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It’s been a day and a half of “look over there” tactics coming out of the White House, since we first learned three former Trump campaign aides were indicted.
But the most bizarre case of White House misdirection comes from none other than Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly — who, in an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham — took the opportunity to praise Confederate General Robert E Lee.
Jim Braude is joined by Lylah Alphonse, managing news editor at U.S. News and World Report and Nestor Ramos, columnist at The Boston Globe to discuss.