New: Elon Musk will be deposed on Monday as part of the arbitration hearings involving thousands of former Twitter employees. The deposition will be in-person and last for seven hours, according to an email sent to former employees. Story w/ Ed Ludlow

NEW: Biden’s team thinks they’re “entitled” and often “failing” in their coverage.

The NYT says the WH isn’t “being realistic” and has grown frustrated they can’t get an Oval Office interview.

A look at how this relationship deteriorated.

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Spotted at Cindy Adams’s 94th birthday party at her Park Avenue apartment: Kathy Hochul, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Woody and Soon Yi, Al Sharpton, Kellyanne Conway, Bill O’Reilly, Don Lemon, Robert Thomson, Keith Poole, Al Sharpton.

It was like the New York Post come alive.

Just in: Ted Cruz sold ~$500K of Goldman Sachs $GS

The sale was made by Cruz's wife, a Managing Director at the bank

According to QuiverQuant, this is the largest trade Cruz has ever made

Striking that in new Quinnipiac University Poll Biden & Trump are 46-46 in trial heat tho only 35% (!) say they approve of Biden's performance. Biden vote running 11 pts ahead of his approval measures resistance to Trump. But big Biden disapproval mean he's climbing from a deep hole

2024 race a dead heat: #PresidentBiden 46%, #DonaldTrump 46%; support for legal abortion reaches all-time high bit.ly/49FIKqM #Election2024

Question on MSNBC just now on why Trump hasn’t attacked Pecker. My guess is that from Trump’s vantage point, Pecker has a lot of power, bc he can create stories (including negative and even fake ones) about HIM! So he has power/leverage; not in Trump’s interest to antagonize him.…

Politico stirring the pot, musing on Pete Buttigieg and Lina Khan as a 2028 ticket.

President Biden’s re-election campaign says it plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, despite the president signing a law that would ban the platform nationwide if its parent company doesn’t sell it in that timeframe. nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have become key players for Donald Trump's transition team and would focus on ensuring that government jobs are filled by Republicans aligned with their father's vision for the party.
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SCOOP: Looks like Trump has been using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to keep some of the attorneys he’s paying hidden from the public. It’s an $8 million mystery—and experts say it’s probably illegal. Me The Daily Beast
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RFK used to say “hang a lantern on your problems.”

Trump fundraises off of them, too —especially his legal woes

So he raised $5.6m online from small dollar donors during his first week in trial, per sources

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NEW: Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes wrote a letter to four Republican House committee chairs asking them to probe possible 'manipulation' of $DJT stock price.

w/ Kevin Breuninger
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Filings: in 2024, ByteDance and TikTok spent $7M+ combined on lobbying against the US TikTok bill; AdImpact: TikTok spent $4.5M+ on TV and digital ad campaigns (@schwartzbcnbc / CNBC)

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Protests are ramping up in college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war. Brian Schwartz reports on how billionaires like Robert Kraft and Leon Cooperman are weighing their support for Columbia University.

Coming up shortly on Last Call w/ Brian Sullivan to talk about what’s going on with top donors to Columbia and Yale as the schools face protests.

NEW: New York businessman Andy Sabin tells me he’s hit pause on funding Yale projects and awards.
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Fact: During the first quarter of 2024, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, employed 47 federal lobbyists — one for every 11 members of Congress.

It spent a near-record $2.68M on lobbying between January and March.

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ByteDance, TikTok shelled out $7 million on lobbying and ads to combat potential U.S. ban cnbc.com/2024/04/23/byt…

Brian Schwartz the investors in ByteDance drop this one sitting. This is peanuts to the real money being spent.

NEW: TikTok US & ByteDance combined to spend over $7 million on a mix of lobbying + advertising in an effort to try to stop Congress from passing TikTok legislation

ByteDance lobbyists targeted Congress & Joe Biden exec office
Senate likely to vote today
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