Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
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Producer & Off-Air Reporter covering Congress at @NBCNews. Instagram: (frankthorpv) Also served as Chairman of the RTCA Exec. Committee.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2008
ROMNEY on GOP Reps threatening to protest electoral college vote: “This is madness. We have a process, recounts are appropriate, going to the court is approp & pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate, but trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness”.
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. @VP Harris crosses through the Capitol rotunda on her way to Pres Biden’s joint address:
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Awesome moment: Jon Stewart embraces a crying John Feal, the 9/11 first responder who led the organization pushing for the full extension of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, just after the bill passed in the Senate 97-2:
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SCHUMER on invoking the 25th amendment: "Speaker Pelosi & I tried to call the VP this morning to tell him to do this, they kept us on hold for 25 mins and then said the VP wouldn't come on the phone. So we are making this call public because he should do it and do it right away.".
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MURKOWKSI on if she felt that SCOTUS nominees misled her during the confirmation process: "My confidence in the court has been rocked. ".
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TRUMP on Oct 3rd: "I spoke to (McConnell). he said, 'That was the most innocent phone call that I've read.'". MCCONNELL today: "I don't recall any conversations with the President about that phone call.".
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ROMNEY on Pres Trump's tweet this morning: "I saw the tweet, it was a shocking thing to say, and I won’t dignify it with any further comment.".
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GOP @SenJohnKennedy:. Q: Do you think a military parade is a good idea?.KENNEDY: “No.”. Q: Why not?.KENNEDY: "I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud.”
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Q: Why did you tear up the speech?. PELOSI: “Because it was the courteous thing to do.”. PELOSI: “It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.”.
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NEW: McConnell, in a speech on the floor, says he "cannot and will not support Judge Jackson" for the Supreme Court.
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McCain leaving the Capitol asked why he voted NO: "I thought it was the right thing to do.".
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House Democratic women dressed in white for the #SOTU walk up the spiral staircase in the HVC —>
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LISTEN: As Pres Trump’s entourage entered Speaker Ryan’s office in the Capitol, someone on the other side of the Capitol rotunda yelled: “Mr. President, F—k you!!” (He entered about 15 seconds later):
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Leaving the hearing room after questioning AG William Barr:. Q: Should he resign?. @SenKamalaHarris : “Yes.”. *walks away*.
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FAUCI to Rand Paul: "Senator Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you're talking about.".
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Freshmen Reps picked their offices today after the office lottery, and guess who @Ocasio2018 just realized is now two doors down from her: @NancyPelosi
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With newborn daughter Maile Pearl in tow, @SenDuckworth arrives at the US Capitol for her first vote since giving birth (and her first vote since the Senate rules were changed to allow her to bring her baby on to the floor during votes):
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Flag: McConnell just stopped abruptly during his opening statement during the gop leadership presser and appeared to be unable to restart talking. He then stepped away and walked away with Barrasso:
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Three hours to go until Pres Trump’s rally in Bozeman, MT, and there’s a super long line:
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Sen @BenSasse on Trump’s comments RE: terminating the Constitution: “Well, obviously nobody's terminating the Constitution. What's going on here is a clown is trying to sell tickets to his circus.”.
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Outside Sen Brown’s office this morning, his GOP opponent, Bernie Moreno, gaggles with reporters, saying, “I can tell you this, if I'm here, I will talk to you at any point in time, even take tough questions. Sherrod Brown won't do that.”. He then immediately got a Q from
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MCCONNELL: “This is so important, the most important thing going on in the world is to beat the Russians in Ukraine. Fortunately they have a leader that everyone can look up to & admire & also it's nice to have something here at the end of the year that we all actually agree on.”.
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Also arrested at this climate change protest blocking the road outside the Capitol: Law & Order actor Sam Waterston, who says this is his first time being arrested:
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MANCHIN asked by @AriNatter whether an energy company he founded is a conflict of interest as he negotiates reconciliation: . MANCHIN: "I've been in a blind trust for 20 years, I have no idea what they're doing. Ari: You're still getting dividends. MANCHIN: "You got a problem?".
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AWESOME: Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner, injured in the baseball practice shooting, throws 1st pitch at the @CWSoftballGame:
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Here's a vine of @berniesanders running to the side of the man who fainted at his presser:
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Sen FETTERMAN says “hell yea!” when asked if he’d support a primary challenge of Sen Menendez. “The last time there was a guy in New Jersey with this much cash in his house was Tony Soprano,” he said.
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Sen @timkaine just tried to pass a bill to re-open the government by unanimous consent on the Senate floor. As expected, @senatemajldr McConnell objected.
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MCCONNELL on the rioters who invaded the Capitol on Jan 6: "The mob was fed lies. they were provoked by the President and other powerful people".
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Just absolutely gut wrenching to see Officer Billy Evans' children standing at the top of the steps of the East front of the Capitol holding teddy bears as they watch their father's casket being carried to the rotunda so he can lay in honor:
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Huddled on the Senate floor: Manchin, Sinema, Thune and McConnell:
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PELOSI on the backlash to mask mandates: "That's the purview of the Capitol physician. nothing to say except we honor it.". Q: @GOPLeader McCarthy says it's against the science. PELOSI: "He's such a moron.".
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MCCONNELL: "Here's the political reality: if you think the fall of Afghanistan was bad, the fall of a European capital like Kyiv to Russian troops will be unimaginably worse, and if stalled American assistance makes that outcome possible, there's no question. where the blame.
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Sen FETTERMAN calls on the Senate to vote to expel Sen Menendez following new charges. Fetterman: “We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate. “This is not a close call.”. Expulsion required 2/3rds majority.
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A couple hundred protesters have lined the hallway outside @SenJohnThune’s office where Judge Kavanaugh is expected to arrive for a meeting with the Senator. They’re being silent and many are holding up a fist—>
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INBOX: Schumer Statement Calling for the President to Be Immediately Removed from Office.
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The picture Pres Trump tweeted from today’s meeting at the WH that he captioned “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!” is now Pelosi’s cover photo:
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McCain on Vietnam: “We drafted the lowest income level of America, and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. ”
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Remember that lectern seen being carried around the Capitol by a rioter (who was later arrested)? Well it’s back and it’s gonna be used for a press event for Pelosi to speak after the House votes to impeach the President a second time:
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NEW: @JeffFlake says he will not vote to advance any of of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the judicial committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting confirmation on the Senate floor until the Mueller protection bill is brought up for a full vote on the Senate floor.
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Sen @JeffFlake says he won’t be supporting or endorsing Roy Moore: “A guy who says that a Muslim member of Congress shouldn’t be able to serve, that’s not right.” #ALSen.
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BREAKING: A spokeswoman for Capitol Police says Capitol Police Chief Sund is resigning effective January 16, 2021. Resignation comes after yesterday’s botched response to the riot in the Capitol, and a call from @SpeakerPelosi for him to resign.
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ROMNEY: "It would be saying, 'Look, let's not follow the vote of the people, let's instead do it what we want, that would not be the way a democratic republic ought to work.". Q: Are you very confident that anything like that would be rejected here. ROMNEY: "Yes.".
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Sen Graham walking out of the Capitol encounters Schiff, shakes his hand and says, “Good job, you’re very well spoken.”
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Per our intern, who was standing there, the woman who yelled "Mr. President, F--k you!!" was a congressional intern.
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@AriNatter More from @AriNatter RE: the energy company Manchin founded: Your son still owns it, doesn't he?. MANCHIN: "You'd do best to change the subject.".
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Capital Gazette staff writer on CNN just now; “Thanks for your prayers, but I couldn’t give a f—k about them if there’s nothing else.” (The ‘—‘ was not censored when on television).
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Sen @MittRomney on the doctor who has made anti-vaccine comments in the past testifying before Senate Homeland Security Cmte as a GOP witness: “I think it's nuts to bring that into the Senate.”.
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Personal note: I cannot express how proud I am of the amazing job @HallieJackson did moderating the #DemDebate while 8.5 months pregnant and battling a nasty case of laryngitis. She’s an amazing woman, and the best partner. She and the entire team did such a great job.
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Trump supporter swings by the press pen in Kissimmee, FL to let us know we're number one!!
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A spox for Sen BOOKER says that when VP Harris came to preside over the confirmation vote for Judge Jackson, she gave Booker a blank sheet of Vice Presidential letterhead, and the VP encouraged Sen. Booker to write a letter to a Black girl reflecting on this historic day.
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Q: What do you say to progressives who are frustrated they don’t know where you are?. SINEMA: “I’m in the Senate.”. Q: There are progressives in the Senate that are also frustrated they don’t know where your are either. SINEMA: “I’m clearly right in front of the elevator.”.
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Q: Is it appropriate to hold the G7 at his Doral golf club?. MURKOWSKI: No.
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BREAKING - PENCE DECLARES: “The whole number of electors appointed to vote for President of the US is 538, of which a majority is 270. Joseph R Biden, of the state of Delaware received for President of the US, 306 votes. Donald J Trump of the state of Florida has received 232.”.
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MURKOWSKI on protesters: "I don’t know what you were doing when those voices were shouting and the screams--and I’m sure tears--but I was closing my eyes and praying, praying for them, and praying for us, and praying for the country. We need prayers, we need healing, we just do.”.
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SCHUMER after reading the whistleblower complaint: “Having read the documents in there I’m even more worried about what happened than I was when I read the memorandum of the conversation. There are so many facts have to be examined.”.
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The Senate just PASSED by unanimous consent a bill to extend protections from the Supreme Court Police to the immediate family members of Supreme Court Justices.
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Per historian's office, prior to Scott Garret's failed nomination vote in the Sen Banking Cmte today, the last time a nom was voted down by a cmte where the majority was the same party as the President was June, 5 1986. Q: That nom? . A: Jeff Sessions to be a US District Judge.
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There it is: McConnell can’t move forward on the floor if Flake and Murkowski are together on this —>.
NEWS: Murkowski, entering the Capitol “on the way to talk to her colleagues,” said she supports @JeffFlake proposal for a one week delay and an investigation.
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CORKER calls Trump’s South Africa tweet “a base stimulator”. Q: What do you mean? What is his base that would be stimulated?. CORKER:“Well, there are portions of those who support the president that are—I’m sure that generates excitement. I mean, it’s—you know what I’m saying. ”.
I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews.
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This is wild: Hundreds of people are in line for the Graham-Cassidy Hearing at 2pm. It snakes from Dirksen Senate Office Building into Hart:
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There are only two cars still parked outside the Capitol after (we believe) all senators have left for the night. Their license plates:.Maine.Alaska.
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PELOSI says she has yet to hear from the Chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, since yesterday's events in the Capitol. She says she is calling for his resignation.
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MCCONNELL in KY asked for his midterm projections: "I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different, they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.".
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Turns out the McCain family did thank President Trump -->.
.@SenJohnMcCain friend Rick Davis offered thanks on behalf of the McCAIN family in August. “The combined efforts of the Trump administration, the White House, Sec. Mattis and the Department of Defense, especially and the Military District of Washington. ” (1/2)
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Schumer is calling on TSA to put anyone who was inside the Capitol during the attack on Jan 6th to be put on the no-fly list.
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ROMNEY on the Senate floor: "What we have done to the Kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of American history.".
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Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale is testifying before Senate Foreign Relations:. Q: Was the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 election a hoax?.HALE: "No.".Q: Are you aware of any evidence that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election? .HALE: "I am not.".
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BREAKING: A Capitol Police Officer has died after being injured by a protester in the Capitol on Jan 6. Per spox: Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters.
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BREAKING: McConnell says that after the electoral college voted yesterday: "Our country has officially a president-elect and a vice-president elect.". "I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden," McConnell says.
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Every day is an adventure with @HallieJackson by my side, can’t wait to show this little person the world as a family!!
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You know that ltr McConnell sent Reid in '09 asking for more info before Obama noms were considered? Schumer just sent SAME exact ltr back->
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Sen @BernieSanders greeted by @CoriBush & @AOC at their demonstration outside the Capitol advocating for an extension of the eviction moratorium:
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You know Russian Amb Kislyak who Jeff Sessions met w/ last year? He was on the House flr on Tues ahead of Trump's #JointAddress (Via Getty):
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The line at this Houston polling place for day 2 of early voting is pretty wild, & it’s been like this most of the day (& this is outside the 100 feet where we’re not allowed to shoot). Harris county saw 126k early voters for their 1st day of early voting. In 2016 that # was 67k
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JUST IN: PELOSI -- Calls on Attorney General Sessions to Resign
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House PASSES bill to increase COVID relief checks to $2000, 275-134, needing 2/3rds majority to pass. Now goes to the Senate.
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WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to reporters on Capitol Hill: “You guys with all your masks you look different than you used to.”. @JakeSherman: “We’re trying not to die.”.
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Just asked @BenSasse how he squares his previous (intense) criticisms about Pres Trump in 2016 with accepting his endorsement for reelection, and he said, “I don’t have anything for you right now.”.
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And the word “Separation” is misspelled in the title of the executive order, because, of course it is:
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Sen Fetterman puts out a Stmt: “If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.”.
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More MURKOWSKI: “If the decision is going the way that the draft that has been revealed is actually the case, it was not—it was not the direction that I believed that the court would take based on statements that have been made about Roe being settled and being precedent.”.
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Reminder: Fired FBI Director Comey was scheduled to testify before Senate Intel on Thursday (h/t @MariannaNBCNews):
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With votes on infrastructure deals in flux in the House, @RepJayapal speaks to reporters on the House steps as the sun sets:
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No joke: @SenatorRomney just walked up to @kyrstensinema and was overheard on the floor mics saying: "You're breaking the internet.".
Kyrsten Sinema is presiding over the Senate wearing a shirt that reads "DANGEROUS CREATURE."
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Asked about Trump’s tweet RE: Gillibrand, @BobCorker says he hasn’t seen it. *Reporter offers to show him.*. Corker: “I don’t know that I want you to show it to me, I can’t respond if I don’t know anything about it.”.
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Everyone told me meeting your child for the first time was going to be an amazing experience, but watching @HallieJackson bring our daughter into the world with just an insane amount of strength and confidence was indescribably awesome. We’re so so excited to show Ro the world!.
We have some happy news to share from two members of our @NBCNews family! @halliejackson and @frankthorp have welcomed a baby girl to their family!
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NEW: @SenatorDurbin, the number 2 Senate dem, says he now supports an impeachment inquiry in the House, says, “I think now we need to move forward.”.
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SCHUMER responds: "I heard the Republican leader come forward and decry any attempt to change the rules. He's not a good one to give advice. Leader McConnell has shown that he will change the rules when it suits his purposes and defend the rules when it suits his purposes.".
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CORKER: “Mitch is on the phone with Paul now, so. ” *corker starts laughing*. Q: Why are you laughing?. Corker: “Well, why not?”.///.Corker: “Ya’ll have fun! I may not see ya’ll again for a while. ”. Q: You’re not going to come back from TN for votes?. Corker: “I doubt it.”.
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