1/ The White House rejected a House Oversight Committee request for Stephen Miller to testify about his role in Trump’s immigration policies, including a plan to bus migrants to “sanctuary cities.� White House counsel Pat Cipollone said blocking Miller from appearing before the committee follows “long-standing precedent� established by previous administrations. Cipollone said Cabinet secretaries and other executive branch officials would instead provide “reasonable accommodation� for requests and questions from the committee on immigration policy issues. (CNN / Politico / ABC News)

2/ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler suggested fining officials personally for noncompliance with congressional subpoenas. In order to do so, the House would need to vote on a new rule to allow it to fine people outside the court system. The House could also vote to hold officials in contempt or sue to enforce the subpoena in court, which could take months or years. This week alone the White House directed a former personnel security official to not appear at a scheduled House Oversight Committee deposition, blocked former White House counsel Donald McGahn from testifying to the House Judiciary Committee, and the Justice Department ignored a subpoena from the Oversight Committee for testimony about the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The Treasury Department also ignored the House’s deadline to turn Trump’s tax returns over to the Ways and Means Committee, and Trump sued to block a subpoena of his accounting firm. (Bloomberg / CNN / Washington Post / New York Times / Axios)

3/ Trump claimed he never told Donald McGahn to fire Robert Mueller weeks after he was appointed in 2017, “even though I had the legal right to do so.� The statement runs counter to Mueller’s report, which detailed “McGahn’s clear recollection� of two phone calls in June 2017, where Trump “directed [McGahn] to call� Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and have Mueller “removed� because he “has to go.� Trump also urged McGahn to dispute media reports that he had attempted to fire Mueller. (NBC News / Reuters)

4/ Trump’s re-election campaign refused to rule out using hacked information. The Democratic National Committee and the party’s 2020 candidates, meanwhile, have pledged not to use illegally obtained information to their advantage. Mueller’s report outlined how the Russian government interfered in the 2016 race in “sweeping and systematic fashion� in order to help Trump win, and that the Trump team expected to “benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.� (