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John Harwood
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John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
journalist, public speaker, advocate of decency. requests: wsb.com/speakers/john-…
Washington, DC
Joined March 2011
- her husband is a billionaire coal-mining magnateThe new U.S. ambassador to Canada says when it comes to climate change she believes in "both sides of the science" cbc.ca/1.4366936
00:00 - BREAKING from CNN: “The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a court record unsealed on Tuesday by the chief judge of the DC District Court.”
- like a little kid playing GI JoeBack to work.
- from Reuters: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg's foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him, European diplomats and other people familiar with the matter said”
- future historians will be amazed that so many millions of Americans were dumb enough to vote for this guyTrump: "We have a very corrupt country. Very corrupt country. And it's a sad thing to say ... if you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of the sudden we have a very powerful social security."
00:00 - personal news: today's my last day at CNN proud of the work thanks to my colleagues i've been lucky to serve the best in American media - St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN look forward to figuring out what's next
- twin sisters, reunited at 92 after vaccinations, toast first dinner out with scotch-and-water (Mom's on the left)
- Donald Trump has fled the scene of the crime
- NFL head coach for Houston Texans: “Yeah, I’ll take a knee. The players have a right to protest, a right to be heard. They’re not taking a knee because they’re against our flag. They’re taking a knee because they haven’t been treated equally in this country for over 400 years.”
- it did happen. 2014 Q2/Q3: 4.6%/5.2% which actually is higher than: 2017 Q2/Q3: 3.1%/3.0% magic
- if "American politics" were broken, we'd have seen things like this happen when Democrats controlled the House but we didn't what's broken, very specifically, is the Republican Party
- Biden's assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true
- it happened in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 under President ObamaGDP was revised upward to 3.1 for last quarter. Many people thought it would be years before that happened. We have just begun!
