*TWO WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN HOUSEKEEPING TESTED POSITIVE: NYT
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Laura Litvan
@LauraLitvan
Veteran reporter who covered Congress and national politics. Formerly @business, @IBDinvestors. Opinions are my own.
- Bloomberg headline at 5:02 pm: *TRUMP WARNED LAVROV AGAINST ELECTION MEDDLING, WHITE HOUSE SAYS Headline at 5:35 pm: *LAVROV SAYS HE DIDN'T DISCUSS U.S. ELECTIONS WITH TRUMP
- *BIDEN RAISED HOURLY RECORD $3.8M BETWEEN 10 AND 11PM: CAMPAIGN
- (Bloomberg) -- The man who served as Donald Trump’s personal driver for more than 25 years sued him for back pay on Monday, saying he was forced to work thousands of hours of overtime that wasn’t paid. The suit was filed Monday by Noel Cintron in state court in Manhattan.
- A mass rally outside the Supreme Court protesting the Kavanaugh nomination can be heard from blocks away
- NEW: Bloomberg has flight records for Trump's Miss Universe trip to Russia in 2013. Doesn't match up with his claim that he never stayed overnight.
- NEW: The GOP-led Senate just effectively REBUKED President Trump for considering Russia's request to question US officials. Senate voted 98-0 to adopt resolution calling on US to refuse to make any officials available to Putin's govt. First official action since Helsinki summit.
- NEW: Chuck Schumer says he will seek to rename one of the three Senate office buildings after John McCain. “Nothing will overcome the loss of Senator McCain, but so that generations remember him I will be introducing a resolution to rename the Russell building after him.”
- BREAKING: Steve Bannon and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski have been sent letters requesting they testify to House Intel panel in early January, per @HouseInSession
- Employees at American Airlines, United Airlines were told today that planned furloughs beginning in April are cancelled because of the $1.9T pandemic relief bill headed to Biden soon for his signature. American Airlines CEO told 13,000 employees to ``tear up'' furlough notices.
- *SC DEBATE NIXED AS GRAHAM DECLINES COVID TEST: POST AND COURIER
- NEWS: John Thune, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, says in interview Senate Repubs want to leverage the next US debt limit increase to force federal spending cuts and changes to Social Security and other entitlement programs.
- NEW: Senate just BLOCKED a Chuck Schumer measure that would prevent the Trump admin from lifting sanctions on three firms linked to Russian oligarch and Putin ally Oleg Deripaska. The vote in the GOP-led Senate was 57-42, short of the 60 needed to move it to a final vote.
- NEW: Dem Sen Richard Blumenthal & GOP Sen Chuck Grassley just dropped a bill that requires Bob Mueller's report be made public
