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PROBLEM: Bush as president occasionally phoned Clinton
 George W. Bush had a special phone friend during his White House years: Bill Clinton.
 Asked on CBS television's "Face the Nation" whether it was true that he often called Clinton  Bush replied: "I don't know about often  but I did. I called him. He didn't call me because he knows how busy a president is. I called him and we chatted on occasion."
 "I was always pleased when he called me " Clinton said as he sat beside Bush for the interview. "I make it a practice never to bother the president. I don't call President Obama either. ... They got plenty to do."
Neither Republican Bush nor Democrat Clinton said just what they discussed.
 "I was always pleased when he called me " Clinton said as he sat beside Bush for the interview. "I make it a practice never to bother the president. I don't call President Obama either. ... They got plenty to do."
Democrat Clinton said just what they discussed.
 "I was always pleased when he called me " Clinton said as he sat beside Bush for the interview. "I make it a practice never to bother the president. I don't call President Obama either. ... They got plenty to do."
 Bush's eight years in office followed Clinton's two terms. While poles apart politically  the ex-presidents said they consider themselves to be friends.
 "We have developed a very honest  good friendship " Clinton said. "And we've made our disagreements respectful and we've had a good time doing it."

SOLUTION: Bush as president occasionally phoned Clinton

PROBLEM: Blackburn's entry followed a decision earlier in the day by  term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam  to sit out the race  despite entreaties from Corker  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Tennessee's senior senator  Lamar Alexander.
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor  I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point " said  Haslam .  He  said the hyper-partisanship that surrounds Congress was a factor in  his  decision.
 Haslam 's popularity in the state and  his  vast personal wealth would have made  him  a strong candidate  despite lingering anger among some Republicans over  his  call to Donald Trump to abandon  his  presidential nomination last year following the release of a videotape in which Trump boasted about groping women.
Corker  who announced last week that  he  wouldn't seek a third term  also publicly criticized the Republican president  for  his  response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia. Corker questioned whether Trump had the "competence" or "stability" to succeed in office.
"I believe in President Trump's immigration ban  and I'll fight with  him  every step of the way to build that wall " she said. "I stand when the president walks in room  and yes  I stand when I hear the Star Spangled Banner."
Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is another potential Republican Senate candidate  and is expected to make a decision in the coming days.  Haslam  hasn't said whether  he 'll endorse a Republican in the race.

SOLUTION: Blackburn joins Tennessee Senate race after Haslam begs off

PROBLEM: President-elect Donald Trump and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in November 2016. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Trumpâs commission was led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach  who not only is the countryâs most prominent advocate of vote suppression  but also is an anti-immigration activist  which is an important part of this story. The White House issued a statement saying the president âhas asked the Department of Homeland Security to review [the commissionâs] initial findings and determine next courses of action.â
Where is the Trump administration heading now that the voter suppression commission is gone? We can get an idea from a system called Crosscheck that  Kobach  has promoted to states all over the country. That system flags anyone who has the same name and date of birth but is registered in more than one place as a possible instance of fraud.
You can immediately see the problem: There are going to be a huge number of people who share the same name and birthday  so people will get wrongly flagged constantly. Indeed  one analysis of the program found that Crosscheck risks eliminating huge numbers of registrations used to cast legitimate votes.  Kobach  sees the program as a model for what  he  wants to do nationally.
That brings us to the Department of Homeland Security. I need to stress that nobody knows exactly what theyâll be doing on this issue  because all we have are the somewhat vague statements from  Kobach  and the White House. But they have lists of immigrants and people visiting the country (like this one)  and those databases are almost certainly what  Kobach  is after.

SOLUTION:
Trumpâs voter fraud commission is dead. But the GOP voter suppression effort is just getting started.