.
@JoaquinCastrotx
on
@tedcruz
and
@HawleyMO
: "These are highly intelligent guys who know better. They know what they’re doing and so I think they should face the most severe consequences."
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@KatyTurNBC
: "I am two weeks out from my due date. And once this baby comes, because of the generosity of Comcast, I get 4 months of paid leave to be with my baby. I am one of the very lucky ones in this country."
.
@KatyTurNBC
has a special message: "Finally today, this isn't goodbye, it's see you soon. I hoped to make it to the end of this week, but in the interest of not having this baby on live tv, it's time for me take a break."
"Lahaina is not for sale." Maui resident Tiare Lawrence talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about real estate investors reaching out to residents after the destructive fires on Maui.
.
@GretaThunberg
says that the U.S rejoining the Paris Agreements is a "crucial first step." But she says "time will tell" if the new administration will fulfill what they promised.
Earlier today Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde said that if you didn't know the footage was from January 6th, you "would actually think it was a normal tourist visit."
@JakeSherman
: That's "one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard."
The House held a hearing today on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, ahead of the 100-year anniversary later this month.
@GeoffRBennett
spoke with two survivors today.
"If you are vaccinated, and follow the precautions that we all know well, you should feel comfortable celebrating Christmas and the holidays as you planned it." - Biden on celebrating the holidays.
.
@MichaelCohen212
says Trump should look into getting a "custom made jumpsuit, because it does not look good for him."
@JoyceWhiteVance
says Cy Vance has "sent signals that this is a serious investigation."
.
@glennkirschner2
: "I think Congress should do a deep dive into the nature of these tips, the fact that they went uninvestigated, and I think there is a good bit of congressional inquiry that should go on now."
Smartmatic is suing Fox News, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for defamation in a $2.7 billion lawsuit.
@JoyceWhiteVance
lays out the legal consequences:
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@RepEscobar
"We have QAnon followers in our congress. We have people who are spreading dangerous conspiracies on the House Floor. They are co-conspirators."
.
@RepDanKildee
: "Donald Trump organized this, set it in motion. Encouraged it. And has benefitted from all of this. And the same with some of my Republican colleagues who should not escape responsibility."
.
@WhipClyburn
: “It is time for us to come down off our high horse and admit that there is domestic terrorism in this country and there is a way to get to the bottom of it.”
.
@RepDanKildee
: "We feel obligated to call on Republicans to do what they did in the Nixon era. Get some steel in your spine, go to the White House, and tell the president to quit."
Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorney, Mark Richards, speaks to reporters about the prosecution, "A prosecutor is supposed to seek the truth. It's not about winning, and this case became about winning."
.
@RepJohnCurtis
shows
@KatyTurNBC
a paper that he says was taped to his door just minutes ago that says "Wanted For Treason...For resisting the true electoral victor Trump..."
"This war is likely to spill over, whether we like it or not." As Ukraine continues to request a no-fly zone,
@AVindman
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the potential impact of US expanding aid. "The more we help Ukraine now, the less chance there is a spillover that drags us in."
.
@mccaffreyr3
: "At that time, Trump had fired all the top civilian officials in the Pentagon, and we had a minor functionary retired lieutenant colonel sycophant of Trump as a Sec. of Defense. We were at a perilous moment, I thought this was the opening moves to a coup."
"A very good day for democracy"
@marceelias
, whose firm represented the plaintiffs in Moore v. Harper, breaks down the impact of today's SCOTUS decision.
"The real big alarm bell is the Secret Service was not aware that a person basically walked right into his house in the middle of the night."
@CarolLeonnig
breaks down her new reporting about an intruder getting into National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's home last month.
Former Sen.
@alfranken
: "There is a reason Rush Limbaugh got the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. Without Rush Limbaugh there's no Donald Trump."
.
@SenatorBaldwin
: "We've seen what he has done with just a short time left in his presidency. And I think he is dangerous and capable of inciting additional violence."
.
@KatyTurNBC
asks
@GretaThunberg
what her message to
@JoeBiden
would be. She says: "Just simply listen to the science, act in line with the science, and do what you have promised to do as you have now signed the Paris agreement."
Stockton, California gave 125 residents $500 dollars a month for two years. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. The surprising results it had on unemployment and more.
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"Sixty percent of the Serbian population, unfortunately, is practically living in the Matrix." Dragan Solak talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the ways censorship is tilting public opinion and silencing opposition of President Aleksandar Vucic.
.
@SholaMos1
: "When people turn this into being about attacking the Queen, you know it's because they fear that Harry and Meghan have been telling the truth all the while and they have nothing else to use against" them.
"Translated into English, it's the appellate court saying 'You're really not very good at this judging thing.'"
@glennkirschner2
talks to
@yasminv
about the federal appeals court repudiation of Judge Eileen Cannon's decision regarding President Trump's classified documents
.
@RepJayapal
: "It is real. The security threat to us individually, in our homes, in our districts and on the floor are real. And so is the rage at Republicans who are choosing a cult party and a cult figure, over the constitution."
"Let's get rid of this euphemism, no fly zone. Let's call it for what it is: it's war."
@mcfaul
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the impact of US involvement in a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
.
@KatyTurNBC
asks: So why did Democrats decide on lowering the income threshold for stimulus payments?
@JakeSherman
: "Because Joe Manchin runs the Senate Katy, and that's the reality of today's government."
.
@JayInslee
: "If they do not impeach Donald Trump for this high crime and misdemeanor, it would [be] like not impeaching Jefferson Davis, who led the confederacy, that's how serious this issue is."
.
@SRuhle
just now on Biden's stimulus proposal: "On it's face, people will say gosh, this is a huge expensive number, this is so expensive. But by comparison to what? Doing nothing? Right now this is like looking at a huge medical bill and the other side is bleeding to death."
.
@VinGuptaMD
: "Being unvaccinated on this day... is fundamentally more dangerous to everybody, all ages, than being unvaccinated a year ago on this date."
The White House is projecting that 300 million Americans could be vaccinated by the end of summer. WH Covid Senior Advisor
@ASlavitt
says that number doesn’t depend on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine getting approval.
.
@JoyceWhiteVance
discusses what we saw from this morning's witnesses.
"Williams talked about what he saw, how it made him feel, and ultimately the fact that he was forced to call the cops on the cops."
DeSantis challenger and Florida Commissioner of Agriculture
@NikkiFried
: "At the front end of this pandemic, even when the vaccines came out, we targeted our seniors. But since then we've had no messaging here in the state of Florida from this Governor."
"What does Ukraine need the most? Three words: weapons, weapons, and weapons."
Former President of Ukraine
@poroshenko
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about what the west needs to do to aid Ukraine and end the war.
"This is just the sort of policy we no longer have room for."
@JoyceWhiteVance
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about how the Michigan School shooting highlights the need for stronger policies to protect children access from firearms.
"There is no lack of prayers. There is lack of action." Founder of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand,
@shannonrwatts
, talks with
@KatyTurNBC
on what can be done to prevent more shootings.
.
@RepJayapal
: "The road to fascism is littered with moments where people either did not speak up, or they went along with what was proposed. And I do fear for our country in this moment."
.
@RepJasonCrow
: "It doesn't matter whether someone is a member of Congress or not, if they committed a crime or were involved in a crime, they will be held accountable for that."
"If I were a prosecutor in this case, it would really make my stomach turn"
@BarbMcQuade
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about new developments in the Florida Mar-a-Lago case, including the released list of documents seized.
.
@AliVelshi
on healthcare workers: "They didn't ever not come into work. They got told one day this disease is here, in our midst, and you're just going to keep coming back day after day after day and fighting it in numbers you've never seen before."
Dr.
@PeterHotez
: "Here's what has to happen, and I know it makes people uncomfortable, but it is the reality: Mask mandates, universal for schools, and vaccine mandates. Every kid over the age of 12 needs to be vaccinated if they're going to attend schools."
"This is a vindication of the Department of Justice deciding to lean forward a little bit and take a chance on a case that was not a sure thing."
@GlennKirschner2
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the impact of the Oath Keepers trial.
"We need to learn to be a people who ask more of the powerful and less of those hurting."
@Nelba_MG
, mother of Sandy Hook victim Ana Grace, talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the problem with seeking autopsy photos from families affected by gun violence.
"If you're at the DOJ, you're feeling very optimistic about this case."
@JoyceWhiteVance
breaks down the DOJ asking the appeals court to shut down special master's review of Trump documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
.
@RepEscobar
: "There is a bonfire of terror that has engulfed America, and some some folks in the Congress are asking us to just walk away. We cannot walk away."
.
@LukeMixonLA
is running for Senate in Louisiana. He says of Sen. Kennedy, his opponent: "It disgusts me that my very own senator voted to overthrow an election. He spit in the face of the very democracy that my friends and I spent the last few years fighting to protect."
Linette Lopez, Insider Columnist rececntly suspended from Twitter, talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about her suspension. "It's completely hypocritical...he has harassed people in far worse ways."
"This is going to be a minefield for him in cross-examination." As Travis McMichael testifies in the trial of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery,
@JoyceWhiteVance
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about what McMichael may face in the courtroom.
.
@KatyTurNBC
asks why the Trump Admin. would pull back travel restrictions a day before they leave.
@OliviaTroye
: "It doesn't make any sense other than it's part of Donald Trump's vindictiveness and his pettiness and this is one last effort to sabotage...."
.
@WhipClyburn
:“I think we have some sympathizers in the Congress, that probably ought not be there. There are two people, just got elected who identify with this QAnon group. Now we know that’s a hate group."
"There's a part of me that is worried that he is itching for a direct confrontation with the US."
@juliaioffe
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about Putin's next move. "It's almost like unfinished business from the Cold War."
"Issuing subpoenas is easy, enforcing subpoenas is hard." As Congress issues new subpoenas in the January 6th investigation
@glennkirschner2
talks to
@ChrisJansing
about the mounting pressure for the DOJ to prosecute Steve Bannon.
.
@RepEscobar
: "If we are to put out those flames, it starts with accountability, and it starts also with justice. On the political side, the only form of accountability is impeachment. On the justice side, I hope that there are prosecutions and convictions."
.
@clairecmc
on her former colleagues: "This trial is so different than the last one because they are witnesses and because they felt the fear of what had happened"
.
@JoaquinCastrotx
: "I think that Vice President Pence and the cabinet should invoke the 25th amendment, because this is a dangerous man who is occupying the oval office."
"Americans are sick and tired of living in a country where gun violence is a reality." As parents mourn the victims of the Oxford High School shooting,
@KrisB_Brown
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about gun control legislation in the US.
.
@RepJasonCrow
: "What I understand in my district here is I haven't had a single person ask me what mechanism or what procedure are we using to get this bill through. They just want it done. They want it through."
.
@LinaHidalgoTX
responds to those "trying to pretend" Texas "relies fully on wind energy": "We should not be spending a second of our time entertaining those kinds of things..It's a distasteful distraction, we should be spending our time focused on getting that grid back on."
"Everybody should upgrade." When it comes to protecting yourself against COVID, experts say cloth masks no longer make the cut.
@VinGuptaMD
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about finding the right mask to combat the Omicron variant.
"The studios don't vote. The workers who live here...they're the constituents"
@hanijkim
talks to the mayor of Burbank and
@sagaftra
member
@KonstantineinCA
on the picket line.
.
@RepKatiePorter
says the Covid relief proposal isn't doing enough to help single parents
"There is no discount for being a single parent. If there is please point me to it."
"Nobody likes losers, and he's losing now in Ukraine."
@McFaul
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and China's concerns about Ukraine
"This document is one of the most fantastical reads I've had in quite some time."
@C_C_Krebs
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about a newly-uncovered draft executive order from the Trump White House, touting election conspiracy theories.
.
@DavidJollyFL
on the GOP: "My personal opinion, it's a party bereft of dignity, not just ideas, not just policies, not just ideology. But they have been willing to affiliate with a man who tried to kneecap our very republic."
.
@jemelehill
: "I think probably, the tennis organizations may have thought that Naomi Osaka was just kidding. Maybe they thought she was bluffing, and she showed them that she wasn't, and now they look stupid."
"In 100 ways, the world community is telling Putin and his senior military leaders, 'You've made a dreadful mistake.'"
@mccaffreyr3
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about the international response to Russia's attack.
.
@RepJayapal
: "We all feel this tension of our colleagues who are continuing to not admit that Joe Biden won the election. Are continuing to engage with white nationalist extremist groups that were part of the insurrection on the capitol."
"I favor going further. I favor expelling them from SWIFT. I favor imposing sanctions directly on Putin."
@RepAdamSchiff
talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about President Biden's new sanctions on Ukraine and what could come next.
.
@TheRevAl
stresses the significance of the Minneapolis Police Chief getting involved:
"In the years that I've been involved in police reform and police cases...I can't remember a police chief getting on the stand against an indicted police officer."
“I think a telling dynamic this week is that more House Republicans voted to remove Liz Cheney from leadership because of her impeachment vote than House Republicans voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees," -
@DavidJollyFL
.
@KatyTurNBC
asks
@SenMarkey
if it’s risky for democrats to focus on impeachment as Biden attempts to pass relief: “We don't have a choice. Future presidents, future office holders will feel like they can have impunity. We have to do it."
"I think the Department of Justice should be investigating anyone, including former presidents, if there is credible evidence that they did engage in criminal activity."
@RepAdamSchiff
to
@alivitali
after day 2 of the Jan 6 hearings.
"What the federal prosecutors want to make sure they have is the entire universe of the testimony of any witness."
@glennkirschner2
talks to
@ChrisJansing
about why the DOJ is pushing for witness transcripts from the Jan 6 committee.
.
@PhilipRucker
: "It's totally in keeping with that campaign pledge for him to hold this meeting this afternoon with these Republican senators. But it doesn't mean that Biden's gonna be lowering the amount of money that he is looking for in Covid relief."
"Every hour that passes without meaningful action to reduce gun violence...just brings us closer to the next mass shooting."
@Everytown
's Richard Martinez, who lost his son Christopher in the UC Santa Barbara shooting in 2014, talks about the need for gun legislation.