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#AmanpourPBS examines global and domestic news with @amanpour and contributors. Weeknights on @PBS -check local listings. 212-560-2888. programming @thirteen .org

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The idea that Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago “is an absolute myth,” says The Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr. “We have to acknowledge: Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.” @carolecadwalla @hari
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TV host and comedian Ahmed Albasheer explains why he switched from a career in journalism to comedy. @ahmedalbasheer1 @hari @Albasheershow
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“I'm yelling and screaming about the fact that we are on the cusp of a hot war.” Watch Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman’s passionate plea for the U.S. to take more action in Ukraine. @MichelMcQMartin @AVindman
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Renowned GOP lawyer Ted Olson explains why he would vote to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. @WalterIsaacson
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“The algorithms built into Facebook are designed so that if you click extremist misinformation, it's going to send more of that your way,” says Ronan Farrow of the social media platform’s role in the Capitol insurrection. @RonanFarrow @MichelMcQMartin @newyorker
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Bill Browder, known as “Russia’s most wanted man,” weighs in on why Vladimir Putin chose to invade Ukraine more than 20 years into his leadership. @WalterIsaacson @Billbrowder
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The Republican Party “has become America's first autocratic party,” says Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt. @MichelMcQMartin @SteveSchmidtSES @ProjectLincoln
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The Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt speaks out on the collective GOP pushback on COVID-19 mandates and the contentious state of U.S. politics. @MichelMcQMartin @SteveSchmidtSES @ProjectLincoln
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Oscar-nominated director of "The Edge of Democracy" Petra Costa explains how fake news affected the 2018 Brazilian general election. @petracostal
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Japanese Breakfast frontwoman and "Crying in H Mart" author Michelle Zauner reflects on grief and the loss of her mother to cancer in 2014. @biannagolodryga @Jbrekkie
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Alexander Vindman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and other key Trump allies. He explains why he felt compelled to take legal action. @AVindman @MichelMcQMartin
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One of India’s leading journalists, Rana Ayyub, continues to speak out against the Indian government despite consistently coming under fire for her reporting. Why does she want the world to stop calling her “brave”? @hari @RanaAyyub
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Trump is currently facing 91 felony counts. Conservative lawyer George Conway tells Michel Martin one of those cases is a “slam dunk” against Trump. @gtconway3d @TheAtlantic @MichelMcQMartin
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“[Trump] is either going to become president, or he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison,” says George Conway, contributing writer at The Atlantic. He explains to Michel Martin. @gtconway3d @TheAtlantic @MichelMcQMartin
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Happy birthday, Christiane! @amanpour
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Does India, the world’s largest democracy, have free press? “Only on paper,” says Indian journalist Rana Ayyub. @hari @RanaAyyub
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“The only way to honor people we've lost...is to not lose many more people,” says Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to President Biden’s COVID response team. @hari @ASlavitt
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“The fastest way to end this war, frankly, is to give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to win this war,” says @PuckNews @juliaioffe . “Sometimes you just have to go all in faster.” @WalterIsaacson
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“It's an affront to me as an Indian, and as a daughter who's grieved, that a government or a government's supporters care more about how the New York Times or the Post or CNN or PBS is talking about them than about saving the lives of the people on the streets.” @BDUTT @Hari
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“We are literally a country in which our children, our elderly, our churchgoers are gunned down, and our system says, This is the way, this is the price of freedom,” says @HC_Richardson . “We are in fact, experiencing a tyranny of the minority.” @MichelMcQMartin (1/2)
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. @anneapplebaum , staff writer at @TheAtlantic , tells @WalterIsaacson how U.S. aid to Ukraine will change the military and psychological dynamics of the war. “The Russians are… suddenly facing a much steeper uphill path,” she says.
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Alexander Vindman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and other key Trump allies. He describes what the past two years have been like for him and his family. @AVindman @MichelMcQMartin
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Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt: “The Democratic Party as a whole has done a horrendous job confronting the growing extremism in this country.” @MichelMcQMartin @SteveSchmidtSES @ProjectLincoln
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Is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political strategy working? The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson says, “It turns out the Republican base wants the crazy stuff.” @MichelMcQMartin @TheRickWilson @ProjectLincoln
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There will be no off-ramp in the Ukraine crisis, says Julia Ioffe of Puck News . “There might be a way to stop [Putin], but I don’t know that the West is willing to do this.” @juliaioffe @WalterIsaacson
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Tom Nichols, staff writer for The Atlantic, tells Michel Martin why he believes Trump has crossed the line into fascism. @RadioFreeTom @TheAtlantic @MichelMcQMartin
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#AdriftBook author @profgalloway argues that America has entered into a “rejectionist, exclusionary...culture.” “That's not America,” he says. “We need to fall back in love with the unremarkables.” @hari @profgalloway
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“I’m set for generations…This was a chance to have an impact.” Mark Cuban explains why he’s pouring his money and energy into a new company that aims to slash drug prices. @costplusdrugs @hari @mcuban
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Four to five weeks of sacrifice could bring the COVID-19 crisis under control in the U.S., according to former Obama Administration health official Andy Slavitt. @hari @ASlavitt
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“It’s a typical authoritarian strategy,” says Yale professor Jason Stanley of President Trump’s premature declaration of victory. @hari @jasonintrator
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"What was done last night in the White House was a political rally. It further undermined the image and integrity of the court and that troubles me greatly." Watch the full exclusive interview with @HillaryClinton tonight on #AmanpourPBS . Check local listings.
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Political conventions are part of the “dance of democracy,” says Dan Rather. @DanRather @WalterIsaacson
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. @Kasparov63 tells @milesobrien about the Russian fake news industry, tonight on #AmanpourPBS .
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"A failed attempt at a coup is always practice for a successful attempt at a coup," says Yale historian @TimothyDSnyder . "It's in that meantime ... that the other side, the people who care about institutions, have to learn lessons." @amanpour
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"To hear the callousness, live on TV, unfiltered, as President Trump tried to use addiction against the Biden family...is infuriating to me," says Kristofer Goldsmith, an army veteran who's struggled with addiction himself. @hari @KrisGoldsmith85
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays the 18th century Shaker song "Simple Gifts." @YoYo_Ma @camanpour
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If the West had introduced sanctions against Russia years earlier, “this war would never have happened,” says the wife of detained Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. @ekaramurza @4freerussia_org @humanrights1st @vkaramurza @WalterIsaacson
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From 2014 to 2016 Putin weaponized misinformation against Ukraine and the West. “He got away with it in complete darkness,” Says The Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr. @carolecadwalla @hari
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Four years ago, comedian @robdelaney lost his young son Henry to brain cancer—a life-changing experience detailed in his new book "A Heart That Works." He tells @amanpour how his family processed Henry's death the day they lost him: "We wanted to spend time with his body."
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Enjoy some Yo-Yo Ma to ring in the new year. Happy New Year from Amanpour and Company. @YoYo_Ma
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Jan 6th: Are you relieved the system held or horrified it went so far? Preet Bharara’s take. @PreetBharara @WalterIsaacson
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Former NBA star Rex Chapman reflects on the NBA players who offered support and friendship throughout his career. @RexChapman @MichelMcQMartin
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Ronan Farrow digs into the type of extremism present at the Capitol insurrection through his profiles of some of the participants. @RonanFarrow @MichelMcQMartin @newyorker
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“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” author Shoshana Zuboff breaks down the information that Facebook secretly takes from users. @shoshanazuboff @hari
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"We have never really had true capitalism in America,” argues law professor Mehrsa Baradaran. @MichelMcQMartin @MehrsaBaradaran @chasingthedream
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Today’s Republican Party is built on “fraud, fear, and fascism,” says DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison. "They are harder on Mickey Mouse than they are on Vladimir Putin.” @harrisonjaime @MichelMcQMartin
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A recent USA Today poll revealed that roughly 46% of Republicans would go with former President Trump if he formed a party of his own. Former Lincoln Project senior adviser @kurtbardella explains why he's not surprised and why he thinks the party is broken. @Hari
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“Our concerns about the future of democracy are not hyperbolic.” @jmeacham on the importance of upholding the Constitution, maintaining America’s democratic ethos and learning from the past to chart a better future. @WalterIsaacson
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And historian Jon Meacham explains why he's endorsing Joe Biden. @camanpour @jmeacham
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“This is freedom in the way children understand freedom.” @RadioFreeTom @hari
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"What if China invents the vaccine first? Are they gonna give it to us?" @mcuban @WalterIsaacson
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. @elonmusk is called “the entrepreneur of our generation.” Will his Twitter buyout do more harm than good? Pivot podcast co-host @profgalloway weighs in. #ElonMuskBuyTwitter @hari
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"Persepolis" author Marjane Satrapi explains how young Iranians feel about the current unrest in their country: "They want democracy...The biggest enemy of democracy is the patriarchal culture." @amanpour
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@TimOBrien @camanpour @MikeBloomberg "[America] wasn't founded on the idea that Americans are special. It was founded on the idea that tyranny is easy and democracy and republics are hard," Timothy Snyder tells Ana Cabrera. @TimothyDSnyder @AnaCabrera @Yale
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“We are literally a country in which our children, our elderly, our churchgoers are gunned down, and our system says, This is the way, this is the price of freedom,” says @HC_Richardson . “We are in fact, experiencing a tyranny of the minority.” @MichelMcQMartin (2/2)
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While Ambassador Susan Rice disagrees politically with her conservative son, "Like a family, as a country, we are all in this boat together and we sink or swim together." @AmbassadorRice @WalterIsaacson
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“I think becoming part of the Texas GOP is an abnormal lifestyle choice,” says Executive Director of the Republican Accountability Project Sarah Longwell on the new Texas State GOP platform and what it says about the Republican Party today. @SarahLongwell25 @AccountableGOP
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Meryl Streep hopes her new film“Don’t Look Up” will inspire those connected to large corporations to take climate action. @amanpour
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“We are really living in…a post-privacy age.” Ronan Farrow explains the mechanics of Pegasus, the world’s most notorious spyware. @hari @RonanFarrow
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Charlie Sykes, conservative commentator and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, breaks down how the GOP's extremists have taken control of the Party. @NPRMichel @SykesCharlie (2/2)
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Madeleine Albright passed away today at the age of 84. In 2020, Albright joined @WalterIsaacson to reflect on the parallels between the pandemic and her childhood experience surviving WWII. Listen to her thoughts on war and resilience, which carry a new significance in 2022.
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“We see this time and time again: White men who fail upward while people of color and women are trying so desperately to just prove their worth and working twice as hard,” says author Ijeoma Oluo. @IjeomaOluo @hari
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"All of these individuals, to varying extents, are people of whom their family members said, "We've heard them say horrific racist things." Ronan Farrow discusses the role race plays in the worldviews of some of the Capitol insurrectionists. @RonanFarrow @MichelMcQMartin
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Congratulations to @camanpour on being named one of the 30 most impactful TV Newsers of the past 15 years #AmanpourPBS
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. @camanpour : "My toughest professional challenge over the past 15 years has been staying alive. But keeping the truth alive has been tough as well. Getting people to accept that truth does not mean neutrality, it does not mean moral or factual equivalence."
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"The greatest existential threat to democracy lies from within. And it lies within the Republican Party," says former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella. @hari @kurtbardella
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If the West had introduced sanctions against Russia years earlier, “this war would never have happened,” says the wife of detained Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. @ekaramurza @WalterIsaacson
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Speaker Pelosi says President Trump is "impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated." @camanpour @SpeakerPelosi @TeamPelosi
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"They didn't care if those children found their parents ever again...Those children will never be okay," says Bridget Cambria, an immigration attorney and executive director of @aldea_pjc , on why the parents of 545 children at the border cannot be found. @hari @BridgetCambria8
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.) is suing four of Trump's closest allies. @MichelMcQMartin @AVindman
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Julia Ioffe on biological weapons conspiracies: American far right media and the Kremlin form an “ecosystem of mutual amplification.” @juliaioffe @WalterIsaacson
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“Ukraine is facing a genocide,” says Yale professor Jason Stanley, who flew to Ukraine to teach a course on colonialism and fascism, and to learn more about Ukrainians' understanding of their complicated national identity. @hari
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"She was a badass," Greta Gerwig and @MichelMcQMartin agree regarding "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott.
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. @chrisinsilico joins @hari to discuss his new book and his time spent working at Cambridge Analytica
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"I do not share the optimism of the world that Omicron is mild,” says Dr. Ayoade Alakija. “I think that people are sick and tired of COVID and they want it to be over. But COVID is clearly not sick and tired of us.” @yodifiji @amanpour
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“When critics go silent, the group gets stupid.” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on the hazardous impacts of social media. @JonHaidt @hari
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg: “I think that we ought to have funding that is specifically committed to reversing some of the harms in the past." @SecretaryPete @WalterIsaacson
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"If you took up arms against the Constitution...you should not be venerated on public property." Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham with some fascinating perspective on the removal of Confederate monuments with Walter Isaacson. @jmeacham @agordonreed @walterisaacson
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk on how she reconciles working towards peace while advocating for more weaponry in the fight against Russia. @avalaina @hari
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Former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella says the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans “is 100% the fault of Donald Trump.” @hari @kurtbardella
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“When men see a powerful woman, they feel regressed to childhood because that was the last time they saw one,” says feminist icon Gloria Steinem. @MichelMcQMartin @GloriaSteinem
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“He has no shame, no constraints, and in some ways, that brazenness remains his superpower because he’s often not called to account for it.” @sbg1 on interviewing Donald Trump for her new book, “The Divider.” @peterbakernyt @WalterIsaacson
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"Fascism is lawlessness in the name of law and order," says Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley. @jasonintrator @hari
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine is part of a larger trend toward autocracy taking root across the globe, with rules and norms no longer followed, says The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum. @anneapplebaum @MichelMcQMart
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Michelle Yeoh made history last night as the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best actress in a leading role. Last month, she joined @amanpour to explain what "Everything Everywhere All at Once" means to her: "The core is authentic, genuine love for family."
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"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is in the running for 11 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Michelle Yeoh. She explains what the film means to her. @amanpour
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Sports journalist Jemele Hill calls former football player-turned-GA Senate candidate Herschel Walker “the most unqualified political candidate I've ever seen.” @jemelehill @MichelMcQMartin
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"And once you fully understand the climate crisis, you cannot un-understand it." - @GretaThunberg to @camanpour #WednesdayWisdom
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California Surgeon General @DrBurkeHarris joins @MichelMcQMartin to sound the alarm on what she calls "the public health crisis you didn't know existed."
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“We have decided that corporations are people and they're the ones that we have to save,” says "Post Corona" author Scott Galloway. @profgalloway @hari
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How does coronavirus compare to other pandemics throughout history? Nicholas Christakis joins @hari to discuss. @NAChristakis #COVID19
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Should Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz be held accountable for their role in last Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol? Sen. Jon Tester thinks an appropriate course of action ranges "anywhere from censure to expelling.” @SenatorTester @WalterIsaacson
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Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt: “There’s a battle for control of the MAGA empire.” @SteveSchmidtSES @MichelMcQMartin @ProjectLincoln
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges to women and single parents. Is Congress taking this into account? @MichelMcQMartin @RepKatiePorter #COVID19
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