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The Story: Liz Cheney (R-Wyo), a key "never Trump" figure within the Republican Party, and the daughter of Dick Cheney, who was Vice President in...

The Story: The President's re-election prospects took a hit this weekend with a report that Russia has offered bounties to militants in Afghanistan for the...

 The Story: In May 2019, Senator Mike Enzi (R - Wyo) announced that he would not seek reelection to the seat he has held for...

The Story: Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent, now a candidate for a US House seat from New Mexico's 3d district, has a television ad...

The Story: Rep. Liz Cheney (Wy) and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky), two very prominent Republicans with decided opinions about foreign policy, have been using their...

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. Some of President Trump’s biggest financial backers live here. In the final days, much of the midterm election seems to have clarified around a central question: What is American identity? But discomfort with the president’s rhetoric among college-educated white voters, particularly women, is also part of the reason that Democrats have a shot of winning long-held Republican House seats in suburbs like Highland Park, which has been represented by the Republican Pete Sessions since 2002. ____________________ Lots of people are voting early With less than a week until Election Day, 28 million ballots have been cast through early and absentee voting. That’s a lot: Four years ago, 27 million people voted early. (Both of those states have high-profile Senate races.) • Even a few states without major competitive races, like Maryland and Louisiana, have surpassed their early voting numbers from the last midterms. ____________________ Today in live polls: Georgia, and the big picture Image As the election nears, The Times’s live polling project is talking to voters in some of the closest races. Today, Nate Cohn and the Upshot team highlighted a few polls happening right now: If We Had More Time: We’ve run out of time to add new House polls.

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(CNN)Speculation surrounding President Donald Trump's motive to pardon Scooter Libby this week continues, as the special counsel probe could put some of Trump's allies in the hot seat. But if Trump did pardon Libby to send a political message, former US attorney Preet Bharara said Sunday that he thought that would be "kind of abusive." "It's true that the pardon power is something that the President can exercise in any way shape or form pretty much he wants," Bharara said on CNN's "State of the Union." Libby, who was chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury in 2007 in the investigation into the leaked identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald led the case that led to Libby's conviction. Fitzgerald was tapped by then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey, and the news of Libby's pardon came hours after excerpts from Comey's new memoir leaked, in which the ex-FBI director is highly critical of the President. Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion. Bharara said that there a lot of other people who might have deserved a presidential pardon. "Given how many thousands of people are out there -- and my office used to process these requests on a regular basis -- how many thousands of people are out there who may have been prosecuted in a way that was over aggressive, where charges were piled on, who want to get on with their lives in a way that maybe the President can help by issuing a pardon -- none of those people have gotten a pardon," he said. "But this person who the President doesn't know, who allows him to make a political statement and also to send a message as you suggest to people who are currently in the hot seat with respect to the Mueller investigation, I find it very difficult to come to any other conclusion than he's sending a message," he continued.

President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Vice President Dick Cheney’s onetime Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. President George W. Bush had already been accused of showing favoritism to someone within his administration when he commuted Libby’s sentence, which saved Libby from serving two-and-a-half-years in jail. But pardons go further, restoring some rights that are usually revoked for those with criminal convictions as well as reducing the stigma that comes with the offense. That’s what Cheney wanted for his former aide. But Bush thought Libby didn’t deserve a pardon, and Cheney never forgave him. Here’s why, as TIME explained in its Aug. 3, 2009, cover story on the feud: Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity by senior White House officials. A top adviser to Bush says he had never seen the Vice President focused so single-mindedly on anything over two terms. It reveals how one question–whether to grant a presidential pardon to a top vice-presidential aide–strained the bonds between Bush and his deputy and closest counselor. As a Cheney confidant puts it, the Vice President believed he and the President could claim the war on terrorism as his greatest legacy only if they defended at all costs the men and women who fought in the trenches.

The Story: With the nomination of Gina Haspel to be the next CIA Director, the issue of torture, or of "enhanced interrogation," has become a...