hall.

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," legal reporter Paula Reid highlighted how former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's efforts to block the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack from obtaining his testimony are blowing up in his face.

Bannon is already facing a resolution calling for a criminal referral to the DOJ for contempt — and, argued Reid, it might have ruined an easier way he could have tried to protect his former boss.