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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst. Proud husband of Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and CNN.

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  1. 15 hours ago

    Trump opposes Equality Act codifying protections for LGBT Americans. While administration says it "opposes discrimination of any kind," the bill "is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights" ⁦⁩

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    17 hours ago

    In NY Tuesday? Will be talking Trump and Europe and whether this marriage can be saved>>> Ralph Bunche Institute » Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture 2019

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    15 hours ago

    Twice in recent months Donald Trump Jr. agreed to sit for voluntary interviews with the Intelligence Committee, only to later back out, SenatorRichard Burr told colleagues privately last week Matching CNN w/⁦⁩

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Crime went down at similar rates regardless of whether the undocumented population rose or fell, per analysis. Areas with more unauthorized migration appeared to have larger drops in crime, though the difference was small and uncertain. ⁦⁩

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Shanahan presented the White House a military plan envisioning sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack US forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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  6. 20 hours ago

    Jimmy Carter is said to be recovering comfortably after successful hip surgery following fall.

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  7. 20 hours ago

    Jimmy Carter underwent surgery for a broken hip after falling at home in Georgia, his office says. He was leaving to go turkey hunting when he fell. “President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week and he has not reached his limit,” his office says.

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    May 13

    A good day to read 's piece on Hungary:

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Orban has said he he building “an alternative to liberal democracy."

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  10. 21 hours ago

    Trump says Hungary’s Orban has done a “tremendous job,” calling it a “great honor” to have him in the Oval Office.

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  11. 22 hours ago

    Trump says he will meet with Russia’s Putin and China's Xi at a G20 summit in Japan in June.

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  12. May 13

    Stocks fall again after Beijing says it will impose new levies on goods from the United States in response to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese imports last week.

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  13. May 13

    They went to the same prep school, clerked for the same justice and are both stalwart conservatives. But as it turns out, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are not jurisprudential twins. ⁦⁩

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  14. May 13

    If Venezuela's Maduro is toppled, "Trump's name is gold in South Florida." But if not, "it's going to hurt him." ⁦⁩

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  15. May 12

    Overlooked No More: Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in Schools - The New York Times

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    May 12

    George W. Bush dodged it. Barack Obama refused it. But on Monday President Trump will grant Viktor Orban, Hungary’s far-right prime minister, his first private audience with a president at the White House since he met Bill Clinton there in 1998.

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    May 12

    Not hard to fathom why they struggle to get people who want to work in the White House...

    I was NOT going to fire Bob Mueller, and did not fire Bob Mueller. In fact, he was allowed to finish his Report with unprecedented help from the Trump Administration. Actually, lawyer Don McGahn had a much better chance of being fired than Mueller. Never a big fan!
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  18. May 12

    .⁩ decides he doesn't like ⁦'s questions, cuts off interview and hangs up.⁩ "We will call it quits, and please don’t call me again. Take care."

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  19. May 12

    He still has yet to win over most Americans, according to polls, but Trump is running on the strongest economy of any president seeking re-election since Clinton in 1996 and arguably since Nixon in 1972. ⁦⁩

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  20. May 12

    Despite the sanctions and indictments and expulsions, Russia remains undeterred in its campaign to weaken western institutions as it sows disinformation leading up to this month's European elections. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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