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5 years

This Elizabeth Warren answer was quite a moment at CNN #EqualityTownHall

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BTS is at the White House now, per WH official.

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7 years

Seriously urge everyone to watch this entire question from a woman at GOP #Obamacare townhall in Tennessee:

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Trump will extremely not like this graphic

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The store clerk happily dancing as he wipes down the shopping cart, saying he’s usually a bartender and is grateful to have this job (which only pisses off this lady more), is of course the ending to this video >

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Trump has gotten in a car so he can wave to supporters outside Walter Reed. As you can see from footage, this meant multiple agents riding in a car with Trump while he carries the coronavirus

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When your cab driver tells you that you and your colleagues are doing important and powerful work — “You journalists need to know you have our support, you hear me?” — it is a great and humbling day. ☀️

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Anderson Cooper coming back after Trump/Putin presser: "You have been watching one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president…”

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Am told that Warren, who was flying back to Boston from Salt Lake City yesterday, began reading the redacted Mueller report on the plane. She continued reading into the night after getting home, and when she was finished, felt it was her “duty” publicly say what she just tweeted

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Ton of reporters outside of Elizabeth Warren’s house as we wait for presser. Spotted: Bailey watching from window, wondering what all the commotion is about 🐶

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The news from Biden's remarks at NIH just now is that administration is now getting hundreds of millions of Covid vaccines earlier than expected -- enough to vaccinate most Americans by the end of July.

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Trump says he knows South Korea better than anybody. "Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people." This is incorrect.

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6 years

Just asked @MichaelAvenatti to react to Rudy comments about Trump paying back Cohen on Stormy $: “I am stunned and speechless. If this is accurate, the American people have been lied to and deceived for months. And justice must be served.”

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There’s just no way that 17-year-old me could have been anywhere close to this smart, reflective and mature as the teenagers who have been interviewed on CNN this week after surviving their school shooting. They are all so impressive.

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The US Office of Special Counsel says WH aide Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act on two occasions — interviews on CNN and Fox — last year when she advocated for and against candidates in the Alabama Senate special election.

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Elizabeth Warren, who ended her 2020 campaign on March 5 (three weeks ago!), went almost immediately from presidential campaign to coronavirus crisis work in the Senate. I'm told her husband Bruce, who campaigned alongside her -- is now driving her to and from Capitol Hill.

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"There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch." --> Sources told CNN there simply was no vaccine distribution plan under Trump, leaving Biden and his team having to essentially start from "square one."

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5 years

Would be Warren’s biggest rally of the campaign >

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5 years

12k in the Twin Cities on a Monday night. 🤩

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6 years

Breaking: Sen. Murkowski tells @stevebruskCNN that Senate Judiciary might need to consider delaying Kavanaugh vote: "This is not something that came up during the hearings. The hearings are now over. And if there is real substance to this it demands a response."

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I spoke with Avenatti's wife on the phone. “I haven’t see Michael in months. It’s a complete fabrication," she said. “Bruises on my face? It is insanity. He wouldn’t hit anybody. Especially a woman. He’s got two daughters.”

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6 years

Look at this >

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Scoop: Rep. Katie Porter of California, one of the highest-profile members of the freshman class, plans to endorse Sen. Elizabeth Warren. w/ @KyungLahCNN

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NEW: Trump doorman Dino Sajudin releases statement: "I was instructed not to criticize President Trump's former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump which produced a child.” (via @soniamoghe )

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4 years

Goooood morning! @AndrewYang @DaveChappelle

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Breaking: Michael Cohen tells me American people must head to the polls and vote against Trump, predicting that if they did not, there would be two or six more years of “craziness.”

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4 years

Bong Joon Ho speaks the perfect amount of English

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4 years

“I’m ready to drink tonight.” Bong Joon Ho

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2 years

Yup and that was a "BTS 화이팅!" yelled out in the White House press briefing room, as the group exited the room.

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5 years

Star of Elizabeth Warren reporter gaggle in Toledo is 11-year-old Jaden. He says he is a “freelance reporter.” He’s prepared with a list of questions — please give him a follow! @jaden_reports

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New: Elizabeth Warren is endorsing Jay Inslee’s climate change plan. The two met in Seattle last weekend, and in that meeting, Warren told the governor she’s getting behind his climate platform. W/ @GregJKrieg

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7 years

Really important: Under Obamacare, 64-yo making $26,500 would pay $1,700 in 2026 Under GOP plan, same person would pay $14,600

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2 years

More on Biden-BTS meeting: It was the White House that extended invitation for BTS to come to WH. The group will be filming "digital content" for WH and discuss issues on Asian inclusion, representation & diversity, and anti-Asian hate crimes & discrimination, per official.

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@CeciliaVega To be clear, language like "Chinese virus" is racist, and it fuels racism in what is already a painful time for so many Americans. It suggests that if you look Asian -- even if you are Asian American -- you are an "other" to be blamed. It is divisive and toxic.

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5 years

There is no confusion to clear up, @KingJames . You were quite clear: a tweet that stated “Fight for freedom, stand for Hong Kong” was, in your own words, “misinformed.”

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5 years

Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet. I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that.

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If these students were largely unaware that their parents were lying to get them in school, what happened after school started? Esp. the fake athletes — did they have to pretend to be atheletes? Wouldn’t the fact that they were… not good athletes… have raised questions?

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Elizabeth Warren running in Franconia, NH

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Biden wipes away a tears as he bids farewell to Delaware. Says it is an emotional moment for him, and that it is a state that made his family what it is.

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6 years

Jim Gensheimer, who has been friends w/ Christine Blasey Ford for 8 years, just gave me this statement -- he says she has previously told him about "her need to have more than one exit door in her bedroom to prevent her from being trapped."

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As a journalist, @greta , you should know better than most that a journalist being on the scene doesn’t “obviously” mean there was a tip-off. Really irresponsible tweet to send to more than a million followers.

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CNN cameras were at the raid of Roger Stone...so FBI obviously tipped off CNN...even if you don’t like Stone, it is curious why Mueller’s office tipped off CNN instead of trying to quietly arrest Stone;quiet arrests are more likely to be safe to the FBI and the person arrested

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Stormy lawyer @MichaelAvenatti says his run-in with Michael Cohen this week at an NYC restaurant was "lengthy" and "frank." And: “Had Mr. Trump witnessed this interaction, he would have blown a gasket."

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Chris Matthews' questions to Warren, in order: - Do you believe Bloomberg said that to a pregnant employee? - You believe he’s that kind of person? - You believe he’s lying? - You believe he’s lying? - And why would he lie? - You’re confident of your accusation?

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Twelve-year-old reporter Rory asking @PressSec questions at the White House press briefing. Great job, Rory!

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Trump was very upset about coverage of his Putin presser. He is not going to be happy with coverage of "would vs. wouldn’t."

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When your dog is so happy you’re home and won’t stop smiling 😭❤️

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Biden is asked about coronavirus patients who die alone, and their families who can’t be there when they die. He gets choked up talking about how he was there when his parents died, when his son Beau died, but not when his first wife died. “I was not able to be there.”

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NEW: I spent time with three women who say they were assaulted by Donald Trump. Their stories are different, but they’ve all grappled with the same question in the era of #MeToo : What does justice look like when the accused is the world's most powerful man?

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Barack Obama just thanked the artist for capturing, among other things, the “hotness” of Michelle Obama in her portrait

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Elizabeth Warren just began her remarks at Native American conference with an apology: "Like anyone who’s being honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am sorry for the harm I have caused."

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Elizabeth Warren does not drink coffee

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Nearly four hours after she finished her speech, Elizabeth Warren makes it to the end of the selfie line

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People *cheering* Kim Jong Un’s entrance — and shouting “Mr. Kim, Mr. Kim!” as though he is a celebrity — is a thing that is happening right now in Singapore. Unclear if said people have ever read the news, ever.

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Kim Jong un cheered a like a rockstar on his arrival at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore #trumpkimsummit

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Kamala Harris and her husband Doug walked down to the Supreme Court this morning, according to a campaign aide.

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NYC public schools closed today because of snow

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Ok this Gate 35X bus ride has legit turned into a mini town hall. Man wants to know why she’s going to Kermit, W Va. She says she has a new opioids bill out, and wants to hold big pharma execs liable

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Sandra Oh saying “엄마, 아빠, 사랑해요” (“Mom, Dad, I love you”) in her acceptance speech to her parents as they look on from the audience is everything 😭😭😭 #GoldenGlobes

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Rowdy scene as Joe Biden speaks at drive-in rally in Bucks County, PA — Trump supporters waving flags and honking during his speech

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I don’t watch the super bowl — here’s what I’ve gathered from post-game twitter: - everybody still hates Tom Brady - Adam Levine wore an awful tank top resembling a couch cushion - the game was boring - Pats coach (?) is always pretending his team is the underdog - Andy Warhol

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There is so much to discuss about Bloomberg's quip that perhaps some women "didn't like a joke I told." This is precisely how, so often, sexism and misogyny gets excused -- dismissed as "a joke."

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Practically a Trump drive-in rally here now outside the Biden drive-in event. Biden has just finished speaking

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Guys, Jaden has a lesson for all of us reporters: Keep your questions short and simple. He killed it.

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As Blasey Ford emotionally describes the alleged assault, crying, you can also hear crying and see tears throughout the audience in the room.

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The anguish of those women confronting Flake this morning is going to reverberate so, so deeply around the country, for so long, and it is hard to think about how the country will be able to heal from this.

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Just another 2020 chyron.

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New: Sen. Elizabeth Warren is endorsing Jamaal Bowman today, throwing her support behind the first time political candidate who is trying to unseat Rep. Eliot Engel in next week’s Democratic primary race in New York.

Elizabeth Warren to endorse progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman in primary against NY Rep. Eliot...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to endorse Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday, throwing her support in a closely watched Democratic primary race behind a middle school principal who has garnered...

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Hello -- Pointing to one person of a certain race as proof that another individual couldn't possibly be racist against that race/have said or done racist things... truly doesn't work.

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GOP donor Elliott Broidy has resigned from his role at the RNC, per @danmericaCNN , after reports of a $1.6 million hush payment to quiet a woman he allegedly impregnated.

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To be clear, Melania Trump sponsoring her parents is a method many, many Americans use to bring their family to the US. It just happens to be a practice that Melania's husband -- the President -- wants to do away with.

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Breaking: Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid, White House says. She is not considered a close contact of President Biden.

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New statement from Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyer, Lisa Banks:

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Breaking from @jeffzeleny : Joe Biden has selected his running mate, revealing to top advisers on Tuesday the woman he will invite to join his ticket, according to two people familiar with the matter. Biden is poised to make the announcement as early as today.

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Jay Inslee says "I am the only candidate" who has passed a law to protect women's right for reproductive choice.... Amy Klobuchar cuts in: "I just want to say there are three women up here who have fought pretty hard for reproductive rights."

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Wolf: Did you read the health care bill? Chris Collins: "I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not." @CNN

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki begins her final press briefing:

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New: Musician @johnlegend will campaign for Elizabeth Warren next week in South Carolina, and is expected to perform.

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Are all dogs this weird??

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Trump didn’t say he was indifferent to the thousands that died in Puerto Rico — he said he doesn’t even believe that thousands died in Puerto Rico.

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. @LindseyGrahamSC on the president’s tweets: “I don’t buy the idea that the president is indifferent to our friends in Puerto Rico.”

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Absolutely heartbreaking. Please take five minutes of your time to watch this incredible piece from @KyungLahCNN . We all need to see this, and know that this is what is happening to fellow Americans right now >

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"I HAVE to have coverage in order to make sure that I don't die... and you want to take away this coverage?" #ObamacareTownhall

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Trump hasn’t tweeted in 19 hours

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Am also told Warren’s decision to call on impeachment proceedings does not mean that the topic will become central theme of her 2020 campaign going forward — Warren plans to continue to rolling out major policy proposals.

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Warren is here and up on a ladder across the street from Homestead — she is waving to children inside that she can see above the wall

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Student to Rubio: “Can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA?” Audience at CNN town hall erupts in cheers. #StudentsStandUp

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Very stark words from Joe Biden this afternoon about President Trump: "The incumbent president is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts. Incapable of healing."

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6 years

Has everyone at this Oprah-Stacey Abrams event looked under their seats already

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Hillary Clinton says about NYTimes coverage of her emails: "They covered it like it was Pearl Harbor."

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Michael DiSabato, a former OSU wrestler who was in the story about Rep. Jim Jordan that NBC News broke, told me today there’s no question in his mind that Jordan “knew it all” re: sexual abuse on the wrestling team.

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TMZ initially reported that Michale Avenatti was arrested for an incident involving his estranged wife. The story's been updated to remove reference of wife -- now just says "a woman." (No correction note)

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Omg she gets more and more quotable as the story goes on: "I talk with my hands and shake my head, which only made me look more like Elizabeth Warren. I was saying 'I'm not her!' but I could have been saying 'Medicare for all!'"

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The head of school at Holton-Arms School, the school that Christine Blasey Ford attended, just put out this statement saying she is "proud" of Blasey Ford for speaking out:

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This is amazing. Feinstein: "What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?" Trump: “I would like it…. I think a lot of people would like to see that.”

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This line from SDNY on Michael Cohen: "After cheating the IRS for years, lying to banks and to Congress, and seeking to criminally influence the Presidential election, Cohen’s decision to plead guilty - rather than seek a pardon for his manifold crimes- does not make him a hero."

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NEW: A woman named in Stormy Daniels' NDA as having confidential info about Stormy's affair with Trump -- "Angel Ryan" -- is Jessica Drake, an adult film performer who herself accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

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New: Elizabeth Warren is also calling for the Sackler name to be removed from any & all Harvard buildings & museums, a Warren aide tells CNN. Warren, an ex-Harvard law professor, released an opioid epidemic plan this morning and excoriated the Sackler family (of Purdue Pharma).

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This visual: 11 male Republican senators watching as a female outside counsel they’ve chosen questions Christine Blasey Ford.

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Blood coming out of his head and pooling out on the sidewalk, and the officers walk past him. Sickening to watch

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“Tripped and fell.” Video shows officers shoving the man, who as a result stumbled backward and fell, lying motionless on the sidewalk as officers stood and looked at him.

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Melania Trump sponsored her parents to obtain US green cards, a source familiar tells CNN. Today, her parents became US citizens.

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I am so excited and honored to be joining the incredible CNN WH team! It will be a little while before @alexburnsNYT and I make the move back to Washington given our personal project that’s currently in the works, but it’ll be a thrill to head back to where it all started for us!

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😭 Spoke to my grandfather in Korea tonight who is so worried because we live in NYC and the US has been on the news a lot over there. He said he hopes we’re all not moving an inch and being good about staying home 😔😔😔

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Way to go, New York. Crowds ignore social distancing rules to watch USNS Comfort

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Well it’s settled — 7pm every night is when I will have a good cry. 😭😭 I ❤️ NYC and this city will forever be indebted to our doctors, nurses and all medical professionals on the frontlines of fighting the coronavirus

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👀👀👀 Source tells @GloriaBorger that the conversation between Trump and Cohen is not as Rudy Giuliani described. This source says the tape is not good for Trump (Giuliani said it is exculpatory).

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