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David Smith

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Washington bureau chief of The Guardian

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Joined April 2009
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7 years
Trump voter James Walker, 31, from Nashville, says: "This is the first step: showing up and being honest."
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Jean-Pierre on BTS: "Right after they were here, they did go to meet with the president. Clearly I don't know what conversation was had... This was an important moment for them... They were thrilled to come out."
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Psaki: Vice President Harris “will convey our iron clad commitment to our Nato allies” at Munich Security Conference.
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Buttigieg: “I trust you to figure out your own health care.”
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Country music artist Brad Paisley performs his song ‘American Saturday Night' and explains: “I had to change the second line because it mentioned Russia and I don't do that any more." Instead he sings: “There's a Ukrainian flag hanging up behind the bar.” Biden applauds.
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Trump: "The whole concept of death is terrible."
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On red carpet at Kennedy Center Honors where Sesame Street cast are wearing yellow feathers in memory of ‘Big Bird’ Carroll Spinney.
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At ‘Celebrating the First Amendment and the Newseum’ event at The Newseum. Fox News host Chris Wallace: “I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history.”
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Cruz: "Israel is our friend. The Wuhan virus came from Wuhan. And there is a difference between boys and girls... Just a few years ago every one of those statements would have been uncontroversial... Today we're at a moment where saying those words can get you cancelled."
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Ivanka Trump: "The last three years has shown the world the benefit of the pro-growth policies this administration has followed and the benefits of capitalism... Our economy is the envy of the world."
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Vice President Kamala Harris: “My whole life I stood witness as my mother worked to end breast cancer…. My mother’s discoveries helped save women’s lives… Today we are closer than we have ever been.”
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4 years
Yang: “We do not exist to serve this economy. This economy exists to serve us and our families.”
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Biden: I told South African president Cyril Ramaphosa I was about to introduce the first African American woman on the Supreme Court. He said to me: “Keep it up.”
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At White House briefing. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “So, no BTS today but you do have KJP.”
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4 years
Yang: “Almost 2,000 newspapers have gone out of business over the last number of months... What doesn’t function very well if you don’t have local news? Democracy.”
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Buttigieg: "Some people are oddly triggered by policies that are going to make everyone better off."
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Hamill on meeting Joe Biden in Oval Office: “I only expected to be in there for five minutes. He showed us all these photographs… He said, ‘You can call me Joe.’ I said, ‘Can I call you Joebi-Wan Kenobi?’”
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Former British prime minister Liz Truss walks on stage at CPAC to polite applause and dozens of empty seats:
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5 years
Rep David Cicilline: Corey Lewandowski, a private citizen, was instructed to deliver a message to the attorney general to limit your investigation? Mueller: "Correct."
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2 years
Went to ‘mock trial’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company where Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff argued a case and was later joined on stage by Vide President Kamala Harris.
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Psaki on Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin: "The United States is the first country to have private companies taking private individuals to space. This is a moment of American exceptionalism. That's how we see it."
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4 years
Yang: “Iowa, this is it. You are the wave starting on Monday night and I can’t wait.”
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3 years
At White House briefing. Press secretary Jen Psaki: The US condemns Ethiopia’s expulsion of UN staff.
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2 years
In House of Representatives chamber for Joe Biden's first state of the union address. In 2020 Democratic women wore all white to honour the suffragists. This year some members are wearing blue and yellow in solidarity with Ukraine.
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Yang: We’re told everything is great, GDP is high, unemployment is low. “We’re looking around and thinking, ‘I’m not sure everything is that great’. And we’re right.”
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7 years
At the White House, where the south portico has decorative spiders and webs for Halloween.
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5 years
Trump tells Niinistö to pick a "nice" journalist. "I think they're all nice in Finland."
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2 years
Trump: "There is no respect for the law and there certainly is no order... It has to stop and it has to stop now."
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4 years
Asked if he has any regrets about working for McKinsey, Buttigieg replies simply: “No.”
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6 years
At Doug Jones rally in Birmingham. Charles Barkley: "If somebody sent you this as a movie script, you would throw it in the trash. You would say there's no way this other guy could be leading in the polls... It's unbelievable this other guy is still in the race."
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Yang: “Campaigning here in Iowa has been one of the greatest journeys of my life.” I think I have held more than 160 events. “Thank you for all you have done for me and my family over the last number of months.”
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4 years
Yang: “I’d be the first president to use a PowerPoint deck at the state of the union.”
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Jean-Pierre: The president understands concerns over cost but this is bigger than Ukraine. We're talking about democracy, Ukrainians fighting for their freedom, an unprovoked war started by Vladimir Putin. "Our support for Ukraine will remain strong until the end of this war."
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1 year
Also at the Kennedy Center Honors:
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At The National Press Club. Rep Eric Swalwell on legislation to protect journalists: At the time of “enemy of the people” there was an increase in violence against journalists. “I believe it should be a protected class, just as hate crimes are protected under law.”
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Trump: We reversed the "failing policies" of the previous administration on Cuba. We are leading a coalition against the "socialist dictator" of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó.
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4 years
McEnany on retirement of Colonel Vindman: I'm not going to comment on a "former junior employee".
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7 years
"The best way to be sure that 2017 is not 1934 is to act as though it were." Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker:
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Jackson: "So no, Mr Stone, I'm not giving you another chance. I have serious doubts about whether you've learned any lesson at all."
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Blue Angels flyover.
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Yang: “We’re going to move this country not left, not right, but forward.”
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Buttigieg: “My city was destroyed by economic failure and greed that were created before I was born and that we have spent my lifetime clawing our way out of.”
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DeSantis: "We have an opportunity to make 2022 the year America fought back."
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6 years
Protester is escorted out by security. Crowd chants: "USA! USA!" Trump: "How did he get here, in Matt? For the fake news media back there, they took very good care of him. They were very gentle. He was very obnoxious."
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'The White House is now virtually free of music. Never have we had a president not just indifferent to the arts, but actively oppositional to artists.' Dave Eggers in The New York Times:
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Clinton: "Advancing the rights and full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century."
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Jean-Pierre: "A national ban on abortion would be devastating for women across the country."
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Obama: "Then the guy's name is Josh Earnest."
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Zelinsky: "Randy Credico didn't want to commit perjury for Roger Stone... Stone even told Credico to 'do a Frank Pentangeli'." He is character in The Godfather Part II who pretends he doesn't remember anything. "Even that didn't work."
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Biden: "We understand in our bones that Ukraine's fight is part of something bigger."
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Buttigieg: "We often can find in our relationship with God... a source of concern and solidarity with human beings that cuts across any of the categories that are imposed on us by being in this world."
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Spotted in row 1 of flight from Washington to West Palm Beach in Florida: former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.
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4 years
Asked if the nation is ready for a gay president, Buttigieg replies: “Absolutely.”
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3 years
Psaki on Afghanistan: "It's a war we fought for 20 years spending $300 million a day. I'll let you all do the math on that... We feel that money can be better spent."
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7 years
Melania Trump with award recipient Malebogo Molefhe of Botswana.
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Melania Trump: "We are all ultimately members of one race, the human race."
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: “This was such an amazing effort to pass one of the great legislative feats of the 21st century… The best is yet to come.”
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At International Women of Courage awards at State Department. Melania Trump: "I'm deeply humbled to be here today."
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Psaki: "The best way to protect yourself is to get vaccinated and to get boosted."
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Buttigieg: There are "two confounding variables" for self-driving cars. "One is snow and the other is human beings. They're pretty close to figuring out snow."
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Schumer: “There was one beacon… who always said we can get it done… the great President Joseph Robinette Biden.”
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At White House for Pittsburgh Penguins reception. Donald Trump: "Everybody wanted to be here today and I know why."
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Buttigieg: The fact that we use the phrase 'wrong side of the tracks' "tells you something about the relationship between racial and economic exclusion and where our infrastructure sits".
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Congressman James Clyburn: “When she told me she was going to run and asked me to be helpful, I committed to her that I would be… We’ve got to believe in her.”
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At the White House. Cedric Richmond of Congressional Black Caucus on meeting Trump: "He listened."
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Psaki: "There's no doubt we're in the position we're in now because the previous administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal."
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6 years
Trump: “Thank you to the March for Life. Special, special people and we are with you all the way.”
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Buttigieg: Transportation is a bigger contributor to climate change than any other sector. "If we care about climate change, we have to make transportation part of the solution."
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Jackson: "Any violation of this order will be a basis for revoking your bond.. Today I gave you a second chance. But this is not baseball."
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Biden: "Banning books. It’s wrong. Instead of erasing history, let’s make history. I want to protect other fundamental rights. Pass the Equality Act, and my message to transgender Americans: I have your back."
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3 years
Last visit to the Trump White House.
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Spicer: Trump signed Nasa bill, supports James Webb Telescope, "a large leap forward in our ever evolving quest to understand the universe".
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'Instead of hitting Trump while he's down, other potential Republican candidates have been busy trying to define themselves while dancing around the elephant in the room.' From Axios:
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Trump on election interference: "President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
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Kirby on Russia: I don't know of any other air force or military that would give an award to a pilot for smashing into a drone. "If that's bravery, I guess they've got a different definition of it. It's ludicrous. It's insulting."
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4 years
Eric Trump invites to the stage a woman who has been camping outside the rally venue since Thursday. She says tearfully: “I can’t believe this.”
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Biden: "Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Ukrainian people. He will never extinguish their love of freedom. He will never weaken the resolve of the free world."
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Buttigieg: The late teens and early twenties will be looked back on as "fascinating and flashy" but living in it is hard. America's "democratic character is on the line in a way we haven't seen in our lifetime".
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Clinton finishes, sits down and smiles. Audience members give a standing ovation, many snapping photos on phones.
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Biden to House Republicans: “Are you going to stand with Ukraine or stand with Putin? Are you going to stand with America or with Trump?”
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Spotted outside district court in Washington where Paul Manafort is due to be sentenced.
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At Humans to Mars summit at George Washington University. Senator Ted Cruz: As a Texan I’m really glad the first word spoken on the moon was “Houston” and not some other city.
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Buttigieg: “It’s a mystery to me that John Bolton, the architect of the Iraq war, probably the greatest foreign policy disaster of my lifetime, is allowed anyone near the situation room.”
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In Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Joe Biden: “Putin has failed, failed in his effort to subjugate Ukraine… We’ll continue to supply Ukraine with critical aid and equipment for as long as can.”
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Clyburn: "Shontel is what we would all like to see sitting in Washington, helping this country."
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Biden: “Everything we stand for rests on the platform of democracy. When people voted for Donald Trump, they weren’t voting for an attack on the Capitol.”
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Ebola, Nigerian election, rhinos, boom and bust... and a space race. Useful overview of the year ahead in Africa: http://t.co/52SJkEsIg3
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At White House for Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s 224th and final briefing.
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Walking in Rosebank, Joburg, South Africa. My last day in Africa after six years and six months. http://t.co/Wwkzyhovo2
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Buttigieg: "Struggling with faith is a natural thing for any human being to do and an especially natural thing when you're a student."
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Buttigieg on bipartisan infrastructure law: "I do believe we have a once in a century chance to make this country fairer and a better place."
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Psaki on diplomatic boycott of winter Olympics: "We are not in a state where business as usual is appropriate... We feel this sends a clear message."
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Psaki on western response to Ukraine invasion: "All of this coordinated action didn't happen by accident. It wouldn't have happened without the president's efforts."
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Psaki on her coronavirus infection: "I waited to return to the office until I got a negative test... We recognise that Covid-19 remains a transmissible disease."
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Biden: We have to “make sure the threat by the speaker of the House to default on our debt is off the table”. We should pay our bills “without reckless hostage taking by some of the Republicans in Congress”.
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Obama: The work that I've seen gives me "great confidence" that the Russians carried out the hack of DNC and the hack of John Podesta.
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Buttigieg on the Rust Belt: "You grow up surrounded by large physical reminders of the impact of policy on your community."
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Trump begins speech and welcomes Melania. Most stand and applaud. One member encourages Ocasio-Cortez to do so; she appears to reply, "What? Why?"
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