On Politics A.M.: Trump Cripples W.T.O. Amid Trade Wars

A U.S. offensive against the World Trade Organization will curb its ability to settle disputes.

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Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

For two years, the Trump administration has slowly chipped away at the World Trade Organization, criticizing it as unfair, starving it of personnel and disregarding its authority. This week, the Trump administration is expected to go one step further and effectively cripple the organization’s system for enforcing its rules.

Rudolph W. Giuliani didn’t get the Trump administration job he expected. But as unpaid personal counsel to the president and for-profit peddler of access and advice, he got the spotlight.

When President Trump appointment William P. Barr as attorney general, establishment Republicans were relieved. They thought Mr. Barr would be a bridge to the Republican Party they knew. They were very wrong. The impeachment clash comes to a head Monday with a hearing in the Judiciary Committee, where Democratic lawyers plan to present the case for impeaching Mr. Trump while the White House sits out the process.

Continuing a back-and-forth with Mayor Pete Buttigieg over transparency, Senator Elizabeth Warren disclosed a detailed list of compensation she received during 30 years of moonlighting as a legal consultant — about $1.9 million in all.

After Senator Kamala Harris’s departure from the presidential race, the people who saw their own paths reflected in hers are thinking about what comes next. What does this country demand of black women in politics?

Senator Cory Booker campaigns on an overall message of love and unity. He uses the word “love” more often than a wedding playlist does. But having his girlfriend, Rosario Dawson, with him in Iowa brought a more personal kind of love to the trail.

Military officials are trying to develop systems that instantly push intelligence to front-line forces, a development that strategists say could help deter aggression by Russia and China.

Mr. Trump brought two soldiers he had pardoned in cases involving war crimes onstage with him at a fund-raiser this weekend in Florida, tightening his embrace of an episode that roiled his relationship with military leaders and prompted a public outcry.

Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Isabella Grullón Paz in New York.

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