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| THE LATEST WITH TRUMP’S RECORDS | |
National Archives, front and center!
*Looks around* — us??: |
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© Giphy “The tempest surrounding Trump White House records has put an unusual amount of focus on a low-profile but powerful independent federal government agency: the National Archives.” Why the Archives is in the spotlight: With the news that former President Trump took boxes of official documents with him when left the White House. Some of those documents were classified or “top secret.” Do the Archives get this attention regularly?: Lol, no. It mostly operates under the radar. More on the controversy, via The Hill’s Morgan Chalfant: https://bit.ly/34VmVrC |
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Wait, wait, Trump took ‘top secret’ documents to Mar-a-Lago?: |
| Yes, according to new reporting from The Washington Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky and Josh Dawsey. https://wapo.st/3oGlDrq What this will mean: “The existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove … is likely to intensify the legal pressure that Trump or his staffers could face, and raises new questions about why the materials were taken out of the White House.” What happens now? Are there legal consequences for taking highly classified documents?: “It remained unclear whether the Justice Department would launch a full-fledged investigation. The files were being stored in a sensitive compartmented information facility, also known as a SCIF, while Justice Department officials debated how to proceed, the two people familiar with the matter said.” More on what Trump took — and what this means: https://wapo.st/3oGlDrq |
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| HOW MANY DOCUMENTS WERE RECOVERED FROM TRUMP’S FLORIDA RESIDENCE?: |
| Fifteen boxes worth, according to The Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3sxxokY |
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| Happy Friday! I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send comments, story ideas and events for our radar to cmartel@thehill.com — and follow along on Twitter @CateMartel and Facebook. Did someone forward this to you? Want your own copy? Sign up here to receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox daily: http://bit.ly/2UoupvN |
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Some for Afghanistan and some for 9/11 victims’ families: |
| Via The New York Times’s Charlie Savage, “President Biden is starting to clear a legal path for relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion that Afghanistan’s central bank had deposited in New York before the Taliban takeover, while also seeking to steer a roughly equal amount toward spending to aid the Afghan people.” https://nyti.ms/3gIwXyR This morning: Biden signed an executive order to do so. The importance of this move: “The highly unusual set of moves, which The New York Times had first reported was expected, is meant to address a tangled knot of legal, political, foreign policy and humanitarian problems stemming from the attacks and the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.” More on the significance of the executive order: https://nyti.ms/3gIwXyR |
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No one tell Commander Biden how many people will be watching. We don’t want to make him nervous: |
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© AP/Carolyn Kaster, file President Biden’s new puppy Commander will make an appearance in a video message during Sunday’s “Puppy Bowl XVIII” on Animal Planet. The full story from The Associated Press’s Darlene Superville: https://bit.ly/3uJpZ4P If you’re too impatient to wait: Here’s the video message: https://bit.ly/3uIdaYl |
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| TIDBIT — YESSSS: |
| The Wall Street Journal’s Vivian Salama tweeted, “An all-female front row at the White House briefing today, which was led by a female press secretary.” Photo: https://bit.ly/33hIC4A |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
If you’ve been hearing about Canadian trucker protests, but don’t know much about them: |
| Via The New York Times’s Azi Paybarah, “Truck drivers protesting vaccine mandates are parking their rigs in the middle of intersections in Canadian cities, blocking traffic and, in some places, bringing daily life and business to a standstill.” https://nyti.ms/3GKbrV5 Where the protests are happening: “After first blocking traffic in Ottawa, the truck drivers later staged similar protests in other cities including Toronto, Quebec City and Calgary, as well as on the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit, a vital link for the automobile industry.” What the protesters want: An end to vaccine mandates Is an end in sight?: Not really. Expect more protests, including similar protests in other countries The full Q&A is a helpful read: https://nyti.ms/3GKbrV5 |
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^ America may be the new Canada: |
| Via The Hill’s Niall Stanage, “The trucker-led protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Canada is spreading — and American political observers of all stripes believe something similar is bound to take hold in the United States.” https://bit.ly/3Bh6MIM The sticking point: “The public is impatient to return to some semblance of normalcy and Democratic-led states are lifting mask mandates, but Biden is adhering to the more cautious positions advocated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).” What to expect in the U.S. — and more on where Biden stands: https://bit.ly/3Bh6MIM |
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| ‘WHILE AWAITING UPDATED CDC GUIDANCE, HERE’S THE DATA STATES ARE USING TO LIFT COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS’: |
| Via CNN’s Jacqueline Howard: https://cnn.it/3swaVVC |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 77,439,456 U.S. death toll: 915,651 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 546 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 269,454 doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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This Wall Street Journal reporter came out to fight today: |
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© Giphy The Wall Street Journal’s Kris Frieswick writes, “Here’s Why I’ll Be Keeping My Shoes on in Your Shoeless Home.” https://on.wsj.com/3sAJ6LO Excerpt: “What about pets? Think, if you dare, about what comes in on the bottoms of their already-shoeless feet. Yet, I don’t see these homeowners forcing their guests to leave their babies and dogs out on the front stoop, do I? Hypocrisy, thy name is [insert name of person with shoeless home here].” The full story: https://on.wsj.com/3sAJ6LO |
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Nextdoor is serving some drama today: |
| Check out this mom’s post to her neighbors: https://bit.ly/3Ji2aVK |
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Oh, this is good: |
| Overheard District posted a conversation between two men on Capitol Hill who found a good deal on a flight. The back and forth: https://bit.ly/3uJQ2cg |
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| The House and Senate are out. President Biden is in Washington, D.C., and Vice President Harris is in New Jersey. 9:30 a.m. EST: President Biden received the President’s Daily Brief. 9:45 a.m. EST: Vice President Harris left for Newark, N.J. 11:35 a.m. EST: Vice President Harris participated in a roundtable in Newark, N.J. to discuss the bipartisan infrastructure law. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan also attends. 2:35 p.m. EST: Vice President Harris returns to Washington, D.C. 3:15 p.m. EST: President Biden leaves for Camp David. 3 p.m. EST Monday: The Senate meets next. The Senate’s full agenda on Monday: https://bit.ly/3GNjqk2 |
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| 2 p.m. EST: White House press secretary Jen Psaki and national security adviser Jake Sullivan hold a press briefing. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3GNjqk2 A quick 2-minute video of the top moments on Capitol Hill this week: https://bit.ly/3uOABzz |
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| Today is National Peppermint Patty Day! And for weekend planning purposes, tomorrow is National PB&J Day and Sunday is National Tortellini Day! |
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Sunday is Christmas Day for the advertising industry: |
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© AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez Tom’s Guide published a list of the 2022 Super Bowl commercials you can watch now. Watch: https://bit.ly/3sy3zRs |
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| OH YEAH, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WATCH THE ACTUAL GAME: |
| It starts at 6:30 p.m. EST. And here’s a list of predictions from ESPN’s experts: https://es.pn/3HLnaUA |
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| And because you read this far, here’s how we all feel when we eat peanut butter: https://bit.ly/3uJ11Cs ^ I highly recommend you turn your sound on. |
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