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I’d say I’m grateful that I missed that presser, but it looks like I’m going to get back to the office and just watch it so that I will have *seen* it.
Here’s @ZoeTillman’s thread —>
OK, here we go. 
"We have all the records. We have every record. We're getting close to that point again where we'll create new records."
Trump: "So I'm going to be signing a national emergency. And it's been signed many times before. ... There's rarely been a problem. They sign it. Nobody cares. I guess they weren't very exciting. ... They signed it — for far less important things in some cases, in many cases."
Trump on China and the criminal law: "Their criminal list is much tougher than our criminal list. Their criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called the drug penalty. Our criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called, 'How about a fine?'"
In which Trump appears to attack his own administration: "What do we do? We set up blue ribbon committees. Lovely men and women, they sit around a table, they have lunch, they eat, they dine, and they waste a lot of time."
"We haven't been given the equipment. We haven't been given the walls."
Trump: "The probably easiest one [case] to win is on declaring a national emergency, because we're declaring it for virtual invasion purposes. Drugs, traffickers, and gangs."
Trump, announcing the declaration of a national emergency: "I didn't need to do this. But I'd rather do it much faster."
The Ann Coulter/run-down-all-of-the-cable-news-shows segment was a lot.
Meanwhile, here’s @ZoeTillman on that “I didn’t need to do this” comment:
in sum
Couldn't skip this at the verrrry end: "I want to wish our new attorney general great luck and speed and — enjoy your life. Bill, good luck."
