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Trump is charged with falsifying business records over allegedly covering up the reimbursement of Cohen’s payment to Daniels just ahead of the election. So the justices’ decision to take up the appeal in the first place, then to not hear it until the last argument day of the term, and now embarking on crafting a historic ruling all point against any trial happening by the election. Of course, if Trump wins that election, his federal cases will be as good as gone, and any state cases (which he can’t pardon) may at least be stalled while he’s in office.
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“Prior to Jan. 6, were you asked or instructed by President Trump to take any action at the department to advance election fraud claims or to seek to overturn any part of the 2020 election results? DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone asked the committee to investigate the organizing of Donald Trump's "stop the steal" rally and the "violent political rhetoric" leading up to and during the event. GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger reacted to threats of potentially being punished by Republican leadership for accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's appointment to the committee. The committee’s next hearing is scheduled to take place on the morning of June 13. Witnesses for the second and third and fourth hearings — scheduled for next week — have not yet been announced. Cheney, for her part, is breaking with her own party in participating in the committee in the first place.
Capitol riot committee holds first hearing
The musical "Hamilton" gave the rancor a resonant beat and lyrics, but the nation damn near collapsed amid intrigue, recrimination and scheming over who would succeed George Washington. Greg Jacob, who served as chief counsel to Pence, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will also appear at subsequent hearings. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a leading conservative jurist who advised then-Vice President Mike Pence, confirmed to CBS News that he has accepted an invitation to appear before the committee next week. "It will be an honor to testify before the January 6th committee," he told CBS News. "January 6th and the lies that led to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk," he'll say.
Majority Leader Schumer News Conference After Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Adjournment
Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are supportive of the bill’s inclusion in the aid package, their offices confirmed. The two lawmakers had previously led separate legislative efforts to tackle concerns over the app. House lawmakers overwhelmingly advanced an earlier version of the legislation targeting TikTok last month, but tying the issue to the aid package, which has broad bipartisan support in both chambers, could expedite its passage through the Senate. The move represents one of the most significant threats to the U.S. operations of the wildly popular app, which is used by roughly 170 million Americans, but whose China-based parent company ByteDance has long sparked national security fears in Washington. In December, questions about whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated university disciplinary policies led the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to offer caveat-laden, careful answers that ignited fierce criticism. The Columbia official noted that the university shut its gates for demonstrations and backed the decision to invite the New York City Police department onto campus for the first time since 1968.
"I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room, but too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist, or that hell actually wasn't that bad. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful," Fanone told lawmakers. "My thought is, much what we tried to do in the impeachment trial ... is to make it a multimedia presentation, to integrate witness testimony with video footage with documentary evidence with audio tapes to make it very engaging,” Schiff said. The committee says Edwards suffered a traumatic brain injury from the rioters as she patrolled the Capitol’s West Plaza on Jan. 6. Since then, she has not been able to return to her previous assignment with the Capitol Police but is looking to return sometime this year after she is physically cleared.
He says he'll be looking to see if administrators follow through with the things they committed to in the hearing, like holding professors accountable and educating students about antisemitism. He hopes that kind of follow through will help improve the campus climate at Columbia, and elsewhere. They frequently interrupted the Columbia representatives to ask what disciplinary actions had been taken, and whether the professors were still teaching at Columbia. In response, the college leaders vowed to hold faculty members accountable for antisemitic speech. Wednesday's hearing was reminiscent of another antisemitism hearing, held in December, when House Education Committee members grilled the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. The president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, testified before the House Education Committee alongside a Columbia University law professor and two trustees.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer Speaks to Reporters After Passage of $95.3B Aid Package
The House Oversight and Judiciary committees each passed contempt charges against the younger Biden with unanimous Republican support and all Democrats opposed. The action sets up a House vote on recommending criminal charges against a member of President Joe Biden’s family as the GOP moves into the final stages of an impeachment inquiry into the president himself. Gary Shapley, a veteran IRS agent assigned to the case, testified to Congress that Weiss said in October 2022 that he was not the “deciding person whether charges are filed” against Hunter Biden. That testimony has been disputed by two FBI agents also in that meeting who told lawmakers that they have no recollection of Weiss saying that.
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Lead data aide told Trump he would lose election, aide says
He said he can see why someone would take issue with the title of "terrorist" since "it's gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary in the past few decades." But, he said, he came "prepared" to explain why he uses the term to describe the rioters. Fanone told committee members after reflecting on the events he believes that there were government officials who incited the violence. "We still have security measures from 20 years ago that had to go. We need to reinvent the wheel and change that, but only you guys have the power to authorize that," he told the committee. He called on the committee to uncover if "anyone in power" coordinated, tried to downplay, or tried to prevent the investigation of "this terrorist attack." Cheney also called efforts by Republican leadership to downplay Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and protesting on behalf of insurrectionists a "disgrace."
House passes potential TikTok ban that could speed through Senate
It proposed a bipartisan panel with equally distributed budgets for committee staff and importantly, set a date for a final report of Dec. 31, 2021. She petitioned Washington, D.C., to consider the possibility that Jeff had suffered a brain injury during the attack and that his death occurred in the line of duty. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will appear before the House Jan. 6 committee in one of the upcoming hearings, a person familiar has confirmed to CBS News. First came the pressure campaign to overturn the Electoral College vote count, then came the threats to his life.
"If the next round of hearings leads the Committee to recommend criminal charges, DOJ will make carefully considered judgments about the culpability of the potential defendants," he said in an email. "The First Amendment, executive branch privilege, and other protections for the accused continue to complicate the landscape." In a piece of video evidence revealed during Rep. Liz Cheney's opening statement, Ivanka Trump, the former president's daughter and his onetime White House adviser, reacted to then-Attorney General William Barr saying that the 2020 election was not stolen. Cheney is the top Republican on the House committee investigating the riot, and a vocal critic of the former president — at risk to her own political future. "I'd say tripled, probably," Jeremy Bertino, who's listed as a Proud Boy by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, says in a deposition.
Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said he stands by his actions during and after the US Capitol riot on Jan. 6, testifying that those who criticized the military's response do not understand "the nature of military situations." As CNN has already reported, Miller was expected to tell Congress Wednesday that he was concerned sending US troops to Capitol on Jan. 6 would have encouraged the conspiracy of a possible "military coup," according to his prepared testimony obtained by CNN. The massive federal inquiry has added several defendants nearly each day since the attack, and federal prosecutors said in a recent court filing that they expect to charge at least 500 people. Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told a House Committee Wednesday looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that he wanted to “modify my original assessment” of the role remarks made by former President Trump may have had on the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol. "Outright propaganda and lies are being used to unleash the national security state against law-abiding US citizens, especially Trump voters," Gosar claimed. "The FBI is fishing through homes of veterans and citizens with no criminal records and restricting the liberties of individuals that have never been accused of a crime."
"Donald Trump lost the presidential election in 2020. The American people voted him out of office," Thompson said. Committe vice chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney said in her opening statement that more than a dozen former White House staffers will show that Trump wanted Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged. According to on-camera testimony, Trump aide Jason Miller, who was in the Oval Office at the time, said the campaign's lead data analyst told Trump he would lose. In recorded video testimony, Trump's daughter and longtime White House aide Ivanka Trump said she accepted Bill Barr's analysis that Trump allies claims of mass voter fraud were inaccurate. "If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution," he wrote in March. "If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself."
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will hold a prime-time hearing tonight on what it's learned so far, showcasing evidence members have gathered from the violent attack that happened just weeks before then-President-elect Biden’s inauguration in 2021. The committee is holding six public hearings over June to weave together the story of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol intended to stop Congress from ratifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who it described as the first law enforcement officer to be injured in the Jan. 6 riot. Jacob Schmeltz, a senior at Columbia studying political science, and a co-vice president of the Jewish On Campus Student Union, watched Wednesday's hearing with fellow students. During the hearing, some lawmakers – including Tim Walberg, a Republican from Michigan, and Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York – pushed hard on specific incidents of Columbia professors who have made comments in support of Hamas.
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