NEWS: The Senate has just confirmed Michael Langley to be a four-star general in the United States Marine Corps. He’s been a Marine for more than 35 years. He's led an impressive career.
And he’s now the first Black four-star general in the history of the Marines.
"They're going to write about this point in history," Biden said to the anchors. "Not about any of us in here, but about whether or not democracy can function in the 21st century... Can you get consensus in the timeframe that can compete with autocracy?"
Biden met with a group of news anchors ahead of tonight's address – and some of his remarks were placed on the record – here, via @jaketapper, Biden says the challenge of the 21st century is whether democracy can compete with autocracy
🚨The IC found Russian military fingerprints behind the Burisma narrative:
"In late 2019, GRU cyber actors conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden's family and Burisma."
Having worked with Norse and Elder Futhark iconography for years, I’m quite alert to the glyph shapes and their associations in the modern world and history.
So, why is the #CPAC2021 stage an Odal rune, and specifically one with serifs (or wings) that was used by the SS?
In talk w/Putin, Biden reaffirmed "support for Ukraine’s sovereignty" and raised "SolarWinds hack, reports of Russia placing bounties on United States soldiers in Afghanistan, interference in the 2020 United States election and the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny," per White House.
Among the loans Trump has coming due:
•$100 million on Trump Tower due next year
•$125 million on his Doral golf resort in Florida due in 2023
•$170 million on the Washington hotel due in 2024
Biden's Director of National Intelligence nominee Avril Haines says, if confirmed, she will provide Congress with an unclassified report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.
New: US Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown Washington Friday with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition, CNN reporting.
@ethan_kraft AG Letitia James Aug 2020:
“To be clear, no charity registered in New York state, including the NRA, can dissolve and relocate to another state without approval of my office or of the Supreme Court of New York.”
A DC police officer swarmed by the Trump mob recalls them yelling "Kill him with his own gun!”
Brutal story on DC police defending Congress:
https://t.co/Rs3VUnLdV6