All of us who traveled with him were notified by the office of
@VP
the day before the trip that wearing of masks was required by the
@MayoClinic
and to prepare accordingly.
Karen Pence told
@foxandfriends
this morning that
@VP
was not made aware of the
@MayoClinic
mask policy until his visit was over. This contradicts a Mayo tweet that he was made aware of the policy before beginning his visit.
A
@DCPoliceDept
officer says off-duty police officers and members of the military, who were among the rioters, flashed their badges and I.D. cards as they attempted to overrun the US Capitol. via
@politico
View of the line outside Las Vegas Convention Center of those waiting to get into the
@realDonaldTrump
#MAGA
rally. (Photos sent to me from someone who prefers to remain anonymous)
Those in hurricane-prone areas should get vaccinated now, says
@POTUS
, explaining that "if you wind up having to stay in shelter you don't want to add COVID-19 to the list of dangers."
I was the one holding the lighter-colored fuzzy microphone and thus literally in front of
@POTUS
on the South Lawn. It's all real. Who actually believes this 'faked moon landing' type nonsense and more importantly who is spreading it?
A video of President Biden answering a few questions from reporters has set into motion an explosion of old or existing conspiracy theories ranging from "green screen video" to "CGI" to "Biden isn't real" to "Biden is dead" to "Biden body double".
K-pop group
@BTS_twt
will join
@POTUS
next Tuesday "to discuss Asian inclusion and representation, and to address anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination which have become more prominent issues in recent years," announces the
@WhiteHouse
.
#BTS
#AANHPI
I've requested details from the
@WhiteHouse
on this photo.
There was no such canine event on today's
@POTUS
schedule but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an active duty Green Beret.
Two
@CapitolPolice
veterans who were on duty during the
#CapitolSiege
sue Donald Trump, accusing him of inciting the violent mob that injured officers.
"Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence?" asks
@tedwheeler
. "It is you..."
National Archives has informed the former president it’ll hand over to special counsel Jack Smith 16 records showing Trump and his top advisers knew the correct declassification process while he was still in office, reports CNN.
"We're devastated by the recent spate of hate crimes" in the US, is one of the
#BTS
messages today at the
@WhiteHouse
. "Music is always a wonderful unifier."
US District Court Judge Jesse Furman denies request of
@TheJusticeDept
to change lawyers handling
#2020Census
case, calling it "patently deficient" and providing no "satisfactory reasons."
Official
@WhiteHouse
transcripts misquotes
@POTUS
today chiding
@CeciliaVega
(compare video to text). I was sitting just behind her in the Rose Garden and we all clearly heard him say: "I know you're not thinking. You never do.”
The breakfast is underway, hosted by
@JustinTrudeau
, who says time is tight and they'll get started without waiting for any "stragglers." (
@POTUS
has not yet been spotted in the room).
On Air Force One,
@POTUS
tells reporters that on Tuesday there’ll be a pardon for “very, very important figure” but it won’t be
@Snowden
or
@GenFlynn
.
BREAKING: We just sued Trump over his fake national emergency.
If Trump gets away with this, there's no telling what the next concocted "emergency" will be, who will be targeted and what emergency powers will be claimed.
We refuse to tolerate this slide to authoritarianism.
After the
@POTUS
statement, I queried
@SebGorka
(former deputy assistant to
@POTUS
) in the
@WhiteHouse
Rose Garden about why he blocks so many journalists (including me) on Twitter, despite insisting that people on social media shouldn't be blocked. Here's what happened.
A Border Patrol agent who was nearby when the
#UvaldeSchoolShooting
began rushed into the school without waiting for backup and shot and killed the gunman, who was behind a barricade, reports
@AP
.
NATIONAL EMERGENCY AUTHORITY TO ORDER THE SELECTED RESERVE AND CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE INDIVIDUAL READY RESERVE OF THE ARMED FORCES TO ACTIVE DUTY --
@WhiteHouse
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, now one of New York's most notorious prison inmates after being sentenced for sexual assault, has tested positive for
#COVID19
, according to officials connected to the state prison system.
The
@WhiteHouse
principal deputy press secretary,
@hogangidley45
, just spoke at length to
@foxnews
— but says he has no time to answer even a single question on
#Turkey
or any other subject from the rest of us.
Federal watchdog agency determines
@WhiteHouse
counselor
@KellyannePolls
violated
#HatchAct
on numerous times by “disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media.”
“I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech" for expressing "my frustrations in a joking manner,” complains Jared Schmeck, the
#Oregon
father of four who told
@POTUS
: 'Let's go Brandon.'
The sharp rise in Hubei
#coronavirus
cases is supposedly due to the use of new methodology. That aside, it reveals a much more serious situation there than previously revealed.
The video replaces the
@LuisFonsi
song
@JoeBiden
actually played on his phone with one from
#NWA
. How do I know this? I was in the room for the Hispanic event in Osceola County,
#Florida
.
Former
@GOP
and
@realDonaldTrump
donor Elliott Broidy enters guilty plea; admits to acting as an unregistered foreign agent for interests of
#China
and
#Malaysia
and accepting millions of dollars to secretly lobby the administration.
Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in Nov. 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report, reports
@WSJ
.
#Coronavirus
#China
#Russia
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's trip to Belgrade has been cancelled after countries around
#Serbia
close their airspace to his aircraft, a senior foreign ministry source tells
@interfax_news
.
On Air Force One,
@LindseyGrahamSC
tells reporters he owns an AR-15 in case "there's a hurricane, a natural disaster, no power, no cops, no anything" and looters will know not "to come to the AR-15 home."
"The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable."
@KREM2
One other revelation from tonight's
@LesleyRStahl
interview with
@POTUS
is 'The Republican Club' portrait by cowboy painter Andy Thomas is on a wall in the
@WhiteHouse
.
Now on 60 Minutes: There's less than a month until the mid-term elections. Hear what President Trump has to say about some of the issues that will likely be motivating voters at the ballot.
Former Acting AG
@MattWhitaker46
, who earlier this month told a congressional committee
@realDonaldTrump
had never pressured him over the various investigations, "is now under scrutiny by House Democrats for possible perjury," reports
@nytimes
.
"Extremism is not tolerated in any branch of the United States military," says
@USArmy
General Dan Hokanson, who is the chief of the National Guard Bureau.
#Mexico
"has to grab it and they have to stop it," says
@POTUS
of caravans. "If they don't stop 'em, we're closing the border. And we'll close it for a long time. I'm not playing games."
In a
@washingtonpost
op-ed this morning, recently retired
@USArmy
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman says: "At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation’s values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment."
US “looking at” banning Chinese social media apps, including
@tiktok_us
,
@SecPompeo
tells
@FoxNews
, cautioning that people should only download that app “if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.”
The municipality building in Tel Aviv is lit in the colors of the American flag in solidarity with the victims of the
#TreeOfLifeSynagogue
shooting. (Photo:
@Reuters
/Nir Elias)
An alert has been issued by
@CISAgov
to election officials warning of vulnerabilities in
@DominionVoting
systems used in 16 states that hackers could exploit, reports
@AP
.
Asked just before boarding Marine One if he’s looking to replace
@FBI
Director Wray,
@POTUS
replies: “We’re looking at a lot of different things...I did not like his answer the other day.”
“The President of the United States will be making a major statement tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the White House,” according to
@WhiteHouse
statement.
"Look how nice your parents are behaving. I can't believe this,"
@POTUS
says to children of
@WhiteHouse
journalists. "They're not screaming. They're not going wild."
Asked if he’s seen the
#Borat2
footage and if he’s worried about security breaches,
@POTUS
replies: “I don’t know what happened. But years ago, you know, he (
@SachaBaronCohen
) tried to scam me and I was the only one who said no way. That’s a phony guy and I don’t find him funny."
"I'm not walking anything back," says
@POTUS
responding to a question from
@KellyO
about his remark on Putin. "I was expressing moral outage" and "make no apologies."