White House reporter for @AP. @CNN analyst, proud @washingtonpost @politico alum. Email: smkim@ap.org. Also over on Bluesky at seungminkim1.
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Flag burning is a constitutionally protected act under the First Amendment, per 1989 Supreme Court ruling
"You burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump says in Oval as he signs EOs. "And it goes on your record."
Community note
Flag burning is protected by first amendment freedom of speech.
An EO doesn’t override that.
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Kamala Harris is also the first Asian-American vice presidential nominee in history — which a lot of news organizations seem to be forgetting.
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His final public appearance, visiting the newly-named Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. RIP to @repjohnlewis.
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Before joining the press briefing, BTS is filming content with the White House digital team and getting a tour, per a WH official. #bts
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Wow -- Duckworth says she will block Senate approvals of **1,123** senior U.S. Armed Forces promotions until Esper "confirms in writing that he did not, or will not, block the expected and deserved promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to Colonel."
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Senate Majority Leader Joe Manchin announces that he'll vote to confirm Deb Haaland for Interior secretary
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Per sources, Biden is telling Senate Democrats on their virtual lunch how he told Republican senators yesterday that their package was too small.
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Today is Joe and Jill Biden’s 46th wedding anniversary. He proposed to her five times before she said “yes” marthastewart.com/7858580/jo…
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For the gazillionth time, Trump did NOT win the women's vote in 2016. He won the white women's vote.
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Can someone help me do a clip search and find whether Antonin Scalia was asked whether he could be a proper father to nine children when he was nominated to the Supreme Court
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Obama and Biden did not leave behind all those judicial vacancies, despite what Trump says. McConnell did.
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During the Senate GOP lunch today, Moran told colleagues that Rand was at the gym this morning, per two sources briefed on the lunch, and that he was swimming in the pool. Rand got his COVID-19 results back this morning.
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The audience in the hearing room, largely quiet during much of the testimony, is getting audibly frustrated with Graham. One woman mutters "shut up" as Graham interrupts Jackson again
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Looks like Biden is doing the Korean baby finger heart thing with @maziehirono, who is allegedly the biggest BTS fan in Congress
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The Biden White House will have a private contractor provide "disinfectant misting services" to clear the air of lingering droplets after Trump moves out and before Biden moves in. politico.com/news/2020/12/09…
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You cannot ban members of the press from events that are otherwise open to the public.
That is not how it works.
Period.
Our community is 50% immigrant. Folks are victims of DV, trafficking, + have personal medical issues.
This town hall was designed for residents to feel safe discussing sensitive issues in a threatening political time.
We indicated previously that it would be closed to press.
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Overnight, the Senate confirmed Biden’s 40th judge — the most since Reagan, who also got 40 judges confirmed in his first year. Biden’s confirmed judges also far surpass the number of judges Trump got confirmed in his first year (18)
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Biden to the press: “You all write for a living. I haven’t seen any of you explain the supply chain very well. No no I’m not being critical. I’m being deadly earnest.”
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.@washingtonpost wins Pulitzer for Roy Moore coverage. What a cool moment in my new newsroom
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Where we’re at: a high school friend who is a doctor in a different state is offering to FedEx me her spare N95s because covering the White House is hazardous.
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Mark Kelly, should he win the Arizona Senate seat, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30, according to elections law experts who spoke to the Arizona Republic azcentral.com/restricted/?re…
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Repeat after me, everyone: There is no law that requires family separation at the border.
.@SteveScalise on child separations at border: 'We want to change the law. We don't think it's good law."
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The televisions on Air Force One, which are always turned to CNN, are currently turned onto MSNBC
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Yowza: @Sen_JoeManchin, who has barnstormed WVa today visiting post offices, tells MSNBC that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy “won’t even talk to us” and “shouldn’t even be there to begin with and anyway you can get rid of him, please do so.”
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Journalists will live forever
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” 🐼🐼🐼 apnews.com/article/xi-jinpin…
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.@PressSec: Trump in 2016 won an "overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans."
Hillary got 65.8 million.
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The millennial in the room, @ossoff, is telling other senators to basically grow up and move on and let's start the actual hearing
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.@JoeBiden: “100 million shots in the first 100 days.”
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Trump tells reporters as he wraps up his gaggle on Air Force One:
"Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight ... otherwise I wouldn't care."
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Yowza -- Senate Dems say in new letter that there is information in Kavanaugh's past FBI background checks that involve either inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse (aides won't elaborate which)
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The takeaway here is that McConnell, on the record, confirms that he is considering voting to convict Trump on inciting an insurrection.
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Amy McGrath, when asked during the Kentucky Senate debate whether she supports packing the courts:
"We should be working on unpacking the Senate right now."
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While all this is going on, a friendly reminder that Trump has yet to nominate an ambassador to South Korea.
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!!!! Inbox: MANCHIN: I AM UNABLE TO SUPPORT NOMINATION OF SARAH BLOOM RASKIN TO FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
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For one night only, @timkaine + @SenAlexander, in the Hart atrium
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WOW --> @lisamurkowski calls on Trump to immediately resign: "I want him out. He has caused enough damage ... He doesn’t want to stay there. He only wants to stay there for the title. He only wants to stay there for his ego. He needs to get out."
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Capitol rioter arrested after sending 'selfie' to girlfriend's brother – a federal agent wusa9.com/article/news/natio…
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!!!! LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police arrest man on suspicion of murder in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, AP sources say.
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I was inside the chamber for Murkowski's speech. The contrast between that and Collins' speech was just remarkable.
No colleagues gathered to watch her, except Hoeven who was presiding. Just a small handful of aides. Near empty public. Just me and @pkcapitol in press gallery
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Is he tweeting to ... Kavanaugh?
Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive
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A lone Black officer faced down a mob at the Capitol. Meet Eugene Goodman. washingtonpost.com/local/pub…
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Oh wow, Jackson pushes back on the relentless focus from some Republicans on her sentencing record: "What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we have spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences ..."
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Trump claims there’s a 10-foot wall around the Obamas' D.C. home. Neighbors say there’s not. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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“And here in America, she did what she had to do,” he said. “She was a single mother of two kids who dedicated her whole life to raising them." thedailybeast.com/son-of-atl…
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One metric as we chat about who is qualified to be a judge and who is not …
Trump, whose judges were primarily white men, had 10ish of his noms rated “not qualified” by the ABA.
Biden, whose 1st year judicial picks have been historically diverse, has none so far. (49 WQ/8 Q)
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During a fundraiser in Houston, while on a riff about Trump’s handling of covid-19, @JoeBiden asks the donor crowd: “Remember when he said inject bleach?”
After some chuckles, Biden continues: “I think he must’ve done it.” Crowd erupts in laughter
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Phone call with Senate Ds and Pence was dominated by testing Qs and got testy, per source:
At one point, @SenAngusKing said “I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life" and said admin’s failure to develop an adequate nat'l testing regime is a “dereliction of duty."
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I'm Korean, buddy.
@seungminkim Do you work for the Chinese Communist government? Your propaganda is strong within you.
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Judge Kelly was nominated by @realDonaldTrump, confirmed by the Senate on a 94-2 vote last year
Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly sided with CNN on Friday, ordering the White House to reinstate chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass.
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Trump said today he read Woodward’s book “last night,” after saying yesterday on Fox and Friends that he read the book “last night”
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Just devastasting. Ralph Yarl’s mother, Cleo Nagbe, says her son is “able to communicate mostly when he feels like it, but mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.” apnews.com/article/ralph-yar…
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Debra Meadows appears to have filed three false voter forms - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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SCOOP --> Schumer is exploring whether to invoke an obscure power -- allowing Senate leaders to reconvene the Senate in times of emergency -- to hold an impeachment trial immediately after the House impeaches Trump washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, overturning Trump decision to move it to Alabama, officials tell AP.
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Sir, I had a baby ...
Where is @seungminkim to report on the tweets from Trump’s cabinet nominees? Oh, she only does for competent nominees like @neeratanden. Got it.
Community note
She just had a baby.
nitter.app/seungminkim/st
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Trump in Palm Beach, Pence in Vail as millions just had their jobless benefits expire and government shuts down tomorrow night.
NBC News confirms that Vice President Mike Pence is currently vacationing in Vail, CO, having arrived earlier this week, and is set to fly out of the local airport after New Year's. Pence's office has not commented on his location.
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Today was probably the first time I have approached a senator by yelling “SENATOR YOU HAVE TO TALK TO ME I SPRINTED AFTER YOU IN FOUR-INCH HEELS”
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Friendly reminder that Schumer tried to get McConnell to bring the Senate back into session under emergency powers that the two leaders have, so a trial would be held while Trump was still in office. McConnell declined.
Why McConnell voted to acquit he says because: Congress cannot convict a person who is no longer in office.
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Kaine was the sole member of the Senate HELP committee to ask Acosta explicitly about the Epstein plea deal during his confirmation hearing.
Acosta must go. He handed a sweetheart deal to a serial sexual predator. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have been denied their day in court for too long. I’m thankful other prosecutors stepped in to finally deliver justice.
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GOP lawmaker attended gay son's wedding 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news…
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Trump said last night of Bevin: “If you lose, they're going to say Trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. This was the greatest. You can't let that happen to me!” Well ....
I've seen enough. Projection: Andy Beshear (D) has defeated Gov. Matt Bevin (R) in #KYGOV.
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At Highland Park fundraiser (which raised $2.5m for the Biden campaign, per host), Biden begins to tell a story about a person coming up to him with crushing debt.
Biden said he responded, “Donald, I can’t help you.” (This gets big laughs)
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Some personal news — in addition to my awesome job at the @washingtonpost, I’m joining CNN as a political analyst. Very excited to come on board!
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His mother, currently in Mexico, says she was denied humanitarian visa (wanted to bury her son in Houston)
A DACA recipient was killed trying to rescue others during Harvey, his body was recovered earlier today chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Report: Findings reveal nearly 400 officers were at Uvalde elementary school as police waited to confront gunman.
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Under the Trump administration, only 60 miles of barriers have been built — and that is all replacement barriers, not new ones.
The Wall is going up very fast despite total Obstruction by Democrats in Congress, and elsewhere! instagram.com/p/B1t2uUeBXdU/…
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.@FLOTUS (via campaign) weighs in on Hur report:
“I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack -- not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.”
“Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day.”
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.@CaptMarkKelly will be sworn in as senator on Wednesday at noon, per a senior Democratic aide. at which point the Republican majority in the Senate will shrink by one vote.
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Wait — you are a member of Congress and you had your Venmo transactions on public??! thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid…
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NYT bombshell could significantly change the calculus on witnesses in the trial. One senior GOP official says: "The odds of deposition for new witnesses is certainly rising dramatically." washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York health officials report polio case, the first one in U.S. in nearly a decade.
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That “one day in January” was the worst breach of our U.S. Capitol since the War of friggin’ 1812.
“I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January,” Pence told Hannity. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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On Fox News, Maria Bartiromo asks Trump whether there are UFOs.
@realDonaldTrump: "Well I'm going to have to check on that ... I'll take a good, strong look at that."
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