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Newsweek, the search of Trump’s resort “was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away” and was “based largely” on the information from that currently anonymous informant. On Tuesday night, Fallon lightly implied that it was former vice president Mike Pence who had given the FBI the password to Trump’s safe, which he claimed was also taken.But the next night, Fallon had a few more concrete guesses.

expected to name CNN political commentator and former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin as a new co-host for the upcoming season, filling a seat that has been vacant since Meghan McCain exited a year ago.Prior to her time on “The View” and CNN, Farah Griffin served as press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence and Special Assistant to Trump from October 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, she became the Press Secretary for the United States Department of Defense, which she worked as until 2020.

CNN Wednesday, Cobb noted that testimonies presented during the Jan. 6 hearings – which painted a picture of Trump sitting in the White House watching TV while insurrectionists were storming the Capitol – combined with him tweeting that former vice president Mike Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what was necessary” after refusing to overturn the 2020 election results create a pretty clear path to criminal charges.“The Pence tweet, coupled with the three hours of inaction, in my view, easily fits into the definition of giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionists, and that is the standard under Article 3 of the 14th Amendment, which Congress has at its disposal,” Cobb explained.

The View, criticized members of her own political party for voting against a bill to codify same-sex marriage into law. Griffin, who previously served as press secretary for former Vice President Mike Pence before serving as White House Director of Strategic Communications, explained how shocked she was seeing the number of Republicans who voted against the bill.“They’re on the wrong side of this,” Griffin said during a recent on-air discussion on the issue. “On the one hand, I’m pleased that the House was able to pass codifying marriage equality into law, but the number of Republicans that were against it — it’s 2022.

The New York Post editorial board has said there “is no defense” for Donald Trump’s “refusal to stop the violence” on Jan. 6, adding that the former president “has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”The 262-word piece in the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid cuts through the many layers of information brought to the surface by the Jan.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Unprecedented,” Alex Holder’s documentary centered around Donald Trump and his family during the final six weeks of his 2020 presidential campaign — and the ensuing Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol — comes out on Sunday, July 10.

This story is developing …Previous Hearings:Day 5 on June 23 included testimony showing that Trump pressured on his own attorney general’s office to overturn the 2020 election – an effort one dissenting Justice Department official called a “murder-suicide pact.” The committee was expected to hear from a documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who chronicled the final six weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, but Holder’s appearance was delayed. Read about Day 5 highlights here.Day 4 on June 21 included Republican state officials from around the country telling the committee how Trump tried to pressure them to overturn election results, including sending supporters to officials’ homes, waving weapons and shouting insults and threats of violence here.Day 3 kicked off June 16 with testimony focusing on the intense pressure President Trump put on Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election.

The January 6 Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, a surprise move at a time when Congress is out of session and the committee had said it was going on a break until after the recess.

documentary footage released to the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S.

Alex Holder, the filmmaker who is behind Discovery+’s upcoming documentary on Donald Trump, met with the January 6th Committee on Thursday at the Capitol.

over why some former Trump 2020 campaign staffers didn’t know there was a documentary crew filming them throughout the 2020 election, right through to Jan. 6.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeDiscovery+ has revealed that it is the streaming service that has secured the rights to “Unprecedented,” the three-part documentary series from filmmaker Alex Holder that will feature video of Donald Trump, his family and staffers during the final weeks of the 2020 election — including his actions, presumably as he attemped to subvert democracy and engineer a coup to maintain his grip on power.Discovery+ purchased the rights to the documentary last year, according to insiders. It will run this summer on the streamer.“Alex Holder’s ‘Unprecedented’ three-part docuseries about the 2020 election will be released on Discovery+ later this summer,” a Discovery+ spokesperson said.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the January 6th Committee, said on Wednesday that the hearing schedule will continue into July.

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.”

#LateShowLIVE show!! #January6thHearings #TheMuppets pic.twitter.com/4sRNVAH0IAThe clip used repurposed footage of the actual “The Muppet Show” intro, but with the Muppet-impersonators singing lyrics about the hearings, instead of about Muppets putting on a show.The lyrics are:Kermit the Frog: “It’s the House Select Committee’s Jan. 6 hearings!”Female chorus: “It’s time for Bennie Thompson.

CBS News has tapped Adam Verdugo as the next executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.

Wilson Chapman editorOn Thursday night, the first public hearing regarding last year’s Jan. 6 Capitol attack will take place, after over 10 months of investigation from a group of lawmakers.The first hearing will begin at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m.

except for Fox News. Instead, Fox is going to keep their primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham intact and break away to cover the hearings “as news warrants.”“They’re going to be spending all night talking about the real culprit,” Noah said as a photo of Carlson popped up on the screen beside him. In a mocking voice, Noah continued: “Why is nobody talking about how Congress has too many doors? If there was only one door in and out, this never would have happened.

Jill Biden. Superville covers the White House for the AP; Pace, a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief, is now AP's executive editor.———As a teacher for more than 30 years, Dr. Jill Biden had long been accustomed to waking up in the dark — but this was something else entirely.She heard the whistle of the 5:20 a.m.

Donald Trump appointed him director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017, then secretary of state a year later. He has speculated about a 2024 presidential run, one that might find him in competition with his former boss.

As former Attorney General William Barr is poised to become the latest Trump administration insider with a tell-all book, NBC News has landed an exclusive interview with plans for a one-hour special on Sunday.

The House committee in charge of investigating the January 6 U.S. Capitol takeover is coming forward with new evidence.

coronavirus task force coordinator in the administration of President Donald Trump.Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that Birx's “Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of The Trump Administration, COVID-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too Late," will be published April 26.“I wrote ‘Silent Invasion' to document the full extent of what I witnessed as I tried to save lives during this devastating time," Birx said in a statement. “In the book, I expose the true cost of mistakes that were made at all levels of the federal government, but I also clarify the things that went right yet remained largely unseen — the insights and innovations that saved American lives in this pandemic and are essential to preparing for the next.”The 65-year-old Birx, currently a senior fellow at the George W.

Mike Pence spoke out on Donald Trump’s ongoing claim that Pence had the right to overturn the election results on January 6, 2021. During the Federalist Society Florida Chapters conference in Orlando, Florida on Friday (February 4), the former Vice President delivered a stunning rebuke to Trump’s ongoing efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, calling the idea that one person is able to appoint the U.S. commander in chief “un-American.”

WASHINGTON -- ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.——NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sullivan; Marc Short, former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence.———CBS’ “Face the Nation" — Sen.

Robert Costa, who has been national political reporter at The Washington Post and was host of PBS’s Washington Week, is joining CBS News as chief election and campaign correspondent.

All of the news networks carried events marking the anniversary of January 6th, albeit with differences in tone and tenor, but by the time of the opinion-heavy primetime hours, there were wildly different characterizations of the significance of attack on the Capitol.

John Eastman wasn’t the only right-wing attorney urging former Vice President Mike Pence to effectively throw the election to former President Donald Trump by rejecting Electoral College votes from battleground states Trump lost. ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl reported Sunday that Jenna Ellis, a Trump attorney, had written her own memo essentially calling for a coup.

says that what happened is that Trump needed to get a colonoscopy. But because he was afraid of being made fun of on late night shows, he kept the whole thing a secret.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBeck Bennett, the versatile “Saturday Night Live” player who has won notice for his impressions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.

In the week before the publication of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril, many of its juiciest revelations already had made headlines.

Beck Bennett has been part of the cast of "Saturday Night Live" since 2013 and played a wide range of hilarious characters.

Fox’s Let’s Be Real sketch comedy returns tonight with four new episodes featuring new puppets from entertainment and politics.

Two hundred employees at Simon & Schuster are upset that the publishing company plans to release books from Donald Trump cronies Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence. Should they cancel the deals? Wendy Williams and Joseline Hernandez went at it on TV. Who was in the wrong? Perez lets you know! And David Dobrik exposed over bedroom antics. Someone went too far!

Former Vice President Mike Pence is recovering from surgery.

Since leaving the White House, Donald Trump‘s life has turned into a “grievance Groundhog Day,” CNN’s Jim Acosta says. “It seems he gets up every day, gripes about the election, then wakes up the next day still a loser,” the anchor remarked April 11 on CNN Newsroom. Acosta was addressing a New York Times report that Trump lashed out at Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, and more during a profane speech to RNC donors at Mar-a-Lago the night prior.