Alayna Treene
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White House Reporter @CNN. Offender of talking with my hands. Often with Bodega, my rescue lab. Send tips to [email protected].
Joined October 2011
NEW: A growing number of Republican senators — led by Ted Cruz — are set to announce today they also will object to certifying state Electoral College votes on Wednesday, several congressional sources familiar with their conversations tell me .
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POTUS: “We're going to win. I wouldn't have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago”.
President Trump, from his hotel in Las Vegas, has called into a press call being held by his campaign manager, Bill Stepien. "We're going to win," Trump says on the call, per @MarioDParker. "I wouldn't have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago."
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A stunning text exchange between former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale and former campaign official Katrina Pierson
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.@chucktodd during a special climate edition of @MeetThePress today: "We're not going to debate climate change, the existence of it . We're not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled, even if political opinion is not"
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GOP lawmaker attended gay son's wedding 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage bill
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I think the @latimes has this story backwards. I was the reporter who asked @SenFeinstein these questions. She told me she was initially going to vote against impeachment "before this". But when I asked her to clarify, she said she's changed her opinion
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Scoop: Bernie Sanders withheld support for a joint statement condemning last weekend's protests against Kyrsten Sinema because it also wouldn't include a rebuke of her political views, an email exchange leaked to @axios shows. Read excerpts of the emails—>.
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Hakeem Jeffries & Katherine Clark said they plan to begin reaching out to "a handful" of House Republicans about signing onto a discharge petition that can be used as a vehicle to bypass House GOP leadership and force a vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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NEW: GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is privately encouraging voting by mail and warned President Trump the party could be "screwed" by his fight against mail-in voting. "We could lose based on that," McCarthy told me at a diner in Salt Lake City last week
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Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr on Fox News this morning regarding the indictment: “He's not a victim here. He was totally wrong that he had the right to have those documents. Those documents are among the most sensitive secrets the country has”.
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NEW: JD Vance will sit for an interview with Joe Rogan tomorrow for his podcast, a source familiar with the plans tells me. The interview is expected to drop later this week. It will be taped at Rogan’s studio in Austin.
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Staff in the Senate Press gallery staff just informed reporters sitting at their desks that if protestors storm the Capitol building they will usher us all into the Senate chamber and lock the door.
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New: Rick Scott is spending part of his congressional recess on a luxury yacht in Italy w/ his family while Republicans face cash problems & rough headlines about their midterm chances. He also recently attacked Biden for vacationing in Delaware .
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News: Trump’s son Barron will no longer serve as a delegate at this summer’s Republican National Convention, per a senior Trump campaign adviser & a statement from Melania Trump’s office. The stmt from Melania Trump’s office said "he regretfully declines due to prior commitments".
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Scoop: President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results, four Trump advisers tell me
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SCOOP: Kurt Volker told lawmakers in a closed-door testimony that Bill Taylor was worried Trump might be willing to trade away Ukraine's interests as part of a grand bargain with Russia -- new w/ @margarettalev
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NEW: The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days, sources familiar w/ the move tell @priscialva @jmhansler & me. The move is designed to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge.
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New w/ @jonathanvswan: Trump has asked his campaign to put him on the road every single day from now until Nov. 3. His team is in the process of scheduling events to make that happen. “He’s going to kill himself,” one adviser said
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Fox News pulls away from the White House press briefing after @PressSec shows a video of protests in Portland. "We were not expecting that video, and our management here at Fox News has decided we will pull away from that at this time," @HARRISFAULKNER says.
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Trump walked out carrying a binder with his prepared remarks, which he is reading very closely during this speech . So far, he’s sticking pretty close to the script and his economic messaging — something many of his allies have been urging him to do
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McCarthy's team says the @GOPLeader plans to sit down with Marjorie Taylor Greene next week before making any decisions about potentially stripping her of committees/ any action reprimanding her. It was the same process McCarthy took with Rep. Steve King.
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Justice Samuel Alito was not present for a second day in a row as the justices handed down opinions in the Supreme Court’s courtroom Friday. The Supreme Court has not responded to questions about his absence.
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Scoop: Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost U.S. tariffs next to prices for certain products on its website, two senior White House officials told @CNN.
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Trump reached out to McCarthy and Stefanik today to strategize efforts on how to defend the former president after he received a letter notifying him that he’s the target of DOJ’s Jan. 6 grand jury investigation, sources familiar w/ the call tell @MZanona & me.
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I swear this is unplanned.
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Karla Jacinto, the woman behind the story Katie Britt shared in during SOTU, told CNN she was never trafficked in the US. She was not trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, but by a pimp who entrapped vulnerable girls to force them into prostitution, she said.
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I asked Trump if he thought he should’ve been tougher on Iran after it launched ballistic missiles at US forces in Iraq in Jan 2020 that injured more than 100 US service members (they were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries). & 11 missiles hit the al-Asad base. His response:
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NEW: Kevin McCarthy said on a conference call with members on Monday that there is "undisputedly" no evidence that people linked to Antifa participated in last week's deadly siege on the Capitol, and told members he had urged Trump to call Biden
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Nikki Haley's husband responds to Trump's attacks while deployed overseas. Trump onstage in SC today mocked his absence on the trail. “Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. … What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone," Trump said.
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RFK Jr. said tonight that Trump “has promised me” control of HHS & “its sub-agencies” as well as the Dept. Of Agriculture.
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Trump's leadership PAC, Save America, spent more on legal expenses than it took in last month, a new FEC filing shows . The PAC spent nearly $5.6 million on legal bills in February, exceeding it's total receipts. Save America ended February with about $4M remaining in the bank.
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Ken Buck, who spoke in support of Cheney earlier this week & backed Chip Roy this AM over Stefanik, was asked whether he’s worried about backlash from Trump. Buck’s reply: “I've been looking for an exit strategy for six and a half years so if that's the exit strategy that's okay”.
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There's talk within Bidenworld of the president-elect ditching the typical flourish of arriving in Washington ahead of his inauguration on an Air Force plane, pulling in instead on the same Amtrak train he rode to & from Delaware for 30 years as a senator
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Kevin McCarthy & Mitch McConnell will skip Trump's departure ceremony in Maryland tomorrow morning in favor of attending mass with Joe Biden ahead of his inauguration . Trump's sendoff is at 8am, and the Catholic service w/ Biden is at 8:45am.
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McCarthy said he's spent hours telling Trump that this preoccupation will hurt the his own re-election, as well as Republicans running for Congress. “I tried to show him. who is most afraid of COVID? Seniors. And if they're not going to go vote, period, we're screwed,” he said.
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"This is not the president, this is staff," Manchin told West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval . "I just got to the wit's end," he said, adding that WH staff "drove some things and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable. They know what it is.".
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NEW: McCarthy says he met with Cawthorn over his recent comments about members participating in orgies and doing cocaine. McCarthy tells me & others he told Cawthorn: “he's lost my trust is gonna have to earn it back. And I laid out to everything that I find is unbecoming”.
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Trump distances himself from Project 2025 -- run by the Heritage Foundation -- which lays out an extremely conservative roadmap they want Trump to adopt should he win the election. Many people involved in Project 2025 are close to Trump world & have served in his previous admin
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.@GovChristie on ABC tonight with a strong rebuke of Trump's rhetoric:. "If you're gonna say those things from behind the podium at the White House. show us the evidence. We heard nothing today about any evidence. This kind of thing, all it does is inflame without informing".
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Arizona officials say they can’t find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice.
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NEWS: Special counsel investigating Joe Biden’s handling of classified material is not expected to bring charges. More from @PaulaReidCNN
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Scoop: Former President Trump and his allies, in conjunction with top House GOP leadership & conservative groups, have begun pulling documents & coordinating a behind-the-scenes effort to counterprogram the Jan. 6 committee's televised hearings this month
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Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it. "I'm actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.".
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Greene said she condemned it and told Mace “don’t believe the fake news." She also brought up how some Black Lives Matter protests turned violent. Mace answered: “Literal QAnon lady trying to deny she’s a QAnon lady.”.
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@latimes @SenFeinstein Here is the transcription of audio. Definitely a remarkable conversation with Senator Feinstein, but my interpretation is not that she is leaning toward acquitting the president
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A source close to Trump predicts he will explode when he reads this Cohn interview .
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov this morning: "The new U.S. Administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision.".
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Schiff concluded today’s arguments with a powerful speech about how the witnesses who came forward during the House’s inquiry “risked everything,” including their careers. He said he recognizes he's asking some senators to risk theirs too, but said they must show the same courage.
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A very powerful speech from Zelensky tonight, who made the case that the US, and namely US lawmakers, have changed the game for Ukraine, and that their continued funding and assistance will speed up the war. He thanked everyone in the room countless times.
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NEW w/ @jonathanvswan: During previously unreported meetings last summer, House GOP leaders discussed — but then largely set aside — fears that QAnon-supporting conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene would end up a flaming trainwreck for their party
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“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump said, according to the transcript. “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at another point. "This was done by the military and given to me.”.
Major development follow Trump's indictment: Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2021 meeting that he had retained “secret” military information that he had not declassified, according to a transcript of the audio . Scoop from @PaulaReidCNN @jeremyherb.
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Vance in WI says his "little theory" about why Democrats chose to host their convention in Chicago is "so that [Walz] could actually, accurately say that he went, he visited a combat zone". Democrats selected Chicago in April 2023 — long before Biden even considered dropping out.
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Scoop: A group of prominent Republican operatives, including former officials from the Trump and Bush 43 administrations, are launching a super PAC to turn out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November . w/ @jonathanvswan
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Cruz, who, like Hawley, is thought to be considering a 2024 presidential bid, plans to release a statement shortly announcing his plans. Once he does so, several other senators from his party are expected to follow in a coordinated effort they consider distinct from Hawley's.
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Scoop: Barr tells Republicans Durham report won't be ready by election
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Biden aides believed they were winning when the race was about the coronavirus pandemic. Now they plan to use the Supreme Court opening as a raucous new field for a health care fight, returning to a theme that gave Democrats big midterm wins in 2018 .
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This comes after James & Kathryn Murdoch donate big $$ to the Biden campaign
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The line to get into Trump’s rally in Pickens, SC today
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New: Trump is expected to announce in the coming days that Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, will serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, two sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
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New: Sen. Josh Hawley has submitted language to Mark Meadows & the White House that would add language to the latest skinny bill to create a fully refundable tax credit for home schooling expenses, a source familiar with the stimulus negotiations tells me.
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Scoop: On Tuesday, Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) got in a heated back and forth on a text chain with all freshmen GOP members, according to sources who've read the text messages
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Vivek Ramaswamy told @kasie he didn't see evidence of Haitian migrants eating pets during his trip to Springfield, Ohio last week. "Having gone to Springfield, I didn't see that evidence," he said.
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Personal news: Today’s my first day at @CNN! Looking forward to joining the incredible team in DC and getting to work.
Join us in welcoming @AlaynaTreene to @CNN as a reporter covering investigations on Capitol Hill, as well as presidential politics heading into the 2024 election season.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules that the Justice Department overstepped by charging hundreds of people who rioted at the Capitol on January 6 with obstruction in a decision that could force prosecutors to reopen at least some of those cases.
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NEW: Behind the scenes details on the role the Trump admin played in helping India & Pakistan reach a ceasefire . Vance, Rubio & Susie Wiles received alarming intelligence Friday morning that led them to get directly involved. They determined Vance should call India PM Modi.
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New: Kevin McCarthy had been ready to vault out of the minority at the 2022 midterms. But now he finds his fundraising challenged, his links to President Trump toxic and a tricky impeachment environment to navigate .
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NEW: Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach former President Trump before last week's House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told .@axios
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Tim Scott closed with this: . “Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls, and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption”.
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Kyrsten Sinema reiterated during yesterday’s virtual Democratic caucus lunch she will not support any effort to get rid of the 60-vote threshold, according to two sources familiar with the call.
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A GOP committee source following Mulvaney’s press briefing: “His diatribe has blown up the Sondland interview—Democrats are referring to the transcript mid-interview. WTF”.
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Joni Ernst declined to throw her support behind Hegseth during a Fox News interview this morning. When pressed by host Bill Hemmer that it “doesn’t sound in your answer that you got to a yes,” Ernst responded “I think you are right". She called for the vetting process to continue.
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“He had no right to maintain them and retain them. And he kept them in a way in Mar a Lago, that anyone who really cares about national security — their stomach would churn at it," Barr said. "I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were”.
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Kerry Kennedy, president of RFK Human Rights, condemned on Monday her brother RFK Jr.'s remarks that falsely claimed “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19. She calls them "deplorable and untruthful" and says they "do not represent what I believe"
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More foreign leaders have called to congratulate Biden than GOP senators
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New: Bernie Sanders told @axios he’s consulted with the White House about how to move forward with Biden's infrastructure package, and said he's ready to do it immediately via budget reconciliation — a process he controls as chair of the Budget Committee
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Barr described the indictment as "very damning" and the counts as "solid" and said it was "perfectly appropriate" for the government to try and recover the documents.
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Scoop: House Democrats have sent Trump's former Russia advisor Fiona Hill a letter requesting she appear for a deposition on Oct. 14, as well as turn over several documents dating back to January of 2017. Read the letter 👇🏼.
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Republicans involved in these talks include Sens. Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Steve Daines, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn & Mike Braun, as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Bill Hagerty and Tommy Tuberville.
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News: @RepJeffries will hold an event in the Capitol commemorating the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 committee tomorrow at 10am, multiple lawmakers tell @axios . The “Gallery Group” — House Democrats who huddled together on the House floor during the attack — helped plan it.
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"We will need five or six Republicans who claim that they will never allow a default to happen to join us. And if they did so, we can find a way out of this manufactured crisis if necessary," Jeffries told reporters Monday evening.
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A DOGE official who is currently based at the IRS is expected to gain access to the agency's highly sensitive taxpayer data system "imminently," per a source familiar with the plans. Among the data: Social Security numbers, banking info & tax returns
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Trump has moved his tariff event tomorrow back an hour -- to 4pm EST. Notable given it is now taking place *after* markets close.
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Ron DeSantis is attacking Trump for “turning the country over to Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising Fauci at the same time, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really, really helpful” and “really doing a good job.”. @KFILE
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Confirming @politico & @NBCNews — . @RepValDemings is planning to run against @marcorubio in 2022, according to a Demings adviser & a source familiar with her plans .
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Reminder that no one on these committees expects to learn anything new today. Democrats' goal is to have Americans hear Mueller reading/ confirming the most damaging aspects of the report, while Republicans plan to undermine the investigation's credibility.
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A White House official said "this shows the reality of what is happening in Portland. its so disturbing that Fox news wasnt comfortable airing". They've since cut back in.
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.@mkraju: "The President said today that he may give his convention speech on the White House grounds, what do you think about that idea?". @SenJohnThune: "Well I don't -- is that even legal?".
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NEWS: Trump says he will hold a "major News Conference" next Monday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during which he will present a report from his team regarding his false claims that the presidential election results in Georgia were rife with fraud
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News: Here is a copy of the order from Barr appointing John Durham as special counsel of the investigation into the origins of the Russia probe
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Meanwhile, two sources close to Senate leadership said Trump is desperate, has zero leverage to push them to support a bill crafted by Pelosi & congressional Republicans aren’t inclined to wrap themselves any tighter to a sinking ship . w/ @jonathanvswan.
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Committee shows stunning, never-before-scene footage of Pelosi, Schumer and others trying try to get the National Guard to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. The footage is stunning.
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Christie is the first prominent Trump adviser to confront the president publicly over his false & inflammatory claims that he's already won the election & that mail-in ballots coming in for Biden are somehow evidence of a colossal fraud.via @jonathanvswan .
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I asked Trump how he'd pay for his economic plan, which would extend the '17 tax cuts, lower the corporate rate further & no taxes on tips or social security. Taken together, we’re talking trillions added to the deficit . His response: "Growth. we're gonna have tremendous growth".
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NEW: In a six-figure radio ad being released in Georgia today, Donald Trump Jr. tells the state's voters that the U.S. Senate — and his father's accomplishments — are on the line during January's special election, according to audio obtained by @axios
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Obama: "It's not like everybody at Ellis Island had all their papers straight. our immigration system has always been a bit haphazard.".
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