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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
DeSantis refuses to take sides in Trump-Pence clash as 2024 speculation grows — MIAMI — Eyeing a possible White House bid, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined on Monday to weigh in on one of the most divisive issues in the GOP: Could then-Vice President Mike Pence have “overturned” the 2020 presidential election?
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Bob Herman / Axios:
Chris Christie: Trump incited Jan. 6 riot to “intimidate Mike Pence” — Former President Trump incited the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 “to intimidate” former Vice President Mike Pence into overturning the 2020 election, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday.
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
What does Ivanka Trump know about Jan. 6? Congress is asking — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with his daughter Ivanka and Vice President Mike Pence's national security adviser on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, when he made yet another push to pressure Pence.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
How Mike Pence just doomed his 2024 chances — (CNN)Mike Pence just crashed his political career into Donald Trump — and the former President's ongoing claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and should have been overturned on January 6. — “President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to a conservative group in Florida.
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump ‘Confused’ That Staff Didn't Enjoy Him Rewinding Capitol Riot Highlights, Says Report — LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN — Donald Trump didn't get why his White House staff wasn't enjoying themselves as much as he was when he rewound his favorite bits of the Capitol riot to watch them again, according to a new report.
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
Kinzinger says RNC deserves backlash for Jan. 6 resolution language
Kinzinger says RNC deserves backlash for Jan. 6 resolution language
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Chris Christie On 1/6, 2021 and 11/5/24 (The Next Presidential Election)
Chris Christie On 1/6, 2021 and 11/5/24 (The Next Presidential Election)
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Washington Post:
National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago — The recovery of multiple boxes from Trump's Florida resort, including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, underscores the previous administration's cavalier handling of presidential records
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Trump took Kim Jong-un “love letters” to Mar-a-Lago
Trump took Kim Jong-un “love letters” to Mar-a-Lago
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Biden's top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation — President Joe Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, bullied and demeaned his subordinates and violated the White House's workplace policy, an internal White House investigation recently concluded …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN as a Contributor After Leaving Fox News … Jonah Goldberg, one of the two conservative political analysts who resigned from Fox News Channel in colorful fashion over its coverage, is joining CNN as a contributor, the WarnerMedia network confirmed Monday.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Jonah Goldberg joins CNN
Jonah Goldberg joins CNN
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Precipitous decline’: J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race — Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that's according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him. — A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio …
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CNN:
US intel indicates Russian officers have had doubts about full scale Ukraine invasion — (CNN)Intercepted communications obtained by the US have revealed that some Russian officials have worried that a large-scale invasion of Ukraine would be costlier and more difficult than Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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Mark S. Wrighton / Office of the President:
Message Regarding Posters Displayed on Campus — Dear Members of the George Washington University Community, — Last week, the university learned of posters on campus depicting images that alarmed some members of our community, and we began to receive a number of concerns through official …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
If Spotify's Staff Can't Cope with Running a Content Library, They Should Find Another Job — Spotify's CEO made a statement over the weekend: … I want to reiterate that nobody is actually “impacted” by Joe Rogan's podcast. Nobody is actually “drained” or “frustrated” or “unheard.”
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Spotify CEO says company won't be “silencing” Joe Rogan
Spotify CEO says company won't be “silencing” Joe Rogan
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Garcetti former chief spox to prosecutors: Charge Biden ambassador pick with perjury — Old and busted: Eric Garcetti holding his breath. New hotness: The White House holding theirs. The former spokesperson of the current mayor of Los Angeles and future US ambassador to India …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Mayor Garcetti's former top spokeswoman wants him charged with perjury
Mayor Garcetti's former top spokeswoman wants him charged with perjury
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Daniel Guss and Political Wire
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism — Deceit and the danger to democracy. — Americans like to think our country is immune to authoritarianism. We have a culture of freedom, a tradition of elected government, and a Bill of Rights. We're not like those European countries that fell into fascism.
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Tracey Tully / New York Times:
N.J. Governor to End School Mask Mandate in Move to ‘Normalcy’ — For the first time since the start of the pandemic, New Jersey districts will be permitted to allow students and teachers to stop wearing masks. — Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who has imposed …
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Kilar Comes Back for More... After a series of off-the-rails newsroom conversations last week to address Jeff Zucker's ouster, the likely outgoing WarnerMedia C.E.O. returned to the barrel today via an emotional virtual meeting with select high-level staff.
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The NYT article on MMT is really bad — The fringe ideology's star is falling, and puff pieces will not resuscitate it — The New York Times just came out with a big glowing writeup of MMT, entitled “Time for a Victory Lap*”. This article aroused the anger of just about every macroeconomist on Twitter …
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Laura Nahmias / Bloomberg:
Andrew Cuomo Says He's Been ‘Vindicated,’ Won't Rule Out Run — Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't ruling out another run for public office. He insists it's too soon to talk about it.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The plan to ‘Trump-proof’ 2024 gets a big boost — from Donald Trump — As frustrating as Sen. Joe Manchin III has been in the past year or so, the West Virginia Democrat may have found the sweet spot on a very big question: How to get 10 GOP senators to support a plan to safeguard our elections …
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Rick Rouan / USA Today:
New book details how Palin felt uncomfortable after 2010 meeting with Fox News CEO Ailes … Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was so unsettled after a 2010 meeting with then-Fox News executive Roger Ailes that she told staff members she would not meet with him alone again, according to a new book from a New York Times journalist.
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Department of Homeland Security:
Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland — The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Why Americans Are Slow to Get Booster Shots — Why are Americans slow to get booster shots? — The United States has a vaccination problem. And it is not just about the relatively large share of Americans who have refused to get a shot. The U.S. also trails many other countries …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Donald Trump quietly making millions from coffee table book — WaPo reporter on Trump's ‘unprecedented’ document destruction habits — (CNN)A few months ago, former President Donald Trump signed a book deal. — There wasn't the huge fanfare most former presidents receive when they ink deals …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
See the 1960 Electoral College certificates that the false Trump electors say justify their gambit — When Donald Trump's allies signed false documents claiming he won several states he lost — and that they were his legitimate presidential electors — they came armed with an excuse: Democrats did it first, 60 years earlier in Hawaii.
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R. Albert Mohler Jr / WORLD:
Saving evangelicalism? — New York Times columnist David Brooks — Verily, verily, I say unto you, The New York Times is very concerned about saving evangelicalism. Yesterday, the nation's newspaper of record devoted three entire print pages of its “Review” section to a massive essay …
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Washington Post:
Heritage Foundation, former powerhouse of GOP policy, adjusts in face of new competition from Trump allies — ‘People do not walk around in fear of the Heritage Foundation the way they did 10 years ago,’ one conservative expert said — The Heritage Foundation has long shaped mainstream Republican policy in Washington.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification — The tax collection agency will transition away from using a service from the authentication service ID.me amid bipartisan backlash. — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop using facial recognition software …
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Indicted GOP congressman seeking reelection claims he forgot alleged 2018 crime — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) is taking a page from former President Donald Trump's legal playbook. — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) was indicted in October on three felony charges relating to illegal campaign contributions …
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Pro-mask Democrats keep getting caught maskless — Stacey Abrams' campaign accused critics of exploiting a Black History Month reading — Gingrich on Stacey Abrams, Canadian truckers: People are realizing it's all baloney — As Americans mask up during the coronavirus pandemic …
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