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White House reporter for @AP . @CNN analyst, proud @washingtonpost @politico alum. Profile pic by @frankthorp Email: smkim @ap .org 🧵: seungmin.kim3

Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2009
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What a century this week has been
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Kamala Harris is also the first Asian-American vice presidential nominee in history — which a lot of news organizations seem to be forgetting.
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His final public appearance, visiting the newly-named Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. RIP to @repjohnlewis .
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Before joining the press briefing, BTS is filming content with the White House digital team and getting a tour, per a WH official. #bts
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Wow -- Duckworth says she will block Senate approvals of **1,123** senior U.S. Armed Forces promotions until Esper "confirms in writing that he did not, or will not, block the expected and deserved promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to Colonel."
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Senate Majority Leader Joe Manchin announces that he'll vote to confirm Deb Haaland for Interior secretary
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Per sources, Biden is telling Senate Democrats on their virtual lunch how he told Republican senators yesterday that their package was too small.
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For the gazillionth time, Trump did NOT win the women's vote in 2016. He won the white women's vote.
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4 years
Can someone help me do a clip search and find whether Antonin Scalia was asked whether he could be a proper father to nine children when he was nominated to the Supreme Court
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On CNN, Pelosi is now calling it the “Trump virus”
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Obama and Biden did not leave behind all those judicial vacancies, despite what Trump says. McConnell did.
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During the Senate GOP lunch today, Moran told colleagues that Rand was at the gym this morning, per two sources briefed on the lunch, and that he was swimming in the pool. Rand got his COVID-19 results back this morning.
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The audience in the hearing room, largely quiet during much of the testimony, is getting audibly frustrated with Graham. One woman mutters "shut up" as Graham interrupts Jackson again
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Looks like Biden is doing the Korean baby finger heart thing with ⁦ @maziehirono ⁩, who is allegedly the biggest BTS fan in Congress
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Like any millennial, she will never check that voicemail
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The Biden White House will have a private contractor provide "disinfectant misting services" to clear the air of lingering droplets after Trump moves out and before Biden moves in.
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Fauci: “This happens with Senator Rand all the time.”
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Carl Quintanilla
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FAUCI to Sen. Paul: "You are not listening ... If you believe that 22% is 'herd immunity', I believe you're alone in that."
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You cannot ban members of the press from events that are otherwise open to the public. That is not how it works. Period.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@seungminkim Our community is 50% immigrant. Folks are victims of DV, trafficking, + have personal medical issues. This town hall was designed for residents to feel safe discussing sensitive issues in a threatening political time. We indicated previously that it would be closed to press.
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Overnight, the Senate confirmed Biden’s 40th judge — the most since Reagan, who also got 40 judges confirmed in his first year. Biden’s confirmed judges also far surpass the number of judges Trump got confirmed in his first year (18)
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Romney says Berman firing looks a little “swampy”
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POTUS shows off his pizza at Arcaro and Genell Takeaway Kitchen
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Trump said he’s gotten 448 judges confirmed, which is .... not true. It’s 193.
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Biden to the press: “You all write for a living. I haven’t seen any of you explain the supply chain very well. No no I’m not being critical. I’m being deadly earnest.”
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Oh my gosh. This McCarthy audio.
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. @washingtonpost wins Pulitzer for Roy Moore coverage. What a cool moment in my new newsroom
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4 years
Where we’re at: a high school friend who is a doctor in a different state is offering to FedEx me her spare N95s because covering the White House is hazardous.
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Mark Kelly, should he win the Arizona Senate seat, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30, according to elections law experts who spoke to the Arizona Republic
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6 years
Repeat after me, everyone: There is no law that requires family separation at the border.
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Scott Wong
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. @SteveScalise on child separations at border: 'We want to change the law. We don't think it's good law."
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The televisions on Air Force One, which are always turned to CNN, are currently turned onto MSNBC
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The state of our union is dumb.
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It is not a press conference if you don’t take questions!!!!!!!
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Yowza: @Sen_JoeManchin , who has barnstormed WVa today visiting post offices, tells MSNBC that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy “won’t even talk to us” and “shouldn’t even be there to begin with and anyway you can get rid of him, please do so.”
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3 years
Enjoying Round 2 of “is-it-allergies-or-is-it-covid” season
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5 years
Journalists will live forever
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ABC 7 Chicago
5 years
Alcohol, coffee could be key to living longer, study finds:
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3 years
If Trump still had his Twitter account, he may Tweet-fire this lawyer on the spot.
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6 months
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” 🐼🐼🐼
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I'm from Iowa.
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. @PressSec : Trump in 2016 won an "overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans." Hillary got 65.8 million.
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The millennial in the room, @ossoff , is telling other senators to basically grow up and move on and let's start the actual hearing
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. @JoeBiden : “100 million shots in the first 100 days.”
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6 years
Yowza -- Senate Dems say in new letter that there is information in Kavanaugh's past FBI background checks that involve either inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse (aides won't elaborate which)
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3 years
The takeaway here is that McConnell, on the record, confirms that he is considering voting to convict Trump on inciting an insurrection.
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4 years
Amy McGrath, when asked during the Kentucky Senate debate whether she supports packing the courts: "We should be working on unpacking the Senate right now."
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7 years
While all this is going on, a friendly reminder that Trump has yet to nominate an ambassador to South Korea.
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4 years
There Is A Tweet For Everything, chapter 187 million
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward.
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2 years
!!!! Inbox: MANCHIN: I AM UNABLE TO SUPPORT NOMINATION OF SARAH BLOOM RASKIN TO FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
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3 years
For one night only, @timkaine + @SenAlexander , in the Hart atrium
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3 years
WOW --> @lisamurkowski calls on Trump to immediately resign: "I want him out. He has caused enough damage ... He doesn’t want to stay there. He only wants to stay there for the title. He only wants to stay there for his ego. He needs to get out."
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Capitol rioter arrested after sending 'selfie' to girlfriend's brother – a federal agent
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!!!! LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police arrest man on suspicion of murder in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, AP sources say.
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6 years
I was inside the chamber for Murkowski's speech. The contrast between that and Collins' speech was just remarkable. No colleagues gathered to watch her, except Hoeven who was presiding. Just a small handful of aides. Near empty public. Just me and @pkcapitol in press gallery
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6 years
Is he tweeting to ... Kavanaugh?
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Chuck Grassley
6 years
Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive
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4 years
They’re slowly starting to come back
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3 years
. @AOC , @repblumenauer show off their matching 4/20 face masks
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2 years
Oh wow, Jackson pushes back on the relentless focus from some Republicans on her sentencing record: "What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we have spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences ..."
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One metric as we chat about who is qualified to be a judge and who is not … Trump, whose judges were primarily white men, had 10ish of his noms rated “not qualified” by the ABA. Biden, whose 1st year judicial picks have been historically diverse, has none so far. (49 WQ/8 Q)
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During a fundraiser in Houston, while on a riff about Trump’s handling of covid-19, @JoeBiden asks the donor crowd: “Remember when he said inject bleach?” After some chuckles, Biden continues: “I think he must’ve done it.” Crowd erupts in laughter
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3 years
Big suitcase for just dropping off his girls 🤔
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Yashar Ali 🐘
3 years
Reuters has acquired a photo of Ted Cruz at the Cancun airport today on his way back to Texas. Notice how he’s wearing a mask with the Texas State flag on it.
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6 years
This day in thoughtful reader feedback
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2 years
This graphic from the @WSJ is incredibly helpful
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4 years
I'm Korean, buddy.
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Chris 🇺🇸
4 years
@seungminkim Do you work for the Chinese Communist government? Your propaganda is strong within you.
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4 years
Phone call with Senate Ds and Pence was dominated by testing Qs and got testy, per source: At one point, @SenAngusKing said “I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life" and said admin’s failure to develop an adequate nat'l testing regime is a “dereliction of duty."
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5 years
Judge Kelly was nominated by @realDonaldTrump , confirmed by the Senate on a 94-2 vote last year
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Manu Raju
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Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly sided with CNN on Friday, ordering the White House to reinstate chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass.
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Trump said today he read Woodward’s book “last night,” after saying yesterday on Fox and Friends that he read the book “last night”
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Just devastasting. Ralph Yarl’s mother, Cleo Nagbe, says her son is “able to communicate mostly when he feels like it, but mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.”
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SCOOP --> Schumer is exploring whether to invoke an obscure power -- allowing Senate leaders to reconvene the Senate in times of emergency -- to hold an impeachment trial immediately after the House impeaches Trump
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There is a strangely high number of House Republicans at my Paris hotel bar
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Greetings from Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, overturning Trump decision to move it to Alabama, officials tell AP.
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Whooboy, the WH- @HawleyMO fight escalates. Pressed on Hawley's criticisms of KBJ re sentencing of child sex offenders, @PressSec says: "I'm not sure that someone who refused to tell people whether or not he would vote for Roy Moore is an effective + credible messenger on this."
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I hate everything and everyone.
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Trump in Palm Beach, Pence in Vail as millions just had their jobless benefits expire and government shuts down tomorrow night.
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Amanda Golden
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NBC News confirms that Vice President Mike Pence is currently vacationing in Vail, CO, having arrived earlier this week, and is set to fly out of the local airport after New Year's. Pence's office has not commented on his location.
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Today was probably the first time I have approached a senator by yelling “SENATOR YOU HAVE TO TALK TO ME I SPRINTED AFTER YOU IN FOUR-INCH HEELS”
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3 years
Friendly reminder that Schumer tried to get McConnell to bring the Senate back into session under emergency powers that the two leaders have, so a trial would be held while Trump was still in office. McConnell declined.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell
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Why McConnell voted to acquit he says because: Congress cannot convict a person who is no longer in office.
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5 years
Kaine was the sole member of the Senate HELP committee to ask Acosta explicitly about the Epstein plea deal during his confirmation hearing.
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Tim Kaine
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Acosta must go. He handed a sweetheart deal to a serial sexual predator. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have been denied their day in court for too long. I’m thankful other prosecutors stepped in to finally deliver justice.
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Trump said last night of Bevin: “If you lose, they're going to say Trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. This was the greatest. You can't let that happen to me!” Well ....
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Dave Wasserman
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I've seen enough. Projection: Andy Beshear (D) has defeated Gov. Matt Bevin (R) in #KYGOV .
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At Highland Park fundraiser (which raised $2.5m for the Biden campaign, per host), Biden begins to tell a story about a person coming up to him with crushing debt. Biden said he responded, “Donald, I can’t help you.” (This gets big laughs)
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Fave reader email of the day
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Some personal news — in addition to my awesome job at the @washingtonpost , I’m joining CNN as a political analyst. Very excited to come on board!
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His mother, currently in Mexico, says she was denied humanitarian visa (wanted to bury her son in Houston)
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A DACA recipient was killed trying to rescue others during Harvey, his body was recovered earlier today
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Report: Findings reveal nearly 400 officers were at Uvalde elementary school as police waited to confront gunman.
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Under the Trump administration, only 60 miles of barriers have been built — and that is all replacement barriers, not new ones.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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The Wall is going up very fast despite total Obstruction by Democrats in Congress, and elsewhere!
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. @FLOTUS (via campaign) weighs in on Hur report: “I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack -- not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.” “Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day.”
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Bill Nelson never conceded
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Donald J. Trump
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Mayor Gillum conceded on Election Day and now Broward County has put him “back into play.” Bill Nelson conceded Election - now he’s back in play!? This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy!
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. @CaptMarkKelly will be sworn in as senator on Wednesday at noon, per a senior Democratic aide. at which point the Republican majority in the Senate will shrink by one vote.
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3 years
That “one day in January” was the worst breach of our U.S. Capitol since the War of friggin’ 1812.
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Meridith McGraw
3 years
“I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January,” Pence told Hannity.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York health officials report polio case, the first one in U.S. in nearly a decade.
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On Fox News, Maria Bartiromo asks Trump whether there are UFOs. @realDonaldTrump : "Well I'm going to have to check on that ... I'll take a good, strong look at that."
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Should’ve bought it when we had the chance
@Gabriele_Corno
Gabriele Corno
3 years
Landing in Greenland
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More news —> McConnell is telling members they should go back into the chamber tonight to project strength after today’s catastrophe, per two senior GOP sources familiar with his message
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Oh wow: per @jonkarl , “The Secret Service tells the WHCA they were not involved whatsoever in this effort by the WH to change seating assignments” despite a White House official telling today’s pooler he needed to switch seats with CNN and that the Secret Service was involved
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