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reporter covering the White House and money in politics

Washington, D.C.
Joined July 2012

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    NEW: FBI investigating fake text messages sent to Republican House members from someone posing as a top Pence aide

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  2. Trump in today's meeting w/lawmakers delivered a profanity-laced rant on impeachment. Two hours later in the Rose Garden, he said a Democratic lawmaker who had called him a "motherf—er" had "dishonored herself" and "dishonored her family."

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  3. In one tense exchange during today's meeting, Pelosi interrupted Nielsen, who was reciting statistics related to the border, per . "I reject your facts," Pelosi said. "These aren't my facts," Nielsen claimed. "These are the facts."

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  4. Trump has publicly continued to call for $5B in border wall funding. But weeks ago, Pence, Kushner and Mulvaney approached Schumer with a proposal for $2.5B. Schumer told them it wouldn't pass. w/

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  5. Trump opened today's meeting with lawmakers with a 15-minute profanity-laced rant about impeachment, according to people familiar with the meeting. Trump also told lawmakers he didn't like the word shutdown and preferred the word "strike."

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  6. Trump said McConnell wasn't there for today's 2pm press conference because he was "running the Senate." The Senate adjourned at 11am on Friday, and a McConnell aide said he wasn't aware there would be a press conference.

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  7. Trump on the shutdown: “I don’t call it a shutdown.”

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  8. Democratic leaders and Trump offered sharply different views on the state of border-wall negotiations following a White House meeting, with Trump calling them "very productive" and Dems calling them "lengthy and sometimes contentious." w/

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  9. Health insurers from 2006 to 2015 kept $9.1 billion more in taxpayer funds for Medicare than they would have had their estimates for prescription-drug plans for seniors been accurate, a review finds.

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  10. Fed chairman Jay Powell says he wouldn't resign if Trump asked him to. He said he hasn't gotten any direct comments from the White House about his job performance.

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    It appears Trump has seen this video this morning... Rep. Brad Sherman also introduced articles of impeachment on Thursday — though its not going to move forward.

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  12. TRUMP, in his first-ever briefing room appearance, takes no questions.

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  13. The 116th Congress has convened, with Democrats in control of House and Pelosi expected to be named speaker.

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    Jan 3

    Between electronic government databases and the wide array of open source material now available to everyone online, intelligence officials grapple with how to protect foreign spies and whether they should use their real names instead of a cover.

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    Wall poster of Trump with the words “Sanctions are Coming - November 4” in the middle of the table for today’s Cabinet meeting.

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  16. Saudi Arabian officials arrested a partner at McKinsey in the fall of 2017 and have been holding him in detention since then, people familiar with the matter say. In recent months, he has been repeatedly beaten, two of those people said.

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  17. Trump and the first lady traveled to Iraq last night to visit U.S. troops, the first such trip of his presidency.

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  18. Trump traveled to Iraq last night —>

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    26 Dec 2018

    With Mexico refusing to pay a penny for the border wall, Trump has asserted that the new trade pact will cover costs. Experts are skeptical. “I can’t see it, sorry,” a former Nafta negotiator told me.

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    25 Dec 2018

    An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died in Border Patrol custody early Christmas morning, the second such death this month, U.S. officials said

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