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Today’s POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered. Clearly someone feels emboldened. Will GOP leaders continue to shrug this off? Bury their head in the sand?

I miss the days when people muttered nutty conspiracy theories to themselves while meandering down a sidewalk. Now they share it on Twitter w/millions of followers and for some reason some folks amplify it. Treat these tweets the way you’d treat the sidewalk mumbler, look away

This is outrageous. I’m sorry, I don’t know what else to say to someone accusing me and my colleagues of causing war. I know he’s baiting us to respond. I’m taking the bait in hopes that rational folks realize this is wrong and dangerous.

This not a laughing matter. I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican

The silence of Cong GOPers not named McCain is obviously not surprising anymore but is there any limit for them? It’s a fight with Canada and the rest of the G6, only the most important allies of this country. Is the rest of the GOP using “stunned silence” as their “comment”?

A trashing of the American press corps and Intel community in Eastern Europe of all places. Could Putin have asked for anything more?

If you work in American politics or in the Gov’t on any level and your first reaction to today’s Mueller indictment is NOT ”how are we going to prevent this from happening again and how are we going to punish Russia,” then you need to rethink your priorities as a citizen.

Even though it should no longer be shocking, it is surprising how little empathy the president of the United States has for his fellow citizens in harm’s way.

Anyone with a child under 18 has to be asking themselves, how do I explain the president's actions especially since he faces no consequences

My father died in 1988 and like many folks with deceased parents, I envision many conversations with him. I would love to see how he would have answered this question: of Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, which one will be president in 2018 and which one will be in prison?

Been fascinating watching folks decide it’s easier to try to smear me or my family rather than debate the merits of the media piece I wrote... Ironically, the reactionary lashing out behavior only reinforces my point... If you don’t have the facts, so what, just smear and attack!

Miss you now more than ever.

What exactly were House Republicans hoping to accomplish by demanding the full release of these memos? Nothing I’ve read seems to change Comey’s story and if anything, these memos give more, not less, credence to the dossier.

The issue isn’t about ideology, it’s about basic truth. Those trying to make this a left-right issue are being intentionally dishonest. This is about whether honest journalists are supposed to lend their credibility to someone who intentionally tried to ruin ours.

Not surprised when the WH or its surrogates choose to incorrectly spin the significance of the Flynn news, but to see some journalists and columnists do it when they clearly know what they are saying is misleading makes it look as if all they care about is their WH access

Those trying to tar all media today aren’t interested in improving journalism but protecting themselves. There’s a lot more accountability in media these days than in our politics. We know we live in a glass house, we hope the folks we cover are as self aware.

Will serious Congressional Republicans still truly sit back and say nothing following this POTUS performance on the world stage uttering what he’s said while standing and UPLIFTING one of the great adversaries of freedom and democracy?

Hope most folks realize we have a toxic political culture and that attempting to exploit today for political gain will only poison us more

Hope folks who keep saying it was a "good day" for X or Y realize that nothing about today was good for anyone, period.

David Brooks closing column line. Brutal: “The rot afflicting the G.O.P. is comprehensive — moral, intellectual, political and reputational. More and more former Republicans wake up every day and realize: ‘I’m homeless. I’m politically homeless.’”

Per solid source: at least 3 GOP sens (perhaps more) plan to announce public opposition to McConnell health bill later today. Developing

He didn’t correct his remarks in either Fox interview either, did he? Only now?

Wow, Trump is going out of his way to praise Russia. I guess “wow” is now an understatement, but this is truly a remarkable moment in American history, 72 hours after the DoJ accused Russia of a criminal act against the democracy, POTUS essentially forgives Russia on world stage

Sad to see so many intellectually dishonest folks who think pointing out incorrect facts and blatant misconceptions is evidence of bias. Amazing the disease that has stricken so many

Only in DC do folks who make questionable decisions deflect blame by attacking "leakers." Stop doing questionable things and leaks will stop

Not a good look by the House GOP to release cherry picked excerpts through friendly media outlets in order to build a narrative. Only reinforces the partisan look to all this. A truly nonpartisan act would have been a complete release without cherry picks

Among the dumber ideas I've seen in crisis management is to make the existence of recordings a game show style mystery.

My initial reaction was simply: he didn't just say that that, did he? Today? Again? Seriously?

Um...In this tweet, the president admits his campaign did willingly reach out to Russians for dirt on Clinton. Attempted collusion?

Remarkable moment in country's history that POTUS feels need to use farewell address to remake case for democracy not just for world, for US

If you actually believe media is the problem then the last thing one should do is respond with your own hate and anger... Try leading; try setting an example; Try living by the mantra “two wrongs don’t make a right.” But then that would mean cutting back on stoking the division.

I'll say it again: the best way to prevent leaks for ANY org? Be a leader that inspires loyalty and cut out the staff infighting.

Every day for the last week, there has been bad health care news for WH and each day that bad news was overshadowed by Trump tweets

So shoving Mattis out earlier in what is clearly the result of a tantrum isn’t going to fix his problems with Senate GOPers... this abrupt move could make it worse.

Doping for curling. And it’s a Russian. Why does the Onion even bother anymore

Take his advice, study McCarthy and specifically focus on the individual who connects the two via just one degree of separation: Roy Marcus Cohn

It’s sad to see elected officials blaming the press for covering what the president says. We are getting lectured for not accepting this spiral downward in discourse, governing and morality?

Saddest reactions I've received are those folks who mistake calls for decency in our discourse as some sort of evidence of bias. Ponder that

Every day, a tantrum. Every day, more enabling. This is no way to run a PTA let alone the largest organization in the world.

Perhaps this should be a pinned tweet: Commerce Sec Ross after I asked if it’s possible POTUS could rescind his tariff proposal: “Whatever his final decision is, is what will happen. What he has said he has said; if he says something different, it’ll be something different”

Actually, McCain would have taken this “snub” as a badge of honor.

It’s sad that the Baseball all star game is in dc and the presidency and White House aren’t involved in any meaningful way. Understandable for a million different reasons. Just simply sad how degraded the office appears to many entities right now.

How is a public celebration of a bill that is only a third of the way to passage a good idea? To say this is premature is an understatement

Election Day 2017 is not complicated when you look at the results nationwide. This was about the political environment created by Donald Trump, pure and simple. Trump and Trumpism was not a winning strategy.

During the touching tribute to the Pittsburgh SWAT officer, POTUS has left out the shooter’s other motive for the shooting besides anti-semitism... the shooter was angry with the Tree of Life’s support for refugees

Will be interesting to see how some GOP senators rationalize the idea that it’s suddenly now ok to debate an open SCOTUS seat in an election year. They may fully pull that hypocrisy muscle.

The worst way to stop leaks: threats

They had parts of 4 days to get the Kushner story straight and WH has decided not to clarify anything or offer much of an altern explanation

Hard to see how that statement from the POTUS will do anything to tamp things down. He may have just done the opposite

Is he still a man of the cloth? Seems odd language for a pastor

Hmmm

If DoJ media source threat is real (I assume it's not; just a show presser to please WH) then I look forward to ignoring that subpoena

Just a remarkable lack of urgency here in DC with hours to go before shutdown. Where’s bipartisan WH meeting? Where’s POTUS leadership? Where is the bipartisan Hill shuttle diplomacy-like leadership talks. Where’s plan b or c? Both parties prefer to spin than talk?

Attacking the press these days from the right is the lazy go-to deflection for conservatives who have run out of ways to defend some of the most troubling POTUS actions.

Buckle up.

Press bashing may feel good to folks but when it's done by people in power, it's corrosive. Take off your partisan hats for a second

Oh my, this is going to be ugly

I don’t know if folks realize how extraordinary and un-democratic (small d) it is for the president of the United States to run down a civil servant like this... Q for legal folks: when does this become an intimidation tactic to the point of legal obstruction?

Given today’s indictments, don’t be surprised if serious foreign policy types from both sides of the aisle call for POTUS to cancel his Putin meeting as an immediate response. And can this summit be useful if America can’t take Putin at his word?

McConnell does not toss bombs at potus very often and he wouldn’t be doing this if this wasn’t representative of a large majority of the GOP conference.

The key folks in the transition who Flynn would have been “directed by” were: Mike Pence (who was running the transition), Jared Kushner (who was basically the shadow transition chief on foreign policy and natsec) Priebus who had already been named CoS and of course Trump.

Man, summer is going to suck... it will be ugly; normally nice people will act like idiots... we have a full fledged political circus on our hands... up to the voters to decide what they want...

Noticing on twitter that many of the normal Trump defenders are struggling mightily to defend today’s performance.

One of the best things about working at the NBC Wash Bureau was getting to know a legend like Jim Vance. RIP my friend. A whole city mourns

I would hope that our leaders would never believe that any American desires to make another American an enemy. Let's dial it back.

The issue isn’t about ideology, it’s about basic truth. Those trying to make this a left-right issue are being intentionally dishonest. This is about whether honest journalists are supposed to lend their credibility to someone who intentionally tried to ruin ours.

If Biden is truly not considering dropping out, why hasn’t he addressed it directly and definitively? And the lack of personal contact from him to key leaders is head scratching for someone reportedly determined to stay in.