Imagine being a journalist writing this about your fellow journalists who were terminated, saying they deserved to get 'weeded out' for 'not doing a whole lot of work for a long time'

Michael Cohen is not a fan of CNN legal analyst Elie Honig.

Cohen: “There’s something very wrong with Elie Honig, to be honest. There’s something really fundamentally f*cked up with this guy.”

One of many WSJ layoffs:

Ben Kesling was a US Marine infantry officer who served in Iraq & Afghanistan. As an award-winning WSJ reporter for 10 yrs, he was shot at, tear-gassed and spat on.

Ben tells me he was laid off 'in less time than it takes to microwave a Salisbury steak.'

This is … something (from Matthew Belloni’s newsletter)

Those flipping back and forth between CNN, Fox and MSNBC will notice that MSNBC's juror deliberation clock is approximately two hours behind the other two.

I am told that's because the network paused the clock while juror instructions and testimony were read back this morning.

This has been rumored for years. Sorry, but- no tape, no story. thedailybeast.com/trump-called-a… via The Daily Beast

I have officially requested the New York State court system turn the WiFi off and on again on behalf of the Fourth Estate and the nation at large

We do more than just news at The Washington Post

give 👏 judge jeanine 👏 more 👏 room

Starting to keep track of human-named dogs I meet in the Capitol Hill area. So far we have:

Barry
Bob
Martin
Theodore
Russell
Max
Jessica
Hildy
Harriet
Penelope
Bernadette
Oliver
Leila
Minnie

Donald Trump's criminal trial is off on Wednesdays.

On those days, Justice Juan Merchan presides over Manhattan's mental health court, offering an alternative to incarceration for a select few.

I attended for a couple of weeks. I was the only journalist there.

Interestingly, Bret Baier is only the 6th most trusted anchor/host at Fox News, according to this THR/Morning Consult poll hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

I'd be somewhat skeptical of this report out of Russia saying Tucker Carlson will have a show on Russian state TV.

The station it's supposed to be on, Russia 24, ran a promo last year as if this were happening, and it was firmly denied*.

(* But, of course, who knows with

The story called out here doesn't rely 'almost entirely on anonymous sources.' It cites group text messages; sources got anonymity to hand them over, but the Post confirmed the names/messages.
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