Here is what is trending in politics around Georgia and across the nation on Tuesday.
1. Washington Post: President Trump dictated son’s statement about meeting
President Donald Trump personally dictated his eldest son's initial, and misleading, statement that downplayed the significance of a meeting with a Russian lawyer, according to a report from the Washington Post. White House advisers tried to issue a truthful account of the meeting that took place between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during the 2016 presidential campaign, The Post reported. The report cited several anonymous sources, claims that Trump dictated the statement while on board Air Force One as he was flying back from the G20 summit in Germany. The president's attorney has denied the story.
2. Watch Karen Handel’s C-SPAN interview
Congresswoman Karen Handel, (R-GA-6), talked about the special election, her family and what it is like to be a new member of Congress during a C-SPAN interview. The program is part of the network's Congressional new member series. Click here to watch Handel's interview.
3. Sessions to speak to police group
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will speak to a black law enforcement group Tuesday in the wake of President Trump’s comments suggesting police not be “nice” to suspects being put into squad cars. Clarence E. Cox III, the former chief of Clayton County Schools and incoming president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, spoke to the Associated Press about the difficulty of working in a community that often fears and distrusts law enforcement. "We live in some of the same communities that are affected by this disparate treatment. We go to church in those neighborhoods. We go to the barbershops. Certain things people don't realize: It's really hard being black and being a police officer when these things happen.”
4. Scaramucci resigns as communications director
Anthony Scaramucci, the newly-minted White House communications director resigned Monday, hours after Gen. John Kelly was sworn in as the new chief of staff. Scaramucci’s brief tenure on the job was marked with a profanity-laced attack on other senior members of the White House staff. "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. "We wish him all the best."
5. Georgians could be heading to South Carolina for tax holiday shopping
South Carolina retailers could be seeing a lot of Georgia customers this weekend as the state's annual sales tax holiday gets underway. Georgia legislators failed this year to designate a sales tax holiday that gives parents and students a break on back-to-school supplies. Wesley Tharpe, research director of the Georgia Budget & Policy Group, told the AJC that the estimated $74.5 million Georgia shoppers would have saved is a "sizable chunk of change when communities are struggling to fully fund their public schools or keep their local hospital from closing."
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