UFOs

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Playbook: UFO fever grips Washington (Politico)

With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross. President Joe Biden listens as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting in the.

[enjoying her Eagles’ Super Bowl run](https://apnews.com/article/biden-kansas-city-chiefs-philadelphia-eagles-mlb-politics-256e15924e43fde60e476d011afa078d). [“‘A serious committee’: Lawmakers have high bipartisan hopes for China panel as tensions rise,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-serious-committee-lawmakers-high-bipartisan-hopes-china-panel-tension-rcna70109) by NBC’s Scott Wong: “The China committee’s two leaders — Chair MIKE GALLAGHER, R-Wis., and ranking member RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI, D-Ill. Kushner’s firm structured those funds in such a way that it did not have to disclose the source, according to previously unreported details of Securities and Exchange Commission forms reviewed by The Washington Post.” It Could Be His Final Act in Washington,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-help-committee.html) by NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Independent Vermont Sen. [“Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/) by WaPo’s Josh Dawsey: “The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. MIKE ROUNDS (R-S.D.) on Medicare and Social Security proposals, on “State of the Union”: “I think Sen. JIM HIMES (D-Conn.) on the origins of the objects that have been shot down this week, on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “In an absence of information, people will fill that gap with anxiety and other stuff. SPENCER COX on the culture wars, on “Meet the Press”: “There’s some data that came out this past week to show that especially conservatives, we don't know how to disagree anymore. CHRIS SUNUNU on if he will be a “culture warrior” like other Republican governors, on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “No, we have to talk about that, but it isn’t the government’s role to solve it. Biden and Trudeau “discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin,” according to the White House. That change does not yet fully answer what is going on, the official cautioned, and whether stepping back to look at more data is yielding more hits — or if these latest incursions are part of a more deliberate action by an unknown country or adversary.” The “high-altitude airborne object” soon merited a phone call between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, and the two leaders agreed to take it out.

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