Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
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CNN Anchor & Chief Nat Sec Analyst, Author of the NYT bestseller “The Return of Great Powers”, Available here: https://t.co/vdACoo6582
Joined February 2009
Missile or missile fragment impacts in downtown Tel Aviv
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As a reporter, I’ve been detained in Iran, spied on in China, and followed and harassed in Russia. I’ve never had colleagues arrested and handcuffed while doing their job here in the US.
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Conversation on the train:. Man on my left: “Coronavirus is just the flu. It’s all panic.” (Points to man on my right wearing a mask) “See? Mass hysteria.” . Man on right: “Actually I’m a microbiologist.”. Man on left: “Why a mask?”. Man on right: “I know how pandemics spread.”.
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Question for Senators: If Trump did not have a role inciting the attack, why did McCarthy, Gallagher and others beg him on Jan 6 to call the insurrectionists off? If they weren’t listening to him to attack, why was his voice so necessary to call them off?.
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Dems seem to have outplayed GOP on the Covid delay. After the all-night reading, @ChrisVanHollen simply got up, proposed shortening the debate from 20 hours to 3 and no Republican including @RonJohnsonWI was around to contest. In the end, the dramatic Bill reading delayed nothing.
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As the Kremlin apparently pushes for new elections in Ukraine, remember former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin when he ran against the pro-Russian candidate in 2004.
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He. Cannot. Criticize. Russia. He just cannot. Why? Not even on the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader. He just won’t do it. He changes the subject.
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To my fellow Americans now praising Putin, please remember - 1 - this is Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin in 2004 as he ran against the pro-Russian candidate for president.
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Breaking: Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY Prosecutor.
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New: Georgia Sec of State Brad Raffensperger says audit of voter signatures of absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County, Georgia found “no fraudulent absentee ballots,” and Elections Dept had a “99.9% accuracy rate in performing correct signature verification procedures.”.
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Oh. President Trump and Melania Trump have requested mail-in ballots for Florida’s primary election on Tuesday, according to records on the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website. Records show the ballots were mailed yesterday to Mar-a-Lago.
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We need to stop calling Trump’s election lies delusional and call them what they are: a deliberate attack on the process to convince his supporters he didn’t lose and boost whatever he plans post-Jan 20. It’s disinformation and it’s being enabled by some members of his party.
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Texas police are saying a lot of things. They’re not saying why it took so long to go into the classroom.
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Two children “pulverized” and “decapitated” by gunshot wounds in Uvalde, says the pediatrician who treated them. Those poor children, their poor families. I’m sick to my stomach.
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Italy and Hungary now support Russia’s expulsion from SWIFT banking system. Resistance crumbling.
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Truly remarkable how far the sports world and the country have moved on this since Kaepernick first took a knee.
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Breaking: Stephanie Grisham is out as WH press secretary. She is leaving the job without ever having briefed the press.
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For the inauguration, there will be at least four times as many National Guardsmen in the US capital as troops in all of Afghanistan. Where is the greatest terror threat to the US today?.
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New: Texas man arrested outside VP Kamala Harris' official residence at the US Naval Observatory Wednesday was in possession of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, 113 rounds of unregistered ammunition, and five 30 round magazines, according to DC police report.
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New: The US Senate, by unanimous consent, passed a resolution reaffirming the commitment to "the orderly and peaceful transfer of power".
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Wow from Fiona Hill: “Based on questions & statements I have heard, some of you on this cmte appear to believe that Russia & its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country & that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative.”.
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"Quite frankly, the conduct of the President's legal team has been a national embarrassment," said @GovChristie on ABC. “They allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don't plead fraud and they don't argue fraud.”.
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Fans chant “lock him up” to President Trump at Nationals WS game just now.
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A basic question: why is the president taking an unproven treatment – hydroxychloroquine – while refusing to take a step proven to reduce risk of infection – wearing a mask?.
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Those Florida races getting extremely tight:. Scott: 50.1%.Nelson: 49.9%. DeSantis: 49.6%.Gillum: 49.1%. Both currently within 0.5% margin to spark automatic recount.
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New: US Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown Washington Friday with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition, CNN reporting.
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To be clear, the U.S. is leveling punishing tariffs on its allies while discussing easing sanctions on Russia.
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I’ve witnessed governments corrupt elections from China to Russia to Zimbabwe and beyond by suppressing votes, spreading disinformation, and more. To see some of the same tactics used at home is alarming.
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Breaking: Asst House Speaker @KatherineClark tells @CNN House will move forward with impeachment vote against President Trump by middle of next week, if not removed by VP and Cabinet.
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Does Trump pressuring the Ukrainian president to damage Biden seem so outlandish and inconsequential now to those who dismissed impeachment?.
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“You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal. Well the truth of the matter is you saw what happened in Bucha…he is a war criminal.” - President Biden just now.
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Question: how many people in the US are paying attention to the possibility of a war in Europe?.
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Among many other things, federal income taxes pay soldiers’ salaries.
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Blistering words from #2 Senate Democrat @SenatorDurbin to me on Russia hack just now, calls it “virtually a declaration of war” and says President Trump is “completely compromised” on Russia issues.
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Ignore the false attack on Harris’s eligibility. It won’t go anywhere. Focus on the real attack on mail-in voting. Election interference is happening before our eyes.
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No. Our reporters who cover this story everyday noticed unusual activity at Grand Jury and went to his home. That’s good journalism, which I know you respect. Not a tip. And anyone who covers Mueller knows Mueller’s office does not tip.
CNN cameras were at the raid of Roger Stone. so FBI obviously tipped off CNN. even if you don’t like Stone, it is curious why Mueller’s office tipped off CNN instead of trying to quietly arrest Stone;quiet arrests are more likely to be safe to the FBI and the person arrested.
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Notable: US officials say they were able to block the balloon from gathering intel during its overflight of the US, while the US military was able to turn the tables, so to speak, to gather intel on the balloon itself and its equipment.
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A headline to make the oligarchs shudder:. #NEWS: Monaco to freeze assets & impose sanctions on Russians. Prince Albert said Monaco has “adopted & implemented without delay procedures for the freezing of funds & economic sanctions identical to those taken by most Euro States.”.
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If you’re interviewing the president, challenge him when he denies facts.
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Mr. President, two of the hostages were taken since you took office.
As everybody is aware, the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail. Stay tuned!.
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New: Fed authorities preparing to announce multiple arrests later today. FBI’s digital media team has been combing social media images. “Just because people weren’t arrested yesterday doesn’t mean they won’t be arrested,” a DOJ official tells me. “No charges are off the table.”.
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“If Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination, there are many of us that will will move heaven and earth to ensure he doesn't win. I think that's the most important thing. He can not be President again." - @AdamKinzinger to me just now.
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Police got to Dayton shooter within a minute and yet he killed 9. This is only possible with high-powered, high-capacity weapons like the one he used. And it is where the “good guy with a gun” defense fails.
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15-year olds Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, the two teens killed in the #KentuckySchoolShooting. It was the 11th school shooting of 2018. There are 7 days left in January.
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The stark headline of the @NikkiHaley story is not that she’s angling for Pence’s job or that Trump likes the book, it’s that two senior administration officials believed the president is a danger to the country.
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If you think Russian concentration camps for Ukrainians are unthinkable in 2022, remember China has had concentration camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang for years with minimal reaction from the world.
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New: Federal judge in Pennsylvania orders Trump campaign & GOP to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday. The order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail, forces campaign to back up Trump’s false claims about massive fraud in postal voting.
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Remember: Trump alleged massive voter fraud in 2016 to explain his popular vote loss, formed a “voter integrity” commission to investigate, then quietly disbanded the commission when it found no such fraud. This is not a new playbook.
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Tonight, there are hundreds of American families watching news of Suleimani’s killing particularly closely. He engineered attacks in Iraq, often with sophisticated IEDs, that killed hundreds of US service-members & wounded thousands more.
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Consider this: US Cyber Command conducted offensive operations against Russia, Iran and China in the days before Nov 3 to deter election interference and yet now the biggest source of election disinformation is the president.
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The first votes are cast in Dixville Notch, NH:. Joe Biden: 5.Donald Trump: 0.
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To name a few:. 1-Trump claimed he never asked for loyalty from Comey - Mueller found he did. 2-Trump claimed he never asked Comey to let Flynn matter go - Mueller found he did. 3-Trump claimed he never pushed McGahn to fire Mueller - Mueller found he did.
The number of “fake news” claims by President Trump and the WH now thoroughly debunked by the Mueller report is mesmerizing.
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Wow from Dep AG Rosenstein just now: “There have been people who have been making threats privately & publicly against me for quite some time & I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.” @Newseum.
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Reminder: the night of January 6, eight GOP senators and 139 GOP representatives voted to overturn 2020 election results.
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New: Donald Trump has been formally served with lawsuit related to the Capitol attack. Formal notice that Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democratic chairman of House Homeland Security Cmte, has sued him was received by certified mail in February at Mar-a-Lago. @kpolantz reporting.
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Breaking: Pennsylvania judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit, stating case would “require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in PA. this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens. ”.
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New: Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan is asking why Michael Flynn should not be held in contempt of court for perjury, and has appointed a retired judge to look into it and argue against the DOJ's request to dismiss the Flynn case. @kpolantz reporting.
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I have seen some cold stares in my life but watching Paul Manafort stare down his former deputy, arms crossed, as Rick Gates recounted the long list of his alleged crimes was remarkable. #ManafortTrial.
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The most consistent feature of Trump’s foreign policy is deference to Putin and Russia.
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The national security negligence is stunning: the Commander in Chief is chasing a false allegation of election fraud at home, while a very real foreign adversary executed a very real hack of large swaths of his government - and his admin missed it.
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I’ve lived in China & covered it for decades. It is an authoritarian country with no credible rule of law which imprisons & kills political opponents. For a US president to call on such a country to investigate an American is incredible. Will Republicans who know this object?.
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The FBI agents who arrested Roger Stone before sunrise this morning - like all the bureau’s 35,000 employees - are not getting paid due to the shutdown.
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As Putin storms cities here, remember a fmr GOP president, sec of state, current & fmr lawmakers & some right-wing media were praising & defending him days ago. It’s happened for years, celebrated in Russian media. The comments were public & are part of the historical record.
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“The president’s tone was horrific. He has destroyed the party,” a GOP Member of Congress tells me just now.
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The President made an important visit to US troops in Iraq today. Why did he claim falsely he raised military pay for the first time in 10 years (it’s gone up every year for three decades but 1983) & by 10% (it went up less than 3%)? Troops know the truth. Who’s he speaking to?.
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Please stop with the “will any minds be changed?” takes. That’s not our job. Our job is to report and disseminate the facts.
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As the WH attempts to the destroy the reputation of one of the world’s premier infectious diseases experts, the president is retweeting the Covid conspiracy theories of the former host of “The Love Connection”.
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As Trump attacks Lesley Stahl now, remember his comments to her in 2016 on why he attacks the media:. “He said, 'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.'”.
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Breaking: DOJ indicts nine alleged associates of Oath Keepers in largest insurrection conspiracy charged to date. The men & women allegedly planned for days to travel to Washington with a goal of breaking into Capitol to disrupt certification of presidential vote.
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Regardless of motive, a suspected homegrown US suicide bomber is an alarming development.
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Breaking: President Trump dictated 2015 letter his doctor wrote declaring him the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” says letter’s author Dr. Harold Bornstein. “He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein told CNN’s @MarquardtA.
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I don’t understand how people can watch this images from India of Covid patients suffocating to death and refuse a life-saving vaccine.
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I’m don’t see the value of doing the daily MTG crazy. Repeating disinformation amplifies it.
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Remember: the Trump campaign had multiple opportunities to present any evidence of fraud in court and - repeatedly - did not.
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These are significant sanctions, especially cutting off Russia from western financing. I don’t believe Putin calculated the US and Europe had it in them.
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Nikki Haley on NBC just now insisting Trump is a “truthful” president and tougher on Russia than any previous president. She appears to be all in.
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President Donald Trump has arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia at 9:52am according to the pool report. It is the 365th day he's spent at one of his properties and the 273rd day he has been to one of his golf clubs.
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New: Justice Department says the probe into the Capitol attack is likely the largest and most complex criminal investigation in US history and that the number of defendants could pass 400 as prosecutors pore through massive amounts of evidence and tips.
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There are no immediate family members or in-laws of the President-Elect on stage right now.
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Strikes me the Capitol Hill rioters acted as much with impunity as ignorance. They dressed for battle. They photographed and live-streamed themselves. They believed they would face no consequences - President Trump had their backs.
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“IS THIS AMERICA? THEY BEAT POLICE OFFICERS WITH BLUE LIVES MATTER FLAGS. THEY FOUGHT US. THEY HAD CONFEDERATE FLAGS IN THE US CAPITOL. THEY STORMED THE SPEAKER'S OFFICE. THEY WERE TRYING TO ASSASSINATE THE VICE PRESIDENT, IN THE CAPITOL.” Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn to ABC.
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The United States officially rejoins the Paris climate agreement today.
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Note this sad reality: Trump is ignoring two national crises at once - the widening pandemic and Russian cyber attack - and creating another one by baselessly attempting to overturn the election.
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“Have at it,” says President Biden when asked about GOP plans to challenge his vaccination mandates in court.
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That was an abjectly false statement by @PressSec. The Russia investigation was NOT based on the Steele dossier and, in fact, began BEFORE it. Specifically, when Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos bragged to Australian diplomat about Russia offering campaign help.
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New CNN POLL:. Do You Trust Most of What You Hear.From the White House?. Yes 28%. No 71%.
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For the thousands of US service-members who suffered traumatic brain injury from IEDs & other attacks, the president saying “I don’t consider it very serious” will be inexplicable.
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In the span of one year, our country has experienced not one, but three big lies: the pandemic is exaggerated, the election was stolen, and Jan 6 was “festive”. How can the US address any of these effectively when a large portion of the population still believes the lies?.
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New: Amb Marie Yovanovitch calls for investigation after evidence reveals GOP congressional candidate & Giuliani associate Lev Parnas discussed surveilling her. “The notion that American citizens & others were monitoring Amb Yovanovitch’s movements. is disturbing,” says her atty.
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New: US & NATO allies are sending several surface-to-air missiles systems to Ukraine. A senior US official tells me these systems include Soviet-era SA-8, SA-10, SA-12 and SA-14 mobile air defense systems, w/range higher than Stingers, giving capability to hit cruise missiles.
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Breaking: Federal appeals court rules Trump *cannot* block state grand jury subpoena for his tax returns, wholly dismissing his legal challenge as having “no basis for reversal.” The court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, which means he cannot revive it on these grounds.
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Russian forces are proving ruthless in Ukraine. There is evidence virtually every day of WW2-level war crimes here. Please don’t turn your gaze away.
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“Russian warship, go f*** yourself.”. …and…. “I need ammunition, not a ride.”. …are quite the rallying cries to fight an invading army.
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New: NY Supreme Court judge has ruled the Trump Organization must turn over documents related to a property whose tax abatements were being investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office. The Trump Org claimed documents protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Mr. President, why haven’t you punished Russia for offering bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan? @realDonaldTrump.
Do not believe the Fake News Media. Oklahoma speech had the highest Saturday television ratings in @FoxNews history. @seanhannity dominated T.V. with my interview on Thursday night, more than @CNN & MSDNC COMBINED. These are the real polls, the Silent Majority, not FAKE POLLS!.
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Four months and two days ago, Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to pick up marriage papers while his fiancee waited outside. He was murdered, dismembered and his body disposed of by Saudi agents. We continue to cover this story.
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Reading - but deliberately not sharing - Trump’s statement on the passing of Colin Powell is another reminder there really is no bottom.
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New: At least one Capitol riot defendant has flipped against the Proud Boys, agreeing to provide information that could allow prosecutors to bring a more severe charge against the group's leadership, according to an attorney involved in the case - @kpolantz reporting.
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