President Trump on vandalism to reflecting pool: "We have a 290-300 slit, right through it...They went in there with a knife...Five people were arrested and five people are under investigation right now...They cut it very violently."
Q: "The 'slush fund' that you mentioned. Are you looking to take any action on it?"
@CAgovernor Gavin Newsom: "Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100% of those proceeds. And that's an action the State of California can take."
.@jamestalarico on Ken Paxton's verbal attacks: "They're going to throw everything they've got at us…They even called me a vegan. Those are fighting words."
.@SenRandPaul: "CIA scientists from an early time…were concluding that a lab leak was the most likely hypothesis?"
CIA whistleblower James Erdman III: "There were agencies within the IC circulating papers…that said that all the conditions were present for a lab leak."
.@SenRandPaul at hearing on alleged COVID-19 cover-up: "The witness will testify that the CIA scientific analysts repeatedly concluded that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19, and that those conclusions were buried, softened, or withheld from Congress."
CIA whistleblower James Erdman III: "Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as the result of a lab incident…Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in a cover-up."
CAPITOL HISTORY: Speaker Johnson walked with King Charles thru Statuary Hall, which was previously the House chamber.
In 1814, British soldiers set the room on fire as they attacked D.C. in response to American troops burning the Canadian capital at York.
"Stay down!"
President Trump and others are evacuated from White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
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