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Politics Editor @WSJ . Former @nationaljournal @washingtonpost & @rollcall . @UCBerkeley alum. L.A. native. Vin Scully forever.

Washington, DC
Joined January 2010
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Ben Pershing
7 years
Finally, we hit back.
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FOX Business
7 years
. @Sbarro to open new pizza outlets in Russia
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Will be interesting to see how frequently this happens tomorrow: “The agents were re­jected by peo­ple at the res­i­dences be­cause they didn’t have war­rants”
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I knew there was some reason why it was getting harder to hear the dialogue on TV, but hadn’t seen it explained so clearly before.
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The U.S. Army is monitoring Vindman’s security and is prepared to move him and his family to a local military base if necessary following his impeachment testimony.
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4 years
“Brad Pitt will play Anthony Fauci on SNL” is not something I thought would happen.
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4 years
The fact that the House impeachment was completely partisan was a vital WH talking point. Romney removing Trump's ability to say the same in the Senate is huge, and now very eager to see/read Trump's reaction.
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NEWS: The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas over its new law banning most abortions, an action that would set off a federal-state clash
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Roche says its test has proven 100% ac­cu­rate at de­tect­ing Covid-19 an­ti­bod­ies in the blood, and 99.8% ac­cu­rate at rul­ing out the pres­ence of those an­ti­bod­ies.
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“Eight former students who attended the prestigious school during Mr. Epstein’s short tenure there said that his conduct with teenage girls had left an impression that had lingered for decades.”
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A lot of the "Beto lost because he did X wrong" stories seem predicated on the notion that a generic D might've done better, or that the race was close more because of Cruz's weakness than O'Rourke's strength. I don't agree. Generic Dems have a terrible recent track record in TX.
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Fascinating long-term trends on what Americans value, per the latest WSJ-NORC poll:
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"A newly uncovered video shows Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg in 2019 describing transgender people as an 'he, she, or it' and 'some guy in a dress' who enters girls’ locker rooms"
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3 years
President Trump would need sweeping legal victories for any chance at contesting Joe Biden’s election victory. Many of the lawsuits they have filed so far are limited in scope, making them unlikely to produce large vote swings even if successful.
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The White House just sent out the text of the executive order. It creates a task force to recommend how and where to create this new garden. And it specifies the statues that should be in the park (including Antonin Scalia):
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NEWS: Tesla board members investigated whether company resources were misused in a secret project to build a glass house for Elon Musk
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Inbox: Donald Trump and Bill O'Reilly will hold a series of live events in Florida and Texas in December, dubbed "The History Tour," where Trump will "provide a never before heard inside view of his administration."
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Off-camera, Steve Kornacki is pedaling a stationary bike that powers the entire studio.
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America may well be hopelessly divided. But I think the vast majority of us can agree ... It's great the Astros lost.
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NEW: Some officials at the Pentagon said they would be willing to meet off site with members of the Biden team should the standoff extend into December. “January is too late,” one defense official said.
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At WaPo event, John Bolton says Trump “may well have withdrawn from NATO” in a second term, and that Putin “was waiting for that.” Bolton says he, Pompeo and Esper were “appalled” by Trump’s policies in Ukraine.
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A-Rod just said on the Yankees-Nats broadcast: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former point guard from New York, a hero to so many, he’s been playing point guard for the nation.”
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“It’s like Covid-19 theater,” one scientist says. The plexiglass barriers installed at the vice-presidential debate to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus probably won’t help, according to experts.
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NEWS: President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ’s son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani.
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This week, a group of policy experts assigned to every major government agency will begin laying plans to implement Mr. Biden’s agenda, according to a Biden transition official.
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An agency decides to put on hold a $765 million loan to Kodak as the SEC investigates its disclosure of a loan and stock options granted to executives
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Kyrsten Sinema tells @elizacollins1 why she won't budge on scrapping or even changing the filibuster rule: “When you have a place that’s broken and not working, and many would say that’s the Senate today, I don’t think the solution is to erode the rules.”
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Ben Pershing
6 years
Seems fair to say that if Dems moved an election date because their candidate was losing, GOP would not take it well
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Ben Pershing
4 years
Whether you're for or against calling witnesses, it's worth noting that this principle described by Rubio was not followed during the Clinton impeachment. The Senate took videotaped testimony from Lewinsky, Jordan and Blumenthal, none of whom testified to the House.
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Manu Raju
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Just asked Sen Rubio if he‘d vote to subpoena Bolton. “I wouldn’t because..I believe you should be constrained by the information that those articles are based on..if the House wants to start a new impeachment inquiry or..add additional elements to it that’s their choice to make”
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“Those who have had at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine, a significant majority of likely voters, support McAuliffe by 14 points. Those who have not received even one vaccine dose back Youngkin by 77 points.”
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YouTube suspended President Trump’s channel, joining a growing list of tech companies that are ejecting him from their platforms
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7 years
Goes without saying: I've never seen a House or Senate Intel Committee chair do anything quite like this publicly.
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NEW: Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeffrey Sprecher, purchased and sold about $1.4 million in stocks in the midst of the coronavirus market panic.
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Mulvaney on Trump: "At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business."
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In Missouri, Georgia, Ohio and now Nebraska, Republican men running for high office face significant allegations of domestic violence, stalking, even sexual assault — accusations that once would have derailed any run for office.
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“Well, somebody is lying." A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud, but all he found was lies, @TimAlberta reports.
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Ben Pershing
7 years
I expect liberal Twitter will handle this news calmly.
@YahooNews
Yahoo News
7 years
Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders inflicted ‘lasting damage’ on her campaign by @stableford
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GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsberg says on CNN that there's no way for Trump to do what he just claimed he would do — go to the Supreme Court and ask for it to stop the counting of ballots.
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A private security company is recruiting a “large contingent” of former U.S. military Special Operations personnel to guard polling sites in Minn. on Election Day as part of an effort “to make sure that the Antifas don’t try to destroy the election sites”
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Just to recap, this person allegedly: 1) Plagiarized in her novel; 2) Plagiarized in her confessional essay about plagiarizing her novel; and 3) Specifically plagiarized a guy who writes about plagiarism (the author of the website Plagiarism Today)
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An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found.
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Have to assume @BarbaraComstock is moving up the list of most vulnerable House Republicans tonight. Results in her district are sobering for GOP.
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“Mr. Trump’s behavior led to such mistrust within intelligence agencies that officials who gave him classified briefings occasionally erred on the side of withholding some sensitive details from him.”
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"Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world."
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It looks more like the Alec Baldwin Trump than the real Trump.
@RichardRubinDC
Richard Rubin
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This just came into the Capitol with its creator, Barry Wingard of western PA. He painted it....
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Crackdowns on leaks always leak. Always.
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People who know/cover Ryan always thought he’d win re-election back home and then resign in November or December. What changed? Maybe the fact that he faced an expensive, possibly tough race in Wisconsin. Not worth that effort if he’s quitting anyway.
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Kodak "shared information about an agreement between the company and the Trump administration with media outlets before the public announcement. Some media companies then published that information before deleting it after a request from the company."
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Ben Pershing
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Both things can be true: 1) The idea of the summit has merit and everyone should root for its success. 2) If Obama were having this meeting (particularly w/ these photos) Republicans would be flipping out about it.
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I am more pro summit than anti summit
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Ben Pershing
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'I'm the President of the United States!': Trump flips out on reporter - CNN Video
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Since “Sound of Music” is on, I’m obligated to share this. So good.
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8 years
Nice country you got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
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This is one of the best stories I've ever read, and I can't bring myself to read it again. Can't get past the start.
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Colby College poll shows Sara Gideon essentially tied with Susan Collins (43-42), and Gideon leads among women (49-36). And 39% of independents said they're less likely to voter for Collins because of her Trump acquittal vote, compared to 13% who are more likely to vote for her.
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When Mr. Giuliani went to the bathroom at one point, one of his confidants turned to Mr. Kiriakou and suggested Mr. Giuliani could help. But “it’s going to cost $2 million — he’s going to want two million bucks”
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The irony here is that France isn’t supposed to “pay for NATO” (that’s not how NATO works)—it’s supposed to spend more of its own $$ on defense. Which is basically what Macron is saying Europe should do. And that’s making Trump mad.
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Donald J. Trump
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Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!
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Ben Pershing
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The thrust of the Fox host's question here is fascinating: Don't you want to clarify your remarks given that Trump said something different?
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Reagan Battalion
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Watch: @FoxNews host asks @marcorubio if he wants to “clarify” his remarks calling Kim Jong Un a weirdo who starved his own people, Rubio: There is nothing to clarify.
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NEWS: The rally in Washington’s Ellipse that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arranged and funded by a small group, including a top Trump campaign fundraiser and donor, and facilitated by far-right show host Alex Jones.
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Facebook said Thursday that it was the first time the company removed a Trump campaign ad for violating its census interference policy.
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Not clear why Biden used the 90% number to refer to Americans evacuated, when he's providing stats suggesting it's more like 96-98%
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FLOTUS's April Fool's prank
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In 20 years in DC, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so many sources apparently eager to embarrass one prominent official as with Scott Pruitt. It’s impossible to keep up.
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Noah Shachtman
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EXCLUSIVE: Scott Pruitt made public servants fetch his protein bars and Greek yogurt
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Ben Pershing
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Yawn. Like I haven't read that before.
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The New York Times
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Olive Yang, who died last week at 90, rejected royal birthright to become a cross-dressing opium warlord
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A reminder of what Trump said to an adviser who tested positive during the previous outbreak: “Don’t tell anyone.”
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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More on @maggieNYT ’s scoop from last night on Meadows wanting to keep the Covid diagnosis in the VP’s office under wraps.
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Unacceptable mistake
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Best of Nextdoor 🏡
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WHY HAS "SWEET CHILD O' MINE" BEEN BLARING ON REPEAT FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS???
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This is the official account of committee Republicans.
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Don't forget the "rogue autopsy specialist" who happened to be hanging around, with a bone saw.
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"Rogue killers"... That's that's it. Sure. Rogue Killers who just happen to have access the Saudi diplomatic passports. Yeah, got it.
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WH officials were worried Australian PM Scott Morrison would bring his controversial pastor and "mentor," Brian Houston, with him on his US visit, @vmsalama reports. Morrison eventually agreed not to.
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Ben Pershing
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An unusual sight for DC: A guy on Metro at 9 am in dress shirt and tie, clearly headed to work ... drinking a can of Corona.
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Ben Pershing
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You can tell this was dictated by Trump because of the electoral college point and the reference to NYT's supposed apology for its election coverage.
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Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
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Response to anonymous @nytimes op-ed.
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Up is down: Trump lies that Biden would 'destroy' Obamacare's protections for pre-existing conditions
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Tales from quarantine: My WiFi cut out completely during an important work call this morning because ... the kids unplugged the router so they could plug in a toy train. Worth it?
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Ben Pershing
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“Government power was used to spy on American citizens,” Mr. Barr told The Wall Street Journal, in his first interview since taking office in February. “I can’t imagine any world where we wouldn’t take a look and make sure that was done properly.”
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Ben Pershing
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Best part: VOTER: "I don't have the money like you." CHRISTIE: "Oh yeah, I'm sure."
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Nick Corasaniti
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After voting, Christie got into a bit of an argument with a voter who questioned why he didn't merge His two towns
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