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Philip Rucker

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CNN Senior Vice President, Editorial Strategy and News. Co-author of No. 1 NYT bestsellers “I Alone Can Fix It” + “A Very Stable Genius.” Ex-Wash Post + MSNBC.

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1Oct 4, '18Heidi Heitkamp's brother Joel on MSNBC: "She may lose. But in the morning, when she's brushing her teeth, she needs to like the person she sees."3.6×046k9.5k35
2Sep 1, '18Literally every Washington power player -- Democratic and Republican, past and present -- is at McCain's funeral, except the sitting president, who is tweeting his grievances about3.2×037k9.5k49
3Jul 2, '19The National Park Service is diverting $2.5 million, which is collected by entrance fees to pay for improvements at parks nationwide, to fund Trump's July 4 spectacle -- to which h3.2×015k14k228
4May 19, '20“He’s our president and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group —3.0×040k6.3k134
5Jun 7, '20Notably Colin Powell in @jaketapper interview doesn’t just eviscerate Trump for lying, dividing and threatening the Constitution, but also condemns GOP lawmakers for not speaking u3.0×038k9.3k96
6Jan 14, '21Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells @HallieJackson on @MSNBC that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in da2.6×030k7.7k208
7Jan 10, '21To recap: -Trump pressured Pence to subvert the vote, which VP can’t do -Trump told his supporters to march on the Capitol, where Pence was doing his constitutional duty -They chan2.6×032k7.8k284
8Dec 11, '18Trump: “Nancy’s in a situation where it’s not easy for her to talk” Pelosi: “Mr. President, please don’t characterize the strength that I bring to this meeting as the leader of the2.6×033k6.8k50
9Sep 1, '18Obama, in McCain eulogy, condemns today's politics that are "mean" and "petty," and based on "bombast, insult, phony controversies and manufactured outrage." This politics, he says2.5×031k7.7k66
10Dec 5, '20The Washington Post surveyed all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate. Only 25 would acknowledge that Joe Biden is president-elect.2.5×020k5.2k297
11Aug 5, '19Trump’s campaign still owes the city of El Paso more than $500,000 in fees associated with his February rally. County commissioner calls the debt “ridiculous and unconscionable.”2.4×021k9.9k89
12May 31, '20Trump and advisers calculated that he shouldn’t speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to2.3×020k8.6k362
13Nov 6, '20Keep in mind Trump is reading his speech from a prepared text, which presumably means that a number of aides helped him compose this litany of lies and attacks on the integrity of 2.3×031k5.1k88
14Jan 6, '21Watching returns from Georgia, it’s hard not to think about the hundreds of election workers who again tonight are carefully doing democracy’s business under unprecedented scrutiny2.3×034k4.6k55
15Jul 14, '19During the 2016 campaign, whenever Trump made racist or xenophobic comments there was a small but reliable chorus of Republican office holders who spoke out. Today, there’s silence2.2×028k5.9k47
16Jan 4, '19So much to chew over in Trump’s Rose Garden speech, but I’m stuck on this: He claimed previous presidents have told him they wish they’d built a border wall. Really? Obama? Bush 432.2×024k5.6k30
17May 17, '20Obama: “Do what you think is right. Doing what feels good—what’s convenient, what’s easy—that’s how little kids think. Unfortunately a lot of so-called grown-ups, including some wi2.2×030k5.6k100
18Mar 23, '20Asked why Dr. Fauci isn't at today's briefing, Trump said, "He's not here because we weren't discussing what he's best at." Fauci is best at mitigating infectious diseases, accordi2.1×027k5.8k107
19Aug 15, '18As Trump retaliates against political critics by revoking or reviewing their security clearances, it is worth remembering that the president himself revealed highly classified info2.1×023k8.3k22
20Aug 23, '19Trump spends a lot of time calling Democrats socialist, but a head of state ordering companies to do things is, well, socialism.2.1×022k6.7k99
21Apr 30, '20Since the U.S. death toll surpassed 60,000 yesterday, Trump has tweeted about: -Michael Flynn -CNN -MSNBC -Brian Williams -Don Lemon -Joe Scarborough -Sweden -Roger Stone -His poll2.0×019k7k118
22Nov 8, '18The president has not tweeted about the caravan “invasion” since before the election.1.9×022k5.7k23
23Apr 27, '20U.S. intelligence agencies warned Trump more than a dozen times in the President’s Daily Brief during January and February, the period during which Trump dismissed the danger, @gre1.9×016k8.3k332
24Apr 13, '20This briefing makes clear that the paramount concern for Trump is Trump — his self-image, what people write and say about him in the media, and whether he is praised or criticized.1.9×023k5.3k75
25May 31, '20Just in from @JoeBiden: “We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a natio1.9×023k5.6k58
26Mar 9, '20David Reminck, editor of @NewYorker, writes that coronavirus is forcing Americans to admit: “Donald Trump is incapable of truth, heedless of science, and hostage to the demands of 1.8×019k6.3k211
27Mar 11, '18The president of the United States is heaping praise on North Korea’s dictator and China’s “president for life,” but is attacking the free press and personally disparaging American1.8×018k7k18
28Jun 21, '18A Trump quote for the ages: “You ever notice they always call the other side 'the elite.' The elite! Why are they elite? I have a much better apartment than they do. I’m smarter th1.8×017k5.4k132
29Sep 25, '18Trump has long attacked Obama by claiming that the world was laughing at his leadership. Today, world leaders at the UN laughed at Trump's claim that his administration has accompl1.8×020k5.9k28
30Aug 15, '18John Brennan's public service: -CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia -CIA chief of staff -Director of Terrorist Threat Integration Center -Director of National Counter terrorism Cente1.7×017k6.3k33
31Mar 2, '20Just in --> A rare joint statement from Justice Dept, State Dept, FBI, intel agencies warning on the eve of Super Tuesday elections that "foreign actors continue to try to influ1.7×017k7.1k91
32Aug 4, '19Mick Mulvaney said multiple times in @jonkarl interview that Trump is angry and upset by El Paso shooting. But Americans haven’t seen the president since Friday. He’s been at his g1.7×018k5.6k30
33Jun 1, '18FWIW, the word Samantha Bee used (and other such words) was emblazoned on many a T-shirt worn and sold at Trump rallies throughout 2016 campaign1.7×018k6.2k28
34May 3, '18This is obvious, but still should be said: Giuliani’s reveal that Trump repaid Cohen $130,000 for hush money to Stormy Daniels renders the repeated denials to the American people f1.7×019k5.4k15
35Feb 28, '19Trump took Vladimir Putin at his word on Russian election interference. He took MBS at his word over the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. And today in Hanoi he took Kim Jong Un at1.7×013k6.9k95
36Nov 4, '18I’ve been to a #MAGA rally every night for the last five nights. I get why Trump thinks he’s hugely popular & his movement is history's biggest. There’s incredible energy &1.7×020k4.1k26
37Sep 16, '20It is striking — and rare — to see regular people confront the president with tough, challenging and urgent questions, and then to follow up or push back. Trump can’t simply yell “1.7×022k4k50
38Jan 7, '21Mitt Romney, who has endured years of Trump’s schoolyard taunts, and who withstood harassment at the airport yesterday by Trump’s mask-less supporters, receives sustained applause 1.7×026k2.6k77
39Mar 21, '20U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while Trump and lawmakers played down 1.7×013k6.7k169
40Oct 16, '20David Perdue has served with Kamala Harris in the Senate for four years. He knows how to properly pronounce her name.1.7×020k4.4k82
41Jul 8, '20Biden said of Trump at a fundraiser tonight: “Putin carries him around like a puppy in one of those little puppy cages.“1.6×022k3.9k31
42Feb 28, '19Trump says he believes Kim Jong Un was not responsible for what happened to Otto Warmbier. "Those prisons are rough...He tells me that he didn’t know about it and I will take him a1.6×017k4.6k49
43Jan 29, '20Wow, can’t believe it. Just found out #AVeryStableGenius debuted at No. 1. Thank you to everyone who’s reading our reporting!1.6×023k3.2k53
44Oct 13, '20Inbox: @Lin_Manuel and the original Broadway cast of Hamilton are doing a special performance and hosting a "Hamilton Town Hall" for Biden on Oct. 16.1.6×022k3.8k70
45Jun 5, '20CNN is not airing Trump’s Rose Garden statement and MSNBC just pulled away, noting that the president has been veering off into tangents.1.6×021k3.7k35
46Oct 27, '20“He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage,” Obama says of Trump1.6×023k3k44
47Mar 8, '20CPAC, which today confirmed an attendee was infected with coronavirus, is where then-acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney accused the press of hyping coronavirus, which 1.6×018k5k85
48Aug 10, '18Trump says NFL players are “unable to define” what they’re protesting. The players actually have been quite clear in articulating that they are protesting racial injustice and poli1.6×018k5.5k18
49Oct 31, '18The point of the trip was supposed to be Trump showing respect to Pittsburgh, not the reverse1.6×020k4.3k49
50Jan 9, '19Trump just said of government shutdown over border wall, now in third week: “This is not a fight I wanted. I didn’t want this fight.” Back in December, Trump said on camera, "I am 1.5×016k5.5k27
51Mar 13, '20Last night Trump told the nation: “We must put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify together as one nation and one family.”1.5×019k4k96
52Aug 15, '18Trump also is reviewing security clearances of James Clapper, James Comey, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. What do they have in 1.5×015k5.2k21
53Mar 12, '18Just watched the whole @60Minutes piece on Betsy DeVos. Pretty rough. @LesleyRStahl seemed to know more about the nation’s public schools than the education secretary.1.5×017k4.4k8
54Jul 25, '20The Ronald Reagan Foundation demands the Trump campaign quit using Reagan’s image and likeness in Trump’s reelection campaign — an intriguing @ktumulty scoop1.4×015k5k104
55Jul 24, '18Trump is not going to love how many empty seats there are for his speech at the VFW convention. Municipal Auditorium in downtown Kansas City is about half full.1.4×017k4k16
56Mar 14, '20The surgeon general is giving journalists “straight talk from the nation’s doctor” and instructing the press to have “no more bickering, no more partisanship, no more criticism or 1.4×018k3.7k33
57Aug 8, '19News via @BobMooreNews --> None of the eight victims still being treated at El Paso's University Medical Center agreed to meet with President Trump today when he visited the hos1.4×014k5.8k97
58Nov 20, '18A signal to dictators everywhere that they will face no consequences for brutally murdering journalists or critics because it’s simply “a mean, nasty world”1.4×014k5.5k32
59Sep 2, '20Just in: Joe and Jill Biden are going to Kenosha tomorrow to hold a “community meeting” to “bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face.”1.4×020k3.2k13
60Oct 19, '20Trump’s message two weeks out, based on call with staff: -Dr. Fauci is a “disaster” who is a “bomb” every time he’s on TV -Other health officials are “idiots” -Americans no longer 1.4×014k4.9k126
61Apr 19, '20You know what’s interesting about #GlobalCitizen? There has been zero mention of Trump. None. Nada. (At least in the first hour.) The president who’s been omnipresent was a non ent1.4×019k2.9k28
62Jun 1, '20In five years covering Trump, I haven't seen an hour like the past one: -Trump declares self "president of law and order" -Trump mobilizes military -Military police fire tear gas a1.4×016k4.8k151
63May 30, '19Trump has now deleted the tweet in which he stated, "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected."1.4×015k4.7k59
64Mar 29, '20Trump is losing his cool, again, with @Yamiche, who routinely gets under his skin with probing questions. The president wouldn’t let her state her question first before interruptin1.4×018k3.5k27
65Aug 13, '18Trump says Omarosa (a senior staffer paid $180,000 by taxpayers) skipped work, missed meetings, was vicious and not smart, but he kept her employed for a year because she said nice1.4×015k4.9k42
66Feb 12, '19Trump says El Paso's leaders are "full of crap" when they say the wall didn't lower crime. In fact, crime stats show El Paso was one of America's safest cities before fencing in la1.4×016k4.7k36
67Jun 1, '20There are curfews in place tonight in more American cities than he can count, Brian Williams says on MSNBC — more curfews than any time since MLK’s assassination in 1968. That’s wh1.4×015k4.6k101
68Dec 7, '18Two years ago, Rex Tillerson was chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, one of the most powerful industry titans in the world. Today, after being recruited to leave Exxon and join the gov1.3×015k3.8k34
69Dec 21, '18Lordy did @KFILE find a tape -- Mick Mulvaney, Trump's new White House chief of staff, said during the campaign that Trump's border wall idea was "simplistic" and "absurd and almos1.3×013k5.2k60
70May 4, '20The Lincoln Memorial is one of the nation’s most hallowed sites. It honors the president who freed slaves and united the country, and was host to civil rights history. Tonight Trum1.3×015k3.3k57
71Jul 10, '20Dr. Fauci: “As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not.”1.3×016k4k108
72Dec 12, '20So far this Saturday morning, the president has rage tweeted about: -Gov. Kemp -The Supreme Court -Gov. Ducey -AG Barr -The Bidens He also said he agrees with a radio host’s sugges1.3×016k2.6k51
73Aug 21, '19Overnight reaction from Danish leaders: “An insult” “Lacks even basic diplomatic skills” “Please show more respect” “An insult to the royal house” “A spoiled child” “Trump lives on1.2×013k4.4k101
74Apr 2, '18Worth reminding everyone that “caravans” of migrants crossing the border have nothing to do with DACA, a program for immigrants who arrived as kids years ago. Those who’ve come sin1.2×012k5.2k13
75Jan 13, '19America in 2019: The president, after spending the day tweeting alone in the White House, phones into a supporter’s Saturday night TV show and declines to say whether he is working1.2×014k4.3k28
76Dec 23, '18Christie on ABC says Trump is like your 72-year-old relative: “When people get older, they become more and more convinced of the fact that what they’re doing is the right thing and1.2×013k2.9k40
77May 16, '20On the firing of State Department inspector general Steve Linick, a White House official says, "Secretary Pompeo recommended the move, and President Trump agreed.” This is relevant1.2×013k4.5k67
78May 12, '18Five days at 1600 Pennsylvania: -First Lady launches #bebest campaign to teach kids to always put kindness first -White House communications staffer jokes about McCain being irrele1.2×013k4.6k15
79Jul 28, '19There’s a Jared Kushner connection to today’s Trump Baltimore story1.2×013k4.7k32
80Jul 24, '18Not all veterans of foreign wars hate the "fake news." One vet just came up to me after Trump's speech to shake my hand, thank me for my reporting and whispered, "I have one questi1.2×013k3.9k22
81Sep 13, '20The 2020 presidential election is 52 days away and Trump is on the campaign trail talking about 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton's emails and saying she and her lawyer should go to p1.1×013k2.9k41
82Dec 24, '18Just in from Pelosi and Schumer: “It's Christmas Eve and President Trump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market is tanking and the president is waging a personal war 1.1×013k3.9k25
83Apr 4, '20“It was incoherent, it was rambling, there’s no specifics, there’s boogeymen and grievances all over the place... It really looks almost mentally like he’s unraveling under pressur1.1×013k3.5k35
84Sep 25, '19Trump says Congress should ask for VP Pence's conversations with Zelensky.1.1×012k2.4k36
85Jan 25, '19To build a wall Trump has: -Delivered primetime Oval Office address -Toured the border -Shut the government down for 35 days -Warned of rapists, murderers, drugs, terrorists coming1.1×014k3k33
86Apr 21, '18Just observing that this is the morning of Barbara Bush’s funeral in Houston and the official presidential messages so far are about “flunkies,” “drunk/drugged up losers” and “the 1.1×012k3.6k10
87Aug 21, '20Brayden Harrington showed the nation incredible courage and strength tonight. Go, Brayden!1.1×016k2k38
88Jul 26, '18Just got off phone with a former Trump Org employee who echoed @KatyTurNBC reporting on Weisselberg subpoena: “Alan knows everything and anything about all the financials...He know1.1×012k3.8k25
89Mar 31, '20“As @Yamiche Alcindor stands and rams through her questions, she is becoming the symbol of American journalism: strong, unflappable and polite,” @ErikWemple writes1.1×014k2.8k46
90Feb 4, '19Can we just have Beyoncé and Lady Gaga alternate Super Bowls from now on?1.1×015k1.8k13
91Jun 7, '20“Black Lives Matter” — Mitt Romney1.0×015k2.4k41
92Apr 26, '20The president was convinced to pause the daily coronavirus briefings because advisers concluded his performances were damaging. But instead of adjusting his pandemic messaging, he’1.0×013k2.8k32
93Mar 31, '20The contrast between Trump and Cuomo in their daily briefings, on both substance and style, is extraordinary when you consider both executives are navigating the same pandemic, hav1.0×012k3k26
94Aug 19, '20“How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole — with love and understanding, and with small acts of kindness, with bravery, with unwavering faith” — 1.0×014k2.4k32
95Aug 27, '20“It didn’t have to be this bad,” Kamala Harris says of the coronavirus pandemic. “All we needed was a competent president.”1.0×014k2.6k11
96Apr 25, '20Putting things into perspective — In the midst of a pandemic claiming the lives of tens of thousands and the jobs of tens of millions, the president of the United States has determ1.0×012k2.8k42
97Nov 6, '20Brian Williams on why MSNBC cut away from Trump’s remarks tonight: “It was not rooted in reality — and at this point, where our country is, it’s dangerous.”0.9×013k2.1k51
98Dec 11, '18Trump did not like that Nancy Pelosi called it the "Trump Shutdown."0.9×012k1.8k5
99Nov 20, '20Mitt Romney once again says plainly what no other senior Republican will say0.9×013k1.5k37
100Sep 20, '18Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on my shuttle to NY this morning looking fab and reading her Washington Post. 🗞 Her fans were buzzing as RBG exited LaGuardia’s Delta terminal.0.9×013k1.5k6

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