Inside with Jen Psaki
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Sundays at 12pm ET & Mondays at 8pm ET on MSNBC.
Joined February 2023
.@MichaelSteele on Trump’s debate performance: “He looked small, he looked withered, he looked beaten, but most importantly, he looked pissed. And there's nothing worse than a pissed bigot on stage with a woman he can't control."
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Presidential historian @BeschlossDC on Joe Biden’s convention speech: “Those words, ‘America, America, I gave my best to you,’ I can recite them verbatim and will for years. This is someone America was lucky to have as president.”
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.@GavinNewsom on working with Trump during a natural disaster: “People need to understand this. We had to make calls. We had to grovel with him, who personally needed a call to do the right thing. He's the most un-American nominee in my lifetime.”
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“It’s a bad look for this country that classified information could be shared by a 21-year-old kid. But you know what else is a bad look? When a 76 year old former president is suspected of doing something pretty similar.”. @jrpsaki on the classified documents leak.
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.@jrpsaki: "If you resort to attacking a candidate's dog, you're probably losing. And you deserve all the ridicule coming your way."
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.@JasmineforUS: “Springfield is going through hell. because the guy that says he wants to be commander in chief is bringing that hell to their footsteps.”
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.@jonfavs: “[Harris] had to walk the highest, narrowest tight-rope, and you can count maybe on one hand how many times that she stumbled in the 107 days of this campaign. What she has done is beyond remarkable… Donald Trump doesn’t even have a message right now.”
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“No matter how hard they try to spin themselves as the party of family values…That’s hard to do with a straight face given that the defacto leader of their party has now been branded a sexual abuser.”. @jrpsaki on the GOP reaction to the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case.
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.@jrpsaki: “Every time he opens his mouth at these rallies and press conferences, he sounds kinda boring, and he looks small. Now, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have stolen the show… They’re shrinking Trump down to the aging, confused, boring, rambling Donald Trump he really is.”
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.@mitchlandrieu: "Can we just stop on that fact. A guy that wants to be President of the United States first has to go sit down with his probation officer. That is just an astounding statement."
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.@jrpsaki: "What we saw from Republicans in Tennessee this week was fear-- fear that the outrage over gun violence might put some pressure on them to actually do something. Or at least make it harder to do absolutely nothing."
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.@GavinNewsom on Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a permitless concealed carry bill into law at a nonpublic event in his office: He’s “scared to death.”. @jrpsaki: “Who’s he scared of?”. Newsom: “Scared of the people.”
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.@jrpsaki on Trump’s relationship with Laura Loomer: “Donald Trump is the conspiracy theorist in chief. Laura Loomer didn’t happen to just appear by his side, she is his kind of people… A bigoted, conspiracy addled loyalist isn't the exception in Trump's world, it's the rule.”
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.@PeteButtigieg on new Iowa poll: “On one level it’s remarkable. And on another level, I could see it. Iowa’s full of folks who are not afraid to vote across party lines… and tracks with the fact that we’ve seen an unprecedented number of Republicans out there for Harris.”
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.@gtconway3d: “[Trump’s] people have lost control over him. And the only person who seems to have any control over him… is Laura Loomer. This is the ultimate implosion, and we’re watching it live. And it’s going to get worse.”
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.@jrpsaki: "Trump wants attention on his words, but not their consequences. Because the consequences are a town like Springfield, Ohio getting torn apart, a Republican party represented by guys like Mark Robinson, and a country where women die waiting for medical care."
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"He called. We had a conversation.". @SecretaryPete confirms phone call with Elon Musk after fact-checking him online, saying: "I've been amazed at how a little kernel of some detail gets blown up on the internet into something that it's not."
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.@timodc on why Harris has never met Trump: “Donald Trump didn’t show up to the peaceful transition of power… he was flying home to Mar-a-Lago and his emotional support cougars. And that was after he tried a violent coup on the Capitol.”
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.@jrpsaki: "Let's be very clear about what's happening here. Trump is trying to exploit the victims of a natural disaster to demonize migrants, even as officials on the ground – including many Republicans – are begging people to stop pushing disinformation."
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.@jrpsaki: “Would you believe it… they are once again spreading the exact same lie about Dominion Voting Systems. The point here is that truth matters. Dominion and its litigation team are paying attention. Trump allies would do well to remember that.”
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"Just two cents from someone who has worked in communications -- if you can’t explain it and people don’t understand it… it may not be the winning message you think it is.". @jrpsaki on the GOP’s war on "woke".#DontFreakOut
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.@neal_katyal: “There is a coming massive crisis that’s going to occur on November 5th… even if Kamala Harris wins the election, the Trump team is going to declare victory with JD Vance at his side."
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“Here's the bottom line: this is an example of our judicial system working like it should work, and how it works in democracies across the globe.”. Watch @jrpsaki on the historic indictment of Donald Trump.
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.@jamescarville: “I did not realize [Trump] was going to schedule a rally at Madison Square Garden to mimic the Nazi rally of 10 February 1939… They have promised military round-up, the Supreme Court has greenlighted it… They are telling you they’re doing all of this."
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.@MichaelSteele on the crowd chanting “lock him up” during Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech: “It was probably the most rich, ironic moment in political history. You could see it in her face… and I don’t blame her.”
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.@petebuttigieg: “If you’re talking about military tribunals for political opponents, you have no business talking about freedom. If you’re into banning books, you have no business letting a word like liberty escape your lips.”
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.@Neal_Katyal on Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship: “The 14th Amendment is as clear as day that there is no way he can do that. If he tries that, he will lose in court every day of the week.”
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“Let me give you a little insight into why traditional media is so upset about this… It's because their relevance relies on being the sole arbiters of asking the questions. ". @jrpsaki weighs in on the “Call Her Daddy” debate:
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.@marceelias on Georgia’s new election rules: “I think it’s a BIG story that the very conservative Attorney General of Georgia… his office came out and said that these rules that are being enacted are likely illegal.”
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“The American experiment has survived for nearly two and a half centuries because we hold our leaders accountable -- and not just through elections, but under the law as well.”. @jrpsaki on why we should pay close attention to the legal developments surrounding Donald Trump.
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.@jrpsaki: “They think they can win like this… they think they can close out this campaign on racism, on fear, and on hate. That is what last night told us. Hatred is the message… and conspiring with Mike Johnson is the backup plan.”
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.@JasmineforUS: “The problem isn’t the people coming in. The problem is this guy and his people here that are doing the bomb threats throughout the country. Domestic terrorism is a real thing, and he is the guy that stokes it.”
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“The fight for justice is worth it. I believe several generations from now, we will look back at this moment as a turning point in the history for this country." . @Justinjpearson on the power of activism.
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.@gtconway3d on Trump’s failure to condemn bomb threats in Springfield: “Who refuses to say that they condemn a bomb threat? A sociopath. Somebody who has no care, no feeling for other people.”
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“Fox News may have had a problem with Tucker himself, but his ideas, the conspiracies, the lies, his explicit white nationalist views. they endorsed all of that and continue to do so. This is simply who they are.” . @jrpsaki on Tucker Carlson and Fox
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.@neal_katyal on why Jack Smith’s new filing on Trump is so important: “If they can’t admit 2020 was a loss for them, what makes you think 2024 is any different? That’s why this discussion matters so much.”
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.@jacobsoboroff contrasts the RNC vs DNC: “Both conventions talked about neighbors and friends and family. The Republicans said we want to remove 11 million of them.”
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When you spot the kiddos during a commercial break in your first show:
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.@jrpsaki: "Donald Trump is not only saying he wouldn’t come to the defense of a NATO ally, he’s inviting Russia to attack them. I just cannot tell you how terrifying that is for our allies to hear. That’s more than the Kremlin could have asked for, even from Donald Trump."
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“If you worry about crime and want law enforcement to be fully funded and supported--the only place you should be directing your outrage for not doing more is MAGA Republicans, and their now-indicted leader.”. @jrpsaki on GOP's claim of being the party of law & order
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.@jrpsaki: “Donald Trump offered no competing vision because Donald Trump has no vision. He does not even have, as he claimed, ‘concepts of a plan.’”
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.@jrpsaki tells @chrislhayes that the White House will "be very quiet for as long as they can" on the indictment of former President Trump. "They don't want to feed into the politics of this."
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.@jrpsaki: "Donald Trump would prosecute anyone he deems an enemy, unleash troops on protestors, and essentially unravel the rule of law as we know it. But sure, Joe Biden is three years older and occasionally trips."
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.@jrpsaki: "With 22 days to go before November 5th, she ratcheted up the stakes to about an eleven. And she did that in a fairly remarkable way -- by using Donald Trump's own reckless words against him and playing his words at her own rally."
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Justice Alito in 2022: “Questioning our integrity crosses an important line.”. @jrpsaki: “There lies the crisis. Justices like Alito have the gall to reprimand those who question the Court's integrity, while choosing to ignore, excuse and at worst flaunt their own partisanship."
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.@MichaelSteele on JD Vance calling Harris “trash” at PA rally: “I just want to know how you explain that to your kids. How do you tell your children that as an adult, elected leader who wants to be vice president of the United States that that’s okay?”
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“From my 20 years in politics I learned one lesson: outrage alone doesn’t win elections. People who are informed and engaged are the engine of our democracy.”. WATCH: @jrpsaki 's closing message from today's show.
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.@jrpsaki: “When the question is, 'Do you denounce the bomb threats?’. the answer should be unambiguous. But of course Trump's wasn't … He sets fire to the building, continues pouring gasoline all over it, and then wonders aloud why it's burning.”
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.@jrpsaki: “I’ve said it before, and I will keep saying it… Nobody knows how this will turn out. But I think it’s safe to say that one campaign seems to be closing this thing out strong. And one seems to be losing oxygen, fast.”
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.@jrpsaki: "Trump and his party don’t own patriotism… They don’t own what it means to be an American. And right now, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are reframing patriotism as something that belongs to all of us, because it does."
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.@jrpsaki: “Trump has not even been sworn into his second term yet, and there are already questions swirling about whether and why he is once again misleading the American public about his relationship with Russia.”
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.@jrpsaki: “JD Vance is on television, basically saying he would help him with another fake electors plan. That may or may not be why he is the running mate currently. It probably is a big part of it.”
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“Trump’s record against prosecutors is 0 and 34. And I suspect tomorrow is going to make it 0 and 35.”. @Neal_Katyal on tomorrow’s Trump-Harris debate.
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.@neal_katyal: "I am officially at the freak out stage. I can't imagine a more compelling need for speed than the idea that U.S. citizens deserve to know before the election whether a candidate is a felon & an insurrectionist.". @AWeissmann_ : "Neal & I are in violent agreement"
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“I mourned with her because she shouldn't have to be worried about her child going to school. and she shouldn’t live in a state where the only response that the legislature can provide is ‘we need to have more armed people at the schools.’” . @Justinjpearson to @jrpsaki today
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.@jrpsaki: "This judgement was decided by a jury, made up of nine ordinary citizens. Not George Soros. Not Joe Biden. Not Jack Smith. Nine ordinary people decided $83 million was the right dollar amount to award E. Jean Carroll."
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.@jrpsaki gets emotional after Governor Walz's speech: "Watching his kids react to him, as a mom, you know he's a good guy. it was also an incredibly powerful, joyful message to the public after years of being downtrodden by the world of Trump."
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“I believe that what we are seeing is a concerted rollback of civil liberties. Our right to privacy. Our right to bodily autonomy. Our right to marry whomever we wish to marry. All of this is at risk.” . @AOC on the Republican attack on abortion rights
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"It doesn't matter what you call it, or what Trump says about it. because these plans are Donald Trump's plans, and no one should forget that.". @jrpsaki on Trump's selective amnesia about his Project 2025 agenda
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.@Lawrence: “He’s not waiting until 2am on election night to claim victory like he did last time… it’s way less threatening, because you’re watching this old ghost go through the same stupid move again… I think he’s reduced to a harmless clown this time at 2am when he does it.”
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.@AOC: "When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence."
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.@jrpsaki on the debate over the debate: "This is about much more than just the microphones. It's really about something smart that the Harris campaign tapped into: the fact that the more people hear Donald Trump, the less they like him."
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.@SenSanders tells @jrpsaki he backs calls for DOJ to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas: . "The Supreme Court does not have to go along with the same type of ethics rules that members of Congress and other judges do. It’s time we ended that leniency for the Supreme Court.”
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On the same day reporting emerged about 28-year-old Amber Thurman dying after not receiving urgent care in Georgia, JD Vance called overturning Roe "a victory" during a speech in *Atlanta.*. @jrpsaki: "It sure as hell wasn't a victory for Amber."
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.@jrpsaki: "I know Republicans like to say they're focused on the future. Well, all of this is about the future. What we saw on January 6th, what Jack Smith just vividly outlined, what Liz Cheney is warning against – that isn't in the past, it's actually the plan.”
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The Trump campaign has urged people to consider the full context of his “bloodbath” comments…. So we did:
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.@jrpsaki: “A former President of the United States wearing a mugshot like a badge of honor. and 6 out of 8 Republican challengers pledging to support him if, and likely when, he defeats them. When it comes to the Republican party, that is the whole story.”
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.@jrpsaki: "Despite what Donald Trump says on the campaign trail. It's important to remember that he is not the victim here. The victims are the institutions, the people, and the very foundations that have helped sustain our democracy for over 240 years.”
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“What this decision paints on Trump is the truth that anyone who’s been watching closely has known for decades. That Donald Trump is a fraud. And that’s his entire story.” . @jrpsaki on Trump’s $355M civil fraud judgement.
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.@jrpsaki: "It's pretty clear to me that Elon Musk is supporting Trump. ". @karaswisher: "Yes. 100%. He lied. That's pretty much what he does all the time. He's as subtle as a brick."
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.@jrpsaki: "One of the biggest stories of this presidential election right now should be that one of the candidates is spewing unhinged conspiracy theories usually reserved for the darkest corners of the internet."
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"The people politicizing tragedy here are not the people calling for change," says @jrpsaki. "Refusing to support common sense gun reform measures because you fear losing your A rating with the NRA is politicizing tragedy."
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.@adamschiff: “I’m not surprised that Liz Cheney is stepping up this way. She has demonstrated over the last several years that she has real spine… and what has been so tragic over the last several years is just how rare the Liz Cheneys and the Adam Kinzingers turned out to be.”
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.@GavinNewsom on Elon Musk: “Look, I've known Elon for over 20, 25 years, one of America's great entrepreneurs and innovators. But this is not the person I knew. With respect to Elon, I just don't have the confidence that there's other things he's not up to behind the scenes.”
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True: Biden is 81, Trump is 77. Also true: Trump is facing 91 criminal counts and attempted a coup. @jrpsaki: “If we continue to focus on questions like who is the bigger gaffe machine. then we are all doing something very wrong. That is not what this election is about.”
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.@jrpsaki: “Let’s call this what it is. Your healthcare and that of your daughter, your granddaughter, your sister, your wife… It’s all political games for Trump. And last time he had the chance, he didn’t protect those rights. He paved the way for having them taken away.”
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. @jrpsaki: "If the last seven years have shown anything, there is always an excuse, there is always a conspiracy, there is always something unfair. It all begs the question -- and I am asking this sincerely to Republicans -- is there any forum to hold Donald Trump accountable?"
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.@LavoraBarnes to Marcus Johnson: “We'd love to have you join us. We’d love to have you be a Michigan Democratic Party fellow.". @MarcusJ_3194: “I'm not gonna lie, that’s the first time I’ve ever had someone try and get me a job live on the air."
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.@SymoneDSanders on Harris remarks: “Every single detail of her speech, of what she was wearing, of how she stood, of what she said, it was intentional to say, ‘I am here, elect me not because I will make history. Elect me because I am a patriot.’”
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“I try not to be alarmist on this show, but every now and then there is good reason to be alarmed,” says @jrpsaki on abortion pill ruling. “If you thought the Dobbs decision was the last word on the rollback of women's rights in this country, Judge Kacsmaryk had other plans.”
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.@PeteButtigieg: "I don't want to worry about sharks that often, or think about Hannibal Lecter too often, or any of the dark and twisted things that were shoved in our face all the time during the Trump presidency. I think we have a chance to have a better, brighter future."
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.@jrpsaki: "The truth is Trump couldn't really care less about preserving the values that the US has long stood for. His campaign is not about preserving our freedom, it's about preserving his own. It’s not about upholding American greatness. It's about staying out of prison."
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DJ Cassidy on how he approached the DNC: “One overarching goal was to turn the arena into a party, into a celebration. A celebration of our country, in all its diversity and glory, and I wanted the music to represent us all. Represent all genres, all people, all generations.”
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"The notion that Jim Jordan who ignored a subpoena to testify in the January 6th investigation, would now have the temerity to inject himself into a state/local prosecution is the height of hypocrisy." . @EricHolder tells @jrpsaki in an exclusive interview.
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"If you're asking yourself right now, why these murky, confusing responses? The answer is-- abortion is a losing issue for Republicans. And they know it. Guess what? People don't like their rights being taken away.". @jrpsaki on the GOP's abortion messaging.
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.@EricHolder on Trump referring to Harris as “mentally impaired”: . “I think it’s both projection on his part, but also an indication of again that cognitive decline, where he doesn’t have the ability to mount a substantive challenge to the person who he is running against.”
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.@GovernorShapiro to Trump: "Stop shit talking America. This is the greatest country on earth, and its time that we all start acting like it."
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.@mollyjongfast: “The Supreme Court took two abortion cases this season… and during the oral arguments, you heard Thomas and Alito talk about the Comstock Act and using it to ban the mailing of abortion pills… that is the way that they’re going to ban abortion federally.”
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.@jrpsaki: "If Trump is successful in tanking this deal, Democrats should not let voters forget. Trump's fearmongering about immigration will continue & voters will need to be reminded that Republicans had a chance to do something about border security & Trump wouldn't let them."
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.@jrpsaki: "In a campaign where every hour of every day matters, it's notable that one candidate is falling asleep at his events, rambling about Arnold Palmer's anatomy, and avoiding basic questions. That is information that people should take into the voting booth with them."
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.@aweissmann_ on Trump’s upcoming probation Zoom: “He’ll be asked about whether he is associating with criminals. And it is sort of remarkable… he’s going to have to discuss whether he still coordinates with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon.”
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"The last time I was in a courtroom where a judge said that to a jury, the former boss of the Genovese family had been convicted. It's remarkable that same admonition was said with respect to somebody who was president." . @AWeissmann_ on Judge Kaplan's warning to jurors
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.@jrpsaki: “Of course you're anxious, I am too. We're just 8 years removed from a misogynistic racist defeating the first female nominee, and we're just 4 years removed from the violent insurrection he incited. But in 9 days, the American people get to decide what happens next."
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.@jrpsaki on today’s unhinged MAGA pet conspiracy theory: “Not only is this right wing conspiracy theory totally false and completely xenophobic, it's really not helping the perception that JD Vance, Donald Trump, and the rest of their party are just plain weird.”
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.@jrpsaki: "So what did McCarthy and Republicans get out of holding the economy hostage? Less money for fighting COVID, less money for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, and less to families who need help. Congratulations Kevin McCarthy. Hope it feels worth it."
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.@jrpsaki: "Trump knows that he's proposing to do is deeply unpopular across the board. It's why he's refusing to put it in writing -- at least not in any detail. But that's the irony here. Trump has to disguise his agenda in order to implement it. That should scare all of us."
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.@jrpsaki: "If you're sitting in the White House right now, you're making what I think is the right bet -- that the public cares a whole lot more about what the president is doing to make their lives better than what he thinks about a hush money payment to an adult film star."
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.@ReverendWarnock on Georgia’s new Trump-backed election rules: “The fact that they are doing this means that they know we’re winning. They know that the momentum is with Kamala Harris. And this effort to turn the democracy on its head… it won’t stand.”
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.@jrpsaki: “What we saw this week, that is America. It is multicultural, diverse, joyful, unique, united… what we saw at the Republican convention only represented a narrow sliver of America. The America we saw in Chicago, that is what this country really is.”
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"Just to be clear, any other defendant who did this, who was facing six counts of obstruction of justice. I think would be remanded, meaning would be sent to jail and have to await trial in jail.". @AWeissmann_ on Trump's threatening Truth Social post.
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