Jan. 6 Committee’s opening night was not worthy of prime time
Your typical congressional oversight hearings are hard enough to script and choreograph to engage an otherwise distracted audience. Infinitely more difficult is when it’s not just one hearing, but several over the course of a month, based on information collected over an entire year, from 1,000 witnesses and 140,000 documents. And it’s not just any old committee, but the January 6 Select Committee — with resources, yes, but with the clock running, unbridled, toward expiration. In such a case, circumstances demand, without a doubt, “shock and awe” — you need to “
Read MoreWatch live: Biden delivers remarks on inflation
President Biden on Friday afternoon is slated to deliver remarks at the Port of Los Angeles on inflation and actions the administration has taken to lower prices and address supply chain shortages. The event is scheduled to begin at 1:45 p.m. ET. Watch the live video above. Source: TEST FEED1
Read MoreWe want to prevent suicide in the military — Congress won’t let us
After nearly two decades of annual increases, the national suicide rate decreased slightly in both 2019 and 2020. Suicides among U.S. military personnel continued to rise, however, departing markedly from national trends. Reflecting the continued importance of this topic, both the Senate and the House recently held hearings focused on military suicide and the secretary of Defense convened an independent review committee to provide recommendat
Read MoreJanet Yellen dismisses Cardi B's recession prediction: 'I don’t have that much time for her'
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pouring water on talk of a recession from one prominent albeit unexpected figure: Cardi B. “Do you know who Cardi B is?” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Yellen on Thursday at the New York Times’s DealBook D.C. policy forum. “I mean, I don’t have that much time for her. But I am alive,” Yellen, 75, replied in the affirmative with a laugh. Sorkin then pointed to a recent tweet from the “Up” rapper, in which
Read MoreThompson indicates connection between extremist groups and those around Trump
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, said there was a connection between far-right extremists groups and those around former President Trump leading up to and during the Capitol riot. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper after the committee’s first prime-time hearing on Thursday, the journalist asked Thompson if future hearings will have witnesses who can attest to conversations between extremist groups and those close to Trump. “Yes,” Thompson responded. “Obviously, you have t
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