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I got my blue check mark while covering Hurricane Harvey on the ground, giving updates about where residents could find help, shelter, groceries, etc.
I’m not going to pay for it. The whole point was to know who to trust, not who can buy it. 🤷🏼♀️
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NEW: Sen. Jeff Merkley has formally requested FBI Director Wray open a perjury investigation into Sec. of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.
@SenJeffMerkley
says “new documents show Nielsen lied in sworn testimony to Congress about the administration’s family separation policy.”
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NEW: **43 new claims of sexual misconduct against Trump**
“When he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me."
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Watch
@NewsHour
's coverage of Donald Trump's
#Inauguration
live on
@Twitter
. Join us Friday at 11 a.m. ET
#DayOne
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NEW: Acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolf: "..at the recommendation of Secret Service Director James Murray, I have instructed the U.S. Secret Service to begin the National Special Security Event operations for the 2021 Inauguration effective Wednesday, January 13th instead of January 19th"
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Denmark is spending 11 million kroner ($1.6 million) to buy the country’s last four circus elephants to give them a proper retirement as the government moves to ban wild animals in circuses.
*Cc:
@yashar
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It remains undetermined if Trump will unblock users he has blocked — but judge has now ruled it in violation of the First Amendment
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Trump said, “I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done.”
...But Emily Murphy said in her letter to Biden she came to the decision independently.
(So which is it?)
...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
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Bernie Sanders asks Nikki Haley to respond to 30M lacking health insurance, 1/2 of older workers having no retirement, 140M who can't meet basic living expenses. Her response?
“It's patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America”
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“Ron Reagan, life-long atheist, not afraid of burning in hell”
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Fact check: An "anonymous source" led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
When you see “anonymous source,” stop reading the story, it is fiction!
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NEWS: A group of Georgia voters filed a federal lawsuit at 5 pm today asking U.S. District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Sec. of State Brian Kemp from exercising any further powers re counting votes and in presiding over the 2018 general election, in which he himself is a candidate.
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Trump on AF1 today: “...They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. they’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”
Pompeo claims President Trump didn’t say he would target cultural sites
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Sec. Nielsen on Dec. 20, 2018 before House Judiciary: “We've never had a policy for family separation”
Merkley said "new evidence has emerged" revealing high-level DHS officials were actively developing a policy & legal framework for separating families as far back as Dec. 2017.
NEW: Sen. Jeff Merkley has formally requested FBI Director Wray open a perjury investigation into Sec. of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.
@SenJeffMerkley
says “new documents show Nielsen lied in sworn testimony to Congress about the administration’s family separation policy.”
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NEW: Lankford says Biden should get access to Presidential daily brief.
“If that’s not occurring by Friday, I will step in.. and say, ‘This needs to occur so that regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for that actual task.’”
Oklahoma's
@SenatorLankford
tells me if
@JoeBiden
doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday, he will get involved.
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NEW: Jay Sekulow identified in letter page as a “Counsel for Sean Hannity.”
Sekulow is now the only known personal attorney for President Trump working full-time on the response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry.
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In 2013, Foxconn said it'd invest $30 million & hire 500 workers for new factory in Pennsylvania. It was never built
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POOL REPORT: "students invited Ivanka Trump to help take a sample of vape juice used in e-cigarettes to test the nicotine content.
Trump put on a white lab coat, latex gloves and safety goggles before extracting vape juice with a pipette and then placing it in a glass beaker"
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1:11 PM ET: Trump’s speech to supporters — where he promoted election conspiracy theories — ended. In that speech, Trump urged people to march to the Capitol. “You will never take back our country with weakness.”
2:07 PM ET: Mob storms the Capitol.
That’s it, that’s the tweet.
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On
@NewsHour
: “We want the unredacted Mueller report...” & want to know why Barr sat on Mueller’s letter so long.
@RepTedLieu
tells
@JudyWoodruff
that the “Attorney General goes on to lie to Congress..” and that he’s “misled the American people.”
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham issue new statement in support of Attorney General Bill Barr: "...efforts to intimidate the Attorney General will fall woefully short.”
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BREAKING: Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden’s son
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Tonight’s
@NewsHour
:
@shannonrwatts
, Moms Demand Action founder, tells
@IAmAmnaNawaz
, “We are larger than the NRA, we outspent them in the midterm elections and we outmaneuvered them. We won in the midterm elections and we’re going to beat them in 2020”
#ElPaso
#Dayton
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NEW: Rep.
@JoaquinCastrotx
tells
@NewsHour
: "We strongly disagree with giving Rush Limbaugh a Presidential Medal of Freedom when he's somebody who has been a hatemonger in our country"
#SOTU
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"Our gun laws will change." - Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern
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Some personal news💍🎉
Today is one of the most consequential primary days of the year, with nominating contests in five states that will tell us a great deal about the direction of the two parties.
The latest in Playbook:
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NEW:
@SenJeffMerkley
enters with
#SOTU
guests Albertina Contreras Teletor and Yakelin Garcia Contreras, a mother and daughter who were separated at the southern border
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NEW: Pelosi spox on Trump tax returns(!)
"Everyday the American people & Congress learn more about President Trump’s improprieties,from conflicts of interest to influence peddling,potential tax evasion..all roads leading back to President Trump’s finances"
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Not so fan fact: My parents are literally Alex Jones’ neighbors. I’m reaching out for comment...
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NEWS:
@Reuters
is reporting that President-elect Joe Biden will name Pete Buttigieg as U.S. Transportation Secretary.
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NEWS: Back from the border,
@SenJeffMerkley
+ Rep. Judy Chu introduce Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act "to shut down the (Tornillo) facility and another similar temporary shelter in Florida immediately."
"Taxpayer dollars are being used to traumatize children," Merkley adds.
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Tracey is a stock photo model. Type in "summer beach beauty walking" for purchase on istockphoto.
Wow. Hat tip to
@JuddLegum
for noticing that Trump campaign ads are labeling random people in istock photos as Trump supporters from key demographics.
2. One of the demographics that Trump struggles with the most is young women.
An online ad being run on Facebook and Google features a young blonde woman named Tracey who is a HUGE Trump fan, apparently
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"Yamiche Alcindor is serious, incisive and—though she has a quiet demeanor—tough as nails..She has interesting new takes on national stories. Her work on immigration and race are sensitively handled."
Go
@Yamiche
!! Proud to call you a colleague & friend.
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NEW: Mick Mulvaney (
@CFPBDirector
) - in opening testimony to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - says, "while I have to be here by statute I don't think I have to answer your questions if you take a look at actual statute that requires me to be here"
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NEW: Federal prosecutors are reviewing the National Enquirer’s handling of its story about Jeff Bezos’ extramarital affair to determine if the company violated an earlier cooperation deal with prosecutors, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A company run by former officials at the scandal-scarred consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is working for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election effort.
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DNC was not a party to the suit Trump is mentioning. There's a SEPARATE lawsuit in fed court in Manhattan filed by the DNC accusing Russian gov't, Trump campaign, Trump's son Don Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner of roles in events related to the hacking. That case continues. 2/2
Just won lawsuit filed by the DNC and a bunch of Democrat crazies trying to claim the Trump Campaign (and others), colluded with Russia. They haven’t figured out that this was an excuse for them losing the election!
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TEXAS FIGHT! Love to see a Longhorn take home the big prize! Way to go Jaskaran Singh! 🤘
#JeopardyCollegeChampionship
@UTAustin
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Sen. Warren: “We can put 800 billion dollars into our public schools..we can put 50 billion dollars into our historically black colleges..it is a question of values do we want to invest in Mr. Bloomberg or do we want to invest in an entire generation of young people?”
#DemDebate
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NEWS: Moments ago, Brian Kemp resigned his office as Secretary of State in response to this lawsuit brought by Georgia voters (Move came after a hearing was about to commence in Federal Court in Atlanta to force Kemp’s removal from any role in overseeing vote counting)
NEWS: A group of Georgia voters filed a federal lawsuit at 5 pm today asking U.S. District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Sec. of State Brian Kemp from exercising any further powers re counting votes and in presiding over the 2018 general election, in which he himself is a candidate.
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The Trump's are blocking members of Congress on Twitter.
.
@IvankaTrump
, a senior White House adviser, has blocked me on Twitter. Can you help forward our letter to her? Thank you.
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JUST NOW: Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., asks
@SallyQYates
if she likes President Trump.
" I don't respect the manner in which he's carried out the presidency," she responds.
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So
@yashar
started a GoFundMe for
#WaffleHouseHero
James Shaw, Jr. and it's raised over $53k in 12 hours:
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“One good thing about surrounding yourself with tawdry gangsters and grifters is that if they flip on you, you can claim they have no credibility because they’re criminals.”
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NEW: "The Diocese of Erie intentionally waited out the statute of limitations and curved their own investigation to avoid finding additional victims" -
@PAAttorneyGen
says. revealing extensive grand jury report into Catholic Church's cover-up of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania
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Breaking news: Tonight’s
@NewsHour
features highly exclusive images of the most adorable pandemic pups!
...We have officially let the dogs out.
Cc:
@JudyWoodruff
@sarajust
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NEW: Rep. Judy Chu: “It is time for Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The proceedings must be deliberate...We have a sacred duty as members of Congress to ensure that nobody is above the law. To do nothing given what we know is unacceptable.”
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White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki says President Biden "put an end to the Muslim ban" and has halted money being used for border wall construction
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Oof.
@SenJeffMerkley
statement on Trump's
#InfrastructurePlan
... "This proposal is the legislative equivalent of Trump University or Trump Taj Mahal – an absolute scam designed to make Donald Trump look better while forcing others to pay.”
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Sen.
@ChrisMurphyCT
released the following statement in response to President Trump’s accusation that Murphy threatened the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
He notes his meeting three weeks ago with the President of Ukraine was attended by *Republican* Sen. Ron Johnson.
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INBOX: North Carolina voters who vote by mail can now track the status of their absentee ballot with a new online service, BallotTrax. It’s one of three ways voters who cast their ballot by mail in the state can ensure their ballot has been received without leaving their homes.
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NEW: In media briefing,
@CDCgov
confirms 63 children have died of the flu this season. Pharmacies being asked to stock larger amounts of medication to address lack of antiviral drugs due to 48 states reporting high levels of influenza (Oregon and Hawaii reporting lowest numbers)
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Plaintiffs seek a temporary restraining order barring Sec. Kemp from being involved in counting of votes, certification of results, or any runoff or recount procedures that would normally be exercised by Secretary of State’s Office or the Board of Elections, on which he also sits
NEWS: A group of Georgia voters filed a federal lawsuit at 5 pm today asking U.S. District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Sec. of State Brian Kemp from exercising any further powers re counting votes and in presiding over the 2018 general election, in which he himself is a candidate.
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NEW: Papadopoulos, former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, says that Trump personally encouraged him to arrange meeting with Putin before the election & told Mueller’s investigators Trump found the idea “interesting"
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If I had to estimate, Unite the Right has about 20 people on site for the “white civil rights” rally thus far. The amount of counter-protestors are as far as my eye can see.
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"Elon (Musk) is part of the
#YangGang
!"
@AndrewYang
tells
@AC360
, and says their teams are putting their heads together ahead of 2020.
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Shaun White just *retook* the lead in the QUALIFYING round with a 98.5 in his second run - 1.5 more is perfection - we’re not even in the finals.
#Olympics
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NEW: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer call on Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify publicly in the House and Senate “as soon as possible.” They reference a “crisis of confidence in [AG Barr’s] independence...”
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NEW:
@SenJeffMerkley
's guests for
#StateOfTheUnion
to be Albertina Contreras Teletor and Yakelin Garcia Contreras, a mother and daughter separated at the southern border in spring of 2018. He's called on
@FBI
to investigate DHS
@SecNielsen
for perjury re family separation policy.
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Doug Jones: “To all of my future colleagues in Washington...in all seriousness there are important issues” notes *healthcare* first. “Find that CHIP program before I get up there”
#AlabamaSenateElection
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NEW: Brad Parscale, campaign manager of Trump's re-election campaign: "Bill Shine is an incredible professional & will bring insight & talent as we build a world-class campaign..(Shine) brings wealth of experience from cable news..President's re-election effort just got stronger"
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The House Oversight Committee investigation comes after
@IvankaTrump
dismissed any comparison to the use of private email by Hillary Clinton, which prompted an FBI investigation and inspired the “Lock Her Up” chant at Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign rallies.
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Find someone who looks at you the way my PBS
@NewsHour
colleagues look at books.
Sadly, Peggy is retiring after 40 years with our program. She just opened her office up for a first come first serve book giveaway! We'll miss her dearly!
#NewsHourNerds
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Trump talking now at White House: "A strong economy is vital to maintaining a healthy environment..previous administration waged a relentless war on American energy..they sought to punish our workers..punishing Americans is never the right way to produce a better environment.."
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NEW: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley today called for the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to investigate whether DHS officials or staff broke the law in mistreatment and neglect of children who have been held in "squalid and dangerous conditions" at the southern border
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"If Mueller concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump obstructed justice...one issue that is rarely discussed is how Mueller would make such a report to Congress, because he has no direct authority to do so." -
@renato_mariotti
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"The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s as if Boston and Pittsburgh were wiped out."
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“Keith [Schiller] drove around to the back” ex-playmate Karen McDougal says to
@AC360
describing her first date with Donald Trump, then a new father to son Barron
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Billboards have started popping up around Lexington, Kentucky calling for Mitch McConnell to end the government shutdown.
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ICYMI: The Navajo Nation has hit the federal government and the city of Winslow, Arizona, with a suit in federal court over the alleged wrongful death of a tribal member shot multiple times by a city police officer (Navajo Nation v. Jefferson Sessions)
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NEWS: Court rules that President Trump can't block people from his Twitter account because he doesn't like their viewpoint. Here is my reporting for
@NewsHour
when
@realdonaldtrump
began to unblock critics-a result of litigation brought by
@knightcolumbia
:
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Christian Bale thanks Satan for giving him inspiration to play the role of former Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice. He suggests a Mitch McConnell film next.
#GoldenGIobes
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BREAKING: West Virginia lawmakers reach a deal to end 9-day teacher strike (longest ever in state history) Gov. Justice says all state employees will receive 5% raise in a victory win for public school employees (bus drivers too!)
#WVteachers
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A moment: Joe Biden choking up mentioning Beau's service in Iraq, and then saying, "America will not turn a blind eye to Russian bounties on the heads of American soldiers. Nor will I put up with foreign interference in our most sacred democratic exercise -- voting.”
#DNC2020
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UPDATE: This conservative Texas millennial, who was still undecided *this morning*, just voted for Biden.
A few texts tonight from a very conservative — yet undecided(!!) — millennial Texas voter.
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Inspectors noted during a May 7 tour of a border station in the El Paso sector that only *4 showers were available to 756 immigrants*, more than half were being held outside & immigrants inside were being kept in cells maxed out at 5x their capacity
BREAKING: Office of the Inspector General releases new pictures of overcrowding at Border Patrol Facilities in TX. One senior manager calling this a “ticking time bomb.”
#Immigration
#ICE
@NBCNews
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NEW: TSA experienced a national rate of 10% of unscheduled absences compared to 3.1% one year ago on the same day.
"Many employees are reporting that they are not able to report to work due to financial limitations..some airports experienced longer than usual wait times" -
@TSA
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NEW:
@NewsHour
can confirm that episodes from the **original** nine-season run of "Roseanne" will be pulled from Viacom’s cable networks Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT tomorrow, per several Viacom sources.
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NOW: Sen. Jeff Flake: "I do not know how I will assess the credibility of these witnesses...I'll have to listen to the testimony before I make up my mind...I don't believe Dr. Ford is part of some vast conspiracy...as alleged by some on the right"
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Moms Demand Action going state by state to fortify laws keeping guns away from domestic abusers (via
@shannonrwatts
)
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Tonight's
@NewsHour
: The US has now reported more than one million Covid deaths. This comes as cases climbed 60% in 2 weeks w/ hospitalizations up 24%
Dr.
@EricTopol
+
@WmBrangham
talk variants, repeat infections & power of vaccines to continue protecting against severe disease
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Former President Obama on protests against police killings: "There is a change in mindset that's taking place, a greater recognition that we can do better"
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My mom sent me these while grocery shopping today in Austin, Texas. Unreal.
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NEW: Statement of Former Sec. of Defense Jim Mattis.
“Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump...”
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On
@NewsHour
:
@RepJayapal
on her Medicare-for-All bill w/
@IAmAmnaNawaz
“our plan has cost containment built into it..brings down price to 50% of what pharmaceutical drugs now cost..We’d be covering everybody..majority of doctors will get paid either the same or a little more..”
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INBOX: Congresswoman
@EleanorNorton
(D-DC) introduces "National Commission on the Insurrectionist Attack Upon the United States Capitol Act" to create a national commission that will produce a "complete accounting of the circumstances of the attack and the country’s preparedness"
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Maybe tell people the election wasn't rigged?
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!
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"We're not going get there by the president tweeting. We're not going to get there by him trying to blame Democrats. That's not going to work," Graham said. "The only pathway forward is a bipartisan deal."
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Former Denver Post Editor
@gregorymoore
tells
@JudyWoodruff
"Our collective sense of what's going on in our communities has really been disrupted..We've lost 1,800 newspapers in probably the last 10 years..those newspapers had 150 years of credibility being replaced by upstarts"
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Where we are: Four of President Trump's tweets about the election in the past 10 hours have been flagged by Twitter as disputed or misleading.
#Election2020
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Be still my heart
Every night the
@DSWT
orphans get a bottle of warm milk and then are tucked in by their keepers. But sometimes the babies have a hard time sleeping because they can't help but remember what happened to their moms. Sities had a hard time sleeping until her keeper tucked her in.
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“While other news organizations wave their banners in neon-illuminated big city towers, PBS NewsHour sends its program to 300 PBS stations a day—covering 98% of the country—from an unassuming, 1960s brick building”
.
@sarajust
gets it done 💪
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FWIW peaceful protests (NFL kneeling, Women’s March etc) have long been criticized by this administration.
Peaceful protest & freedom of assembly are beautiful American traditions that should always be protected.
If you choose to exercise your 1st Amendment rights, please practice social distancing & wear a face covering.
We can protect our rights & our health at the same time. 🇺🇸
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Tonight's
@NewsHour
: There's a second whistleblower, this one is an IRS official. It involves tax returns for both Trump and Pence.
@WmBrangham
+
@JStein_WaPo
, who spoke to the whistleblower, discuss the complaint into potential political interference of the IRS audit process.
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INBOX: "Democratic Presidential candidate
@AndrewYang
has met the individual donor requirements to qualify for the 3rd and 4th Democratic primary debates."
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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas): Was it a single attempt by the Russians to get involved in our election or will they do this again?
Mueller: "They're doing it as we sit here"
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3.5 million people in the U.S. have been tested for
#Covid_19
but there are roughly 328 million people living in the country. That means 1.1% of the population has been tested.
Honest question: how do you reopen safely without knowing how widespread the disease is?
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