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Edward-Isaac Dovere, chief Washington correspondent for Politico.com, reports that this exchange below between President Donald Trump and Salena Zito – she's the writer who last year told us that people were taking Trump "seriously, but not literally" – will hit later today. The topic was Andrew Jackson:

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