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BBC US Special Correspondent | MSNBC Contributor | Host, The Rest is Politics US | NYT Bestselling Author

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Katty Kay
2 years
This was just called “devastating” testimony on Fox News.
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Two months after my Mum died, my father Jolyon followed her today. He was kind and tolerant. And, even at 90, he was still a charmer! But, after 68 years of a happy marriage, he missed Shirley too much. His heart just stopped.
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My Mum, the indomitable Shirley Kay, died on Friday. She was curious and generous to the end. In this difficult time we were fortunate that she died at home, holding hands with her husband of 64 years. We took this photo a week ago in her garden in Cyprus. I was lucky to have her
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8 years
To be clear to viewers around the world, in the last 3 press conferences, Trump has ONLY called on conservative news outlets for questions
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2 years
The couple who put up this Cheney sign in Wyoming told me they discussed the risk to their own security before doing so. It’s one of the more dispiriting things I’ve heard on this trip around the country. A yard sign can put you at risk. In America.
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My daughter is back from school. Her friends are over and they are downstairs chattering and laughing away. For someone whose children have left home, that sound is the best Christmas present in the world.
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My husband joined a call last night to see what’s needed to assist Afghan refugees. Beyond clothes, furniture, time etc, it turns out that in the DC region alone 3500 people have already offered to house newly arrived families. Impressive.
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2 years
The big picture observation - an American President used a precious primetime speech to defend democracy, in America. Tells you a lot about the state of the country.
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My mum Shirley died a year ago. She collected stray animals, cats, dogs, gazelles (we had a nomadic upbringing.) I’d heard the story of the raven she befriended but had never seen a photo, until today. We’re never really old enough to lose our parents.
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7 years
Just to be clear - this is a Republican party official saying they'd knowingly vote for a pedophile.
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Daniel Dale
7 years
After a long pause, Alabama Bibb County Republican chairman Jerry Pow tells me he'd vote for Roy Moore even if Moore did commit a sex crime against a girl. "I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn't want to vote for Doug," he says. "I'm not saying I support what he did."
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Just got back from Cyprus and Austria. It's a different world. People are relaxed, out in cafes, few masks, they meet friends and go to work. People are careful and conscious but the virus is under control there in a way it just isn't here. Land in Dulles and the stress hits.
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8 years
In past few days Russian jets buzz US ship in Black Sea, deploys spy ship off Delaware, launches cruise missile. Reaction from Trump? Zero.
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4 years
Start to finish this has been a stunning interview. British Royal family getting zero sympathy from US media tonight. Now, how will UK tabloids react?
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4 years
Judging from my Twitter feed there are an usually large number of UK journalists awake at 3.30am.
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Meghan is older, more independent, more confident than Diana was during her interview. Her criticisms are of both the institution of the Palace and the UK press. And she is backed up by Harry. All of which makes it more damaging.
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Cordelia Lynch
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Is this interview more damaging than Diana’s Panorama interview? It feels so on the face of it, but the dynamics at play also feel much more complex this time.
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3 years
Yesterday morning I handed in my resignation to Ozy Media. I was looking forward to working with the talented young reporters but I did not expect this!
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The BBC’s superb China editor steps down over equal pay after discovering she is paid 50% less than male counterparts @bbccarrie #istandwithcarrie
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8 years
I'm not sure that ordering the silence of a woman is a great way to win back women voters who are fleeing Trump. Just a suggestion.
@Morning_Joe
Morning Joe
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. @RealBenCarson says 'It doesn't matter' if Trump accusers are ‘lying or not’, blames 'you people in the media'
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Today I became Swiss. The application process took 3 years and I cried when I opened the email. My dad, who died in January, was Swiss. As a child growing up in the Middle East, holidays with my Swiss grandmother were a refuge. When I arrive at Interlaken station I feel I'm home.
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First time in over a year! Heading into the studio for ⁦ @Morning_Joe ⁩ - real people real set real tv real early.
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"I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him,” Mr. Corker said
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Fact checkers on line are working very hard. But without the lies being called out in real time, the public doesn't know what's true and what isn't.
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4 years
Trump has repeatedly said he doesn’t need to wear a mask because everyone who comes into contact with him is tested. Clearly that testing system isn’t foolproof. Doctors have been saying this for a while. Someone can test negative in the morning and positive that evening.
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Unfortunately this kind of subtle bullying is something women experience all too often in the workplace. Not as crassly but it's there.
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POLITICO
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. @RealBenCarson asks for @KattyKayBBC 's mic to be turned off during heated exchange
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7 years
From a GOP strategist
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2 years
On air for 12 hours yesterday from home and the lovely producers at ⁦ @MSNBC ⁩ sent me takeout. It’s the small things that count. Grateful.
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Traveling through Europe right now is like the Cold War. Covid test checks, special passes needed and strict quarantine everywhere. Landing back at Dulles, nothing. No one asked where we’d be staying, told us to quarantine or asked for COVID test results. Night and day.
@axios
Axios
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European countries have managed to turn their terrifying COVID spikes around, while U.S. cases set new records.
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3 years
Big day for me today. I first reported for the BBC in Zimbabwe in 1990. Today I’m saying good bye. @BBCWorld has been a fantastic place to call home, which is why it took me so long to leave! Now it’s time for something new and I hope you’ll come and find me @ozy
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7 years
The White House is not having the best day.
@AP
The Associated Press
7 years
BREAKING: US court bars Trump from changing military policy on service by transgender people.
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2 years
The lights of the Eiffel Tower will be turned off tonight in tribute to the Queen. Hard to overstate the global response to her death.
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So this was weird. I got over covid but developed a huge abscess on my lymph node. Docs can’t prove COVID caused it but they can’t think what else it was. Had it drained, feeling fine, and got a very fetching bandage for the rest of the week.
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What is so maddening about the Gillibrand tweet is that women can be smart, work hard, become Senator and STILL get sexual c**p thrown at us. Enough.
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7 years
There will be questions about the reporting but a surprising number of people in WH, referenced in this book, basically say this - he’s not capable of being President. These are not his political enemies.
@JohnJHarwood
John Harwood
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Wolff on Trump’s aides: “my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all — 100 percent — came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.”
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7 years
From the man caught on tape boasting about grabbing pussy, this is quite something.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? .....
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Katty Kay
7 months
Remarkable courage
@mjluxmoore
Matthew Luxmoore
7 months
Russia has instituted a climate of fear and jailed hundreds since it started its war in Ukraine. And still the line of people for Navalny’s funeral in Moscow keeps growing.
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A Birmingham-Kiev live gig. A first.
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7 years
Stats from US military stubbornly at odds w tweets from POTUS
@BBCJamesCook
James Cook
7 years
BREAKING US Army says 55% of "customers" (1.87m people) on Puerto Rico have no drinking water, up from 44% (1.5m) in the past four days.
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4am. That’s a 4! See you ⁦ @WayTooEarly
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This sound - girls who just want to learn. This is brutal for them but also deprives their country of skills and talent - keeping half your population uneducated does not help your economy or future.
@NasimiShabnam
Shabnam Nasimi
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Girls crying in agony as they’re told that they will have to leave the university & go home as the Taliban have BANNED female university education in Afghanistan. Painful to hear. How can we sit idly by as millions of girls are denied their human rights.
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I know Trump won even after the Access Hollywood tape, but still thinking what people would be saying today if it was Obama or Bush pictured in this video. It would be the only news story of the day.
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3 years
Me when ⁦ @WillieGeist ⁩ leaves me out of the baseball chat - and boy did I have some stunning insights to share with you all. Sorry ⁦ @Morning_Joe ⁩ audience that you missed my sports wisdom today.
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Finally somebody understands.
@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
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King George III really won the Revolutionary War. But it was stolen. And everybody knows it.
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It is hard to understand why anyone would want less birth control. Reduces teen pregnancies. Reduces abortions.
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Risk for Dems here is that the public narrative has already been formed and they look like sore losers in keeping the story going.
@nytmike
Michael S. Schmidt
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NEW: Some of Mueller’s investigators see their report as more damaging for President Trump than attorney general Barr initially made it out to be. @npfandos @MarkMazzettiNYT
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"Donald Trump Jr. was informed ..that the material was part of a Russian govt effort to aid his father’s candidacy"
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Listening to SDNY press conference on Ghislaine Maxwell arrest I wonder how many powerful men are feeling nervous today.
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2 years
This is America's exceptional problem. Between 2009-2018 there were 288 school shootings in the US, the next highest number was in Mexico, 8. Sth Africa had 6. India, 5. Pakistan, 4. There is no evidence mental health problems are higher in the US than in any of those countries.
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7 years
Uh oh - somebody’s not going to like this
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The Hill
7 years
Three Obama tweets, no Trump tweet make list of most retweeted tweets in 2017:
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Anti Trump demonstrations planned in UK today - I haven't seen this type of Western reaction to US since 2003 and Iraq.
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Joe Biden isn’t a natural orator but that speech was a powerful meditation on grief - given by a man who’s seen more than his share to a nation weighed down by loss
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3 years
#feelinglucky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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So now that Claire Foy’s played me on ⁦ @nbcsnl ⁩ - can I play the Queen?
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Just remembering there used to be a tradition of former Presidents not criticizing their successors.
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Merkel "An America that doesn’t bother with anything in the world but only itself will not be a great America,”
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This - from another era.
@SarahHuckabee
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing
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Katty Kay
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9. Scoop: Katty Kay leaves BBC After many very happy years I'm leaving the BBC to join @carloswatson and @ozy . I'll have lots to learn and explore, which is exactly what I want now. Leaving home is always a bit scary, but I couldn't be happier! #axiosam
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There is something really unsettling about watching this level of American incompetence. For those who believe the world is safer when the US is effective and engaged, seeing the US national security operation perform so poorly is worrying.
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If Democrats win tonight in Georgia people may watch this video and all it represents as an indicator of a party in serious trouble.
@therecount
The Recount
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Pro-Trump rally speaker in D.C. tells attendees to hug while yelling “mass spreader event” repeatedly.
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Global impact of Comey shouldn't be overlooked. Civil rights activists say this will embolden autocrats - they'll use US example as cover.
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Cannot tell you how stunning it is to see the world’s superpower now asking doctors and nurses to use scarves because they don’t have masks, asking people at home to sew them. A health system on its knees.
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This is super effective at humanising her. This could be the most important speech of the convention so far.
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In 1994 Ronald Reagan wrote to Congress to support banning semi-automatic assault weapons. The ban passed and lasted ten years. America's politics have changed a lot since then. It's almost impossible to imagine that ban being passed today.
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Not a single woman at this table. This isn’t a diversity for the sake of being PC issue. Research shows we get better decisions from diverse groups of people - wouldn’t we want the best possible decision on this issue?
@Mike_Pence
Mike Pence
5 years
Today we had a very productive meeting of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce in the Situation Room. We placed additional travel restrictions on Iran & we are increasing the travel advisory to level 4, urging Americans not to travel to specific regions in Italy & South Korea.
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Signing off.
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Tonight I anchored our first ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩ show from our basement. Shout out to my son Felix, now running IT, camera, lights, sound, video link, set dressing, script printing - trying to persuade him to give hair and make up a try to. Will keep you posted...
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You enter a pandemic with the population you have, not the population you wish you had...
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
4 years
AZAR: The coronavirus results for the US could've been vastly worse TAPPER: It's worse here than anywhere else A: When you look at mortality rates, that's simply not correct T: I'm looking at number of dead bodies A: The US population has significant unhealthy comorbidities
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And the president doesn't encourage violence?
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This is pretty low energy. Not sure it’s what the CPAC crowd was hoping for.
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7 years
Here's the letter my colleagues and I sent to head of BBC asking the corporation to close the gender pay gap.
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4 years
Taking a break from the basement studio for a couple of weeks. I’m finally going to see my parents. I had to get a special permit from the Cypriot government, covid tests etc. It’s my Dad’s 90th. He’s seen a lot but I don’t think he imagined a world like this.
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Hearing from WH that conversations are happening that put all options on the table.
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4 years
Big day. I’m driving my daughter to school this morning for the first time in 7 months. Fingers crossed it doesn’t shut again.
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5 years
Some news: tomorrow we’re moving to Senegal for the autumn. I’m writing a new book. Husband runs a non profit in Africa. Poppy going to a local school in french (we’re going with the “it’s an amazing opportunity, you’ll thank us one day” line.) Off TV for a bit but back soon.
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I don't remember the head of the FBI feeling the need to reassure Americans that democracy is safe before previous elections.
@FBI
FBI
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The right to vote in a free and fair election is one of the foundations of American democracy. The leaders of the #FBI , @CISAgov , @NCSCgov , and @NSAgov want you to know how their organizations work together to protect your voice—no matter how you cast your vote. #Protect2020
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As you start to ask if Republicans are breaking ranks w Trump, remember how few have criticized him by name - 15 out of 292 in Congress
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Staff turnover in first year of administration: Reagan 17% Bush Snr 7% Clinton 11% Bush 6% Obama 9% Trump 34%
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At the rally in Birmingham last night Jones joked that people told him a democratic victory was as likely as snow falling in Alabama before Xmas. It snowed there last week.
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The fact that the WH did not expect this to cause a political bombshell does not say a lot for their political acumen. Pretty stunning.
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Best news in a long time.
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Have traveled today from Paris to London with a heavy heart. Did not expect to see war return to Europe in my lifetime. It’s 1400 miles from UK to Ukraine but the whole continent will feel this.
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A former Sec Def told me today it wasn’t possible Trump would only have been given possible casualty rates once planes were in the air. That info is given much earlier in the decision making process. Whole process getting a lot of scepticism.
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Exciting day! I’ll be on set for ⁦ @Morning_joe , sporting a brand new title, “Washington Editor, Ozy Media.” Hope you’re up bright and early on the West coast ⁦ @carloswatson ⁩!! ⁦ @ozy
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And you wonder why women don't run for office at the same rate as men do. We don't exactly make it easy for them.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
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Buffy Wicks, a California Assemblywoman from Oakland, was told that having a newborn wasn’t a good enough excuse to vote by proxy due to Covid-19 concerns. So she drove from Oakland to Sacramento with her baby to vote on critical eviction legislation.
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Coal dying because market forces make natural gas cheaper - not because of any war on coal
@Reuters
Reuters
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Trump declares end to 'war on coal,' but utilities aren't listening:
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Spare a thought for the people of the Caribbean and Mexico tonight. They've had a couple of unspeakably hard weeks.
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Donald Trump has done in 48 hours what Barrack Obama refused to do in 6 years.
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My son turned 26 today - he won’t forget this birthday. New job on hold, health insurance ends, new apartment on hold. Tough starting out in this time. I’m grateful he’s home. Thank you Felix. Happy Birthday!
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Today the WH is breaking bread (or steak and ice cream) with North Korea while imposing tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico. It's quite a juxtaposition.
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Hard to believe a Senator would simply hand an envelope to the Vice President without checking first what was in it. That could be a huge security risk.
@mkraju
Manu Raju
2 years
Caught up with Ron Johnson again and asked him why he offered something to Pence’s office without vetting the information. “We got handed an envelope that was supposed to go to the Vice President, I didn’t know.” Says it came from a House office. Doesn’t know which one.
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From Fox News. Today both WSJ and Fox have criticized Trump for lying.
@Mediaite
Mediaite
6 years
Neil Cavuto Calls Out Trump on His Pattern of False Statements: 'Mr. President, That's Your Swamp' (VIDEO)
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Damn. It's still with us. Feels like a crappy cold. But, fully vaxxed and boosted so confident I'm protected against the worst of it.
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Doctors in South Florida now staging a walk out to protest the number of COVID patients coming into hospital who have not been vaccinated. For doctors to leave their shifts to walk out shows you just how frustrated and angry they must be.
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Katty Kay
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This is true however in same poll more people credit Obama than Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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In new Quinnipiac Poll, 66% of people feel the economy is “Excellent or Good.” That is the highest number ever recorded by this poll.
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For the next 3 days I’m going to be an early morning person. A very early morning person. Join me on @MSNBC for @WayTooEarly - keeping the seat warm for a few days.
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As some in Congress show signs of fatigue with funding the war in Ukraine, a couple of notable stats: Ukraine aid accounts for less than 1% of total federal spending and less than 5% of US defence spending.
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And yes, he was very tall. Denmark has the oldest monarchy in Europe (and their the guards have the best uniforms.)
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@RealBenCarson 's response to my question on @Morning_Joe "do you think these women are lying?" "Turn off her microphone!" A first for me.
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A lot of people correctly pointing out the difference between the treatment of Black Lives Matter protestors over the summer and pro Trump protestors today.
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