Exclusive:
@POTUS
sets the record straight on his first student loan forgiveness plan — and identifies how his latest plan, unveiled Monday, will continue to build on debt relief for millions of Americans.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) goes off on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during USPS oversight hearing:
“I didn’t vote to overturn an election. And I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship.”
Chaplain in Detroit on the “stop the count” protests:
“We’re not deterred … The Black vote in Detroit is higher than it’s ever been and we will determine the outcome — because we’ve gone from picking cotton to picking presidents.”
#Election2020
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) yells at the GOP over union organizing bill: “Heaven forbid we pass something that’s going to help the damn workers in the United States of America.”
He adds: “Now stop talking about Dr. Seuss, and work with us …”
"It's on you."
In a striking moment, Texas gubernatorial candidate
@BetoORourke
interrupts Gov. Greg Abbott's press conference about the Uvalde shooting.
Child actress Jennette McCurdy in her first on-camera interview about her memoir, ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’:
“Anybody that has experienced parental abuse understands this title… I wouldn’t have written the book if my mom were alive. I would still have my identity dictated by her.”
Take 7 minutes to watch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others respond to the Capitol insurrection in previously unseen footage.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Someone off-camera: “Oh my goodness.”
Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s comptroller currency pick: “I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.”
“If this is America First, then America is fucked.”
Take 10 minutes to watch Jon Stewart tear into Republicans for blocking a Senate bill providing benefits to veterans, including for those exposed to burn pits.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) plays a horrific death threat she received following Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) recent Islamophobic attacks on her.
Warning: It's incredibly graphic.
Rep. Boebert (R-CO): “We have more than 25% of federal employees not logging into work.”
@USOPM
Dir. Kiran Ahuja: “I do take issue with the characterization.”
Boebert: “It’s in this leaked document.”
Ahuja: “You’re basing that from 2020, which is in the last administration.”
Heartwarming photo: Leila Jackson proudly watches as her mom Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
This is Chicago public school teacher Dwayne Reed.
His wife is eight months pregnant with their first child. In an attempt to minimize his COVID risk, Reed requested to work from home. His school district said no.
So Reed's teaching remotely — from right outside his school.
AG Merrick Garland announces bombshell charges against police officers involved in the search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor.
He says defendants "took steps to cover up their unlawful conduct" and "met in a garage where they agreed to tell ... a false story."
Rep.
@AOC
: "Mr. Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters. I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am someone’s daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter."
“I wanna recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence.”
— Law professor Khiara Bridges, after explaining to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that more than just women are capable of giving birth
Jim Cramer: “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy? I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reverence for the office. I would never use that term ...”
Pelosi: “But you just did. But you just did.”
“Now is the time to stop the next shooting ... In each case we say this isn’t the time. Now is the time — like, literally right now. That’s why I’m here.”
— Texas gubernatorial candidate
@BetoORourke
on Gov. Greg Abbott saying now is not the time to politicize a shooting
“My life today is wonderful, I believe that I am needed… That’s the most important sense of life, that you are needed, that you are not just an emptiness that breathes and walks and eats something.”
— Pres. Zelenskyy, via translator, asked about his living conditions in Ukraine
Uncovered: Last October, the head of the Minneapolis police union — which days ago warned against a “rush to judgment” of the officers involved in George Floyd’s death — spoke at a Trump rally and praised him for ending the “handcuffing and oppression” of police under Obama.
Impeachment, it's not just Democrats.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) says if the House pursues impeachment he will “definitely consider whatever articles they might move because I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office … What he did was wicked.”
Dr. Fauci is asked about jokes he made today regarding feeling liberated from the Trump administration.
He responds: "But you said I was joking about it, I was very serious. I wasn't joking … It is somewhat of a liberating feeling."
Piers Morgan, a small man who needs attention at all times, walks off the set of ITV's Good Morning Britain when he's called out by fellow presenter Alex Beresford.
"Sorry, can't do this," Morgan says as he walked off.
"This is absolutely diabolical behavior," Beresford says.
Former President Barack Obama: “I wanna thank Sharon Sprung for capturing everything I love about Michelle — her grace, her intelligence, and the fact that she’s fine.”
“Sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s Red Scare tactics … Welcome to Washington in 2021.”
—
@SenWarren
follows Sen. John Kennedy’s questioning of Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s currency comptroller nominee.
Trump speaks to senior citizens about COVID: "You're not vulnerable, but they like to say the vulnerable, but you're the least vulnerable — but for this one thing you are vulnerable."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “Why do you think that Chicago has become America's largest outdoor shooting range?”
Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health: “Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) slams Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for wanting to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA):
"Lauren Boebert is a mess. Matt Gaetz is a mess. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a mess. Clean up your mess, Kevin."
“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out ... I’m going to punch him out, I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s just-revealed response to the prospect of former President Trump potentially marching to the Capitol on January 6th.
Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman stands in the back of the Senate chamber as impeachment managers play never-before-seen footage of the Capitol insurrection.
(NYT via AP/Brandon Bell)
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) walks out of House hearing after apologizing to a Parkland parent who was taken into police custody for protesting gun violence:
“This has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with politics. And I won’t be listening to another second of it.”
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) on 765 unintentional shooting deaths by children between 2015 and 2020:
"After 1 child died using a Peloton treadmill last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission intervened... When hundreds of children die using guns, there is no federal response."
AOC goes off on Postmaster DeJoy: "We need to get him under oath on a committee letting us know what is happening and we have to undo the damage that he has already done."
Fox News’ Doocy: “I’m triple-vaxed ... You’re triple-vaxed, still got COVID. Why is the president still referring to this as a pandemic of the unvaccinated?”
WH Press Sec. Psaki: “You are 17x more likely to go to the hospital if you’re unvaccinated, 20x more likely to die.”
State Sen. Megan Hunt (D), speaking directly to Republicans, reaffirms vow to filibuster all legislation if
#NEleg
anti-trans bill passes:
"No one in the world holds a grudge like me. And no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don't care. I don't like you."
“If [Putin] wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945.”
— Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations
D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was beaten during the Jan. 6th insurrection, and Harry Dunn, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced rioters, leave a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): “The countries that have been attacked, Georgia and Ukraine, were part of the Soviet Union ... since the 1920s.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “That does not give Russia the right to attack them.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is having absolutely none of Rep. McCarthy’s attacks on the 1/6 committee:
“We were gonna have a 9/11-style commission ... You know who vetoed it? The 4th branch of government, Donald Trump, who some of their members slavishly report to like sycophants.”
Fox’s Roberts: “Is there any legitimate reason for those materials to be in the former president’s possession?”
Bill Barr: “No … If, in fact, he stood over scores of boxes ... and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ … it's almost worse than taking the documents.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) — who raised his fist in support of the Capitol insurrectionists earlier in the day — runs for his life from the rioters inside the building in never-before-seen video.
Kenosha Police Chief Miskinis responds to the murder of two protestors by saying it wouldn't have happened if people weren't out after curfew: "I'm not gonna make a great deal of it, BUT ..."
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA): “This is the Republicans all day long: ‘Inflation’s bad!' No shit, Sherlock. Of course inflation’s bad. I too go to the grocery store. That is not a policy statement.”
Trump: “Do you think Sleepy Joe could have made this deal, Bibi, Sleepy Joe?”
Israeli PM Netanyahu: "Uh ... well ... Mr. President, one thing I can tell you is we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in America."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on his friendship with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY):
“I told Liz I can’t wait to going back to disagreeing with her about everything. But right now, we are in a constitutional emergency, and we are all constitutional first responders.”
Watch the smiles and hugs between Martha's Vineyard residents and the Venezuelan migrants, who were recently flown there by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a political stunt, as they board buses to Joint Base Cape Cod.
“Have at it.” — President Biden to those governors threatening lawsuits over the vaccine-or-weekly-testing mandate for large businesses.
He adds, "I am so disappointed that particularly some Republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids."
Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA) gets emotional when talking about Trump's calls to "dominate" protesters: "When the country needed compassion ... it was simply nowhere to be found.”
.
@VP
Kamala Harris: "Virtually every person who is in the hospital right now sick with COVID-19 ... is unvaccinated."
Child in the crowd: "Say that!"
Harris: "Almost every one of them is unvaccinated. Let the children speak."
Jake Tapper calls out Lara Trump for openly mocking Joe Biden's stutter.
Lara says, "First and foremost I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on Joe Biden on stage is very clearly a cognitive decline."
Tapper isn't having it.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) chokes up while condemning the resolution to censure her that the House is considering:
“Speaking up to save lives, Mr. Chair, no matter faith, no matter ethnicity, should not be controversial in this chamber.”
Before he was President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy created and starred in a Ukrainian show about a history teacher who accidentally becomes the president after one of his rants about political corruption goes viral.
Rep.
@AOC
(D-NY) slams House Republicans:
“We’re having a hearing right now, and it’s about what? That the federal government is too woke? … And then there’s no definition of what woke is.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “You guys said that Russia would overrun Ukraine in 36 days.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: “Has it occurred to you that Russia has not overrun Ukraine because of what we’ve done? And our allies have done? Have you ever even thought about that?”
“For God’s sakes a livin’, how difficult is this to understand?"
— Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) is losing it over anti-vaxxers and vaccine conspiracy theorists
WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) calling her “Peppermint Patty” at CPAC:
“I like Peppermint Patty, so I’m not gonna take it too offensively ... I’m a little tougher than that.”
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) calls out Heritage Foundation legal analyst Amy Swearer for misleading the public about the impact of the House gun control bill.
Swearer: “How dare you?”
Porter: “How dare you misstate the law?”