White House is now streaming a montage in the briefing room of Democrats previously opposing a shutdown
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- Per pool report: “The French press corps decided amongst themselves that a Paris-based AP reporter would ask their first question. She was allowed to do so.”
- Donald Trump will announce a new proposal today, per The Detroit News: That under a second Trump administration, IVF treatments will be paid for by the government.
- Just landed in Wisconsin and JD Vance and Kamala Harris’ plane are both here on the tarmac — he appears to be walking over…
00:00 - NEW: Ginni Thomas has responded to the Jan. 6 committee's official request to testify. Her lawyer is asking "the Committee to provide a better justification for why" her "testimony is relevant to the Committee's legislative purpose," per the letter. More TK...
- “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance tells us. He didn’t speak to Harris, but added that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.”Just landed in Wisconsin and JD Vance and Kamala Harris’ plane are both here on the tarmac — he appears to be walking over…00:00
- Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the
- After getting back late last night from his weeklong Middle East trip, a WH official tells me Trump spent all of today working from the Oval Office and West Wing — talking to Cabinet members and monitoring today’s news, including the Missouri tornadoes and the suspected bombing
- Trump, en route to Florida, defends Laura Loomer as “a great patriot” — Loomer presented him with a list of NSC staffers she felt should be fired yesterday. But he also denies she had anything to do with the NSC firings. “She makes recommendations and people and sometimes I
- Trump campaign says the former president spent over $20,000 on food donated to fair-goers (10k at the pork tent and 10k at Steer n’ Stein). Am here at Steer n’ Stein w/ @daveweigel — bartender confirms the 10k tab.
- Trump tells reporters he’d like Jordan and Egypt to house Palestinians from Gaza — he says he mentioned it during his call today with the King of Jordan, and believes he’ll be talking with Egypt’s leader tomorrow. “I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build
- “home run,” a Trump advisor texts me after tonight’s CNN town hall.
- Biden, talking about "rational gun laws," says this morning that a "9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body." "There’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self protection, hunting," he added, per pool report.
- Biden, asked if Trump is an insurrectionist, tells reporters: “It's self-evident. You saw it all. Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I'll let the court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection. There's no question about it. None. Zero.”
