Liz Cheney says Rs "should not be embracing the former president" and "somebody who has provoked an attack on the...Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in 5 ppl dying..that is a person who does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward"
Cheney says she talked to officer Sicknick's mother this week. More: "the single greatest threat to our public is a president who would put his own self-interest above the constitution, above the national interest."
Shorter clip from part from @FoxNewsSunday:
"we've had a situation where President Trump claimed for months that the election was stolen and then apparently set about to do everything he could to steal it himself and that ended up in an attack on the capitol, five people killed"
WH says don't expect Biden to talk about impeachment next week. Like at all.
Steve Ricchetti is giving in & is getting an official WH twitter, we're told. Welcome. Twitter's not real life, Steve. It's worse. politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Obama aides have been sending around this clip of Jon Tester this week from @MaritsaNBCMT where he talks about how Wednesday was the 1st time he was in the Oval.
Some felt sheepish about somehow never having him in the Oval during Obama’s 8 years.
The Biden admin's go-to dodge when pressed on the Covid bill:
Cedric Richmond: “Look, we're not going to negotiate on TV”
Ron Klain: "Chuck, I am not going to negotiate on Meet the Press”
typo fixed
Some bits:
Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be "reductionist" to assume Biden won't get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.
“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN'T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”
1 thing McConnell & Obama aides agree on: it wasn't that Obama didn't schmooze enuf w/ McConnell
Don "Stew" Stewart, McConnell's frm deputy Cos:
“It’s not personality, it’s policy. None of the beers or whiskey or anything matters. If your policy stinks, it’s not going anywhere”
Where’s Greg? (Schultz)
Biden’s first campaign manager is not join the admin now
He was angling for political director before it meant reporting to Jen O’Malley Dillon, who replaced him during the campaign. politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Schultz has become a surprisingly divisive figure w/ some feeling he was made to be a scapegoat even though the theory of the case to win the primary proved correct
Others say they won in spite of Greg and the strategy came from many sr. Ppl.
Here’s one: “he couldn’t execute”
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Personnel scooplet: @robsfriedlander
is the new associate director for communications in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
Gina Raimondo’s financial disclosure form is boring.
The left-wing praises Biden’s ethics plan (seriously)
Oppo Book: What did @RonaldKlain's wife say about Kevin Spacey playing him in the HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?
"He may be better-looking than you and more glamorous — but you have a full head of hair, and he doesn’t!”
FYI: Klain continues to have excellent hair
Trivia: which President said this in their 2nd inaugural address?
“During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare."
Scoop: a list of the transition aides staying on for cabinet picks, etc. b/c of delays in confirmations
The virtual inauguration is also making it harder for Biden to reward his big inaugural donors. One event for major donors? a “preferred viewing” Zoom w/ Bradley Whitford.
and DNI nominee Avril Haines is the one who used to host erotica nights at a local bookstore she co-founded in Baltimore. Here's a write up from the Sun in 1995 w/ Haines reading lines from "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty” (our summary below)