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In this Sept. 4, 2013, file photo, then-incoming FBI Director James Comey talks with outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller before Comey was officially sworn in at the Justice Department in Washington. On May 17, 2017, the Justice Department said it is appointing Mueller as special counsel to oversee investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Investigators check a crime scene where two police officers and a burglar were shot on Monday, July 31, 2017, at an apartment complex in Los Banos, Calif. Authorities say the two police officers and a burglary suspect were shot in a struggle that erupted when the officers responded to a break-in report at the apartment. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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FILE- In this Aug. 4, 2011, file photo, Lyle Jeffs, brother of polygamous religious leader Warren Jeffs, arrives carrying a box of defense materials in the sexual assault trial against Warren at the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas. A pair of pawn shop workers who provided a key tip that helped authorities capture Lyle Jeffs will split a $50,000 reward from the FBI, the agency revealed Monday, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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In this Saturday, July 29, 2017, photo, friends or relatives of the victims of the small plane crash arrive at an Honolulu Fire Department helicopter staging area in Kunia, Hawaii. Federal investigators haven't yet determined what caused the plane to crash in an inaccessible mountainous area on the island of Oahu. Hutton and his three passengers died in the crash. (Bruce Asato/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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In this Saturday, July 29, 2017, photo, friends or relatives of the victims of the small plane crash react to the news of the fate of the passengers of the plane at an Honolulu Fire Department helicopter staging area in Kunia, Hawaii. Federal investigators haven't yet determined what caused the plane to crash in an inaccessible mountainous area on the island of Oahu. Hutton and his three passengers died in the crash. (Bruce Asato/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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Auburn players run from the indoor facillity to the outdoor fields in NCAA college football practice on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Auburn, Ala. (Todd J. Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News via AP)
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Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham throws during practice on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Auburn, Ala. (Todd J. Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News via AP)
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FILE--In this April 9, 2004, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is shown in his office in Phoenix, Ariz. Arpaio has been convicted of a criminal charge Monday, July 31, 2017, for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants in a conviction that marks a final rebuke for the former sheriff and politician who once drew strong popularity from such crackdowns but was booted from office amid voter frustrations over his deepening legal troubles.(AP Photo/Paul Connors)
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FILE--In this Sept. 16, 2007, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shows off vehicles advertising a hotline to report undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, Ariz. Arpaio has been convicted of a criminal charge Monday, July 31, 2017, for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants in a conviction that marks a final rebuke for the former sheriff and politician who once drew strong popularity from such crackdowns but was booted from office amid voter frustrations over his deepening legal troubles. (Larry Fehr-Snyder/Arizona Republic via AP, file)
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FILE--In this April 17, 2008, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio next to some of his memorabilia in his office in Phoenix. Arpaio has been convicted of a criminal charge Monday, July 31, 2017, for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants in a conviction that marks a final rebuke for the former sheriff and politician who once drew strong popularity from such crackdowns but was booted from office amid voter frustrations over his deepening legal troubles. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2009 file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, left, orders approximately 200 convicted illegal immigrants handcuffed together in Tent City in Phoenix for incarceration until their sentences are served and they are deported to their home countries. Arpaio has been convicted of a criminal charge Monday, July 31, 2017, for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants in a conviction that marks a final rebuke for the former sheriff and politician who once drew strong popularity from such crackdowns but was booted from office amid voter frustrations over his deepening legal troubles.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Henderson County Sheriff Charles McDonald, right, with Transylvania County Sheriff David Mahoney, speaks a press conference after officers captured Phillip Michael Stroupe II, 38, in Mills River, N.C., Thursday, July 27, 2017. Having brought a rugged, six-day North Carolina manhunt to an end, authorities are now desperately searching for the missing owner of the stolen truck the captured fugitive was driving. (Angela Wilhelm/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)
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FILE – In this June 23, 1989, file photo, John M. Dowd, the lawyer whose investigative report got Pete Rose kicked out of Major League Baseball for gambling, listens to a question from a lawyer for Rose during testimony before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert A. Nadel in Cincinnati. A woman said she had a sexual relationship with Rose in the 1970s, starting when she was 14 or 15 years old, according to her sworn testimony submitted to a court Monday, July 31, 2017, in a federal defamation lawsuit Rose filed against Dowd in 2016. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2015, file photo, former baseball player and manager Pete Rose speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. A woman said she had a sexual relationship with Rose in the 1970s, starting when she was 14 or 15 years old, according to her sworn testimony submitted to a court Monday, July 31, 2017, in a federal defamation lawsuit Rose filed in 2016 against John Dowd, the lawyer whose investigation got Rose kicked out of Major League Baseball for gambling. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) **FILE**
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FILE - This file photo provided by the St. Louis Police Department shows former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Stockley's murder trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. (St. Louis Police Department via AP, File)
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Superior Court Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez gives instructions to the attorneys in the Holland Tunnel gun case Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. John Cramsey, of East Greenville, NJ., arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction. (Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool)
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John Cramsey, center back, talks to a friend in state Superior Court Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, of East Greenville, NJ., arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction. (Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool)
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John Cramsey talks to the media after he pleaded guilty to two weapon possession charges in state Superior Court Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction. (Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP)
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Defense attorney James Lisa, right, talks with the press after his client, John Cramsey left, pleaded guilty to two weapon possession charges in state Superior Court on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction.(Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP)