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Correspondent at PBS NewsHour/Anchor of PBS NewsHour West. Not the sci-fi actress (sorry!). Watch live at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET

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Stephanie Sy
2 years
“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humaneness.” MLK, Jr
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3 years
"The lies that drove the anger and madness have not abated. We have to be firm and unyielding in our defense of the right to vote"--President Biden #January6th
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At one of the purplish polling sites in Mesa, Arizona today. Steady slow stream mid-morning. Many said they were dropping off ballots because they were worried about mailing them in this year. AZ early vote total has already exceeded its total 2016 count
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Being on @JudyWoodruff ‘s set at @NewsHour is a highlight of my career. It’s the first studio I’ve been in that wasn’t freezing cold...and Judy is just as lovely and warm!
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Pardons/commutations include those for political allies, fraudsters, and 4 Blackwater guards who illegally killed "innocent men, women, and children." @Yamiche joins #NewsHourWest to talk about tonight's breaking news @NewsHour
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This is like a vintage Trump Friday. Incredible.
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...and now some Asian Americans are up in arms bc the the only Asian presidential candidate @AndrewYang is not sufficiently upset by the comedian. Who has now been fired?
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3 years
On this somber #January6th anniversary, I'm thinking of @LisaDNews , her reporting for @NewsHour that day, equipped with only a cell phone, a face mask, and more individual courage than that mob could have mustered in a pinkie finger.
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“disinformationists have cherry-picked data to support their claims, failing to note that genetic connective tissue disorders are important risk factors for ascending aortic aneurysms (and in my husband’s case the most likely risk factor..” @celinegounder
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4 years
Thank you for the concern and caring. I just want to say that with the exception of that armed fool the other Trump supporters were respectful and assembled peacefully thank you to @CaseyAtTheDesk and @lenaijackson for being my body women
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4 years
The news is depressing and overwhelming, but if you watch any program from top to bottom tonight--to understand deeply what is happening--watch @NewsHour . Excellent reporting and guest bookings; facts and context and compassionate reporting when we need it most.
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Secretary of State Katie Hobbs to @JudyWoodruff : "There is no truth to... ballots being invalidated. It doesn’t matter if they used a crayon, a red pen, or a sharpie, it would be counted. "(And if the machine couldn't read it, they'd be issued a new ballot on the spot.) #Fact
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8 years
"We've got real momentum here..." Meet Evan McMullin 2016, the man launching a third-party bid for president....
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5 years
First time on the set of @NewsHour . Excited to make my debut tonight w an interview w @mercycorps on the destruction and aid effort on Grand Bahama, two weeks after Hurricane Dorian
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"What I really want is not just for women to speak up, but for men to act right." Karen Hinton to @JudyWoodruff regarding Governor Andrew Cuomo's alleged sexual harassments of her and other women
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Yang: "I have family in Hong Kong. What's happening there is shocking. They're trying to ban face masks" Then brings message to his core AI concerns
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2 years
Great interview by @JudyWoodruff with the originator of realpolitik Henry Kissinger on Ukraine, China-Taiwan strategy, and Trump: "to try to overthrow the constitutional system is a grave matter, and I find no excuse for that."
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3 years
Lest anyone think intl air travel has gotten any easier these days, I’m stuck in Portugal bc @British_Airways would not accept our Covid test results bc they were in Portuguese. Um. We’re in Portugal. And “negativo” is not hard to translate.
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3 years
Dang...a speller and a baller! #ZailaAvantgarde @LisaDNews
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3 years
@JudyWoodruff @NewsHour And here is the link to the piece produced by @rachelwellford !
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2 years
You are irreplaceable
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Judy Woodruff
2 years
Some news…I love working at the @PBS @NewsHour & can’t imagine it not being part of my life. I will continue to anchor through this year’s midterm elections, until the end of 2022. After that, I'll stay at @NewsHour & @wetatvfm at least thru 2024 & the presidential election 1/2
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On Buttigieg ahead in early #IowaCaucus count, @DavidYepsen says, for all the criticism of Iowa being too white and not diverse, they went for the first openly-gay candidate, and "that's a big deal." @NewsHour
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4 years
@ratemyskyperoom Thanks for noticing :-)
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5 years
Klobuchar cut through the noise by saying "I think you can be progressive and pragmatic at the same time"
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5 years
Getting ready for our inaugural #NewsHourWest news update w my colleague ⁦ @rlcoolidge ⁩. Check your local listings or stream online ⁦ @NewsHour
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So excited and privileged to announce at #OfficialTCA today that I am joining ⁦ @NewsHour ⁩ as a correspondent and anchor of PBS NewsHour West @sarajust ⁩ ⁦ @IAmAmnaNawaz ⁩ ⁦ @rlcoolidge
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4 years
What current science says about how Covid19 actually spreads and what we should be doing about it. This piece produced by @frankncarlson really cuts through the noise:
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Smart, multi-layered intvu of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by the dynamic duo of @dklaidman @Isikoff .
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2 years
Beyond being the best soccer reporter, Grant Wahl was: an accident-prone RowHouse devotee, an ambitious cook who grilled tomahawk steaks outside in the dead of winter, a “dad” to two doggies ( @cocozizou ), a dear friend, & a man who loved @celinegounder more than anything.
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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦
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I am so thankful for the support of my husband @GrantWahl 's soccer family & of so many friends who've reached out tonight. I'm in complete shock.
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"Our country is deeply misogynistic and the fact is money and men are intertwined. If you get too many men together...we kinda become morons" Andrew Yang
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3 years
#PG &E’s equipment is blamed for 31 wildfires during a its probation period. "In these five years, PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California,” @BrandonRittiman joins @NewsHour tonight to discuss
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5 years
The Supreme Court is very personal to me because my marriage exists because of a single vote on the court. --Buttigieg
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4 years
One last mention about the incident at the Trump protest —it was a former Marine-turned private security guard (and Trump voter) who intervened and kept that situation from getting worse. Thank you mr. blue eyes
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3 years
Some elected Republicans speaking out aggressively against the ongoing "audit" calling it a sham that makes AZ a "laughingstock." We speak to @billgatesaz coming up on @NewsHour
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Behind the scenes of #NewsHourWest . Catch us live at 6 pm pt on your local PBS station or online on our YouTube channel and ⁦ @NewsHour ⁩ homepage.
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. @JudyWoodruff says in her 40 years as a journalist she has "never seen a large group of American citizens trying to breach the capital to do..we don't know what."
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8 years
My conversation with @TomFitton of @JudicialWatch on the latest Clinton emails to be released. Watch: #YahooNow
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4 years
There are a cascade of challenges facing people with disabilities in the #COVID19 pandemic. Hear from them directly in this piece produced and edited by @lenaijackson @CaseyAtTheDesk . W special thanks to @NJorwic @RebeccaCokley @NewsHour
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Stephanie Sy
4 years
"In Iowa, where wind farms supply 40% of the state's electricity, windmills have been turning all week despite temperatures that dropped to minus 17 degrees in Des Moines." via @AP
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5 years
This is so cool...watch live as the first all-women spacewalking team make fixes to the Intl Space Station!
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5 years
I’ve interviewed Yang a few times and he doesn’t play up being Asian other than to the mock the stereotypes and capitalize on them..in jest.
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#NewsHourWest reporting from Maricopa County’s tabulation center and small peaceful Trump gathering ⁦ @lenaijackson
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3 years
#BreakingNews US air strike in Eastern Afghanistan targeted ISIS-K planner." Initial indications are that we killed the target." CentCom statement @mtill50
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5 years
Sanders on immigration: "federal agents will not snatch babies from the arms of their mothers"
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2 years
Welcome to NewsHour West @NicoleEllis !
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ICYMI: We visited the Coachella Valley, CA, to learn how agricultural workers are coping with the multiple threats of COVID-19, job loss, and deportation. Produced by @lenaijackson
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Terrific @NewsHour shows over the weekend. @hari anchored from home and did all interviews remotely. Hari, your innovative spirit and embrace of tech is a great asset to all of us
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hari sreenivasan
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This episode of the @PBS @NewsHour Weekend was made without a studio or even a control room. All our staff & guests worked and appeared from remote locations We covered how hospitals & docs & musicians are faring with #coronavirus
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Why conspiracy theories are permeating the world of wellness and yoga influencers and targeting moms. Produced by Leah Nagy @NewsHour @CCDHate #conspirituality
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5 years
Peace out Iowa. Got to get home to the kiddos. Will watch the #IowaCaucus with bated breath from #NewshourWest
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Stephanie Sy
4 years
To all my fellow Asians, Happy Lunar New Year! I, for one, am glad we get yet another try at a New Year that does not begun with an attack on the seat of American democracy.
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Stephanie Sy
5 years
As Pompeo is implicated in today's testimony for "being in the loop" about asking for investigations in return for a meeting w/ the President, just re-upping @JudyWoodruff 's newsmaking interview with Trump's first Secretary of State. Quite a contrast.
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WATCH: In an interview with @JudyWoodruff at an event in San Antonio, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson criticized Pres. Trump’s actions now at the center of the impeachment inquiry: "Clearly, asking for personal favors and using United States assets as collateral is wrong"
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Hundreds of people at rally in Phoenix to honor those killed by anti-Asian violence #StopAAPIHate
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@RobyChavez_504
Roby Chavez
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Congrats to my colleague @johnyangtv — a distinguished journalist who is dedicated to the high standards of @NewsHour . Watch John’s debut as #PBSNewsWeekend anchor. Tonight the latest on the deaths of #BarbaraWalters and #PopeBenedictXVI WATCH:
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So proud of the #OG Associate Producer of NewsHour West @CaseyAtTheDesk who will be leaving us to join the digital team in @NewsHour headquarters. You will be missed! @lenaijackson
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Thanks @roxanasaberi for this piece on Grant
@cbssaturday
CBS Saturday Morning
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Veteran soccer journalist Grant Wahl was covering the World Cup quarterfinal between Netherlands and Argentina when he collapsed in the press box and later died. Wahl covered eight World Cups and was highly respected in the sports world. His death at age 48 comes as a shock.
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This is the first clash of the night. Warren accuses Buttigieg of holding fundraiser in a wine cave. Buttigieg: Senator, your net worth is 100 times mine.
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4 years
The West Coast update of @NewsHour returns tonight from @Cronkite_ASU , with strict social distancing. Breaking news on the #BoltonBook leads. WATCH:
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Stephanie Sy
2 years
Thanks to @KelseyTuoc @voxdotcom for her smart real person insights
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PBS News
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A new artificial intelligence tool is garnering lots of attention, and sparking some concern, over its ability to produce original works from college essays to art. @TheStephSy has this report.
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If, like my dad, you're trying to figure out how to watch our Western update of @NewsHour in the Los Angeles area, it airs on @PBSSoCal at 6 pm. And you can livestream it on our homepage:
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AP calls Dem Mark Kelly as winner of AZ Senate race. And just like that, I live in a blue state again.
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Tonight on @NewsHour we speak to a former Maricopa County election official about the deeper impact of the Arizona Senate’s vote recount
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Thanks ⁦ @CaseyAtTheDesk ⁩ for the sticker on my scripts today. It was definitely an I-need-a-happy-panda-in-an-ice-cream-cone kind of day! #NewsHourWest
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. @carriecordero counters that the question is whether Trump violated his oath of office and the #Constitution by putting his interests before the nation's when conducting foreign diplomacy #ImpeachmentInquiry
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The mayor of Tybee Island was interviewed by ⁦ @JudyWoodruff ⁩ tonight. Reminded me of being there in better times...
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"this was a program that was going to be serious without taking ourselves too seriously. It was going to be about focusing on what’s real. And that’s become ever more important over the years..." @JudyWoodruff via @DEADLINE .
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Filming at ⁦ @NavajoTech ⁩ for an upcoming ⁦ @NewsHour ⁩ piece. #FryBread #indiancountry
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Stephanie Sy
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A year in their prime-- robbed. Not only is it not a crime, journalism is the lifeblood of democracy. #FreeAJAtaff http://t.co/rrEf3rASmJ
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Every firefighter we met from the Chief to the guys at Station 1 was kind, welcoming, and open to our presence. And they even fed us lunch —the best fish tacos I’ve ever eaten! @SFFDPIO
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Tonight we launch #NewsHourWest . We will be keeping our viewers up to date on news that breaks after @JudyWoodruff signs off from our East Coast headquarters.
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In her opening statement, Yovanovitch implies that she was pushed out by Giuliani, the President's personal lawyer, because as a corruption fighter, she impeded his private financial and political interests.
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The emotional toll on frontline EMTs really comes through in these brutally honest intvu's @WmBrangham conducted. Pearse Matthews and Adam Bliden, thank you for your work:
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Stephanie Sy
3 years
Filming an upcoming @NewsHour piece w Becky Hyde who has been raising cattle in the Klamath Basin for two decades. She has ideas for how to solve the water crisis and says it starts with restoration and reparations.
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Hello Arizona!
@arizonapbs
Arizona PBS
4 years
AZ was a battleground state in #Election2020 . @NewsHour national correspondent @TheStephSy , anchor @JudyWoodruff + the team examine #ElectionResults2020 + the path ahead for @JoeBiden as he transitions to the White House; tune in at 6 p.m. or watch here:
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#NewsHourWest is heading to NoCal this weekend to cover this important story from the ground.
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Judy Woodruff
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closely watching these frightening wildfires in #California
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What a beautiful tribute to Mark Shields from @nytdavidbrooks . Shields is stepping down from his weekly segment on @NewsHour after tonight's broadcast
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3 years
This.
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David Hogg 🟧
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Stop watching cable news and start watching PBS. You’d be amazed how much your perspective changes. The level of sensationalism on cable news and social media is insane. Just for one week and try to not get your news from cable news or social media and you’d be shocked.
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#BreakingNews U.S. airstrikes target convoy in Baghdad carrying hi-level Iranian and Iraqi militia leaders. Join the West Coast edition of @NewsHour for the latest w @nickschifrin . Coming up at 6 pm PT/9 PM ET
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51 human beings died in a truck with no a/c on a 100-degree day. In America. "For migrants from Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries, there really is no way right now to access the asylum process or indeed to migrate legally." @ReichlinMelnick
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My colleague @CaseyAtTheDesk 's comprehensive report on why indigenous people living in urban areas may be more affected by #COVID19 than we realize. #NewsHourWest
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The morning started early in Sonoma County. More evacuations, high winds, and brush fires popping up in wine country. on the ground reporting w/ ⁦ @bartleyprice ⁩ ⁦ @rlcoolidge
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What’s significant about tonight is the Revolutionary Guard attacked US bases not proxies and took credit not through proxies reports @nickschifrin
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Stephanie Sy
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Not only did Yovanovitch lose her ambassador post, she says she was smeared by Giuliani with lies. "It's been a big hit for morale, not only in Kiev, but in the State Department" she says. And I can only imagine the hit to her own psyche
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Dr Roberts joins us on @NewsHour tonight to discuss how they're addressing vaccine equity in Columbus, Ohio, and what barriers must be overcome to gain trust with African American vaccine skeptics
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Mysheika Roberts, MD, MPH
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Spoke with @NewsHour about #COVID19 vaccine hesitancy. The COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, and I encourage everyone to get their shot when it’s their turn. Tune in tonight for the story.
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