Ethically challenged: Three scandals rock Trump administration in one day

[DonViejo]

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

Feb. 20, 2019, 7:57 AM EST

By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann

WASHINGTON — It’s hard to keep up with all of the alleged scandals hitting the Trump administration. But here’s what we learned in just one day yesterday:

Trump asked his acting attorney general to put a Trump ally, the U.S. attorney in New York, in charge of the Michael Cohen investigation, according to the New York Times. (Trump denied the story on Tuesday, saying: “That’s more fake news.”)

Whistleblowers “have told a congressional committee that efforts by former national security adviser Michael Flynn to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia may have violated the law, and investigators fear Trump is still considering it,” NBC’s Ken Dilanian reported.

“House and Senate Democrats say they have obtained evidence that a senior official at the Department of Education tried to oust the department’s independent watchdog after she pushed back on an attempt to interfere in an active investigation of Secretary Betsy DeVos,” per NBC’s Heidi Przybyla.

Any one of these stories would have dominated the news — for days and weeks — in any other administration. But in our current era, it was just Tuesday.

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1. I subscribe to WaPo, NY Times, New Yorker, and a few others, and...

sometimes dread opening them up for fear of what dreadful news the day brings.

Local news is easier on the heart, with just car crashes, rescued cats, and fires being in the headlines.