Matt Laslo
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If you disagree with a politician - or a political party - 💯 of the time you’re a part of the problem
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The Federalist Society’s hosting a black tie dinner inside Union Station tonight, so protestors rolled up a big screen and loud speakers blaring Christine Blasey Ford’s Kavanaugh testimony as a welcome to attendees
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“You had 8 years!”
@LindseyGrahamSC
says of Democrats, accusing Dems of failing to take up policing reforms under Obama-Biden*
*The GOP blocked the reform proposals Obama-Biden pushed
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A reporter is having a panic attack because we’re locked in the Capitol without any police protection, and we hear and feel rumblings underneath us. This is scary folks, especially after being labeled “the enemy” for some 4 years
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DEVELOPING: A member of the House of Representatives is taking their oath on a classic Superman comic book
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“These fucking people,” Rep.
@DanCrenshawTX
tells me after leaving the House floor. “Now they’re just being clowns.”
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Times have changed at the Capitol: Some of the holy books for new member’s swearing ins, including a Quran, Buddhist Sutra and Hindu Vera (and two Constitutions for the atheists)
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“Josh Hawley is a bitch,” D.C. police officer Michael Fanone says just outside the Jan. 6 hearing room
“Donald Trump, Josh
@HawleyMO
— all of them, they’re traitors,”
@RepEscobar
tells me outside the Jan. 6 hearing
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and his staff are handing out bottles of water and Kind bars to protestors on the Capitol grounds
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Have worked in the Capitol for 12 years and never seen a post-it display of well wishes on any lawmaker’s name plaque but here is
@AOC
’s
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A Proud Boy just ate my business card at a bar at CPAC. Then we talked off the record for a few and gained his trust a tad. He then asked for another one and apologized for eating the first.
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Found on a baby changing table in restroom underneath House floor:
“Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant,” from Rep.
@mattgaetz
, Sept. 15, 2023, 11:22am
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"It's much better than Obamacare," Sen. Purdue. on new health bill.
"Why?" we ask.
"I have to go read it."
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Barricades have been erected around the Capitol ahead of the Kavanaugh vote. Have been here 12 years and have never seen this for a vote.
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NEW: Rand Paul is on the Senate floor pushing a bill to make Edward Snowden a retroactive whistler blower, and the press gallery erupts: "HE WASN'T A WHISTLE BLOWER!"
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INBOX:
Urgent: US
@RepJimmyGomez
to Introduce Resolution Expelling Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
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Sen. Rick Scott tells me the rules only allow senators to drink water and milk on the Senate floor during the impeachment trial
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Just informed Senate Foreign Relations Chair Corker of what Trump tweeted about Qatar and was met with about 8 seconds of stunned silence
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“Donald Trump, Josh
@HawleyMO
— all of them, they’re traitors,”
@RepEscobar
tells me outside the Jan. 6 hearing
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No. Cause a bunch of your viewers stormed my office and then you reported it didn’t happen
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BREAKING: PROTESTERS JUST BREACHED THE NORTH DOOR OF THE CAPITOL. AGAIN.
“Really? Again?” one of the heroic, exhausted and frustrated Capitol Police officers escorting me and a crew of others out of the complex just said to his colleagues
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During yesterday's vote-a-rama I overheard
@ewarren
telling
@SenFeinstein
: “Puppies have a nap, now it’s time for you to have one”
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“I’m f****** moving to Iowa,” Sen. Kamala Harris joked to Sen. Hirono (before she noticed me)
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“We lost control...” an officer says over the Capitol Police radio
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“I haven’t seen that,”
@SenFeinstein
replies when I ask about Kansas voters overwhelmingly endorsing abortion rights.
I then explained.
“Oh, I did see that,” Feinstein said. “It didn’t surprise me.”
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“Would you mind keeping that on?”
@mkraju
asks
@LindseyGrahamSC
who then dutifully re-masked
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"Have you decided how you'll vote?" press corps.
"Yes," Sen. John McCain.
"How?"
"Wait for the show."
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@MattWalshBlog
Weird hobby you have of heckling a survivor of one of the most horrific mass shootings in US history.
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“I think they should call in
@seanhannity
to negotiate this because he’s obviously the one calling the shots,” Sen. Dick Durbin says of shutdown
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SUPERMAN UPDATE: An aide still won’t name the member, but she did offer some clarity.
The member plans to take the oath with their hand resting on the Constitution, which will sit atop the classic Superman comic, along with some other “family mementos.”
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CRUZ to MERRICK GARLAND: "What are your thoughts on what is called “cancel culture”? Is “cancel culture,” as you understand it, consistent with the values of free speech?"
GARLAND RESPONSE: "I do not have an understanding of the meaning of the term sufficient to comment."
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“That’s bullshit,”
@LindseyGrahamSC
tells me when I asked about the GOP rejecting the Obama-Biden era policing reform proposals
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"I got called the N-word 15 times today,"
@jamie_raskin
recounts a Capitol Police officer saying on January 6th.
"What the f*** man, is this America?"
@RepRaskin
says another officer replied.
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“For the sake of a story don’t kill each other, okay?" Rep.
@Ilhan
Omar cautioned the throng of reporters following her after a veteran cameraman fell hard on a concrete sidewalk outside the Capitol. She stopped to help him up. "Everybody’s going to be alright,” she gently said
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Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn exits the Jan. 6 hearing room — after Cassidy Hutchinson’s explosive & painful testimony about the president knowing the crowd was armed when he urged them to storm the Capitol — and pauses to pet another officer whose a really good boy
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This morning there was supposed to be a guns rights hearing in the House on making it easier to get silencers. No word on if it is still on.
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Just overheard a Republican Senator tell a reporter *on background* that Trump discussing Joe Biden with a foreign leader was “inappropriate.” Again, he would only say that on background.
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“Lock all doors if able...immediately seek shelter...remain quiet and await further direction,” a voice said over the Capitol loud speaker
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NEW EVIDENCE: “They plan to literally kill people,” a tipster alerted the Secret Service ahead of Jan. 6
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Ummmmm. Not the backdrop I’d have picked if I were trying to tamp down all this ‘deep state’ talk
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"Anyone who says a Muslim shouldn't serve in Congress shouldn't serve in Congress," Sen. Flake says of Roy Moore
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The nerd in me loves this on the record response from Garland, because "cancel culture" is a meaningless term and Cruz knows it. It changes meaning based on who is claiming it and in what moment, thus it's worthless rhetoric.
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Sean Hannity broadcasting from your United States House of Representatives
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Rep. Blumenauer just gave
@Ocasio2018
an American flag diversity poster in the hall and she seems really pumped
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Can't wait to cover secret unveiling of McConnell's new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new health bill in 2 weeks
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We’re all “Steve” to Trump (unless your name is Steve and then you’re just plain old Kevin)
kevin mccarthy finished speaking and trump said "thank you, steve"
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*she then referred to the constitutional referendum as a “poll”
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Personal News: I've started a war against the word "that." It's worthless in writing about 95% of the time. Spread the love: the waste of space of a word is on its way out! Finally.
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I approach
@CoryBooker
for an interview.
“I can’t. I’m literally on the phone with my mom,” he says.
Walks 3 steps away: “Sorry mom, I missed that...”
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Today
@AyannaPressley
is wearing a “ARREST THE COPS WHO KILLED BREONNA TAYLOR” tee at the Capitol
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Why Is Congress on Recess in the Middle of a Pandemic?
@AndrewYang
tells me
@SpeakerPelosi
and
@SenateMajLdr
McConnell are shortsighted for rejecting calls for remote voting in the midst of this crisis:
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Kellyanne Conway says they're behind because Hillary dropped $60 million in negative ads on Trump
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO
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REPORTERS AREN’T SHEEP: View from the print/radio reporter press pen to the photographer’s pen just off the Senate floor. They’ve severely restricted our access during the impeachment proceedings
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Wonder if Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer finally regret nuking the filibuster for (most) judges?
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Back in 2019, Hill staffers wrote “Muslim Koran/Quran” when
@IlhanMN
took her historic oath.
Much better than just “Muslim”
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EXCLUSIVE: “It’s embarrassing,”
@AOC
on DNC’s Rejecting Marijuana Legalization. “I mean, it’s so backwards, right?”
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“What is remarkable about this moment is that we’re not just changing the Democratic Party’s agenda; we’re changing the Republican agenda, too,”
@AOC
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@vicenews
Some Republicans now say they want to address climate change — just don’t mention the Green New Deal to them - via
@vicenews
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BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein won’t announce her plans for 2024 — until 2024
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Best tweet of 2018 so far
please stop calling our customer service hotline to ask if we have The Gorilla Channel
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Love seeing
@Yamiche
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OVERHEARD in your Capitol: “It’s getting late in the day now,” an aide told visitors.
It’s 2:04pm.
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Last year
@RepLizCheney
gently grabbed my arm and said, “You’re mean when you write for
@thedailybeast
.” When I responded by asking if there was anything inaccurate in the piece - - neither her or her chief of staff could point to an error.
Rep Don Young once called me a mother fucker, a cock sucker, and a son of a bitch for writing a column in Congress Daily making fun of his abject failure as a committee chairman.
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NEW: Gillibrand scheduling hearings with UAP (UFO) 🛸whistleblower David Grusch
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Sen. Sinema is choking up throughout her maiden Senate floor speech on the need for better mental health services for veterans with PTSD and the scourge of suicide plaguing the armed services
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I don’t care your politics. I’m weeping. Whether you hate or love him, he’s America’s president, and this is scary. We’ve seen Scalise and Giffords shot since Ive been a political reporter, so this is just a flood of terrifying and sad memories.
Watch: President Trump was escorted out from his briefing today after an apparent shooting outside the White House
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Torn on
@Acosta
suspension. He’s a dick, but he’s allowed to be a dick because of the First Amendment. But just as press staff and politicians shouldn’t touch reporters, neither should reporters touch press staff. And that’s a WH mic. He could have kept asking questions w/out it
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Mark Meadows ‘flipped hard’ on Trump: ex-January 6 committee adviser
@RepRiggleman
predicts based on indictment
My latest for
@RawStory
is live!
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When I mentioned
@RonDeSantisFL
yesterday,
@timkaine
- a former Jesuit missionary in Central America - wept for the Venezuelan migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard
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“We can’t let these fuckin’ fuckers win, and you can quote me on that,” a Democratic lawmaker just told me at the Capitol.
“I just might,” I reply.
“No, please don’t!”
“Okay. I liked it though.”
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After calling on Franken to resign, Sen. Gillibrand and Gretchen Carlson are introducing a bill to end the forced arbitration for sexual harassment that keeps some 60 million Americans from being able to use the courts to settle cases
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Hearing canceled "until further notice"
This morning there was supposed to be a guns rights hearing in the House on making it easier to get silencers. No word on if it is still on.
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The Capitol was lame, so being the intrepid reporter I am, I’m now doing a bar crawl on the House side to find members. And it’s working! One bar down, and one exclusive interview with Rep. Frank Lucas who was more loose lipped than usual after his afternoon brew.
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NEW: here’s my video from like 15mins ago of Capitol Police officers taking up a defensive position inside the Capitol and pepper spraying Trump supporters out of a broken window on the Senate side of the Capitol. Pepper spray filled the air.
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Two Capitol Police officers just escorted a protestor off THE THIRD floor of the Capitol. No ID. Big bag on. And he got to the 3rd floor, which is unheard of
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@DonLew87
“Wait til you see this interview, you’re going to get mail” - Barbara Walters to Sean Connery
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Pretty sure George Washington is flicking off Trump’s tank rally
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HAPPENING NOW: View of the Supreme Court from the second floor of the Capitol, just yards away from the Senate floor
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"I don't think this is relevant to the Trump administration" - Sen. Hatch on Trump Jr.'s emails
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“I have to get to my vote,”
@AOC
says running past reporters in the Capitol and dodging their questions.
Funny thing is, there’s not currently a House vote.
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BREAKING: Sens. Warner and Kaine just got 6 Virginia tribes to get federal recognition (these tribes predated the colonies but had their records destroyed by a racist record keeper after the Civil War. Pocahontas was from one of the tribes)
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“Some things are more important than politics,”
@ewarren
says of being forced off the campaign trail for Trump’s impeachment trial
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2024 is going to be America's first deepfake election.
Brace your...center of reality. Eyes wide open. Starts with doubting your own initial response; pro or con. If, say a post or reply hits all your buttons, it's likely a bot or AI.
There's a certain irony that in all this fuss over AI generated images of Trump that Trump ended up posting an AI generated image of himself doing something that didn't happen:
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Loved (!?!) when
@TomSteyer
talked about bringing minorities into the party as the only Asian on stage,
@AndrewYang
, waved to be called on only for the moderators to call on a white guy
@PeteButtigieg
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