Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

.@JohnCornyn and @Sen_JoeManchin having a chat just outside the Senate door. https://t.co/xwiPih51nb — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked how solid these 10 Republicans are for his gun violence package, @JohnCornyn replies: “Rock solid.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen @JohnCornyn says negotiators want to finish gun bill text this week so @SenSchumer can hold votes next week. He insists that’s realistic. On impact of potential @NRA support: “We want broad support… but I don’t think any single organization is going to control the outcome.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked @LeaderMcConnell if he believes the Murphy-Cornyn gun deal framework can yield legislative text this week. “Looks like we’re headed in the right direction,” he said. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinsink: 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/7vsUUVHmwD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NPR: An "apparently inebriated" Rudy Giuliani urged Donald Trump on the night of the 2020 election to just claim he won and stop the vo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: Remarkable to watch Barr's testimony, including how he thought Trump was becoming "detached from reality," and compare… — PolitiTweet.org

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Donoghue says Trump brought up a host of claims about the election: Michigan 68% error rate, Pennsylvania truck driver transporting ballots, "suitcase" in Georgia, multiple ballot scanning, dead people voting, Natives paid to vote. Says he told Trump none of this was fact-based. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ex-Deputy AG Richard Donoghue tells January 6 committee on what it was like dealing with Trump's election claims: "There were so many of these allegations that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn't fight us on it, but he'd move to another allegation." — PolitiTweet.org

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Barr: "I felt that before the election it was possible to talk sense to the president... I felt that after the election he didn't seen to be listening. I was inclined not to stay around it he wasn't listening to advice from me or other cabinet secretaries." Barr resigned 12/14. — PolitiTweet.org

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Former AG William Barr says that as Donald Trump kept promoting the stolen election claims, he recalls thinking: "He's become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff." — PolitiTweet.org

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Barr telling the story of how Trump told him "you hate Trump" when he refused to embrace his narrative. Barr: "The claims of fraud were bullshit. He was indignant about that." On Dominion machines: "They were idiotic claims... absolutely zero basis for the allegations." https://t.co/jzzsSg7rd8 — PolitiTweet.org

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The Jan. 6 committee is now playing side-by-sides of Trump-era officials like William Barr saying they told Trump his claims of widespread fraud were bogus with clips of Trump publicly promoting those claims anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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Barr told 1/6 committee he recognized the claims of fraud were "just not meritorious, not panning out." He says he asked Scavino how long Trump was going to keep pushing this; by then he says Meadows caught up w/ him, said Trump was becoming "more realistic" and knew the limits. — PolitiTweet.org

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Former AG William Barr to 1/6 committee: "There was an avalanche of all these allegations of fraud... All the early claims that I understood were completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation." — PolitiTweet.org

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In filmed deposition, Jared Kushner tells Jan. 6 committee he counseled Trump that the Rudy Giuliani-backed push to make fabricated election fraud claims was "not the approach I would take if I was you." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump White House aide Eric Herschmann tells Jan. 6 committee: "What they were proposing, I thought, was nuts. The theory was also completely nuts... Hugo Chavez, Venezuelans... something with the Philippines." https://t.co/qt5bbsyhLb — PolitiTweet.org

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Stepien takes a sledgehammer to Trump's narrative, saying there was a "wild claim" brought to them every now and then, e.g. "thousands" of ineligible votes in AZ. He says that "did not seem realistic or possible to me" — and it was overseas voters, not people ineligible to vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We knew it was a consequential call." Stirewalt on Fox News calling Arizona for Biden. "We were able to make the call early." As some were "freaking out" he says the decision desk had moved on to the next states. — PolitiTweet.org

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Former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt, on calling Arizona for Joe Biden in 2020, tells the Jan. 6 committee their decision was controversial to "our competitors, who we beat so badly by making the correct call first." "Our poll in Arizona was beautiful," he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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In other news: Bill Stepien and Jason Miller testified that Rudy Giuliani had too much to drink at the election night party when he nudged Trump to declare victory even as he hadn't won. Miller says Rudy was "definitely intoxicated." — PolitiTweet.org

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This Jan. 6 hearing is all about establishing lies and bad faith on the part of Trump when he claimed the results were illegitimate; i.e. not only proving falsehoods but demonstrating he *knew* it was false yet deceitfully spread the assertions anyway to try and stay in power. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jan. 6 committee is playing video testimony from Trump's top advisers, including campaign manager Bill Stepien, saying they counseled him NOT to declare victory on election night because he hadn't won. Stepien says Trump disagreed with him and went out and declared it anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jan. 6 hearing today is DELAYED by 30-45 minutes, committee says. “Due to a family emergency, Mr. William Stepien is unable to testify before the Select Committee this morning. His counsel will appear and make a statement on the record.” It was originally set for 10a ET. — PolitiTweet.org

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The 10 GOP senators who signed gun deal framework Cornyn (safe through 2026) Tillis (safe through 2026) Cassidy (safe through 2026) Collins (safe through 2026) Graham (safe through 2026) Blunt (retiring) Burr (retiring) Portman (retiring) Toomey (retiring) Romney (safe thru ‘24) — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer speaks on Senate gun deal: “Once the text is finalized, I will put this bill on the floor ASAP, as soon as possible so that Congress can quickly act to do something meaningful against gun violence.” (via @TB_NBC) — PolitiTweet.org

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.@NRA statement on Senate gun deal: “As is our policy, the NRA does not take positions on ‘frameworks’. We will make our position known when the full text of the bill is available for review.” https://t.co/WpbfiC6kjO — PolitiTweet.org

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.@davidhogg111: “In a less broken society, we would be able to require background checks every single time someone wants to buy a gun, and we would ban assault rifles outright. But if even one life is saved or one [shooting] prevented… we believe that it is worth fighting for.” https://t.co/eaao5UVy5H — PolitiTweet.org

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Carefully-worded McConnell: "I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects [2nd] Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country." https://t.co/ADjTF12Jbz — PolitiTweet.org