Olivier Knox

Senior national political correspondent, U.S. News & World Report. Something retweets something something. Views here are my own, not my employer's. Duh.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Today in 1918, after surviving 4 years of trench warfare, my great-grandfather walked the Champs-Élysées w/2 of his little girls.

[Dustin Volz @dnvolz]

New: Rep. Jim Himes, the incoming chairman of the House Intel Committee, plans to scrutinize the CIA’s “extremely aggressive” use of covert action under Trump as part of a broader effort to conduct renewed oversight of American spy agencies next year.

https://t.co/dwY5cM4QSX

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Less believable: After the war, he went home and somehow got his hands on a cart of vegetables. Decided to make soup for the town. Stymied by lack of pots/pans (metal was requisitioned), he came up with the idea to use...the church bell.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Today in 1918, after surviving 4 years of trench warfare, my great-grandfather walked the Champs-Élysées w/2 of his little girls.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

The believable one: He was one of the few folks who could read/write. His job every day was to draw the German lines on a map and bring it to headquarters.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

wowza (until January)

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Hegseth avoids House rebuke - too many Democratic absences. Impeachment plan sent to committee to die.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@scottlincicome DAD.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

OK, "Scapegals" is a good coinage.

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

All The President's (Fall) (Wo)Men. https://t.co/iasFDWXGRB

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@neoavatara remember that in 1998 the House sundered the articles

[Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews]

Iran attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz minutes after Hegseth spoke at the Pentagon.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

I'm gonna need social media to stop tagging something with "Old-school Simpsons was beyond" and then the clip is from Season 31.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@emptywheel https://t.co/HIzZVeQ4AV

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

! Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) just went off on Hegseth, left open the possibility of voting to allow an impeachment trial to proceed.

Ernst slammed the “lack of info” to Congress on the Iran war & seemed to accuse Hegseth of deceiving Trump/Congress about the war.

“I question whether the information that is coming through the secretary out of the Pentagon has been accurate, and the way he is portraying the war to the president,” Ernst said.

“If there is deception coming from our Pentagon and being transmitted to the President, I would want to know that. 
Now, will that be part of this impeachment? I don't know. But I have some serious questions.”

Ernst also said Hegseth’s continued presence atop DoD “absolutely” makes it more difficult for the Trump admin to secure additional Pentagon funding it’s been seeking from Congress.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@jaketapper "you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America."

[Caitlin Huey-Burns @CHueyBurns]

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy tells us of Hegseth impeachment: “I’d be open to a trial”

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@DemFromCT Today they'll most likely vote to not kill/delay, possible full vote on the articles tomorrow and then yeah, precedent is that the Speaker *could* delay sending to the Senate.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

appears to be moving forward

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today the House will vote on the Hegseth Impeachment Resolution. The first vote will be on a procedural motion to kill the resolution such as motion to “refer to committee.” If we can overcome that effort, we will proceed to a real debate and vote on the Articles of Impeachment.

[Tara Copp @TaraCopp]

We did; I shouted at least 4 questions that Hegseth did not answer, on whether he takes responsibility for the war; on war crimes; others shouted if he’d become a distraction for Trump. Hegseth only took Qs from
Conservative media or new media outlets they brought in after kicking out the Pentagon press corps last year. Almost everyone who got questions, save for our colleague Mike Glenn, had agreed to the strict rules that the Pentagon Press Corps refused to sign last year.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

I love this so very much

[Sopan Deb @SopanDeb]

Spent some time with the photographer Peter Adams, who went to all the (existing) presidential libraries and found some really weird stuff, like Stalin's cigarettes, Hoover's telephone and Obama's old Blackberry.
https://t.co/AfOpDSGHXL

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

! Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) just went off on Hegseth, left open the possibility of voting to allow an impeachment trial to proceed.

Ernst slammed the “lack of info” to Congress on the Iran war & seemed to accuse Hegseth of deceiving Trump/Congress about the war.

“I question whether the information that is coming through the secretary out of the Pentagon has been accurate, and the way he is portraying the war to the president,” Ernst said.

“If there is deception coming from our Pentagon and being transmitted to the President, I would want to know that. 
Now, will that be part of this impeachment? I don't know. But I have some serious questions.”

Ernst also said Hegseth’s continued presence atop DoD “absolutely” makes it more difficult for the Trump admin to secure additional Pentagon funding it’s been seeking from Congress.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

@neoavatara that's true but he's using the Mayorkas precedent (among many other defenses, including his version of The Otter Defense)