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4 years

Trump at the court as crowd chants “vote him out” — it’s rare for this President to see his opposition this up-close and in-person

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The POTUSES and FLOTUSES 💉

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Cleta Mitchell's law firm says it's "concerned" she was on Trump's call and "are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly."

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Mary Trump says Ivana and Donald gave her a three-pack of underwear for Christmas one year, and an obviously re-gifted basket of crackers, sardines and salami another year (with an imprint of a missing can of caviar in the cellophane wrapping)

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Merkel's office says she explained the Geneva Convention over the phone to Trump on Saturday

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If you're looking to attend President Trump's rally in Tulsa next Friday, you must first agree not to sue him if you get coronavirus

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Asked about Tony Blair’s Afghanistan criticism, Jen Psaki says “The President has been in touch directly with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is the current leader of the UK.”

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Seven months into global pandemic that’s killed 200,000 Americans, Trump says he now “understands” COVID after contracting it, and then immediately gets into a car with a least 2 other people to wave at people

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Michigan GOP lawmakers after Oval meeting with Trump, in sum: There is no evidence Biden won’t be the winner, he will receive Michigan’s electoral votes, please pay attention to the pandemic ravaging the country.

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News for Miami, London, Saint-Tropez: senior US administration official says new transatlantic task force will target Putin-aligned oligarchs, going after “their yachts, their luxury apartments, their money and their ability to send their kids to fancy colleges in the West.”

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Some footage from the CNN archive of Pelosi unfurling a pro-democracy banner in Tiananmen Square in 1991 (alongside Reps. Ben Jones and John Miller) before Chinese officials interrupt

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4 years

Hmm...Trump says “If you want a vision of your life under a Joe Biden presidency, imagine the smoldering ruins of Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of Portland and the bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago coming to every city in America.” But those things happened under him?

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LIZ CHENEY: "I will vote to impeach the President."

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Left unsaid in Jen Psaki's announcement that Biden "has not spent a moment thinking about the color scheme of Air Force One" is that his predecessor spent many minutes and hours thinking about it

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Biden just officially revoked the executive order for the "National Garden of American Heroes" that Trump signed last year

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Trump just claimed that foreign leaders are calling him to say "that’s the most messed up election I've ever seen." The White House has read out zero phone calls with foreign leaders since the end of October. Nearly every major US ally has called Joe Biden to congratulate him.

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3 years

Meanwhile in Palm Beach

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Trump now plans to leave the WH on inauguration morning and has told people he wants a big send-off. He’s shut down discussion of resigning and told aides he never wants to hear anyone mention the name Richard Nixon to him. W @kaitlancollins

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Nancy Pelosi: "This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike."

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Another vaccine timeline update: Biden says US will have enough vaccine for most Americans by MIDDLE of May (previously he said end of May — which itself was up from end of July)

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Biden is set to appear alongside the Obamas, Charles Barkley, Shaq, Faith Hill, Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Fauci in an NBC special meant to "to inform and encourage those who have vaccination concerns" on Sunday night.

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A C32 (AF2) costs $42,936/hour. Pence flew 2.5 hours from Vegas to Indianapolis and then flew back to LA 📈📈

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SONDLAND out as well: “I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” he says in statement

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People who signed up for Tulsa Rally are getting texts from the campaign right now: "The Great American Comeback Celebration's almost here! Doors are OPEN at the BOK Center. Pres. Trump can't wait." "There's still space!"

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Putin and MBS greet each other with huge smiles and handshake in Buenos Aires

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Trump is still doing his Nobel Prize nomination thing even though they awarded it to someone else on Friday

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Biden says “a poison is running through our Democracy” as he notes disinformation while hailing importance of free press at the White House Correspondents Dinner

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More from Macron under the Arc de Triomphe today, after warning of nationalism's spread: "I know there are old demons which are coming back to the surface. They are ready to wreak chaos and death…History sometimes threatens to take its sinister course once again."

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President Biden is at the confirmation of his grandson Hunter, son of the late Beau Biden, at his church in Wilmington today

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A look at the Obamas' official portraits, painted by Robert McCurdy (President Obama) and Sharon Sprung (Mrs. Obama)

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Biden to new White House employees: “If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treating another colleague with disrespect, talking down to someone, I will fire you on the spot.” he says decency among White House colleagues has been missing the past 4 years

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3 years

Many people look foolish because of Trump's video (which people in the WH didn't even seem to know he was taping in another room) but don't forget the millions of Americans who were told their $600 checks, however small, were coming next week and now have no idea what to expect

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Jen Psaki resumes tradition of calling on the AP for the first question in her briefing

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Biden just offered his most expansive comments about handling of classified material following the search of Mar-a-Lago. Asked about Trump’s declassification claim, Biden scoffed: “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president, I can do — c’mon"

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With Mike Pence looking on, Angela Merkel says journalists must be respected. "Freedom of the press is a pillar of Democracy," she says

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3 years

Trump’s daily schedules sounding weirder and weirder. The one the WH released for tomorrow says “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”

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3 years

We asked the WH for video or a transcript of this speech (which didn't appear on the G20 pool feed and isn't anywhere on the G20 website) and they didn't write back

Donald J. Trump

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3 years

Just arrived at Virtual G20. Was here yesterday also (early), but some of the Fake News Media failed to report it accurately - as usual. My speech is available (they said I didn’t make a speech).

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STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DALLAS, TEXAS — I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.

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Trump says on Fox Radio interview he was in the bunker for "tiny" amount of time and it was "much more for an inspection" than for his own safety.

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First images from President Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, via the Vatican

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The funding figures Trump complained about for the Kennedy Center, National Gallery and Smithsonian are actually lower than what he requested in his budget in February

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Reality check from a senior White House official: “Brad’s not the one going off message...Brad’s not the one refusing to wear a mask. He’s (Trump) not focused. Everyone has told him that. Nothing has changed.”

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A “lock her up” chant broke out at Mar-a-Lago tonight during Sen. Graham’s speech as he called for an investigation into Clinton and the origins of the dossier. Trump watched on from a table in the ballroom.

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3 years

Got it

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In an interview when he repeatedly paused to cough or catch his breath, Trump says he wants to resume campaign travel in days and won’t say when he’s been tested. Trump has not been seen independently in person since returning from the hospital on Monday night.

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2 years

VP Harris is laying out the midterm pitch at DNC headquarters right now, 100 days from elections. She says Dems must be prepared to answer from voters: "Why should I vote? What did I get for voting before?" She is listing child tax credit, KBJ on court, restored foreign alliances

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Zelensky at the White House

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George W. Bush wrote about the eleventh-hour pardon pressure in his memoir Decision Points: "One of the biggest surprises of my presidency was the flood of pardon requests at the end. I could not believe the number of people who pulled me aside to suggest that a friend..." (cont)

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In his tweets, President Trump has declared himself safe inside his heavily fortified mansion, from which he said he watched last night’s protests and provided a play-by-play. He appears to be summoning his supporters there tonight.

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I’m not an advance person — but why would you go to Mt Rushmore to give a speech and have the background look like you’re speaking from a drape-and-piped hotel ballroom

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"That should never have happened," said one USSS agent of Trump's drive-by yesterday -- 1 of 4 current agents who spoke to CNN. Concocted by a bored president and a tiny group of aides at Walter Reed, the image compounded a sense of deep mismanagement.

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3 years

Jenna and Barbara Bush attended Obama's inauguration and Chelsea Clinton attended George W. Bush's so not really clear what precedent is being cited by the White House here.

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3 years

Ivanka Trump is not expected to attend Biden’s inauguration next week, according to a WH official. While she respects his transition to power, according to this official, the official notes children of outgoing president’s do not traditionally attend.

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Per pool at event today "POTUS took out a phone and appeared to be scrolling through it on-and-off again as two female guests told personal stories about how PPP loans had helped their small businesses." (photo by Saul Loeb via Getty)

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5 years

Nominations for Dr. Ronny and Heather Nauert follow similar patterns: 1) The White House nominates someone who is, at best, underqualified. 2) Fails to vet them thoroughly before announcing it. 3) Finds all kinds of humiliating skeletons. 4) Leaves them no choice but to withdraw

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Neighbors are screaming at Biden about Afghanistan as he tours flood damage in New Jersey

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Trump was reading for a typewritten script during his "clarification" moment but he made some handwritten additions, including: "THERE WAS NO COLLUSION"

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Ahead of Trump's visit to Catholic shrine in DC today, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington says it's "baffling and reprehensible" that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be used for a photo-op

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. @WashArchbishop Gregory has released a statement on the president's visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine.

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Biden makes clear: he believes he has mandate from majority of nation to begin governing

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President Biden on Rittenhouse verdict just now, arriving on the South Lawn: “I stand by what the jury has to say. The jury system works.”

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Mark Meadows attended GOP lunch at the Capitol today and offered what senators are describing as a good-bye message. Cornyn tells reporters Meadows talked about “basically just there are about 45 days left of the president’s term." Per @alizaslav

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Macron confirms Trump never made it to climate session at G7. "He wasn’t in the room but his team was there," he says. He says it's no longer his goal to convince Trump to come back to the Paris accord.

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"Otherwise, you had to wait for the Justice Department to conduct a review and make recommendation. In my final weeks in office, I resolved that I would not pardon anyone who went outside the formal channels.” (Trump has adopted almost the opposite approach re: formal channels)

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The Obamas release a statement on Harvey Weinstein:

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And Biden says on investigation, he's staying out of it: “I’m not going to comment because I don’t know the details. I don’t even want to know, I’ll let the Justice Department take that.”

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President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

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President Trump is back on the golf course today in Florida

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Mystery of the day: someone in the CNN booth has spent almost $500 on Shawn Mendes tickets and no one knows who

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After telling @Acosta he would step down from Trump's diversity council if DACA rescinded, Javier Palomarez has indeed resigned

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7p hour recap: Trump pardons admitted liars, corrupt Republicans and Blackwater guards convicted of massacre on civilians; minutes later tells Congress to redo the stimulus/gov't funding package it took them 9 months to pass in video taped in front of Christmas garland.

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presidents club update: Carter: setting up meeting with current president Bush: promoting book of paintings he did of immigrants Obama: issuing statement on Myanmar Trump: issuing statement about whether to call it the "Academy Awards" or "Oscars"

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Trump has said he couldn’t vote in person in this year’s primary because he was at the White House, not Florida. But in March he drove past an open early voting location at least 6 times. There were 7 open locations within 15 miles of Mar-a-Lago.

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7 years

Here's the list the White House sent of attacks they feel "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources."

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“I’m taking home with me today today’s PDB (Presidential Daily Brief). It’s locked, I have a person with me, military with me, I read it, I lock it back up, I give it to the military,” Biden said.

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(CNN is not retracting the poll)

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“Tweet me your guess, while I go prove it in court” is a pretty good description of where we’re at

Rudy W. Giuliani

@RudyGiuliani

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Up early working on PA. @realDonaldTrump election night 800,000 lead was wiped out by hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots counted without any Republican observer. Why were Republicans excluded? Tweet me your guess, while I go prove it in court.

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Psaki says "If former President Trump woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine certainly we’d support that." She notes every other living former president has done that and "they did not need an engraved invitation to do so."

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Biden is announcing accelerated timeline on vaccines. He says US will have enough for every American by May. The previous timeline was end of July.

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This pic from last night

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Biden has officially revoked the Trump-era ban on transgender individuals serving in the military, per White House

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Biden is speaking to Macron right now following Macron’s back-to-back phone calls with Putin and Zelensky.

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Between Trudeau blowing off USMCA ceremony yesterday and Merkel taking barely-veiled swipes at the US COVID response, it's starting to seem like foreign leaders are moving on from Trump

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"You cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation." Angela Merkel uses her speech at the European Parliament to say #COVID19 has exposed the emptiness of populism.

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"...or former colleague deserved a pardon. At first I was frustrated. Then I was disgusted. I came to see massive injustice in the system. If you had connections to the president, you could insert your case into the last-minute frenzy." (cont)

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US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivers a message to Russian soldiers in Ukraine: "Your leaders are lying to you. Do not commit war crimes."

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In a gaggle on his plane, Mike Pompeo says he hopes the reporter he berated with F-words can “find peace”

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Here’s what the Treasury checks with Trump’s name look like

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Centcom commander says while Baghdadi did crawl into tunnel with two children before death, he cannot confirm he was whimpering and crying as Trump has claimed.

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Both John Kelly and Don McGahn were invited to Trump's send-off at Joint Base Andrews tomorrow but neither plans on attending, per sources to CNN

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The Bidens on marriage and the presidency

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White House response to John Kelly, via Stephanie Grisham: “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.”

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Pressed by @Acosta on what evidence he has of "Middle Easterners" in the migrant caravan, President Trump acknowledges: "There's no proof of anything."

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It looks like Trump's senior staff are all packing up their offices today. Here, Mark Meadows' wife Debbie appears to be loading up some type of taxidermied partridge

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4 years

Peter Navarro yelled and cursed at Mnuchin during trade talks in Beijing in full view of their teams -- and still works at the WH. So while his op-ed may not have been sanctioned, his open resentment toward other officials isn't new and has been tacitly endorsed from the top.

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4 years

Doctors say today that Trump may be discharged tomorrow. But yesterday they said "day 7 to 10 are the most critical." By current accounting, Monday only brings Trump to day 5 or 6.

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VP’s chief of staff tells reporters it was Trump’s suggestion that Pence stay at his golf resort in Doonbeg in Ireland (on the other side of the country from the capital). Taxpayers still footing the bill though; Trump didn’t offer to pay. Pence flying back and forth to Dublin.

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Apparent origin of the "looting starts, shooting starts" is Miami police chief in 1967, who said "we don't mind being accused of police brutality." (via NYT archive)

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Trump's New Hampshire rally is postponed due to storm on East Coast, the White House says

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Biden just very audibly called a reporter asking about inflation a "stupid son of a bitch"

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President Trump appears to be the only person at the event who isn't wearing a mask

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President Trump and the First Lady stopped by a Studio 54-themed disco party in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago last night after returning from the Broward sheriff’s department

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not sure if you've noticed but CNN is live at the White House, Pentagon, Paris, London, Moscow, Beirut and Northern Syria tonight

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