MJ Lee

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Asked if he has a message to the American people on gas prices, President Biden said after getting off AF1: "They're going to go up." "Can't do much right now. Russia's responsible," Biden said. (h/t @AlliemalCNN) — PolitiTweet.org

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A WH official said it would reject any suggestion that congressional pressure had pushed the White House into Tuesday's announcement, saying it welcomed the support of members who had been leading on the issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lawmakers put pressure on White House to get on board w/ blocking Russian oil imports, per one Dem involved in negotiations. WH made clear to lawmakers they were nervous about gas prices & deliberating carefully given position of European allies https://t.co/pGDoV2cw8P — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: Tester, Dem from Montana, on talk of importing Venezuelan and Iranian energy to offset Russian ban: "We shouldn't be advancing… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: "We will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war." President Joe Biden announced a US ban on all imports of Russian oil and gas, s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hyunsuinseoul: Wow. This is Yoon’s last rally taking place now in central Seoul before Election Day tomorrow. I’ve been to Lee Jae-myun… — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaker Pelosi told her caucus this morning that House is going to go ahead w/ Russian oil ban legislation, per a Dem aide, and notably, Pelosi also said WH had been telling her for days that Biden would be announcing the ban. WH had said yesterday Biden was still undecided. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden's urgent global search for help shutting off Russia's oil revenues is leading, in some instances, to regimes he once sought to isolate or avoid: new from @CNN team https://t.co/F8YM8GDOpA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Phil_Mattingly: White House adds Pres. Biden remarks on Russia to the schedule at 10:45am. Biden to announce U.S. ban in Russian energ… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheLeadCNN: Biden weighs more options to target Russia, ban oil imports @mj_lee reports https://t.co/eSTcjmAokF — PolitiTweet.org

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This call with French, German and British leaders concluded earlier this hour, and lasted around 1 hour and 20 minutes, per White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylieatwood: The price of oil soared to its highest level since 2008 on Monday as Western nations weighed an embargo on crude from Russ… — PolitiTweet.org

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Updated guidance from WH says President Biden will now have a video teleconference with President Macron of France, Chancellor Scholz of Germany and Prime Minister Johnson of the UK in the Situation Room this morning to discuss Ukraine — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jimsciutto: New: Russian President Putin told France’s Macron Russia will “continue military interventions and go all the way,” an Elys… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DJJudd: DC government has hung Ukrainian flags along Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the US Capitol (also the route Preside… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AimeeCho4: The restaurant Russia House in NW DC is boarded up after vandals smashed the windows, per @DCPoliceDept. Owner Aaron McGover… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seungminkim: “The casual racism is shocking." https://t.co/mGqCiuZiab — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylieatwood: President Biden was asked if Americans should be worried at the prospect of nuclear war.   “No,” Biden told reporters. — PolitiTweet.org

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A doctor who was pumping oxygen into her looked into the camera of an Associated Press videojournalist in the room. "Show this to Putin," he said. "The eyes of this child, and crying doctors." https://t.co/L2wqwr8E31 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheLeadCNN: Historic day for the Biden presidency, even as the White House continues to watch the ongoing crisis in Ukraine @mj_lee rep… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarquardtA: Zelensky late tonight: "This night will be very difficult, and the enemy will use all available forces to break the resista… — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says in a statement that in his call with President Zelensky earlier today, "I commended the brave actions of the Ukrainian people who were fighting to defend their country." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ketanji Brown Jackson says her parents — married for 54 years — could not be more proud, and that it was her father’s decision to turn to law after having been a high school teacher for sparking her own legal interest https://t.co/dJc94Rjxdg — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says in looking for Justice Breyer’s replacement, he sought someone who had a “pragmatic understanding that the law must work for the American people.” — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to be a Supreme Court Justice https://t.co/exwWBinbab — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Arianedevogue: New: here's a closer look at the path Judge Jackson took to reach this moment, including quotes from childhood + college… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jaketapper: According to a source who has been notified about the decision, President Biden has decided to nominate to the Supreme Cour… — PolitiTweet.org

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US officials described to lawmakers tonight more than one Russian element headed towards Kyiv with the goal of encircling the city and potentially decapitating the Ukrainian government, according to one person on the call. — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian mechanized forces that had entered through Belarus were around 20 miles away from Kyiv, top Biden administration officials told House lawmakers in a Ukraine briefing Thursday evening, per two sources on the call. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also asked whether US believes there is dissent/division in Putin’s government on Ukraine. Psaki said she won’t get into US intelligence but it was “quite striking” to see Putin’s exchange w/ his intel chief recently (this is what she’s referring to): https://t.co/Z26FjSaypF — PolitiTweet.org