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Monday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she has no proof, but she believes Paul Manafort, who was campaign chairman for Donald Trump from June to August 2016, was planted by Russians. Waters said, “At the center of this question about whether or not the president colluded with Russia or Putin or the oligarchs et cetera is the question of sanctions. We know that Putin wants these sanctions lifted. I’ve said from the beginning that I believe, and I don’t have the proof, but I believe that Manafort was sent to the campaign to be there to...

IRAQ and America were locked in confrontation last night as Saddam Hussein rejected US attempts to give weapons inspectors access to his presidential palaces. The Iraqi President told the UN he would accept inspectors on condition that they did not violate Iraq’s “rights, sovereignty, security”. The demand was immediately rejected by the US, which accused him of trying to “lure the world down the same dead-end road” it has travelled before. The UN plans an early test of Saddam’s compliance. Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, told the Security Council that an advance party could arrive in Iraq on...