memeorandum: ‘This Week’ Transcript 1-2-22: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Rep. Liz Cheney, Rep. Bennie Thompson & Mayor Eric Adams (Susan Walsh/ABC News)

4:55 PM ET, January 2, 2022

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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:

Republican Liz Cheney calls Trump ‘clearly unfit for future office’ — Rep. Liz Cheney said Jan. 6 panel gives her “hope.” — Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the top Republican on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, said former President Donald Trump is …

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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:

Majority of Americans think Jan. 6 attack threatened democracy: POLL — Most Americans condemn it and believe Trump is at least partially to blame. — Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a strong majority of Americans condemn it and believe former President Donald Trump is at least partially to blame.

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CBS News:

Full transcript: Representative Liz Cheney on “Face the Nation,” January 2, 2022 — The following is the full transcript of an interview with Representative Liz Cheney that aired Sunday, January 2, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” — MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION.

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Susan Walsh / ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 1-2-22: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Rep. Liz Cheney, Rep. Bennie Thompson & Mayor Eric Adams

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David Cohen / Politico: Liz Cheney on Trump: He's a threat to American democracy

David Catanese / The Atlantic: Trump Is Making the Midterms a Referendum on Himself

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trigger Warning: It's My Brother's Turn Again

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Davey Alba / New York Times:

Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account — The social media service said the Republican congresswoman had violated its policy on coronavirus misinformation. — Twitter on Sunday permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene …

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Doha Madani / NBC News:

Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account — Twitter suspended a personal account for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after “repeated violations” of the Covid-19 misinformation policy, the company said Sunday. — “We permanently suspended the account you referenced …

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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Twitter permanently suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account over covid-19 misinformation

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Insider:
Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation

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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
One of Marjorie Taylor Greene's verified Twitter accounts permanently suspended from Twitter

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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

America gave up on truly educating all its kids. Then Jan. 6 happened. Coincidence? — You would never expect a weeks-long trial in Harrisburg about such an important yet super-complicated issue — whether wide disparities in school funding across rural, urban, and suburban school districts …

David Siders / Politico:

At time of Capitol prayer service Jan. 6, Trump will deliver remarks doubling down on the ‘Big Lie’ — Donald Trump has already telegraphed the remarks he plans to give at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. — If he follows the script laid …

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Richard Milne / Financial Times:

Finland insists has right to join Nato, defying Russia's demands — Moscow's military build-up on Ukraine border and its security conditions fires up debate in Baltics — Russia's sabre-rattling in Ukraine has reignited the debate in Finland as to whether the Nordic country should join Nato …

Presidentti:

President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö's New Year's Speech on 1 January 2022 — “My perhaps somewhat outdated understanding of the mutual relations between us people is that we need more good will, more willingness to understand one another and more humility before higher values.”

David French / The Dispatch:

The Places Where Truth Goes To Die — How we wall ourselves off from reality. — Late last week I had an experience that's both completely normal and fundamentally absurd. It was this-I spent a ridiculous amount of time agonizing over the wording of a simple Twitter thread.

Jeff Stein / Washington Post:

Fauci says U.S. officials may soon add testing component to new 5-day isolation period — The Biden administration has faced criticism for shortening the isolation period without requiring a negative test result — Anthony S. Fauci said Sunday that U.S. health officials are considering recommending …

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Washington Post:

Winter storm warning for several inches of snow in D.C. area Monday, falling heavily at times — Our initial call is for 2 to 6 inches, but more or less is possible. Travel could be very difficult in the morning. — * Winter storm warning for the District and adjacent counties from 1 …

Samir Beharic / Haaretz:

Orban's Sinister anti-Muslim Hatemongering Now Threatens Lives in Bosnia — Hungary's Orban refuses to accept Muslims can be Europeans. His bigotry, and his collusion with Serbian nationalists, are provoking another war, while the backlash from fellow EU states is barely audible — Zen Read

Zahra Tayeb / Insider:

Former general urges Trump supporters in the military to stop listening to ‘the pillow guy’ Mike Lindell — A former military general took aim at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a recent CNN interview. — Steven M. Anderson suggested that Trump supporters should “stop listening to the pillow guy.”

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