OnPolitics Today: Storm the capital

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The kids are all right

First off. Did you take part in the March for Our Lives protests? The speeches were memorable. The crowds were passionate. The signs were snarky.

If you were in D.C., organizers think you may have been in the largest single-day protest in the nation's capital, because numbers may have reached 800,000, outnumbering the estimated 500,000 people who came to the 2017 Women's March. And if you weren't there, you were still among the more than 1 million protesters across the country.

Dark 'n Stormy

Second. Stormy Daniels appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night to talk about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. Some big takeaways: She says she was threatened in front of her baby, she wasn't that into it, it wasn't a #MeToo situation, and sexual relations only happened once.

And now, Daniels is saying Trump's lawyer defamed her. She broadened her lawsuit to include the lawyer, Michael Cohen, and to argue that the $130,000 she was paid not to speak about their alleged affair amounted to an illegal campaign contribution.

From the U.S. with love

The Trump administration announced Monday that it was expelling 60 Russians and closing the Russian consulate in Seattle. The move was part of a global slap of Russia over a poison attack in Great Britain.

"This action is a response to Russia's use of a military-grade chemical weapon in the United Kingdom," White House spokesman Raj Shah said.

The Russian expulsions "make the United States safer by reducing Russia's ability to spy on Americans, and to conduct covert operations and threaten America's national security," Shah said.

So does that mean Trump is tough on Russia? Read about the actions against the country and decide for yourself.

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