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| |  |  | | with Jessica Estepa | | Happy Friday, OnPolitics friends! We're sorry we missed you yesterday - technical difficulties kept us away. But we're back today, and we've got your beloved weekly roundup ready for you (though we're gonna tell you now - we're not going to get into that whole Kathy Griffin thing. You can google it). Subscribe here and let's go. | | Is this how the end begins? | | We are not ashamed to admit that we kind of love "The Day After Tomorrow," the 2004 doomsday movie starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. There's a part in the movie when a scientist tells U.S. government officials that this impending superstorm is going to cover the northern hemisphere with ice and snow. | | The scientist recommends that American citizens start going south as soon as possible, resulting in this exchange: | | "Maybe you should stick to science and leave policy to us." | | "Well, we tried that approach. You didn't want to hear about the science when it could have made a difference." | | And with that, we get to the big news of the week: The United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, President Trump announced on Thursday. He's putting an end to the policies of the Obama administration that would allow the United States to meets its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases and he's going to renegotiate the terms of the deal ( though will there actually be anyone for him to negotiate with?). | | We're not saying that this decision is what causes the next Ice Age. We're just saying that it reminds us (and possibly other people, like the mayor of Pittsburgh or the entirety of France) of a movie. | | Coming next week: Comey! (Probably.) | | Everyone's favorite fired FBI director is slated to testify next Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's expected to dish on his conversations with Trump, including about the allegations that the president asked him to leave former national security adviser Mike Flynn be. (We would also like for Comey to confirm the story about how he tried to blend into the wall to avoid talking to the president, if possible.) There's just one hitch: Trump could use executive privilege to keep Comey from testifying . Basically, under this legal doctrine, he's allowed to withhold info from other branches of government. Experts don't think he has a good legal argument to invoke executive privilege, but hey, when has that stopped him before? (Please see: The administration has asked the Supreme Court to take up that whole travel ban thing.) | | Covfefe this | | Somehow, the other big news of the week is that the president has started to invent his own language. A late night tweet mysteriously read, "Despite the constant negative press covfefe," and nothing else. Because we live in a ridiculous world, this drove the news cycle for an entire day. We personally assumed that the president misspelled coverage, but that didn't stop Hillary Clinton (and you know, most of the Internet) from making jokes. Merriam-Webster couldn't be bothered to explain the absurdity. And Sean Spicer? Well, he has fallen into the camp of "of course this is a real word, why are you even questioning it." | | All we can say is: covfefe it, it's Friday. | | | MOST SHARED STORIES FROM USA TODAY | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US
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