Posing this question: If
@Twitter
and
@Facebook
censor a news story that ultimately turns out to be true, what does that say about the role of big tech in our democracy?
BREAKING: Tony Bobulinski will announce that he will turn his electronic devices and records of business dealings with Hunter and Jim Biden over to the FBI
The Biden
@WhiteHouse
is housing undocumented noncitizen children in the same facility Democrats described as "kids in cages" during the Trump Administration.
A Senior Intelligence Source tells me there is agreement among most of the 17 Intelligence agencies that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab. The source stressed that the release is believed to be a MISTAKE, and was not intentional.
Amy Coney Barrett is repeatedly recounting details of past cases and historical references off the top of her head - without notes - in response to long, scripted questions.
President Trump is officially impeached. Democrats approve 1st article of impeachment on "abuse of power". 2 Democrats vote no. For a moment, there was 1 Republican yea, but it was reversed.
Federal law enforcement source tells
@FoxNews
there is nothing for the FBI to investigate regarding Kavanaugh and that “this is a political issue - not a law enforcement one”
.
@AmbJohnBolton
told me today that if
@realDonaldTrump
had said he didn’t want to visit Aisne-Marne because the interred heroes were “losers” and “suckers”, he would have written an entire chapter about it in his book
#TheRoomWhereItHappened
Karen Pence told
@foxandfriends
this morning that
@VP
was not made aware of the
@MayoClinic
mask policy until his visit was over. This contradicts a Mayo tweet that he was made aware of the policy before beginning his visit.
Texas Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
carries out his pledge to transport illegal migrants to Washington, DC. The bus pulled up right in front of the building that houses
@FoxNews
,
@NBCNews
and
@cspan
SCOOP: Multiple Sources tell
@FoxNews
that
@realDonaldTrump
is planning to take a lap at the
@DISupdates
Daytona International Speedway in the “Beast” presidential limo ahead of the Daytona 500. It’s not 100%, but that is the plan at the moment.
.
@POTUS
ignores shouted question from the pool just now on whether he believes there is a crisis on the border. Day 48 now with no formal Joe Biden news conference. Longest period in a hundred years for a new President.
A source close to
@VP
Mike Pence tells Fox News that on Wednesday, while Pence was sheltering in one of the “hardened rooms” in the Capitol, President Trump did not reach out to him to check on his status, or condemn those who said Pence “should be executed.”
Peter Navarro just now at the daily COVID-19 briefing: "One of the things this crisis has taught us is that we are overdependent on a global supply chain."
Exchange between
@FoxNews
producer Jason Donner and
@SpeakerPelosi
Question: Why did you rip up the speech madam speaker?
Speaker Pelosi: “Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.”
Note to
@PressSec
.
@pdoocy
makes the decisions on what topics he wants to quiz you on, and develops the questions himself.
His philosophy is a basic tenet of journalism. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. If that makes all of us "stupid s.o.b.s", so be it.
Israel strikes its second peace deal with an Arab nation in the past month. First the UAE, now Bahrain. Previous Administrations tried to use an Israel-Palestinian peace agreement as the foundation for broader Middle East peace.
@realDonaldTrump
is doing it the other way around
Facts - I was quietly seated more than 6' away from the closest person (adhering to CDC social distancing guidelines)
-When the press conference began, I put mask on.
So - what, exactly is the basis for this petty effort at shaming????
According to
@Harvard
law professor Noah Feldman (a Dem witness in the Judiciary hearing), President Trump is not “impeached” until the articles are sent to the Senate. If Pelosi holds onto them indefinitely,
@realDonaldTrump
would not be “impeached”.
In nearly 10 years covering the
@WhiteHouse
, having been on Presidential trips to more than 100 countries, I have never seen the White House Press Corps kicked out of our unilateral press/broadcast center by request of a foreign leader.
So - I am standing in our
@FoxNews
standup location on the
@WhiteHouse
North Lawn and notice in my peripheral vision something moving at my left foot. I assumed it was one of the ubiquitous WH squirrels. But no....it was a big brown rat.
.
@realDonaldTrump
makes an extraordinary play. He allows the press pool to attend the ENTIRE immigration meeting with GOP and Dems so the public can see how the sausage is made..
.
@realDonaldTrump
says he has seen intelligence that gives him a high degree of confidence that the coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology - though he would not go into detail “I can’t say”
When did journalism devolve to the point that stories are written about people "thinking" something should happen because they "suspect" something is going on. Reporting used to be based on facts and evidence, not rank speculation and supposition.
A huge shout out to the team at
@InovaHealth
Fairfax who identified and repaired a blocked stent, and put a pacemaker in a heart that had been ridden hard and put away wet one too many times. Dr. Haddad, Dr. Tehrani, Dr. Batchelor, Dr. Atwater and the whole care team. Thank you!
Horrible news to report: Fox cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed in the same attack that wounded correspondent Benjamin Hall. I worked with Pierre many times around the world. He was an absolute treasure. Sending our most heartfelt prayers to Pierre's wife and family.
.
@realDonaldTrump
also reveals that he is taking zinc to boost his immune system. Zinc is also believed to slow viral replication. Watch for that to start flying off the shelves.
In the Oval Office today,
@realDonaldTrump
suggests LTC Alexander Vindman could face disciplinary action by the military in the wake of the impeachment inquiry
Having now been in Beijing, Seoul and Singapore in the past six months, it is like peering into the future. Much of their infrastructure, compared to ours, is like the Jetsons compared to the Flintstones.
We were expecting new
@CDCgov
guidelines on reopening places of worship. Instead,
@realDonaldTrump
declared them to be “essential” - and dared Governors to challenge him over their reopenings.
I applaud
@realDonaldTrump
for allowing the cameras to stay during his session on school shootings. These unscripted moments are important for the nation to witness.
.
@realDonaldTrump
says he would consider bringing Gen. Michael Flynn back into the administration. He also says he may not need to pardon him because Flynn has been “exonerated”
Here is the irony of the day. Democrats announced they were going to pass the signature trade deal of a president they say is “too dangerous to leave in office“
After
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
denounced the rampant abuse of the filibuster last year, we did some digging. Republicans used it once. Democrats used it 327 times.
@FoxNews
Wow....this is really unprecedented.
@realDonaldTrump
and Amb Yovanovitch are talking to each other in real time through
@Twitter
and Television... Something I never thought I would ever see.
Little known fact. According to a Senior VA Official, every day, the
@DeptVetAffairs
prescribes 42,000 doses of Hydroxychloroquine to veterans with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus
When an editor deliberately removes information that is counter to a narrative - if not outright exculpatory, then a story ceases to be journalism, and becomes nothing more than an intentional hit piece.
Sources tell
@foxnews
that the
@AdamSchiffCA
memo contains information pertaining to "sources and methods" that will likely require redaction. One source says this was done tactically to force the
@realDonaldTrump
into making changes - setting up a contrast with GOP memo
For the first time in a long, long time,
@realDonaldTrump
did not come over to the cameras at his departure for Louisiana, nor did he talk to the pool under the wing of AF-1.
In the spring,
@SpeakerPelosi
said impeachment would have to be broadly bipartisan. The only aspect of tonight's vote that was bipartisan was on the "nay" side. 2 Democrats voted against the 1st article - 3 voted against the 2nd article. Not a single Republican voted "yea".
Many thanks to Dr. Itshac Ben-Dor and Dr. Lowell Satler and the team at
@MedStarWHC
for discovering - and repairing two blocked arteries in my heart. A top-notch team!
This is just rich: Facebook statement - “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made from our apps."
.
@realDonaldTrump
campaign manager Bill Stepien and advisor
@JasonMillerinDC
insist there is a path for POTUS to win. They say if all legal votes are counted - POTUS will win AZ by 30k votes, PA by 40k. They say he will also win MI, NC and GA
Sources tell me that at his CPAC speech, Donald Trump will say the only divide in the GOP is between the grassroots and a "handful of beltway insiders". I am told he will name names.
If the surprising jobs numbers reported today (adding 2.5 million jobs) is any indication, the economy may be poised for a dramatic snapback as America reopens. While much of the economy still lags, I have talked to some small business owners who say they are setting records
.
@realDonaldTrump
says because of doubts sown by
@NYGovCuomo
about a vaccine, New York likely won't be sent initial doses of the vaccine until Cuomo says he is ready to accept it.
.
@realDonaldTrump
wants to nominate William Barr to be the next Attorney-General. Barr served as Attorney-General during the Bush 41 presidency. While POTUS normally likes to surround himself with people he knows and likes, he doesn't know Barr, but Barr commands immense respect
After telling
@FoxNews
that his father had a preliminary POSITIVE test for coronavirus, Eduardo Bolsonaro now tells
@FoxNews
the test was NEGATIVE. Bolsonaro says has been in touch with the White House.
When I say this could become a model for future incumbents, I’m talking about both parties. You can’t beat the backdrop - and the Washington Monument fireworks blew away any balloon drop I have ever seen. Incumbency is a powerful bully pulpit. The genie is out of the bottle.
Sources tell
@FoxNews
that Biden was made aware of the investigation yesterday. Before then, the investigation was "covert". Sources say DOJ is very sensitive about moving an investigation from "covert" to "overt" during an election if it could potentially affect the outcome.
The next time the White House press complains about not being able to ask
@realDonaldTrump
questions, the White House will simply playback this tape from this morning: "Thank you. Any other questions?"...followed by the sound of crickets....
Senator
@LindseyGrahamSC
to
@FoxNews
on meeting with Matt Whitaker: “He believed he did not have a reason to recuse himself legally or factually. Nothing I’ve seen would require him to be recused. I think he's got the background and the judgment to be to fulfill this job."
What’s also interesting about this is that my phone number - and the phone numbers of many of my colleagues were likely included in these logs. They just weren’t published.
It will be interesting to see which other media, if any, have anything to say about what Schiff did here, especially after all the MSM hand-wringing about Bush’s national security surveillance.
SCOOP:
@WhiteHouse
has sent a letter to the Sergeant-At-Arms, asking to schedule a walk-through for the SOTU address. SAA cancelled a walk-through last week at the request of
@SpeakerPelosi
.
@realDonaldTrump
still plans to be at the Capitol on Jan 29 for the speech
Last night's headline: Russia is trying to get
@realDonaldTrump
re-elected.
This afternoon's headline:
@BernieSanders
briefed on Russian attempts to get him elected.