President Donald Trump’s vision of building a gleaming Trump Tower in the heart of Soviet Moscow was born in the 1980s and never died throughout his presidential campaign. And his refusal to give up that ambition in 2016 now colors his public embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticism of the leader’s adversaries. “Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment,” Trump said in a 2007 deposition. “We will be in Moscow at some point.” [WaPost]
Topping the news: Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. John Curtis think the United States should pull out of the war in Yemen, which has been blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.