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Biden says January 6 committee has made an ‘overwhelming’ case | CNN Politics By Betsy Klein, Shawna Mizelle CNN October 16, 2022 President Joe Biden said on Saturday the video and testimony shared at the January 6 hearing this week was “devastating” and said the committee overall has made an “overwhelming” case. Asked his thoughts on the hearing during an unannounced stop at a Baskin-Robbins in Portland, Oregon, Biden said, “I think the testimony, the video are absolutely devastating. And I’ve been going out of my way not to comment, see what happens, but it’s just — I…

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Trump wants to testify to the January 6 committee, but only if they broadcast it live, NYT reports By Tom Porter Business Insider October 14, 2022 Former President Donald Trump has told aides he might comply with a subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, as long as he can do so live, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported. According to Haberman, Trump has told aides he’s not opposed to the idea of testifying before the committee, as long as it’s on his terms. The information was a contribution by Haberman to The Times’s live coverage…

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Being subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee wasn’t even the worst of Trump’s day | CNN Politics By Stephen Collinson CNN October 14, 2022 Here’s how bad Donald Trump’s day was on Thursday. The House January 6 committee voted to subpoena him after laying bare his depraved efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and his dereliction of duty as his mob invaded the US Capitol. But that wasn’t the worst of it for the former President. The committee’s dramatic, though probably futile, effort to get Trump to testify was a mic drop moment to cap its last hearing before…

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Texas family sentenced for involvement in Jan. 6 attack The Hill October 13, 2022 A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced five family members who pleaded guilty for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The judge sentenced the two parents, Thomas and Dawn Munn, to 14 days in jail, and sentenced three of their children — Kristi, Joshua and Kayli — to 36 months each of probation. The parents, who are from Borgen, Texas, had also traveled to Washington on Jan. 6 with another one of their children, who is a minor and was not charged.…

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By Casey Gannon, Weslan Hansen CNN October 13, 2022 A Texas family of five was sentenced together on Wednesday for storming the Capitol on January 6, with the two parents getting jail time and three adult children given probation and some home confinement. The Munn family from Borger, Texas, was among some of the first to enter the Capitol on January 6, climbing through a broken window and making their way through the crypt and the visitor center before entering a Senate conference room, according to their sentencing memos. The many, many legal problems of Donald Trump Continue Reading…..

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Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel By Michael D. Shear and Linda Qiu New York Times October 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it,” he said. Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he knows what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.” In fact, news…

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Biden open to re-evaluating Saudi relationship after Opec+ cuts, says White House — as it happened the Guardian October 11, 2022 President Joe Biden will consider working with Congress to change the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia amid outrage over its support for an oil production cut that was seen as partial to Russia, a White House spokesman said. The comments from John Kirby, spokesman for the Biden administration’s national security council, largely reiterate what the president said last week, when the Opec+ bloc of oil producers, in which Saudi Arabia plays a leading role, announced they…

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