ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent. Author of "RETRIBUTION: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America" - Order here: bit.ly/43PjGNN
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"An exceptionally brilliant portrait of how politics pulled America, kicking and screaming, into 2025 by one of the best, toughest and non-partisan reporters the United States is so very fortunate to have."
- Bob Woodward on “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America”
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“…the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance…”
Jun 14
I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program and other matters.
I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.
Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a vote. I look forward to reviewing the final product and I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress.
Congratulations to all in getting us to this point. Time will tell.
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The WH has a starkly different description of the preliminary Iran deal than the Iranians.
This is what a senior administration official tells @rachelvscott the deal includes:
1. Nuclear material will be destroyed and removed
2. Nuclear program will be dismantled
3. None of their money released until they perform
4. Strait of Hormuz will be open
5. No Iran funding of terrorist groups
“This is what they agreed to. This is a performance- based deal real.”
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"Let them impeach and be damned." - Andrew Johnson
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Jun 11
Something that appears clear from the outside but appears to hit different when you experience it.
“If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn said. “There’s never going to be good enough for him.”
nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/jo… via @hillhulse
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"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
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Jonathan Karl retweeted
Jun 10
EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…
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The Washington Nationals are currently tied for a wild card berth.
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Jonathan Karl retweeted
Jun 10
ABC News' @JonKarl spoke with Pres. Trump shortly after the U.S. launched counterstrikes against Iran following the downing of an Apache helicopter.
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I was on the phone with Trump as CENTCOM announced US retaliatory strikes against Iran. Here's what he said:
"I think it's very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak."
He added: "This is a response to what they did they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that's what this one is."
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Jun 9
Trump also told me its an open question whether Netanyahu will run for re-election, wondering, “If Bibi even wants to continue."
"I don't know, he's had an amazing career. Does he want to continue? Because, you know he's a wartime prime minister. We will very shortly win the war one way or the other, and you know he's a wartime prime minister."
He continued: "That's okay, just like I'm a wartime president.”
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Jun 9
When I spoke to Trump last night (before the Knicks game), he offered a slightly different version of his call with Netanyahu, saying he did directly ask him to hold of on attacking Iran. This is how he described what he said Netanyahu:
“I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt the deal, but I said, ‘You have to use your own judgment.’ Just go out and use your own judgment, but I don't want the deal to be hurt.”
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He said the Israeli counterattack Sunday was "unnecessary" but that he understood why Israel did it.
"They wanted to show retribution," he said. "When you get attacked, there really has to be retribution."
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"I like the noise of democracy." - James Buchanan
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"Of all knaves, the religious knave is the worst."
- Franklin Pierce
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Kyle Clark asked Colorado GOP candidate for governor Victor Marx whether voters should believe he’s lived "one of the most extraordinary lives in human history," or whether he’s "a liar and a fraud."
John Oliver: “That might be the first event in history won by the moderator.”
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