Quick Glance: McCarthy fails to secure the Speakership as Gaetz gives the crucial vote
- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) gave the decisive present vote for Speaker, stopping Rep.
- Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from obtaining the 217 total votes required to become Speaker.
- Republicans celebrated Gaetz when he cast his current vote, despite the fact that it stopped them from obtaining the 217 votes McCarthy required to win the election at the time.
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Quick Glance: A committee on January 6 proposes criminal charges against Donald Trump.
- The proposal is mostly symbolic, with the US Justice Department determining whether or not to charge Mr Trump.
- Democrat Bennie Thompson, chair of the committee, said, "We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide the road map to justice."
- Ms Cheney noted that prosecutors are now assessing the ramifications of the behaviour highlighted in the committee's findings.
- According to Mr. Trump's lawyer, John Eastman, "A criminal 'referral' from a congressional committee is not binding on the Department of Justice and carries no more legal weight than a 'referral' from any American citizen."
Quick Glance: Donald Trump subpoenaed by US committee probing Capitol storm
- Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak before the congressional committee probing the attack on the United States Capitol.
- However, Trump was responsible for the attack on the House seat, according to Vice Chairman Cheney.
- Rep. Zoe Lofgren testified during the hearing that Trump had intended from the start to declare himself the winner on election night - "no matter what the actual outcome is."
- Defeat in the case of confiscated papers Meanwhile, Trump has been defeated in court over records taken at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Quick Glance: Cheney's defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party; Trump's party now
- Trump is cleansing the Republican Party of dissenters like Cheney and those who dare to oppose him, reshaping the GOP landscape and the complexion of Congress from coast to coast.
- House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy praised Cheney at first, but rapidly shifted his position as Republicans ousted her from party leadership.
- "What's happened to our party is a fear of Donald J. Trump," Simpson explained.
- "The House is — should be — the people's House," ex-Republican Rep.
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump is being probed for espionage charges.
- The order, which was released on Friday afternoon, reveals that the Justice Department is looking into whether Trump violated many federal laws when he transported official records from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago property.
- The documents were unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday after the Justice Department sought that they be made public.
- They were made public an hour after the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of secret documents from Mar-a-Lago.
- Trump's attorneys claim he used his authority to declassify information he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
Quick Glance: Mitt Romney says he is not encouraging Liz Cheney to run for president.
- On August 3, Utah's Mitt Romney told Insider's Oma Seddiq that he "wouldn't be surprised to see her run for president."
- Prior to her primary defeat, the senator also hosted fundraisers on her behalf.
- However, Romney told Deseret News on Thursday that he would not pressure her to run.
- "I don't know if she really wants to do that," Romney added.
- "I believe she was right," Romney said when asked about Cheney facing off against a Trump-backed candidate.
Quick Glance: Cheney says he has a "forever" bond with Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.
- Republicans punished Liz Cheney for questioning Trump's bogus assertions about a stolen election.
- "I think it's a bond," Cheney said on ABC's "I think that it is a bond." on Sunday.
- "Cheney and nine other House Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump in January 2021 after the Capitol riot."
- Cheney lost her primary contest earlier this month to a candidate who supported Trump's bogus assertions about election fraud in 2020.
Quick Glance: US prosecutors subpoena documents for Capitol attack committee - NYT
- Reuters, August 17 - Federal prosecutors investigating the role of former President Donald Trump and his associates in events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol have subpoenaed National Archives materials submitted to a House of Representatives committee, according to the New York Times.
- Trump has denied all wrongdoing.
- The Trump supporters' assault on the Capitol resulted in multiple deaths, the injury of more than 140 police officers, and the postponement of Democratic President Joe Biden's triumph over Republican Trump in the November 2020 election.
- Trump erroneously claims that his election defeat was due to fraud.
Quick Glance: Cheney: The DOJ would be "hard-pressed not to prosecute" Trump in the face of "mounting evidence"
- Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) returns after a break during a House Jan. 6 committee hearing to focus on former President Trump's activities during the insurgency on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
- Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) rejected Thursday fears that prosecuting former President Trump would make him a martyr among his supporters.
- Cheney said that with accumulating evidence against the former president, the DOJ would be hard pressed not to prosecute.
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Quick Glance: Mike Pence claims he did not take classified documents with him when he left office.
- Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters on Friday, August 19, 2022, during a visit to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Pence was in Iowa on Friday as part of a two-day visit to the state that hosts the Republican presidential caucuses.
- Pence expressed "great respect" for Cheney's father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served two terms in the Bush administration.
- "The concern that millions of Americans felt is only going to be resolved with daylight," Pence remarked on Friday.
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Quick Glance: Rep. Liz Cheney reveals that a panel may consider subpoenaing Ginni Thomas on January 6th.
- Liz Cheney (R-WY) stated on Sunday.
- Thomas earlier stated that she attended the Trump rally preceding the Capitol attack but played no involvement in its organization and left early.
- "Clarence and Ginni Thomas have participated in one of the worst breaches of trust ever seen in our court system," Rep.
- J.) stated last month in a statement calling on Justice Thomas to retire, referring to efforts to maintain Donald Trump in power despite his defeat in a democratic election.
Quick Glance: John Eastman is Team Trump's choice for the January 6 scapegoat.
- With the Justice Department and the Jan. 6 committee looking into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he and his associates could use a patsy, and it appears they've found one: right-wing lawyer John Eastman.
- Eastman worked as an attorney for Trump, devising legal techniques to overturn the election and retain the departing president in power.
- Indeed, Trump has kept his mouth quiet on Eastman, a lawyer whose work proved central to the scandalous efforts to overturn President Biden's 2020 victory.
- Trump advisors have also kept silent on the matter of Eastman.
Quick Glance: Cheney: Jan. 6 panel will not allow men claiming presidential privilege to attack Hutchinson
- Rep. Liz Cheney confirmed her faith in former Trump White House employee Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony in an interview that aired on Sunday, and stressed that the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, disturbance at the Capitol would not sit by silently and let her face anonymous assaults.
- "The Committee is not going to stand by and watch her character be assassinated by anonymous sources and by men who are claiming executive privilege."
- During her explosive testimony last week, Hutchinson revealed that former President Donald Trump attempted to grasp the steering wheel of his SUV while demanding to be brought to the Capitol on January 6.
Quick Glance: A witness who took part in the insurgency on January 6 embraces and apologizes to officers
- After testifying about his role in the deadly insurgency at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Stephen Ayres apologized to the officers who guarded the building.
- According to Ayres, "everyone" expected Trump to join them on the march to the Capitol.
- Officers Dunn, Fanone, Hodges, Edwards, and Gonell are in attendance. pic.twitter.com/zNp09AozP4
- Her late husband, Jeffrey Smith, committed himself days after being viciously battered during the Jan. 6 attack. https://t.co/g1puUmRUKx
Quick Glance: How the committee hearings on January 6 set up a spectacular primetime finale
- The hearings began at a slower pace than usual, but Cheney made sure to connect the proceedings to their immediate impact: "Today there appears to be a general recognition that the committee has established key facts, including that virtually everyone close to President Trump, his Justice Department officials, his White House advisors, his White House counsel, his campaign, all told him the 2020 election was not stolen."
- "In this version the president was, quote, poorly served by these outside advisors."
- President Trump is 76 years old.
- Trump was still looking for methods to call the election results into question; there were intense confrontations that lasted for hours.
Quick Glance: Ex-Oath Keeper issues ominous warning to Jan. 6 committee if Trump is re-elected
- Jason Van Tatenhove, the Oath Keepers' national spokesman and a close associate to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, testifies during the House Select Committee's seventh session.
- Stephen Ayres, left, and Jason Van Tatenhove attended the hearing on Tuesday.
- "I think we saw a glimpse of what the vision of the Oath Keepers is on January 6," Mr Van Tatenhove added.
- When questioned why he left the organisation, Mr Van Tatenhove stated that they once erroneously claimed that the Holocaust did not occur.
Quick Glance: Liz Cheney: Men governing the world "is really not going that well"
- Cheney also chastised persons "many years older" than Cassidy Hutchinson, 25, for "hiding" from the committee looking into the Jan. 6 brawl.Cheney stated that the young people she has met in Wyoming and Washington, DC while serving as vice-chair of the select committee examining the January 6 insurgency had "incredibly moved" her."It is especially young women who seem instinctively to understand the peril of this moment for our democracy, and young women who know that it will be up to them to save it," Cheney added.
- "And I've been incredibly moved by the young women who have come forward to testify before the January 6 Committee."
Quick Glance: Cassidy Hutchinson is being pushed to "do the right thing" before a hearing on January 6, according to sources.
- Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, received one of the texts released this week by the Jan. 6 committee.
- Hutchinson, who gave explosive public evidence about Meadows and former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, was one of the witnesses called by committee vice-chair Rep.
- According to a source acquainted with Hutchinson's deposition, the nameless figure referred to in the communication as "a person" was Meadows, Hutchinson's former employer.
- "No one from Meadows' camp, himself or otherwise, has ever attempted to intimidate or shape Ms. Hutchinson's testimony to the committee," according to the spokeswoman.
Quick Glance: WATCH: A January 6 committee says Donald Trump's family and associates pressured him to issue a statement.
- The Jan. 6 committee presented text exchanges between Donald Trump Jr. and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, as the Capitol riot progressed, demonstrating that pressure was put on the then-president to do action to stop the violence by a crowd of his fans.
- Meadows was instructed by the younger Trump that getting the president to condemn the violence was something to "go to the mattresses on."
- Sarah Matthews, a former White House press staffer, spoke about the process before Trump eventually called for the crowd to be peaceful.
Quick Glance: Trump called a member of the White House support staff amid a January 6 investigation
- According to those familiar with the attempt, former President Donald Trump attempted to contact a member of the White House support staff who has been in communication with the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, insurgency.
- "After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation," Cheney said.
- Thompson stated that the committee will not expose the individual's identity.
- According to former administration employees, Trump is a heavy phone user, making 50 to 100 calls every day in the White House.
Quick Glance: Liz Cheney Urges Wyoming Democrats to Switch Parties in Order to Vote for Her
- Wyoming Democrats have received correspondence from Ms. Cheney's campaign in the last week with precise directions on how to change their party affiliation in order to vote for her.
- Mr. Barbuto claimed that during the last week, his social media feeds have been inundated by Democrats – and just Democrats – complaining about receiving mailers from the Cheney campaign.
- Ms. Hageman's team called Ms. Cheney's attempt to recruit Democrats a political reversal.
- It is extremely common for moderate Wyoming Republicans to recruit Democrats to switch parties before of contests – Gov.
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