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We can do hard things... like overcoming our fear of needles!💉💪
After the
@RedCross
declared its first ever national blood crisis, I visited the A+ nurses at
@ChildrensNatl
who told me this donation will help 4-5 kids!
#GiveWithMe
To learn more, visit:
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I asked the Trump campaign who Vice President Mike Pence is bringing to tonight's debate.
A spokesperson responded: "Tupac."
Happy Wednesday, everybody.
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All NYPD officers — including plainclothes detectives — have been ordered to wear their full uniform tomorrow beginning at 7am ahead of a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump, a police source tells
@CBSNews
@PatMilton14
.
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Today, the Trump campaign launched its official "Trump 2020" app.
Its developer
@phunware
received a $2.85 million loan from Paycheck Protection Program, nearly 14X the current PPP average of $206,000.
More via
@CBSNews
@GrahamKates
@stephengandel
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NEW: President Trump has released his second term agenda — a 50 point bulleted list 👇
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THREAD — Reporters toured the temporary border facility in Donna, TX today.
The Biden admin allowed pooled coverage for the first time.
We saw a “pod” designed for 32 migrant children under CDC guidelines now holding 615.
The facility is at 1700% pandemic capacity.
📸:TV Pool
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Breaking:
@CBSNews
@jeffpeguescbs
reports there is investigative activity in 30+ states related to the Capitol siege & forthcoming inauguration—including Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Arkansas & Colorado.
The
@FBI
has now received more than 45,000 digital media tips.
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SANFORD, FL — Seven hours ahead of President Trump’s rally, supporters line up to witness their candidate’s return to the campaign trail.
“He’s back and so are we,” one calls out.
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NEW: Days before midterms, the U.S. is warning of a “heightened threat” to the 2022 elections, fueled by a rise in domestic violent extremism and driven by ideological grievances & access to potential targets, according to a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by
@CBSNews
. [1/x]
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INBOX: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces Georgia’s hand recount “upheld and reaffirmed the original outcome produced by the machine tally of votes cast.”
The highest error rate in any county was .73%.
Most counties found no change in their final tally.
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NEW: An official in the Minnesota Health Department confirms to
@jackturmanIII
that nine people who attended President Trump’s September 18 rally in Bemidji, MN have tested positive for COVID-19.
Two of the nine have been hospitalized.
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NEW:
@CBSNews
has learned of a shooting outside a Duke Energy facility in Ridgeway, SC, Wednesday. An individual in a truck opened fire near crews outside the Wateree Hydro Station around 5:30pm, before speeding away, according to multiple sources. No one was injured. [1/x]
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FLAG: Senator Elizabeth Warren appears uncharacteristically flustered when asked if her ethics plan would allow her Vice President's son to serve on the board of a foreign company: "No," she said. "I don't know. I mean I’d have to go back and look at the details."
#nhpolitics
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Following the hand recount, President-Elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia by 12,284 votes.
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NEW: The White House supplied New Jersey officials with the names of at least 206 individuals who attended President Trump's events in Bedminster, Thursday, PIO for Somerset County Nathan Rudy tells
@CBSNews
. [1/2]
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Good day from sunny, blue-sky Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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TODAY: Andrew Yang says he texted Julian Castro this morning, who he feels he relates to. "He's got a wife and 2 young kids. We're about the same age," Yang said.
Yang adds, “Certainly when I'm President I would love to have Julian involved as a big part of the administration.”
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The Trump campaign’s lawsuit in Georgia has been dismissed.
Judge James F. Bass of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia writes the court found “no evidence” that ballots challenged “were received after 7:00pm on election day, thereby making those ballots invalid."
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KEENE, NH -- In an apparent swipe at Joe Biden, Andrew Yang tells crowds, "Let them do the kind of work they actually want to do, instead of saying to a group of people that you all need to become coders."
Adds, "Maybe Americans don’t all want to learn how to code.”
#nhpolitics
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!! In her testimony before Congress, Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman says militias tied to the January 6th attack have stated their desire to “blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union."
MORE 👇
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A voter tests Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Norwegian language skills. “Do you know what the word lekeplass is?” she asks.
Buttigieg pauses. “Playground?” he asks.
“Yes!” she exclaims.
#nhpolitics
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High schooler Graham, age 16, recounts losing his mother to a brain tumor 4 years ago. His aunt and grandmother relocated to care for him.
"Would you support the federalization of paid family leave so no family will have to go through what I went through?" he asks Andrew Yang.
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SWANTON, OH — Supporters already lined up outside, 8 hours before President Trump’s airport hangar rally tonight.
Buses are dropping off people by the dozens.
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While campaigning in Burlington, Vermont yesterday, Fmr. Mayor Michael Bloomberg met a dog.
#Campaign2020
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Bobby Engel, Fmr. President Trump’s special agent in charge on Jan 6th and his limousine driver are both prepared to testify under oath before the Jan 6 committee that neither man was attacked and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the Beast’s steering wheel,
@CBSNews
confirms [1/2]
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BREAKING in United States v. Texas: Judge Pitman issued a preliminary injunction temporarily barring enforcement of Texas' controversial abortion ban -- known as SB-8 -- which has banned most abortions since September and sent women searching for out-of-state care.
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One line item of President Trump’s second term agenda reads, “Return to normal in 2021.”
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Our
@CBSNews
team stood at the W Fourth St security barricade for over an hour and watched as state police & national guardsmen blocked it. Trump supporters expressed disappointment when the entrance closed, but none of them appeared shaken or intimidated by peaceful protesters.
Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with
@realDonaldTrump
supporters at the rally.
They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering.
Thanks to the 1,000s who made it anyway!
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STORY: As bipartisan support around $$ payments to Americans grow,
@AndrewYang
says it's "very hard to see a silver lining" amid the coronavirus pandemic.
His non-profit
@HumanityForward
pledged $1 million to families, reeling from near economic shutdown.
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NEW: Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard files a defamation lawsuit against Fmr. Secretary Hillary Clinton for alleging she is a “Russian asset.”
Counsel to Gabbard writes she's "seen her candidacy intentionally damaged by Clinton’s malicious and demonstrably false remarks.”
Statement:
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CONWAY, NH — Bernie Sanders says his criticism of Joe Biden’s record on social security is “not personal.”
“I’m sure that Joe’s campaign is researching my record and they’ll attack me. So long as we’re being honest, I think that’s what politics is supposed to be about.”
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NEW
@CNN
/
@UofNH
New Hampshire Poll with net change since October:
Bernie Sanders 25% (+4)
Joe Biden 16% (+1)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg 15% (0)
Elizabeth Warren 12% (-6)
Amy Klobuchar 6% (+1)
Tulsi Gabbard 5% (0)
Andrew Yang 5% (0)
#nhpolitics
#FITN
🔗
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The Jan. 6 Committee is planning to interview current & fmr. U.S. Secret Service officials in the coming weeks,
@CBSNews
confirms, per sources briefed on the investigation:
Tony Ornato
Robert Engel
Kimberly Cheatle
Anthony Guglielmi
Timothy Giebels
Trump's limo driver on Jan. 6.
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CONCORD, NH -- In a particularly emotional moment, one voter tells
@AndrewYang
she was forced to drop out of college without student loan forgiveness and has held 6 jobs in 2019 alone.
"Your campaign has taught me... the importance of voice. And that everyone has a story."
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GOP Chairman Ronna McDaniel informed the White House doctor of her positive COVID-19 test on Wednesday (9/30) per an RNC official.
McDaniel attended a fundraiser with President Trump on 9/25.
This would indicate the WH knew POTUS was potentially exposed to COVID-19, earlier.
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Full story: New intel memo cautions that government officials and personnel will likely remain "attractive targets" to those motivated by debunked claims of election fraud that have spread online. U.S. Capitol Police documented 9,600 threats in 2021 alone.
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The first page of the complaint against Clinton reads, "Tulsi Gabbard is running for President of the United States, a position Clinton has long coveted, but has not been able to attain."
The defamation lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY.
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A
@Twitter
spokesperson tells
@CBSNews
the
@TeamTrumpOnTour
account was "mistakenly caught in a spam filter" and has since been reinstated.
H/T
@ThisAlexTin
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STORY: For
@AndrewYang
, New Hampshire is both a “homecoming” and a big bet.
Come for the time teenage Yang played King Herrod in “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Stay for the strategy behind beating expectations in the nation’s first primary.
#FITN
#nhpolitics
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Duke Energy says they are working with FBI to investigate.
"We are aware of reports of gunfire near the Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway SC," a spox told
@CBSNews
. "No individuals were harmed. There are no outages reported. There is no known property damage at this time." [2/x]
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Amid a campaign season now largely void of its typical star-studded in-person concerts, Jon Bon Jovi urges Biden supporters to vote “for a man of empathy, character and experience.”
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Protesters chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “Free Myon” have now occupied Senator Amy Klobuchar’s rally for well over an hour, taking over the stage and effectively shutting down the campaign event.
The rally in Klobuchar’s home state was slated to begin ten minutes ago.
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BREAKING: Attorney General Garland has order the Department of Justice to halt federal executions while the agency reviews its policies on the death penalty.
DOJ cites a “troubling number of exonerations” and the death penalty’s disparate impact on Black people and minorities.
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President Donald Trump turns 74 years old today. He’ll celebrate his birthday in Bedminster, NJ before departing home to DC later this afternoon.
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ST. LOUIS PARK, MN — Protesters in Senator Klobuchar’s home state have stormed the stage at her campaign rally, with dozens chanting, “Free Myon!” and “Klobuchar has got to go!”
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Fmr. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on Sen. Hawley's attempt to block Mayorkas' consideration: "It's bitterly ironic that the senator who lodged this effort to delay the new DHS secretary was the one who was gave kind of a fist encouragement to the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th."
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U.S. Secret Service officials erased text messages from January 5 + 6, 2021 shortly after the DHS Inspector General requested the evidence as part of an investigation into the agency’s response to the U.S. Capitol.
@CBSNews
has obtained a letter to Congressional leaders.
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“Potential targets of DVE violence include candidates running for public office, elected officials, election workers, political rallies, political party representatives, racial & religious minorities or perceived ideological opponents,” the DHS, FBI, NCTC, USCP memo states. [2/x]
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Mary Trump, niece of President Donald Trump, tells
@costareports
, “I’ll do everything in my power to make sure Joe Biden gets elected.”
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The incident comes on the heels of a widespread power outage in Moore County, NC following a "deliberate" attack on another Duke Energy facility. It remains unclear if events are connected.
FBI continues to seek info about who allegedly turned off the lights for 45,000. [5/x]
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The Department of Energy was notified of the incident, but declined to comment directly.
"Those who commit these crimes to our Nation's critical energy infrastructure will be held accountable," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement to
@CBSNews
. [4/x]
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CONCORD, NH — Fmr. SC Governor Mark Sanford held a giant $1 trillion check, before ending his campaign.
“Never before has our country been this financially vulnerable as we are today based on the roundup of debt and deficit, and the numbers that come with it.”
#nhpolitics
#FITN
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Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan told
@WLTX
, Wednesday, "We take this seriously." According to the sheriff, initial reports indicated an individual opened fire near trees lining the powerplant. It remains unclear if the facility was targeted. [3/x]
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Unaccompanied migrant children ages 4 months - 9 years old are now being held in the recreational area around the clock because there’s no just room for them in the dormitory areas.
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Heartbreaking statistic on
@CBSSunday
this morning:
Forty-four 9/11 survivors and first responders have died of COVID-19 according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
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FLAG: Andrew Yang told reporters in Hollis, New Hampshire tonight he will release a "detailed health care plan" in the days ahead.
Yang said his comprehensive healthcare plan will include "where we’re going to get the revenue.”
#nhpolitics
WATCH👇
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The bulletin also warns extremists might target state & local government fixtures *after* the election.
Potential targets include officials or private companies associated with vote counting/certifications and judicial figures involved in election-related legal challenges. [3/x]
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NEW: U.S. Secret Service Director James Murray has informed personnel that he will "briefly delay" his retirement amid multiple investigations of the agency.
In a message obtained by
@CBSNews
, Murray calls the search for his replacement "active and ongoing."
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Senator Bernie Sanders doubles down on opposition toward Joe Biden’s health care plan:
“I want Joe to explain to the American people. How much will the premiums go up? How much will copayments go up? How many more people will go bankrupt?”
#nhpolitics
#FITN
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NOW: Andrew Yang clarifies position on "Medicare for All."
Yang says a health care plan that eliminates private insurance in favor of government overhaul would be "too disruptive."
"I support the spirit of what Bernie is trying to accomplish," Yang says.
#nhpolitics
WATCH👇
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As I imagine his owner would have wanted, after a long day, companion to President George H. W. Bush — Sully the dog — is receiving lots of love.
#GoodBoy
#Remembering41
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Asked why he changed his mind today, an exasperated Senator Flake says, “This is ripping the country apart.” He pauses. “The calls I’ve been getting. The emails, the texts. It’s been rough to see.” He looks down. “We haven’t had a process we can be proud of.”
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The NJ Department of Health reached out to these individuals to make them aware of possible exposure. Contact tracing is ongoing.
Somerset County Health Department officials are interviewing club staff members to assess their risk levels & provide health recommendations.[2/2]
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Yang calls Biden's proposal "unrealistic."
"I get along very well with Joe, but I think it's completely unrealistic and unproductive to even recommend that all Americans learn to code or all former coal miners learn to code," Yang says, noting a minority of Americans study STEM.
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@CNN
@UofNH
@DNC
@washingtonpost
@ABC
STILL UNDECIDED: New
@CNN
/
@UNH
Poll shows out of likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters:
👉49% say they are still deciding on their choice.
👉31% say they are firm in their choice.
👉20% say they are leaning, but have not definitively made up their minds.
#nhpolitics
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MORE: New Jersey officials have been informed that the federal government is also conducting contact tracing in connection with President Trump's fundraiser in Bedminster, NJ, Thursday.
@CBSNews
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Santa Claus — joined by Mrs. Claus and a band of elves — are now casting free
#MAGA
hats into the crowds at the Trump rally for Sen. Hyde-Smith in Biloxi, MS to the sound of “Don’t Stop Believing.”
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The outdoor recreational area is being used to stage COVID testing before unaccompanied migrant children are transferred to HHS facilities.
We counted more than 50 COVID positive (and largely asymptomatic) kids waiting for their quarantined bus right next to a soccer game.
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@CNN
@UofNH
NEWS: Andrew Yang qualifies for the next
@DNC
Debate stage.
Yang reached 5% in the
@CNN
/
@UNH
New Hampshire poll this AM and 7% in the
@washingtonpost
/
@ABC
National poll released overnight.
The next debate is February 7th in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
#nhpolitics
#FITN
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@washingtonpost
@blueorigin
WATCH: Andrew Yang says while comparing notes one day,
@KamalaHarris
offered to connect her husband Doug with his wife, Evelyn, to help her adjust to the campaign trail's rapid pace.
“She didn’t have to do that. It was very generous of her, and I appreciated it a great deal.”
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Remember Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old assaulted by Buffalo police and denounced by President Trump on Twitter?
Gugino's lawyer, Kelly Zarcone announced he was released from the hospital earlier today, is grateful for "truly outstanding" care, and can walk "with a little help."
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TONIGHT: Presidential candidate
@AndrewYang
says he has another surprise in store for the
@DNC
debate, next week.
"We'll have an announcement the night of the debate," Yang tells reporters in Epping, New Hampshire.
#nhpolitics
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Extraordinary to hear Attorney General Garland outline skyrocketing threats to so many members of society – election officials, airline crews, teachers, journalists, lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and police – in such painstaking detail.
Still, this only scratches the surface.
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CONCORD, NH — Presidential candidate Andrew Yang plays basketball with high school students.
Let’s just say these high schoolers are not taking it easy on him.
#nhpolitics
#FITN
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At least 39 unaccompanied migrant children have been in the temporary processing facility for more than 15 DAYS, Acting Executive Officer for RGV Operational Programs Division, Oscar Escamilla, told reporters.
The legal limit is 72 hours.
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More than 2000 migrants at the temporary processing facility in Donna, TX have been here for over the legal limit of 72 hours.
Senior CBP officials told reporters more than 1200 migrants are processed and waiting to be transferred to HHS facilities. HHS has nowhere to put them.
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Donald Trump Jr. has tested positive for COVID-19, two Trump family associates tell
@CBSNews
.
According to a spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr., the president's son tested positive at the start of the week and has been in quarantine at his cabin. He is asymptomatic, so far.
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Here’s video of the scene outside the security gate when police blocked peaceful protesters.
📸:
@CBSNews
Alan McKenzie
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Raul Ortiz, Deputy Chief of U.S. Border Patrol, told reporters CBP agents now see “self-separation” by families expelled under Title 42.
Unaccompanied migrant children re-cross the border without their parents so they can seek legal asylum within the United States.
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U.S. Secret Service officials have provided dozens of hours of testimony to the January 6th committee thus far, according to a source close to the agency. [2/2]
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Asked if the Trump camp will spend $7.9M on a Wisconsin recount, counsel
@JennaEllisEsq
tells
@CBSNews
,“The legal team continues to examine the issues with irregularities in Wisconsin and are leaving all legal options open, including a recount & an audit.”
NEW: The Wisconsin Elections Commission estimates a statewide recount would cost $7.9M. That money would have to be paid in advance of the recount.
A recount can't be requested until the last county turns in its canvassing results. The deadline for that is tomorrow.
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It cost $6.1 million to stand up the processing facility in Donna, TX, according to Acting Executive Officer, Oscar Escamilla.
It should cost $6 million per month for
@CBP
to run the facility at its 250-person capacity.
It’s so overcrowded that it costs $16 million per month.
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Multiple Fmr. senior officials with the Yang campaign tell me
@AndrewYang
has met with every candidate post-NH Primary about possible opportunities and roles within each campaign.
These sources say Yang is keeping his options open & has not yet committed.
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JUST IN:
@CBP
announces U.S. border patrol agents will be required to wear body cameras, a hefty operational change likely to increase oversight of the patrol and assist criminal investigations.
CBP expects to deploy approximately 6,000 cameras by the end of 2021.
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Somerset County Health Department says the majority of the Trump club staff reside in Somerset County.
They advise attendees in "close contact" with those testing positive to quarantine 14 days. Those seeking a test should consider waiting at least 5-7 days from the event.
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NEW CBS NEWS POLL:
👉Warren 26%
👉Biden 25%
👉Sanders 19%
👉Harris 8%
👉Buttigieg 6%
👉O’Rourke 4%
🚫MOE: +/- 1.5%
Voter preference across early-state contests through Super Tuesday 2020 shows Senator Elizabeth Warren has risen.
@CBSNewsPoll
#Campaign2020
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According to early excerpts released by the Trump campaign, President Trump is expected to say tonight:
“For half a century, Biden twisted his blade into the heart of American Workers. He should not be asking for your votes, he should be begging for your forgiveness.”
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NEW: U.S. Secret Service is ticking through phone metadata of 2 dozen officials to determine if anyone deleted text messages from Jan. 6, 2021 that should have been preserved as government records prior to an agency-wide phone migration.
w/
@kathrynw5
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The joint FBI/DHS bulletin warns of “multiple articulated threats and calls for the targeted killing of judicial, law enforcement, and government officials associated with the Palm Beach search, including the federal judge who approved the Palm Beach search warrant.” [1/x]
‼️
@CBSNews
has obtained DHS/FBI bulletin warning of "an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities, including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI HQ and issuing general calls for 'civil war"(h/t
@NicoleSganga
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Deputy Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz, told reporters
@CBP
anticipates *more than 1 million encounters* of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in FY 2021 alone.
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TODAY: Don Blankenship, the ex-coal CEO who lost the Republican nomination for Senate in West Virginia last year, has now filed paperwork to run for president.
He is running under the Constitution Party.
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NEW: At today’s federal detention hearing for Lonnie Coffman – the Alabama man who allegedly packed the bed of his red pickup with gasoline-filled Mason jars near the U.S. Capitol – Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey ordered that Coffman be detained ahead of trial.
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Yang said having a son or daughter of a Vice President sit on the board of a for-profit company, “certainly has a bad look to it.” Yang added, “I agree with anyone who thinks that at a minimum it looks like it could influence the administration in ways that benefit the family.”
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@AndrewYang
🚨🚨Andrew Yang responds to this
@janestreet
report indicating only 1.2 million manufacturing jobs were lost in midwestern swing states (not 4 million.)
"I did not suggest that the 4 million jobs were all based in the 5 or 6 swing states."
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At this particular entranceway, I counted no more than four dozen protesters, at least half of whom were not permitted to enter into the arena.
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