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Intelligence and national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit, based in DC. Former AP, LA Times, USA TODAY, Philly Inquirer. Williams College

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Joined June 2011

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    As the shutdown drags on, it’s jeopardizing the welfare of those who live in HUD-subsidized housing, including low-income families and the elderly.

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    This point seems to be getting lost. Federal workers conduct the nation's business. They are forced to waste time on shut down procedures. As citizens, we lose during a shutdown, here for example, when already backlogged dockets of immigration judges fall even further behind.

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    Even if it was wrapping up next week, he would need an extension today for any final indictments. Seriously, there is nothing to be read into this other than that it’s ongoing.

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  5. Exactly right. And it doesn’t tell us a single thing about when Mueller will submit a report. Or when the grand jury will finish its work.

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    One of the enduring phenomena of the Trump era is going to be the list of statutes that give far too much power to the President, but that we didn't used to worry about because we assumed there would be political safeguards. Today's entrant: The National Emergencies Act of 1976.

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    CNN cuts away from White House press conference. says CNN will go back if Trump takes questions. MSNBC also cuts away. Fox News only cable news network airing it live now.

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  9. Wait a second. Anybody who says Italians are drinking bad coffee has never been to Caffe Tazza D'Oro or Sant’Eustachio Il Caffe near the Pantheon. Come on.

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    The WSJ editorial board on Trump's comments that the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979: "We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President"

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    The historic Old Post Office Tower maintained by the government in the center of Trump Hotel DC will reportedly reopen during the shutdown. The arrangement raises the appearance of special federal treatment for a private business owned by President Trump.

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  16. Even this widely-criticized State-DHS report says that in FY 2017, DHS encountered 335 (not 4,000) people on watch lists who tried to enter by land, INCLUDING from Canada. And being on a watch list does not make one a terrorist.

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    WATCH: fact checks Press Sec. Sanders' claim that 4,000 "terrorists" were stopped at the border last year.

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    *blushing* Thanks -- a former WH spox himself

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  19. My colleague just fact-checked 's bogus, ridiculous claim that the US detained 4,000 known or suspected terrorists last year on the Southern Border. At best, this was the number of people flagged on watch lists at every border entry, including airports.

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    From and The extra troops would add 160 more miles of wire to existing fencing, and their deployment would likely extend the military's border mission past Jan. 31.

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