Igor Bobic
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Senior politics reporter at HuffPost. California raised, Bosnia born. Former Chargers fan. igor.bobic @huffpost .com
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Here’s the scary moment when protesters initially got into the building from the first floor and made their way outside Senate chamber.
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They’re in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling “Trump won that election!” This is insane
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Romney: “In my state I’ll bet 90 percent of us vote by mail. It works very, very well. And it’s a very Republican state.”
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In floor speech on Russian bounties and Trump’s knowledge of intel, Sen. Duckworth says "ignorance isn't exculpatory.”
“'No one told me' is not an excuse for a commander in chief...it is in fact a confession of incompetence,” she adds
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Romney on Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“Our big tent is not large enough to both accommodate conservatives and kooks.”
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Protesters have breached the Capitol. They’re outside the Senate chamber
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That’s the confederate flag flying outside the Senate chamber
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doomscrolling Twitter while doomwatching CNN while doomgulping coffee
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Lindsey Graham on NBC: "Definitely not a Republican wave, that's for darn sure"
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It’s raining, it’s cold, and it’s miserable in DC right now. Spare a thought for the many, many National Guard troops posted outside, securing the city after the terror attack on the Capitol last week.
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86-14, Senate passes defense bill including Warren provision requiring that military bases named after Confederate generals change their name. Veto proof majority.
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Pelosi: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."
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Officer Goodman entered the chamber a few minutes ago and is watching the proceedings from the back of the room.
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Only 5 GOP senators voted NOT to dismiss the impeachment trial:
Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey
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Just now realizing how much of a close call it was in the Senate. Literally seconds.
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AOC might be the Twitter expert in the House, but these two have it down in the Senate
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Looking again at the video I took of the mob storming the Senate, there’s a moment when the lead rioter looks right for a second, before continuing to follow the officer left, away from the immediate entrance to the Senate. This happened at 2:14.
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EMILY's List: "if Sen. Sinema can not support a path forward for the passage of this legislation, we believe she undermines the foundations of our democracy, her own path to victory and also the mission of EMILY’s List, and we will be unable to endorse her moving forward."
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Warnock on Meet the Press: “We have to pass voting rights no matter what. And it's a contradiction to insist on minority rights in the Senate while refusing to stand up for minority rights in the society.”
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Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows
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Romney on possible Trump pardons of himself or his family:
“A pardon would seem to suggest they’ve committed a crime. That’s not something I would want to be associated with my family.”
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Fetterman walks up to me and says:
“Hey, I have a question for a friend. If someone has been accused of being a foreign agent for Egypt, should they be allowed to attend a classified briefing on Israel tomorrow?”
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omg, someone put up a Craigslist ad in DC titled 'SEEKING LEAD ATTORNEY FOR DIFFICULT CLIENT'
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“We’re beginning to look like a banana republic,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says on CNN about Trump seeking to overturn the election. “Frankly I’m embarrassed more people aren’t speaking up.”
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Mike Lee calls Iran briefing “probably the worst briefing at least on a military issue I’ve seen,” adding that it was “insulting” to be told by administration officials not to debate merits of taking military action
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Police officers are holding them steps away from the Senate chamber, which is locked. Senators are inside. I see a few confederate flags.
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Jon Stewart calling out Republicans by name for blocking veterans care bill yesterday, including McConnell, Toomey, Rick Scott.
“I’m used to the hypocrisy…I’m used to the lies.”
“The Senate is where accountability goes to die.”
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Jamie Harrison, in what is now a SC candidate forum, and not debate, lauds GOP Sens. Collins, Cornyn, and VP Pence for "being responsible” and getting tested for COVID, while Lindsey Graham "thinks he’s special enough that he can’t"
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1am, 4 days later, can’t sleep. Details rushing back to my head out of nowhere.
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Senate just passed a bill establishing Juneteenth as a national holiday.
Schumer asked for unanimous consent and no senator objected
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Schiff’s closing, where he asked if senators had confidence that Trump would pick national interest over himself, was probably the most interesting moment so far of Dem arguments.
Chamber was dead silent and focused on him - didn’t see a single conversation on GOP side.
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Former House GOP Speaker Paul Ryan on CNN says of George Santos: "This isn't an embellished candidacy, it's a fraudulent candidacy. So of course he should step down."
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Buttigieg responds to Rubio, who had called for his resignation, by noting the senator joined his GOP colleagues in a 2021 letter “calling on us to weaken our practices around track inspection.”
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Trump is actually defending Rittenhouse, suggesting he was acting out of self defense.
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Romney on Georgia results:
“It turns out telling voters the election is rigged is not a good way to turn out your voters”
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After I commented on the fact they’re sleeping on cold marble floors, and that they could some cots, one National Guard soldier politely declined.
He was afraid they would “destroy the floors of one of the coolest buildings in the world.”
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It’s done: The Senate has passed the Dem climate and health care bill 50-50, with VP Harris casting tie-breaker. Been long, long and winding road, capped by grueling 15 hours of votes on amendments. Dems stuck together to the end.
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Thanks for the tweets and texts, friends. I am safe and in hiding. ❤️
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Romney says he doesn’t fault Dems for not bailing McCarthy out yesterday.
“I think Speaker McCarthy made a decision to get as close as he possibly could to the radical wing of his party and by doing that he made it virtually impossible for the Democrats to come to his aid.”
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Asked about GameStop, Warren tilted her head back and laughed.
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Romney says that was his first time seeing the footage of Goodman telling him to get safety.
“I look forward to thanking him,” he tells reporters
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Rubio says he won’t attend Biden’s State of the Union address tomorrow because of the COVID testing requirement.
“I don’t have time to go take a COVID test today. I only take a test if I’m sick,” he says
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Some sort of gas has been set off. I’m not sure by whom. Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them.
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“Who the hell can afford that?” Bernie says of new Alzheimer's drug that’s priced at $56k a year
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Fun fact about Gaetz: the nightclub he was driving from on the night he got a DUI was called ...”The Swamp”
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Protesters are on the third floor of the Senate, walking door to door, shouting “Where the fuck are they?”
They’re in the gallery
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A staffer for Ron Johnson texted a Pence aide and told him that Johnson wished to hand-deliver fake elector slates from MI and WI to the vice president on Jan 6, according to the Jan 6 committee. The Pence aide said not to do so
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Overheard on the floor: Bernie Sanders showing colleagues a Morning Consult poll on his phone of the most popular provisions falling out of Build Back Better.
“So we drop what’s most popular?” he asks, referring to the Medicare expansion
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Nearly just got into a fight with Sebastian Gorka at a bar at CPAC, and all I did was ask why he blocks people on Twitter
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VP Harris just walked into the Senate. Looks like we’re in the end game
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Nature is healing
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Murkowski on the impeachment trial:
“My review of it has led me to conclude it is constitutional in recognzing impeachment is not soley about removing a president, it is also a matter of political consequence."
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Doug Jensen, the Iowa man that led the charge into the Senate as seen in this video, has been arrested and put into jail
Doug Jensen was put into jail early Saturday morning.
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Warnock on Perdue deciding against a run in Georgia:
“I am prepared to defeat whatever Republican they come up with.”
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McConnell this morning complained about Biden governing by executive order.
Thune, meanwhile, says he’s bothered by the idea Democrats might “shove a partisan bill through Congress without attempting to work with Republicans.”
Did I black out and miss the last 4 years?
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“The $102 million total to date spent on Trump’s presidential golfing represents 255 times the annual presidential salary he volunteered not to take.”
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"I don't think Bubba Wallace has anything to apologize for," Lindsey Graham says on Fox News radio re: Trump's tweet. "You saw the best in NASCAR. They all rallied to Bubba's side. I would be looking to celebrate that kind of attitude rather than being worried it's a hoax."
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Here’s how you interview Sean Spicer
BBC interviewer to Sean Spicer: "You have corrupted discourse for the entire world by going along with these lies"
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Biden has signed the Capitol Police Emergency Assistance Act of 2021 into law, per WH. It authorizes the Chief of the Capitol Police to request the assistance of Federal agencies in emergencies, a post-Jan 6 reform
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50-49, Senate votes to advance budget resolution and kick off reconciliation process on a $1.9T coronavirus aid package. No GOP senators voted to proceed.
What comes next: pain, alcohol, 50 hours of debate and then a vote-a-rama. Bring out the cots etc etc
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Fetterman on House speaker drama:
“Replacing one dick with a different kind of dick isn’t going to change anything in the House. We’re one DNA test from the Jerry Springer show.”
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Don’t think I’ve ever seen a president walk out of his own press conference before?
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Lindsey Graham walked out of the chamber moments before Nadler played a clip of him just now
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Schumer & Pelosi have filed a joint budget resolution kicking off reconcilliation process to pass $1.9T COVID aid with simple majority vote.
"Congress must pursue a bold and robust course of action. It makes no sense to pinch pennies,” Schumer says
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Cheney’s point is that Jan 6th never ended. Trump is saying the same things, if not even crazier things, that could lead to violence again. It’s just that most Republicans prefer to look away in order to win back power.
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"He's had time to call Joe Biden names, however....not once in the past 72 hours has he found time to express outrage that American service members are dead," Duckworth says. "Not responding here is a response in its own way."
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A ticked off Mike Lee says the Iran briefing was so bad it changed his mind on Kaine’s war powers resolution, and now he’s going to support it
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In stunning testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee detailing her sexual abuse by Larry Nassar and failures of the FBI to take her seriously, McKayla Maroney demands to know why Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco isn’t present at the hearing
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Romney on Jim Jordan:
“When the dog catches the car, what’s he going to do? He’s been barking for years. I don’t know that he’s ever passed a piece of legislation, so what happens when he’s speaker?”
Also called his role in Jan 6 “outrageous”
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just want to say a quick word to the people who will see this tweet in their timeline 20 hours from now because Twitter. Hello from the past! How is the future? Is it raining?
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Happening now under the dome: Officer Clarence accepting pets from reporters and lawmakers alike
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Noticed Sen. Kennedy wearing a mask at one point today.
Asked why he decided to wear one, Kennedy said, “Because I don’t want to die.”
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Murkowski says she is “surprised” and “really disappointed” by GOP lawmakers and states supporting the Texas lawsuit to overturn the election
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Rep. Andy Kim, who worked in Afghanistan, stood with me for a few minutes and took in the scene.
“How did it get so bad here? How did we get to this point as a country?” he asked
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Duckworth accuses Trump of making it "more likely that more spouses will be widowed and more moms and dads turned into gold star parents."
"How dare he still call himself the commander in chief?"
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sigh, fine, I will do it. I will travel to Cancun to thoroughly investigate this Ted Cruz situation on every beach and hotel pool
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One National Guard soldier, who is from Virginia, said he’s never been to the Capitol before. He asked me if the gift shop will open.
“We’re tourists too. This is kind of cool,” he said after I explained that tourists normally enter the building here
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Asked a handful of senators tonight if they’re concerned about the baby formula shortage. They had no idea what I was talking about.
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Romney calls the politicization of COVID vaccines “moronic.”
“After all, President Trump and his supporters take credit for developing the vaccine, why the heck won’t they take advantage of taking the vaccine they received plaudits for having developed?”
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The Hand Maids have arrived. Posted on both sides of the Judiciary Committee hearing room entrance
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"Our own president set us up" - injured Capitol Police Officer Gonell says in reaction to today's January 6 hearing
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Looks like a lot more protesters walking through the Rotunda toward the House chamber
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Schumer says Senate will vote to protect marriage equality when it returns in September
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Sinema sounds pissed with GOP for walking away.
“After all those trips to the desert, after all those press conferences, it turns out this crisis isn’t much of a crisis after all. Sunday morning, it’s a real crisis. Monday morning it magically disappeared.”
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👀 Fetterman on Manchin wanting to reinstate Senate dress code:
“At first I was really kind of angry [at him]. And then I realized, well, he’s not going to be around much longer and I’m going to get his parking space.”
@lizcgoodwin
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Reps Michael Waltz and Vicky Hartzler handing out We The Pizza to some troops
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Fetterman says Biden’s Democratic critics need to “shut the F up”
“I fundamentally believe he is going to win…He has earned and is absolutely entitled to have our full support”
“Who are you helping other than Trump if you’re going to be running your mouth about that stuff?”
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ACLU on Trump/Twitter:
“it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier”
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Not enough Republicans stayed in town and this vote failed
NO REPUBLICAN SENATOR should leave town this afternoon.
Schumer is panicking right now because Dems WILL LOSE THE VOTE on my amendment &
@SenMikeLee
amendment to BLOCK BIDEN’s VACCINE MANDATES & BLOCK MANDATES ON KIDS.
The only way Dems win the vote is if Rs skip town.
Don’t!
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McCarthy could have said this last week, instead he voted to overturn the election even after a murderous mob ransacked the Capitol
The White House official said the call was tense and aggressive at times, with Trump ranting about election fraud and an exasperated McCarthy cutting in to say, "Stop it. It's over. The election is over."
#axiossneakpeek
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House Democratic women walking to Senate ahead of the abortion vote, yelling “My decision, my body”
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Susan Collins, a member of Senate Intel, thought it was the Iranians
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“If I walked into my place of work tomorrow and I saw this, I’d be stunned myself,” one National Guard soldier tells me after I expressed my shock in some impolite terms
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Tom Cotton blocks quick confirmation of 8 U.S. attorney general nominees over what he says is insufficient DOJ support for U.S. marshals in Portland.
Klobuchar complains Dems never "held hostage" Trump US attorney nominees, forcing floor votes on each
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