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Former President Trump has in recent days ratcheted up his attacks on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol, ...

Administration Administration We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. The former president last week chided House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for pulling all Republicans off the panel when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected two of his picks. “He certainly is going to be the favorite when he announces, and I think it’s when,” Nunberg continued. Administration

The one-term president defended his supporters' actions, despite more than 140 police officers being injured in the line of duty in the riot that followed his “ ...

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More than 865 people have so far been arrested and charged in connection with the pro-Trump riot.

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An image of former President Donald Trump is displayed during the third hearing of the House. Over the course of several months, documentary filmmaker Alex ...

Treasury is also announcing a new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs. In addition, Janet Yellen will make the first visit to a Tribal nation by a Treasury secretary when she travels with Malerba to Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota today. — The Duke Ellington School of the Arts hosted a fundraiser, “The Excellence of Ellington: An Evening with Dave Chappelle,” on Monday night. BIDEN MULLS GAS TAX HOLIDAY — Biden said on Monday that he’s hoping to have a decision on whether to implement a federal gas-tax holiday by the time the next federal holiday rolls around. NEW THOMAS DETAILS EMERGE — Two months after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Virginia Thomas attended a “gathering of right-wing activists where a speaker declared to roaring applause that Trump was still the ‘legitimate president,’” WaPo’s Emma Brown, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Rosalind Helderman report, citing video from the event. The position that Pence finds himself in — to some, a hero; to some, a pariah — provides “potential benefit and peril as he considers running for president,” Haberman writes. “Facebook said the video was removed ‘for violating our policies prohibiting violence and incitement.’ Twitter said Greitens’ post violated its rules about abusive behavior but said it was leaving it up because it was in the ‘public’s interest’ for the tweet to be viewable. — Related Missouri news: JOHN WOOD is a former federal prosecutor who clerked for Supreme Court Justice CLARENCE THOMAS and Judge J. MICHAEL LUTTIG. Now, he’s the lead attorney for the House Jan. 6 select committee. David Wickert at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a deep dive on Moss, who was accused “of rigging the November 2020 election for Joe Biden with ‘suitcases’ of ballots on election night. “There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country,” Greitens says in the video. “On Nov. 5, 2020, conservative attorney CLETA MITCHELL — who had been leading pre-election preparations for Trump’s legal team — reached out to [JOHN] EASTMAN with a request” for a memo outlining the idea, they write. Famously, in a phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, Trump pushed Raffensperger to help him “find” just enough votes to help him win the state, and threatened him with “a criminal offense.” Over the course of several months, Holder had substantial access to Trump, Trump’s adult children and VP MIKE PENCE, both in the White House and on the campaign trail.

Mark T. Esper, 58, served in the Trump administration as secretary of defense from 2019 to 2020 and was secretary of the Army from 2017 to 2019.

I’d like to think with regard to the military that I made a lot of good advances in terms of implementing the national defense strategy, and retooling and reorganizing our military to deal with the Chinese in the 21st century. You need good people who understand that their oath is to the Constitution, not to the president, not to the party, and not to a philosophy, and not to some notion of the election being stolen. Why didn’t you walk away?” — I feel more confident today about [staying] than I did at the time, because I just look at all the good things I was able to advance in the Pentagon. And all the bad things I was able to push off. And by the way, while I was there, I could do good things in terms of building cyber capabilities, modernizing the military, taking care of [military] family members, et cetera, et cetera. And not just me, but they come in and decapitate the Pentagon in terms of knocking out undersecretaries. And what happens in the case of a president who [may be] unfit? And I get the call around 6:20 that the president wants an update on the plans for the evening with regard to troops and law enforcement. We walk down this kind of gravel path, and as you leave the White House grounds you make a right turn, and right there as we make the right turn, White House press staff, or somebody, says, “Give the president distance between you and him.” And we rounded the corner, and you can see the reporters, just throngs of reporters. We come to this point where we realize that our political antenna aren’t nearly calibrated the way we need to be; we made mistakes, and the game had changed, or at least our realization of it. Yeah. And then of course, the walk across Lafayette Park. I was heading down to the FBI command post for the evening. And we get to this point where he settles in his chair and the room gets a little quiet, and he leans in and looks at [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] General [Mark] Milley and says, “Can’t you just shoot them? I commit to get up to 5,000 National Guardsmen into the city to do the job.

The House Select Committee investigating January 6 subpoenaed filmmaker Alex Holder, who reportedly had "extensive access" to Trump's White House at the ...

We simply wanted to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately. Filmmaker Alex Holder reportedly interviewed Trump before and after Jan. 6 Jan. 6 committee subpoenas filmmaker who had 'extensive access' to Trump: report

Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle, is expected to fully cooperate.

Over the course of several months, Holder had substantial access to Trump, Trump’s adult children and Mike Pence, both in the White House and on the campaign trail. The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 sent a subpoena last week to Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle. Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle, is expected to fully cooperate.

The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 has reportedly snagged a trove of previously unseen footage of former President Donald Trump and his allies ...

Since commencing its sprawling inquiry last summer, the committee has interviewed over 1,000 witnesses and amassed thousands of pages worth of documents. "We understand you have raw footage depicting the January 6th attack and of President Trump and others discussing the November 2020 presidential election results," the committee wrote in its subpoena. Holder is slated to give a deposition before the panel Thursday, per his spokesperson.

Footage captured for an upcoming streaming series on Donald Trump's re-election campaign has been subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee.

He added he was not compensated “in any way” by the former President, his family or staff. We simply wanted to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately. Holder said he was granted “unparalleled access and exclusive interviews with President Trump, Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr., Jared Kushner as well as Vice President Pence,” and footage shot in “the White House, Mar-A-Lago, behind the scenes on the campaign trail, and before and after events of January 6.”

Former administration and campaign officials tell Rolling Stone they had no idea a film crew had months of access to the former president and his family.

“When we began this project in September 2020, we could have never predicted that our work would one day be subpoenaed by Congress,” he wrote, adding that he had “no agenda coming into this” and only “wanted to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately.” Holder’s company, AJH Films, confirmed to Rolling Stone on Tuesday that he has been subpoenaed, will sit for an interview with the panel on Thursday, and has “fully complied with all of the committee’s requests.” In other words: many of the people actually running Trump’s reelection operation are now saying they somehow had zero clue that an entire documentary was being filmed largely about Trump and his reelection campaign.

Alex Holder filmed a project for Trump's re-election campaign beginning in September 2020.

- "As a British filmmaker, I had no agenda coming into this. Between the lines: In its subpoena of Holder, issued last week, the Jan. 6 committee seeks raw footage of Jan. 6 and of interviews with Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Jared Kushner and Pence from September 2020 through the present. Jan. 6 committee wants to talk to Pence and may subpoena him - Holder's footage includes interviews with Trump and his family during the six weeks leading up to Jan. 6 and never-before-seen videos of the insurrection, Holder said in astatementon Tuesday. Why it matters: With its subpoena of Holder, the committee seeks to gain insight into what the then-president and his inner circle were doing before and after the Capitol riot. The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who shot interviews with former President Trump, to seek previously unseen videos featuring Trump, his family and administration officials, Politico reports.

The subpoena also requests any “raw footage pertaining to discussions of election fraud or election integrity surrounding the November 2020 presidential ...

It then goes on to demand that Holder hand over any footage shot in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, along with any interviews shot with Trump, his children, or Vice President Mike Pence. The subpoena also requests any “raw footage pertaining to discussions of election fraud or election integrity surrounding the November 2020 presidential election.” The existence of the tapes only came to light with the subpoena, according to Politico. “We understand you have raw footage depicting the January 6th attack and of President Trump and others discussing the November 2020 presidential election results,” the summons reads. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has subpoenaed a documentary filmmaker who had extensive access to Donald Trump and his close associates during the crucial days of the last presidential election.

The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol and claims of electoral fraud is set to hear Tuesday from elected officials and volunteer ...

Barr, in more recent interviews with the House committee, ridiculed some of the claims of fraud put forth by Trump and those close to the then-president. The Jan. 6 committee is expected to produce a report by year's end into its year-plus probe. No credible claims of widespread 2020 election fraud were brought forth in dozens of cases that went before the courts and were subsequently rejected. The plan sought to have representatives in as many as seven battleground states sign certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Biden, had won there. The state did a hand count to match its machine tally and also performed an audit in a key county before certifying Biden's win in Georgia by 11,779 votes. In his 2021 book Integrity Counts, Raffensperger described how Georgia had to "waste taxpayer resources" chasing down allegations and rumours of voting irregularities from Trump acolytes.

UPDATE: Rusty Bowers, Arizona's House speaker, started his testimony by denying that he ever told Donald Trump that he thought the election results in the ...

Earlier on Tuesday, British filmmaker Alex Holder said that he is cooperating with the committee’s request for footage of a documentary he was making in the final six weeks of Trump’s reelection campaign. That has translated into mainstream and social media coverage in the hours and even days after each proceeding, as the hearings feature heavy use of video and audio clips. In a clip shown during the hearing, one Trump campaign staffer who became one of those electors said that they because “useful idiots or rubes.” He said that included Trump supporters showing up and his home, including one man carrying a pistol who argued with his neighbor, and also getting messages calling him a pedophile, pervert and corrupt politician. He wrote, “I do not want to be a winner by cheating.” In the spotlight at this hearing is committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is questioning the witnesses. Bowers said that for him to call the legislature back into session, with the purposed of decertifying the Biden electors, would be violating his oath of office. But in his testimony, Bowers said that he talked with Trump after the election, but never said any such thing. That is significant because it ties into one of the committee’s major points, that Trump knew his efforts to overturn the results was illegal but he pressed forward anyway. Bowers said that in a call with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, he asked for proof that undocumented and dead people voted in the state, but never got any. I thought that this is a tragic parody.” “It’s a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired.” He said that “for me to do that because someone asked me to is foreign to my very being.

Fourth hearing of the month will scrutinise Donald Trump's push to get local election officials to reject 2020 results.

Tuesday’s hearing will examine Trump’s pressure on state election officials to overturn the 2020 election. “Each deserves attention both by Congress and by our Department of Justice. But as the federal court has already indicated, these efforts were also part of a broader plan. This is a theatrical production of partisan political fiction. Each state is assigned a number of electors in proportion with its population. “Let’s be clear, this is not a congressional investigation, this horrible situation that’s wasting everyone’s time. “Each of these efforts to overturn the election is independently serious,” Cheney said. “President Trump and his allies drove a pressure campaign based on lies, and these lies led to threats that put state and local officials and their families at risk,” the Reuters news agency quoted a committee aide as saying. No, sir.” “The state pressure campaign and the danger it posed to state officials and the state capitols around the nation was a dangerous precursor to the violence we saw on January 6 that the US Capitol,” Schiff said. Congressman Adam Schiff, a key Democrat who is set to take a leading role at the hearing, has said that state officials who refused to overturn the 2020 election faced a “dangerous” pressure campaign by Trump. “Anyone who got in the way of Donald Trump’s continued hold on power after he lost the election was the subject of a dangerous and escalating campaign of pressure,” Schiff said. - “The relentless destructive pressure campaign on state and local officials was all based on a lie” that Trump knew was a lie: panel chair Bennie Thompson