Brian Bennett
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Brian Bennett
@ByBrianBennett
Soon joining @MSNOWNews! Former White House correspondent and Baghdad bureau chief for @time. Former @latimes White House, immigration and intel reporter
- Every reporter needs to read this pageHere is David Halberstam on how Joe McCarthy played the journalists assigned to cover him
- Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis: "If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?”
- At 5:05 pm, I counted 9 two and a half ton military trucks carrying troops in tan uniforms and helmets pull off 17th Street into the White House grounds.
- Guiliani just told me that he spoke to Trump at 8:30 pm last night about the alleged wire transfers to Cohen's business. Trump's response: “I don’t know anything about it” time.com/5271646/donald…
- In his resignation letter to Trump, Pruitt uses a form of the phrase “serve you” EIGHT times. Cabinet officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and faithfully discharge the duties of the office. There is nothing in that oath about serving an individual.Pruitt resignation letter.
- Nearly 15 years ago, Time Magazine’s Baghdad bureau manager Omar Hashim Kamal was gunned down on his drive to work. He was my friend and colleague. In many places, being a journalist comes with daily, deadly risk.The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—are TIME's Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY bit.ly/2EmStYV
- Troops at Miramar applauded loudly when Trump pointed to the television cameras and said "fake news." It is unusual for a president to criticize the press in front of uniformed service members.
- “He’s just digging a deeper hole for himself—he’s absolutely not helping himself,” says Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor who teaches white-collar criminal law at George Washington University Law School. @RDEliason
- “Chairman Kim, will you denuclearize?” I yelled. No luck. But it may have been the first time a reporter has shouted a question at the autocrat. @Noahbierman writes about how he and @Acosta tried to get Kim to talk
- President Biden calls on Americans to reject lies. "Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies, *lies told for power and for profit.* Each of us has a duty," Biden said, "to defend the truth and defeat the lies."
- It is unusual for a sitting vice president to use a meet-and-greet with troops to make political attacks latimes.com/politics/washi…
- Trump on suspending the war games: “That was my offer.” Trump made that offer AFTER Kim asked for it during the summit. This was not a term negotiated by his staff before the meeting. It was a gametime decision by the President.Kim asked Trump during the summit to suspend the war games. Trump said yes on the spot. time.com/5311983/donald…
- Nixon was also convinced his predecessor had tapped his phones during the election
