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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 23h

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "We learned that former FBI secretly investigated you and your colleagues. Why? They wanted to take President Trump off the playing field...This is the kind of conduct that shatters the American people's faith in our law enforcement system."

Attorney General Pam Bondi on FBI Investigating Sitting Senators

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 1d

Attorney General Bondi to Sen. Durbin (D-IL): "You voted to shut down the government and you're sitting here. Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid. They're out there working to protect you. I wish you would love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump." www.c-span.org/program/sena...

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 2d

At the first C-SPAN Ceasefire table:

• Former Vice President Mike Pence

• Former Chicago Mayor & White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Opposite parties. Opposite styles. Neighboring states. But one shared commitment: showing that dialogue is still possible.

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 5d

Q: "What makes you think that he will negotiate anything? What make you think that he and Republicans will cave to you?"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): "Public sentiment. At the end of the day, the public knows that Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the federal government down."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 6d

Speaker Johnson: "When Congress turns off the funding and the funding runs out, it is up to the Commander in Chief, the president of the United States, to determine how those resources will be spent. He has that responsibility, given to him by the Democrats in the Senate."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 7d

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 7d

President Trump on "A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 8d

Length of past government shutdowns.

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump: "So this is a big, big day. A beautiful day. Potentially one of the great days ever in civilization."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 11d

Ceasefire debuts on Friday, October 10th on C-SPAN.
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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 12d

Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) on OMB Director Vought threat to layoff federal workers amid a possible government shutdown: "We will not be intimidated by Russ Vought, who's completely and totally out of control...As a negotiating tactic, our response to Russ Vought is simple: Get lost."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 13d

Q: "Who do hold responsible for the uptick in left wing violence?"

President Trump: "Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem. They're out of control. They're saying things. They're really dumb people...The radical left is cause this problem. Not the right."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 14d

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): "This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong...This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP; stop!"

"Your political opponents are not Nazis."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 15d

President Trump at UN General Assembly: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 16d

Erika Kirk: "My husband Charlie he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life...On the cross, our savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.' That young man. I forgive him."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 18d

President Trump: "The newscasts are against me...they'll take a great story and they'll make it bad. I think that's really illegal, personally...When somebody is given, 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech. That's just cheating." youtu.be/WAjXVJSfvXA

President Trump on Free Speech

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 18d

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Resolution Honoring Charlie Kirk

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 20d

President Trump: "Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 20d

Former President Barack Obama: "We are certainly at an inflection point not just around political violence but there are hosts of larger trends that we have to be concerned about...Political violence is not new...What happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy."

Former President Barack Obama Reacts to Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 20d

FBI Director Patelto Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA): "I'm going to borrow your terminology and call bullshit on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people."

Heated exchange between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel on Epstein Files

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 20d

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez delivers her opening statement: "Today should not be about me. Today should be about the future of trust in public health." Ms. Monarez details her time at the CDC and her firing from the agency.

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez Testifies before Senate

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 22d

Sen. @corybooker.com (D-NJ) to FBI Director Kash Patel: "I believe you have made our country weaker and less safe. I believe that we are more vulnerable to a major event...I think you're not going to be around long. I think this might be your last oversight hearing..."

Heated Exchange between Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to FBI Director Kash Patel

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 23d

WATCH: Charlie Kirk Memorial Service at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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Trump Administration Officials & Lawmakers Hold Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk

Trump administration officials, lawmakers and others hold a memorial service and prayer vigil for conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 26d

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: "We got him. On the evening of September 11th, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident."

"We got him."

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 27d

"We miss him greatly yet I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on. I am pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

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