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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney says during an interview on Fox News that the network needs to make clear to viewers the election wasn't stolen.
“Fox News has a particular obligation to make sure people know the election wasn’t stolen," she said.
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Kimberly Rubio, the mother of a 10-year-old Lexi killed at Uvalde:
"We understand that for some reason, to some people, to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns, that guns are more important than children."
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Bernie Sanders said of the photo that went viral of him sitting bundled up on Inauguration Day that he’s glad it “makes people aware that we make good mittens in Vermont,” when asked by
@alizaslav
He added, “We have some good coats as well.”
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Elizabeth Warren tells
@mkraju
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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said at an event today: “It’s very important especially for us as Republicans to make clear that we aren't the party of white supremacy,"
@AnnieGrayerCNN
reports
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Kamala Harris will be escorted to the inauguration ceremony by Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who became face of the resistance to rioters who stormed the Capitol two weeks ago today.
@jeffzeleny
reports
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Pelosi: “Today, on Christmas Eve morning, House Republicans cruelly deprived the American people of the $2,000 that the President agreed to support. If the President is serious about the $2,000 direct payments, he must call on House Republicans to end their obstruction."
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I got a first look at a new effort from anti-Trump conservative group
@AccountableGOP
. They graded GOP lawmakers on whether they're upholding or undermining democracy. Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise both received an "F" grade. Liz Cheney got an "A."
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Pelosi: “the President of the United States committed an act of incitement of insurrection. I don't think it's very unifying to say, oh, let's just forget it and move on. That's not how you unify.” Her answer came after
@mkraju
asked if pursuing impeachment would undermine unity
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McConnell on the Capitol attack: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people."
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Interior Sec. nominee
@DebHaalandNM
: "This is all of our country, this is our mother. You've heard the earth referred to as mother earth. It’s difficult to not feel obligated to protect this land, and I feel that every Indigenous person in this country understands that."
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@JohnFetterman
says in a statement: "Since the Senate Parliamentarian won’t allow a $15 minimum wage to go through reconciliation, then it’s time to end the filibuster and raise the minimum wage"
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"Heitkamp said the final straw was the way Kavanaugh went after...Sen. Amy Klobuchar, when he asked her if she had ever blacked out drunk after she had asked him the same question."
@DanaBashCNN
has a great story on how Heitkamp decided to vote no
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"So at this moment we ask for progress. We seek to raise the age to purchase these weapons from 18 to 21 years of age. We seek red flag laws, stronger background checks. We also want to repeal gun manufacturers' liability immunity."
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Democratic women in the House are wearing white to Trump's speech tonight - a color worn by women in the suffragette movement.
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"I'm an avid Washington Nationals fan so I thought I would break up this a little bit by putting on my Washington Nationals face mask," Fauci says during a congressional hearing when asked about why he switched out his face mask to a new one.
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Liz Cheney tells CNN she does not regret her vote to impeach Trump.
“Absolutely not,” she said when asked, per
@DaniellaMicaela
and
@mkraju
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The House of Representatives just voted to pass a bill that would grant statehood to Washington, DC on a party line vote of 216-208.
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"We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness," Meghan McCain says in an emotional speech in memory of her father. "The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly."
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Bernie Sanders says in a statement, “Scott Pruitt was the worst EPA administrator in the history of the agency."
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There are now three Republicans who are voting with Democrats to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees: Kinzinger, Fitzpatrick and Newhouse. Vote still going.
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Pelosi says it's time to administer the oath of office to all the new members. She starts to say, "if the children want to be back with their --" and one of the kids interrupts to say "no" as laughter breaks out in the chamber
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So my mom is a librarian. And apparently my family should have coordinated better on what to get her for Christmas....
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Pelosi's office just sent out a press release labeling House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA) as in Q for QAnon instead of R for Republican.
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There are now two Republicans who are voting with Democrats to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees: Fitzpatrick and Kinzinger. Vote still going.
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The man seen chasing a Black Capitol police officer up the stairs during the Capitol attack is Doug Jensen, according to a CNN comparative analysis of his booking photo and posts on social media. Jensen is one of the individuals now facing federal charges.
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Doug Jones sounded exasperated as he told reporters: “I’m keeping an open until I hear all of the evidence ... Now don’t go putting some damn headline in there, ‘still open to acquit,’ I’m open to acquit, I’m open to convict. Okay?"
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I spoke with Republicans disturbed by QAnon and calling for the GOP to reject conspiracy theories.
@RepMeijer
told me: "It's important to not let the record go uncorrected" but "it's something I definitely do at my peril, both politically and otherwise."
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Moderate Dems brace for what's next after impeachment. "If I lose my seat over it, so be it," Rep. Anthony Brindisi told me. "At the end of the day, I had to do what I felt was right for our country and the rule of law." Story w/
@FoxReports
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What Foster Campbell, the Democrat who just lost Louisiana's Senate race, told me earlier this month.
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Some lifelong Republican women are leaving the party because of Trump.
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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse on voting to convict: "If we were talking about a Democratic president, most Republicans and most Democrats would simply swap sides. Tribalism is a hell of a drug, but our oath to the Constitution means we’re constrained to the facts."
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Garland to call Capitol riot 'heinous attack' and tell Senate Judiciary Committee he'll supervise prosecution of White supremacists
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Pelosi slammed House GOP leadership for being "willing to overlook, ignore those statements" in the wake of new reports, including from CNN's KFILE, of shocking past comments from congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Pelosi calls the question she got from a reporter earlier in the day asking if she hates Trump "really disgusting" during CNN's town hall. "The word hate is a terrible word ... so for him to say that was really disgusting to me," Pelosi says
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"This is scary and completely unexpected," a separate State Department source close to Linick told CNN.
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"We're going to hold China accountable for what they did to America with the coronavirus," Pence says at the debate
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President Trump signed a massive $2.3 trillion dollar coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, according to sources, averting a shutdown set to begin on Tuesday, and extending billions of dollars in coronavirus aid to millions
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After McConnell called for a break in the trial, he approached Murkowski. The two sat next to one another, talking for several minutes. At one point, McConnell appeared to be counting on his fingers. He also took out a piece of paper to show something to Murkowski.
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“there is no longer a question of whether this campaign sought to collude with a hostile foreign power ”
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The Senate has unanimously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the officers of the US Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department, nearly seven months after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, per
@alizaslav
@kristin__wilson
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Relief deal now expected to include a new round of stimulus checks, source tells
@mkraju
, cautioning nothing final until it's unveiled, but that's where things are headed.
This comes after calls from
@AOC
,
@BernieSanders
,
@HawleyMO
and others to include checks.
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Senators are extremely close to one another on the Senate floor as they vote on the stimulus bill to respond to the coronavirus crisis. Not keeping much distance at all.
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Pelosi says, “The Court has rightly dismissed out of hand the extreme, unlawful and undemocratic GOP lawsuit to overturn the will of millions of American voters.
“The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House."
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Cheney: "And I think we, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection."
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@BernieSanders
just won the first endorsement from any national environmental group of the 2016 race
http://t.co/LmLVEXuZKt
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So apparently David Brock had to run away from Sanders delegates.
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@AnnieGrayerCNN
Cheney: "You certainly saw anti-Semitism, you saw symbols of Holocaust denial, for example, at the Capitol that day. You saw a confederate flag being carried through the rotunda.”
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that Americans will start seeing stimulus checks in their bank accounts as early as this weekend, per
@AlliemalCNN
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Doug Jones ran as a a pro-choice, pro-immigrant-rights Democrat who believes in climate change. And he won in deep red Alabama.
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"The FBI may arrest me ..lol," Fischer told the associate, according to court documents.
Fischer has been charged: obstruction of law enforcement, unlawful entry into a restricted building, obstructing Congress and violent conduct in the Capitol.
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CNN banner right now: "Insurrection in Washington following Trump encouragement"
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Senate Republicans harshly criticized Trump's defense team on the opening day of his second impeachment trial, arguing attorney Bruce Castor delivered a rambling and unfocused performance. Story w/
@mkraju
@tedbarrettcnn
@AnnieGrayerCNN
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Sen. Raphael Warnock, who helped Dems win control of the Senate, says: “there is no question that the people of Georgia deserve a great deal of credit for what happened here today. We simply would not be here had they not stood up in such a profound way in this historic election"
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"A humiliating loss for a man that rarely loses," one Trump adviser said. "I miss winning." Read the behind the scenes shutdown story from
@Kevinliptakcnn
,
@DanaBashCNN
and
@Acosta
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In a historic vote, the Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Zahid Quraishi to be a US District Judge for the District of New Jersey, making him the first Muslim American federal judge in US history. The vote was 81-16.
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This is the first time the US Capitol has been breached since the British attacked and burned the building in August of 1814, during the war of 1812, according to Samuel Holliday, director of scholarship and operations with the US Capitol Historical Society
@PeterNickeas
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"Today, I have to say, that I fear for the future," Kavanaugh says in his opening statement
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"They called us traitors. They beat us. They dragged us," Gonell told CNN in his first interview about the violence on Jan 6. "I could hear them, 'We're going to shoot you. We're going to kill you."
important story from
@WhitneyWReports
@jeremyherb
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I spoke with co-sponsors of the Yemen War Powers resolution about Biden's announcement the US will end support for offensive operations in Yemen.
@RepRoKhanna
called it "a profound and historic shift" that marks a new chapter in the US-Saudi relationship
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This is just an absolutely wild, must-read story: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned.
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"We cannot simply move on," from the events of January 6, Schumer says on the Senate floor. "There cannot be any healing without truth, without accountability."
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as of this morning, Democrats have raised ~1.2M to fund challengers to Republicans who voted for Obamacare repeal.
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NEW: An anti-Trump conservative group has launched an effort to grade whether Republicans in Congress are undermining or upholding democracy. Only 14 GOP lawmakers received an "A," the highest possible grade. More than 100 received an "F."
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Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu and Kathleen Rice announced today they sent a criminal referral to the FBI over President Trump's phone call with Georgia's secretary of state.
"We ask you to open an immediate criminal investigation into the President," they write.
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@Sen_JoeManchin
tells town hall crowd "that's not going to happen" re speculation that he might join Trump's cabinet as Energy Secretary.
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Joint statement from Schumer and Gillibrand: "Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York. Governor Cuomo should resign.”
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some personal news! I'm very excited to join the team at
@CNNPolitics
as a breaking news writer.
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.
@keithellison
on the Supreme Court upholding Trump's travel ban: "It just proves one thing, that if you steal and rip off a Supreme Court justice, then you can try to jam any kind of nasty, racist, ugly policy down the throat's of the American people."
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"Hillary for prison. She deserves to be in stripes," says Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was killed in the Benghazi attacks.
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Scenes from the Senate floor:
There are a number of empty seats. Some members seem to have momentarily left the room, while others are standing at the back of the room in an effort to stretch their legs after many hours of sitting. There are also quite a few yawns.
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The House just approved a budget framework that will pave the way for Democrats to spend up to $3.5 trillion on a sweeping economic package to expand the social safety net that President Biden has made a signature agenda item. It passed on a party line vote of 220 to 212.
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The siege of the Capitol “was even worse than we knew ... only later did it become clear that lawmakers feared for their lives; that some of the attackers were hunting for congressional leaders; that there could have been a massacre,”
@brianstelter
writes
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Doug Jones will hold the Alabama Senate seat until 2020, potentially making it easier for Democrats to win back the Senate next year.
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Lindsey Graham: "When one political party is compromised, all of us are compromised."
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The new round of stimulus payments included in the $900 billion Covid relief package are expected to start going out this week, an administration official told CNN, while acknowledging that the timing could slide.
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GOP Sen. Josh Hawley on the Senate floor says, "If the Senate of the United States can find hundreds of billions of dollars to give to big government and big business, surely it can find some relief for working families and working individuals."
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Michael Gerhardt of UNC Law: "The record ... shows the President has committed several impeachable offenses, including bribery, abuse of power and soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader to benefit himself personally, obstructing justice and obstructing congress."
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"if they were willing to investigate Senator Franken, I think it’s only fair that they do the same for Trump," Trump accuser Rachel Crooks says in press conference calling for a congressional investigation into allegations Trump faces.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin tells the officers who were on the front lines of the insurrection they will be forever "remembered as heroes" and says, "those who attacked you, those who beat you are fascist traitors to our country and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors."
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Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez says he will introduce a resolution to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene after KFILE's reporting that she indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress
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Progressive group WeWillReplaceYou calls for Schumer to remove Manchin from Democratic leadership over report he met with Breitbart staff
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Boston's mayor said that today the city "stood for peace and love, not bigotry and hate."
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There were marches and rallies today across the U.S. and Europe as well as in Australia, Kenya, Argentina, and Ghana
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Pelosi says she wants to call her grandchildren up "to be here when I take the oath" and says "any other children who want to join them" should come up too
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inbox: Bernie Sanders to announce Medicare for All bill on Wednesday
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