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Last week, a Washington court of appeals ruled that former Attorney General Bill Barr lied about Donald Trump's involvement in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign cycle. Just days prior to Mueller's report being released, Barr said that he'd read the report and Trump did nothing wrong.

The Justice Department released the memo on Trump's obstruction of Mueller's probe revealing that it was more than clear he believed that Trump committed a crime in several cases when he tried to obstruct justice.

Republicans have played up the idea that no American should be handed free money for student loan repayment. But a June NPR/Ipsos poll among American adults showed that 55 percent of Americans support giving the $10,000 in loan forgiveness to families making less than $125,000 a year.

The Republican House Judiciary committee posted a comment, "If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period." They later ranted in all-caps, "NOTHING IS FREE."

Former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles Times legal expert Harry Litman and Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann noticed a key piece of information missing on the case around former President Donald Trump.

Weissmann pointed out that the Justice Department hasn't named the prosecutors who are on the case around the Mar-a-Lago search and investigation, which is a dramatic shift from previous cases, like his. When Weissmann was working under special counsel Robert Mueller his name as well as the names of other prosecutors were named in court documents. Now, they're not.

About two miles northeast of the White House and two miles north of the U.S. Capitol at least six people were shot in the Truxton Circle neighborhood in northwestern Washington, D.C.

All of the people were taken to the hospitals and two with "fatal injuries," the Washington Post reported.

Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram shut down what is believed to be a propaganda operation targeting China, Iran and Russia from the United States, according to Vice News.

Researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), who coordinated with the private research company Graphika, said that the operation had been going on since 2017.

Over the past year, a few special elections for congressional seats have shown that the Republican Party isn't as enthusiastic as the Democrats appear to be in the election and it's hurting their results.

After the New York 19th Congressional District special election on Tuesday, numbers guru Steve Kornacki detailed that the once Republican seat that flipped to Democrats had a significantly higher turnout among Democratic voters than in previous elections. Pat Ryan won the district that is being seen as a bellwether because it has traditionally been a Republican district.

It began yesterday when Fox13 reported a police officer and high school principal had experienced racial profiling at Houston's Restaurant. The station then revealed that since that first report, other accounts of racism have poured into the station.

The previous report was from a law enforcement officer and high school principal who said they were humiliated by the restaurant after being accused of smelling like marijuana.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace confessed that one of the stories she was covering was "the scariest thing I’ve heard on this program in a long time."

In a recent report by Washington Post reporter Aaron Davis, it was revealed that allies of former President Donald Trump copied files from Georgia's electronic voting systems and then shared them with Trump's lawyers and other election deniers.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi has remained cautious when talking about the FBI and Justice Department's deliberative movements dealing with Donald Trump. But in his most recent panel discussion with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Figliuzzi indicated he was frustrated with how slow they moved when it comes to the classified documents sitting in Mar-a-Lago.

"So, for those of us sitting at home trying to figure out what was the switch that flipped and got them to the search warrant? What was it that happened, and I think it's a myriad of things," Figliuzzi. "There are human sources because we know from filings there's references repeatedly to witnesses who have been interviewed, so that's great, but I think one of those so-called witnesses was the surveillance camera footage. I think what they saw was, you know, no surprise here, that they couldn't trust Trump. By that I mean by then a couple of locks had been slapped on the storage room door, right? So, everything's supposed to be fine. While we continued to nicely, civilly discuss and negotiate whatever's going to happen."

The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed in an extensive report that physician Jay Glickman earned $1.3 million from the city of Philadelphia between 2006 to 2012 after the local Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 picked him to decide whether cops could get the city's generous Heart and Lung disability benefit.

Due to Glickman's recommendations, the officers have been off the job for months and some for years despite "accepted treatment guidelines recommendations."

Senate candidate Mehmet Oz is being promoted as part of Donald Trump's "America First" policy world. Like Trump, however, his business doesn't exactly support the claims," Business Insider noticed.

The Senate candidate who only recently moved to Pennsylvania, bragged on his website that he "believes the United States has failed to respond to the global Chinese threat."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will finish out her term in Congress by the end of the year after losing the Republican primary in her state last week. Political analysts are looking at her next steps, but it appears supporters of Donald Trump are as well.

CNBC reported Tuesday that a group of political consultants tied to Trump and the Koch brothers' network are joining forces with her as she tries to decide whether she'll run for president.

Former federal prosecutor Barb McQuade, who is part of the "Sisters in Law" podcast, said Tuesday that the government has been treating Donald Trump with "kid gloves" when it comes to the documents took from the White House.

Monday evening, it was revealed that there were over 300 documents discovered that were marked classified and top secret. Surveillance videos also reportedly show people coming in and out of the so-called "secure" room and taking documents.