PRESIDENT TRUMP: "It's time for Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrat Congress to stop playing games with the people's lives and to pass a clean funding bill that they've done 30 times before — and to reopen government immediately. Just reopen it." | Fox News

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Rep. Eugene Vindman, Democrat of Virginia, called for the declassification of what he described as a “highly disturbing” 2019 phone call between President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia after the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Vindman said that the transcript, which he reviewed as part of his duties serving on the National Security Council during Trump's first term, “would shock people if they knew what was said.” Read more: https://nyti.ms/4ifaWGR | The Ne