Today’s Agenda: Trump Applies New Pressure To Sessions

New reports this morning indicate that after a year of fury toward Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump is growing increasingly serious about getting him out. Here’s more on that and on other stories we’re following.

Stories We’re Following

We move into another day of one-directional feuding between President Trump and his Attorney General. Kate Riga writes this morning that the GOP appears to be picking sides — and the Senate is split between supporting the Attorney General and preparing for his ouster. Some senators appear to be doing both. Kate Riga and Nicole LaFond are following the White House’s sometimes conflicting messaging on this.

A related but separate story is White House counsel Don McGahn’s seemingly imminent departure. Both McGahn and Sessions could be out right after the midterms, if not before.

We’ll also be on the lookout for more fallout from Trump’s tweets yesterday that Google’s search results were potentially “illegal” — and more information from the White House on how seriously we should take the possibility that the administration will seek to regulate Google or other companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, that use algorithms to distribute information.

Josh Marhsall, meanwhile, is digging deeper on a weird story published in The New York Times this morning: “A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes,” the paper reports. (It gets weirder from there.)

Today’s Rundown

The House and Senate are out.

2:30 p.m. ET President Trump announces a grant for a “drug-free communities support program” in the Roosevelt Room, according to the White House.

6:45 p.m. ET Trump attends the White House Historical Association Reception.