Jan 6 hearings – live: Liz Cheney earns standing ovation for speech calling out Republicans

Republican US representative Liz Cheney delivered a fiery speech to call out Donald Trump and GOP leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Wednesday night, receiving thunderous applause from the audience.

Ms Cheney, who is the vice-chair of the House committee investigating the 6 January riots, said Mr Trump’s efforts have turned out to be “more chilling and more threatening” than first imagined as the full picture is emerging.

“Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution,” she said, to a round of applause.

She said Americans are confronting a “domestic threat” like never before and Mr Trump attempted to unravel the foundations of the constitutional Republic.

She praised former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and others who are testifying against Mr Trump for their “bravery and her patriotism”.

In the first action since Ms Hutchinson’s explosive testimony, the panel subpoenaed Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone, whose resistance to Mr Trump’s false claims has made him a long-sought witness.

Key Points

• Trump was aware his supporters were armed

• ‘Irate’ Trump grabbed steering wheel, attacked Secret Service agent

• Trump tossed food against over Bill Barr’s refusal to accept election lies

• January 6 committee says Trump allies are trying to tamper with testimony

• Trump says he ‘hardly’ knows his chief of staff’s top aide

Liz Cheney to debate Trump-endorsed primary challengers

08:03 , Shweta Sharma

After hearing a string of controversial public testimonies before the Jan 6 panel, Liz Cheney will return to Wyoming to debate Republican primary challengers.

Ms Cheney will face Donald Trump-endorsed opponent Harriet Hageman among others where she is likely to draw criticism for the explosive testimonies detailing Mr Trump’s irate and violent behaviour.

The primaries debate on Thursday will be hosted by Wyoming PBS in Sheridan and it will be closed to the public for security reasons. It is to also prevent people from disrupting the event, the station’s general manager Terry Dugas said in a statement.“There are regular reports in the media of political figures and public servants being assaulted. Even in Wyoming, political figures receive death threats,” Mr Dugas said.

‘My brother could still be here’: Siblings of fallen Capitol Police Officer speak out

08:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump adviser Bannon requests trial to be delayed

07:45 , Shweta Sharma

Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has requested that his trial over contempt of Congress charges should be delayed by several months, arguing that publicity from the House select committee’s hearing into 6 January may influence jurors’ opinions.

“Public impact is not limited to the hearings themselves, but to the media coverage that magnified the hearings. In Washington, DC, where trial will take place – and where the acts alleged in the Indictment took place – every major media outlet treated the hearings as a top news story,” the attorneys wrote in the court filing on Wednesday.

It said “every person accused of a crime is guaranteed a fair trial”, requesting his trial to be moved from 18 July to 25 October.

“Those broadcasts have been repackaged and re-broadcast in countless forms, creating a saturation of the information sources available to Washington, DC residents,” the filing said.

“Under the circumstances, a continuance is warranted – to allow the effects of the Select Committee hearing coverage a chance to subside.”

DeSantis supporters say explosive January 6 hearing was ‘good for them’

07:30 , Gustaf Kilander

48% of Americans say Trump should be criminally charged, poll says

07:13 , Shweta Sharma

Almost half of Americans believe that the former president Donald Trump should be criminally charged for his role in the attack on the US capitol last year on 6 January.

According to the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 48 per cent of adults polled to say that the former president should be held accountable and face charges while 32 per cent said he should not be charged.

Other 20 per cent did not have an opinion on the topic.

The poll was conducted before the five public hearings by the House committee but before Tuesday’s surprise hearing featuring former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Capitol Police Sergeant calls on Mike Pence to testify: ‘Your boss tried to have you killed'

07:00 , Gustaf Kilander

US Capitol Police Sgt Aquilino Gonell told HuffPost that Donald Trump is responsible for the injuries he sustained during the attack on Congress.

“Our own president set us up,” he told the outlet. “I just feel betrayed. The president should be doing everything possible to help us and he didn’t do it. He wanted to lead the mob and wanted to lead the crowd himself ... he wanted to be a tyrant.”

Speaking about the events on January 6, Sgt Gonell tweeted on Tuesday: “When [Trump] tweeted about Pence, the fighting in the tunnel intensified. We held the line hoping the President would be on our side and send us help. Mike Pence is lucky to be alive, he’s lucky we kept our OATH AND HELD THE LINE. Your boss tried to have you killed. Testify.”

DOJ officials felt ‘blindsided’ after Hutchinson’s testimony

06:36 , Shweta Sharma

The testimony of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson has exposed the widening rift between the Justice Department and congressional investigators.

Some of the officials of the Justice Department, according to a New York Times report, felt blindsided and were left astonished with the explosive testimony as the panel did not provide them with videos or transcripts of her taped interviews with committee members beforehand.

The surprise hearing came as a parallel investigation is going on by the federal prosecutors to determine the extent of the former president’s involvement in the riots and it will soon converge.

The committee members have also suggested that Attorney General Merrick B Garland is not moving swiftly enough in investigating leads. But Senior Justice Department officials say that committee members’ resistance to turn over transcripts has slowed their progress.

At least one of the ‘witness tampering’ messages shown in hearing was sent to Hutchinson

06:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Liz Cheney: Republicans cannot be loyal to both Trump and constitution

05:56 , Shweta Sharma

In her speech that drew a standing ovation from a room full of GOP, Liz Cheney said that Republicans have to choose between being loyal to Donald Trump or the constitution.

“We have to choose, because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and be loyal to the Constitution,” she said. “We must not elect people who are more loyal to themselves, or to power than they are to our Constitution.”

She went on to praise people testifying against Mr Trump, especially young women and White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for her bombshell testimony on Tuesday.

“And I have been incredibly moved by the young women that I have met and that have come forward to testify in the January 6 committee,” she said.

Regarding Ms Hutchinson she said: “Her superiors -- men many years older -- a number of them are hiding behind executive privilege, anonymity and intimidation. But her bravery and her patriotism yesterday were awesome to behold.”

“Little girls all across this great nation are seeing what it really means to love this country and what it really means to be a patriot.”

“I want to speak to every young girl watching tonight,” the congresswoman concluded. “The power is yours, and so is the responsibility. ... These days, for the most part, men are running the world -- and it is really not going that well.”

“I want to speak to every young girl watching tonight,” the congresswoman concluded. “The power is yours, and so is the responsibility. ... These days, for the most part, men are running the world -- and it is really not going that well.”

Liz Cheney likens Trump to ‘domestic threat’ in Ronald Reagan Library speech

05:43 , Shweta Sharma

Liz Cheney called Donald Trump a “domestic threat” of the kind the US has never faced before in her speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday night.

“We are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before -- and that is a former President who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic,” said Ms Cheney. “And he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.”

She began the speech by saying: “My fellow Americans, we stand at the edge of an abyss, and we must pull back.”

“As the full picture is coming into view with the January 6 committee, it has become clear that the efforts Donald Trump oversaw and engaged in were even more chilling and more threatening than we could have imagined,” Ms Cheney said.

Lindsey Graham calls Jan 6 panel a ‘sham’ and a ‘one-sided Star Chamber tribunal’

05:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Meadows pushes back on claim he sought pardon

05:10 , Gustaf Kilander

Obama 2012 campaign manager says Jan 6 hearings are ‘way past Watergate'

04:45 , Gustaf.Kilander

Speaking on MSNBC on Wednesday, 2012 Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said that “the January 6 hearings have been incredible television. I think they’re way past Watergate. I think they’re doing really big harm to the President and his party with those swing voters”.

“Half of independent voters think the President did something wrong. You’re seeing Republicans sort of walk away from the president this morning ... This kind of civil war inside the Republican Party continues,” he added.

‘Of course’: Anita Hill says Ginni Thomas should speak to the Jan 6 Committee

04:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Lawyer Anita Hill, who testified in 1991 that Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, said on MSNBC on Wednesday that his wife Ginni Thomas should be “compelled” to speak to the January 6 committee.

“Of course I think she should speak to the committee,” Ms Hill said on Andrea Mitchell Reports. “I also think that every other individual who they have identified should be compelled to speak … or have to answer for it under whatever legal protections the committee has.”

Michael Flynn taking the fifth is ‘really chilling,’ former Obama official says

03:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Michael Flynn, the retired three-star general who served as Donald Trump’s first National Security Advisor, used the fifth amendment several times to avoid answering questions from the January 6 Select committee.

He avoided answering if he believes in the peaceful transfer of power.

“It’s really chilling because these are the most basic questions that you could ask somebody about our democracy … I think it shows the depth of the radicalization of aspects of the Republican Party,” Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, said on MSNBC on Wednesday.

Concerning Tuesday’s witness, Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, Mr Rhodes said: “There are very few people in this country who are better positioned to know what happened on January 6 than Cassidy Hutchinson … She’s beyond a credible witness.”

Ratings show Fox News viewers tuning out Jan 6 hearings

02:45 , The Associated Press

Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur in daytime hours and a striking number of the network’s viewers have made clear they’d rather be doing something else.

During two daytime hearings last week, Fox averaged 727,000 viewers, the Nielsen company said. That compares to the 3.09 million who watched the hearings on MSNBC and the 2.21 million tuned in to CNN.

It completely flips the typical viewing pattern for the news networks. During weekdays when the hearings are not taking place, Fox News Channel routinely has more viewers than the other two networks combined, Nielsen said.

Last Thursday, Fox had 1.33 million viewers for the 2 p.m. Eastern hour before the hearing started — slightly below its second quarter average but on par for early summer, when fewer people are watching TV.

After the hearing started, Fox’s audience’s sank to 747,000 for the 3 p.m. Eastern hour and even lower, to 718,000, at 4 p.m. Fox cut away from the hearing at 5 p.m. to show its popular panel program, “The Five,” and fans immediately rewarded them: viewership shot up to 2.76 million people, Nielsen said.

The apparent lack of interest explains why the frequently Trump-friendly network stuck with its regular lineup during the committee’s only prime-time hearing, while ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC all showed the Washington proceedings. “The Five” has also been cable television’s most-watched show, on average, for nine months.

ABC won the week in prime time, averaging 3.6 million viewers. CBS had 3 million, NBC had 2.5 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.1 million, Ion Television had 1.04 million and Telemundo had 990,000 viewers.

Fox News Channel led cable networks with an average viewership of 2.17 million in prime time. MSNBC had 1.41 million, ESPN had 1.21 million, HGTV had 938,000 and Hallmark had 777,000.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 6.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.5 million.

Trump ‘would do whatever it took for him to stay in power’, DC police officer says

02:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Appearing on MSNBC on Wednesday, DC Police Officer Daniel Hodges spoke about the January 6 hearings.

“Seeing images of that day and footage always makes my blood pressure shoot up, but … the more evidence is out there the better, because people really need to see the truth of what happened,” he said on Andrea Mitchell Reports.

He said Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony “demonstrates how” Donald Trump “doesn’t really care about anything other than himself. And he would do whatever it took for him to stay in power”.

“I have hope that people in positions of power will be held accountable … The Department of Justice has been active, we’ve seen a little bit of that … and I’m hoping it comes to some fruition down the line,” he added.

No one from Trump White House disputes allegation former president knew supporters were armed

01:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Speaking on MSNBC on Wednesday, Washington Post Deputy National Editor Philip Rucker said, “We’ve not heard anybody from the White House or former President Trump himself dispute her characterization of what he said in that moment, which is an acknowledgement that he knew his supporters had guns”.

“I couldn’t think of a more damning day for Donald Trump than yesterday,” Politico’s Eugene Daniels added on Andrea Mitchell Reports.

DC Police Officer Daniel Hodges said: “He did knowingly and with great malice … send a mob of violent delusional people to become terrorists and attack the US Capitol, and attack law enforcement, members of Congress, the VP, congressional staffers, all the support staff.”

Stephen Breyer will retire this week, paving way for Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice

01:15 , Josh Marcus

After announcing his retirement earlier this year, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will formally end his tenure on the nation’s high court on 30 June, shortly after the court issues two remaining rulings from this term.

In a letter dated 29 June to President Joe Biden, Justice Breyer said his retirement from active service, after nearly 30 years on the bench, will be effective at noon on Thursday after justices deliver final opinions before a summer recess.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by the president and confirmed in the US Senate earlier this year, will be formally sworn in as the nation’s 116th associate justice, the first Black woman and first former public defender to serve on the high court.

“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Justice Breyer wrote.

On Thursday, justices are expected to issue opinions in to high-profile cases – Biden v Texas, on the so-called “Remain in Mexico” measure, and West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency, which could determine how or if the federal government can regular carbon emissions.

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Stephen Breyer will retire this week, paving way for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Secret Service agents close to Trump accused of ‘being enablers and yes-men'

Thursday 30 June 2022 00:45 , Gustaf Kilander

AOC says pro-Trump colleagues who sought pardons should be expelled from Congress at a ‘bare minimum’

Thursday 30 June 2022 00:30 , Josh Marcus

Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a message for her fellow Democrats in Congress: It’s time to get serious.

The New York lawmaker appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday after a jaw-dropping hearing held by the special committee investigating January 6, where she said it was time for Democrats to start acting on the evidence they already had.

That means, Ms Ocasio-Cortez explained, expelling any member of Congress who can be proved to have sought a pardon from Donald Trump after Jan 6 to shield themselves from the obvious potential criminal liability that they could face for the participation in an effort that led to an attempt by Donald Trump’s supporters to overthrow the government.

“I will say, bare minimum, those who specifically sought pardons for themselves should be expelled from the United States House of Representatives,” she said to loud cheers from Mr Colbert’s audience.

AOC says pro-Trump colleagues who sought pardons should be expelled from Congress

January 6 committee subpoenas ex-White House counsel Pat Cipollone

Thursday 30 June 2022 00:20 , Josh Marcus

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has issued a subpoena commanding former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to give evidence in a deposition set for 6 July.

Mr Cipollone, who served as former president Donald Trump’s top White House lawyer from 2019 to the end of his term in 2021, met with committee investigators for an informal interview on 13 April, but has heretofore refused repeated requests for him to sit for a deposition or give evidence in a public hearing.

In a statement, select committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice-chair Liz Cheney said the panel’s year-long probe has surfaced evidence showing that Mr Cipollone “repeatedly raised legal and other concerns” about Mr Trump’s actions before and during the attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

“While the Select Committee appreciates Mr Cipollone’s earlier informal engagement with our investigation, the committee needs to hear from him on the record, as other former White House counsels have done in other congressional investigations,” they wrote.

Andrew Feinberg has the details.

January 6 committee subpoenas ex-White House counsel Pat Cipollone

January 6 committee subpoenas Trump White House lawyer Pat Cipollone

Thursday 30 June 2022 00:10 , Josh Marcus

The January 6 committee has issued a subpoena seeking an appearance from Pat Cipollone, an attorney who served as the White House counsel in the final days of the Trump administration.

Mr Cipollone already sat with the committee for an informal interview this April.

The subpoena marks an escalation however.

Mr Cipollone is legally bound to respond to the committee or could face contempt of Congress charges.

Read the full subpoena from the committee here.

Trump’s old allies say the January 6 hearings are wrecking him

01:55 , Josh Marcus

The multiple bombshells unveiled at Tuesday’s surprise House January 6 committee hearing by ex-Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson were incredibly damaging to former president Donald Trump, according to one of his former top lieutenants.

Ms Hutchinson, who was the principal assistant to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows from mid-2020 to the end of Mr Trump’s term in January 2021, told the select committee Mr Trump and his top aides were aware of police reports indicating attendees at the rally he held just prior to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol were packing weapons — including Glock semiautomatic pistols and AR-15-style rifles — but they did not care.

She also said Mr Trump demanded that Secret Service agents take down magnetometers erected for his own protection so the armed rallygoers could be closer to the stage from which he was to speak before marching to the Capitol.

More details here.

Trump’s ex-chief of staff says Hutchinson testimony ‘went very badly’ for former boss

Marjorie Taylor Greene denies asking for pardon, but seeks reprieves for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden

Wednesday 29 June 2022 23:50 , Josh Marcus

Marjorie Taylor Greene is contradicting testimony from the January 6 hearings that she sought a pardon, but she is seeking protections for whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.

“I never asked for a pardon for myself, but I am asking for Edward Snowden and Julian Assange to be pardoned,” she wrote on social media on Wednesday.

Watch more of her comments on the subject below.

It’s not the first time she’s denied asking for a pardon.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she did not ask for pardon over Jan 6: ‘Gossip and lies’

Mr Assange has been ordered extradited to the US.

Julian Assange strip searched on day extradition announced, says wife

Former Trump White House aide is standing by Jan. 6 testimony amid denials from Secret Service agents

Wednesday 29 June 2022 23:21 , Josh Marcus

Cassidy Hutchinson is standing by her description of a confrontation between former president Donald Trump and Secret Service agents who were refusing to heed his command to drive him to the Capitol during the Jan 6 riot.

Ms Hutchinson, who served as former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ principal assistant from April 2020 to the end of Mr Trump’s term in January 2021, stunned viewers across the US this week by giving evidence on a variety of outrageous interactions which detailed how the twice-impeached former president reacted to the worst attack on the US Capitol since 1814.

Her testimony on Tuesday before the House January 6 select committee revealed how Mr Trump and his top aides were indifferent to the violence that occurred during the pro-Trump Capitol attack, among other explosive information.

One anecdote that has drawn scrutiny involves Mr Trump’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, Tony Ornato — a Secret Service special agent who was detailed to the Executive Office of the President at Mr Trump’s request — and the head of his Secret Service protective detail, Robert Engel.

Read Andrew Feinberg’s full story.

Former Trump White House aide is standing by testimony amid denials

Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein calls Trump a ‘mad king’ and ‘seditious’ after bombshell Jan 6 hearing

Wednesday 29 June 2022 22:50 , Josh Marcus

Cassidy Hutchinson’s powerful testimony to the January 6 committee gave the clearest account yet of Donald Trump as an unhinged, lawless president, Carl Bernstein says.

“She gave a picture of a Mad King,” the legendary Watergate journalist told CNN on Tuesday night.

“The whole idea is now absolutely confirmed, proven, he is a criminal and a seditious president of the United States.”

Ms Hutchinson, a senior aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, gave a first-hand account of the run-up to the US Capitol riots on Tuesday at a surprise hearing of the select committee probing the insurrection.

She testified that Mr Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine in an effort to go to the Capitol to join his supporters and ignored the warnings of his chief of staff who said things could get “real, real bad”.

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Watergate journalist Bernstein calls Trump a ‘mad king’ after bombshell Jan 6 hearing

AOC says members of Congress who asked for pardons from Trump should be expelled

Wednesday 29 June 2022 22:30 , Josh Marcus

Giuliani appears to admit asking Trump for a pardon before quickly claiming he never did

Wednesday 29 June 2022 22:10 , Josh Marcus

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s attempt at joining his Trumpworld compatriots in attacking House January 6 select committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday went awry. He posted a tweet denying allegations that he’d asked for a presidential pardon, which was worded in a way that seemed to confirm the claim.

“The January 6 Witch Hunt Cabal has now exceeded even its prior fraudulent,” he said. “The last witness was a reckless liar. Contrary to her false testimony she was never present when I asked for a pardon,” he wrote.

Mr Giuliani, who is currently under federal investigation for work he did on Mr Trump’s behalf in Ukraine, later added that he told former president Donald Trump that he “did not want or need” a presidential pardon.

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Giuliani appears to admit asking Trump for a pardon before claiming he never did

WHO chief: U.S. abortion ruling 'a setback,' will cost lives

Wednesday 29 June 2022 21:50 , Josh Marcus

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.

“The evidence is irrefutable,” Tedros said. “Restricting (abortion) drives women and girls toward unsafe abortions resulting in complications, even death.” He said safe abortion should be understood as health care and warned that limiting its access would disproportionately hit women from the poorest and most marginalized communities.

“We hadn’t really expected this from the U.S.,” Tedros said, adding that he was concerned the Supreme Court’s decision was a move “backwards.” In recent years, the U.S. has supported numerous maternal health care programs in developing countries, including access to reproductive health care.

“We had really hoped the U.S. would lead on this issue,” Tedros said.

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WHO chief: U.S. abortion ruling 'a setback,' will cost lives

Ginni Thomas has ‘serious concerns’ about testifying to Jan 6 committee, her lawyer says

Wednesday 29 June 2022 21:30 , Eric Garcia

The lawyer for Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, said the conservative activist has “serious concerns” about testifying before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Mark Paoletta sent an eight-page letter, obtained by The Daily Caller, to the committee as it has sought her testimony. Mr Paoletta specifically cited how Supreme Court Justices have been subjected to threats after a draft opinion of the court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

“I would also note that this has been a particularly stressful time as the Thomases have been subjected to an avalanche of death threats and other abuse by the unprecedented assault on the conservative Supreme Court Justices and their families”, the letter said.

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Ginni Thomas has ‘serious concerns’ about testifying to Jan 6 committee, lawyer says

What happened to the Roe v Wade ‘night of rage’?

Wednesday 29 June 2022 21:00 , Rachel Sharp

Matilda is one of the youngest so-called “violent radicals” and “political terrorists” taking a stand outside the US Supreme Court.

At just a few months old, she stares up wide-eyed from her stroller at the people holding brightly coloured banners and signs in the June sunshine.

While her mother Zoe chats to The Independent, the little girl gently dozes off and starts to snooze.

“It was important for us to be here to be a visual representation that this affects mothers,” says Zoe, holding a sign that reads “Here for her” protectively over her daughter.

“This affects children. This affects normal people. Whatever cooked-up image the pro-life people have in their minds, most people who have abortions already have children.

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What happened to the Roe v Wade ‘night of rage’?

Cheney calls for Trump’s White House Counsel to testify on record after bombshell hearing

Wednesday 29 June 2022 20:33 , Eric Garcia

Liz Cheney called on former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

Ms Cheney, who serves as the committee’s vice chairwoman, cited testimony from former Trump administration staffer Cassidy Hutchinson.

Ms Hutchinson told the committee on Tuesday that Mr Cipollone feared that a line in a draft of former president Donald Trump’s remarks at the White House Ellipse to “fight for me, fight for what we are doing, fight for the movement” and Mr Trump’s desire to go to the Capitol would leave them open to being charged with “every crime imaginable.”

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Cheney calls for Trump’s White House Counsel to testify on record

GOP Senator Thom Tillis helped turn his state red. Here’s how he also helped pass bipartisan gun control

Wednesday 29 June 2022 20:30 , Eric Garcia

Amid the celebration after the US Senate passed the first piece of major gun legislation in nearly 30 years, following a string of horrific mass shootings in recent weeks, Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona praised her Republican colleague Thom Tillis.

“Oh, Thom is wonderful”, Ms Sinema told The Independent, a rare comment to the press for the lawmaker. “So pragmatic, so focused on solutions. Also a great vote counter. Great whip.”

Their friendship is mutual. For Halloween last year, Mr Tillis dressed his dog Theo – named for Theodore Roosevelt – up as Ms Sinema, replete with a wig and a sweater that said “Dangerous Creature”, while he dressed his other dog Mitch up as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

But Ms Sinema – who often prizes her relationships across the aisle, often to the frustration of her Democratic colleagues – was not the only Democrat to praise the two-term North Carolina Republican, who helped flipped both houses of his state’s legislature for the first time in a century and has twice narrowly escaped defeat from well-funded Democratic challengers.

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Thom Tillis helped turn North Carolina red. Here’s how he helped pass gun control

‘Bottom line’ is that Trump knew mob marching on Capitol ‘was armed,’ Morning Joe host says

Wednesday 29 June 2022 20:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Jan 6 panel member slams fellow Republican for acting like ‘the Taliban'

Wednesday 29 June 2022 19:30 , Gustaf Kilander