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In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .
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(CNN) Another set of Capitol Hill hearings brought more pain for President Donald Trump Tuesday, as former CIA Director John Brennan told lawmakers there was clear contact between Trump campaign aides and Russian operatives. At almost the same time, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he would be willing to discuss later whether Trump leaned on him to push back against Russia reports. RELATED: Calculating or naive? Trump caught in cloud of Russia probe revelations Here are the top five things we learned. 1. The former head of the CIA saw evidence Russian operatives were trying to cultivate Trump campaign aidesFormer CIA Director John Brennan testified before the House intelligence committeeDirector of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified at the Senate armed services panel
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_ responded: "I would say it was not an accurate portrayal of my statement."


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(CNN) On Saturday, January 14, employees at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus received a shocking announcement after evening performances at Orlando and Miami. Representatives of Feld Entertainment, the show's parent company, revealed that the circus would shut down forever in May. Less than 24 hours later, the venerable Big Apple Circus announced that it would sell off its assets in a bankruptcy auction on February 7. When Ringling Bros. and Big Apple Circus announced impending demise within a day of each other, it was hard, in some ways, to believe they had really come to the end of the road. Each circus has faced the threat of death before. The nonprofit Big Apple Circus has weathered bone-thin budgets since its founding in 1977 and it survived the disastrous financial crisis in 2008.Janet M. Davis: Circuses in the 19th century and today are best defined by their ability to adapt to changing social conditionsCirque du Soleil is expanding and 90% of the American population lives within an hour's drive of a circus, Davis writes
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According to _ casting director Pavel Kotov, the show intends to hire American talent for its American-based units.


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(CNN) In the next few days, President Trump's order to send 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack Syria's Shayrat airfield will be both praised and criticized. The order might also be called illegal. In fairness, a President's authority to fire some cruise missiles into another country without checking with Congress has become a hazy area of Constitutional law in modern times. It's true that under Article I, Section 8, Congress has the power to declare war, tax and spend for defense, and provide for our armed forces. On the executive side, however, the Constitution simultaneously names the President as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," who must, to the best of his ability "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."Danny Cevallos: Some Democrat lawmakers are criticizing Trump's Syria missile strike for not following the protocol outlined in the ConstitutionDuring the Clinton and Obama administrations, Congress and the courts set a new precedent for how they are likely to react to his orders, Cevallos says
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We may have entered an era where a humanitarian crisis abroad — along with a history of defiance -- authorizes the flouting of federal law and the _ — as long as it's not "war."