I have covered 7 Presidents. I have never seen a POTUS use the Rose Garden or any White House platform to launch a political attack against his opponent for reelection, a campaign rally barely disguised as a faux news conference. All during a pandemic and a recession
I asked a man I know what he thought of the debate. He said: “The debate was over when she said Mr. Vice President you are interrupting me”
#mansplaining
One suggestion from a McCabe supporter: if a friendly member of Congress hired him for a week he could possibly qualify for pension benefits by extending his service the extra days
Powerful comment: Bishop Marian Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of DC says she is outraged that
@realDonaldTrump
used StJohn’s (without asking them) as a backdrop for his photo op after clearing protesters “what we are witnessing now is the shredding of our national fabric”
@CNN
Could someone on the Judiciary committee please correct Senator Kennedy and FBI Director from continuing to propagate the false idea that
@MayorBowser
had the power to call for the National Guard on Jan 6? She does not. Only Governors do. Presidents have the power over DC
The AP has confirmed the accuracy of this extraordinary article. The White House has denied it. It could shatter perceptions of the President among the military. A recent Army Times poll showed declining support for him.
1/ President Trump, who never served in the military, canceled a 2018 visit to a cemetery where American troops are buried, saying: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
BREAKING: Watchdog group American Oversight publishes cache of State Dept. documents it says shows a “clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo” to facilitate smear campaign against fmr. Amb. Yovanovitch
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was fired by Donald Trump from the Defense Policy Advisory Board. President Biden has just nominated her to chair the panel
“Dear Barack….You have just begun a fantastic chapter in your life….You will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me….God bless you."
—George W. Bush’s handwritten note for Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
Is enough attention being paid to the fact that in his battle with
@SpeakerPelosi
@realDonaldTrump
not only grounded her military flight but revealed secret trip to war zone?
Under pressure from American Legion Trump orders flag lowered at White House and other govt buildings until
@SenJohnMcCain
's burial but the damage cannot be erased
#Disrespect
How can he justify stopping all immigration globally because of the pandemic at the same time he’s suggesting it’s safe for states to start going back to work by May 1st or sooner?
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
On whether Obama admin paid for missiles that hit Iraqi bases per
@realDonaldTrump
,
@AmbassadorRice
: "This is another series of despicable lies by President Trump. Fact that 3 years after taking office he remains obsessed w/ Pres Obama shows (his) extreme weakness & insecurity."
This may be one if the most touching and impactful endorsements you’ll ever see coming from a career military man and former Bush CIA Director who has been battling the effects of a severe stroke but is speaking out against Trump.
NEW AD: Former Director of the CIA under Bush
@GenMhayden
: "If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America."
He's supporting
@JoeBiden
.
Watch his moving testimonial.
How could
@realDonaldTrump
sign the John S. McCain Defense Authorization Act and speak for 25 minutes without mentioning
@SenJohnMcCain
? He even left “McCain” out of the name of the bill he signed into law. Memory loss? Unhinged? Bad staff work?
Re: White House tweets attacking Senators: Section 1352(a) of Title 31: No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall..be used directly or indirectly to pay for any .. written matter... intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress
Did I just hear
@realDonaldTrump
compare the size of his July 4th celebration last year to the people who assembled on the Mall to hear Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial?
White House announces
@realDonaldTrump
will leave G7 4 hours earlier than scheduled, before the end of the meeting - reflection of U.S. desire to spend minimum amount of time at hostile meeting with America's (formerly) friendliest allies
#sad
Not a joke: front page of NY Post “Florida man makes announcement” story on p, 26: With just 720 days to go before the next election a Florida retiree made the surprise announcement he was running for President…he has stated his qualifications include being a very stable genius
Let me get this straight: you’re facing trial in 2 states, wearing ankle bracelets courtesy of Robert Mueller and allegedly try to suborn perjury from potential witnesses emailing on encrypted apps thinking Mueller won’t find out?
Read the fine print: Turkey gets Syrian Kurd land he’s wanted for years. Kurdish fighters have to disarm and get out. Russia gains influence. ISIS does what it wants. Trump cancels sanctions on Turkey. Art of the deal!!! If you are Erdogan
Today,
@VP
Pence and
@SecPompeo
announced that under the leadership of
@realDonaldTrump
the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria.
.
@ewarren
tosses a verbal grenade into
#ImpeachmentTrial
by submitting question for
#ChiefJusticeRoberts
to read out loud: does trial presided over by Chief Justice without witnesses further undermine public confidence in institutions like the Supreme Courts (awkward)
A stunning moment today before congress... the nation's intel chiefs -- one after another -- publicly contradicting President Trump on global threats from North Korea to ISIS to Iran.
@NBCNightlyNews
As flag over the WH hangs at full staff,
@juliehdavis
on how Trump’s refusal to honor John McCain shows he is “unwilling to act as a unifying force at major moments in the life of the country.”
.
@realDonaldTrump
says economy heading south when he took office going in the wrong direction:
Facts: Jobs grew from Nov 2012 to Nov 2016 at 1.88 % a year during
@BarackObama
2nd term
Jobs grew from November 2016 to today by 1.57 % since
@realDonaldTrump
elected
Do the math
NEW from
@NBCNews
: White House says Erdogan promised Trump he'd finish off ISIS in
#Syria
“As your friend, I give you my word in this,” Erdogan told Trump on Friday call, according to senior White House official
So proud. Have you ever seen a better picture of a journalist running to break news of a verdict? Our intern Cassie Semyon racing from the Manafort courtroom knows as "The Lady in the Blue Dress"
@TempleUniv
Right now
@chucktodd
@HeidiPryzbyla
@MeetthePress
agree why send all the cameras and correspondents to Trump rallies so he can threaten the media? How about 1 camera network pool?
.
@SpeakerPelosi
cannot use military plane to war zone and NATO that speakers are entitled to (for security since 9/11 because she is in line of succession) but Melania Trump flew tonight to Maralago on same type of military 757 from JBA.
Alone.
North Korea reality check: Kim Jong Un promised Trump 200 remains: he delivered 55. He promised to denuclearize: Pompeo acknowledged to Senate NK is still producing nuclear weapons fuel. Last time regime returned soldiers’ remains it took years to verify;some were animal bones
The President of the United States energized Neo Nazi White Supremacists by refusing to denounce them and telling them to Stand Back and Stand By. Within an hour they had new shoulder patches designed. Think about that
Wow!
@CIA
Director Mike Pompeo releases statement endorsing intel conclusion Russia meddled direct challenge to
@realDonaldTrump
comments accepting
#Putin
denial and calling ex CIS officials political hacks
.
@Yamiche
asks
@realDonaldTrump
why he disbanded White House office on pandemic diseases and he says he didn't do that! (p.s. it would be great if correspondents would follow up on each other's questions when he avoids answering)
It is difficult to rewatch the questioning of
#Anita
Hill by the late GOP Sen Arlen Specter
@Maddow
now playing. I cannot imagine what it was like for her to live through that hearing and it’s aftermath. The most searing experience I ever had as a congressional correspondent
They were in synagogue for a religious baby naming ceremony, a Jewish tradition. What occasion could be more joyous? Until a maniac with an AR-15 and and arsenal of handguns started shooting. God bless the victims and the heroic 1st responders. And save our country from hate.
Boom. Senate overwhelmingly votes 85-10 to block Trump deal to lift ban on China's
#ZTE
telecom after national security concerns raised about cell phone manufacturer
.
@SpeakerPelosi
: "It's stunning, the President says does the Supreme Court like me? Or I made Juneteenth. This is person who is ethically unfit, intellectually unprepared, and personally unqualified to be president as he says everything is about him & not our country."
#AMRstaff
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the death of a 7-year-old girl in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol last week “is a very sad example of the dangers” migrants face when they try to illegally enter the U.S.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 100 kids under 5 still not returned to parents and she has dog sitting duties? I'll take care of her dog for her get back to work!!
On Hawley saying he'll object to Electoral College certification,
@SenatorShaheen
: " I think it's outrageous. More than that, it borders on sedition or treason."
#AMRstaff
Kudos to Chris Wallace for fact-checking the President to his face in real time and providing reality checks to the viewers throughout the program. An extraordinary interview
Jeremy Bash: we should stop saying he is fulfilling a campaign promise, the campaign promise was that Mexico would pay for the wall. He is actually breaking a campaign promise.
#AMR
Why aren't more women senators on Judiciary Committee? Chairman
@ChuckGrassley
: "It’s a lot of work. I mean don’t forget compared to a lot of committee meetings, we have an executive (session) for every Thursday … so it’s a lot of work. Maybe they don’t want to do it"
On whether Senators would vote for impeachment,
@murphymike
says, "One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump."
#AMRstaff
.
@SallyQYates
on Obama: the first words out of his mouth were ‘I may have appointed you but you don’t represent me, you represent the people of the United States’ and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
@MeetThePress
Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime.
To all those criticizing
@JoeBiden
for choosing a Black woman for the Supreme Court (and all those we believe he’s considering are superbly qualified) - did they object when Ronald Reagan carried out his campaign promise to nominate the Court’s 1st woman, Sandra Day OConnor?
Fact check: There is no equivalency between
@realDonaldTrump
refusing to denounce the white supremacist Proud Boys and
@JoeBiden
saying Antifa is not an organized group. That is what FBI Director Chris Wray testified to this month - that it is an ideology not an organization
Under US surveillance rules, unmasking an American's identity in a report derived from foreign-intelligence surveillance is routine when necessary to understand (e.g., who was the Russian ambassador talking to?). The NSA did so 10,000 times last year, nearly 17,000 times in 2018.
A fierce twitter tirade against
#Mueller
including totally misleading statement he worked for Obama. Mueller was nonpartisan FBI head for 12yrs appointed by Bush 43 in 2001 lifelong Republican before that decorated Marine in Vietnam
....care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
There are FBI men and women dedicated to upholding the law and protecting us here at home and around the world from the bad guys. Most Americans are grateful for their service
The truth is that we have a nation that is disgusted with the FBI. We have a crisis of confidence in the number one law enforcement agency in this country (thanks Comey!).
@LouDobbs
“It’s a scandal.”
@AlanDersh
State dept colleagues are dismayed, outraged by
@SecPompeo
decision to kick esteemed
@NPR
veteran diplomatic correspondent
@MicheleKelemen
off his plane for this week's trip to Ukraine in apparent retaliation for her colleague standing up to bullying.
#FirstAmendment
Photos show hundreds of migrants crammed into overflowing border facilities.
One senior manager at a facility called the situation a "ticking time bomb," according to DHS Office of the Inspector General report.
.
@BarackObama
DNC speech is an unprecedented takedown of a President by predecessor, even more remarkable because until the John Lewis funeral, Obama avoided responding to
@realDonaldTrump
attacks on him and his legacy. No more. He believes the future of democracy is at stake
You would think GOP Senators would be embarrassed to be cozying up to FM Lavrov in Moscow the same day GOP led Senate Intel committee issues report endorsing 2017 intel assessment that Kremlin tried to tip 2016 election to Trump over Clinton. Check
@Maddow
take on all this.
Once again
@realDonaldTrump
personally attacks
@Yamiche
of
@PBS
before she can finish asking a question directly quoting what he said about ventilators on Sean Hannity. (He had challenged NY’s need) When she tries to follow up the White House cuts off her mic.
#Barr
just said the situation was so bad on Lafayette Park that week the Secret Service recommended the President go down to the bunker and shelter. (Didn’t the President say afterward he was just getting a tour or checking it out?)
Former President Bush in Shanksville compares Jan 6 insurrectionists to 9/11 hijackers:”in determination to defile our national symbols they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our duty to confront them.” Wow
.
@RichardEngel
: there's something deeply disturbing about Pres Trump claiming that he saw thousands of people here who were celebrating him and welcoming his arrival...There weren't thousands of people out there greeting him. There were several thousands protesters.
My Q: You said you don’t take responsibility for slow response to coronavirus but your administration disbanded the White House office on pandemics?
President Trump: “That’s a nasty question...When you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people [in the administration].”
.
@Yamiche
: "When we think about the Trump presidency, there are two things that really are the foundation of President Trump. The first is Kellyanne Conway saying that there could be alternative facts-then Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, saying truth isn't truth."
#AMRstaff
Question: "How come on January 2020, the stockpile was as low as it was on supplies like face masks and N95s?"
Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: "It's a really important question. Perhaps I should redirect your question to President Obama who left the stockpile empty."
After
@realDonaldTrump
who slurred the late John Dingell in his home state his wife RepDebDingell writes “I’m preparing for the 1st holiday season without the man I love. You brought me down in a way you can never imagine and your hurtful words just made my healing much harder”
I tried to ask
@SecPompeo
today why he is targeting veteran diplomats for routine emails when they had nothing to do with that private server.
He turned his back and walked away.
Sen Rand Paul inexplicably suggests US has interfered in foreign elections over decades to justify Kremlin hacking and weaponizimg stolen democratic emails in 2016 - this after he was 1 of only 2 senators voting against resolution supporting NATO. ???
What does it cost to fuel and prep a military 757 for congressional trip and leave it standing on the runway at JBA after
@realDonaldTrump
pulled the plug? Just asking..
In Ohio
@realDonaldTrump
suggests democrats who didn’t applaud him during
#SOTU
could be committing treason. “can you call that treason? I mean why not?” he asked ....
Perhaps Don McGahan can explain it to him?
Tomorrow is 4th anniversary of shoot down of Malaysian airliner MH17 by Russian forces or Russian backed forces and Friday Mueller indictment details Kremlin’s cyber attack on US election. But
@POTUS
blames past US policy and Mueller “witch hunt” for bad relations with Moscow
Intel agencies warn of Russia & other adversaries trying to influence midterm voting thru fake social media accounts but no interference with actual voting. What a relief! I guess it’s only Americans trying to stop people from voting here in states like Georgia and North Dakota
President Trump said he was "thinking about Muhammad Ali" for a pardon.
An attorney for Ali's estate and family said that a pardon wouldn't be necessary. The boxer's conviction for evading the Vietnam War draft was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1971