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President Trump tweeted that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district is a “rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
It’s
@VictorBlackwell
’s home district.
“When he tweets about infestation, it's about black and brown people,” Blackwell says.
.
@brikeilarCNN
draws a contrast between how Fox host Tucker Carlson described Capitol rioters and Black Lives Matter protesters.
“Carlson rolls his eyes at the idea of systemic racism, at while privilege, but perhaps he should roll those eyes on over to a mirror.”
#RollTheTape
"I'm Jaden Jefferson and you're watching CNN!"
After interviewing Elizabeth Warren, an 11-year-old reporter shares a custom sign-off.
"I didn't feel like I was being treated like a little child, I felt like I was being treated like a journalist," he says of the Warren interview.
“We’re in a free-fall out here.”
This Ohio farmer voted for President Trump. He now says the President’s comments about farmers being “patriots” during a trade war are “just a design to make me continue to be quiet. And I’m not going to be quiet.”
.
@brikeilarcnn
on ex-Rep. Duffy’s remarks on Alexander Vindman: It’s "anti-immigrant bigotry, and it's an odd questioning of patriotism coming from Sean Duffy, the guy who spent part of his 20s on MTV’s 'The Real World'… while Alexander Vindman spent his on foreign deployments.”
“If your father is Donald Trump, who cheated on every one of this three wives, including your mom...maybe talking about husbands being disrespectful to wives is not the alley…you should be taking on”
@AnaNavarro
on Eric Trump's critique of George Conway
"He doesn't respect women," journalist Connie Chung, who interviewed Trump in 1990, says about the President.
"My husband and I used to see him at golf tournaments... he absolutely refused to acknowledge that I was physically there... as if I were invisible. It was remarkable."
If Don McGahn doesn't appear before Congress on the 21st, "we'll move to hold him in contempt," says Rep.
@tedlieu
.
"If the Trump administration is going to completely deny every single congressional subpoena, then every option has to be on the table."
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Trump, said in a CNN documentary clip that she thinks the US could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives lost to Covid-19 following the pandemic's first surge.
“I’m not the Brianna that the White House should be focused on right now. Breonna Taylor is.”
@brikeilarCNN
responds to Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany’s remarks about her.
"One of my best friends was killed in gun violence ... so it's important to me," says Paul McCartney, remembering his Beatles bandmate John Lennon at the March for Our Lives in New York City
Conservative lawyer George Conway says the impeachment trial is “a very specific day of reckoning” for Republicans.
“Are they going to stand for lies instead of truth? Are they going to stand for gaslighting instead of reality?”
.
@brikeilarcnn
on coronavirus restrictions: "We can't even go to Canada…Canada won't let us in."
Trump campaign's press sec: "…Not sure why you'd want to go to Canada when we live in the greatest country…"
Brianna: "…If you want to get away from coronavirus you might."
"The ones that we have lost aren't losers, they are ordinary people who did an extraordinary thing. They answered the call," says
@brikeilarcnn
in response to a report that Pres. Trump called the US war dead "loser and suckers."
Defense Sec. Mattis says Putin tried to “muck around” in U.S. elections last month.
@Acosta
: “That’s pretty striking given the fact that just before those midterms, ... Trump admin officials were trying to downplay this notion."
Conservative lawyer George Conway on GOP treatment of the impeachment trial: “What are they afraid of? …That's the thing that I find most disturbing about it, is they don't want to hear the evidence because they know the truth. They know he's guilty.”
“God made you like this.
God loves you like this.”
A victim of clerical sexual abuse says Pope Francis told him that God made him gay and that his sexuality "does not matter"
Rep.
@tedlieu
: “Whether Donald Trump leaves in one month, one year or five years, this impeachment is permanent, it will follow him around for the rest of his life and history books will record it. … It’s all very simple: No one is above the law”
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he wears a mask in public not only to protect himself and others but also because "I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing."
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's wife Rachel Vindman: "The people around [President Trump] knew that he would never find it acceptable if Alex were permitted to…have a normal career ... which is something exactly that happens in authoritarian governments.”
"'We love you and we are with you. Mom is very worried, so keep fighting through this' ... That text went unanswered."
@brikeilarcnn
grows emotional sharing texts of Covid-19 victims.
"Several days later another: 'We are loving you.' That was a text one day before she died."
“Josh Hawley’s comment is manifest nonsense,” Sen. Angus King says on Sen. Hawley’s plan to contest Biden’s electoral win. “To bring this challenge at this date — it’s democracy versus Trump at this point.”
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who just emerged from a briefing on Iran from top Trump administrations officials, called it “sophomoric and utterly unconvincing” adding that he remained “utterly unpersuaded” that the strike on Qasem Soleimani was justified.
"As she was starting to go up the ladder, she gets tossed a blue blanket - it just so happens there was a baby inside" - Capt. Eric Jackson details the heroic efforts of the Dekalb County Fire and Rescue firefighters
“I was one of the lucky ones,”
@BrookeBCNN
says about recovering from coronavirus. “So, what are we supposed to take from this? … Kindness and generosity. Let’s extend it to those who are disproportionately affected by coronavirus.”
"It is beyond disturbing. It is ugly, and I'm angry."
@BrookeBCNN
responds to the President's treatment of some of her media colleagues, all of whom are African-American women.
"Trump loves to punch. But this is something else. This feels personal."
"What I told him was that Donald Trump doesn't care about anyone or anything, that he will be the next one to be thrown under the bus," says Michael Cohen of Rudy Giuliani.
"We have no idea how expansive that this investigation is going to [be]... because Rudy's an idiot."
First lady Melania Trump is going on a tour for her “Be Best” initiative.
“She is focused on helping children,” her communications director says when asked whether the first lady’s anti-bullying platform contradicts with some of the President’s remarks.
“The voters spoke. And here, again, in Michigan, it’s not a razor thin margin. It’s 154,000 votes. You got to let those votes stand,” GOP Rep. Fred Upton says. “There’s no issues of fraud anywhere. … It’s over.”
“It’s almost too stupid to fact-check,” CNN’s
@ddale8
says about President Trump’s remarks that Joe Biden is being controlled by “people that are in the dark shadows.”
“This President is a conspiracy theorist,” Dale tells
@jimsciutto
.
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu has asked the FBI to "investigate whether any federal laws were violated" in Trump's lawyer paying off Stormy Daniels. Says "the payment far exceeded campaign contribution limits, a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison."
.
@brikeilarcnn
rolls the tape on Dr. Deborah Birx for not calling out misinformation about the pandemic earlier.
"Her explanations are weak, they are woefully insufficient, they are an insult after more than 400,000 Americans have died."
.
@brikeilarcnn
rolls the tape on GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s attempt to “cleanse” himself of efforts to undermine election results after he "spoon-fed" Trump supporters the big lie.
“Cruz’s masterpiece theater, rewrite of history is just that: Theater.”
“These claims that Trump would have done this differently and would’ve saved all of them; well, he had several years to do that, and the numbers speak for themselves,” says Olivia Troye, a former VP Pence adviser.
"Afghans and especially Iraqis…very few got through the system."
“There are two systems of justice in the United States. There’s a White system and there’s a Black system. The Black system ain’t doing so well,” Jacob Blake’s father says during the March on Washington. “Every Black person in the United States is going to stand up. We’re tired!”
"I don't have confidence in anyone who stands there while the President says 'swallow Lysol and it's going to cure your virus,'" says
@SpeakerPelosi
on Dr. Birx.
"I think that [Birx] has enabled" President Trump, Pelosi tells
@jimsciutto
.
Democrat Rep.
@tedlieu
: “Michael Cohen specifically says that Donald Trump directed him to make these campaign finance payments. That means we have a person sitting in the White House right now who is essentially an unindicted co-conspirator.”
“Have at it,” President Biden says when asked about challenges to vaccination mandates in court.
“I’m so disappointed that particularly some of the Republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids.”
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied the Trump campaign and Republican Party's bid to make ballot dropboxes in Pennsylvania unconstitutional, in a resounding defeat for the campaign's challenges to voting policy in a key battleground state.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Obama’s criticism of the Trump administration: “I think it really speaks to how strongly he feels about the mismanagement of this pandemic, and I am personally glad that he called it out. He has articulated what so many of us feel and know."
.
@brikeilarcnn
rolls the tape on Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson defending GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her “opinions.” Greene has come under fire for perpetuating conspiracy theories.
“Those aren’t opinions, Tucker. They are lies. Unfounded and absurd conspiracy theories”
“Trump isn't going to suddenly protect all of us. He can't even take the basic steps to protect himself,” former Pres. Obama says.
Biden is “not going to screw up testing. He’s not going to call scientists idiots. He's not going to host a superspreader event at the White House.”
"Get to the poll, because if not, you are going to have another two or another six years of this craziness." Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, tells Americans to vote against the President and the Republican Party.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on qualifying for future debates and the lack of diversity on the debate stage: “I was a little surprised that the DNC elevated their threshold. I thought they were going to keep it the same.”
President Trump “does not understand the notion that somebody would risk their life to save others without trying to make a buck,” Barack Obama said after Trump baselessly claimed doctors are inflating coronavirus death counts for money.
BREAKING:
@sarasidnerCNN
asks Senator Chris Coons if he supports adding conditions to U.S. military aid to Israel.
@ChrisCoons
: “I think we're at that point”
Watch here:
"I just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements [together] for my daughter's funeral...President Trump, please do something...action, we need it now!" Lori Alhadeff lost a child in the school shooting, her plea leaves
@BrookeBCNN
in tears
"That was just right out of 'Alice in Wonderland.'" -
@Acosta
.
"People inside the White House applauding the President during one of the biggest tactical defeats ... of his political career, to me just felt like 'The Upside Down' out of 'Stranger Things.'"
George Floyd's niece pays an emotional tribute to her uncle during his Houston funeral service.
"My name is Brooke Williams, George Floyd's niece, and I can breathe. [As] long as I'm breathing, justice will be served."
.
@brikeilarCNN
goes through some of the stories of people whose lives have been devastated by the pandemic over the past eight months, after President Trump criticized CNN for coronavirus coverage.
In a new campaign video, former first lady Michelle Obama doesn't hold back in her criticism of President Trump, slamming him for his “incompetence” in his pandemic response and for stoking fear and racism to divide the country.
“To a certain degree, I'm happy that [my parents are] not seeing what's going on here,”
@WolfBlitzer
tells
@brikeilarCNN
after a rioter wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt was arrested. Blitzer's grandparents were killed in Auschwitz.
"It was so painful for me to see."
Pres. Trump said yesterday "10 terrorists" have been caught at the border.
@jimsciutto
's fact check: “DHS did not provide evidence of a single terrorist caught at the southern border over the very last short period of time as the president claimed”
Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein reacts to Bob Woodward's conversation with Donald Trump.
"We are listening to the President of the United States, on tape, deliberately undermining the... national security of the United States... It is the smoking gun of his negligence."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Trump calling out Antifa as the city braces for dueling protests: “I’m not concerning myself with tweets coming out of Washington, D.C., and frankly, it's not helpful. This is a potentially dangerous and volatile situation.”
“We need accountability, accountability for Donald Trump and accountability for everyone who participated in that insurrection.” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren discusses the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol and impeachment with CNN’s
@abbydphillip
.
"I had to believe that coming forward would help me reclaim my voice and help others reclaim theirs," presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s wife Evelyn Yang said at the Women’s March in New York City after revealing this week she’s a sexual assault survivor
Fencer
@Race_Imboden
on why he took a knee on the podium at the Pan Am Games: “I think that the catalyst was certainly the shootings this past week...being an athlete who’s on the road a lot and seeing the terrible things that are happening and wanting to evoke change.”
Rep.
@tedlieu
: “Vice President Pence can't even bring himself to say ‘wear a mask,’ even though his own surgeon general…says to wear masks, as well as the CDC director. This conflicting message…is really confusing the American people.”
President Trump’s tweet on dismantling an Obama-era anti-discrimination housing rule is “not just incendiary, it's racist,”
@AprilDRyan
says. “… This President is trying to deconstruct civil rights history”
Rep.
@tedlieu
on the White House transcript of the call between Pres. Trump and the Ukrainian president: “This looks just like a shakedown of a foreign leader to benefit Trump politically. It is a betrayal of our values and abuse of the President's power.”
On President Trump’s claim that the Michael Cohen filing “totally clears the President,” CNN’s
@jimsciutto
says Trump is “entering truly Orwellian 2+2=5 territory. Don’t listen to the lies, listen to the facts”
"First, let me thank CNN for putting Rudy Giuliani on TV," says Rep.
@TedLieu
, reacting to Chris Cuomo's interview in which the fmr. NYC mayor "made a stunning admission, denying that he ever denied that anyone on the Trump campaign engaged in collusion."
“It’s not surprising that the distribution of the vaccine has been disappointing,” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman tells
@JohnAvlon
. “The sooner we can agree that the Covid virus is the real enemy, not each other, we can move forward as country."
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says he will be in Iowa campaigning for most of January, but he does "not think Iowa is make or break for my campaign."
"I want to get through this, because these words matter."
@BrookeBCNN
grows emotional reading a letter written from a Parkland mother to the daughter she lost in the Florida school shooting nearly one year ago.
“You don't get a mulligan on insurrection. You don't get a one-time pass,” Chris Krebs, former top cybersecurity official and Krebs Stamos Group partner, says about some officials not holding Trump accountable for the Capitol riot.
“I am sorry that Debbie [Dingell] is going through this, and I'm even more sorry…that we have a pathetic, lame excuse, inhumane President,”
@ananavarro
says about President Trump implying that the late Rep. John Dingell is “looking up” from hell.
Kait Wyatt, widow of a Marine veteran, reacts to Pres. Trump’s alleged remarks on troops when visiting Arlington National Cemetery in 2017. “You can’t stand on the graves of better men who fought and died for this country while you rip apart that country with your incompetence.”
"I want to thank all of my colleagues in the press, who supported us this week ... and let's go back to work."
CNN's Jim
@Acosta
speaks outside of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. as a judge orders the White House to return his press pass.