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INSIDE THE ROOM: Thune tussled with Ron Johnson at one point ahead of the vote on delaying the leadership elections. Thune interjected to suggest there wasn’t anything he could have done differently during the campaign — “I defy you all to name something I could have done differently,” Thune said, per sources in the room Thune also said “tell me what I should have done differently” that would have mitigated the GOP losses

The NY Times announces it will not publish or distribute images of President Trump after Trump banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House

Major TV networks decline White House pool duties Monday dlvr.it/TVZdFT

"If I could leave but one legacy to this country, it would not be found in policy papers or even in treaties signed or even wars won; it would be return to the moral compass that must guide America through the next century... I'm talking about a respect for the goodness that made this country great, a country with strong families, a country of millions of Points of Light." - President George Herbert Walker Bush

Lindsay Clancy's attorney: “[The jurors] were robbed by one man for whatever his agenda was … so I hope that guy can sleep well at night.”

Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.

Majority Leader Thune on what’s delaying the Save America Act: “We don’t have the votes either to get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one. There isn’t anything I can do about that.”

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

At this point we have two options to save intercollegiate athletics. Congress gives the NCAA anti trust protections to make the old system work which is unfair to student athletes OR we have collective bargaining. The longer we wait, the more it costs everyone @A1Policy

To understand how dramatically Trump has transformed federal law enforcement into his own personal political instrument of power, @emilybazelon and @rachelposer interviewed 60 of the hundreds of Justice Department lawyers who have resigned or been fired. nytimes.com/interactive/2025…