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NEW: NBC News projects Ossoff will win in Georgia. Democrats will control the Senate.
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NEW: Staffers from Marianne Williamson's 2020 campaign say she was verbally and emotionally abusive. They described working for her as “terrifying” and “traumatic.”
“It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage,” one person said.
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It is just after 5pm. DC curfew begins in less than an hour.
Mayor Bowser promised to enforce the curfew, even on federal property.
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Here’s what the Capitol looked like as I walked in this morning.
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@POTUS
makes a stop at Jos A Bank — which is currently offering 30% off all merchandise for Memorial Day!
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Elizabeth Warren announces post-Super Tuesday campaign stops in Michigan, Arizona, Idaho
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Incoming WH chief of staff Ron Klain says Senate will have to balance impeachment trial with Biden's legislative agenda.
"I think they are going to have to work on both simultaneously... Hopefully the trial will not be a lengthy trial.”
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Loeffler does not concede in a brief speech on election night, says she has a path to victory and promises "we're going to get this done."
#GASenateRaces
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Biden will announce tomorrow plans to give an additional 500 million vaccines to COVAX.
COVAX set an initial goal of making 2 billion doses available by the end of 2021. So far, roughly 81 million doses have been distributed.
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When asked if Biden will file for re-election today,
@PressSec
says his "focus is not on politics, it is on getting to work."
Trump filed for re-election in 2017 immediately after taking office.
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Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court nominee
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Pennsylvania limits indoor events to 25 and outdoor events to 250 people.
This event far exceeds 250 people.
No attempt to practice social distancing. Very few masks.
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The 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump:
Anthony Gonzalez, OH
Peter Meijer, MI
Fred Upton, MI
Liz Cheney, WY
John Katko, NY
Adam Kinzinger, IL
Tom Rice, SC
Jamie Herrera Beutler, WA
Dan Newhouse, WA
David Valadao, CA
No House Republicans voted to impeach Trump in 2019.
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NEW: Government watchdogs and officials from past administrations say Trump has displayed an unusual willingness to use his presidential platform for overtly political purposes.
“What Trump is doing is a form of stealing,”
@NormEisen
told me.
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.
@RepJayapal
in her first event campaigning for
@BernieSanders
in Iowa since she endorsed him earlier this week:
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"I'm sorry, no, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you?" Warren asked Bloomberg tonight, urging him to release women from nondisclosure agreements.
Bloomberg declined to do so.
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Russians will be free "only when they defeat the Kremlin in their minds,"
@ZelenskyyUa
says.
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NEW: the Trump campaign told surrogates in a phone call today to paint Biden as "the opposition" in the coronavirus war and to capitalize on the public's increased cable news viewership amid the worsening pandemic
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Some professional news!!!
I'm so excited to be joining the
@politico
White House team and can't wait to get started on West Wing Playbook.
(you can subscribe here: )
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@VP
swears in Bill Nelson as the next NASA administrator.
The moon rock sample placed between them on the table is 3,900,000,000 years old 🤯
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Across the street from the White House, on the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza.
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“I’ve had more blue collar jobs than Joe Biden and my dad’s a billionaire,”
@DonaldJTrumpJr
says in Duluth.
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Biden takes immediate steps to undo key Trump initiatives, unveils immigration plan
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Just in from the WH: "Because of the announcement that a verdict will soon be announced in the Chauvin trial, the President’s remarks on the American Jobs Plan after his virtual tour of Proterra have been rescheduled."
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Biden says that he is "considering" a diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Under a diplomatic boycott, the US would not send an official gov't delegation but would still allow athletes to compete.
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BIDEN when asked whether he supports a February impeachment trial timeline: "the more time we have to get up and running to meet these crisis, the better."
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@POTUS
stopped at a Waffle House after the debate and told reporters the debate went “well.” He said he wasn’t worried about concerns within the party about the viability of his candidacy.
“It’s hard to debate a liar,” he said.
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@FLOTUS
is visiting Nashville today, where she and Brad Paisley will tour a pop-up vaccination site at Ole Smoky Distillery.
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'I will not make that happen': Biden declines Democrats' call to cancel $50K in student debt
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Some professional news, as they say!
After 2+ years of campaign coverage, I'll be moving over to cover the Biden White House in the coming days.
Can't wait to join the amazing
@NBCNews
WH team and looking forward this new challenge.
(and, ofc, please send me your tips 😀)
So excited that
@Lauren_V_Egan
is the newest member of the
@NBCNews
White House team! She's a fantastic reporter and looking forward to reading so many piece from her as she helps chronicle the Biden White House. Congrats!
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Biden extends foreclosure moratorium, mortgage forbearance through June
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NBC News Decision Desk: How we call races on election night 2020
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Williamson said most of these accusations were “slanderous” and “categorically untrue,” but she acknowledge that she went to urgent care after getting upset and hitting her hand on a car door, saying: “a car door is not a person. I would never be physically hurtful to a person.”
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Biden increases funding to prepare for extreme weather events ahead of hurricane season
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@POTUS
- known to bike on occasion - is visiting a bike store in PA as part of his small business tour today.
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@WHCOS
says Biden has asked the Education Dept. to conduct a legal review of the president's authority to cancel student debt.
That review, which is being done jointly with the DOJ, could be completed within the next few weeks.
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Senate to receive Trump impeachment article Monday, Senate trial could begin next week
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Biden administration to share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses with Canada, Mexico
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The Biden campaign raised $2 million in the 24 hours after it challenged Trump to a debate, more than double its daily fundraising average
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An absurd number of people are visiting the White House bowling alley.
In January alone there were 1,100 visitor entries.
For comparison, just 759 guests visited the bowling alley for the entire year of 2014 during the Obama admin.
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Biden announces U.S. sanctions against leaders of Myanmar military coup
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TULSA —
“If Trump felt comfortable having it here, then I’m comfortable," said one supporter.
Said another, of the coronavirus risk: "If today is the day I die, today is the day I die."
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New diseases. Canceled flights. Increased housing costs. Disrupted school years.
That's just a small snapshot from new federal agency reports on how climate change will impact nearly all aspects of everyday life.
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NEWS: Biden is extending the student loan payment pause until May 1, 2022.
In a statement
@POTUS
said that "millions of student loan borrowers are still coping with the impacts of the pandemic and need some more time before resuming payments."
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A domestic issue that did not get mentioned tonight?
Student debt.
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"As one of our priorities, we will discourage illegal migration. And I believe if you come to our border you will be turned back,"
@VP
Harris says in Guatemala.
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Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia, keeping alive Democrats' hopes of taking Senate, NBC News projects
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As Biden's reelection campaign begins to take shape, Democratic staffers have just one plea for the new year: Don’t make us move to Delaware.
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@VP
Harris distracts a woman getting her vaccine who said she’s usually a bit nervous for shots.
The woman said she is the oldest of 12 cousins, many of whom are “on the fence” about the vax. She said she felt she couldn’t talk them into it until she got one herself.
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Biden, Harris trip to Ga. on Friday, initially planned as part of the "Help is Here" Covid relief tour, will be adjusted in the wake of the Atlanta-area shootings that left 8 dead, including 6 Asian women.
w/
@kwelkernbc
&
@KellyO
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Will Biden invite his predecessor to the White House for the unveiling of the official portrait?
"I have not been given any indication that we would break with tradition," Psaki says.
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The letter is the latest sign of growing pressure on Biden to issue another extension of the payments pause, and suggests vulnerable Dems might be feeling pressure to provide more financial relief ahead of midterms as Covid + inflation fears continue to grip the country.
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NEW: White House announces global destinations of 55 million donated Covid vaccines
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People running out into the streets to celebrate over near 10th and W, just a few blocks from Howard University, where Kamala Harris went to college.
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Biden administration announces next steps in overhauling campus sexual assault rules
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Biden said he did not watch the hearings live, but caught some of it on the news.
“I think the Senate has a very important job to complete and my guess is some minds may have been changed but I don’t know," Biden said, when asked by
@kwelkernbc
for his reaction to the videos.
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NEW: The head of one of the most influential Latino organizations in American politics does not live in America… and it’s started to frustrate some Dems.
“How are you supposed to win for Latinos if you’re not even here?” said one person.
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"One of the new things about this administration is that if you don't know the answer, don't guess. Just say you don't know the answer," Fauci says.
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Not everyone in South Carolina thinks the new primary schedule is a good idea.
Some union members worry that elevating SC — which has the lowest union participation rate in the country — will weaken organized labor’s influence in selecting Dem nominees.
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Police started shooting pepper balls at peaceful BLM protesters outside Trump arena around 9:15 pm.
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Over the past few weeks, I've talked to dozens of Democratic voters in early primary states about who they think is the best candidate to take on Trump.
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Chants of “stop the war… save Ukraine” across the street from the White House
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.
@CedricRichmond
tells
@RyanLizza
that a Trump vaccine distribution plan "just wasn’t there."
"But look, we have our own. We're not crying over spoiled milk. But it would have been nice if there was an outline or a plan."
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Its tradition for POTUS to sit down w/ the network broadcasting the Super Bowl for a pregame interview.
Last year, Biden sat down with NBC. The year before, CBS.
This year is trickier for one simple reason: Fox is carrying the Super Bowl.
@EliStokols
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Biden administration invests $50 million in ad campaign
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Biden will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington late next month,
@PressSec
announces.
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Biden will *not* raise the refugee cap for this fiscal year, breaking his earlier commitment to raise the limit from 15,000 to 62,500.
Biden is on track to admit fewer refugees than any modern president
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Democrats pick up Colorado Senate seat, NBC News projects.
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NEW: For months, the WH has declined to answer briefing room questions, saying the Hatch Act prohibits them from commenting.
The dynamic has frustrated some reporters who feel they are deflecting.
My West Wing Playbook debut w/
@EliStokols
@AlexThomp
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Approaching Kyiv, you can still see where Ukrainian forces blacked out road signs to try to disorient Russian troops.
This is about 1.5 hours outside the city center. Very little indication of where you are for miles.
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White House announces two new mass vaccination sites that will open in two weeks:
Greensboro, North Carolina
Chicago, Illinois
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50% of voters nationwide approve of Biden's student debt cancelation plan compared to 48% who disapprove, per NBC News exit poll
Support is highest among voters 18-29yo (75% approve, 23% disapprove).
Of voters 65 and over, a 56% majority disapprove of the plan.
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Three glass panes are blown out and one is shattered in the door of the Speakers Lobby. This is where the woman who died was shot. The lobby leads to the House floor, where some members were sheltering.
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thanks for having me on bright ☀️ and early this morning
@LindseyReiser
&
@GarrettHaake
to talk about the latest news from the White House!!
@MSNBCweekends
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Q: “Maybe you can comment on the Trump indictment?”
Easter Bunny sakes their head “No”
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Here’s where
@POTUS
will deliver his speech on voting rights later this afternoon, on the grounds of Morehouse College & Clark Atlanta University
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There have been a lot of these kinds of letters spearheaded by progressives over the past few months, but what's notable about this one is the handful of frontline/moderate Dems who also signed on.
Underwood, McBath, Titus, Duckworth, Hassan, + more.
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It's been two weeks since Tyre Nichols' funeral.
Rev. Turner, who led service in Memphis, said Biden needs to make police reform a priority if he wants to have any credibility with Black voters
“You don’t want this cloud hanging over your re-election.”
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Biden will hold his first press conference on Thursday, March 25th, White House announces.
Psaki said she might "have an update by the end of the day" on when Biden will hold his first press conference as president.
She said that it would not be this week. The White House has previously said he would hold one by the end of the month.
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NEW: Democrats demand Bolton testimony after NYT reports that his unpublished book says Trump tied Ukraine aid to Biden probe
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DC police chief says a “riot was declared” after it was clear that the mob was “intent on gaining access” to the Capitol and used “chemical irritants against police”
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Michigan: 54% of likely voters say the winner of the presidential race should fill SCOTUS vacancy
Wisconsin: 56% say the election winner should fill the seat
Biden leads in both states.
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