Brian Stelter
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Author, / Special correspondent, @VanityFair / Host, "Inside the Hive" / Producer, @TheMorningShow / Stay-at-home dad / bstelter @gmail
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I get it. I don’t want to revisit the COVID year of Trump’s presidency either. But it’s crucial to remember.
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Remember when Elon Musk posted a poll asking if he should step down as Twitter CEO, and users decisively voted yes, and nothing happened?
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It happened!
@PressSec
tried to avoid
@HallieJackson
's follow-up questions by calling on The Hill's
@JordanFabian
. But Fabian deferred to Jackson, so she could follow up. So many viewers have wanted to see this happen... unity... and today it did.
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Welcome Wyatt Morgan Cooper!
@AndersonCooper
's son was born on Monday. New life, new love.
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Breaking: "In an unprecedented move," the New England Journal of Medicine has published an editorial "condemning the Trump admin for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic – and calling for the current leadership in the US to be voted out of office."
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This just in:
@SimonSchuster
"has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book, THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH."
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Anderson: "There's a good chance the president is watching this interview or will watch this interview. What is your message to the president?"
@mPinoe
paused, thought about it, then looked straight into the camera and said this.
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Fox's Jennifer Griffin: "My sources are not anonymous to me and I doubt they are anonymous [to] the president."
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At the end of a Biden photo op, when reporters shouted Q's hoping he'd respond, Fox's Peter Doocy asked, "Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?" Biden deadpanned: "It's a great asset—more inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch."
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"I didn't say that. I didn't say that."
"These are direct quotes, sir."
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My mom died this week. I'm struggling to figure out what to say. Not because I'm speechless but because I can't possibly fit it all into a single eulogy.
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At 10:07pm ET, this
@BarackObama
tweet became the most-liked tweet in Twitter history. cc:
@realDonaldTrump
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
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Angel Garza, whose ten year old daughter Amerie was murdered, holding her photo to his heart:
"How do you look at this girl and shoot her? Oh, my baby. How do you shoot my baby?"
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CNN statement responding to the president: "We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his."
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Hannity calls the newly inaugurated president "the weak, the frail, the cognitively struggling Biden" –
Does that match up with the person you watched on TV all day long? Just wondering.
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Breaking:
@JoeBiden
's town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers.
@realDonaldTrump
's town hall across NBC, MSNBC and CNBC had a combined 13.0 million viewers. Biden won the head-to-head ratings race. Here's my full story:
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Holy moly. The
@FoxNews
anchor said "Congressman Schiff, he ARGUES the REPUBLICAN memo omitted and distorted key facts." Trump just deleted 5 words from the quote to allege the opposite meaning.
“Congressman Schiff omitted and distorted key facts”
@FoxNews
So, what else is new. He is a total phony!
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This is President Trump on tape, on February 7, saying that the coronavirus is "more deadly than your – you know, your, even your strenuous flus." But he minimized the threat in public. On February 26, he told the public "I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away."
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Moment of the night? Lots of applause in the room as Biden says "American democracy is not a reality show."
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This is an actual banner from "Fox & Friends Weekend." 6:03am today. I double checked because I didn't believe it at first. Hat tip
@BadFoxGraphics
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If you told me that Biden called for expanding tutoring and summer learning so that "every child learns to read by third grade," and the House Speaker DIDN'T applaud or stand up, I wouldn't believe it... so here's the video to prove it
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Angela Merkel yesterday: "As we are experiencing first-hand, you cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation any more than you can fight it with hatred or incitement to hatred... The limits of populism and denial of basic truth are being laid bare." (via
@dw_europe
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I never thought I'd see Fox News actively downplay a terror attack at the U.S. Capitol. But that's where we are...
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Last night, I hit a wall. Gutted by the death toll. Disturbed by the govt's shortcomings. Dismayed by political rhetoric that bears no resemblance to reality. Worried about friends who are losing jobs; kids who are missing school; and senior citizens who are living in fear.
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Just announced: CBS, ABC, NBC networks are coming together to air "ONE WORLD: TOGETHER AT HOME" Saturday, April 18... Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon will co-host. It'll be on broadcast + more than a dozen cable channels, YouTube, radio, etc.
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"Just keep repeating the facts. Stop giving equal times to lies."
@Kasparov63
argues that an "outdated sense of fairness is killing our democracy."
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MSNBC banner just now: "NEARLY 250 LAWMAKERS CALL FOR TRUMP'S REMOVAL"
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Sean, you didn't "find out today" that I'm writing a book about Fox and Trump. You talked about my book *on your TV show* on August 26. Millions of people saw it. And we talked about it *in person* at a party on December 17.
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@brianstelter
Hey Humpty, you definitely want to watch “Hannity” tonight. And I found out today you are writing a book. Are you gonna beg to be on my shows like Fake news Acosta? The answer is “NO”...
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This post-hearing moment of awkward silence on Fox kinda says a lot.
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A NY judge has lifted the restraining order that barred Mary Trump from speaking publicly about her new book, per her attorney
@BoutrousTed
. He says the First Amendment "forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy."
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According to a new post on Joni Mitchell's website, she is removing her music from Spotify: "I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue."
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My dad died 19 years ago today. Now I'm a dad, and I look at this little dude and think, what do you need from me? What can I teach you? What can I give you? I don't ever want to leave you.
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There's a host in Puerto Rico on one cable news channel, there's a host reading "Cat in the Hat" on another channel
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Breaking news on CNN: "HOUSE NOW INVESTIGATING WHETHER TRUMP LIED TO MUELLER"
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Anonymous Fox producer: As the virus spreads, "the attempt to deflect and blame the media and Democrats from Trish Regan, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Greg Gutfeld... is really irresponsible and hazardous to our viewers"
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Oprah: "We all know that the press is under siege these days, but we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice... I value the press more than ever before..."
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A revealing moment from
@DonLemon
's interview with LeBron:
LEMON: What would you say to the president if he was sitting right here?
JAMES: I would never sit across from him.
LEMON: You would never, you don't want to talk to him?
JAMES: No. I'd sit across from Barack, though.
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For the record, this is a picture of
@MorningMika
at Mar-a-Lago at the time Trump is claiming she was "bleeding badly."
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Fauci to
@Maddow
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Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, effective immediately. This is an earth-shaking moment in cable news.
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JUST IN: Simon & Schuster's response to the DOJ's new filing against Bolton: "A frivolous, politically motivated exercise in futility. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the book have already been distributed around the country and the world."
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Former GOP congressman Will Hurd with a message about Trump flags: "If you elevate a flag that has someone’s name on it to the same level that you elevate your national flag, then you are not a patriot; you are part of a cult."
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Things I never thought I'd see, volume 1,303: Protests outside of the Postmaster General's home this morning
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Another suicide that deserves news coverage.
A father from Honduras killed himself in a Texas jail last month after being separated from his family at the border. Here’s what we know about their story:
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Difference between Schiff and Nunes opening statements:
Schiff is trying to speak to the entire country. Nunes is only speaking to the Trump base and the Fox audience.
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The end of an NBC News era: this afternoon NBC will announce that Tom Brokaw is formally retiring after an extraordinary 55 years with the network
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No, these aren't cages,
@SteveDoocy
says. The authorities simply "built walls out of chain-link fences." Yes, that's a real quote from Fox just now.
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Serious question: If
@TomiLahren
doesn't know, why is she booked on TV to talk about this topic?
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@TomiLahren
on NFL anthem protests: “I would like to ask these players: What exactly are you kneeling for?”
@foxandfriends
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Bill Moyers says that he fears for the U.S. "for the first time in my long life."
"A democracy can die of too many lies. And we're getting close to that terminal moment unless we reverse the obsession with lies that are being fed around the country."
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Best reaction to HBO Max becoming Max
I know you’re all very disappointed, but I will *not* be dropping the first half of my name any time soon 👀
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Trump just said there are people in line for his rally and "they are soaking wet." Per CNN's
@betsy_klein
, "it is 88 and sunny here in Fayetteville. It has not rained here today."
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CNN's banner just now: "TRUMP TO LEAVE OFFICE TOMORROW AS A DISGRACED PRESIDENT"
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Joe Biden praising Jon Stewart's advocacy for veterans: "Jon, I want to thank you again... You refused to let anybody forget..."
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Justice Neil Gorsuch is on "Fox & Friends" right now. The Q: How is it appropriate for a Supreme Court justice to try to goose sales of his three-month-old book by chatting on one of the most partisan shows on TV?
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Scott Pelley on CBS just now: "
@60Minutes
has obtained a letter that indicates" the whistleblower "is under federal protection -- because he or she fears for their safety."
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.
@JeffreyToobin
on Trump freeing Stone: “This is the most corrupt and cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history. Nixon at the height of Watergate never pardoned or commuted the sentences of any of the people involved in Watergate. He thought he could never get away with it”
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How high was the president's fever?
"I'd rather not give any specific numbers."
A troubling response from the president's doctor.
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CNN banner: "PRESIDENT'S SPOKESMAN SAYS HE CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE PRESIDENT"
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NBC/WSJ poll says 60% of Americans think the worst is yet to come with COVID-19. Who are the other 40%?
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DeWine: "We have a lot of people in this country who are very concerned–"
@JakeTapper
: "Because they have been lied to, Governor."
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I interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci earlier today and asked if the WH coronavirus task force is working together, or against each other, in light of the Dr. Scott Atlas issues. "Most are working together. I think you know who the outlier is," Fauci told me.
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Question for
@PressSec
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@Acosta
video you posted? InfoWars personality
@PrisonPlanet
posted the same video two hours before you did. Surely you don't trust InfoWars...?
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Sitting down with my family for Sunday dinner. Overwhelmed with gratitude for all the kind words from Reliable viewers. I'll never see 'em all, but
@JamieStelter
is reading some of your best tweets aloud to me now.
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A Twitter spokesman confirms that the platform has suspended some of the MAGAsphere accounts that Trump RTed in a tweetstorm last night -- for unspecified violations of Twitter Rules. Some of the accounts looked very spammy and suspicious.
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The studio audience at
@TheView
broke out in applause when Tucker Carlson's ouster was announced. Then the co-hosts did a wave and led the crowd in singing "GOODBYE."
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New reporting from
@Acosta
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Fox's talk shows have been obsessed with the allegation of a "Biden bribe." Now the so-called "informant" has been arrested and charged with lying. The # of times this bombshell was mentioned by Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity tonight: Zero.
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FYI, CNN made a conscious choice not to show the
@PressSec
statement live. The decision was to monitor the statement & then report on it.
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Trump abruptly ended his Q&A when
@PaulaReidCBS
asked him this: "Why do you keep saying that you passed Veterans Choice? It was passed in 2014. But it was a false statement, sir."
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Per
@maggieNYT
, "no one from the White House" is booked on the Sunday shows this week. Not for lack of trying. "And no one in House or Senate GOP leadership,"
@JakeTapper
adds. Again, not for lack of trying.
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Chris Wallace on Fox: "This is an extremely flammable situation. The president just threw a match into it. He hasn't won these states..."
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This is a bogus tweet. Major media stocks were all down today. $DIS bottomed out at noon, well before "Roseanne" was cancelled. And the announcement didn't cause a further decline in the stock price.
JUST IN: Walt Disney shares down 2.5 percent after ABC cancels 'Roseanne' show $DIS
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Jim died on Tuesday. He was 86. He was my last living grandparent. His health was going downhill for several years, and at the end, he was Covid-19 positive. I guess that makes him another one of the faces behind the numbers you see on the screen every day.
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It's worth underscoring what
@Maddow
said on MSNBC tonight: "There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things." There is a cost.
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Remember the sense of shock when Trump admitted he was Covid positive and then was rushed to Walter Reed 18 hours later? Patients don't usually go downhill that fast. Well, on the Meadows timeline, his hospitalization (six days later) makes a lot more sense.
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Trump has now tweeted/retweeted more about Pelosi's reaction to his speech than about the content of his own speech. Four times more.
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Colbert: "Our president wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, only the things that sort of serve his vision, and he's also trying to convince us that that is the only world that exists..."
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This is how
@FoxAndFriends
tricks viewers:
@Kilmeade
said
@AOC
"wants people taxed as high as 80, 90% if you make $10 million or more." Huh? She said "60 or 70%" on "your 10 millionth dollar."
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Just in:
@BarackObama
's memoir "sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on the first day of its publication." These sales, including preorders, are "the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House."
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Watch: Rachel
@Maddow
reports that she's been off the air for most of the past two weeks because her longtime partner Susan Mikula is sick with Covid-19 – so sick that "at one point we really thought that there was a possibility that it might kill her." Mikula is recovering now.
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Jim
@Acosta
on
@OutFrontCNN
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>>
@ChrisCuomo
at the top of
@CuomoPrimeTime
tonight: "Obviously I am aware of what is going on with my brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so."
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New, alarming reporting by CNN's
@CarlBernstein
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Just in from CNN: "For the first time since early November, there are less than 50,000 people in the United States hospitalized with COVID-19, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project."
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Kimmel's wife and head writer reacting to critics who tell comedians to "stay in your lane" -->
It would be irresponsible knowing what we know and experiencing what we experienced to "stay in our lane." Move over. We're merging.
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Jimmy Kimmel on Tucker Carlson: "I think he's like the media version of the Sackler family. He's knowingly producing this deadly opioid of lies that has a devastating effect on the country. But he's OK with it, because it's making him rich."
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Trump shared incorrect info during an emergency, and now he's claiming he was right, when he was wrong. His own National Weather Service said he was wrong. This is a big deal.
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"I'm tired of this,"
@Acosta
says. "It is not right" to call the press the "enemy of the people." Watch this clip.
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This is the most interesting interview of
@SarahHuckabee
I've seen in a long time. Australian TV anchor
@leighsales
pressed her about Trump's lies and her own lies
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The word Pulitzer is trending on Twitter in the U.S. because the president confused the Nobel Prizes with the Pulitzer Prizes. The word Noble is also trending, because he misspelled Nobel.
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👇 This is what Newt said in May. Last night, on Fox, he said "Mueller is corrupt. The senior FBI is corrupt. The system is corrupt."
Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down
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Marie Yovanovitch, on Lt. Col. Vindman: "Alex should have received the honor and thanks and recognition of the nation. He deserved better than this. Our country deserved better than this."
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Per a CNN spokeswoman: In lieu of Pence, the W.H. offered Kellyanne Conway for an interview, but CNN declined
White House making Pence available Sunday to NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox — but not CNN:
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On Wednesday evening, I'm told, an NBC exec reached out to their ABC counterpart to see if ABC would be willing to shift the Biden town hall to 9pm. Nope. ABC was first, and made a commitment to the Biden campaign. Why change now to help bail out NBC? ()
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Jim
@Acosta
to Officer Harry Dunn and the other men and women who defended the Capitol on 1/6: "In my opinion, you are the people of the year, not the electric car guy."
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Cohen to GOP lawmakers: "I did the same thing that you're doing now. For ten years. I protected Mr. Trump for ten years." His warning to them: "The more people that follow Mr. Trump -- as I did blindly -- are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering."
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Tucker's description of Trump's trial: “Watching it is like being trapped by your drunk brother in law at Thanksgiving as he explains in forensic detail how he's managing his 401k. After about 6 minutes you start fantasizing about jumping out the window.”
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