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[Mark Satter @marksatter]

🚨🚨SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts was rerouted to Hong Kong this summer — then vanished.

Congress and DOD are investigating, amid the possibility that China may now have access to the highly-classified program.

W/ @audrey_decker9

https://t.co/u5Ip309Ke9

[Daniel Lippman @dlippman]

SCOOP: Jill Buria, who’s married to Pete Hegseth chief of staff Ricky Buria, on Sunday registered to lobby the Pentagon as part of her new K Street job. After I asked her, her firm told me she will no longer work to influence the Defense Department. https://t.co/OXVeMlI8nS

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel.
https://t.co/hhsHHtJTNP

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer said Thursday he had concerns about Elon Musk’s influence over national security matters after Ukraine was blindsided by a disruption of a satellite communications service developed by Musk’s SpaceX.

https://t.co/R7DRxgMNp7

[Audrey Decker @audrey_decker9]

scoop: SpaceX declined to offer Falcon for three future Space Force missions, and no other company offered to fly them either — an early sign of the launch crunch https://t.co/TAYMzy4lmi

[John Sakellariadis @johnnysaks130]

New: I got a tip a little while ago about a shadowy Pentagon entity called "TSO" with a lot of money and a desire for offensive hacking tools.

Turns out TSO is a new DoD agency. And it does a lot more than hacking.

w/@JackDetsch and @paulmcleary

https://t.co/Ii5ohbeKSf

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

@cate_long This law passed in 2022 prohibiting Russian energy imports.

https://t.co/Ilir58CYqV

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

New: Senate Foreign Affairs Democrats will instruct private U.S. companies involved in Trump's diesel deal with Moscow to preserve documents for potential future investigations, per a Senate Dem aide.

SFRC will raise liability issues with the companies.

[Andrew deGrandpré @adegrandpre]

A small group of US national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments/congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility the Trump admin will attempt to interfere in the midterms.

A scoop, by @noahjrobertson

Gift link https://t.co/80lnyjVPon

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

New: Furious over Trump’s Ukraine moves but powerless to stop him, Congress is freelancing.

Some threaten to jam his lame-duck agenda. Others held an emergency call with Zelenskyy. A third camp is pitching a limited deal with Kyiv.

W @LeoShane

https://t.co/PyD5oAr2Jd

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

New: A Democratic wave in November would decimate Trump’s plans for a $1.5 trillion defense budget — and his signature programs.

W/ @LeoShane @connorobrienNH

https://t.co/P4RGQXFYJc

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

Breaking: The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will NOT be live-streamed, says Trump.

Reverses a previous statement from Hegseth that drew broad bipartisan blowback.

[Merrill College @ Maryland @merrillcollege]

Merrill College students know their rights as journalists.

"Cat Murphy is a master's student at the University of Maryland, credentialed as a reporter for our Capital News Service and doing the job we teach our students to do. Cat recorded openly in a public space alongside other news outlets, and that is her legal right," Dean Rafael Lorente (@DeanLorente) said. "I'm proud of how she handled herself in a difficult situation."

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells @piersmorgan he has been betrayed by Trump, that Elon Musk and the US deliberately cut off Starlink and people are being killed as a result

“This is not the right side of history,” he says. “It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner”

On Musk and Starlink he says: “This decision will bring a lot of human losses. Of course, people will die”

“I am sure they knew what they
did, absolutely. Because it was 1am at night, Starlink was blocked by SpaceX and the United States”

“It’s not just about attack. It’s also about defending life. So people were killed because, not enough destroying, not enough
interceptors, including interceptors with Starlink, which didn't work. Of
course.”

Asked if he’s angry with Musk, Zelenskyy says: “Yes, I think he is not right. It's a big mistake.”

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

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[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

We're nearing 3-hour mark of this court hearing over tree toppling at East Potomac Park

Deputy director of Natl Park Service is joining hearing by zoom from his car, b/c judge demanded his immediate appearance

The issue is bigger than trees: It's about whether Team Trump will follow court orders

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

Bacon & Fitzpatrick say they will force a House vote to block the purchase of Russian oil.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

I’ve already agreed to be an original cosponsor. Congress must make a stand.

[Daniella Cheslow @DaniellaCheslow]

Astonishing reporting day. Trump announces deal to allow sale of Russian diesel even as Ukrainian negotiating team, flanked by Europeans and NATO, arrived in Miami and as his own GOP chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee was in Kyiv. My latest https://t.co/ojYWu5LsR8

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

What looks like hundreds of trees being cut down at East Potomac golf course right now, as it’s packed with golfers on a Saturday morning.

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

Trump called Putin here's his readout

No mention of Russia's escalating shadow war against NATO allies in Europe or stepped up bombing campaign against Ukraine.

A Russian drone hit a Ukrainian kindergarten in attacks just yesterday

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

GOP lawmakers who have pushed back on this include:

- Sen. Tillis
- Sen. Curtis
- Rep. Austin Scott

And now VP Vance tells reporters he wouldn't watch the livestream if it happened.

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

New: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s surprise plan to livestream the military’s execution of the Fort Hood shooter has drawn blowback from both sides of the aisle.

With @connorobrienNH @LeoShane

https://t.co/FIf3ssWdr8