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@JeffreyGoldberg
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@TheAtlantic
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Introducing the new moderator of Washington Week: Yamiche Alcindor. Join
@Yamiche
for trusted news and analysis with Washington’s best reporters starting this Friday at 8/7c on
@PBS
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"It's a really extraordinary moment, we have an out-of-power ex-president who is in effect, dictating American foreign policy on behalf of a foreign dictator or with the interests of a foreign dictator in mind,"
@anneapplebaum
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@JeffreyGoldberg
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@Yamiche
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@JeffreyGoldberg
: What would a Ukrainian defeat look like from an American national security perspective?
@anneapplebaum
: "Defeat means the elimination of the U.S. as a security guarantor for Europe. It means that the U.S. is no longer seen as a reliable ally by anybody."
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"When you actually look at the documents that they listed in the indictment, there were some documents where even the classification markings were redacted,"
@hugolowell
said. "That speaks to the extent and the sensitivity of some of the material that Trump had kept."
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Today,
#WashWeekPBS
remembers the remarkable life and legacy of Gwen Ifill on her birthday. As former moderator of Washington Week, Gwen made history, broke barriers, and worked to inspire the next generation of journalists. Your legacy still lives on Gwen, happy birthday.
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The Jan. 6 committee offered new details on former President Trump pressuring former Vice President Pence to overturn the 2020 election.
@MacFarlaneNews
tells
@Yamiche
about his takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearings.
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"Page 30 of this 38-page affidavit says something we've never seen before, that the FBI argued there were 'fruits of crime' potentially at the residence of a former U.S. President,"
@MacFarlaneNews
tells
@Yamiche
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WATCH: Locks changed on expelled Rep. George Santos' Capitol Hill office after House vote
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Get to know Washington Week's newest moderator, Yamiche Alcindor. Tweet us a question using
#WashWeekPBS
and tune into our Instagram Live this Friday at 3:30 p.m. for a live Q&A with
@Yamiche
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"No matter one's view on Jan. 6, or the investigations that came from it...we are quite clearly in history book area when a congressional panel is asking for Congress to utilize the 14th Amendment against a former president,"
@MacFarlaneNews
tells
@Yamiche
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We remember our friend and colleague Gwen Ifill. Her smile, her laugh and her 40-year career asking tough questions.
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"I’ve always said that the things that make me cry are probably the things that I should be focused on. And I have to say that this week I’ve cried a lot," says
@Yamiche
.
Yamiche,
@EamonJavers
,
@JakeSherman
&
@nancycordes
on reporting on a global crisis:
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NEW:
@realBobWoodward
shared previously unreleased audio on tonight’s
#WashWeekPBS
from one of his interviews with President Trump in which the president said he deserved an “A” grade for his handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
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"In the early stages of what's going to be a very dangerous war over the debt ceiling, it appears the administration and Democrats have the upper hand,"
@MacFarlaneNews
tells
@Yamiche
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@MacFarlaneNews
calls the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband "grotesque."
"Is this a snapshot of where we are in America in 2022? Is that where our politics are that this is both shocking, but not surprising at all," he tells
@Yamiche
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While “Republicans are likely to win this fight & get Barrett confirmed, they might lose the war,” says
@JaneMayerNYer
.
“There’s such a backlash that they have unleashed by just resorting to such raw power politics.”
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"If you look at the [New York] state AG suit, that would really end the Trump organization in its current form. It would permanently bar Trump and his adult children from holding executive office in any company in New York,"
@hugolowell
tells
@Yamiche
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Liz Cheney “is so unrepresentative of the Republican Party that you may as well just put a D next to her name,” says
@jonathanvswan
.
"The project that she’s embarking on of trying to...restore the [GOP] to the Bush-Cheney party...it’s a fantasy.”
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Please join the
#WashWeekPBS
family in wishing our moderator and managing editor
@costareports
a wonderful birthday. Happy birthday Bob!
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“Over the past several months, the administration has engaged in a pattern of overpromising and underdelivering on implementation of testing,” reports
@PaulaReidCBS
.
Watch the
#WashWeekPBS
panel discuss the push to reopen and enduring testing shortages:
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House Speaker Johnson says he intends to bring a Ukraine aid bill to the floor. Could it reach Biden's desk anytime soon?
@MacFarlaneNews
: They got the bill that could ban TikTok "from the floor to passage in eight days, and Ukraine money is sitting there month after month."
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"There was a fear, even an alarm at times, inside the intelligence community about how [Donald Trump] handled documents while he was president and when he left the White House,"
@costareports
tells
@Yamiche
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"It's very Gen Z of [Sen. John Fetterman] in a certain way to publicly, actively seek the mental help that he needs, and you don't see a lot of politicians doing that,"
@AshleyRParker
tells
@Yamiche
.
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"The two things are not actually related. There is no money that is going to Ukraine that would've gone to East Palestine and vice versa,"
@abbydphillip
tells
@Yamiche
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Big congrats to our peerless moderator,
@costareports
, on a strong
#roomrater
score.
Although we suspect it’s his folks place, the
@washingtonpost
pillow is a nice touch. 8/10
@costareports
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One recommendation of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission was to accelerate transitions because it's "when the US is acutely vulnerable," says
@eosnos
.
Instead what you have now is "an outgoing White House that is taking steps to delay the process."
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Among health experts, there's fear “that a federal response [can] not wait until" President-elect Biden steps in, says
@yabutaleb7
. “You can’t just let the crisis spread unchecked for those 10 weeks.”
“And that’s essentially what we’re seeing.”
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@JeffreyGoldberg
: Russia is good at outlasting its enemies. Is that the hope that we will just get tired?
@anneapplebaum
: "Mostly what they're working on is trying to prevent us from helping, trying to prevent us from doing more ... their main goal is to stop us."
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Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least 4 mass shootings, according to a Washington Post analysis.
"The idea of more serious gun measures ... is just something that we don't seem to have the political will to do,"
@SusanPage
tells
@Yamiche
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Donald Trump's lawyers have signaled that they will ask to move the 2020 election case out of Washington, D.C., saying they can't get a fair trial.
"If you are charged in D.C., for committing a crime in D.C., you are going to get a D.C. jury,"
@hugolowell
tells
@johnyangtv
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"You watched the way that Speaker Pelosi alongside these Republican and Democratic leaders were really filling the void that Donald Trump had left by his complete and utter inaction around what was happening on Capitol Hill,"
@alivitali
tells
@Yamiche
.
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“In all my years of war reporting, I’ve never seen people showing up like this in very individual acts of kindness,”
@JaneFerguson5
tells
@Yamiche
about the unity she is seeing from Ukrainians as Russia’s invasion enters its fourth week.
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@AshleyRParker
says she was "struck" by the Republican responses to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband being attacked.
"The normal traditional thing is just this is unacceptable — full stop. Not this is unacceptable, snarky comment about the husband," she tells
@Yamiche
.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith on the indictment against former President Trump: "We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone."
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"This is a win for the special counsel to get Pence in the grand jury,"
@hugolowell
tells
@GeoffRBennett
. "Pence can testify to the entirety of Nov. through Jan. 6, and he was there, he saw a lot."
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“Tracy Martin said that he came across a backpack of Trayvon's in his garage he hadn't opened for the entire decade. And he said he opened that backpack and there was some clothes in it, and he could still smell his boy.”
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@trymainelee
#WashWeekPBS
Extra
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“Until 1965 with the Voting Rights Act, we had an entire region of the country where millions of Americans had their vote violently suppressed and were actually not able to engage in democracy,” says
@The1619Project
's
@nhannahjones
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#WashWeekPBS
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“
@The1619Project
is not just about the past, but it really is about helping us understand how the legacy of slavery shaped so much of the society that we live in,”
@nhannahjones
tells
@yamiche
.
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#WashWeekPBS
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Tonight,
#WashWeekPBS
moderator
@Yamiche
explores racial violence and inequality in "Race Matters: America After George Floyd," on
@NewsHour
. Stream it online or tune in at 10 p.m. ET on
@PBS
.
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"It's unsurprising to me that the officers involved here are Black,"
@WesleyLowery
tells
@Yamiche
. "What we know is that policing, in the way it trains, in the way it staffs and how it resources very often structures a dynamic where it is an us versus them."
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WATCH: "This was a day when I think Washington really missed having John McCain around," says
@GarrettHaake
#WashWeek
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During the first public hearing of the Jan. 6 Committee, Rep. Liz Cheney said former President Trump didn't get in touch with law enforcement to try to stop the insurrection.
"It's pretty damning. I would be really curious what he was doing during that time,"
@ryanjreilly
said.
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A retired NYPD officer was sentenced to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"From a Justice Department standpoint...they wanted to make sure they made examples of some of the worst violent offenders,"
@evanperez
tells
@Yamiche
.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court this week.
"This is an example & it's a pretty concrete example of President Biden making good on a campaign promise,"
@jeffmason1
said. "Presidents don't always get to do that. He had this opportunity & he fulfilled it."
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Former President Trump's inner circle has been shrinking.
"It seems that his support...from people like Bill Barr or the cadre of old mainstream Republicans has all but disappeared,"
@CarolLeonnig
tells
@Yamiche
. "Those folks are quietly saying the man's off his rocker."
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@Yamiche
asks
@SimonOstrovsky
about what he saw in Ukraine this week.
"What a lot of people don't realize...is that the atrocities that were perpetrated during the period Russia was occupying [Bucha] were much more widespread than just the town of Bucha," he said.
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"Critical race theory is the big lie of 2021 and the modern day southern strategy that is appealing to White voters,"
@emarvelous
tells
@yamiche
.
"This was part of the message that resonated with Virginia voters."
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#WashWeekPBS
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"The special master is now challenging [former] President Trump to put up or shut up when he says he declassified it, but it does not get him off. Look he does not own these documents whether they're classified or not. He was not entitled to them,"
@peterbakernyt
tells
@Yamiche
.
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"The big question still remains why he is not using his full power to procure these pieces of equipment that are so critical for testing," reports
@weijia
, on President Donald Trump's testing problems.
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#WashWeekPBS
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To all those on the frontlines, whose tireless and often quiet work sustains us and binds us: thank you.
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Today, we remember our friend and mentor Gwen Ifill, who passed away two years ago. Her legacy as a trailblazer and journalist lives on, and her spirit guides us at Washington Week. We are thinking of her today and always.
#RememberingGwen
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Even though Harry Truman “left the White House after eight years with a 22 percent approval rating, Winston Churchill said of him: ‘Of all men, none have done more to save Western civilization than Harry Truman,'” says
@JoeNBC
.
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#WashWeekPBS
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As a result of this year's vote, candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election "are not in positions of authority to oversee elections in 2024," says
@HeidiReports
. "We may have really averted a constitutional crisis."
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In regards to Gen. Mark Milley, "we found no actions that were treasonous,"
@realBobWoodward
tells
@yamiche
. "Milley was under... pressure from what the Chinese were responding to because of Trump."
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In her book, "Electable,"
@alivitali
explores why the U.S. has not elected a female president.
"Everyone that I talked to ... understand that double edge sword for women of being aggressive, of being ambitious, of saying what you want & going for it," she tells
@Yamiche
.
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The redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search of Trump's home revealed agents found 184 documents with different classification levels.
"If President Trump had seen these documents before, knew what they were...there was a reason he wanted them,"
@shearm
said.
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Americans started the year thinking 2020 resembled 1998, with impeachment. Then came the pandemic, like 1918, economic collapse like 1929, and now violent racial protests like 1968, says
@peterbakernyt
.
“We’re undergoing a great national trauma.”
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Thinking of our friend, mentor, and leader, today and every day.
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"Democrats have been clamoring for this for a while for the president to be much more forceful and direct and calling out the forces that they feel are a threat to the American way of governess,"
@yabutaleb7
tells
@Yamiche
.
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J. Michael Luttig: "Donald Trump and his allies are a clear and present danger to American democracy. That is not because of what happened on Jan. 6. It's because to this very day," Trump and his supporters would seek to overturn the 2024 election.
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Washington Week would like to salute the Americans who are keeping us safe and our nation functioning during this crisis.
Thank you, from all of us.
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@JeffreyGoldberg
: Is it the case where Donald Trump is, superficially, at least, more popular with the Republican officials than he is with the Republican base?
@RadioFreeTom
: "Superficially, they're for him because they fear their own primary voters."
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On Saturday, thousands of people marched around the nation in support of abortion rights.
#WashWeekPBS
spoke to
@alexismcgill
, President and CEO of
@PPFA
, and marchers at the Rally for Abortion Justice in Washington D.C. Here’s what they said about the threat to abortion rights:
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"The fact that after Jan. 6, [Scott Perry] asked...President Donald Trump for a pardon shows that the reaction and the response, and what actually happened,"
@LACaldwellDC
tells
@Yamiche
. "He got very nervous that perhaps he was personally, criminally or maybe civilly liable."
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Former President Trump undertook a campaign to collect money for the election fraud fund.
"There's no accounting for where that money goes &...this is a theme throughout the administration. This is a theme throughout Trump's history with the public office,"
@ayesharascoe
said.
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"...every time there is a sense of racial progress in this country, it is met by an intensive backlash. " says
@nhannahjones
, creator of
@The1619Project
.
"...you would hope we would eventually learn the lessons. But we don't."
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#WashWeekPBS
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Tyre Nichols "was beloved. His mother? That was her baby,"
@ayesharascoe
says. "And she lost him. I think there is a pain in that that we carry that is physical, that is meaningful. I don't think this country fully deals with it because it's too much."
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Washington Week has a new voice you can trust on all things Washington and beyond. Don't miss
@Yamiche
hosting
#WashWeekPBS
this Friday at 8/7c on
@PBS
.
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@JeffreyGoldberg
: Why can't the White House get the message out that “Bidenomics” is working?
@BumillerNYT
: "I think Biden is out there talking every day about the economy, but it just doesn't seem to be sinking in at this point."
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"Mitch McConnell’s made the decision that it is worse for the Republican Party to have Roy Moore as a sitting U.S. Senator than it is to have one more Democrat in the Senate."
@chucktodd
#WashWeek
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.
@HeidiReports
explains why Hunter Biden's lawyer is questioning whether the three gun charges are constitutional.
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On tonight's Washington Week,
@evamckend
,
@MacFarlaneNews
,
@shearm
&
@alivitali
join
@Yamiche
to discuss the redacted search warrant affidavit justifying the search of former President Trump's Florida home & President Biden forgiving some student loan debt.
Watch at 8/7c!
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“She spent two plus years as a public defender, and that means if she's confirmed, she'll be the first justice on the court to have extensive criminal defense experience, since Thurgood Marshall.” -
@jmsummers
on SCOTUS nominee Judge Jackson
#WashWeekPBS
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WATCH: Bob Woodward says President Donald Trump has engaged in "a legitimization of anger and hate."
Learn more about the impact of the president's comments on this week's
#WashWeekPBS
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"The conspiracy theories are still very prevalent and the lie about 2020 is still very prevalent amongst Republican voters because Republican leaders, elected officials continue to lie about it,"
@lbarronlopez
tells
@JeffreyGoldberg
.
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“Every time...Black folks began to taste a little success...they saw a violent backlash," says
@trymainelee
.
"There is no disconnect between the kind of violent economic dispossession that we saw here in Tulsa [in 1921] & what we find today.”
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Did you miss tonight’s
#WashWeekPBS
?
Catch up now!
@peterbakernyt
,
@GeoffRBennett
,
@seungminkim
&
@PierreTABC
joined guest moderator
@Yamiche
to discuss the second impeachment of President Trump & heightened security in DC ahead of the inauguration.
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The moves by the Trump administration against the USPS “represent the culmination of Trump’s grievance-fueled crusade against the Postal Service that dates to the start of his presidency,” writes
@PhilipRucker
.
Phil is on tonight’s
#WashWeekPBS
at 8/7c.
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For Haitian Americans, images of the treatment of Haitian migrants at the border, "was an example of the double standard that they have endured under U.S. immigration policy,"
@Jacquiecharles
tells
@yamiche
.
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“For the first time in his political life, he’s running up against an exogenous force that he can’t use his usual rhetorical skills to deflect,” says
@jonathanvswan
on President Trump defending his coronavirus response during their interview.
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On this Thanksgiving weekend, we’re grateful to you — our viewers — for joining us each week.
We hope you’re celebrating this time with those you love most.
@Yamiche
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In her new book,
@katebrower
reports President Obama was the last president to see George H. W. Bush before his death, not Bill Clinton or George W. Bush.
“The fact that it was actually Barack Obama, I think, says everything.”
For more on “Team of Five”:
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Did you miss tonight’s
#WashWeekPBS
?
Catch up now!
@danbalz
,
@emarvelous
,
@weijia
, &
@JakeSherman
join new Washington Week moderator
@Yamiche
to discuss the clash in the GOP & President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 vaccine goals.
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"The subpoenas get all the headlines, but there are dozens of people who didn't get subpoenaed, who worked for Trump who are cooperating because they did nothing wrong," says Jake Sherman.
"That is what should scare Donald Trump."
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#WashWeekPBS
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Gwen Ifill and
@NewsHour
@JudyWoodruff
were awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this week at
@Cronkite_ASU
.
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"It is striking...the degree to which the specter of physical violence still looms over American politics,"
@jmartNYT
tells
@yamiche
.
"It is such a part of our daily lives now."
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#WashWeekPBS
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Speaker Pelosi’s 25th Amendment commission likely won’t have much legal effect says
@SusanPage
. But it has “focused our attention on the president, and his fitness.”
“Those are all bad issues for [Trump] just three weeks before election day.”
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"The apparatus of what [former] President Trump has inspired with his false election claims is massive, and we cannot overstate really how those false claims have really motivated an anti-democratic wing within the Republican Party,"
@AsteadWesley
tells
@Yamiche
.
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"This is a huge crisis,"
@ayesharascoe
tells
@yamiche
in regards to Afghanistan.
"I do think this is an American tragedy, though. This is 20 years. This is four administrations. This is not just on the Biden administration."
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#WashWeekPBS
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"These hearings are so important because they are instructive about how we move forward,"
@evamckend
said. "This idea that America is the greatest country in the world, well, we almost fell."
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A new Senate report detailed that Trump was trying to “actually overturn the results of the election and...create statements...that would just cast enough doubt on the legitimacy of the election,”
@ktbenner
tells
@yamiche
.
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#WashWeekPBS
:
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This week, there was a history-making confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.
"It sends a message to every little Black girl watching her that they can be in that seat,"
@LauraAJarrett
said.
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Where would moderator
@yamiche
be working, if she wasn't a journalist? Check out these 5 things you should know about
#WashWeekPBS
moderator Yamiche Alcindor. Join Yamiche for trusted news and analysis with Washington’s top reporters every Friday night at 8/7c on
@PBS
!
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On N.Y. Gov Andrew
#Cuomo
,
@RonanFarrow
tells
@yamiche
"what we’re seeing... is equally a consequence of years and years of corruption, bullying, a willingness to subvert and manipulate processes around him."
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“There’s no one who energizes Democrats and, frankly, the coalition that put President Obama into office like Mr. Obama,” says
@kwelkernbc
.
“And don’t forget he is the best character witness for Joe Biden.”
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