Willie Geist
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Host @NBC #SundayTODAY , Co-Host @Morning_Joe , “Sunday Sitdown” Podcast, @TODAYShow , Producer credit on Lucie & George Geist with EP @ChristinaGeist
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Chris Wallace just told the Fox News audience of President Biden’s speech: “I have been listening to these inaugural addresses since 1961, John F. Kennedy's 'Ask not.’ I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard."
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There’s a hero named Brian walking around New York right now who found my wallet at Columbus Circle, saw my NBC ID, marched it through this swampy weather to 30 Rock, & delivered it to security. If you’re on here, Brian, shoot me a DM, I’d love to thank you for saving the day. 👊
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I can report South Koreans here in Pyeongchang are not as enthralled with Kim Yo Jong and the North Korean cheerleaders as it seems some media are back home.
Something about N.K. killing, starving, & imprisoning its people while threatening South Korea with nuclear annihilation.
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I always think about the victims’ parents on these nights. You pour yourself into your child with every bottle in the middle of the night, every hand held crossing the street, every ride to practice, every hug, every laugh, every cry — and then to lose him or her like this. RIP.
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An Italian priest who gave his own respirator to a younger patient has died. RIP. 🙏
Fr. Giuseppe Berardelli, a 72-year-old priest who gave a respirator (that his parishioners had purchased for him), to a younger patient (whom he did not know), has died from
#coronavirus
.
"Greater love has no person..." (Jn 15:13)
via
@Araberara
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Please spare us your “Enough is enough!” resignations on January 6th, 2021. Thank you.
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He’s a United States Marine who chose military service after graduating from Harvard. He was a platoon leader during his four tours in Iraq, during which he earned the Bronze Star and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for Valor. 🇺🇸
The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!
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Imagine watching this and thinking “We need to move on.”
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Pardon the language here, but I asked a House Democrat who is locked in his office whether Congress will reconvene tonight and finish its business. He replied:
“Yep. We’re going back. Fuck these assholes.”
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Thinking about the 20 sets of parents who were dropping their first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary right about now, 5 years ago, the 6 families of staff members who gave their lives for someone else's children, and what they all have lived with every day since. RIP.
#SandyHook
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Ted Cruz reminds us why it's so very important to work out your act in the small clubs before the big Netflix special at CPAC.
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BILL GEIST UPDATE: My dad received the second dose of his Covid vaccine today. Given his Parkinson's and other risks, it's been a tense year, as it has been for so many of you. We are immeasurably grateful to the brilliant doctors and scientists who brought us to this day. 🙏
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This is Ventura County Sherrif’s Sgt. Ron Helus, killed as he responded to stop the mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, CA. He was a 29-year vet nearing retirement, a husband, and a father.
“He died a hero. He went in to save other people.” RIP.
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Chris Wallace just said this to Fox News viewers: "If you are not moved by the testimony of Ambassador Yovanovitch, you don't have a pulse."
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My thanks to yet another reprehensible coward who used a national platform this morning to mock stuttering -- *stuttering*. He inspired me to donate to
@ASHAWeb
, just one of the great organizations helping families and children with the challenge, and the pain, of stuttering. 👊
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SNL was a re-run last night.
It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of “the other side.” Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows......
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By all rights, 21-year-old Bob Dole should have been dead after being shot by Germans in WW2, and 20-year-old George Bush after being shot out of the sky by the Japanese.
Today, the 95-year-old Senator Dole salutes and says goodbye to the 94-year-old President Bush.
WATCH: Former Sen. Bob Dole is helped out of his wheelchair to salute the casket of George H.W. Bush in the U.S. Capitol.
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I picked up breakfast at our diner today, caught up with the owner like always, and asked how she’s doing. She shook her head as her eyes welled above her mask. I knew what that meant. She turned her back to her staff saying she didn’t want to cry in front of her employees. 1/
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“At least two doctors at Walter Reed who refused to sign NDAs were subsequently not permitted to have any involvement in the president's care.”
EXCLUSIVE: Trump required Walter Reed doctors to sign non-disclosure agreements in 2019,
@carolelee
and
@ckubeNBC
report
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I got a haircut today underground in the subway station at 57th and 8th from a Uzbek immigrant barber who started his own shop and is fighting to survive and loves Yanni so we watched a damn good Yanni concert together on YouTube while he cut my hair. What a great city. 💈 🍎
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Took my 11-year-old to the pediatrician, and as she sat tall, beautiful, and poised on the same little exam table where Dr. Lewis tested all her newborn joints 11 years ago, something unexpected washed over me. My daughter asked, “Dad, are there tears in your eyes?”. There were.
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Andrew Weissman, former senior prosecutor on the Mueller investigation, on President Trump’s pardons of Manafort and Stone: “What (Trump) did yesterday is proof of obstruction. It’s the final act.”
@Morning_Joe
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Good time to remind you that
@MorningMika
is smart as hell, stronger than any critic, & a role model for what we hope our daughters can be.
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We all have done our best to support small businesses this year, but it’s not enough. It is infuriating that it took Congress this long to get a relief bill and unconscionable that the President sits on it while our friends and neighbors fight for their lives. Shame. 3/3
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My daughter dressed as LeBron James for Halloween a couple of years ago. Thank you,
@KingJames
for being someone our kids can look up to, as a player and a man.
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This guy. Way to go, Brayden! 👏
13-year-old Brayden Harrington shares how Joe Biden helped him overcome his stutter at
#DemConvention
:
"I'm just a regular kid, and in a short amount of time Joe Biden made me more confident about something that's bothered me my whole life."
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WE DID IT! An absolute thrill to run 26.2 miles through all five boroughs today at the biggest party in New York.
Those crowds willed me to a 3:58 in my first marathon and raised nearly $300K for
@MichaelJFoxOrg
!
Thank you,
@NYCMarathon
,
@NYRR
, & New York City!
#GoTeamFox
🦊
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Me: “Let’s get Steve a chair.”
@SteveKornacki
: “If I sit down, I’ll fall asleep.”
Kornacki remains at his post, awaiting results from Pennsylvania. 🇺🇸
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This is gut-wrenching.
Dr. Lorna Breen’s father pleads: “Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
RIP, Dr. Breen. A hero. 🙏
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Social media is being flooded with conspiratorial raw sewage about our election process -- from the top down, and from prominent people who know better -- but the system is working. The votes are being counted. 🇺🇸
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After 31 years at
@CBSSunday
, my dad
@BillGeistOne
said farewell to the audience & to his “Sunday Morning” family with this truly great look back. Charles Kuralt convinced him to join the show in 1987 by saying, “It’ll be fun.” Man, was it. Congrats, Dad!
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I met a wonderful woman today named Stephanie Keegan. Her son, Sgt. Daniel R. Keegan, 82nd Airborne, served two tours in Afghanistan. He suffered from PTSD and died while waiting over a year for treatment.
Stephanie gave me this photo of Dan. Let’s remember him.
@WarsNotOver
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I’m so grateful for the people I get to talk to today because they made it out, one rushing down 70 flights of stairs while pregnant, but, 19 years later, I remain devastated for the families, like the 12 in my New Jersey hometown, left without that privilege.
#NeverForget
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Dave Chappelle tonight in NY on his November SNL monologue: "I was the first guy on TV to say 'Give Trump a chance.' I f***ed up. Sorry."
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77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn, who served 38 years with the St. Louis P.D., was shot and killed while protecting a friend’s pawn shop from looters. RIP. 🙏
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Join me in wishing my 1992 prom date
@ChristinaGeist
a very happy birthday! I hope she’s thriving wherever she is today. 🎂 ❤️
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This hasn’t received much attention on a busy day, but under repeated questioning from
@PeterAlexander
, Acting
@CBP
Commissioner Mark Morgan eventually admits the 78 miles of border wall built under President Trump are renovation to existing barriers. No new wall.
Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan admits 70 miles of 'new' wall is replacing old barriers.
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This is a beautiful sight. Vietnam veteran Joseph Walker had no next of kin, so the cemetery put out a public call to attend his burial saying, “No veteran should be buried alone.” Well done, Texas. 🙏
Killeen, Texas: A line of cars stretching for miles to attend the funeral of an Air Force Veteran with no family.. after fears he would be buried with no one attending.
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Sgt. William Everett Geist. Killed at 20 years old in a B-17 Flying Fortress on April 23, 1945, just days before the end of the war in Europe.
My dad was born two weeks later and named after his Uncle Bill. 30 years later, I got the name.
Thank you to all the Uncle Bills. 🇺🇸
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One month from today, I'll be 45 years of age, yet it was just this morning that I learned how to load a bowl into the dishwasher properly. Many thanks and warmest regards,
@ChristinaGeist
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One of the extraordinary details of this extraordinary week is that Congressman Greg Pence voted against impeachment, one week after a mob incited by the President rushed through the halls hunting his brother and chanting “Hang Mike Pence!”. His brother.
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For the love of God.
Man who wore horns in US Capitol riot moved to Virginia jail that serves organic food after nine days without eating.
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The “tainted” FBI just disrupted a plot to kill an untold number of people in a crowded area of San Francisco on Christmas Day.
#BREAKING
UPDATE: Everitt Aaron Jameson, the man accused of plotting a terror attack in San Francisco, had "radical jihadi beliefs" and planned to strike Pier 39 between Dec. 18 and 25, according to court documents.
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This is one of the best impromptu speeches I’ve ever seen. I listened to it, then played it for my 12-year-old daughter to help her understand what she’s seeing on the news. Thank you,
@KillerMike
.
The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He’s verbalizing what a lot of us don’t know how to express
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I'm struck again today by the genuine camaraderie among the group of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama. 41 & Clinton ran against each other, 43 & Obama ran against the legacy of their predecessor, but all came to respect & enjoy the others in that rare club. 🇺🇸
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My grandma whispered that to me when I was a small boy and I never forgot it.
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.
@RepAdamSchiff
on
@Morning_Joe
: “I have nothing but contempt for (
@GOPLeader
) Kevin McCarthy, who has carried the President’s water for 4 years.”
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If you know a doctor, a nurse, a first responder, or any of the people we’re relying on right now, give them a call or shoot them a text. Heroes get scared too.
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She, like millions of others, is desperate for help from the federal government. She said the first round of PPP saved her business, but that was a long time ago and she’s on the brink again. She has followed the rules & spent money to build outdoor dining, but winter is here. 2/
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Chugging up 5th Avenue on the notorious 24th Mile in my
@NYCMarathon
run to raise money for
@MichaelJFoxOrg
and look who steps out to greet me:
@RealMikeFox
himself!
That big hug was fuel to finish under 4 hours. And, no, that is not sweat I'm wiping from my eye.
#GoTeamFox
🦊
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Thank you for all of the kind birthday wishes today.
@ChristinaGeist
and I celebrated with a couple of shots of top shelf Moderna. 🎂 💉 🙏
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This is great. Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw called SNL’s Pete Davidson when he saw Pete’s troubling Instagram post on Saturday and talked him through it. Way to go,
@DanCrenshawTX
... again. 👍
Responding to what appeared to be a call for help from comedian Pete Davidson,
@DanCrenshawTX
with me for
#HouNewsmakers
EXTRA talks about his response and phone call.
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In fairness, Wilbur Ross had his net worth downgraded by
@Forbes
in 2017 from $2.9 billion to less than $700 million, so he knows what it's like out here.
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On
#SundayTODAY
, a great conversation with a genuinely great guy,
@ChrisEvans
, about his hit series "Defending Jacob"... his new public policy site "A Starting Point" (
@ASP
)... and dancing alone during lockdown to Mr. Mister's 1986 hit "Kyrie."
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NEW: Sources close to
@JohnKasich
tell me, after Charlottesville, there is growing sense of "moral imperative" to primary Trump in 2020.
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Scrolling up through my recent NYC text alerts:
3/11: 60+ eligible for the vaccine
3/23: 50+
3/30: 30+
4/6: 16+
5/13: 12+
An extraordinary achievement by scientists, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and government in just over a year. 🙏
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It is an outrage that the Warmbier family had to put out this statement. Strip away your politics and imagine their pain. RIP, Otto.
BREAKING: Parents of Otto Warmbier speak out after President Trump's comments on Kim Jong Un and responsibility for Warmbier's death:
"Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto ... No excuses or lavish praise can change that."
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One down. Thank you to the team at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY for running a great operation and to the brilliant doctors, scientists, and public health officials for getting us here in record time. 🙏
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This is Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus, killed as he responded to stop the mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, CA. He was a 29-year vet nearing retirement, a husband, and a father.
“He died a hero. He went in to save other people.” RIP.
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This is just great,
@AdamSandler
. You brought him back for a few minutes.
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Here’s the link we just mentioned on
@Morning_Joe
to support
@MichaelJFoxOrg
and Parkinson’s Research. I finished my first half-marathon in the cold rain yesterday, and my dad surprised me at the finishline! I was running for him.
#TeamFox
🦊
@RealMikeFox
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This is just the best news. Welcome to the world, Talia! You are loved. ❤️
Introducing the newest member of our family, who joined us Thursday. Talia Davida Kaczynski. She was named with the Hebrew name of her big sister Beans. We love her endlessly.
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“As he lay dying, about 20 colleagues held a vigil and placed their blue-gloved hands on him.”
RIP, Dr. Costa. 🙏
The chief of the critical care division at Mercy Medical Center, who treated patients battling COVID-19, has died of the disease.
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"He went to combat and came back... then goes to a concert and dies," said Roybal's mother who also was at the show in Vegas. RIP, Chris. 🇺🇸
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And in all of these months of training, I did not prepare for the "Stephanie Ruhle breaches the police barrier, sprints across 1st Avenue, and leaps into your arms" scenario.
I thought for a second Steph was going to hang on for a mile or two. Legendary move,
@SRuhle
.
I didn't plan to jump the barrier when
@williegeist
made his way up 1st Ave, but watching New Jersey's favorite son dominate
#NYCMarathon2021
was like seeing Springsteen at
@thestonepony
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MY. SISTER. JUST. WON. AN. OSCAR!!!!! Congrats,
@LibbyGeist
,
@EzraEdelman
,
@CWaterlow
,
@ConnorSchell
, &
@ESPN
!
#Oscars2017
@OJMadeInAmerica
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It’s one photo, but it represents the uncounted moments in history when American men and women looked out, saw Hell waiting for them, and ran into it for the rest of us. Thank you, today and always.
#MemorialDay
🇺🇸
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At the end of another long day, I hear young children laughing in the other room. Younger than ours. I walk in to see
@ChristinaGeist
giggling and reading her books over Zoom to pediatric cancer patients with the Children’s Cancer Center in Tampa. She is a light. ❤️
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Former WH Press Secretary
@Robt_Gibbs
calls yesterday’s briefing: “Open Mic Night at Trump University Medical School.”
@Morning_Joe
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Thank you,
@Morning_Joe
viewers! 👏
.
@Morning_Joe
is
#1
across all of cable at 6am during record-breaking month in both A25-54 and total viewers, posting its largest lead over
@FoxNews
ever.
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Good morning, and thank you for your letter. The facts as you have presented them here are true, but they lack context. I meant that in the photograph ("Exhibit A") you were my high school girlfriend and now ("currently") you are my wife. Any suggestion to the contrary is false.
Babe, did you just show my high school cheerleading photo on
@TODAYshow
and refer to me as your “current” wife? My phone’s blowing up and I’m trying to focus and write a brand book for a banking client. 😬
@WillieGeist
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Chris Matthews opens his show this evening with this: “Let me start with my headline tonight: I’m retiring. This is the last ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC.”
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Over the course of 4 hours, 58 minutes, and 9 seconds in line today, I started and finished
@RealMikeFox
’s excellent upcoming memoir, listened to
@ChrisStapleton
’s excellent upcoming album twice, and eventually... voted! 🇺🇸
#Election2020
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What a shot by
@AP
photographer
@EvanVucci
.
A Marine holds the door as Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, walks into the White House.
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Hell of a sight.
@gabegutierrez
USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor.
(Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)
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.
@MorningMika
&
@JoeNBC
were supposed to be away on vacation tomorrow. They've postponed & will join me on
@Morning_Joe
. See you in the AM.
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RIP, Coach Feis.
Once again, this is what we ask educators to do now: to stand between our children and bullets. We’re all so grateful for the people who teach, love, and protect our kids at school.
It is with Great sadness that our Football Family has learned about the death of Aaron Feis. He was our Assistant Football Coach and security guard. He selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. He died a hero and he will forever be in our hearts and memories
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.
@NicolleDWallace
on WH staff: "If they don't resign en masse this morning, they are forever tainted by what he did yesterday."
@Morning_Joe
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Four-star
@USArmy
General Barry
@McCaffreyR3
on
@Morning_Joe
: “We have a coup led by the President of The United States against the Constitution.”
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R.I.P., Sgt. Hermond.
The woman he was rushing to rescue when he was swept away said, “He was trying to save me. He’s a hero.”
The body of Sgt. Eddison A. Hermond was found in the Patapsco River on Tuesday.
He was trying to help a local shop owner when he disappeared into the flood waters.
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NEWS: In a conversation last night with
@DonnyDeustch
, Trump attorney Michael Cohen says "Rudy Giuliani doesn't know what he's talking about" regarding the President's repayment of the Stormy Daniels hush money.
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And here’s Katie Potter, a substitute teacher at Aztec H.S. She heard the shots & rushed 17 kids into an office, barricading the door with a sofa.
The shooter fired through the wall for several minutes but hit no one. Katie saved them all & volunteered to work again on Monday.
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The Aztec H.S. shooting got lost in the Firehose News Cycle, and kids being murdered at random inside their schools can't become routine.
I am in awe once again that educators and staff, here a substitute teacher and a custodian, consistently risk their lives for their students.
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On
@Morning_Joe
, I asked former CIA Director
@JohnBrennan
if he suspects Russians recorded Putin’s 2-hour meeting with
@POTUS
:
“I think whatever Trump said in that meeting is now memorialized on Russian tape and will be used as necessary by Putin against Trump.”
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Watch this. Riveting and infuriating all over again. God bless Jon Stewart for his years of advocacy for the 9/11 first responders Congress has forgotten.
WATCH: Jon Stewart's full statement before House cmte., demanding additional funding for 9/11 victim compensation fund, which is set to expire next year.
"Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: Time! It's the one thing they're running out of."
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Mitch McConnell stressing the importance of waiting until states officially certify their winners before recognizing
@JoeBiden
’s win.
You’ll be shocked to hear he congratulated President-elect Trump just hours after media outlets called the 2016 race.
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It is Noon in Washington.
@JoeBiden
officially is President of the United States, and Donald Trump’s single term in office is over.
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I've alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about this vicious personal attack on me by
@VancityReynolds
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This is absolutely heartbreaking. We’re sending our love,
@ChrissyTeigen
and
@JohnLegend
. 🙏
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.
@AlRoker
is the heart and soul of our
@NBCNews
family. He has been a role model to me -- and to all of us -- as a professional, and as a parent and husband.
We love you, Al. We're with you through this fight. 👊
Our friend and colleague
@AlRoker
reveals that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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