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Lynch pushed further in today's hearing, saying that Miller's answer in the hearing was also a reversal of his written testimony that was submitted. "Mr. Rosen, was Officer Sicknick killed by rioters with a fire extinguisher?" he asked in an apparent reference to early, incorrect reporting that Sicknick was assaulted on scene with a fire extinguisher. Miller also invoked the Kent State massacre on Wednesday as he justified why he didn’t believe the US military should have responded to the Capitol insurrection, saying he sees the nation’s armed forces “as a last resort” when responding to protests. “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures.
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"The world is watching what we do here. America has long been expected to be a shining city on a hill. A beacon of hope and freedom." "January 6 and the lives that led to insurrection have put two-and-a-half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk. The world is watching what we do here," he said. "But for Donald Trump, that was only the beginning of what became a sprawling, multi-step conspiracy" aimed at overturning the election, Thompson said.
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Vice Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney said one of her fellow Republicans, Rep. Scott Perry, sought a pardon from Trump after Jan. 6, 2021. In recorded video testimony, Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, said Pence was ultimately more loyal to the Constitution than he was to President Trump amid pressure to overturn the Electoral College vote. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge who advised Pence's team, will testify that Eastman "was wrong at every turn." Since then, McCarthy has downplayed Jan. 6, and said "everybody in the country" bears some responsibility for what happened that day.
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In fact, Cheney said there were Republican members of Congress who sought pardons for their actions on Jan. 6. Former Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller told House lawmakers during his public testimony on Capitol Hill that there were several factors that influenced his reluctance to deploy military forces to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Rosen also told lawmakers he did not speak with Trump that day, also citing the fact he did not need any authority to respond with federal resources. In a GOP news conference Tuesday morning designed to push back against the House Select Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 riot, Republicans criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi for rejecting two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s five picks to serve on the committee. Thompson told reporters the select committee could have another hearing in August while the House is scheduled to be in a seven-week recess. The only other Republican lawmaker on the committee, GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called out other members of his party, saying "we need to reject those that promote" conspiracies about the insurrection.
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Miller said he believed the Trump's speech earlier in the day did have a "cause and effect" impact on those who listened and later stormed the Capitol when asked if he thinks Trump was responsible for the riot. "I think I'd like to modify my original assessment, based on-," Miller said in today's hearing. The case — the only one addressing the attack of Sicknick, who later died — has taken on new meaning in recent weeks after the prosecutors characterized it as a key moment where protesters coordinated to overcome police in a way that allowed the Capitol to fall.
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"You are right," Columbia trustee Claire Shipman responded to one lawmaker, "we have a moral crisis on our campus." When Suzanne Bonamici, a Democrat from Oregon, asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Columbia's code of conduct, all four Columbia representatives provided a clear "Yes it does." “Legislators who are genuinely concerned about social media platforms’ practices have better options at their disposal, and we continue to urge lawmakers to lean in to those rather than undermining the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans,” Johnson said. Since lawmakers introduced their latest proposal targeting the app last month, the company has launched a major counteroffensive against the effort, enlisting scores of users through pop-up notifications to bombard lawmakers with calls voicing opposition to the legislation.
"Chairman Thompson is the chair of one of the committees of jurisdiction, Homeland Security, and this was an assault on our homeland security and he commands a great deal of respect in our caucus and I'm very proud of what he is doing," Pelosi toldNPR. Prosecutors said they're still negotiating with Congress to get copies of the committee's transcripts of witness interviews, but those may not be made public until September when the trial is under way. The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over,” he will say, according to excerpts of his remarks. He’ll also meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, who has raised questions about the Biden’s election win as recently as Tuesday. Bolsonaro has been casting doubt on Brazil’s election system ahead of his own tough reelection campaign this fall — a system that U.S. officials have said is fair and democratic.
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Months later, she was removed from her leadership position in retaliation for her sustained criticism of Trump's election falsehoods and role in the riot. The testimony was played as part of a video featuring Marcus Childress, one of the lawyers for the panel. Membership for the Proud Boys increased "exponentially" after former President Donald Trump told the far-right group to "stand back and standby," according to video testimony from a Proud Boy displayed at the hearing. "I couldn't believe my eyes," she recalled of the scene, which she compared to a war zone. "There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding, they were throwing up ... I saw friends with blood all over their faces, I was slipping in people's blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage, it was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw."
Cheney says Trump made no calls to National Guard or law enforcement. "Vice President Pence did each of those things."
Former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, in a conversation with a USA Today columnist published Thursday, said there were "more than a few people" in the administration having conversations about potentially invoking the 25th Amendment. Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney said the American public will hear about members of Trump's Cabinet discussing the "possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment." The 25th Amendment provides the Cabinet a path to replace the president. "Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will be a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain," she said.
He said both lawmakers and the representatives from Columbia had the benefit of studying that December hearing and having ample time to prepare – and it showed. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, is done with arguments for the term and now has a thick stack of appeals to decide. Beyond Trump’s weighty case, the justices have many crucial disputes to resolve by their unofficial late June deadline on abortion, guns and much more. If they wait until the end to decide Trump v. United States, that will push a pre-election trial in Washington to at least the precipice of the November election, further emphasizing that the defendant is running to stay out of prison.
Republicans have also focused a large part of their investigation on whistleblower allegations that there has been political interference in the long-running Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden. “Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate,” the attorney general said. Republicans on the committee — led by Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman — set the tone with accusations that the Justice Department is favoring the Biden family, while targeting his opponent, Trump. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans clashed with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, accusing him and the Justice Department of the “weaponization” of the department’s work in favor of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Advocates for reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 argue that it's outdated and doesn't provide clear guidance about the role that Congress plays in certifying election results.
CHP officers apprehended Raymundo Duran, 47, Monday evening on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of a loaded firearm at a San Onofre inspection point in a silver Toyota Camry. Investigators connected Duran to the West Covina shooting after initially booking him as a suspected drunk driver, Luna said. Before the hearing, in a letter to the campus community, Shafik said she was prepared to "share what we have learned as we battle this ancient hatred at Columbia University." The December hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn saw high tension and headline-grabbing consequences.
Whatever precise form that immunity takes remains to be seen in the court’s decision. The ruling might not theoretically save Trump from a trial in the federal election interference case, because at least some of the acts described in the indictment couldn't possibly be deemed "official." But the delay might help Trump anyway. Further litigation over applying the justices’ new immunity test to Trump’s case could add even more delay to the already-delayed case.
Trump’s alleged gag order violations continued to lurk in the background of the trial. Judge Juan Merchan held a hearing Tuesday on some of those alleged violations, with another hearing scheduled for next week based on other statements. But heading into the weekend, Merchan still hasn’t ruled on the matter, so the defendant hasn’t faced even minimal consequences for his apparent serial violations of a court order. In the trial that’s happening, Manhattan prosecutors gave their opening statement and called their first witness, David Pecker. The former National Enquirer publisher testified that he agreed with then-candidate Trump and fixer Michael Cohen to look out for negative stories impacting the 2016 campaign. Pecker is an important first witness, setting the stage for the Stormy Daniels hush money payoff at the center of the case.
CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane walks us through it in the video below. He will also say the hearings aren't intended to just look backwards, adding that democracy "remains in danger." "Justice for me for Brian would be having Donald Trump in prison, but it doesn't seem like that ever happens," Garza said. "The man seems to escape justice time and time again. But maybe today would change that. That would be a wonderful thing. I don't know. We'll see." Over the next few weeks, the committee will remind Americans what happened that day, but also that democracy is still in danger, Thompson suggested.
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