January 6th Committee: Former Fox News Political Editor To Testify, Trump Campaign Manager Pulls Out Due To Family Emergency

Hot off explosive testimony yesterday from Cassidy Hutchinson, the top aide to President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, the Congressional Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack has subpoenaed former White House Counsel Pasquale “Pat” Cipollone for deposition testimony as a part of the committee’s investigation into the assault on the U.S. Capitol.

What was a dark day for Democracy turned out to be a shining night for late night TV.

amid a Twitter ban and a two-year Facebook suspension, Trump attempted to blast former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as she testified in front of the special committee. “I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’),” Trump wrote, about the former top aide to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, whose office was several doors down from Trump’s Oval Office, as the Jan.

Jan. 6, 2021, where they stormed the building and interrupted the electoral count, a former aide testified to Congress on Tuesday.Trump also demanded to go to the Capitol himself, according to the aide, Cassidy Hutchinson. When the Secret Service drove him back to the White House instead, he became angry and tried to grab the steering wheel, she testified, using his free hand to try to grab a Secret Service agent by the neck.“I’m the effing president,” he said, according to her account.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDonald Trump’s media and technology venture is part of a new federal grand jury investigation, which is seeking information about the financial dealings of the shell company Trump Media & Technology Group intends to merge with, according to a new regulatory filing.Last year, Trump Media & Technology Group announced plans to combine with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), to become a publicly traded company.

Sean Penn was among those in attendance on the fifth day of the U.S. Congress’ January 6 committee hearings, surprising onlookers.

Seth Meyers is among the many who don’t believe Donald Trump is even a little undecided about running for president again in 2024. In fact, on Monday night’s show, the host likened Trump’s attempts to play coy to a drunk college kid.During his “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers honed in on Trump’s plan to pardon people involved with the January 6 insurrection, as revealed in the January 6 committee hearings, and his continued intent to do so if he were to get reelected. “Most people should not be treated the way they’re being treated.

Joy Behar is looking at the history of “The View” as the show celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila have shared a new video of them campaigning in Washington, D.C. for gun control.

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C. has been in a bit of nostalgic mode.

Thursday testimony focused on Eastman’s role in pushing the notion that Pence had the power to reject certain electors, which would have thrown the issue back to “contested” states. Several witnesses, including well-respected conservative legal advisers close to Trump, stated emphatically from the stand that the idea wasn’t just legally ludicrous – but that Eastman knew it was illegal.Scarborough’s guest, former U.S.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, long a target of conservative activists, has decided to jump into the lion’s den, joining the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social yesterday. Newsom made the announcement on Twitter this afternoon writing, “I just joined Trump’s Truth Social. Going to be on there calling out Republican lies. This could get…interesting.”

UPDATE: J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, said that if Mike Pence went with Donald Trump’s orders to reject the electoral vote count for Joe Biden it “would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in America.” Luttig, a conservative judge and informal adviser to Pence, said that it “would have been the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic.”

“I’m just curious how you even know when Rudy Giuliani is drunk,” said Trevor Noah on The Daily Show last night of the president’s former personal lawyer, whom he likened to a “drunk vampire.”

John Oliver checked in on the midterm elections Sunday night, focusing on the Arizona senate race and having a ball tearing through some of the odd Republican campaign ads and strategies.Arizona is represented by two Democrats: Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly. According to Oliver, Republicans think they can unseat Kelly, but it’s a competitive GOP primary.

Other witnesses include Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News editor, who was part of the team that made the decision to call Arizona for eventual election winner Joe Biden in November 2020. The decision reportedly infuriated Trump, who reached out directly to Fox News leadership to complain. Stirewalt has become an outspoken critic of political media since leaving the network.

The political world is focused on the shocking hearings taking place this week on the awful right-wing insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol Building that took place in Washington, D.C. on January 6 of last year.

CNBC.Bankert, caught off guard by her own scoop, pressed Stirewalt for details.“I’m not in a position to tell you what my testimony will be about,” he said. “I just want to make sure that folks know that I am, so I’m not playing any hidden-ball tricks here.

Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News political editor let go from the network in January, 2021, said that he has been called to testify before the January 6th Committee and will do so on Monday.