GOP drafts short-term deal to stop shutdown

Senate Republicans are drafting a stopgap spending bill to extend the funding deadline for approximately 25% of the federal government until February 8, according to three sources. Source: CNN

Van Jones praises Trump: This is history

CNN host Van Jones praises Jared Kushner, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and President Trump for getting a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill to a vote in the US Senate. Source: CNN

Key players in the Mueller Russia investigation

CNN’s Marshall Cohen explains what Robert Mueller is investigating and why President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn are at the center of the probe. Source: CNN