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December 7, 2021

Yamiche Alcindor Joins NBC News as Washington Correspondent (EXCLUSIVE)

Source: Variety

Yamiche Alcindor, whose journalistic profile has expanded during a recent tenure with PBS, is joining NBC News’ Washington team.

Alcindor, who is expected to start with NBC in March, will cover the Biden administration as well as the impact of federal policies on communities across the country and issues at the intersection of race, culture and politics, according to a memo from Ken Strickland, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief. She is expected to continue to work as the moderator of PBS” ‘Washington Week,” but will give up her duties at the public broadcaster’s flagship news program, “PBS NewsHour,” where she has been the program’s White House correspondent.

Alcindor is no stranger to NBC News viewers. She has been making appearances on MSNBC since 2013, and was named a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC in 2016.

She is the latest in a string of journalists to be able to maintain multiple gigs involving media outlets. In the not-too-distant past, TV networks tended to want to monopolize their reporters’ assignment book. But in recent months, several TV outlets have devised jobs that allow journalists to keep an array of jobs. Jonathan Lemire, who was recently named the host of MSNBC’s early-morning hour “Way Too Early,” also holds a senior role at Politico. Jonathan Capehart, the MSNBC weekend anchor, has kept his job with The Washington Post.

Read more: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/yamiche-alcindor-nbc-news-washington-correspondent-1235127818/

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1468238841962283011

December 7, 2021

Mark Meadows will stop cooperating with Jan. 6 panel, attorney says

Source: Axios

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will no longer cooperate with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, his attorney told Fox News Tuesday.

Why it matters: Meadows, who failed to appear before the panel last month, is believed to have insight into former President Trump's role in efforts to stop the certification of President Biden's election win.

Last week, the committee and Meadows' attorney, George Terwilliger, said the parties had reached an understanding on how to exchange information.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/mark-meadows-stop-cooperating-capitol-riot-panel-f18c2cd3-4bf7-4b81-88a5-a92c3cce4b29.html

https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1468226885796741127

December 7, 2021

Politico Gets Dragged By Media Figures, Conservatives, and White House Staff for Deep Dive on VP Kam

Politico Gets Dragged By Media Figures, Conservatives, and White House Staff for Deep Dive on VP Kamala Harris and AirPods

Politico faced a blizzard of online mockery over a report detailing Vice President Kamala Harris and her preferences in audio accessories.

Monday night’s edition of Politico’s West Wing Playbook newsletter featured a dissection of the VP’s preference for wired headphones that took a decidedly skeptical tone with her avoidance of wireless accessories based on security concerns:

Former aides say that the vice president has long been careful about security and technology — with some describing it as prudent and others suggesting it’s a bit paranoid.

It’s a recurring theme. An aide on her 2016 Senate bid said Harris often preferred texting to email for security reasons. And another former aide when she was attorney general in California said that when a person arrived for a meeting, staff were instructed not to allow them to wait in Harris’ office alone. Instead, the person was asked to wait outside.

That caution and vigilance has not stood in the way of Harris’ meteoric rise to the vice presidency — the first woman and person of color to do so.

But still, should someone who travels with the nuclear football be spending time untangling her headphone wires? The American people deserve answers!

The piece drew the ire of Twitter users, and not just KHive members who saw it as the continuation of a pattern of unrelentingly negative coverage of the VP and President Joe Biden by Politico. Many other verified users — even conservatives like Frank Luntz and Erick Erickson and the editor of Twitchy — jumped to Harris’ defense.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/politico-gets-dragged-by-media-figures-conservatives-and-white-house-staff-for-deep-dive-on-vp-kamala-harris-and-airpods/

Dog forbid the frickin' VICE PRESIDENT is concerned about security. And rightfully so! And that part about her actions as AG...

. Eejits.

December 7, 2021

Trump's Blood Oxygen Level in Covid Bout Was Dangerously Low, Former Aide Says

Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, said in his new book that the weakened president’s blood oxygen level reached 86 during a harrowing fight against the coronavirus.

President Donald J. Trump’s blood oxygen level sank to a precariously low level after he announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus last year, according to a new book by Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff.

The new details contradict Mr. Trump’s denials this year that his Covid bout was more dire than White House medical officials had acknowledged at the time.

Mr. Meadows’s book, titled “The Chief’s Chief,” goes on sale on Tuesday. He describes his tenure in the White House, alternately promoting Mr. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and attacking the news media. Mr. Meadows also revealed previously undisclosed details about the former president’s medical condition in October 2020.

Mr. Trump, who has long been fearful of appearing weak, has tried to camouflage those details. The White House staff and members of his medical team aided that effort, publicly downplaying how sick he was at the time. The former president denied a detailed New York Times report this year that he was more ill than his aides had revealed, with depressed oxygen levels and lung infiltrates, which occur when they are inflamed and filled with fluid or bacteria.

Mr. Meadows recounts in extraordinary detail how severe Mr. Trump’s illness was.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/us/politics/trump-covid-blood-oxygen.html

December 6, 2021

Dana Nessel: "Maybe time to lay off the meth, Paul."

https://twitter.com/dananessel/status/1467863706495328259

December 6, 2021

Lol...this fake Trump Christmas card (that everyone is passing off as real):

December 6, 2021

'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6

Source: Politico

In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.

A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military's response to the Capitol riot.

In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews, who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon roles during the Trump administration, slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-riddled report that protects a top Army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on Jan. 6, delaying the insurrection response for hours.

Matthews' memo, sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month and obtained by POLITICO, includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day. Matthews has never publicly discussed the chaos of the Capitol siege.

On Jan. 6, Matthews was serving as the top attorney to Maj. Gen. William Walker, then commanding general of the D.C. National Guard. Matthews’ memo defends the Capitol attack response by Walker, who now serves as the House sergeant at arms, amplifying Walker's previous congressional testimony about the hourslong delay in the military’s order for the D.C. National Guard to deploy to the riot scene.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777