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@CNN correspondent covering the Pentagon and national security. natasha.bertrand@cnn.com. Signal: Natashabertrand.12

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1Jul 20, '17Pretty savage @CNN push alert.7.5×097k36k2
2Sep 7, '19BREAKING: House Oversight is investigating whether US military expenditures have been propping up Trump Turnberry. A peculiar refueling stop in Glasgow by a US Air Force crew, who 4.7×045k23k742
3Mar 12, '22Zelensky today: “You are asking me how’s the situation on the front line … there’s a front line everywhere. A few small towns just don’t exist anymore. And this is a tragedy. They 4.4×070k14k311
4May 25, '22Beto O'Rourke just got up in the middle of the press conference to confront Texas Gov Abbott directly and the police have just escorted him out.4.2×076k6.9k285
5Feb 25, '22Zelensky: “Today I asked the 27 leaders of Europe whether Ukraine will be in NATO, I asked directly. Everyone is afraid, does not answer. And we are not afraid, we are not afraid o3.9×066k9.4k468
6Sep 9, '19BREAKING: The US Air Force has ordered a sweeping review of its use of Trump resorts for overnight crew accommodations. It comes as POLITICO uncovers yet another overnight stay at 3.6×041k16k264
7Jan 26, '18To recap: Trump asked Comey for loyalty; asked him to drop the Flynn probe; fired Comey; pressured Sessions not to recuse; pressured Sessions to fire McCabe; pressured Coats, Roger3.4×037k17k3
8Oct 14, '19NEW: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting secretive talks & off-the-record dinners with conservative influencers in recent months to discuss free speech and partnershi3.1×024k16k566
9Jul 23, '19FBI Director Chris Wray: FBI has made about 100 domestic terrorism arrests this year—more than last year. A majority of the suspects are motivated by some version of white supremac3.0×035k15k233
10May 25, '22Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Dept of Public Safety tells @andersoncooper the shooter crashed his car near the school, got out with a gun and wearing body armor, was engaged by l3.0×025k9k1.2k
11Nov 18, '20One way this could backfire for Trump: As a government official, Krebs had been forbidden from speaking to the Biden transition team. Nothing stopping him from doing so now, and he2.8×049k6.8k134
12Mar 3, '22President Zelensky this morning said foreign fighters have begun to arrive in Ukraine to help battle the Russians. “Ukraine is already greeting foreign volunteers. (The) first 16,02.8×048k6.7k169
13Sep 4, '18Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Parkland shooting, tells @cnn that Kavanaugh not only wouldn’t shake his hand—he asked security to remove Guttenberg from the hearing, a2.8×026k15k62
14Mar 1, '22Zelensky is now addressing the European Parliament. The European Parliament translator is getting emotional as he translates. "We are fighting for survival, but we are also fightin2.7×049k5.9k237
15Feb 24, '22Breaking: @mchancecnn with Russian forces at the Antonov airport about 15 miles outside of Kyiv. "These troops you can see over here, they are Russian airborne forces. They have ta2.6×029k11k1.5k
16Nov 19, '19Nunes: "Mr. Vindman," -- Vindman: "Lt. Col. Vindman, please."2.6×046k5.5k69
17Feb 10, '18DACA wasn’t established until June 2012.2.5×031k12k2
18Dec 17, '20SCOOP/BREAKING NEWS: The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed the2.4×019k10k723
19Jan 14, '20Um holy sh*t. This certainly makes it sound like Parnas and co. were actively tracking Yovanovitch's movements. This could explain why Yovanovitch was moved out of Ukraine so quick2.4×024k11k536
20Mar 3, '22In presser today from Kyiv, Zelensky repeated call to NATO for no-fly zone: “How long do you need? How many arms and legs and heads should be severed so that you understand?...If y2.3×037k6.8k168
21Jul 4Some personal news 🥰 See you all in November 🩷🩷2.3×233k4.5k15648
22Apr 4, '20BREAKING: Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, saying he no longer has confidence in him. He will be removed 30 days from now.2.3×020k9.5k215
23Oct 20, '20News: More than 50 former senior intelligence officials, including ex-Trump admin officials like Russ Travers, have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the Biden emai2.2×026k9.8k419
24Apr 13, '20.@kaitlancollins to Trump: "You said when someone is President of the United States, their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?"2.2×035k6.2k144
25Jan 29, '18Just today: Trump admin declined to impose new Russia sanctions, a top FBI official probing Trump&Russia was forced out, and House Intel R's voted to release a classified memo 2.2×019k13k1
26Jan 12, '19Stepping back for a minute: If no other reporting existed on Trump/Russia, the fact that the FBI started a CI investigation to determine whether or not the sitting president of the2.2×027k9.7k118
27Feb 2, '18Some news: Devin Nunes’ Democratic opponent, @JanzforCongress, raised over $100,000 today alone with news of the memo release, per a senior campaign aide.2.2×029k8.9k4
28Oct 19, '20NEW: Trump was receiving one of his first codeword classified briefings on Afghanistan, at his Bedminster club, when he suddenly got bored and ordered milkshakes. The incident beca2.1×025k8.4k642
30Apr 6, '20JUST IN: Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was fired by Trump on Friday. “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me2.0×025k9.2k402
31Jun 26, '20Holy cow. “The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, t2.0×019k10k323
32Jan 4, '21Raffensperger adviser to @MarcACaputo on why they recorded their call with Trump: “Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided m2.0×025k8.4k300
33Mar 12, '18Russia deployed a military grade nerve agent in a city of 40,000 people. Chemical warfare experts were sent to the scene and hundreds of people may have been poisoned. In England. 2.0×019k12k50
34Dec 7, '18Andrew McCabe, who was targeted by Trump relentlessly until Sessions fired him earlier this year just days before he was set to retire/eligible to receive a pension, opened an obst2.0×027k8k64
35Jun 23, '20A bombshell statement to Congress from Aaron Zelinsky, the prosecutor in the Roger Stone case who says he withdrew because of “wrongful political pressure”:1.9×022k10k248
36Aug 28, '18New: Devin Nunes flew to the U.K. this month to gather intel on Chris Steele from MI5, MI6, & GCHQ. But the agencies—wary that he was “trying to stir up a controversy," per a s1.9×019k8.4k94
37Jan 15, '19Wow. Former top DOJ counterintel official @DavidLaufmanLaw on the recent Trump/Russia revelations: “The evidence points to the inference—and it’s a painful thing to acknowledge—tha1.9×022k8.8k101
38Aug 13, '20👀"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandes1.8×021k8.1k290
39Mar 13, '20Omg this ⁦@anitakumar01⁩ story. Jared Kushner asked model Karlie Kloss’ dad (his brother’s father in law) for suggestions to fight coronavirus, so he turned to a Facebook group for1.8×016k8.6k462
40May 2, '18Can you *imagine* what the right’s reaction would be if it came out that Obama or Clinton had, during an election, dictated a letter about their health to their personal doctor who1.8×026k6.4k31
41Mar 25, '17Bannon walked into Freedom Caucus meeting,said "This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill." And then...(ht @axios)1.8×019k9.1k0
42Nov 12, '21Breaking on @CNN: Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been indicted by a federal grand jury.1.7×029k3.2k78
43Oct 30, '18NEW: The Special Counsel's office was made aware of a scheme to pay off women to make up sexual harassment claims against Mueller. It has referred the scheme to the FBI. STORY:1.7×015k8.5k128
44Mar 5, '18! Tapper: Do you think Donald Trump knew nothing about that [Trump Tower] meeting? Nunberg: "No. You know he knew about it. He was talking about it a week before...I don't know why1.7×019k7.8k28
45Jan 30, '20New: Newly released video shows indicted Giuliani associate Igor Fruman with RNC chief Ronna McDaniel. She hugs him during a Trump event at Mar a Lago and says she's "so glad" he's1.6×017k8.1k154
46Jul 31, '20NEWS: Pelosi admonished top counterintel official Evanina during private briefing this a.m., accusing him of withholding info about Russia. Evanina ultimately acknowledged that Rus1.6×017k8.9k225
47Aug 7, '18Republican Senators who have visited Moscow in the past month (None of whom are running in 2018): Rand Paul Richard Shelby Steve Daines John Hoeven John Kennedy Jerry Moran John Th1.6×015k9k89
48Jul 6, '19Oh boy. Britain's man in the the US says Trump is 'inept' and potentially compromised by “dodgy Russians”—Cables from ambassador say he is 'dysfunctional'1.6×020k6.1k119
49Jun 4, '18It always surprises me when Sanders refuses to answer a question, ignores requests for follow-up, and the next reporter called on doesn’t pick up where their colleague left off.1.6×023k4.9k16
50Apr 7, '22Wow: Investigators searching the apartments of the 2 men who allegedly posed as DHS agents say they found a loaded Glock 19, disassembled long guns, sniper spotting equipment, ammu1.6×019k6k533
51Feb 19, '19Oh boy. Judge Amy Berman Jackson doesn't seem happy with Roger Stone.1.5×020k5.1k47
52Jan 18, '19NEW: In a shift, Dems will not necessarily wait for Mueller's findings to launch impeachment proceedings, I'm told. Barr's refusal to commit to publicizing Mueller's findings combi1.5×019k6.5k115
53Dec 4, '19Devin Nunes said just now on Hannity: “It’s possible” I talked to Lev Parnas. “l haven’t gone through all my phone records...I don’t really recall that name, I remember that name n1.5×018k4.2k75
54Dec 30, '18The Mueller investigation isn’t even 2 years old. Whitewater went on for nearly 8 years. Iran contra, nearly 7. And every part of it has been serious. This isn’t hard.1.5×020k5.9k60
55Jan 11, '21Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on Trump's NSC (you may recall her impeachment testimony last year), does not often speak out publicly. "I’ve been studying authoritarian reg1.4×017k6.7k577
56Nov 1, '19NEW: Days after White House lawyer John Eisenberg moved record of Trump call w/Zelensky into top secret system, he instructed Lt. Col. Vindman—who listened to the call & raised1.4×016k6.9k116
57Nov 7, '20Folks, we have a Mariachi band1.4×023k3.4k227
58Oct 28, '19Gen. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells reporters he doesn't know where Trump got his information that Baghdadi was "whimpering and crying" when he died. "I don't1.4×017k5.2k80
59Mar 9, '21“The reverse happened. HE bit ME”1.4×025k2.9k172
60Jun 4, '18Trump didn't seem to think the appointment of a special prosecutor was unconstitutional when he was threatening HRC with one.1.4×019k5.8k22
61Apr 12, '22Biden tells reporters that he referred to what is happening in Ukraine as a genocide earlier today because “it’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out ev1.4×022k3.8k75
62Jun 1, '20Just in—Any push by Trump to readmit Russia to the G7 would be vetoed by the U.K., Boris Johnson's official spokesperson said Monday.1.4×019k4.8k73
64Dec 20, '19he is innocent case closed1.4×023k3.3k180
65May 26, '22News: The Biden admin is preparing to send Ukraine advanced, long-range rocket systems—known as MLRS and HIMARS—that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple offi1.3×019k3.6k201
66Mar 4, '22New: Zelensky in late night address tonight slams NATO over ruling out no-fly zone. “This is the self-hypnosis of those who are weak, insecure inside, despite the fact they possess1.3×021k3.6k129
67Aug 10, '18Huh. 15k per month is what Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller has been getting from the RNC.1.3×015k6.4k43
68Sep 13, '18Wow. Why would anyone feel the need to leak this? He was murdered in his own home.1.3×019k3.8k9
69Jan 16, '20WOW: “Attorney General Barr was basically on the team,” Parnas tells @maddow of the Toensing-diGenova-Giuliani Ukraine scheme.1.3×018k4.9k45
70Jul 16, '18Unreal. Asked whether he would hold Russia accountable for literally anything, Trump DOES NOT MENTION GEORGIA, MH-17, CRIMEA, UKRAINE, OR ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Says the US and Rus1.3×015k6k43
71Mar 4, '19🚨OH boy. The government has notified Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Roger Stone's Instagram story from yesterday, where he shared an image that claimed he was framed.1.3×015k5k39
72Jan 18, '20“There's no reason for the National Archives to ever digitally alter a historic photograph," Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley said. "If they don't want to use a specific 1.3×016k5.5k57
73Aug 26, '20BREAKING: Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, Alex Vindman's twin brother who served as a senior NSC ethics official, has filed a complaint w/DoD IG raising concerns that he was retaliated a1.3×017k5.3k81
74Apr 26, '18Comey, asked whether he thought it was significant that Trump lied about not staying overnight in Moscow, says “it’s always significant when someone lies, especially about somethin1.3×018k5.1k22
75Sep 7, '19BREAK: THE AIR FORCE has just confirmed to us that seven C-17 crew members stayed at Turnberry in March. Air Force ops & spending in Scotland are still under investigation, a s1.2×015k6k65
76Jan 11, '21FBI agents have been going door-to-door in D.C. asking residents for any photos/doorbell footage they might have that could help them identify the individual suspected of planting 1.2×019k4.2k98
77May 1, '19Something I'm hearing from lots of former DOJ/FBI folks tonight is just how rare & significant it is for a DOJ official, especially an institutionalist like Mueller, to "go to 1.2×015k5.4k102
78Jan 24, '20Trump has claimed he doesn't know Parnas, but here he is apparently giving him a direct order to "get rid of" a U.S. ambassador.1.2×015k5.6k70
79Jan 15, '19🧐 Barr says "I don't recall" getting any confidential information about the investigation. Doesn't recall?1.2×016k4.2k21
80Apr 5, '22Zelensky tells the UN to stop Russia or dissolve itself. "Please show how we can reform or change and work for peace. Or if there is no alternative and no option, then the next opt1.2×020k3.2k63
81Mar 1, '22The presidents of Estonia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia published an open letter on Monday urging the EU to immediately grant Ukraine candid1.2×021k2.9k83
82May 3, '18Boom. Giuliani just told Hannity that Trump paid Cohen back the 130k for the Stormy agreement.1.2×015k3.8k12
83Mar 17, '19Wrong. McCain’s associate David Kramer wasn’t briefed on the dossier until after the election, in late November 2016. Kramer then returned to the US and gave a copy to McCain, who 1.2×015k4.9k61
84Feb 10, '20In other news...Lt. Col. Alex Vindman's brother Yevgeny has still gotten "no explanation whatsoever" for his firing from NSC on Friday, source w/direct knowledge tells me.1.1×015k5k29
85Mar 14, '22Just in: President Zelensky has informed the Council of Europe that he is now unable to address them given urgent matters in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Prime Minister will address 1.1×019k3.1k115
86Dec 3, '19Lev Parnas’ lawyer 👇🏼1.1×016k4.4k47
87Jul 24, '19Noteworthy: Mueller says "yes" when asked whether Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office.1.1×016k3.9k30
88Nov 15, '19Reminder: Devin Nunes didn’t attend Yovanovitch’s closed-door testimony.1.1×017k3.6k23
89Nov 11, '18It’s official: Rohrabacher has lost re-election for the first time in 2 decades. Republicans declined to make his House Intel testimony public in the weeks leading up to the electi1.1×015k4.3k28
90Nov 30, '20Biden will receive the PDB tomorrow, per guidance from the transition team.1.1×021k1.2k15
91Aug 6, '19BREAK: Former FBI agent Peter Strzok is suing DOJ and FBI over his firing, which he calls politically motivated and a violation of his 1st and 5th amendment rights. Also alleges DO1.1×014k4k44
92May 15, '18News: Judge in Manafort case has DENIED his motion to dismiss special counsel's superseding indictment. The indictment "falls squarely within that portion of the authority granted 1.1×015k4.3k15
93Jan 4, '21Top Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, calls today "anti-disinformation Monday" and is now walking through Trump's voter fraud claims and debunking them in a1.1×018k2.8k76
94Jun 3, '18Why wouldn’t the Trump campaign have told the FBI that they had secretly met with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton?1.0×015k4.1k16
95Feb 6, '19In related news, House Intel is voting shortly to send 50+ witness interview transcripts to Mueller "so that he consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted."1.0×016k3.5k18
96Nov 23, '19Democratic Rep. Adam Smith said on @amjoyshow that it’s “quite likely” there will be an ethics investigation into Devin Nunes’ meetings/relationship with Lev Parnas. @MSNBC1.0×015k3.4k28
97Dec 11, '18Periodic reminder that Michael Cohen was Hannity’s lawyer1.0×015k3.6k25
98Nov 15, '18Just called Jack Burkman to see if he knew anything about Surefire Intelligence and Avenatti. He said no. So I asked him whatever happened to the Mueller accuser and he hung up on 1.0×015k3.7k20
99Mar 26, '22“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden says, referring to Putin, as he closes out major speech in Poland.1.0×017k1.9k63
100Nov 13, '18CNN and @Acosta are suing the White House for taking away his press credentials.0.9×015k2.4k7
101Nov 19, '20Biden says the transition team has not ruled out legal action against the GSA over their refusal to ascertain the president-elect.0.9×015k1.7k18

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