The beat tonight. Our top story is the clash that reached a boiling point today tying together the Mueller Probe, the Trump Administrations blatant support of Vladimir Putins interests and the question whether republican senators back there meant it when they committed to overriding donald trump on russian sanctions. First the majority of senators including some republicans moved to override the Trump Administrations effort to ease sanctions on a putin oligarch. Then today a remarkable moment where a minority of republicans filibustered to block a floor vote on that very measure, which would keep up the sanctions on that russian billionaire. This hits the Mueller Probe, an associate of both putin and trumps guilty chief Paul Manafort. The Trump Administration has been trying to ease pressure on him from those sanctions Congress Overwhelmingly passed. When congress originally overruled trump on all of that it was seen as, one, a line where even normally normal republicans would confront
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