Sen. @ReverendWarnock: The Iran war, which is costing tens of billions of dollars. Is that spending a good idea?
Trump's Treasury Secretary: When Obama was in office--
Warnock: Obama left office in 2016.
Ossoff: "If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent, loyalist nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority."
By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.
@GOP@HouseGOP@SenateGOP Must rebuke Trump or you will be fired by the American people. We have suffered enough under Trump and GOP fascism. Americans want DEMOCRACY. WE WANT EQUALITY, EQUITY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens
Scott Pelley was fired for speaking obvious truths about the present and future of CBS that far too many in his industry are unwilling to voice themselves. Simple as that.
Our hearing with Acting AG Todd Blanche should concern us all.
He is not working for survivors of Epstein or the American people.
He is working for one man — Donald Trump.
SEN. @RonWyden: “Trump has set the new high water mark for public corruption… everybody in 🇺🇸 is subject to IRS audit except the Trumps. I take it as an admission of his own guilt when it comes to tax cheating. Trumps have stuffed every dollar they can into their pockets.”
Ossoff: Both of my Trump puppet opponents said that they would support this $1.8 billion slush fund for Jan 6 foot soldiers. I'm running against two Trump puppet Maga fanatics who are pro-war, pro-tariff, pro-cutting your health care pro-Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom….
Rubio: "We're getting a lot of questions about us. I don't think it's fair because ultimately the people who have closed the Strait of Hormuz are Iran."
Sen. Schatz: "Nobody's defending what Iran is doing. I think what we're saying is this was not just predictable, it was predicted…It's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening."
When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm
When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm
Jon Ossoff: There is no way to regain the Senate majority without winning this Senate race in Georgia. I am the only Democratic senator running for reelection in a state that Donald Trump won. I expect the national Republican Party will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to try to unseat me. Georgia is a very, very tough battleground state.
Sen. Hassan: "Mr. Secretary, how does the president's requested billion-dollar ballroom or all of these other vanity products lower costs for American families or help constrain spending?"
Bessent: "…It is a national security matter."
Sen. Hassan: "That's ridiculous, and I think you know it."
Watch Scott Bessent completely unravel when Rep @CortezMasto questions him on whether the 400K taxpayers will get a settlement like the one that Trump is trying trying to get.
Masto: "You had said earlier you had concerns about those 400,000 taxpayers whose documents were leaked by an independent contractor with the IRS. If you have concerns about those 400,000, do you intend as acting or whatever role it is you have as the IRS commissioner, do you intend to give them the same type of treatment"
Bessent: "We will follow the instructions and the settlement by..."
Masto: "That was not part of the settlement. That was not part of the settlement. So clearly...
Bessent: "Let me just say that was not part of the settlement."
Masto: "It's been very clear you're dodging this and you're trying to use it as an excuse. It's just outrageous on behalf of the American public."
Trump posts a letter from former VA Sec Jim Nicholson — now a lobbyist for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck — urging him to pardon former GOP Rep. Stephen Buyer, who was convicted of insider trading in 2023. Highly unusual
Jon Ossoff: In Georgia, these attacks on voting rights are provoking a defiant backlash. They are motivating people to turn out to the polls in defiance of these attacks on the franchise.
As soon as section two of the VRE was eviscerated, they've leapt into action to try to remove black elected officials, not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power.
When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!