NBC News has learned Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted FROM HER HOSPITAL BED to refuse to let the government enforce Pres. Trump's proposed restriction on asylum. The court voted 5-4 to leave a lower court ruling in place that blocks enforcement of the crackdown.
@PeteWilliamsNBC
NEWS: Sen.
@BernieSanders
is going to keep all Sanders campaign staffers on the campaign's health care plan through November 2020, campaign manager Faiz Shakir said this afternoon on an all-staff call.
NEW: Sen.
@BernieSanders
to
@LateNightSeth
on his campaign's future: "There is a path. It is admittedly a narrow path but I would tell you, Seth, that there are a lot of people who are supporting me. We have a strong grassroots movement."
Minutes ago, a bus of migrants sent from Texas arrived outside the Naval Observatory in Washington DC. We’re told they’re from Venezuela and Nicaragua. Men, women, children - even newborns. This is the second bus to arrive outside of the VP’s residence this week.
@NBCNews
Some candidates participate in mock debates to prepare for the big night.
Sen.
@BernieSanders
shoots hoops, holds conversations about topics and strategy w/ advisors, and last night attended an
@ArianaGrande
concert.
The senator shared his ideal
#DemDebate
format with
@NBCNews
Jan. 6 Ellipse rally organizer Dustin Stockton, attorney Josh Nass have arrived for scheduled deposition w/ Jan. 6 investigators. Stockton arrived holding a binder, which Nass says is filled with docs/comms that should have former Trump admin officials “quivering in their boots.”
🚨 🚨 “Our revolution includes dancing,” Sen.
@BernieSanders
said at the end of his prepared remarks tonight. He’s making good on that statement now in Manchester, NH, dancing to ��� after a union solidarity dinner.
Sen.
@BernieSanders
gave his first response to what him and Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussed after the debate last night.
“About the weather,” Sanders said in response to my question.
Just now in interview with
@NewsHour
, Sen.
@BernieSanders
floated the idea that those online who are reportedly harassing Culinary Union members for not supporting Sanders are not actually Sanders supporters. “Sometimes people attack people in somebody else’s name,” Sanders said.
The
@BernieSanders
campaign is out with news this morning that they’ve received four million individual donations, a number they didn’t reach in 2016 until after the New Hampshire primary.
Sanders is the first 2020 candidate to hit this number.
Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller left the federal courthouse here in Washington, after spending six hours behind the closed doors where the Grand Jury tied to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation is meeting.
@NBCNews
FAUCI on
@maddow
: "I've been wanting to come on your show for months and months. You've been asking me to come on your show for months and months, and it's just gotten blocked. Let's call it what it is. It just got blocked because they didn't like the way you handle things."
The
@BernieSanders
campaign announced this morning it raised $46.5 million from more than 2.2 million donations in February alone. The campaign reports 350,000 of those who gave money to the campaign this month are first-time donors.
Avg. donation this month: $21
SANDERS on objecting until a Senate vote on direct payments: “If Senator McConnell doesn't agree to an up or down vote to provide the working people of our country a $2,000 direct payment, Congress will not be going home for New Year's Eve”
Former President Donald Trump on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship: “I wish the best for both of them. I hope they enjoy their life, maybe together, maybe not — most likely not.”
Hello from St. Louis where several thousands have gathered to welcome
@JoeBiden
at his first Missouri rally he’s held since launching his campaign last year.
On
@MSNBC
this morning, Sen.
@BernieSanders
was fired up about his demand for $1,200 stimulus payments in a new COVID deal.
Secy. Mnuchin proposed a $600 stimulus check last night.
Sanders has previously said he would not support a bill if it excluded $1,200 direct payments.
Congressman
@BetoORourke
hypes up his supporters before walking into the Iowa Steak Fry: “To all of you boat building, overnight camping, sign holding crazy motherf***ers, I am so proud to lead this campaign of the best people in America,” O’Rourke yelled.
BTS is in the White House briefing room. They're here to meet with the President "to discuss the need to come together in solidarity, Asian inclusion and representation, and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination."
@bts_bighit
After a full day of campaigning with and for
@BernieSanders
in Iowa,
@AOC
heads to Instagram Live to take questions. Among them: her response to “Ok, boomer.”
I hate crowd counts, but I can safely report that quite a few people are here at the Denver Convention Center, ahead of tonight’s
@BernieSanders
rally. The last time Sanders was in Colorado was in September.
Sen.
@KamalaHarris
is on my flight from ATL to Des Moines. Overheard her telling a supporter who stopped her that she’s heading there to thank her staff for their work.
.
@NBCNEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Special Counsel Jack Smith did not respond to my questions about a coming indictment or his ongoing investigation as he entered his Washington, D.C. office this morning.
Smith has kept a low profile in a building far from Main Justice during his time as SC
NEWS: Sen.
@BernieSanders
’ campaign is looking well beyond New Hampshire, announcing a $25 million haul in the month of January alone, and a $5.5 million ad buy split among ten states.
VP Pence invoked
@BernieSanders
in his remarks tonight, questioning whether the ideas Sanders supports are “mainstream,” as Sanders often says.
Fact check:
A Pew Research poll shows 2/3 Americans favor raising min wage to $15/hour. Almost every Dem who ran for POTUS supported it
Sen.
@BernieSanders
on
@AOC
: “I can not think of any member of Congress who has done more within one year to fundamentally transform American politics.”
.
@bernieSanders
campaign manager
@fshakir
on Michael Bloomberg: “More billionaires seeking more political power surely isn't the change America needs.”
In interview with
@SRuhle
,
@BernieSanders
says in order to defeat Donald Trump,
@JoeBiden
“is gonna have to reach out to working-class people and young people in a way that he has not done up to now.”
FILE THIS UNDER “BAAAAAD” DAY:
As former Pres. Trump returned to Bedminster, NJ after pleading not guilty to charges related to interference in the 2020 election, Trump’s motorcade encountered interference of its own - in the form of several goats.
NEW: Fmr staffers/advisors/supporters of Sen.
@BernieSanders
' presidential campaign, including Nina Turner, Larry Cohen of "Our Revolution" & activist Linda Sarsour have formed "Once Again," a PAC aimed at furthering Sanders' progressive policies in remaining months of 2020 elex
Sen.
@BernieSanders
is on
@CNN
pitching himself to be Biden's Labor Secy: "...Secretary of Labor would be a very attractive position. It would give me the opportunity to fight to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, equal pay for equal work for women..."
Sanders advisor Jeff Weaver tells reporters after tonight’s
#DemDebate
that it’s a “Hard no” that Sen.
@BernieSanders
will take Bloomberg’s money in a general election. Previously Sanders himself had not gone this far
NEW: NBC News projects that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wins the Democratic primary in California, the state with the largest amount of Super Tuesday delegates.
IOWA CITY - significant turnout for
@AOC
,
@MMFlint
,
@MikePosner
,
@iPhilSomething
as they stump for Sen.
@BernieSanders
. Sanders isn’t even here - he’s in DC. Fire marshall says max capacity is 870. Building staff says 822 are in attendance. Crowd skews younger - we’re on campus.
Two Virginia candidates Sen.
@BernieSanders
campaigned for last night in Manassas won reelection to their respective seats. With 100% reporting in both races:
@delegateguzman
has been reelected in HD-31
@carterforva
has been reelected in HD-50
In a campaign live stream, Sen.
@BernieSanders
’ CM
@fshakir
announces
@AOC
will be heading to Iowa to campaign on behalf of the Vermont senator next weekend.
When Sen.
@BernieSanders
told us this week his focus was on the Coronavirus outbreak, he wasn’t kidding. His campaign has announced he’s holding a virtual roundtable on the topic tonight with “leaders who are on the frontlines of the fight,” along with musical guests.
In Exeter, N.H. tonight,
@BernieSanders
responds to a question about democratic infighting, saying “You didn’t see me say a word about any other candidate tonight."
Online tonight, Sanders staffers and surrogates are attacking
@JoeBiden
’s record on social security.
The
@BernieSanders
campaign confirms to
@NBCNews
they’ve raised more than $4.5 million dollars coming from about 246,000 individual contributions in the last 48 hours. No word on # of donors.
NEW- CM
@fshakir
to
@NBCNews
: “I believe strongly what we are talking about here is a lie,” Shakir said re: reports Sanders told Elizabeth Warren he doesn’t believe a woman could be president. “It’s a total fabrication and it's not based at all whatsoever on his own record."
NEWS: In memo obtained by
@NBCNews
, former senior advisors to Sen.
@BernieSanders
are sounding the alarm about a significant portion of Sanders' supporters who remain unsupportive of apparent Dem nominee
@JoeBiden
, calling it a "clear and dangerous trend."
Morning! Today Sen.
@BernieSanders
is expected to make the case that all Americans should be guaranteed certain economic rights, including housing, a job, a secure retirement and more, according to excerpts of his speech released by the campaign.
NBC News has confirmed
@WaPoSean
@daveweigel
reporting:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is set to endorse
@BernieSanders
at Saturday's "Bernie's Back" rally in NYC. An advisor to Sen. Sanders confirms
@AOC
will be the “special guest."
NEW: Pres. Trump's "reckless" Bedminster, NJ fundraiser is under state review.
184 of 206 attendees have been contacted, and local schools are asking students to stay home if parents were at Trump's club.
A reporting team effort from *11* of us
@NBCNews
At
@BernieSanders
town halls, people often offer up stories of how they are in debt thousands of dollars. This afternoon’s story was one of the most vivid examples I’ve ever heard, of the effect this debt has on everyday Americans.
POTUS just signed a bill into law which directs the Committee of Congress on the Library to remove the bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, majority opinion writer of Dred Scott v. Sandford, and to obtain a bust of Thurgood Marshall for installation in the Capitol
Many hands go up when Sen.
@BernieSanders
asks how many people know someone arrested for the possession of marijuana. Under a Sanders administration, he says he will expunge the records of anyone arrested for marijuana possession.
The Washington, D.C. area is expecting 3-5 inches of snow this weekend, and it has been brought to my attention that one of the best sledding hills in the DC area is currently behind seven feet of non-scalable fencing and a layer of National Guard troops.
During an interview on
@CNN
earlier this month, Dr. Fauci was asked who he would like to depict him on
@nbcsnl
. Fauci agreed that Brad Pitt would be a good stand-in.
Tonight,
@nbcsnl
made that happen.
If you're a fan of The White Stripes and planning on attending Sunday's rally with
@BernieSanders
and
@RashidaTlaib
in Detroit, boy do I have news for you:
Jack White of The White Stripes will be playing a set ahead of Sanders’ rally at the high school White graduated from.