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Caitlin Huey-Burns

9 months

Some personal news! 💙 Taking a little time away from the campaign trail to care for our new baby BOY! Grateful for a generous parental leave and inspired by so many colleagues who are also parents 💙

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9 months

Our very own @CHueyBurns is embracing life as a boy mom! This week, she welcomed her second son, Ambrose, into the world. For @people , she shares the story behind Ambrose’s name and how motherhood has shaped her career for the better. Read more⬇️

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4 years

What business does a Senator from South Carolina have contacting the Secretary of State of Georgia?

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Both 2020 candidates visited churches today. Here are two very different images from those visits:

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Hello from the Bucks County Courthouse! These PA voters have been in line here on a frigid morning to correct issues w/ their absentee ballots. They had been notified to come in and fix. Voters tell us they’re willing to wait as long as it takes to make sure their vote counts.

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Scene at Kevin McCarthy’s election night event at midnight:

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Tom Ridge, a GOP former homeland security secretary and PA governor, tells me he is open to supporting Biden. "I can imagine a lot of Republicans voting for the former vice president," he said, adding he has "a great high personal opinion of [Biden] for the kind of man he is."

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I've covered abortion policy and politics extensively. I don't inject any personal opinion, but I also think context helps when understanding gestational limit laws: I'm on my 2nd pregnancy right now, and I wasn't even *allowed* to be seen by my OBGYN until I was 8 weeks.

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A "madwoman" a "ditzy airhead wife" and "she yaps" are all words the president of the United States used to describe women this morning.

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🔥 from Raffensperger to Purdue & Loeffler: “As embarrassing as it is for Sens. Perdue and Loeffler not to know that the data they want is already publicly available from the Secretary of State, it’s even worse that they’re not aware their own campaigns already have the data”

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A little over a year out from the South Carolina primary, and here’s the crowd for @KamalaHarris ’s first town hall here in Charleston

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I’m old enough to remember getting kicked out of the Speaker’s lobby for not wearing sleeves.

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TX Gov. Abbott says the state will take Mexico up on its offer to assist, with things like vehicles, boats, supplies and food.

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FACT CHECK: Trump falsely says Georgia’s election apparatus is run by Democrats. In fact, the Secretary of State is a Republican, and he told me last month that people should vote absentee and vote early, and that the integrity of the election there will be sound. Watch:

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Despite many voters being concerned about their ballots not being counted this year, @CHueyBurns reports that officials are confident in the election system

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A “count every vote” rally forming here in Philadelphia. Choppers are flying over head.

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Stephen Miller falsely claims people who mail in their ballots don’t have their identity confirmed and that nobody checks. We talked to election officials from BOTH parties on the rigorous security checks in place:

Trump and Barr say mail-in voting will lead to fraud. Experts say that's not true

Bill Barr claims mail-in voting "absolutely opens the floodgates to fraud." But defrauding a U.S. election is not that easy.

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“Liz Cheney was canceled for speaking her mind,” Rep. Ken Buck says.

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Polls in Texas closed THREE HOURS AGO and people are still waiting in line to vote.

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@brithume Hi @brithume . Harris was on an a tour of small businesses, including this boutique, in Columbia that we were covering as part of several campaign stops.

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Biden and Harris did not take questions from reporters at their campaign event today. They should have.

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WH press secretary falsely says Trump's election in 2016 was never accepted. Clinton gave a concession speech the morning after the election, Obama met with Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 10, 2016. Oh, and Trump has literally been the president for the past four years.

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Elizabeth Warren addresses the Culinary Workers Union in LV and says: The White House is a mess and “when you’ve got a mess and you really need it cleaned up, you call a woman and get the job done.”

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4 years

Did Bloomberg almost say "I bought?" when referring to his spending on congressional races?

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2 years

Also, just a reminder, that ALL of these people testifying today had ample opportunities to say all of this publicly and frequently long before the committee investigation.

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When the campaign trail takes you to a boutique, and @MaeveReston spots a great sequined jacket for @KamalaHarris to try on. #campaignfashionreport

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Good morning, from Philadelphia! This was the line to vote at 6:45 AM at the Kimmel performance Center before polls opened here

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Biden and Harris should also do press conferences

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Here’s the line to get into @PeteButtigieg ’s event in Nashua NH today. It’s 27 degrees here. (via @arimont )

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Folks, let’s hear it for election workers. Pictured here at 12:40 am here in Fulton County, where they have been told to stay until 2 am.

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Good morning, internet! Thrilled to announce I have joined @CBSNews as a political reporter, starting today! Excited to work with such a stellar team.

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Ridge told me he has known Biden for a long time, called him a "decent, honorable man" and said that he "always respected his approach." He noted Biden's friendship with his friend John McCain. Ridge was a pallbearer at McCain's funeral.

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Trump says he doesn’t refer to Hillary Clinton as “Crooked Hillary” anymore because he saves that for Biden. “I call her “beautiful Hillary.””

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"Retiring" amid sexual assault allegations while endorsing your son to run for your set is what people just love about politics, eh?

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Santos trying to leave the Capitol tonight, still not answering any questions

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6 years

I’m curious about this “assessing her memories” part:

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Matt Gaetz emerges from meeting with McCarthy pledging never to vote for him and calling him desperate. Says he’s willing to vote “all week all month, but never for that person.”

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Biden on how masks became a political issue: "What a stupid, stupid thing for it to happen."

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4 years

My older brother deploys for Kuwait today. This is his second deployment there and had been planned, but developments over the last week have us all praying extra hard for him and all our servicemen and women. May God bless them and keep them all safe.

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5 years

It’s 2019, how is there not an emoji for dumpster fire yet?

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I view the president's tweets as official statements. You can not dismiss the words just because of the medium by which they are published.

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I asked McCarthy how he expects to be able to govern if it’s takes all of this to just pick a leader: “Because it took this long, now we’ve learned how to govern.”

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One woman attending Warren’s event in Iowa tonight told me she got a Roomba for Christmas and named it Elizabeth Warren “because it cleans shit up.”

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Biden says he told Harris to "challenge my assumptions if she disagrees, ask the hard questions." Notes he told her what he told Obama all those years ago: "I told him I wanted to be the last person in the room before he made important decisions."

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I asked Hickenlooper about Bernie’s no middle ground message. He laughed and asked, “What has he gotten done?”

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NEW: None of the states with laws restricting abortion offers paid maternity leave. The likelihood of SCOTUS ending Roe places a spotlight on the lack of resources and support for women to actually have and raise children. My story:

Threat to Roe draws attention to scant support for women having children

The states with the most restrictive abortion policies "are also the states that do the least for pregnant people and their children," says the director of GWU's Center for Health Services Research...

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Both 2020 candidates visited churches today. Here are two very different images from those visits:

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“I learned a lot about Covid” the president says, seven months into the pandemic

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Let this sink in: The United States Secretary of Defense claims “I didn’t know where I was going.”

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NEW: Defense Sec. Esper asserts to @NBCNews that he had no advance notice before Pres. Trump led him and other officials to St. John’s Episcopal Church for a photo-op: “I thought I was going to do two things: to see some damage and to talk to the troops"

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It's 97 degrees today and I still won't switch to iced coffee.

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PHILADELPHIA—the birthplace of Democracy and right now center stage for a nation divided. “Count Every Vote” chants on one side and “Don’t Steal the Election” on the other.

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Biden gives a bipartisan shout out to governors (Republicans DeWine and Hogan in OH and MD) and says Cuomo's briefings have been "a lesson in leadership."

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Biden statement: “It’s time for America to unite. And to heal.”

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"I love New York because New York loves you," Cuomo says.

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“No, it’s my turn,” @SenGillibrand says as she is interrupted, speaking for women in meetings across America

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"Things will get worse before they get better. I told you I would always level with you," Biden says.

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I stayed at Warren’s event for about an hour after she finished. Then went home, watched the Browns game, showered, caught up on emails, ordered some new dresses, hopped on Twitter to find Warren’s selfie line is still going!

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Recall, however, that Graham called the Secretary of State of Georgia to ask about dismissing some absentee ballots.

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Hawley's argument that he is addressing concerns of constituents in his state by challenging the results of...a different state.

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LOEFFLER, who lost her race last night, now says she is reversing course and NOT challenging the results. But remember: she joined Trump on stage on Monday and exclaimed how excited she was to join in voting against certification.

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Cruz, who lead the charge to repeal Obamacare, says in his closing argument he wants to save protections for pre existing conditions.

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I asked Marianne Williamson how she thinks she did tonight: “I don’t know, I was in my own head.”

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Kamala Harris is VP nom. according to Biden text

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OMG they are filming the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on my street and I just ran into Susie and freaked out

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Wow--> John Lewis to @chucktodd : “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president."

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Two veterans, Duckworth and Buttigieg, invoked fellow veteran Beau Biden in their speeches tonight. In March, I asked Biden if ever regretted not having served in the military. “Sometimes I do,” he said. “That wasn't to be. But my son...I have great respect for what my son did.”

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Ridge was vocal in criticism of Trump in 2016 and didn't vote for him. But he didn't support Hillary Clinton either, calling her "a divisive and untrustworthy candidate." His op-ed at the time:

Here's why I won't be voting for Donald Trump: Tom Ridge

Pa.'s 43rd Governor says he's shifting focus from the White House to making sure U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey gets re-elected.

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Nope. You’re being told about it today because of CBS News’ thorough reporting. Lawmakers learned about it through news outlets reporting it.

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Classified documents were just discovered in Joe Biden's private office at UPenn dating back to his time as VP. The federal government was notified in the fall. You're being told about it today because the GOP House was just sworn in.

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I just talked to a couple coming out of our polling station who said they waited “three hours and 17 minutes but who is counting?”

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More scenes from Philadelphia

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Rep. Peter King says Trump pointed him out and said they grew up near each other. After that, "it would be hard for me to vote 'no.'"

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Excited to announce the culmination of a little project I’ve been working on for the last 9 months: I’m a mom! Taking a little time away from work and Twitter (made possible by our maternity leave policy for which I am very grateful) to settle in with our precious baby boy. 🙏🏻

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I just spoke with two people here in Houston who waited three hours to vote. They both chose BIDEN and said they made the decision after South Carolina and after seeing the endorsements yesterday. They both said they liked Bernie but felt the last 24 hours made a difference.

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There are so many talented people who work for CNN+, and they are passionate about journalism and story telling. Today’s news is sad and disheartening. Cheering against someone is silly and mean. I feel for my for my news colleagues. ❤️

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@jaketapper A common theme we've seen in reports among women who come forward on various sexual harassment cases: they no longer work in the industries they set out to work in.

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This is a moment: Biden notes the difference in treatment of Trump rioters v BLM protestors. He says his granddaughter texted him: "Pop, this isn't fair. No one can tell me that if it had been a group of BLM protesting yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently."

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Bucks players end the statement with: "And remember to vote on Nov. 3rd"

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Full statement from the Milwaukee Bucks:

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Pence at Heritage Foundation making an impassioned plea to continue to help Ukraine. There are those in the movement that "would have us disengage with the wider world," he says. "But appeasement has never worked."

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As Northam is speaking, DNC releases a statement urging him to resign.

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This is so condescending to a young female lawmaker. "No, it's not good," @EliseStefanik says in a pitch perfect response.

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Lawyer for Alexander Vindman to @EliseStefanik : And who are you again, please?

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Among the ballots still being counted here in Philadelphia are military ballots. Remember our service women and men overseas vote absentee. This is not new.

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“Watch and learn,” DeSantis tells me about how he can cut into Trump’s lead in Iowa

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Moment of bipartisanship in the wake of disaster: Biden puts his hand on DeSantis' wrist and notes how well the governor and Florida officials have been working together. DeSantis thanks Biden, "you've recognized the severity of this tragedy from Day One."

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Crowd here at @PeteButtigieg chanting: “President Pete”

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It’s rare to see Sen. Tom Cotton criticize Trump. But in a Reagan Library speech tonight, he called out the former president on criminal justice reform, saying the First Step Act was “the worst mistake of his tenure.”

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Ok guys, with Caps/Wizards leaving DC, we are going to have to really rally around the Shakespeare Theater Company

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Um so Northam's behavior excusable because he was young but Kavanaugh's wasn't?

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Virginia Dem leadership defending Northam over blackface/KKK pic.

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Some fact checking: Drop boxes are secure + picked up by election officials only (and saves postage). Check to see if your county has one, a good way to not have to rely on USPS. Also: there is no "universal" mail in voting system. Elections are conducted locally, not nationally.

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Some states use “drop boxes” for the collection of Universal Mail-In Ballots. So who is going to “collect” the Ballots, and what might be done to them prior to tabulation? A Rigged Election? So bad for our Country. Only Absentee Ballots acceptable!

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Man thanks MacArthur for holding a townhall when some of his colleagues aren't, then asks why GOP passed a bill "for the tyrant in the WH."

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Gowdy: No Evidence That Susan Rice Committed A Crime, Or That Obama Wiretapped Trump

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) told Greta van Susteren that he has not seen any evidence or proof that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice committed a crime or that now-President Trump was wiretapped...

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Please direct questions about whether the public needs to now wear masks to Drs. Fauci and Birx, not to the president.

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And now at our second boutique, as @KamalaHarris tours women-owned small businesses on Lady Street in Columbia.

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“My kids had to live like they were in prison because of kidnap threats, and I had to live like a pig in a slaughter camp...All of these things have put a bad taste in my mouth, and it won’t go away. They carved a piece of my heart away.”

Hank Aaron, Home Run King Who Defied Racism, Dies at 86 (Published 2021)

He held the most celebrated record in sports for more than 30 years.

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Talking to people standing in line for Oprah-Beto event in Times Square, it’s a lot of “Beto who?” They’re here to see Oprah herself, and Michael B Jordan and Bradley Cooper.

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Does Judge Moore think homosexuality should be illegal? "Probably," his spokesman just said on CNN.

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Got my first dose of the vaccine today! And because I’m an adult, I treated myself to a McFlurry afterward ☺️ Humbled by science and all the smart people who worked so hard to get us here. Thank you!

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A bit of personal news on this Monday morning: I've been named a CBS News Correspondent! I am beyond grateful for and humbled by this opportunity. And I continue to be in awe of my brilliant colleagues at CBS, who have become like family.

CBS News Promotes Caitlin Huey-Burns From Political Reporter to Political Correspondent

In addition to covering politics, Huey-Burns is adding a beat focus to covering the FDA.

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Honestly, what did "anonymous" achieve besides a book deal and a cable news contract?

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Scene here in Philadelphia: Count the Vote drum line versus the YMCA

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Rubio has made some policy news in this town hall. Says he backs raising the age limit for guns and is reconsidering his position on banning high capacity magazines

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WH press secretary suggests she has a policy when it comes to Marjorie Taylor Green: "I'm not going to speak further about her in this briefing room."

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We are about an hour and twenty minutes into this hearing and there has been so little attention paid to the actual substance of the complaint which is now public...

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Sarah Sanders yesterday, re: Barr: "I think that we have a lot bigger things going on in the country right now, certainly that the President is spending his time when it comes to policy."

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@realDonaldTrump

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Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?

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