Hillary Clinton is back in the White House, for an arts event with First Lady Jill Biden.
As the two walked into the East Room, they passed a portrait of Clinton’s husband.
Speaking in South Carolina, Biden says that a new factory will open soon in Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district.
“I'll be there for the groundbreaking,” Biden said.
Today’s
@WSJ
has a wrap to commemorate our colleague Evan Gershkovich who has been wrongfully imprisoned for 100 days. This is how it looked on door steps across America.
#IStandWithEvan
Marianne Williamson asked for a show of hands of non-NH residents at her event in Manchester.
Most raised their hands.
“Well, that’s depressing,” she deadpanned.
Keeping a place for my colleague
@evangershkovich
at our Christmas morning breakfast. Evan has been wrongfully detained in Russia for 8 months
#istandwithevan
FACT CHECK: True. While at the new Tatte near the WH, I just ran into
@ShalandaYoung46
with a Nordstrom Rack bag. She said that she's been working on the budget deal, became behind on dry cleaning and needed a clean outfit for her appearance at the briefing today.
On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US seized six properties worth $75M from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. A Friday afternoon Zillow 🧵 (apologies to
@StevenTDennis
)
SCOOP: AFL-CIO to endorse Biden in coming days, the earliest the federation has ever backed a presidential candidate and a move that will unlock early organizing muscle. Via
@KThomasDC
Hunter Biden during his closed door testimony in the impeachment probe: "I will probably say this 1,000 times, my father had absolutely no knowledge of, no involvement in, had no -- any way was -- awareness of my business relationship with Jonathan Li."
Biden conveys that his stern convo yesterday with Bibi should not be seen as abandoning Israel. From Biden's quick comments with reporters earlier today as he left the South Lawn for his trip to Baltimore.
Pres. Biden on protests just now: “I condemn the anti-semitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
The
@BaltimoreBanner
is so lucky to have
@bykowicz
joining as the enterprise editor.
Her brains and beautiful writing are assets to any news organization and it’s so exciting that she’s focusing those formidable forces on the place where it all began.
Taking off on a direct 14 hour flight from Tokyo to DC at 4:26 pm Monday May 22.
Because of some time warp I will land in DC at 4:26 pm Monday May 22.
The next 14 hours are, evidently, not happening.
NEWS: Biden expects to locate his re-election campaign HQ in Delaware, according to a White House official traveling with Biden and speaking in her personal capacity.
Jeffrey Katzenberg on Biden’s age: Lean into it — after all Harrison Ford, 80 and Mick Jagger, 80 are still making hits and attracting crowds.
Fun read with George Clooney cameo via
@KThomasDC
&
@catherine_lucey
Come for the laugh out loud lede in this deeply reported piece about New York State handing over $1B to Musk for a mostly empty factory via
@bykowicz
@thetrough
This has been quite the state dinner.
The WH also put out a statement on the agreement between Ford and the UAW.
And a readout of Biden’s call this afternoon with Netanyahu (which occurred amid the state visit w the Aussie PM).
Today marks four weeks since our colleague and friend, Evan Gershkovich, was detained in Russia. We continue to stand with Evan and his family in seeking his immediate release.
#IStandWithEvan
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says there "are probably about 787 million things" that were "wrong" about the Fox News chyron last night that labeled Biden as a "wannabe dictator."
@cmsub
@latimes
Last year while traveling in Zambia with VP Harris, I recall sitting in a van waiting for Courtney.
She was busy conducting her exclusive interview w Harris, which led to this great piece.
Hard to see why the LAT let her leave.
NEWS:
@GinaRaimondo
issues US response to China’s action against Micron — reading between the lines, the US will have to convince S. Korean chip companies to forgo big profits and resist backfilling China’s self-created supply problem.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre launches the April 1 press briefing by saying that POTUS is suspending the Hatch Act, so she can answer more of her questions. APRIL FOOLS, she adds.
Right now my colleague
@AndrewRestuccia
is reading Evan Gershkovich's work for a 24 hour read-a-thon hosted by the National Press Club -- watch here
And if you're up late, me and
@jameshohmann
will be reading starting at 9:45 PM.
#IStandwithEvan
Beijing bars Idaho-based Micron from selling its chips to big companies in China as leaders leave the G-7, taking exactly the kind of ‘coercive’ step that the leaders said they will work together to combat. Via
@Lingling_Wei
“We’re not going home” Biden says to the East Palestine.
“This was an act of greed that was 100 percent preventable,” Biden says of the train accident.
Marianne Williamson says the effort in NH to write-in “ceasefire” on the Democratic ballot is “indulgent.”
Says Biden would be more worried / impacted if a candidate who supports a ceasefire (like herself) does unexpectedly well in NH.
As it appears Biden won't be charged in the classified docs case, I looked at how Washington leaders have been finding classified materials mixed in with their papers for years.
From the foreign pool
Jodie Haydon, the Prime Minister’s spouse, is immensely proud to be wearing Australian designed and Australian made to the White House State Dinner this evening.
The US to provide $100 million in security assistance to Western African nations amid concern over growing Islamic extremism.
My first byline from Africa with help and patience from my wonderful colleagues
@MPhillipsWSJ
&
@gksteinhauser
Biden adds more about the recent Blinken meeting with Xi.
“We’re in a situation now where he wants to have a relationship again,” Biden said. “Antony Blinken just went over there...did a good job and it’s going to take time.”
"I'm just not going to speak to that," said
@PressSec
when
@ZekeJMiller
asks if Americans should comply with Congressional subpoenas.
The president's son this morning failed to comply with one.
Biden was 2 when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. When he lands in Japan he will meet with a relative 4 year old boy who died that day - who also happens to be his host PM Kishida.
Beautifully told tale of by
@landerswsj
.