Aug. 21, 2017
Good morning from the nation's capital, where President Trump faces multiple political challenges on his return from a working vacation. Fred Lucas looks at possible effects of a chief strategist's departure. Trump could show renewed leadership in reducing the threat posed by the national debt, Chase Flowers and Justin Bogie suggest. Plus: Elizabeth Slattery and Melanie Israel on a rare loss for Planned Parenthood, and Peter Parisi on an odd defense of Al Gore's outsize energy use. It's Senior Citizens Day.
The federal debt is projected to increase from $20 trillion to $92 trillion in the next 30 years, according to the most recent long-term projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
How much energy the former vice president consumes becomes an issue with the theatrical release of the follow-up to "An Inconvenient Truth," his 2006 global warming horror film.
"There is no question that Steve Bannon was one of the only people who could keep Trump true to Trumpism," says Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies.
On this week's "Problematic Women," we discuss actress Patricia Heaton’s powerful response to CBS News' report that Down syndrome is "disappearing" in Iceland.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced in August 2015 that the state would terminate its contract following the release of videos that raised disturbing allegations that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of organs from aborted babies.
"The Obama administration created this ill-advised program to suffocate legitimate businesses to which it was ideologically opposed by intimidating financial institutions into denying banking services to those businesses," says a group of GOP lawmakers.
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