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Covering the White House with the team. Receipt keeper, human Swiss Army knife, snack ninja, forever campaign embed, storyteller. betsy.klein@cnn.com
JournalistDCcnn.com/profiles/betsy…Joined February 2009

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No one has been more on top of her beat and no one is better sourced in this space than — another must-read on the First Lady’s shifting headspace:
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Another major scoop from my friend ⁦@KateBennett_DC⁩ Jill Biden makes a tidal shift from her thoughts on another run at the White House | CNN Politics cnn.com/2022/12/15/pol
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2 years ago today A nurse in New York named Sandra Lindsay became the first person to get a COVID vaccine outside of a clinical trial What have we accomplished in the last two years? A new report finds the impact has been huge But this wasn't inevitable 🧵
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Where do we stand two years into the US COVID-19 vaccination campaign? More than 655 million doses delivered 80% of the population has received at least one dose 18M additional hospitalizations & more than 3M additional deaths have been averted. buff.ly/3iXpy2Y
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"This all allegedly played out under the radar in the Meadowoods subdivision, a place where the last controversy of note involved a camper parked in a residential driveway, against neighborhood policy."
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Like a plot from ‘The Americans’: An alleged Russian smuggling ring found in N.H. town - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2022/12/13/met
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Biden, in separate stmt, says Americans “should have societal guilt” for the ongoing plague of gun violence. "We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again. We owe it to the courageous, young survivors and to the families."
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Biden marks 10 years since Sandy Hook: “Today, those 1st-graders should be sitting in 11th-grade classrooms, planning for their high school graduation and all the possibilities ahead. Those educators should be preparing lessons for new groups of students and enjoying full lives."
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FIRST ON CNN: A Kenyan security guard died after a 'fall' at Qatar's Lusail Stadium. The family says they have been told nothing. “We don’t have the money to get justice for him, but we want to know what happened." John Njau Kibue was only 24
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3 of them are retiring. 1 has a gay son. 1 followed the lead of his church, + others said they were concerned mostly w/religious liberty protections. As Biden signs the bill, here are the 12 GOP Senators who voted yes on marriage bill to get it done.
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Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation at 7.1% this morning, shows price increases are slowing. with some cautiously optimistic analysis: "We're seeing that peaking in the inflation rate that we want to see... and *maybe* the worst is behind us."
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The WH is condemning "dangerous, abhorrent" comments from GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the congresswoman suggested that if she had been in charge of the crowds attacking the US Capitol on January 6, they would have "been armed" and "won"
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President Biden is set to join G7 leaders and Ukraine’s President Zelensky for a virtual meeting this morning, a sr admin official tells CNN, which comes after POTUS spoke w/ Zelensky Sunday. Leaders will discuss Russia/Ukraine and food and energy security, among other topics.
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“It’s Joe Biden. Welcome, welcome home,” Biden said when Griner was patched through, her wife sitting by his side. Soon after, Cherelle Griner moved the Oval's adjoining dining room to speak privately with Brittney for the first time since her release
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Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen traveled to Texas today to mark an important and historic milestone, touring the Fort Worth Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility to observe firsthand the printing of $1 and $5 bills with her signature for the first time.
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Sources tell police are zeroing in on domestic violent extremism as a possible motive in NC electrical substation attacks, looking into extremists encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure and recent disruptions of LGBTQ events across the nation by extremists.
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White House calls removing Covid-19 vaccine mandate a 'mistake' but won't say if Biden will sign NDAA (But he is expected to - Democrats concluded including the GOP priority was a necessity in order to get the must-pass policy bill across the finish line)
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Holy moly BEAR!
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On Saturday my friend chased after a woman's puppy that had gotten out of its collar and saw it jump into the Hudson River. He thought it was gone forever but Bear the 50 lbs Leonberger-Bernese puppy SWAM TO NEW JERSEY and was found safe this morning in Edgewater.
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Just asked President Biden about the power outages in North Carolina and whether he has any idea who is responsible. Biden: “No, we don’t yet. I’m running that down.” Says he was briefed on it this morning.
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