Sudeep Reddy

Washington Bureau Chief, @MSNOWNews | ex- @politico @wsj @dallasnews | sudeep.reddy -at-

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

A great read on Trump, Trumpism and the state of the GOP

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Rep. Thomas Massie is a true outlier in Congress. It’s why I’ve spent so much of my career trying to understand him — even the part of his career when he wasn’t an outlier.

On Massie’s one-of-a-kind status and why he’s more damaging to Trump than anyone:

https://t.co/BjlhdL2hwx

[Weijia Jiang @weijia]

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

[Julia Jester @JulesJester]

Bullet holes, first aid remnants: Scenes from the WHCD shooting aftermath

I was covering the red carpet last night when shots rang out. This morning after law enforcement left the Hilton, my @MSNOWNews producer @lilliebnews + I (to our surprise) were able to walk into the scene.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[National Press Foundation @NatPress]

📢 New board leadership at NPF:

@Reddy of @MSNOWNews is the new board chair, with Jon Sawyer as vice chair—two respected voices in journalism and media leadership.

The board also named @robyntomlin as treasurer and @kevinmgoldberg as secretary.

https://t.co/WNviUBbEUA

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

The president is getting "a little bored."

“Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.” https://t.co/jBAXwyfAIG

[Zach Griff @_ZachGriff]

I built a free live TSA wait time tracker that shows live wait times by checkpoint, including Precheck, Clear, and priority (where available).

I did it because:
- TSA lines are insane
- Existing tools offer estimated waits
- Test the power of AI tools

https://t.co/NvjNUmSwXp

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

Former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller has died — MS NOW https://t.co/nP1E2drhXG

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Last year, Donald Trump Jr. invested in a rare earths startup at a $200 million valuation.

Then three months later, the US government announced a huge loan backstop for the company and now it's worth around $2 billion.

https://t.co/vWsxznFgPU

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

“A war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk,” Tulsi Gabbard said in May 2019. “The devastation and the cost would be far greater than anything they’ve ever experienced.”

[Julia Jester @JulesJester]

I covered Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, which centered on a singular message: No War With Iran.

Six years later, the Director of National Intelligence has been conspicuously quiet as Trump's war with Iran engulfs the Middle East.

https://t.co/aluOs44OzO

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

>>> Americans spend roughly $3.7 million more per day for every one-cent increase in the national average price of gas.

With prices now roughly 50 cents higher than a week ago, drivers are already spending about $187 million more per day than last weekend https://t.co/QcrVZ1CxlC

[Mary Bruce @marykbruce]

In a phone call Trump tells me “everything is on the table” when asked if he would consider sending in special forces to seize Iran’s nuclear stockpile.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Kennedy: “If he sends in troops, the thud you hear will be me face planting because I fainted.”

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

BREAKING: The increase in the average U.S. gas prices over the last 7 days is now in the top 10 largest weekly increases ever recorded at 41.6c/gal, according to live GasBuddy data

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

NEW -- The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats. Not the best time: when Trump last bombed Iran, it spawned several Iranian plots here to kill Trump https://t.co/7OdebjLVpI

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

The Trump doctrine: The rest will be up to you

“We should have learned the lesson. You may remove a dictator, but what you may well get in response is another dictator.”

via ⁦@RohdeD⁩ https://t.co/Jd7CaOdfdT

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Trump's references to watching the celebrations in L.A. almost certainly reflect his cable news viewership –>

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

“Those horrible warmongers”

How Trump and his team warned of his opponents launching a war with Iran before doing it themselves

via ⁦⁦@SooRinKimm⁩ https://t.co/bmnZRSOucD

[Sudeep Reddy @Reddy]

“This is the eighth military intervention of Trump’s second term in office
and runs counter to his campaign promise to end costly overseas foreign wars.” https://t.co/O8B8ZmW99X