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US Justice Dept says it has NO indication Antifa played any role in Wednesday chaos at US Capitol
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FLASH:
Minutes after Guy Reffitt was sentenced to 7 years in Capitol riot case... his daughter calls for "life in prison" for Donald Trump
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!!! NEW: Justice Dept. has charged West Virginia state delegate with illegally entering US Capitol. Derek Evans
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Rep Liz Cheney (R-WY) tonight: “Two years ago I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could’ve done so again. The path was clear. But it would’ve required that I went along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election”
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Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tells CNN there are new witnesses who have come forward to Jan 6 Select Committee after the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson
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A group of House Republicans who were planning a morning news conference about the Justice Dept search of Mar-a-Lago have cancelled the news conference
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ALERT: Rep Cheney says Trump tried to call a committee witness. Witness didn’t take call. Witness called lawyer Instead. Committee has submitted that info to Dept of Justice
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Rep Liz Cheney speech in California last night:
“… to the little girls and to the young women who are watching tonight: these days, for the most part, men are running the world, and it’s really not going all that well”
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Wednesday’s US Capitol riot is one of the rare events that becomes more terrifying with time
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BREAKING- Rep Matt Gaetz’s associate Joel Greenberg will plead guilty to six of 33 federal charges. And agrees “to cooperate fully with the United States in the investigation and prosecution of other persons”
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OOF: DC judge REJECTS request from accused Proud Boy & Capitol insurrectionist Chris Worrell for release from jail. Worrell has been treated for 14 years for lymphoma and is concerned about COVID. Judge says...You didn’t seem concerned while in “mob” on Jan 6 “without a mask”
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NOW: Jon Stewart is lining up to enter US Senate chamber for burn pit vote. A few dozen veterans lined up behind him
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US Justice Dept *will* bring sedition charges (20 year felonies) in US Capitol insurrection. "We are working on those cases. They will bear fruit very soon"
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Rep Liz Cheney (R-WY) on House floor tonight, "How we address January 6th is the moral test of our generation"
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Rep Scott Perry (R-PA): “This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone.”
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FLASH: Family of officer Brian Sicknick refuses to shake hands with Sen McConnell and Rep McCarthy at Congressional gold medal ceremony. Brian’s brother Ken Sicknick tells me why ====>
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Just a reminder:
The US Capitol complex was closed to public tours on Jan 5, 2021
Due to COVID
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Rep Liz Cheney (R-WY), in speech tonight:
“At this moment, we are confronting a domestic threat we have never faced before– a former President who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our Constitutional Republic.”
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US Attorney in DC is investigating whether Members of Congress gave recon tours of Capitol to insurrectionists before Jan 6, per House Subcommittee chair
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BREAKING: New York man arrested for role in US Capitol chaos. He’s accused of jabbing a bat at a police officer. A childhood Facebook friend tipped feds. Some of his social media posts ..... are well.......
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ALERT: NY judge Juan Merchan rejects Trump's request to skip attending trial next Thursday to attend Supreme Court hearing on his "presidential immunity" argument
Judge: "Your client is a criminal defendant in New York. He is required to be here. He is not required to be in…
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ALERT: DC federal judge REJECTS Peter Navarro's request to delay his Friday arraignment in Contempt of Congress case
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Two years later.............. no arrests.
No updates from the FBI
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FLASH: DC Jury finds Steve Bannon GUILTY on count one of Contempt of Congress
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FLASH: Man accused of having 11 molotov cocktails in his pickup truck near US Capitol is Lonnie Coffman of Alabma. He's IN CUSTODY
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Rep Al Green (D-TX), recovering from intestinal surgery, signed a waiver to leave hospital to vote last night. His vote blocked impeachment of Homeland Security Secr. Mayorkas
He ordered an Uber, then House Dem leader arranged a car
He was monitored in House physican office
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Video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept shows what happens as police tried to protect a closing door at US Capitol complex on Jan 6 ===>
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NEW: Former Trump Administration State Department appointee Federico Klein has 10am hearing tomorrow in DC federal court..... for alleged role on frontlines of US Capitol Insurrection
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MORE: One person arrested near Capitol yesterday had *11* molotov cocktails "ready to go", per Justice Dept
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FLASH: Federal Election Commission complaint filed against Rep George Santos (R-NY) in his first week in office
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Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on missing Secret Service text messages:
“We are determined to recover and retrieve all of the texts that have been lost.”
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NEW: DC judge dismisses civil suit filed by Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY), Rep Marjorie Taylor-Green (R-GA) against Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenging the constitutionality of the US House's COVID mask mandate and fines
Rules in favor of Pelosi/defendants
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at news conference just now, said President Biden "did a great service to our country.... He defeated Donald Trump"
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BOOM: Judge at Jan 6 case sentencing just slammed some Members of Congress for “re-writing history” and comparing insurrection to “tourists”
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CONGRATULATIONS to my beautiful wife Lisa
Today she is *three years* cancer-free
She's my hero and the world's greatest teacher
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!1 WHOA: DC fed. judge slams Jan 6 defendant Karl Dresch & Donald Trump in sentencing hearing just now
Telling Dresch: "Your vote doesn't count any more than anyone else's. You don't get to cancel them out. Patriotism means loyalty to country... not to single head of state"
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MINUTES AGO: Alabama’s Attorney General is questioned at Senate Judiciary Committee… and this exchange happened ====>
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FBI has created a comprehensive list of all cellphone signals inside the US Capitol on Jan 6.
Members of Congress
Staffers
Police
Insurrectionists
Per court filings
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Jan 6 Cmte spokesman: “In our interview with Mr. Cipollone, the Committee received critical testimony on nearly every major topic in its investigation, reinforcing key points regarding Donald Trump’s misconduct …
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FLASH: In new legal filing, the US House Select Jan 6 Committee says:
"The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371."
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There it is.
Special Counsel has just alerted the DC federal judge about Trump's social media post today
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Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT): “Spare me the bullshit about mental illness. We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we don't – we're not an outlier on mental illness.”
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BREAKING: 71 y/o man arrested with gun and 20 rounds of 9mm ammo.. while parked in intersection near Rayburn US House Office Building.
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!!! NEW: US Justice Dept tells judge Riley Williams, woman accused of stealing computer from Nancy Pelosi's office, is suspected of using internet in recent days, encouraging people to destroy evidence in Capitol insurrection case. They want judge to prohibit internet access
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Police: Ramos asked his sister for help to buy a gun in 2021. She refused
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US Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell tells CNN, “There was no Antifa there. The sea of people there were saying President Trump sent us here”
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BREAKING: Feds arrest Cleveland Meredith for his role in the US Capitol chaos. Investigators allege Meredith texted others that he would be "putting a bullet" in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's head
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NEW: Sen Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announces she’ll seek unanimous consent tomorrow in Senate on her bill to protect the right to IVF nationwide.
She is quite noticeably daring Republican US Senators to attempt to block it.
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There it is:
Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) introduce bill to change the name of the federal prison in Miami, Florida to the Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution
Days after House GOP members offered bill to rename Dulles Airport for Trump
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NEW: Federal judge says US Postmaster General will have to be deposed or appear in case in DC over USPS handling and search for unaccounted ballots
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I’ve never seen such a compelling piece of evidence in a federal court record. WV state delegate accused of unlawful entry at US Capitol ===>
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Source confirms for CBS News that 25 cell phones of US Secret Service Agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol were turned over to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general (more)
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US Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell tells CNN about Members of Congress who did not vote to support Jan 6 commission, “I feel insulted. They don’t have the courage. They demand something of us that they’re not willing to do ... sacrifice”
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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell did not respond to reporters at Capitol when asked if he had any reaction to the shooting
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Judge in sentencing hearing in *misdemeanor* Jan 6 case. Big warning flag:
“It’s become evident to me in the riot cases, many of the defendants who are pleading guilty are not truly accepting responsibility. They seem to trying to get this out of the way as quickly as possible”
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FLASH: US House Oversight Committee schedules hearing for MONDAY MARCH 22 on bill to make District of Columbia a US state
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ALERT: Justice Dept to seek 7+ years in prison in Capitol riot case of Riley Williams, arguing she directed rioters, organized violence against police... helped "to steaL items from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office. Everywhere she went, Williams acted as an accelerant"
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FLASH: DC jury finds Richard Bigo Barnett guilty in Capitol riot trial. All counts
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NEW: Hundreds of prosecutors and agents now assigned to investigate US Capitol chaos, per Justice Dept
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Kimberly Guilfoyle spoke for 2-minutes, 30-seconds at White House Ellipse on Jan 6
Per Rep Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to CNN... Guilfoyle was paid $60000 out of money raised via Trump's election fraud claims
That'd be $400-per-second for Guilfoyle's speech
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ALERT: Person shot at US Capitol today has died, per law enforcement source
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Sorry if I’m late to this... but defense attorneys say accused US Capitol Insurrectionist Federico Klein was a FOIA officer for US State Dept. A FOIA officer!
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President Biden rejects Donald Trump's claim of executive privilege over White House visitor logs, including from January 6. Documents head to House Jan 6 Committee
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FLASH: Trump attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley:
"This morning we tendered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case or the January 6 investigation.."
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DC Judge cracks back at Peter Navarro:
"In the last 2 days, Defendant has twice communicated with the court by emailing the courtroom deputy, without copying government counsel. This is not proper. Defendant is not permitted to have ex-parte communications with the court"
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Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tells ABC the NRA “has gone from defending the rights of gun owners .. it has.. become a grifting scam”
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ALERT: DC federal judge has DENIED Steve Bannon's motion to dismiss his contempt of Congress case
Trial next month
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US Secret Service statement:
“U.S. Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony."
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“Armed insurrection”
Items carried at US Capitol by some in the mob, per court filings:
Guns, bear spray, hockey stick, baseball bat, taser, sharpened flagpole, knives, scissors, tourniquet, plastic knuckles, lacrosse stick
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JUST NOW: On House floor; Referring to newly-approved “House Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government”…. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) calls it the “committee on insurrection protection”
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ALERT: Justice Dept asks court to keep Mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit UNDER SEAL. "Disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would, by contrast, cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation"
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Per pool report, embattled Rep-elect George Santos (R-NY) just approached his new office in Longworth House Office Bldg, where press and cameras have gathered, then turned around and went the other direction upon seeing press
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Meanwhile, Jan 6 Select Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) just told reporters that depositions will continue on a “daily basis” this month
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HOLY HELL: this video just released by FBI of US Capitol Insurrectionist
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Long Island constituents arrive at Rep George Santos office
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ALERT: Judge Tanya Chutkan hands down her latest Jan 6 case sentencing. Once again, she gives the sentence recommended by prosecutors. She declines recommendation from defense. And once again, she gives lengthy remarks about the horrors of Jan 6
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Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to CNN about new House GOP majority:
"If they want to re-run the January 6th investigation... then more power to them. Because all roads lead to the exact same place: Donald Trump refused to accept no for an answer from the American people"
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ALERT: US House will vote on DC statehood bill during week of April 19
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES about Obama/HW Bush records:
"Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives after they left office or that the records were housed in substandard conditions are false.."
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They tried to retreat.... the mob pursued
Powerful court exhibit from US Justice Dept in Capitol riot case
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House Jan 6 Cmte Rep. Adam Schiff tells me re: McCarthy audio:
“It’s a demonstration of how would-be autocrats like Donald Trump come to power. It's on the backs of people like Kevin McCarthy, who don't have the courage of their convictions who are unwilling to speak the truth”
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Chris Christie on ABC “If Dr Oz loses by 11 points in November, Donald Trump is going to act like he never met him”
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Sen Mitt Romney on Natl Archives review of Trump Mar-a-lago papers: "Clearly if classified documents were taken that would be of grave concern and its appropriate to follow the law. Frankly President Trump's misbehavior consists of a long list and you just add that to the total"
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Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD): "We have in Donald Trump, a man of considerable political talent who is essentially lawless and ungovernable and Incorrigible... so I see him as a one man crime wave.”
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Per multiple sources speaking with CBS News, the search at Mar-a-Lago is related to the missing White House documents
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FLASH: Special Counsel Jack Smith asks Judge Aileen Cannon to proceed w/ jury selection in Trump criminal case on Dec. 11
He asks court to disregard Trump defense request to wait for trial until after 2024 election
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FBI Mar-a-Lago affidavit “the FBI has not yet identified all potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation”
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Nearly 460 US Capitol Insurrection defendants have been charged.
But somehow .. no one has successfully tipped FBI about this suspect. His face seems clear on the "wanted posted" released again today by FBI
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NEW: Man wanted by US Capitol Police was stopped by Secret Service near Naval Observatory (which houses Vice President's residence)
Police say they found a long gun, a large amount of ammunition and several gun clips w/ ammunition in man's car parked in a DC garage
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Rep Gerry Connolly (D-Va):
"In light of the GOP’s cowardly filibuster of a bipartisan January 6th Commission, I urge President Biden to form and appoint a Presidential Commission to fully investigate the insurrection at the United States Capitol"
@GerryConnolly
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STANDBY: Another Jan 6 arrest.. with connections to US Marines
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NEW: US House Democrats introduce resolution to formally censure REP. MO BROOKS (R-AL) for "inciting violence" in speech Jan 6 at White House rally
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Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tells Face the Nation … “I don’t really know many people around (Trump) who truly believe the election was stolen.”
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Pat Cipollone has arrived for interview with House Jan 6 Select Committee
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Sen Mitt Romney (R-UT) moments ago about RNC censure: "It could not have been a more inappropriate message. One to sanction two people of character as they did. But number two to suggest that a violent attack on the seat of democracy is legitimate political discourse"
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About this video from last night.
We’ve been closely tracking the cases of many of the people shown
Let me tell you more …
(Below)
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US Bureau of Prisons report shows Enrique Tarrio is now serving time in the US federal prison in Atlanta. Estimated release date: Dec 5, 2040
In his seditious conspiracy case
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Programming note: There is a firehose of January 6 news happening late today and tonight. Standby
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More threats
Rep Drew Ferguson (R-GA), who defected from Jim Jordan yesterday, “Shortly after casting that vote, my family and I started receiving death-threats. That is simply unacceptable, unforgivable, and will never be tolerated.”
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