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White House reporter, . political analyst. Alum of

Washington, DC
Joined September 2009

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    When uses the phrase “fire bell in the night,” he is using a phrase Thomas Jefferson used to say he foresaw the national crackup over slavery long before the Civil War.

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    “Bush spokesman Freddy Ford also said the two men had not discussed the matter. And Obama, for his part, has not spoken with Trump since his inauguration, except for a brief exchange at George H.W. Bush’s funeral in Washington, D.C.”

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    The U.S. will tell Israel there is no timeline for withdrawal from Syria, reports , who is traveling with Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton in Israel and Turkey. U.S. wants to hear from Israel and Jordan before deciding next steps.

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    Basically the existence of commercial air travel in the United States right now rests on the willingness of a bunch of security guards to show up to work to do a thankless job, for no pay, indefinitely, in the middle of the hottest private sector job market anyone can remember.

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    Truth: No immigrants have been arrested at the border in recent years on terrorism related charges. Thanks to and for helping me sort this out.

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    "I don’t mean to be an alarmist but...POTUS is echoing directly the line of the Kremlin on a whole bunch of things.... this is something U.S. Intel officials have to understand: why is the Pres. saying what hes saying?"- Chuck Rosenberg w/

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  8. Crowd may outnumber the press contingent:

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    And... a Democratic official tells us that a “working group,” as Trump suggested in his presser, was not discussed in the meeting. But staff talks will continue through the weekend.

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    Shanahan is the first acting defense secretary since 1989. Even when they're pushed out, defense secretaries have traditionally stayed on until the next one is confirmed so that DOD always has a permanent leader who can manage global and domestic crises

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    kevin mccarthy finished speaking and trump said "thank you, steve"

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    Kanye West used that exact word in the Oval Office while sitting not ten feet from the president and no one complained.

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    FUN FACT: Fully 820 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border -- 41% -- is represented by a Republican, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who opposes a wall and was just reelected in a tough race in which he emphasized that position.

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  15. Trump also claimed that McConnell wasn't at the Rose Garden presser "because he's running the Senate." Except the Senate isn't in session. And McConnell's spokesman told reporters he'd have stayed *if he'd known* about the presser. Awk.

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    Sitting U.S. Congressman while co-hosting Outnumbered on Fox News: “I know the President likes to call [] Pocahontas, but now that she's making her way from the eastern seaboard into the center of the country, maybe Sacajawea would be more appropriate.”

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    NEW from the White House typos beat: In a new email to the public, Trump is demanding that Congress come to an “agreemnet” to end the shutdown and give him his wall “immediatly.” w/

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  19. Among the president's false claims: - "new border wall" in San Diego (built in 1990s, simply updated) - furloughed federal workers want him to keep it up (polls show the opposite) - Obama told him DACA "wasn't going to work" (he didn't)

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  20. Trump: (a) threatens to keep govt shut down for years (b) threatens to declare national emergency to subvert Congress build border wall (c) makes multiple false statements (d) expresses optimism about resolving shutdown impasse (e) all of the above

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