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Foreign Correspondent @NBCNews & @MSNBC • Recovering White House reporter • Lover of fountain soda & overcast weather • Made in Arizona
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Is the Two-State Solution alive or dead? As US pushes grand Israel/Saudi deal, our deep dive for
@HallieOnNBC
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Inbox: New York State Bar Association moves to remove Rudy Giuliani from membership
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Ukraine’s ambassador to the US just told us that a Russian platoon from the 74th Motorized Brigade has surrendered to Ukraine’s forces. She says that the Russian troops apparently had been unaware they were being sent to kill Ukrainians.
No confirmation yet from Russia’s military
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BREAKING: 2 US lawmakers tell
@NBCNews
that fired Inspector General Steve Linick told Congress today that before he was ousted, he’d informed at least three top Pompeo aides that he was reviewing Pompeo and his wife’s use of government resources
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Huge news: The Mormon Church (LDS) has just announced its support for the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify same-sex marriage in federal law. (1/2)
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Breaking:
@SpeakerPelosi
says she’s calling the House back into session this week to vote on USPS legislation
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Trump, reading from a teleprompter here in Wisconsin, is criticizing Biden for using teleprompters
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JUST IN - Schiff shuts down GOP request to make Hunter Biden testify:
“This inquiry is not and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the President pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit”
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@PressSec
This raises the obvious and very serious question: The US had intelligence that Russia was paying militants to kill US & allied troops, and officials decided NOT to tell the president or VP about it?
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JUST IN - 2 sources confirm to me that State Dept IG Linick was also investigating use of emergency declaration last year to sell arms to Saudis over objections of Congress
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I try not to tweet about daily inconveniences, but this experience has been insane.
For the last 7+ hours, I've been stuck in my car, not moving, in a total shutdown of I-95 northbound about 30 miles south of DC. (1)
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JUST IN -
@PressSec
says neither Trump nor Pence were briefed on the "alleged Russian bounty intelligence" first reported by NYT
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BREAKING: Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One he is banning TikTok
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Inbox: Twitter Suspends Congresswoman Marjorie Greene for 12 Hours
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To lighten the mood, here’s a pic of my copilot who is keeping me warm.
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JUST IN - 6 members of the Trump campaign advance staff in Tulsa doing logistics for Trump's rally tested positive for COVID, per
@carolelee
@kwelkernbc
@albamonica
@kellyo
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which last night said Trump and Pence never got a briefing on Russia bounty intel, is declining this morning to say whether the intel was included in a written President's Daily Brief
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Maus author Art Spiegelman sneaks in a quick vape hit mid-liveshot on CNN
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This doctor is an attending physician at Walter Reed —>
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Cannot ever remember another UN General Assembly speech where a US president was laughed at, for a line that was not intended as a punch line
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Breaking: Trump has just deleted his tweet sharing video of a supporter chanting "white power"
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JUST IN: A source familiar with the matter tells
@NBCNews
that the Taylor staffer who overheard Sondland's call with Trump is David Holmes, who was just added to the calendar to testify in closed session Friday
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!!! Pelosi, in statement blasting her GOP counterpart for inaction against MTG, refers to him as "Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA)"
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Trump this morning tweeted his lawyers would hold a news conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia, deleted it, then reissued it specifying it’s at Four Seasons Total Landscaping (apparently not a hotel)
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For those asking: His name is Jonas, he's a 5-year-old rescue and he's a Very Good Boy.
We snuggled and kept each other warm as the temps dropped to 26.
CRACKING UP- This dog is ready for his
@TODAYshow
premiere. His owner
@JoshNBCNews
is stuck in that hellish ice jam on I95 in Northern Virginia. More dog, please.
#theears
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Pence, in coronavirus task force briefing, urged Americans three times to pray. He did not urge Americans to wear masks
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Clark County just addressed this on-record, said they investigated, spoke to the voter, found the signature to be valid, gave her an opportunity to sign a statement challenging the ballot and signature, and she declined.
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North Carolina Board of Elections says as of today, 300,000 voters in NC have successfully voted by mail, already breaking past records with 33 days still left
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This story isn't getting enough attention today. That the FBI has to go on background to dispute stories about FBI findings being circulated by the president is a stunning state of affairs
An FBI official, speaking for the bureau, is refuting the Daily Caller report that prompted this tweet from the president.
“The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised,” the official told
@NBCNews
.
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White House doctors releasing his vital signs down to the number, answering questions about how he's doing better.
Then asked about his chest scans, suddenly they invoke HIPAA patient privacy protections and won't answer
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BREAKING: Trump, in the middle of a pandemic, says he's halting all funding to the World Health Organization pending a review
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Ukrainian TV today is broadcasting instructions for making do-it-yourself Molotov Cocktails, to take out Russian tanks
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NEWS tonight: Records turned over by Lev Parnas to House Intel show Parnas communicated with a GOP congressional candidate who said he had former Ambassador Yovanovitch under physical and possibly electronic surveillance in Kyiv
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We got off the plane with Tillerson less than four hours ago. There was zero indication on flight home that this was imminent.
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NEWS: A Ukrainian military intelligence official tells
@NBCNews
that Russia has told its nuclear workers stationed at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant NOT to go to work tomorrow
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Some personal news: After a decade reporting in Washington, I'm moving across the pond to London to be a foreign correspondent for
@NBCNews
.
This has been my dream job since I was a child. I am deeply humbled and so grateful! (1/2)
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NEW: Pompeo asked whether the State Department will cooperate with the Biden transition, says:
"There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration"
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BREAKING: Ambassador Yovanovitch calls for an investigation into whether she was surveilled.
Her lawyer Lawrence Robbins tells
@NBCNews
the notion her movements were being monitored is "disturbing"
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BREAKING: Pelosi says there is still *no deal* on coronavirus rescue package.
“We’ll be introducing our own bill,” Pelosi says
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Just in: Sebastian Gorka is traveling with
@SecPompeo
to Europe,
@Abs_NBC
reports. He was seen getting into a State Department van headed to Joint Base Andrews for departure
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UPDATE: After 11 hours stuck in our cars, we are finally moving again on I-95.
But only northbound. Southbound still completely shut down and the line of backed up cars is MILES long
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Asked about reports he met for breakfast with Epstein attorney at hotel, Acosta starts by attacking press for sloppy reporting, then ultimately confirms that yes, he met Epstein attorney for breakfast at his hotel
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New
@JoeBiden
statement on Portland:
"I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same."
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BREAKING: 9 Democratic senators call for Attorney General William Barr to resign, including
@ewarren
&
@BernieSanders
,
@frankthorp
reports
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NEW: Campaign officials tell
@NBCNews
that Mike Bloomberg will *NOT* stand on a box during tonight's debate, despite Trump's repeated claims that he requested one to boost his height
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Dolly Parton says turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice during Trump years
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NEW:
@NBCNews
has obtained a photo from one of Pompeo's "Madison Dinners."
Here's Justice Alito, Atlanta Falcons CEO Steve Cannon, Fox Business' Bartiromo & WH Counsel Cipollone at a June '19 dinner, paid for by the taxpayer
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It turns out there was a *witness* to the
@LindseyGrahamSC
/
@GaSecofState
call: GA official Gabe Sterling.
He says he can see how the 2 interpreted the call differently, but confirms it did go down path of whether whole counties w/high sig rejection rates could be thrown out
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We are still in the air on Air Force One, landing shortly. Trump came back to speak with us off the record and agreed to move the portion about TikTok on the record
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Statement from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says Church doctrine on marriage "will remain unchanged" but bill is "the way forward" to respect religious freedom while "preserving the rights of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters" (2/2)
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NEWS - Robert Hyde reacts
He tells me tonight via text message:
“How low can liddle Adam Bull Schiff go. To take some texts my buddy’s and I wrote while we had a few drinks to some dweeb I met a few times.... Bull Schiff is a desperate turd.”
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NEWS: Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire,
@PeteWilliamsNBC
reporting live on
@NBCNews
Special Report
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Biden in meeting with governors indicates the new strategy is, assuming Dems can pick up 2 Senate seats this year, to go around Sens Manchin and Sinema next year & carve our filibuster exception over their objection
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Yesterday, a White House official gave
@PeterAlexander
this explanation for why Mrs Trump has not visited her husband at Walter Reed:
“She has COVID. That would expose the agents who would drive her there and the medical staff who would walk her up to him.“
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JUST NOW -
@PeteButtigieg
on the Trump/Ukraine situation: "It’s beyond laughing or crying. It is a betrayal of the United States of America"
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Just in: Pompeo's speech to the RNC is now under investigation by the House, before it's even aired. In letter to State,
@JoaquinCastrotx
says Pompeo's speech is not only probably unprecedented, "it appears that it may also be illegal.”
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Only in DC do you get into your Uber and the driver is streaming... a House Ways & Means subcommittee hearing
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The president this morning is retweeting a video of people chanting "white power" and is describing them as "great people" -->
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At
@msnbc
, you get used to doing liveshots in unusual locations. But this for me was a first…
.
@JoshNBCNews
joins us from his car on I-95, where he has been stuck overnight with his dog as a result of the winter weather.
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A dire warning from Fiona Hill, a top US expert on Putin, today in her opening statement, obtained by
@NBCNews
:
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them"
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.
@GovChristie
on
@ABC
just now says Mueller’s statement “definitely contradicts what the attorney general said when he summarized Mueller’s report"
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New:
@NBCNews
has confirmed that the White House learned of Russian bounty intel in early 2019,
@carolelee
and report.
@AP
first reported this last night.
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An iconic image as the war in Ukraine approaches the 10-month mark
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"I also had a personal love of transportation since childhood,"
@PeteButtigieg
says in a very on-brand moment
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NEWS: Sen Thom Tillis has coronavirus,, making him the *second Republican on Senate Judiciary* to test positive for COVID today as Barrett nomination looms
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The president, in white polo and red baseball cap, just got into his motorcade with Sen Lindsay Graham en route TBA location, per the pool
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Breaking now on
@MSNBC
: Bipartisan lawmakers who promoted COVID bill tell Trump: If you're not gonna sign it, veto it immediately
Reading between the lines: Veto it, so we can attempt an override
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NEW:
@SecBlinken
says US evacuated about 8,000 from Kabul in last 24-hour period. That would be by far the largest single day total yet
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The Floyd County (Georgia) Elections Board confirms to
@NBCNews
the audit found 2500-2700 votes that weren't counted.
"At this time we don't know for sure what went wrong," says Board Member Melanie Conrad
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NEW tonight:
@PressSec
says Biden will convene a National Security Council meeting tomorrow on Ukraine -- quite rare for a Sunday
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Linick also told Congress that before he was fired, he’d submitted a formal document request for records related to Pompeo and his wife’s use of resources.
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BREAKING: Vindman attorney David Pressman:
“Today, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he has dutifully served his country and his President.”
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@NBCNews
The revelation potentially undercuts Pompeo’s public claim to have been unaware that Linick was looking into that issue when he asked Trump to fire Linick.
Pompeo has said he had “no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the Inspector General’s Office.”
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New: Ukrainian ambassador to US says Russia attacked hospitals in Ukraine and a fight is ongoing for control of the Chernobyl nuclear station
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Just now: While Biden and first lady were taking calls from the NORAD Tracks Santa program, a caller (a dad named Jared) ended the call with "Merry Christmas, and Let's Go Brandon."
"Let's Go Brandon, I agree," Biden replied.
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NEW: The White House today is actively seeking to discredit Dr. Fauci, with a White House official telling me that "several White House officials" are concerned about how often he's been "wrong"
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BREAKING: Parnas lawyer writes letter to McConnell, basically a proffer, with extensive details on what he'd testify to if allowed.
Says Parnas would detail "the thousands of micro-steps he took in connection with this plan” to gather dirt on the Bidens
H/t
@MaddowBlog
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"Please don't make light of it," Giuliani says of his baseless fraud allegations, as hair dye runs down both sides of his face simultaneously
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.
@PressSec
says White House Operations made the assessment that it was safe for Trump to travel to Bedminster for fundraiser yesterday even after possible COVID exposure
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Biden calls Trump "subservient" to Putin and calls it "humiliating and embarrasing" for the US
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McConnell in
#KYSen
debate: "I think her entire campaign is, 'She's a Marine, she's a mom and I've been there (in DC) too long.'"
Not sure McGrath's campaign would take issue with that...
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Fact check: Zelenskiy did not say this.
Here’s what he said:
“You have to understand. We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us.”
Breaking News: The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and our interactions or calls. If the Radical Left Democrats were sane, which they are not, it would be case over!
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Linick told Congress that months before he was fired, he’d informed Under Secretary Bulatao, Executive Secretary Kenna, and Deputy Secretary Biegun about what Linick described as a “review of use of resources by Pompeo and his wife,” a lawmaker who questioned Linick tells me
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Trump, in
@jonathanvswan
’s remarkable
@axios
interview, says he canceled New Hampshire rally due to concerns about crowds & COVID spread.
That contradicts the campaign’s official explanation at the time, which was it was postponed due to impending weather
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There's nothing to do but tweet at this point, so why not a thread.
The interstate is absolutely littered with disabled vehicles. Not just cars. Semis, everything. Nobody can move. People are running out of gas or abandoning vehicles. (2)
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Serious question: Are steel slats more expensive now because of the steel tariffs?
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A South Bend resident watching
@MSNBC
saw us doing liveshots outside the police HQ, got in her car and drove down to talk to us.
“I just want you to know this city supports Mayor Pete. What happened to him yesterday was terrible... He brought this city back from death.”
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JUST IN: Full audio obtained by
@NBCNews
of what Parnas attorney says is donor dinner with Trump includes what appears to be Trump asking how long Ukraine would last against Russia, told "without us, not very long"
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Pelosi on CNN raises the possibility the intelligence community didn’t tell Trump about the Russia bounty intel because they didn’t trust he could keep it to himself
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Around the 5-hour mark, it felt like it shifted from really inconvenient to a little scary.
Folks started turning their cars off, conserving gas, while we wait. It's 27 degrees outside.
There is no way for medical or emergency personnel to reach people stuck in this. (5)
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President-elect Biden’s son Beau died of cancer two weeks before my dad did.
As a White House reporter for
@AP
, Beau’s funeral was the last thing I covered before I went home to Arizona to be at his bedside. I remember rewatching Beau’s funeral as I wrote my own eulogy (1/2)
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People (myself included) are taking exercise breaks outside their cars, walking their dogs on the interstate.
I've been putting snow in his bowl and letting it melt into water. (3)
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Update: 9 hours in, still complete standstill on this stretch of I-95. Hours ago we inched maybe 1/4 mile and then full stop again.
Have not seen any plows or emergency vehicles on our side (northbound) since before midnight, tho my vantage point is limited
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@NBCNews
This comes after Russia said Ukraine was planning a provocation tomorrow at the plant. Ukrainian officials believe that's Russia laying the groundwork to conduct a false flag operation there tomorrow and blame it on Ukraine
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Buried lede in Notre Dame president's statement about SCOTUS event:
He says after White House gave guests COVID tests, "we were notified that we had all tested negative and were told that it was safe to remove our masks."
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@PeteButtigieg
weighing in on funding for arts in schools: "Arts education is not a luxury. Because we’re not just making workers, we’re making citizens"
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