#Breaking ! ! Fistfight and slap-fest between Russia & Ukraine in Ankara ~ while the UN, Turkey, Ukraine & Russia negotiate the grain deal in Istanbul & Moscow
on 22 midterms: “The candidates that were focused on the past, candidates that were focused on relitigating the past did not fare as well, including in many places that we should have won and should have done well.”
NEW and BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have obtained the confidential cooperation of a Mar-a-Lago employee and subpoenaed records pertaining to Trump’s dealings with Saudi backed LIV Golf
NEW: DOJ has confidential cooperation of someone who worked for Trump at Mar-a-Lago as they investigate documents case. Feuer Goldman Protess Schmidt me
Rep. Jamie Raskin comments on Maryland Senate race to CNN: "After five months of chemo, I am taking the month of May to seriously investigate the 2024 election, the Senate, the House, and the role I can best play in Democratic victory and progress in the country."
"Former Proud Boys chairman Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio and three other members of the extremist group were found guilty Thursday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."
More from my interview with Mayor Eric Adams. On the issue of vigilantism… is it ok for passengers to take matters into their own hands?
His answer: “Each situation is different…. We cannot just blanketly say what a passenger should or should not do on a situation like that.”
Harlan Crow paid the tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew the entire time he was a student at a private boarding school, a former administrator tells ProPublica. Thomas didn't report the payments on his annual financial disclosures.
Frank LaRose — who isn’t the most natural fit for a Trump #OHSen endorsement — is telling GOP activists that Trump’s backing “doesn’t carry the same weight it used to.” via
The leading Republican candidate for president, Donald J. Trump, is likely to skip at least one of the first two debates of the 2024 Republican nominating contest, according to five people who have discussed the matter with the former president.
SCOOP: House Democrats have for months been quietly preparing a strategy that could allow them to quickly force a debt-limit increase vote thru an arcane process. Today, they began the process of using their secret weapon
rules out run for ‘24 GOP presidential nomination, announcing his decision in California rather than at home, where crucial legislative elections this fall will shape the final half of his term.
NEW: Treasury Sec Janet Yellen informs Congress the debt limit could eclipsed by early June:
“..our best estimate is that we will be unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations by early June, and potentially as early as June 1..”
Full letter:
The Republican presidential nominating process is a Rube Goldberg machine with hundreds of moving parts. I try to explain the basics of the elaborate and complicated process for @voxdotcomhttps://vox.com/politics/23702483/presidential-election-republican-primary-2024-candidates…
Agonizing story. Lawrenceville School “offered an extraordinary admission of failure, publicly acknowledging that it had been aware that Jack was being bullied by other students, but that it had fallen ‘tragically short’ of its obligation to protect him.”
says he’ll make an announcement on the 2024 race May 22.
Scott didn't definitively say that he'll be announcing his official campaign. But:
* he launched an exploratory committee
* film crew is here gathering video/ad fodder
Biden @ #WHCD speaks to relatives of Evan Gershkovich, Austin Tice, other detained journalists, “The stress of not knowing, the sorrow of uncertainty-I want them & their families to know we see them, they are not forgotten, & I promise, I am working like hell to bring them home”