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Scripps News national correspondent covering disinformation. formerly @ViceNews @cnn @tuftsuniversity . Tallahassee, FL native.

Washington, DC

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Elizabeth Landers

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Professional news: it’s my first day at @scrippsnews where I’m starting a new role as the lead disinformation correspondent. We’ll be across a wide range of topics (politics, national security, the economy, etc) - so add me to your press list: Liz.landers @scripps .com

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6 years

The drug maker of Ambien responds to Roseanne Barr: "...While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication,” Ashleigh Koss, Head of Media Relations, North America, Sanofi US tells @Cnn

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Just sent this video to a Secret Service source who responded: "So reckless and careless and heartless"

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Trump drives by the press and supporters outside Walter Reed hospital.

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. @MileyCyrus ’ “Party in the USA” blaring outside the White House

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. @chefjoseandres protesting and giving food to people outside of the White House. “I’m always protesting!” he said

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. @POTUS hands the daughter of US Capitol Police officer Billy Evans a toy she dropped on the ground a few moments before speaking in the Capitol Rotunda at a memorial service for the officer.

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March on Washington // August 28, 2020

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Officer Mike Fanone, who was beaten by rioters on Jan 6, tells me after the committee meeting today: “This isn’t over… Donald Trump needs to be in prison.”

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Marine Rylee McCollum was expecting a baby in a few weeks, according to his sister. May these heroes rest in peace

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Just interviewed @ewarren who came down to see the protest outside the White House- she’s getting cheers. She told me she came here because she had an obligation to bear witness to this moment

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A visibly angry @ChrisMurphyCT on Senate floor talking now about gun violence & schools: “I’m beyond my tipping point” “This only happens in the United States of America… kids worry about being shot in school. It happens here in America because we choose to let it happen.”

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"What an unbelievable honor... this is what you dream about," Ryan Zimmerman says at the White House, and goes on to thank @Potus for "continuing to make America the greatest country to live in the world."

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“Trump! Trump! Trump!” - Women for Trump launches today in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

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Hundreds are back outside the White House this afternoon kneeling in protest

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. @potus just said "not at all surprised" by the Harvey Weinstein comments. I asked him how that was different from Access Hollywood tape

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An interesting tidbit from @BernieSanders ’s Q4 fundraising numbers: “Teacher” was the most common occupation of his Q4 donors & the 5 most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service & Target.

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White House chief of staff John Kelly just walked into the senate- I asked him why White House lawyer Emmet Flood was at the DOJ briefing. No response.

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A source close to the Vice President just told me of today's certification: "Mike Pence is not going to light the constitution or himself on fire for Donald Trump."

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I just asked @SpeakerPelosi in the hallway about @VP ’s recent comments about Ilhan Omar and of this is going to continue to be an issue for Democrats. Her response:

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First Gen Z member of congress - and gun safety advocate - @MaxwellFrostFL isn’t even sworn in yet but he’s outside the Senate with March for our Lives demanding Schumer pass the assault weapons ban

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An overlooked (and hilarious) comment from @potus at the end of his press gaggle on Air Force One: "Thank you very much everybody. I'll see you back in New York. Thank you." (spoiler: the plane landed in DC)

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. @JeffFlake is a YES on Kavanaugh. @SunlenSerfaty broke that news to Sen. Coons in the hallway as he walked into the hearing. Coons said, “Oh f—k,” then choked up, “We each make choices for our own reason. I’m struggling, sorry.”

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In an exchange about climate change: “America has the cleanest air and water in the world,” @vp “No we don’t,” @jaketapper

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This letter from @realDonaldTrump to @SenSchumer seems to have been dictated verbatim and sent: “No wonder @AOC and others are thinking about running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.”

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“For the male nominees in the room, it’ll be the first time in 3 months you aren’t terrified to hear your name read out loud,” Seth Meyers not holding back in his opening monologue

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BREAKING into @CNN : first charges filed in Mueller investigation- the charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge

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ANNOUNCEMENT FROM @POTUS : Payroll tax suspended until the end of the year and it’s retroactive to July 1; eviction moratorium reinstated - appears this is all happening through executive action.

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Maryam, 26 years old, and her husband Nasratolah await departure for the United States. They fled Kabul b.c she was a fitness instructor and her family worked with the US. She has never been to the US (and doesn’t know what city they’re flying to!) but is excited to start anew.

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. @kyrstensinema sporting a pink ensemble today for her first day as a United States Senator

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The United States officially rejoins the Paris Climate Agreement today:

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Here’s @ewarren moments ago outside the White House protest (plus Bailey, the golden retriever & husband Bruce)

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👋🏼 I’m from the Panhandle of Florida and don’t think most people who live there are comfortable with that suggestion...

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At his rally tonight, Trump says the government is unable to violently attack immigrants, someone in the crowd shouted "Shoot them!" The crowd & Trump erupt in laughter & cheers. Trump says, "Only in the panhandle can you get away with that statement."

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. @RepAdamSchiff concluding the Dems’ case for the day: “This is why he needs to be removed: Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies... over his FBI director... over his national security advisors... that makes him dangerous to us, to our country.”

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I asked @WillHurd if he found the @VP persuasive in the caucus meeting today: “I’m sure he did to some,” he said adding, “I was just on the border. If something is a crisis why are you not paying the people that are taking care of the crisis?”

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!!! Dr. Fauci says on @CNN of the latest with the Pfizer vaccine: “We would be giving vaccine to people very likely before the end of this year.”

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. @marcorubio becomes the 34th “not guilty” vote on the article of impeachment. Trump is acquitted.

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political Twitter is going to be lit tomorrow: Electoral College casts votes in the presidential & early voting begins in Georgia

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Wow. @Walmart statement out tonight “In light of recent events, we’ve taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales. Going forward, we are raising the age restriction for purchase of firearms and ammunition to 21 years of age."

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With the announcement from the @BernieSanders campaign that they raised $46.5 million in February, they have now raised $167 million in the past year from 8.7 million individual donations.

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Yesterday, I spoke w/ AZ Senate candidate Jim Lamon about the fake electoral certificate he signed that was then sent to the Archives. He defended signing it & doesn’t regret it. He said Jan 6 Committee hasn’t reached out to him though he would cooperate if they asked - video TK

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. @BernieSanders ' campaign says that in the first hour of this debate tonight, he received more than 15 *thousand* online donations totaling $300,000.

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Extra security for flights coming into DC: I boarded a flight from LGA to DC a moment ago. At the gate, a TSA agent checked (again) all passenger IDs against boarding passes. Homeland Security officer w/ a dog was standing beside the door and said, Yes, this is for inauguration.

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“I want to instill public confidence that the vaccine is safe,” says the nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY who is the first person in New York to get the vaccine

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FBI Director Christopher Wray says in Senate hearing that January 6th attack on Capitol was "domestic terrorism"

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Here’s a letter yesterday from the editor of @ThePlainDealer , titled: “Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts.” Here’s some of what he wrote:

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Michigan allows voter registration through Election Day aka today. I’m at the Ann Arbor city hall where hundreds of college-age kids are lined up (snaking around the halls) to register to vote.

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. @SenFeinstein indicates that the FBI report on Kavanaugh should NOT be made public: “It would seem to me that if people are going to be identified this ought to be held very close and not." "I think the investigation ought to be closely held," she reiterated.

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That appears to be @GretaThunberg standing behind VP, POTUS at the UN as he’s asked about impeachment.

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Jacob Blake's father reacts now on @CNN , "We don't have a family pastor... I don't know who he's talking to." Blake says the president should connect with their family lawyer @AttorneyCrump .

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Trump says he spoke with Jacob Blake's family's pastor. He says the family wanted to have lawyers involved in any conversation, which Trump did not want.

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. @VP said 7 times yesterday during presser on the hill that @POTUS fired Comey b/c of "recommendation of deputy attorney general."

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. @Kevinliptakcnn got the Obama statement on Harvey Weinstein:

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As he left New Jersey a short while ago, @realDonaldTrump ⁩ was asked about his reaction to Epstein’s arrest: “I don’t know anything about it.”

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Jeffrey Epstein: Trump once praised financier charged with sex trafficking minors for liking women...

After Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, a Donald Trump quote that the financier liked women 'on the younger side' resurfaced.

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“Tweet others as you wish to be tweeted”- some of the scene here in Palm Beach as protestors gather to march to Mar-a-Lago

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Manhattan still got the looks 😍

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The White House this afternoon

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Tidbit: Chief of Staff John Kelly told reporters that he had *not* seen the president's tweets yet from this morning- we read them to him. He responded, "Ok"

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I asked @BenSasse a second time if he had any concerns about the news reports circulating about the whistleblower complaint and Trump: “You’re welcome to talk to James in my office.”

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. @GovRonDeSantis says that Floridians should avoid “big gatherings” for the next few weeks to stop the spread of coronavirus. About an hour away from here, the GOP convention is scheduled to take place in about 5 weeks.

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The president has tweeted 23 times in the last 48 hours (since his 4:25 pm tweet on Friday). This strikes me as one of his busiest tweeting weekends ever.

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. @RudyGiuliani told @cnn tonight that it’s BS to say that Cohen was talking to people close to the White House in 2017/2018, says the president only talked to him because he felt sorry for him. But source of mine saw Cohen at Mar-a-Lago in March - and Cohen is not a member...

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INBOX: President Donald J. Trump Receives First @NRSC Champion for Freedom Award ( @SenRickScott presented the award this weekend)

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Vietnamese foreign minister appeared at the US Embassy in Hanoi, writing in a condolences book: "Sen. John McCain has always been a symbol of the generation of lawmakers - veterans of Vietnam War, who have been leading & making great contributions to healing the wounds of war...”

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Overflow outside the @realdonaldtrump rally in Manchester, NH tonight

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Every person I’ve talked to today (about 7-8 so far) at the Trump rally in Perry, GA wants to see Georgia have an election audit of the 2020 prez results, despite the fact that there have been reviews/recounts several times here already.

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“How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole: with love and understanding.” @DrBiden ’s delivering tonight’s final speech, drawing a lot on her family’s personal experience and loss

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. @ewarren outside the Homestead detention center: “It is a stain on our country.”

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NEW: Dominion spokesperson reax "We are gratified by the Court's thorough ruling soundly rejecting all of Fox's arguments and defenses, and finding as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false. We look forward to going to trial."

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3 of the president’s tweets this morning (in less than an hour!) have been limited in their interactions- no responding to them or liking them, per a @twitter label

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There's more: @MikeLeeforUtah says that after today's "stunt" (aka the briefing he's not happy with), "I'm willing to consider and introduce any and every war powers resolution."

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!! @BernieSanders comms director says they are CANCELLING their rally tonight in Cleveland, saying in part, "Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland." "All future Bernie 2020 events will be evaluated on a case by case basis"

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. @JoeBiden during his COVID-19 vaccine rollout speech: “What the hell’s the matter with them?! It’s time to grow up,” he said of lawmakers who refused to wear masks last week at the Capitol during lockdown.

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I asked @RepCummings if comments like “impeach the motherf*cker” are productive: “You can not accomplish much of anything unless you have civility & show respect for your colleagues. I think those kind of comments do not take us in the right direction...they are inappropriate.”

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Republican @MikeLeeforUtah not pleased with the Iran briefing, calling it "the worst briefing I've seen on a military issue in the 9 years I've been in the senate."

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Found ‘em! 5 military tanks on train tracks in southeast DC for the 4th of July celebrations

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. @RepLizCheney describes former President Trump's actions on Jan 6: "No man who would behave that way, at that moment in time, can ever serve in any position of authority ever again. He is unfit for any office."

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Progressive Dem @AyannaPressley : “To be clear, my lack & deficit of trust was about Sen Manchin. He has continued to move the goalposts… he is obstructing the president’s agenda.” “All I want for Christmas is a Senator that has compassion for the American people, not contempt”

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INBOX: @JohnFetterman Launches Petition to Induct Dr. Oz to the New Jersey State Hall of Fame

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❗️ Dr. Fauci thinks Americans should hold onto those face masks: “I don’t mean everybody’s going to walk around with a mask every minute of the day, but in the middle of a respiratory outbreak, you might want to consider, beyond COVID, that we might want to use masks more.”

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Wow- @brianstelter reports: racist Trump campaign ad pulled from Fox News "Upon further review, FOX News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either FOX News Channel or FOX Business Network," ad sales president Marianne Gambelli told CNN.

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I have never seen a TV townhall setup like this

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. @kevincramer tells @ErinBurnett tonight that the Democrats made a “superior presentation” in today’s impeachment trial (and praised @RepRaskin ) and says the president’s lawyers “were not prepared”

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Me trying to ask @ChuckGrassley earlier today if he would ban assault weapons:

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On @60Minutes , @BarackObama is asked if President Trump should concede. Obama: “Absolutely... I think it was time for him to concede the day after the election or the latest, 2 days after the election”- says Trump cannot make up the vote difference.

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. @tedlieu & @RepDonBeyer want an investigation in Kushner’s security clearance- tell the attorney general: “Your loyalty is to the United States, not Mr. Kushner or even the President.”

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This is the street party/protest that is on the back part of the @WhiteHouse at 15th and Constitution - lotta loudspeakers & a live band jamming out of this bus

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. @naomiosaka covers @TIME , says of our divided times: “Issues that are so obvious to me at face value, like wearing a mask in a pandemic or kneeling to show support for antiracism, are ferociously contested. I mean, wow.”

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There's more: source tells @Acosta that POTUS also called the bill a "son of a bitch"

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Sources confirm to CNN Trump raised questions about House health care bill with Senators today and referred to legislation as "mean."

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Can confirm: spectacular fireworks

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A rare moment: @vp stopped in the Capitol hallway to answer my Q on whether he had confidence in AG Jeff Sessions. “I hold Jeff Sessions in the highest regard. I appreciate his service to the nation,” he responded.

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I am always proud to work at @CNN . But especially today. My colleagues are continuing to report, staying calm and factual as they deliver the news from the street outside of our NY bureau. Utmost professionalism- thank you.

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Photo of Michael Cohen taken by my NY colleague Lawrence Crook- who reports that he’s sitting outside the Loews Regency now with a group of friends smoking cigars

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The @JohnFetterman campaign sending this around late tonight after the debate:

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@POTUS The President told me that was "locker room talk" and then moved on the next question.

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. @BernieSanders just stopped by the UNITE LIVE Local 2, janitors' union, SEIU Local 87 protest in downtown SF

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. @BernieSanders campaign reveals that they raised $25 million in January. The breakdown: 1.3 million donations more than 648,000 people 219,000 of those donors were new

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Air Force One has arrived - @realDonaldTrump greeted by thousands of screaming fans and signs like “Women for Trump” & “Finish the Wall”

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New @VP joke alert (I knew all of the trail ones): The tax code is "10x the size of the Bible but with none of the good news"

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"If it saves me on health insurance premiums, I'll gladly pay more taxes," says NH resident to @BernieSanders ' proposal to raise taxes

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The White House says a 3-year-old American citizen toddler is being held hostage by Hamas - this info in a readout of a call Biden had with Qatari Amir:

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There’s an audible “yay” from someone in the studio when she announces she’s running today on MLK, Jr Day.

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