Stephen Portnoy
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244 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
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Stephen Portnoy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That resulted in the president reacting by saying that if he doesn't get his way on this, if the appeal is rejected by the D.C.
Circuit and ultimately by the Supreme Court, well, then the renovation won't take place at all.
future.
There's been a conversation here in D.C., Mike, of the whole thing being torn down because the president, as he flew to North Carolina on Wednesday night, was asked by our colleague Karen Travers why this is so important to him.
You have the president saying that the whole building may have to be ripped down.
And on Wednesday night, as he was arriving back in Washington...
A photographer for Agence France-Presse, a very talented photographer named Brendan Smilasky, noticed that the president was looking at a poster board-sized photo of what appeared to be the Kennedy Center in ruins.
And the headline of the poster said, Kennedy Center demolished.
So yesterday, there was a flurry of court filings.
where the Ohio Democratic Congresswoman, who has brought a lawsuit in this case, urged an emergency hearing where she was basically trying to get the judge to say, you've got to stop President Trump from whatever he's got planned here.
The judge ultimately declined to schedule an emergency hearing, but he did issue an order that said that he wants 30 days notice before any change in the renovation plans, including a possible demolition
Well, R.J.
O'Brien spent all day yesterday stalking the halls of Capitol Hill to get reaction.
Here's what he heard from North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis.
I think it's absurd.
Demolishing a memorial, a worldwide known venue for art.
Now, Tillis happens to be a retiring senator.
Republican senator from North Carolina perhaps is a bit more free to express his views.
But generally speaking, you get the sense on Capitol Hill that this is not something that the American people are focused on.
clearly something the president and to a large extent we are focused on.
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