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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
JACQUI TIME: "Did the White House share the Thursday statement with Senator Manchin before it was put out & what was his reaction to that?"

Psaki: "I'm not going to detail private discussions or private sharing of statements in advance."
.@JacquiHeinrich: "On [Manchin's] callout for Democrats for badgering him...is there any regret...about how this negotiation went, getting that statement from him & he feels he's been badgered & beaten?"

Psaki: "That...never has been our objective."
.@JacquiHeinrich: "Does this show...that Democrats just don't have a large enough majority to pull off this kind of transformational legislation?...The President ran as a moderate...Manchin's asking for major policy changes to be bipartisan....Why are [they]...so far apart[?]"
.@JacquiHeinrich: "One of the items that you guys have consistently said is on the table as being evaluated is vaccine mandates for domestic air travel. Is that something you've reached a decision on?"

Psaki: "I don't have anything new on that."

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22 Dec
Some personal news -- after what came out to over 1,200 night shifts (minus vacation days), I'm moving to the morning shift for @newsbusters. Starting tomorrow, I'll covering everything from the night before plus the looniness on CNN, MSNBC and whatever else happens in the AM.
I started the night shift in September 2014, working four nights a week (and the occasional fifth here and there) before going to what was loosely three nights a week in April 2016. Through it all, I really came to enjoy it (though it can wreak havoc on your personal life).
Only three months into @newsbusters (after the previous summer at @cnsnews), @KenShepherd and I were the team working on the networks, Chris Matthews, and whatever else came up.

For a kid fresh out of college with few D.C. connections, I was blessed to have my foot in the door.
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22 Dec
Joy Reid was off Monday, so she didn't get to comment on Joe Manchin killing Build Back Better. Sure enough, she came back today & she's having a rough time: "The multimillionaire coal baron...been on the side of special interests...He was always negotiating in bad faith[.]" (1/)
Joy Reid: Joe Manchin has "pulled a full @JDVance1, showing open contempt for the people he supposedly is doing such a bang up job representing. He actually had the nerve to raise questions & concerns...that parents would use their child tax credits on, oh, yes, on drugs." (2/)
Joy Reid: "What is really sad is how much [BBB] would have helped WV, a state that, despite Manchin's leadership and all power, is not exactly in the best shape. West Virginia ranks 50th...in infrastructure, 48th in economy, 47th in health care, & 45th in education." (3/)
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21 Dec
CNN's @Phil_Mattingly to Biden: "You said we have to do better but public health officials have been saying for months you need to surge rapid tests for...this moment. Is it a failure that you don't have an adequate amount of tests for everyone to be able to get one...right now?"
PBS's Yamiche Alcindor: "What's your message to Americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing?"

Biden: "Come on, what took so long?"
.@JacquiHeinrich: "Did the travel ban work, sir, and will you reverse the travel ban [to Africa] now that omicron is so prevalent here in the U.S.?"

Biden: "I'm considering reversing it. I'm going to talk with my team in the next couple of days."
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16 Dec
I just pulled up our Snapstream recording of the ESPN special on Bubba Wallace and I'm only five minutes in -- I already want to smash my monitor into a million pieces then throw it into the Potomac. #NASCAR
One word to describe Bubba Wallace that I'll admit I didn't accept until the last few months -- narcissistic
Here's what I think the problem is -- Bubba, like everyone (and I mean everyone -- even those who claim they don't), wants to be liked and enjoys the spotlight to a certain extend.

And, with that and the woke-ification of just about everything, he sees the aura of the fame.
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14 Dec
DOOCY TIME: "Why is it that there are still Americans stranded in Afghanistan?"

Psaki says that while "if there are "Americans who are in Afghanistan wanted to leave, whether was three weeks for now...back in August, we would help them," adding they've gotten 479 Americans out.
Doocy: "479 left behind is a lot higher than the 100 to 200 that President Biden was talking about at the end of August....He said that he thought that there were...100 to 200 with some intention to leave. So, how does a number--how'd you guys get the numbers?"
Doocy: "[T]here are now at least about a dozen who want to leave right now? Is this something that [Biden] works on every day?"
Psaki mocks the question by stating the U.S. doesn't "put a tracker on" people overseas & blames Americans for staying there b/c some...want to stay?
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14 Dec
.@AliBradleyTV on the case of a mother and daughter dying in a TX car crash involving an illegal immigrant smuggler: "I don't think a lot of people take into account what is happening in these communities...and a lot...kind of dismiss it" as something that couldn't happen to them
.@LelandVittert: "Is this idea of Remain in Mexico changing what's happening on the border at all?"

@AliBradleyTV: "Not at all...In the Del Rio sector alone, they can only send back 30 people...It's certainly not helping...people living in those communities feel any safer."
.@AliBradleyTV: "Governor Greg Abbott has expanded Operation Lone Star, so they are actually arresting for criminal trespass...Over the last 3 days they arrested 11,000 people+ for criminal trespassing...[T]hat doesn't mean that those people living in those areas feel fully safe"
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