The Fallout From Gary Cohn Exiting the White House
Kelly Macias, staff writer for Daily Kos, and Alayna Treene, reporter for Axios, discuss what comes next now that Gary Cohn has left his post as President Trump's top economic advisor. They also touch on how the Democrats made out Tuesday in the Texas primaries.
Treene believes Cohn was unhappy in his role for a long time, as far back as the events in Charlottesville, but stayed on to push tax reform. Macias thinks the idea that the "adults in the room" will handle Trump isn't true because all the adults are leaving.
Hunter Biden on Wednesday defied a congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition before Republican investigators who have been digging into his business dealings, insisting outside the U.S. Capitol that he will only testify in public.
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