Good Tuesday Morning. Attorney General Holder Warns of the Threat Within & Speaker Pelosi's New Mission
-Pierre Thomas, on a Holder interview aired on "Good Morning America": '"What was uppermost on his mind ... is the alarming rise in the number of Americans who are more than willing to attack and kill their fellow citizens. 'It is one of the things that keeps me up at night,' Holder said. 'You didn't worry about this even two years ago -- about individuals, about Americans, to the extent that we now do. And that is of great concern.
... The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born' ...
In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, fifty of those people are American citizens." http://abcn.ws/dUR7fY
SPEAKER PELOSI SITS DOWN WITH DAVID ROGERS: "'Every minute is a new minute to me,' says Nancy Pelosi, and, with boxes packed in the hall outside, the soon-to-be-former speaker has already jumped ahead to her vision of the 'humming, whirling entity' House Democrats can still be in the coming Congress. 'I'm obviously devastated by the loss we had,' she will admit, but expect no tears, no retreat on health care reform.
Pelosi mourns the Democratic talent lost but not her gavel. And on this particular Friday afternoon, she skipped President Obama's signing ceremony for his tax deal with the new Republican powers and instead drew her energy from a morning meeting with the fresh crop of ranking Democrats on House committees. ... 'I'm a professional' was a recurring theme in her half-hour interview with POLITICO. 'You don't say, "I'm the speaker, so I should be the speaker forever."
I had this opportunity. What did we accomplish with it in the time we had? Now, as leader, how do we protect what we have done? It's not about an office or gavel.' ... There's some denial, to be sure. ... Pelosi repeatedly spoke of her ranking Democrats as committee 'chairmen' when they won't be in the new Congress. ... And by her reckoning, little or nothing about November's losses can be attributed to the enactment of health care reform." http://bit.ly/hU4VMt
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... The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born' ...
In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, fifty of those people are American citizens." http://abcn.ws/dUR7fY
SPEAKER PELOSI SITS DOWN WITH DAVID ROGERS: "'Every minute is a new minute to me,' says Nancy Pelosi, and, with boxes packed in the hall outside, the soon-to-be-former speaker has already jumped ahead to her vision of the 'humming, whirling entity' House Democrats can still be in the coming Congress. 'I'm obviously devastated by the loss we had,' she will admit, but expect no tears, no retreat on health care reform.
Pelosi mourns the Democratic talent lost but not her gavel. And on this particular Friday afternoon, she skipped President Obama's signing ceremony for his tax deal with the new Republican powers and instead drew her energy from a morning meeting with the fresh crop of ranking Democrats on House committees. ... 'I'm a professional' was a recurring theme in her half-hour interview with POLITICO. 'You don't say, "I'm the speaker, so I should be the speaker forever."
I had this opportunity. What did we accomplish with it in the time we had? Now, as leader, how do we protect what we have done? It's not about an office or gavel.' ... There's some denial, to be sure. ... Pelosi repeatedly spoke of her ranking Democrats as committee 'chairmen' when they won't be in the new Congress. ... And by her reckoning, little or nothing about November's losses can be attributed to the enactment of health care reform." http://bit.ly/hU4VMt
Go to POLITICO Playbook Now >> http://www.politico.com/playbook
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