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Lawsuit challenges UFC White House event

A new lawsuit argues that the White House UFC fighting event scheduled for next Saturday on President Trump’s birthday violates the law.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush and now a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School.

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