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As today's radio pooler, I was in the Oval Office with
@kaitlancollins
, heard her questions, thought they were good and timely ones, and find an official government sanction in response to them an absolute, stunning outrage.
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Chief Justice Roberts says striking down Obamacare, when Congress wouldn't, is "not our job."
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BREAKING: Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was sentenced to prison in Russia, has been freed in a prisoner-swap and is now in US custody, a US official tells
@CBSNews
.
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The whole month of February.
Trump held campaign rallies --
Feb 10 in New Hampshire
Feb 19 in Arizona
Feb 20 in Colorado
Feb 21 in Nevada
Feb 28 in South Carolina.
"You know you're a fake, you know that," Trump says to
@PaulaReidCBS
, who is repeatedly pressing him on what his administration did during the whole month of February. He doesn't answer that part of it.
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MCCARTHY: You just added another word.
PELLEY: No, it’s in the transcript.
MCCARTHY: He said-“I’d like you to do a favor though”?
PELLEY: Yes, it’s in the White House transcript.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the president did nothing impeachable. “I see two leaders having admiration, not intimidation,” he tells Scott Pelley about President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky
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JUST IN: A source familiar with the president's condition tells reporters:
“The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
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SWALWELL'S WORDS: "Birtherism is racist. Saying a Mexican judge can't be fair because of his heritage is racist. Saying immigrants from Mexico are rapists is racist. Saying there were good people on both sides in Charlottesville is racist...." (1/2)
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IN THE PRESIDENT'S OVAL OFFICE:
Boris Johnson recognized two British reporters for questions.
Joe Biden then signaled it was time for the press to leave, without taking any questions from his own press corps.
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JUST IN: Trump directs Census Bureau to not count illegal immigrants for the purposes of reapportionment, determining how many seats in the House each state will have for the next decade.
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TRUMP'S FIRST REMARKS:
"She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? she was an amazing woman, whether you agree or not. She was an amazing woman who led an amazing life."
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NEW: Biden responds to notion that GOP might not fund Ukrainian effort—
"These guys don't get it," Biden said. "It's a lot bigger than Ukraine. It's Eastern Europe. It's NATO. It's real serious, serious consequential outcomes. They have no sense of American foreign policy."
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is ANGRY after the administration briefing.
"I walked into that briefing undecided" on a War Powers Act resolution.
"That briefing is what changed my mind ... I'm now going to support it."
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JUST IN: Sen. Feinstein says she has "received information from an individual concerning" Kavanaugh's nomination. She says she has "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities."
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SULLIVAN WARNS FLYNN OF A PRISON SENTENCE:
"You were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the National Security Adviser to the president!
"Arguably, this undermines everything this flag over here stands for! Arguably, you sold your country out!"
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The captain of the Grand Princess just told passengers of the test results in an overhead page:
"You may have heard this on the news by the media, already, and we apologize, but we were not given advanced notice of this announcement by the US federal government."
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JUST IN: Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack will be charged with attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and several additional felonies, per SFPD.
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It seems like news today, but then-Rep. Rohrabacher went on camera and told our LA station in September 2017 that he was engaged in a "confidential interaction" with the WH on a pardon for Assange.
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In a joint statement, the following news organizations say they will submit amicus briefs in support of CNN, in CNN v Trump:
AP
Bloomberg
First Look Media
Fox News
Gannett
NBC News
New York Times
POLITICO
EW Scripps
USA Today Network
Washington Post
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JUST IN: Commission on Presidential Debates says it's now clear that "additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues."
Measures to be announced shortly.
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"He's doing nothing," Cuomo says of Trump.
"All he's doing is walking in front of the parade."
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At the moment
@VP
Pence was telling reporters his goal is to wind down the coronavirus task force by Memorial Day, Dr. Anthony Fauci was on the phone with
@PaulaReidCBS
saying he'd heard no such thing ...
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JUST IN: Federal prosecutors announce charges against
@MichaelAvenatti
, alleging he tried to extort Nike, threatening to release damaging about the company, if Nike didn't agree to pay millions to him and a client.
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"We had a superspreader event at the White House," Fauci tells
@CBSNewsRadio
. "The data speak for themselves."
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MORE: The swap to see Griner home for Christmas is 1-for-1 & does not involve Ret. Marine Paul Whelan, who is about to mark his 4th year in Russian custody.
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JUST IN: Acting Navy Sec Modly apologizes to Cpt. Crozier, whom he removed from the helm of the USS Roosevelt.
"I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid," Modly says in a statement.
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JUST IN: On air, Shepard Smith says he has asked to be released from his Fox News contract, a request Fox has granted.
"Even in our polarized nation, it's my hope that the facts will win the day..." he says in an on-air farewell.
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DID FLYNN COMMIT TREASON?
Sullivan is now asking the special counsel's office whether it ever considered charging Flynn with treason.
Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack struggles to answer, saying it wasn't considered.
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"I screamed in my car at the radio," Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling tells reporters, explaining his reaction to the falsehoods he heard Trump speaking about ballots pulled from under tables in Fulton County.
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At her first briefing in nearly two weeks, Kayleigh McEnany brought six aides and a guest into the briefing room. None of them wore masks.
To protect themselves and others, reporters have diligently worn face coverings since officials urged it from the briefing room podium.
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PRELIMINARY CBS NEWS EXIT POLL -- PENNSYLVANIA:
Which ONE of these issues mattered most to your vote?
Abortion 36%
Inflation 28%
Crime 11%
Gun policy 10%
Immigration 8%
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Just yesterday, Trump's own CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, told me WHO "has been a very important public health partner with the CDC, and continues to be."
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MUELLER HAS TEXT MESSAGES AND EMAILS...
FROM THE INDICTMENT:
“On or about October 1, 2016, which was a Saturday, Person 2 sent STONE text messages that stated, ‘big news Wednesday . . . now pretend u don’t know me . . . Hillary’s campaign will die this week.’”
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JUST IN: Trump vetoes National Defense Authorization Act, calling it "a 'gift' to China and Russia."
He says Congress's decision to not repeal Sec 230's liability protections "facilitates the spread of foreign disinformation online ... a serious threat to our national security."
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Statement from
@WHCA
:
“It is outrageous for the president to have left the hospital — even briefly — amid a health crisis without a protective pool present to ensure that the American people know where their president is and how he is doing...” (1/2)
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BREAKING:
@CBSNews
has learned Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is meeting with President Trump this evening to submit her resignation,
@PaulaReidCBS
reports.
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WHAT AG JAMES SEEKS:
-- Cancelation of Trump's business certificates, in move known as NY's "corporate death penalty."
-- A permanent ban on Trump and his kids serving on any corporate board.
-- A 5-yr ban on Trump buying commercial real estate in NY.
-- $250 mil in restitution.
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Q: Is Rudy Giuliani still your personal attorney?
Trump: "Well, I don't know. I haven't spoken to Rudy. I spoke to him yesterday briefly. He's a very good attorney, and he has been my attorney."
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My retired colleague and predecessor on the WH beat,
@petermaer
, spoke to a source close to the Bushes about why the 43rd president is skipping the RNC.
"The Bush family is all about public service. The Trump's are all about self-service," the source said.
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Very strange --
Trump did not wait for the Speaker to introduce him to the Congress, which is the protocol ...
Pelosi looked surprised that Trump began without waiting for her to introduce him.
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This is a developing story.
The Army is now looking into how many other soldiers may have traveled from Ft. Bragg to DC with Cpt. Rainey to take part.
NEWS: U.S. Army Captain Emily Rainey has resigned her commission,
@CBSDavidMartin
reports, after leading a group of people from N.C. to the rally in Washington that led up to the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol.
Rainey was a psychological operations officer,
@JimLaPorta
reports.
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JUST IN: DC Police say they intend to work w/State Dept and Sec Svc to identify and hold accountable Turkish embassy assailants.
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JUST IN: Trump grants full pardons to George Papadopolous and Alex van der Zwaan — both convicted of charges brought by Robert Mueller.
Trump also pardons former GOP congressmen Chris Collins & Duncan Hunter, and commutes the sentence of fmr rep Steve Stockman.
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"No, no, no, no, don't do -- let him go," Biden said. "Look, everybody's entitled to be an idiot."
A heckler was just escorted out by secret service after repeatedly shouting, interrupting President Biden at Laborefest
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JUST IN: Dr. Fauci says he’s staying on at NIH, has spoken with Klain several times and will meet virtually with Biden “landing team” today.
More from
@MajorCBS
’s interview for
@TakeoutPodcast
to come.
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REPORTER (me): "Are you intending to send a message?"
SEC NIELSEN: "I find that offensive. No. Why would I ever create a policy that does that?"
REPORTER (me): "Perhaps as a deterrent."
SEC NIELSEN: "No!"
And then, a few hours later, on Fox News...
Q: But is it a deterrant sir?
Sessions: I see that no one as being prosecuted for this as a factor in a 5-fold increase in 4 years in this kind of illegal immigration. So yes. Hopefully people will get the message at the port of entry and not break across the border unlawfully
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Wow.
The WH press secretary went on TV today and said she believed Rudy Giuliani was at that dinner, and that he brought his two associates to the table.
But he says he *wasn’t* there, and that he hadn’t even *met* them yet.....
NEW: Rudy Giuliani tells me he wasn’t at April 2018 dinner and *didn’t even meet Parnas or Fruman until June 2018* contradicting
@PressSec
on
@MediaBuzzFNC
that men were at April 2018 dinner w/
@realDonaldTrump
because of their relationship with Giuliani
@CBSNews
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"It would have been our preference to be the first to make this news available to you," the captain said, adding that those who've tested positive will soon be notified of their results...
...which means as of a few minutes ago, they hadn't been told yet.
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BREAKING: McCain says in statement, "I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal."
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BREAKING: In letter to Congress,
@VP
Pence says he does NOT believe he has the "unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted."
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Speaker Pelosi, matter-of-factly: "There's not going to be any wall money in the legislation."
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"I felt terrible about that," Sullivan says, after the prosecutor notes Flynn's conduct as a foreign agent ended in mid-Nov 2016.
"I'm not suggesting he committed treason," Sullivan adds, further apologizing for his remarks in the prior session.
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JUST IN: Trump threatens to use his constitutional power to "adjourn" the House and Senate so that he can make recess appointments.
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JUST IN: Senior Justice Department official Gene Hamilton confirms the Flores settlement still controls, and that unless Congress or the court acts, the government can only detain families together for "up to 20 days."
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Trump's latest PA lawsuit does not allege voter fraud.
It alleges that Pennsylvania conducted an election that violated the constitution, mainly by fostering "disparate treatment between mail-in and in person voters."
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"...Calling African countries 'shithole countries' is racist. And telling four members of this body to 'go home' is racist."
That's when
@RepDougCollins
jumped in to demand the words be taken down. (2/2)
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Via
@costareports
, CBS News has confirmed the text of a May 10th letter the acting Archivist of the US sent to Trump’s legal team, first posted by John Solomon last night.
It contains several important revelations… 🧵
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How's he doing it?
Biden is employing a post-9/11 law that allows for debt cancelation "in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency."
Which emergency? "[T]he present COVID-19 pandemic," per a Dept of Ed memo issued yesterday.
h/t
@kathrynw5
.
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CNN lawsuit points to US Sec Service regulations (31 CFR 409.1), indicating its press pass decisions "will be guided solely by the principle of whether the applicant presents a potential source of physical danger to the President and/or the family of the President."
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"I will be watching all the hearings," AG Garland tells reporters, adding, "I can assure you the Jan 6th prosecutors are watching all the hearings as well."
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MORE: To secure Griner’s return, Biden has freed arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the “Merchant of Death” & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47’s that would’ve been used to kill DEA agents.
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One of Missouri's largest newspapers, the Kansas City Star, says in an editorial that the state's junior senator has -- in the words of the headline -- "blood on his hands in Capitol coup attempt."
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CBS's Pat Milton reports the FBI stormed not only Michael Cohen's office, but also his New York residence, seizing documents and other material, as authorized in a search warrant.
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JUST IN: HHS announces agency spokesman Michael Caputo "has decided to take a leave of absence to focus on his health and the well-being of his family." He'll be out for 60 days, an HHS statement says.
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PSA for script writers — Congress isn’t “certifying” electoral votes on Wednesday, it’s tallying them.
The process is entirely ministerial, and would not involve action in the House and Senate at all, but for the objections that some members have said they will raise this year.
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Sullivan begins by BACKTRACKING on his remarks that Flynn was an unregistered foreign agent while working in the White House, and that he may have committed treason.
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Covid cases in the Trump inner circle now include the president, the first lady, the WH press secretary, four of her aides, the president's campaign manager, his body man, the party chairwoman, senior advisors Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller, and former advisor Kellyanne Conway.
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JUST IN: The agency that enforces the Hatch Act recommends that Kellyanne Conway be "removed from federal service" for "disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity" on TV and social media.
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The working professionals assigned to capture video of the president were not allowed near these scenes.
As such, viewers should bear in mind that any video of Trump in Dayton would have been created, edited and released by govt officials or others working for the president.
..The President was treated like a Rock Star inside the hospital, which was all caught on video. They all loved seeing their great President!
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The Mueller Report says
@PressSec
told investigators that her remarks in response to this question on May 10, 2017 "were not founded on anything."
.
@SHSanders45
says "countless" FBI agents have contacted WH to say they'd lost confidence in Comey. We've heard otherwise.
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NEW: WH says Trump will hold a joint news conference with Turkish president on Wednesday, the same day as the House begins its public impeachment hearings.
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The details of Pelosi's planned travel to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan -- particularly those destinations -- had not been previously announced. Earlier today her aides asked news organizations not to report that the trip would take place, citing national security.
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The deal Trump is announcing, btw the UAE and Israel, seems to be the first of its kind since Jordan recognized Israel in 1994.
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Sullivan asks Flynn if he was aware that lying to the FBI was illegal.
"I was aware," Flynn says.
He is NOT taking Sullivan's offer to withdraw his guilty plea.
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I gotta tell you folks, this is pretty good drama.
It's a shame federal courts have decided the public shouldn't be able to see this on television.
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BREAKING: Maryland Court of Special Appeals grants Adnan Syed's request for a new trial in the case highlighted by the "Serial" podcast.
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JUST IN: Judge Aileen Cannon grants Trump's motion to appoint a special master "to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney client and/or executive privilege."
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NEW: Biden says he'll order the restoration of refugee admissions, up to 125,000 persons in the first full year of his administration.
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5) NARA and DOJ jointly determined that request should be denied.
6) The letter establishes that Biden administration believes firmly that there is no executive privilege that Trump could assert here, and that it’s not even close.
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BREAKING: Flynn's attorneys say they are now taking the judge up on his offer to delay today's sentencing because he's still cooperating with prosecutors.
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"We'll see you in the boardroom," Trump tells the pool, speaking of the Cabinet Room.
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Why those 7 countries? Trump's relying on determinations made by Obama's DHS/State last yr that they have "repeatedly" supported terror.
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Jackson slams Manafort -
"It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved" in Manafort's crimes.
She says there is "no explanation" from Manafort that would warrant the leniency he has requested.
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@ABC
Biden also bristles in ABC interview at mention of chaos and death at Kabul airport.
"That was four days ago, five days ago!" he says.
(It was two days ago.)
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Yes, I did indeed ask
@PressSec
whether the WH has a view toward a federal law on conservatorships.
(It was
@edokeefe
who asked the
#freebritney
follow up!)
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Trump says he'd rather the passengers of the Grand Princess stay on the ship, because he doesn't want the number of cases in the US to increase.
"I don't need to have the numbers double," Trump told reporters at
@CDCgov
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"My Administration will not support giving congressional representation to aliens who enter or remain in the country unlawfully," Trump says in statement.
ACLU vows an immediate legal challenge.
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“Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they can be reliably informed about his health.” (2/2)
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On camera, Clinton called it a "moment of savagery at the front door of American civilization," and offered prayers for the families of the slain officers.
I was told by administration officials yesterday when I asked about not lowering the flag that Bill Clinton hadn't for two Capitol officers who died in 1998. A Bill Clinton spokesman tells me he did lower the flags, issued a public statement and spoke with then-Speaker Gingirch.
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.
@PressSec
says she won't be wearing a mask tomorrow in Tulsa.
"I feel it's safe for me," she tells reporters.
Fauci told me this AM, "If... for one reason or other, you feel compelled to [be in a crowded space], which we don't recommend, then wear a mask at all times."
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On Friday, Trump had a high fever, with oxygen saturation had dropped below 94%, Conley says.
Supplemental oxygen was administered by Conley for about an hour, despite Trump's insistence that he didn't need it.
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@MichaelAvenatti
According to the complaint filed in federal court, Avenatti told Nike attorneys by phone last week if his demands were not met, "I'll go take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap ... I'm not f*cking around."
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The WH physician says Trump, as of this tweet, has been treated with the following:
— Remdesivir
— Regeneron REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail
— Zinc
— Vitamin D
— Pepcid
— Melatonin
— Aspirin
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The 14th Amendment requires apportionment to be based on the "whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
Trump's memo compares immigrants here illegally to tourists and those on business travel, and says they should not be counted as inhabitants.
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NADLER RESPONDS --
House Judiciary chairman decries what he calls a "clear escalation" of battle over access, accusing Trump of "misapplying the doctrine of executive privilege."
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Update -- Swalwell agreed to restate his remarks without the "offensive word" (sh*thole), and Collins withdrew his demand.
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JUST IN: Trump says the incident at Mar-a-Lago was "just a fluke," says he's not concerned about Chinese espionage at his Florida club.
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WH
@PressSec
, asked why Biden hasn't held a formal news conference, says he will hold one by the end of this month.
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Whoa. Amid a post-verdict discussion over whether to revoke convicted Cosby's bail, the DA noted he owns a private plane.
"Doesn’t matter that I have a plane, you a**hole!" Cosby shouted, per
@MattPieper
.
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