White House threatens Democrats over plans to investigate Trump officials
- Newsrooms
- 20
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
8 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 20 newsrooms by 5:26pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time.
1File photo: White House
White House warns Democratic pledges to investigate president ‘may cross line into blatant criminality’The incoming Democratic chair of the powerful congressional oversight committee said it appears Donald Trump has “something to hide” after the White House threatened criminal investigatio
PBS News didn’t include a summary, so this is The Guardian’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia. The White House is also a metonym for the Executive Office of the President.4
The bigger story: Dem
3 developments since Sat 7 Nov. 1 more since this one.
White House threatens Democrats over plans to investigate Trump officials
You’re here20 newsrooms. Linked by Dem, investigations, potential
- Top Dem on committee fires back after White House counsel warns against overreach amid investigation threats
1 newsroom. Linked by White House, Dem, counsel
The story so far
20 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 26
- Newsrooms and sources
- 20
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (2 in the last three hours, 8 in the three before).
First with it: Semafor, 1 hr 32 min before anyone else.
Reported by 20 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 20
- Reports
- 26
- Over
- 11 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.9 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:45pm AEDT | Semafor | 1 |
| 1:17am AEDT | Bloomberg | 2 |
| 1:39am AEDT | The Hill | 3 |
| 1:45am AEDT | Washington Examiner | 4 |
| 2:57am AEDT | The Washington Times | 5 |
| 3:00am AEDT | The Washington Post | 6 |
| 3:15am AEDT | The New York Times | 7 |
| 3:53am AEDT | CBS News | 8 |
| 3:54am AEDT | The Guardian | 9 |
| 3:57am AEDT | The Daily Beast | 10 |
| 4:06am AEDT | PBS News | 11 |
| 5:00am AEDT | Mother Jones | 12 |
| 5:16am AEDT | Just the News | 13 |
| 5:20am AEDT | ABC News | 14 |
| 5:34am AEDT | NBC News | 15 |
| 6:06am AEDT | The Post Millennial | 16 |
| 7:03am AEDT | Deseret News | 17 |
| 7:15am AEDT | Reason | 18 |
| 7:39am AEDT | Al Jazeera | 19 |
| 8:00am AEDT | Hindustan Times | 20 |



