Matt Laslo
@MattLaslo
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Journalist, prof. & public speaker. My wire service: https://t.co/enb9RD39op My startup: https://t.co/4zaU8k7lM0
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
If you disagree with a politician - or a political party - đŻ of the time youâre a part of the problem.
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The Federalist Societyâs hosting a black tie dinner inside Union Station tonight, so protestors rolled up a big screen and loud speakers blaring Christine Blasey Fordâs Kavanaugh testimony as a welcome to attendees
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âYou had 8 years!â @LindseyGrahamSC says of Democrats, accusing Dems of failing to take up policing reforms under Obama-Biden*. *The GOP blocked the reform proposals Obama-Biden pushed.
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A reporter is having a panic attack because weâre locked in the Capitol without any police protection, and we hear and feel rumblings underneath us. This is scary folks, especially after being labeled âthe enemyâ for some 4 years.
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DEVELOPING: A member of the House of Representatives is taking their oath on a classic Superman comic book
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âThese fucking people,â Rep. @DanCrenshawTX tells me after leaving the House floor. âNow theyâre just being clowns.â.
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Times have changed at the Capitol: Some of the holy books for new memberâs swearing ins, including a Quran, Buddhist Sutra and Hindu Vera (and two Constitutions for the atheists)
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âJosh Hawley is a bitch,â D.C. police officer Michael Fanone says just outside the Jan. 6 hearing room.
âDonald Trump, Josh @HawleyMO â all of them, theyâre traitors,â @RepEscobar tells me outside the Jan. 6 hearing.
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and his staff are handing out bottles of water and Kind bars to protestors on the Capitol grounds
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Have worked in the Capitol for 12 years and never seen a post-it display of well wishes on any lawmakerâs name plaque but here is @AOCâs
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A Proud Boy just ate my business card at a bar at CPAC. Then we talked off the record for a few and gained his trust a tad. He then asked for another one and apologized for eating the first.
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Found on a baby changing table in restroom underneath House floor: . âDeclaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant,â from Rep. @mattgaetz, Sept. 15, 2023, 11:22am
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"It's much better than Obamacare," Sen. Purdue. on new health bill. "Why?" we ask. "I have to go read it.".
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Barricades have been erected around the Capitol ahead of the Kavanaugh vote. Have been here 12 years and have never seen this for a vote.
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NEW: Rand Paul is on the Senate floor pushing a bill to make Edward Snowden a retroactive whistler blower, and the press gallery erupts: "HE WASN'T A WHISTLE BLOWER!".
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INBOX: .Urgent: US @RepJimmyGomez to Introduce Resolution Expelling Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
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Sen. Rick Scott tells me the rules only allow senators to drink water and milk on the Senate floor during the impeachment trial.
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Just informed Senate Foreign Relations Chair Corker of what Trump tweeted about Qatar and was met with about 8 seconds of stunned silence.
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âDonald Trump, Josh @HawleyMO â all of them, theyâre traitors,â @RepEscobar tells me outside the Jan. 6 hearing.
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No. Cause a bunch of your viewers stormed my office and then you reported it didnât happen
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âThis is a searing indictment of the Republican Partyâ - @FoxNews analyst live just now
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BREAKING: PROTESTERS JUST BREACHED THE NORTH DOOR OF THE CAPITOL. AGAIN. âReally? Again?â one of the heroic, exhausted and frustrated Capitol Police officers escorting me and a crew of others out of the complex just said to his colleagues.
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During yesterday's vote-a-rama I overheard @ewarren telling @SenFeinstein: âPuppies have a nap, now itâs time for you to have oneâ
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âIâm f****** moving to Iowa,â Sen. Kamala Harris joked to Sen. Hirono (before she noticed me)
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âWe lost control. â an officer says over the Capitol Police radio.
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âI havenât seen that,â @SenFeinstein replies when I ask about Kansas voters overwhelmingly endorsing abortion rights. I then explained. âOh, I did see that,â Feinstein said. âIt didnât surprise me.â.
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âWould you mind keeping that on?â @mkraju asks @LindseyGrahamSC who then dutifully re-masked
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"Have you decided how you'll vote?" press corps. "Yes," Sen. John McCain. "How?" . "Wait for the show.".
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@MattWalshBlog Weird hobby you have of heckling a survivor of one of the most horrific mass shootings in US history.
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âI think they should call in @seanhannity to negotiate this because heâs obviously the one calling the shots,â Sen. Dick Durbin says of shutdown.
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SUPERMAN UPDATE: An aide still wonât name the member, but she did offer some clarity. The member plans to take the oath with their hand resting on the Constitution, which will sit atop the classic Superman comic, along with some other âfamily mementos.â.
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CRUZ to MERRICK GARLAND: "What are your thoughts on what is called âcancel cultureâ? Is âcancel culture,â as you understand it, consistent with the values of free speech?". GARLAND RESPONSE: "I do not have an understanding of the meaning of the term sufficient to comment."
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âThatâs bullshit,â @LindseyGrahamSC tells me when I asked about the GOP rejecting the Obama-Biden era policing reform proposals.
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"I got called the N-word 15 times today," @jamie_raskin recounts a Capitol Police officer saying on January 6th. "What the f*** man, is this America?" @RepRaskin says another officer replied.
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âFor the sake of a story donât kill each other, okay?" Rep. @Ilhan Omar cautioned the throng of reporters following her after a veteran cameraman fell hard on a concrete sidewalk outside the Capitol. She stopped to help him up. "Everybodyâs going to be alright,â she gently said.
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Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn exits the Jan. 6 hearing room â after Cassidy Hutchinsonâs explosive & painful testimony about the president knowing the crowd was armed when he urged them to storm the Capitol â and pauses to pet another officer whose a really good boy
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This morning there was supposed to be a guns rights hearing in the House on making it easier to get silencers. No word on if it is still on.
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Just overheard a Republican Senator tell a reporter *on background* that Trump discussing Joe Biden with a foreign leader was âinappropriate.â Again, he would only say that on background.
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âLock all doors if able. immediately seek shelter. remain quiet and await further direction,â a voice said over the Capitol loud speaker.
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NEW EVIDENCE: âThey plan to literally kill people,â a tipster alerted the Secret Service ahead of Jan. 6
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Actual Jersey Shore:. A Commanding Officer in New Jersey Coast Guard told Rep. Chris Smith his 47-foot ship âwas followed by between 12 and 30 of these drones as they went through the water â followed, right behind them,â Smith told FBI, DOJ & CBP officials today.
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Ummmmm. Not the backdrop Iâd have picked if I were trying to tamp down all this âdeep stateâ talk
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"Anyone who says a Muslim shouldn't serve in Congress shouldn't serve in Congress," Sen. Flake says of Roy Moore.
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The nerd in me loves this on the record response from Garland, because "cancel culture" is a meaningless term and Cruz knows it. It changes meaning based on who is claiming it and in what moment, thus it's worthless rhetoric.
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Sean Hannity broadcasting from your United States House of Representatives
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Rep. Blumenauer just gave @Ocasio2018 an American flag diversity poster in the hall and she seems really pumped
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Can't wait to cover secret unveiling of McConnell's new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new health bill in 2 weeks.
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Weâre all âSteveâ to Trump (unless your name is Steve and then youâre just plain old Kevin).
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Personal News: I've started a war against the word "that." It's worthless in writing about 95% of the time. Spread the love: the waste of space of a word is on its way out! Finally.
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I approach @CoryBooker for an interview. âI canât. Iâm literally on the phone with my mom,â he says. Walks 3 steps away: âSorry mom, I missed that. â.
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*she then referred to the constitutional referendum as a âpollâ.
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Today @AyannaPressley is wearing a âARREST THE COPS WHO KILLED BREONNA TAYLORâ tee at the Capitol.
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Why Is Congress on Recess in the Middle of a Pandemic? @AndrewYang tells me @SpeakerPelosi and @SenateMajLdr McConnell are shortsighted for rejecting calls for remote voting in the midst of this crisis:
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Kellyanne Conway says they're behind because Hillary dropped $60 million in negative ads on Trump. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
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REPORTERS ARENâT SHEEP: View from the print/radio reporter press pen to the photographerâs pen just off the Senate floor. Theyâve severely restricted our access during the impeachment proceedings
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Wonder if Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer finally regret nuking the filibuster for (most) judges?.
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Back in 2019, Hill staffers wrote âMuslim Koran/Quranâ when @IlhanMN took her historic oath. Much better than just âMuslimâ
Times have changed at the Capitol: Some of the holy books for new memberâs swearing ins, including a Quran, Buddhist Sutra and Hindu Vera (and two Constitutions for the atheists)
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EXCLUSIVE: âItâs embarrassing,â @AOC on DNCâs Rejecting Marijuana Legalization. âI mean, itâs so backwards, right?â .
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âWhat is remarkable about this moment is that weâre not just changing the Democratic Partyâs agenda; weâre changing the Republican agenda, too,â @AOC tells @vicenews.
Some Republicans now say they want to address climate change â just donât mention the Green New Deal to them - via @vicenews.
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BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein wonât announce her plans for 2024 â until 2024
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A scene from the most diverse Congress in American history
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Best tweet of 2018 so far
please stop calling our customer service hotline to ask if we have The Gorilla Channel.
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Love seeing @Yamiche chasing Blake Farenthold off the House floor asking he feels pressured to resign now that Franken did.
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OVERHEARD in your Capitol: âItâs getting late in the day now,â an aide told visitors. Itâs 2:04pm.
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Last year @RepLizCheney gently grabbed my arm and said, âYouâre mean when you write for @thedailybeast.â When I responded by asking if there was anything inaccurate in the piece - - neither her or her chief of staff could point to an error.
Rep Don Young once called me a mother fucker, a cock sucker, and a son of a bitch for writing a column in Congress Daily making fun of his abject failure as a committee chairman.
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NEW: Gillibrand scheduling hearings with UAP (UFO) đ¸whistleblower David Grusch .
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Sen. Sinema is choking up throughout her maiden Senate floor speech on the need for better mental health services for veterans with PTSD and the scourge of suicide plaguing the armed services
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NEWS: âUnfit to hold office': @RepMTG tries to censure @RashidaTlaib for 'insurrection' @RawStory .
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I donât care your politics. Iâm weeping. Whether you hate or love him, heâs Americaâs president, and this is scary. Weâve seen Scalise and Giffords shot since Ive been a political reporter, so this is just a flood of terrifying and sad memories.
Watch: President Trump was escorted out from his briefing today after an apparent shooting outside the White House
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Torn on @Acosta suspension. Heâs a dick, but heâs allowed to be a dick because of the First Amendment. But just as press staff and politicians shouldnât touch reporters, neither should reporters touch press staff. And thatâs a WH mic. He could have kept asking questions w/out it.
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Mark Meadows âflipped hardâ on Trump: ex-January 6 committee adviser @RepRiggleman predicts based on indictment . My latest for @RawStory is live!
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When I mentioned @RonDeSantisFL yesterday, @timkaine - a former Jesuit missionary in Central America - wept for the Venezuelan migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard
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âWe canât let these fuckinâ fuckers win, and you can quote me on that,â a Democratic lawmaker just told me at the Capitol. âI just might,â I reply. âNo, please donât!â. âOkay. I liked it though.â.
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After calling on Franken to resign, Sen. Gillibrand and Gretchen Carlson are introducing a bill to end the forced arbitration for sexual harassment that keeps some 60 million Americans from being able to use the courts to settle cases
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đ . Gillibrand is one of just 6 senators on both Intel & Armed Services, and says the US government doesnât know whatâs flying over head:. âWe don't know whose they are. We don't know what propulsion they use. We don't know the tech. We don't know it,â Gillibrand tells me. âIt's.
NEWS. EXCLUSIVE: Chair @gillibrandny previews Nov. 19 Senate UAP hearing: "We don't know it. It's not off the shelf stuff.â. Message to #UFOX: .âI want the community to know this is a body of stuff nobody knows what it is, and so that they feel and know, you're respected, youâre.
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Hearing canceled "until further notice"
This morning there was supposed to be a guns rights hearing in the House on making it easier to get silencers. No word on if it is still on.
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The Capitol was lame, so being the intrepid reporter I am, Iâm now doing a bar crawl on the House side to find members. And itâs working! One bar down, and one exclusive interview with Rep. Frank Lucas who was more loose lipped than usual after his afternoon brew.
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NEW: hereâs my video from like 15mins ago of Capitol Police officers taking up a defensive position inside the Capitol and pepper spraying Trump supporters out of a broken window on the Senate side of the Capitol. Pepper spray filled the air.
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Two Capitol Police officers just escorted a protestor off THE THIRD floor of the Capitol. No ID. Big bag on. And he got to the 3rd floor, which is unheard of.
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@DonLew87 âWait til you see this interview, youâre going to get mailâ - Barbara Walters to Sean Connery.
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Pretty sure George Washington is flicking off Trumpâs tank rally
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"I don't think this is relevant to the Trump administration" - Sen. Hatch on Trump Jr.'s emails.
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HAPPENING NOW: View of the Supreme Court from the second floor of the Capitol, just yards away from the Senate floor
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