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Trump cancels Pelosi trip, denies aircraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUVAOEiRTs4

In a publicly released letter, Mr. Trump told the new House speaker that he was postponing her trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan "due to the shutdown." A White House official told CBS News that Pelosi and other members of Congress were scheduled to leave for the trip shortly after 3 p.m. CBS News correspondent Ed O'Keefe reports Pelosi and her staff were preparing to load buses that would take them to Andrews Base for the trip. Pelosi was scheduled to take U.S. military transportation, which Mr. Trump can halt, a senior White House official told CBS News. Mr. Trump said Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip.

17 Jan 2019

President Trump appeared to retaliate against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday after she asked him to postpone his State of the Union address — and hard.

Quick story about govt. shutdowns and the theatrics behind them.

One year when I was reporting at CBS News during a govt. shutdown, I think 2013, we were sincerely searching for real life impact.

When we couldn't find any, that should have been part of the story. Instead, we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact. It wasn't trying to be dishonest.

It was, in my retrospective view, because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the "Republican" shutdown was for ordinary Americans, and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't.

I've written quite a bit about this but we, as journalists, too often "decide" the story in advance and shape the facts to fit our narrative, rather than gathering information and letting that tell the story, whatever it may be.

Anyway, the Ds were blaming Rs for the shutdown, so we were calling Ds and the Obama administration for ideas to report what was the real impact.

Taking our cue, these officials fabricated impact that we could report. For example, they cordoned off outdoor public monuments in Washington DC. We knew and even discussed in the newsroom that this made no sense. These monuments weren't "manned" to begin with.

The only reason to cordon them off from the public was so that visiting tourists would see the "impact" of the shutdowns and the news media would have something to photograph and interview people about. There are other examples but this is the one I remember the most.

8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2024

·https://x.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1869913284318519730

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Flynn in drag

CBS’s @WillieJames

Inman: “I’m gonna try to ask us a different way.”

KJP: “Yeah.”

Inman: “The President is still in office —”

KJP: “You’re going to get the same answer.”

Inman: “— I'm just gonna try. He's still in office for a month.”

KJP: “Feel free.”

Inman: “The American people really haven't heard from him on whether or not the government is going to shut down. Wouldn't the message hit differently if the president were out there, countering the message that we're hearing from the President-Elect and Elon Musk. Why isn't he speaking on this?”

KJP: “Republicans are breaking their word. They are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement. We would not be in this position if Republicans in the House did not break their word. That's where we are and we're talking about

— um — what the agreement — when you look about — when you think about what the agreement would do, it would lower prescription drugs costs and make it harder

— make it harder to offshore jobs to China. We're talking about veterans who need these services and they instead

— what they want to do is they — they put forth a bill that would pave the way for tax break for billionaires. That's what they did. Instead of going with a bipartisan agreement, they put forth something that would pave the way for their billionaire friends.

That's not about the American people. That is just not about the American people and we have been here before when we're trying to make sure that there's not a government shutdown.

The president has had the same kind of the same strategy. He knows how to work with Congress and so in this instance, Republicans blew this deal up. They did. They blew it up and they need to fix it. This is not for the President to fix. This is not for us to fix. This is for Republicans in Congress to fix this — the mess that they created.”

https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1870173075595018511

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