Trump knew of Capitol breach when he knocked Pence in tweet on Jan. 6, Democrat says
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in an interview Thursday that former President Trump knew the Capitol had been breached on Jan. 6, 2021 when he sent a tweet disparaging his then-Vice President Mike Pence. In an interview with NBC News, Aguilar said that the Capitol was breached at 2:13 p.m. and that Trump posted a tweet saying that, "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what was necessary" at 2:24 p.m. The congressman added that the vice preside
Read MoreBill Clinton: 'Fair chance' US could 'completely lose' its democratic system
Bill Clinton says he’s never before been so concerned about the country’s foundational future, lamenting there’s a “fair chance” that the United States could “completely lose our constitutional democracy.” The former president appeared Wednesday on CBS’s “The Late Late Show” and responded to a question from host James Corden that alluded to Donald Trump’s presidency without mentioning the ex-commander in chief by name. Corden asked Clinton how he stays “so positive in what has been a very, very dark few years.” While saying that witnessing his grandchildren grow up makes
Read MoreA predictable outcome of Jan. 6 hearings: Opinions about Trump won’t change
Whenever a divisive issue comes along, there’s one thing we can be sure of: The opposing sides will go to their respective corners and erect barricades so that no inconvenient facts or opinions can get through. It’s the case with guns or abortion, or now, with the House hearings on what happened and who’s responsible for the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. To hard-core Donald Trump supporters, the hearings are nothing more than a show trial, a TV miniseries, whose goal is to divert attention
Read MoreSeattle to consider ‘approval’ voting option
The city of Seattle will decide whether to adopt a new style of voting that would allow them to choose as many candidates as they like in future election contests.The proposal, called “approval voting,” allows a voter to select every candidate of whom they approve in primary elections. The two candidates with the highest number of votes would advance to a general election, when voters would be allowed to choose between the two.The group behind the initiative, Seattle Approves, submitted just over the 26,520 signatures necessary to qualify the measure for November’s ballot, a
Read More56 percent in new poll believe US is in recession
More than half of Americans believe that the U.S. is currently in a recession, according to a new poll from The Economist/You Gov. The survey, published on Monday, found that 56 percent of Americans believed that the country is currently going through an economic recession. Twenty-two percent of respondents disagreed with the idea that the U.S is in a recession, while 22 percent of those surveyed said they are not sure if a recession is currently happening. Whether or not a responden
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