5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Tuesday August 21st

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Trump is powerless as his legal fate spins out of his control:

President Donald Trump may no longer control his fate, a plight that helps explain his increasingly volcanic Twitter eruptions.

Trump’s persona — in politics, business and life — relies on his self-image as the guy who calls the shots, closes deals and forces others to react to the shock moves of a master narrative weaver.

But as a legal web closes around the President, he’s in a far weaker position than he would like, a situation especially underlined by the bombshell revelations that White House counsel Donald McGahn has spent 30 hours in interviews with special counsel Robert Mueller.

New York Times: Asia Argento, #MeToo leader, paid sexual assault accuser:

Actress and filmmaker Asia Argento has found herself on the other side of the #MeToo conversation.

The New York Times reported Sunday that months after publicly accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape, Argento made a deal with a young actor who accused her of sexual assault.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Monday said it was trying to reach the actor in order to “appropriately document any potential criminal allegations.”

Argento was among the first women to accuse now disgraced movie mogul Weinstein of sexual misconduct and has been a leading figure in the #MeToo movement.

The New York Times says it has lawyers’ documents showing that actor and musician Jimmy Bennett alleged Argento sexually assaulted him in 2013 when he was 17 and she was 37.

Colorado man pleaded for family’s return. A week later he’s expected in court to face murder charges:

After his pregnant wife and their two girls vanished last week, Chris Watts spoke with a local Colorado news station as a concerned father pleading for the return of his family.

Just a week later, Watts is due in court Tuesday as he faces nine charges, including several counts of first-degree murder of his wife and his two young daughters

His wife, Shanann’s body was found in a shallow grave and the bodies of their two daughters, Bella and Celeste, were found in nearby oil tanks at a company where Watts had worked, according to a court filing by prosecutors.

MTV VMAs 2018: See the complete list of winners:

The moon people have landed.

MTV Video Music Awards is about to get underway and that means a slew of artists will get to walk away from the night with the show’s iconic statue — which underwent a name change last year — in hand.

UNC protesters knock down Silent Sam Confederate statue:

A crowd of about 250 protesters on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus knocked over the controversial Silent Sam Confederate statue, according to the university.

A video and pictures from a student shows the statue coming down on Monday as students chant “I believe that we will win.”

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