Lights that usually illuminate exterior of the WH have been turned off.
Mark Knoller
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Mark Knoller
@markknoller
Former CBS News White House Correspondent
- If the Pres has something urgent to say about Covid, why wait until Tuesday?
- Pres escorted on stage and salutes as Star Spangled Banner is played.
- Pres Trump and Gen Williams giving more than 500 salutes to members of the Class of 2020, most of the 1,107 grads receiving them two by two.
- "You became brothers & sisters pledging allegiance to the same timeless principles, joined together in a common mission: to protect our country, to defend our people, & to carry on the traditions of freedom, equality & liberty that so many gave their lives to secure."
- By my count, Jen Psaki today holding her 42nd formal WH Press Briefing, same number as predecessor Kayleigh McEnany held during 9 months as Press Secy. Average length of Psaki briefings: 47 mins., compared to average 23 mins for McEnany.
- Pres announces major breakthrough toward normalization of economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Calls it a first step to overall diplomatic ties.
- Pres begins Commencement Address to graduating cadets, “We are here to celebrate your achievements, and great achievements they are.”
- On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a "red" truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a "blue" truck.
- Numbers posted today by @USTreasury show the National Debt ended 2018 more than $2-trillion larger than on the day Pres Trump took office. It represents a 10% increase in the Debt on Pres Trump's watch. National Debt now stands at $21.974-trillion. 1/2
- Far and away, almost all of Ronald Reagan's references to a border wall were about tearing down the Berlin Wall. Could find no speech where he mentioned building a US border wall.Even President Ronald Reagan tried for 8 years to build a Border Wall, or Fence, and was unable to do so. Others also have tried. We will get it done, one way or the other!
- Flags atop WH continue at half-staff this weekend to honor Coronavirus victims.
- US Supreme Court poses for new class photo this morning, with its newest member, Brett Kavanaugh, smiling broadly.
- Pres denounces attacks on police officers. “An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans," says @POTUS. And he is cheered by his audience of police chiefs when he says that criminals who murder our police should get the death penalty.
