How to handle a scandal

How to handle a scandal

House Democrats are wrestling with how hard to go after President Donald Trump's laundry list of alleged abuses. With just weeks to go until Election Day, could aggressive oversight undermine the party's political prospects? Congress reporter Heather Caygle talks with Scott Bland about lawmakers' game plan. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Heather Caygle is a Congress reporter for POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is an associate producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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BONUS: Did a presidential pardon just become more likely?

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Trump's Russia comments: deeply damaging or just bizarre?

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While President Trump is ruffling feathers of world leaders in Europe, Mike Pence is on his own press tour a little closer to home: he's in the Midwest. We get into what he's doing there, and why his ...

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