Cheney sums up case against Trump in last big hearing moment before primary
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) used her last major Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing moment before a tough primary election to sum up the case against former President Donald Trump. “In our hearing tonight, you saw an American president faced with a stark, unmistakable choice between right and wrong. There was no ambiguity, no nuance. Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office to ignore the ongoing violence against law enforcement to threaten our constitutional order,” Cheney, vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee, said in her closing statement during a primetime hea
Read MoreTrump Jan. 7 outtake: ‘I don’t want to say the election’s over’
The Jan. 6 select committee on Thursday presented outtakes of then-President Trump recording a video on Jan. 7, 2021. In the outtake, Trump at one point cuts himself off to say that he does not want to say “the election’s over” while reading a script from a teleprompter. “'But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results' — I don’t want to say the election’s over, I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over, OK?” Trump said. The former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump is heard in the background draf
Read MoreNew York's Lee Zeldin safe following attack at campaign event
New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, is safe and uninjured following an attempted attack at a campaign event on Thursday night. Zeldin's campaign said in a statement that a man climbed the stage he was on and attempted to stab him during a speech in front of supporters. Zeldin grabbed the man's wrist to stop him until several others helped take the man to the ground. The congressman was uninjured, and law enforcement took the suspect into custody, according to the campaign. Campaign
Read MoreWatch the previously unseen video of Trump's Jan. 6 remarks
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released previously unseen video of then-President Trump speaking from the White House on the day of the insurrection. The footage, recorded in the Rose Garden, shows Trump ignored a script that called for him to tell protesters to “leave the Capitol Hill region now and go home in a peaceful way.” Instead, he spoke off
Read MoreJan. 6 committee zeroes in on Kevin McCarthy attempts to reach Trump during attack
The Jan. 6 Select committee at a Thursday hearing honed-in on House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) conversations with then-President Trump as the Capitol was under attack. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) introduced a montage of clips from deposition testimony and other clips detailing McCarthy’s repeated attempts to reach out to Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, pleading with them to have Trump do more to call off the mob. Molly Michael, former executive assistant to the president, said that McCarthy had contacted former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
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