@Reuters
White House Correspondent; Past pres.
@WHCA
; Georgetown prof, Northwestern grad, CO native, Fulbright alum. Postings in DC/Brussels/Frankfurt/Berlin
I was seated next to
@Acosta
at today’s press conference and did not witness him “placing his hands” on the young intern, as the White House alleges. He held on to the microphone as she reached for it. The
@Reuters
pictures below depict what happened accurately.
SCOOP:
@POTUS
will use executive action Monday to kickstart solar projects in the U.S. that are stalled by a Commerce Dept tariff probe, and he will invoke the Defense Production Act to spur domestic production of solar panels and other clean energy projects, sources tell me
.
@POTUS
made a stop at a taco shop in Los Angeles. He had a roughly $16 food bill and gave $60, requesting that the next people who came in for food get their meal for free.
EXCLUSIVE -
@realDonaldTrump
says he relied on Michael Cohen, who should have known what to do about payments to women. "Number one, it wasn't a campaign contribution. If it were, it's only civil, and even if it's only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. OK?"
Exclusive:
@realDonaldTrump
tells
@Reuters
he has chosen not to be involved in Mueller probe but is "totally allowed" to be if he wanted to. "I've decided to stay out. Now, I don't have to stay out, as you know. I can go in and I could... do whatever, I could run it if I want."
A rare personal tweet today in honor of my grandmother, who died recently at age 104. She grew up on a farm in the Depression, raised a close family, made cool animal-shaped pancakes, and loved with her whole heart. She visited me in DC at age 96. I will love and miss her always.
Contradicting public health professionals,
@realDonaldTrump
has just told the Al Smith Dinner in recorded remarks that the end of the pandemic is in sight.
.
@realDonaldTrump
, who canceled a planned trip to Poland this weekend in order to monitor
#HurricaneDorian
, has just arrived at his golf course in Virginia, the White House says.
.
@realDonaldTrump
will sign an executive order shortly about social media and internet companies,
@PressSec
tells reporters on Air Force One. The president has been very critical of
@Twitter
in the last 24 hours.
.
@realDonaldTrump
tells
#UNGA
his administration has accomplished almost more than any other in the history of the United States. The audience laughs. “Didn’t expect that reaction,” Trump says.
The increasingly loud sound of protestors blowing horns, playing music and making noise can be heard here from the south lawn of the White House as the
#RepublicanNationalConvention
prepares to hear a live speech from
@realDonaldTrump
.
Trump expresses frustration about water efficiency, says sinks don’t have enough pressure and people have to flush toilets multiple times. He says he has directed the EPA to look at opening up water standards. It’s called rain, he says, referring to states with lots of water.
SCOOP:
@chefjoseandres
tells me
@Reuters
in interview that
@WCKitchen
was deliberately targeted while delivering aid to Gaza and says Israel and three United States must do more to get humanitarian aid in. He questioned how the US could supply aid and military support to Israel
.
@realDonaldTrump
, in a meeting at the White House, repeats his contention that if the US stopped testing for
#coronavirus
, there would be few if any cases left.
SCOOP: The U.S. plans to send 2.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico and 1.5 million doses to Canada, administration officials tell me. The loan does not affect
@POTUS
goal to have enough vaccine for all U.S. adults by the end of May.
I asked
@GOPLeader
, who is attending the state dinner at the White House, what it would be like to be dining at an event with Hunter Biden, given his caucus’s desire to investigate
@POTUS
’s son. McCarthy replied: I’m here with my mother.
President Trump came back to the press cabin on Air Force One and spoke off the record to reporters for about 10 minutes. (We can report that he came back, but not what he said.) He did not wear a mask.
Breaking:
@realDonaldTrump
says he will participate in the debate against
@JoeBiden
. “I will participate but it’s very unfair that they changed the topics and it’s very unfair that again we have an anchor who’s totally biased,” he told reporters on Air Force One.
Trump confirms White House staffer who tested positive is a “press person” for Pence named Katie.
@VPPressSec
Katie Miller is married to Stephen Miller, another White House staffer.
.
@BillClinton
points at a picture of
@HillaryClinton
at the White House as the former president and former Secretary of State arrive for a state dinner.
Summary of
@realDonaldTrump
NJ event: Bikers meet in clubhouse because of rain. Press pool brought in. Trump asks crowd if they like the media. Shouts erupt, including suggestion that press be sent out in the storm. President calls former staffer a low life. Event ends.
Explanation from the White House: “President Trump took a short, last-minute motorcade ride to wave to his supporters outside and has now returned to the Presidential Suite inside Walter Reed.” (
@realDonaldTrump
has COVID-19.)
This is a new one.
@realDonaldTrump
says if
@JoeBiden
wins, Carson City, Nevada (where he is holding a rally now) will be a ghost town and the Christmas season will be canceled.
Dr Fauci tells reporters at the White House he got his second vaccination shot on Tuesday and felt under the weather for about a day afterwards but is fine now.
“I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder,”
@realDonaldTrump
tells people who rushed to help at the Twin Towers on
#911
.
.
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
@BarackObama
@BillClinton
on stage at Radio City Music Hall. The fundraiser has been interrupted multiple times by protesters. Obama snapped at one of them: you can’t just talk, you have to listen.