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Kaitlan Collins
2 years
Amerie Jo Garza's father, a med aide, says he found out she was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene and was helping another little girl covered in blood. She told him her best friend had been shot. When he asked her name, she said his daughter's. There aren't words.
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Kaitlan Collins
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With President Trump seated before him, French President Macron says, "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying 'our interests first'...we erase what a nation hold dearest...its moral values."
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
The crew that got President Trump to answer his first questions in over three weeks. Proud to be part of it. Happy Thanksgiving!
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2 years
Beto O’Rourke interrupts ongoing press conference by Texas Gov. Abbott and other officials.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
White House officials were shaken by Trump's reaction to a mob of his supporters descending on the Capitol today. He was described to me as borderline enthusiastic because it meant the certification was being derailed. It has genuinely freaked people out.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Trump did not immediately deploy the National Guard yesterday, as he claims in his video. He initially resisted it, according to several people, as CNN, NYT and others reported.
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3 years
President Trump hasn’t answered a question from reporters in 17 days.
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3 years
The crowd outside the White House celebrating Joe Biden’s projected victory is blaring YMCA — the song President Trump closed out his latest rallies with.
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Kaitlan Collins
4 years
Tonight the White House tried to have me, and only me, swap seats with another reporter several rows back. We both refused to move from our seats that were assigned well in advance. The briefing was short, the president took no questions and it proceeded as planned.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Liz Cheney: "The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President...I will vote to impeach the President."
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
. @jaketapper has been a mentor to me since I started at CNN and I'm grateful to be on his show every day, but especially today.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
The dozen Republican senators who said they'll vote to reject Biden's win when Congress meets this week were all invited on CNN to explain their position this morning but @jaketapper says all declined or failed to respond.
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3 years
Some news — Jared Kushner has approached President Trump about conceding the election, per two sources.
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3 years
Biden asks "what in the hell" is wrong with Republican lawmakers who didn't put masks on while sheltering in place with others during the Capitol riot. "It's time to grow up," he says.
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Kaitlan Collins
2 years
K-pop supergroup BTS is in the (packed!) White House briefing room.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Officials in Brad Raffensperger’s office recorded his call with President Trump on Saturday, but Georgia's secretary of state said he did not want it released unless Trump attacked him or misrepresented it, per @JMOCNN . Trump tweeted today attacking him.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who last week said he and President Trump had a "hell of a journey" but it was time to "count me out" because "enough was enough," is flying to Texas on Air Force One today, per the pool.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
2021 BIDEN HARRIS INAUGURATION signs going up in front of the White House today.
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Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against former President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of peddling "demonstrably false” allegations that resulted in harassment and death threats for employees.
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Kaitlan Collins
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Joe Biden, while swearing in political appointees, says, "If you're ever working with me and I hear you treated another colleague with disrespect — talk down to someone — I promise I will fire you on the spot. On the spot...Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency."
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Biden says Trump not attending his inauguration is "one of the few things he and I have ever agreed on. It's a good thing — him not showing up. "
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4 years
Former chief of staff John Kelly says he agrees with Mattis. “I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter: What is their character like? What are their ethics?”
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Kaitlan Collins
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Karl Rove says on Fox News that if Rudy Giuliani defends President Trump in his impeachment trial, there is a "strong likelihood" that Trump will be convicted.
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2 years
“It’s fucking nuts to do nothing about this," Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly tells reporters.
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3 years
Anthony Scaramucci says he was invited to President Trump's farewell ceremony Wednesday, which he takes as a sign the White House is desperate to bulk up the guest list. "Trust me, that had to be a mass email if one of them got sent to me," he tells @InsideEdition .
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Multiple people tell me Trump was basically screaming as Castor made a meandering opening argument that struggled to get at the heart of the defense team's argument.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
. @jaketapper says he invited every Republican senator on CNN this morning but all declined or didn't respond.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Humbled and delighted to cover the next administration with the talented CNN White House team. Be sure to watch!
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CNN names @kaitlancollins new chief White House correspondent, @jeffzeleny chief national affairs correspondent, and @mkraju new chief congressional correspondent.
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Kaitlan Collins
4 years
Nearly 90,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus, and the president is tweeting about me pulling my mask down for six seconds on Friday.
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Donald J. Trump
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A CNN Faker!
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3 years
It’s understandable why someone who hasn’t done their job — taking questions from reporters — in weeks would confuse someone else doing theirs with activism.
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Biden says all living former presidents have called him — with the exception of one.
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"I know crooks really well," Rudy Giuliani says.
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Two of Kayleigh McEnany’s deputies in the press shop have now tested positive as well, CNN has confirmed.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner says they looked into a list claiming dead people voted. "Between everything else that we're doing, we looked it up — each one of them to see what their vote history was. Not a single one voted in Philadelphia after they died."
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David Hogg, a high school student who survived the Florida shooting, just looked directly into the camera and made this plea to members of Congress: “We are children. You guys are the adults. Work together, come over your politics, and get something done.”
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
A third attorney, Josh Howard, who was also recently added to Trump's defense team, has also left, I'm told. Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and it was stolen from him rather than focus on proposed arguments about constitutionality.
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Appearing in her professional capacity, @PressSec takes only a handful of questions in her first briefing since Oct. 1. Asked why can’t call on all reporters — given it’s been so long and there are not many of us due to social distancing — she called me “an activist.”
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Dr. Scott Atlas has resigned, CNN confirms.
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The FBI executed a search warrant today at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the former president confirms to CNN in a lengthy statement.
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The U.S. Capitol was breached today for the first time since 1814, when the British attacked it and set it on fire during the war of 1812, according to the director of scholarship and operations with the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. How shameful.
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams says on Fox News, "I'm pleading with your viewers, I'm begging you, please understand that we are not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face covering."
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Rudy Giuliani just suggested President Trump may have actually won Virginia, a state he lost to Joe Biden by nearly half a million votes.
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Biden: “Can you imagine, a former president of the U.S. saying that? The whole world heard it. The worst thing is he means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator...For God's sake, it's dumb, it's shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s unAmerican.”
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3 years
Kroger announces it will pay $100 to employees who get the vaccine.
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On ABC, Chris Christie rips President Trump's legal team as "a national embarrassment." He says Sidney Powell accusing the Georgia governor of crimes without evidence is "outrageous conduct by any lawyer." "Notice they won't do it inside the courtroom," Christie says.
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Kaitlan Collins
4 years
I’m told a small group of officials were aware Thursday a.m. that Hope Hicks had tested positive. Despite that, President Trump traveled to New Jersey for a fundraiser and his press secretary held a briefing.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Dr. Anthony Fauci is returning to the White House briefing room. He’ll join @PressSec at 4:00 p.m. today, she says.
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Kaitlan Collins
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Chris Christie: "I have been a supporter of the president's. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences & we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn't happen." He says an unwillingness to present evidence "must mean the evidence doesn't exist."
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Kaitlan Collins
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POTUS was spooked after he tested positive for coronavirus and became increasingly alarmed as he developed symptoms — like a fever — overnight, person familiar with his reaction says.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
Early voting in Arizona just surpassed its entire vote count from 2016. Now the fourth state to do so this election.
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After Hope Hicks tested positive, Kayleigh McEnany was pulled off President Trump’s trip to New Jersey and later informed she’d had direct contact with Hicks. Yet McEnany did not quarantine and was at the White House Friday and yesterday, citing multiple negative tests.
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Sen. Romney: "President Trump has disrespected the American voters, has dishonored the election system and has disgraced the office of the presidency. I'm confident we'll proceed as the Constitution demands and tell our supporters the truth — whether or not they want to hear it."
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The US Capitol is now on lockdown.
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Dr. Fauci did not consent to being featured in a Trump campaign ad about the president's coronavirus response & says his words were taken out of context. "In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate."
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3 years
A permit has been issued to demolish Trump's Mar-a-Lago helipad, per city records and @randikayeCNN . Palm Beach doesn't usually allow helipads but let Trump have one while he was in office, with the agreement it would be removed once he no longer was.
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Kaitlan Collins
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If you wanna know why officials are hesitant to recognize obvious truths like Joe Biden won the election and Donald Trump didn't, Chris Krebs is a prime example of how, in this White House, you can be fired for contradicting the president, even if he is wrong.
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Twice today @PressSec has declined to take our questions after appearing on Fox News. After her first hit, she said she had a meeting. When we asked again after her second hit, she said, “Maybe later on.” Again, she’s taxpayer-funded. Can’t remember last time she took questions.
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If President Trump was actually tested every single day, his doctors and political aides could easily say when his last negative test was. Instead they’ve refused, casting serious doubt on what they’ve claimed for months.
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What a beautiful moment. Anderson Cooper just announced on air that he is now a father. Congrats @AC360 — Wyatt Morgan Cooper is precious.
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Sen. McConnell, who voted not guilty, says, "There's no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it."
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John Eastman, the attorney who falsely told Trump that Pence could block the certification of Biden's win, is out at Chapman University, the school has announced, saying they "reached an agreement pursuant to which he will retire from Chapman, effective immediately."
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Liz Cheney: "Mr. Bannon's and Mr. Trump's privilege arguments do, however, appear to reveal one thing: They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th, and this committee will get to the bottom of that."
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President Biden: "Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign. I know there is a lot we won’t agree on. But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the…
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One of the most devastating lines from Trump's former defense secretary: "We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society."
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In a speech taped as he sat behind his desk, Ukrainian President Zelensky says, "I stay here. I stay in Kyiv, in Bankova. I’m not hiding, and I'm not afraid of anyone."
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Uber driver after 10 minutes of silence: “.....So, who do you think wrote the op-ed?”
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Those indicted in Georgia: Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff John Eastman, Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, pro-Trump lawyer Jeffrey Clark, top Justice Department official Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign lawyer Robert Cheeley, lawyer who…
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Mastercard announces they are suspending network services in Russia after President Zelensky called on them to do so during his meeting with US lawmakers this morning.
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Kaitlan Collins
3 years
After the White House went out of its way to say President Trump had many meetings and calls today, without listing any, @petermorrisCNN got video of him on the golf course.
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Kaitlan Collins
6 years
I don’t want to hear the phrase “fake news” ever again.
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Kaitlan Collins
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Let’s try that again. The CDC says, as of yesterday, 346,456,669 total vaccine doses have been administered. That’s about 816,203 more than the day before. This is the fifth straight day of recording more than 700,000 shots in arms.
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After telling the Associated Press there is no evidence of fraud that would change the outcome of the election, Attorney General Bill Barr just arrived at the White House.
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Confirmed — Stephen Miller has tested positive for coronavirus.
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He’s on camera at the event.
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@kaitlancollins Meadows wasn’t there, Ms. fake news. I know, because I was there.
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Wow. Heitkamp on her decision to vote no on Kavanaugh: "This isn't a political decision. If this were a political decision for me I certainly would be deciding this the other way...I can't get up in the morning and look at the experience I've had and say yes to Judge Kavanaugh."
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Apparently there was some drama while President Trump was taping his 60 Minutes interview today. He abruptly ended his solo interview after around 45 minutes & did not return for a scheduled walk & talk he was supposed to tape with Pence, @abdallahcnn and I are told by sources.
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"The former president of the United States did not handle classified documents properly. I watched him do it...I watched him go through documents, throw some away, rip some up and put some in his pocket," Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former press secretary, says on CNN.
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President Zelensky warns Russia is preparing to bomb Odessa, a critical Ukrainian port on the Black Sea. “Russian people always used to come to Odessa and they only knew warmth and generosity and what now? Artillery, bombs against Odessa. This will be a war crime."
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President Trump’s doctor says he’s 72 hours into the diagnosis. Another physician says Trump received a special antibody therapy “about 48 hours ago.” The public found out 36 hours ago that Trump was positive — only after it was revealed an aide had tested positive.
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"I'm not trying to punish anybody, but dammit — maybe because I come from a middle class neighborhood — I'm sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced," President Biden says regarding his proposal to raise the corporate tax rate to 28%.
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"I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her," President Trump says of the video he retweeted where a woman claims masks don't work & there's a cure for Covid-19. Instead of explaining the contradiction given he's endorsed masks, Trump left the room.
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Update from the White House -- President Biden will now sign the coronavirus relief bill in an hour instead of tomorrow.
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Is it supposed to be comical that the former White House spokesman is now tacitly admitting that he lied to the American people?
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A guest at the White House for the National Day of Prayer event tells me I am “pitiful and disgusting” for reporting that President Trump reimbursed his attorney for the $130,000 he paid a porn actress. I think you’re gonna have to take that up with Trump, sir.
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We haven’t heard from President Trump in person in over a week and he hasn’t taken questions from reporters since the day of the election. It’s highly unusual for him to stay away from cameras for this long.
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After President Trump went on a Twitter spree overnight and retweeted posts calling Dr. Fauci a fraud and claiming he misled the public, Dr. Fauci tells GMA, "I have not been misleading the public under any circumstances."
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The atmosphere inside the West Wing is being described as a bit frenzied as reality sets in that Biden is only pulling further ahead. Trump's closest aides seem to be working to manage his frustration. Mark Meadows is focused on Pennsylvania. And many others are looking for jobs.
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President Trump has departed his Virginia golf club and is on his way back to the White House, where large crowds have gathered to celebrate Joe Biden's win.
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tells @drsanjaygupta , "The vaccine will be available for free to all American citizens."
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Biden just took the lead in Georgia by 917 votes.
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If the far-right group that espouses misogynistic, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views celebrates what you said about them and prints it on t-shirts, you didn’t denounce them.
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Only days into his diagnosis, the first thing President Trump does when he gets back to the White House is take his mask off.
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"The mob was fed lies," Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says. "They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like."
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John Lewis also didn't attend George W. Bush's inauguration. Bush spoke at his funeral.
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. @jonathanvswan : "How do you think history will remember John Lewis?" President Trump to #AxiosOnHBO : "I don't know...I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration."
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Biden is meeting in the Oval right now with several Republicans who were slow or never publicly accepted his victory. When I asked if he’s confident they now see him as the legit president — given they’re meeting with him at the WH — he smiled & said, “You’ll have to ask them.”
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As President Biden references what was in the bipartisan border deal, Sen. Lankford mouths, "That's true."
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For unexplained reasons, the White House did not lower flags to half-staff today in honor of the Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, who died last night from injuries he sustained while on duty responding to the pro-Trump mob. The Capitol did lower flags today.
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President Biden at last night’s Gridiron dinner: “The big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president: The other’s me.”   “You know he ain’t the same guy that I beat in 2020…But don’t…
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Worth noting that Mark Meadows was at the election night party at the White House Tuesday that hundreds of people attended. Officials said everyone would be tested beforehand.
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Trump’s planned trip to PA is off after a member of the campaign tested positive.
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