OnPolitics Today: Everything is looming

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers! We hope you're ready for another week of politics goodness. After tiring themselves out with that health care vote last week, the House is out for vacay/recess/a district working period.

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers! Welcome to the new politics newsletter that you've been waiting for since Inauguration Day. We're happy to bring you politics goodness Monday through Friday for perpetuity. On today's docket: Sally Yates talks blackmail, judges question the revised travel ban and Barack Obama is unsurprisingly not happy about what's going on with health care. It's OnPolitics Today. Subscribe here and let's get to it. Sally Yates: I told you so Back in January, Sally Yates made headlines for (a) refusing to carry out President Trump's first try at a travel ban and (b) being fired for that decision. The former acting attorney general was at it again Monday, when she told a Senate committee that in the days before her dismissal, she warned the White House about then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn . What happened exactly? According to Yates, she told the administration in two separate meetings that Flynn had lied about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump's inauguration.  "You don't want a situation where a national security adviser could get blackmailed by the Russians," she said. Fair. Who else warned Trump that hiring Flynn may not be a great idea? Barack Obama. Travel ban week Speaking of the travel ban: The second iteration of the ban is up for judicial review this week. And if you're on the side of the administration, it's not going so well. Appeals court judges on Monday grilled government lawyers over the halted executive order, pointing to Trump's previous vows to institute a "Muslim ban" (btw, his 2015 statement on a Muslim ban  has not-so-mysteriously disappeared from his campaign website). "Is there anything other than willful blindness that would prevent us from getting behind those statements?" asked Judge Henry Floyd.  One thing to keep in mind: If the appeals courts rule that the nationwide blocks on the ban should stand, the issue goes to the Supreme Court, where the new appointment of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch may tilt a ruling in Trump's favor. Obama claps back Barack Obama is not too pleased about the GOP attempt to dismantle Obamacare. The former president accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday - and spent much of his speech targeting congressional Republicans and President Trump  (though he never mentioned Trump by name). He pointed out that congressmen who voted for the Affordable Care Act back in 2010 lost their seats but did the right thing. He then added, "I hope that current members of Congress recall that it actually doesn't take a lot of courage to aid those who are already powerful, already comfortable, already influential. But it does require some courage to champion the vulnerable and the sick and the infirm - those who often have no access to the corridors of power." Sidenote:  Jack Schlossberg is a name you're going to want to bookmark. Elsewhere in politics • Jerry Springer compares 'Trumpcare' to 9/11 • Bill Clinton and author James Patterson are writing a thriller together. (Yes, really.) • AND there's a book coming out about the alternative universe where Hillary Rodham never marries Bill. (Yes, really really.) • Let's chat with Condoleeza! • Trump names 10 conservatives to federal courts MOST SHARED STORIES FROM USA TODAY Obama's $400,000 speech could prompt Congress to go after his pension Last year, the former president vetoed a bill that would have cut his... Read more Fact check: The pre-existing conditions debate Both parties have made competing claims on whether latest version of... Read more White House fires its chief usher, the first woman to hold the job The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, who was the... Read more Note to President Trump: Andrew Jackson wasn't alive for the Civil War In audio posted on Monday, President Trump said Andrew Jackson, the... Read more In major victory for Republicans, House passes Obamacare repeal The House bill would not fully repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act,... Read more AD CONTENT by Taboola FOLLOW US Thank you for subscribing to On Politics. © 2017 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22102 Unsubscribe from On Politics Why did I get this? Update my subscription preferences

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