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Producer & Off-Air Reporter covering Congress at @NBCNews. Instagram: (frankthorpv) Also served as Chairman of the RTCA Exec. Committee.
The judge in the Chauvin trial just said this to the defense after the case was given to the jury for deliberations: "I'll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned..."
Thank you to the participants who trusted me with their stories, thank you to @etjohnstone & @GingerGibson for giving me a place to tell them, thank you to @heyjuless & f @haleeytalbotor helping me with the shoots, and who @HallieJackson supported me through it all.
And thank you to the amazing team @NBCNewsUS who strung together the portraits and the audio of the interviews and matched them with pictures and video and sounds from Jan 6 to make this video version:
@NBCNewsUS And finally thank you to the amazing , @ewrabetz , @chelseastahl , @thebrandedgirl and Robin Muccari for turning a vision into the piece it became. It was a team effort to bring these stories from the camera to the page.
@Shawna Have they checked EVERY PLANET IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE? I think not... (And now I'm completely overwhelmed just thinking about how enormous the universe is....)
Schumer on the Senate floor: "Today is what you might call a very unofficial American holiday, 4/20."
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SCHUMER on invoking the 25th amendment: "Speaker Pelosi & I tried to call the VP this morning to tell him to do this, they kept us on hold for 25 mins and then said the VP wouldn't come on the phone. So we are making this call public because he should do it and do it right away."
ROMNEY on GOP Reps threatening to protest electoral college vote: “This is madness. We have a process, recounts are appropriate, going to the court is approp & pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate, but trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness”
Pelosi just went outside and thanked the troops protecting the Capitol, and game them all her challenge coin:
GOP : Q: Do you think a military parade is a good idea? KENNEDY: “No.” Q: Why not? KENNEDY: "I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud.”
Awesome moment: Jon Stewart embraces a crying John Feal, the 9/11 first responder who led the organization pushing for the full extension of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, just after the bill passed in the Senate 97-2:
Here's a vine of @berniesanders running to the side of the man who fainted at his presser:
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