By Ariane de Vogue and Zachary Cohen, CNN A lawyer for Virginia “Ginni” Thomas said in a letter to the January 6, 2021, House select committee on Tuesday that he “does not believe there is currently a sufficient basis to speak with” the conservative activist. “I am asking the Committee to provide a better justification
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN On the same day a former aide to President Donald Trump’s chief of staff testified about how Trump had wanted to join the throngs of his supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republicans in Colorado on Tuesday rejected three election deniers running for statewide office. Mesa County Clerk
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by a New Mexico county commissioner to shut down state proceedings against him that seek to remove him from office because of his conviction for trespassing on US Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. Couy Griffin, an Otero County commissioner and a prominent
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden was meeting royalty in Spain on Tuesday when word arrived that an audacious plan he had hatched six months earlier was in the final stages of completion. The leaders of Finland and Sweden were meeting across town in a conference room with the leader of Turkey, who for
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen and Alex Rogers, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection reconvened Tuesday for a hastily scheduled hearing, featuring blockbuster testimony from Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson has cooperated extensively with the investigation, having sat for four closed-door depositions. She revealed how then-President
Continue Reading By Jake Tapper and Annie Grayer, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, released a new statement Wednesday provided exclusively to CNN standing by her blockbuster testimony delivered in a hearing with the House select committee investigating January 6, in light of some pushback on her testimony.
Continue Reading By Jason Morris, CNN An attorney representing subpoenaed members of Georgia’s General Assembly has filed a motion with the Superior Court of Fulton County asking to quash subpoenas for at least two GOP state lawmakers to appear as witnesses in front of the special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn
Continue Reading By Jim Acosta, CNN Donald Trump documentary filmmaker Alex Holder has been contacted by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office about his potential cooperation with the grand jury investigating the pressure the former President put on Georgia officials to overturn that state’s 2020 election results, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. Fulton
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, Clare Foran and Josh Campbell, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified during a congressional hearing Tuesday that she was told that former President Donald Trump became “irate” when informed by security that he would not be going to the Capitol on January 6,
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a congressional map in Louisiana to remain in place for the next election, freezing a lower court ruling that said the map likely violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters. In a brief order, the court
Continue Reading By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Multiple polls conducted since the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade find that broad majorities of the public disapprove and suggest that in the immediate aftermath of the ruling, the decision could be more motivational for Democrats than Republicans. In a new Monmouth University survey released on Tuesday, 60% of
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen and Alex Rogers, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection reconvened Tuesday for a hastily scheduled hearing, featuring blockbuster testimony from Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson has cooperated extensively with the investigation, having sat for four closed-door depositions. She revealed how then-President
Continue Reading Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was “a bombshell” with potentially huge repercussions for Trump.
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House select committee this week increased the criminal exposure former President Donald Trump faces in the Justice Department’s ongoing January 6, 2021, investigation. Anecdotes recounted under oath by the former White House aide offer new avenues for investigators to potentially examine whether Trump
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed A Texas state court has issued a temporary restraining order against certain local and state officials, barring them from enforcing a nearly century-old abortion ban in the state. The order will have the effect of allowing some Texas clinics — at least for a short period — to resume the procedure for
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN It’s primary election day in Illinois, Colorado, New York, Oklahoma and Utah. There are also primary runoffs in Mississippi and South Carolina, and a special election to fill an open US House seat in Nebraska. Among the key races Tuesday are
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed A Texas state court has issued a temporary restraining order against certain local and state officials, barring them from enforcing a nearly century-old abortion ban in the state. The order will have the effect of allowing some Texas clinics — at least for a short period — to resume the procedure for
Continue Reading By Sam Woodward, CNN The top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Tuesday was a young, fast-rising star in the Trump administration. Cassidy Hutchinson, 26, was a staff assistant at the Office of Legislative Affairs before
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The pro-Russian captors of two Americans captured during a battle near Kharkiv, Ukraine, earlier this month are reportedly “willing to negotiate,” one captive’s mother told CNN on Tuesday. Bunny Drueke said that her son, Alexander John-Robert Drueke, spoke in recent days — under duress — with an official
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Kevin Liptak, CNN The United States government took a slew of actions against Russia on Tuesday, sanctioning those whom it says support Russia’s defense industrial base, designating Russian military units for human rights abuses in Ukraine and implementing a ban on new imports of Russian gold. The moves are the latest
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