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Tillis, who is retiring at the end of his term, said he was in active discussions with the Justice Department. “They’re working on a draft right now,” Tillis said this afternoon. “We’ve been in constant daily contact with DOJ, and to their credit, they’re engaging.” As the United States enters its sixth month of a war with Iran that Israeli and U.S. leaders both said would last only four to six weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump Tuesday and other top national security officials for the first time since the conflict started. Much of the discussion has been around the “anti-weaponization fund” that was established under a purported settlement between Trump and the executive branch he controls over a lawsuit the president filed over the disclosure of his tax records, which led to a five-year prison sentence for a former IRS contractor .

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