NEW from
@AndrewFeinberg
>> Robert Hur officially resigned from the DOJ today in order to testify as a private citizen tomorrow.
He's also relying on figures from Trump-world to help prepare for his testimony. More here >>
It’s about time R’s investigate the Trump family.
NEW: “The group specifically requests inquiries into the conduct of former senior adviser Jared Kushner & Trump’s three oldest children, accusing the four of ‘influence peddling’ while Trump was in office.”
🚨 Another blow for Jim Jordan tonight:
"..witnesses have offered contradictory responses, maintained fringe & violent online presences that undermine their credibility, & failed to demonstrate first-hand knowledge of alleged FBI wrongdoing."
🚨🚨Huge new reporting from
@AnnieGrayerCNN
.
Who’s behind the GOP “whistleblowers” being interviewed by the House Judiciary Committee? Turns out it’s Kash Patel, former Trump advisor and someone we subpoenaed in our January 6th investigation.
Read below⬇️⬇️
NEW: None of the 3 whistleblowers Jim Jordan's committee has interviewed so far appear to have their claims validated by gov. entities that grant federal whistleblower protections, a series of interviews and review of transcripts show.
W/
@alaynatreene
This memo from Oversight Dems is a must-read. It debunks every claim Comer tried to make today.
Main takeaway: Comer failed. They tied nothing to the President. This was all a stunt to try to harm Joe Biden politically.
Top points from the memo ⬇️
A breakdown of what happened here for folks at home:
- McCarthy says they will open impeachment inquiry based on "not receiving documents"
- GOP staffer says they have not even asked for docs
- Comer said he's received "100%" of what he's asked for🤔
Another important nugget:
"Separately, several other supposed whistleblowers who have not come in for interviews were suspended from the FBI for being at the Capitol on January 6, 2021"
Judge Chutkan is also overseeing Jack Smith’s federal case against Donald Trump. Noteworthy to hear her remarks about January 6th in the sentencing of some of the rioters.
Once again.. including in a misdemeanor case… Judge Chutkan gives a lengthy, unscripted and emphatic set of remarks about the damage of Jan 6. And once again, she hands down a stiffer sentence than sought by defense
Today marks the official end of the January 6th Select Committee and with that, my time on it. I've never had so many colleagues at the top of their respective fields all working towards such an important goal: saving our democracy. It was an absolute honor.
I spoke with
@MacFarlaneNews
about the security risk sharing this video with Fox poses to lawmakers and how this shows Republicans are more interested in pulling partisan stunts than conducting legitimate investigations.
It's official!
Following my time on
@January6thCmte
, I'm excited to work with
@usintegrityorg
to shed light on Republicans' partisan investigations.
Turns out, the same Republican congressmen who were a part of Trump’s coup plot are now leading investigations in the House. 🧐
Having the Georgia trial televised is a big deal.
The January 6th Committee aired over 20 hours of evidence so the American people could see HOW Trump tried to overthrow our democracy.
Had a great time joining
@AlexWitt
&
@harrylitman
today to kick off a Labor Day weekend!
Jim Jordan's role in the January 6th coup attempt led by Donald Trump hasn't been receiving the attention I believe it deserves. Quick thread on his active role in that plot, and why it's extremely dangerous if he were to be elected Speaker. 1/
Liz Cheney had a figurine at last night's hearing given to her by a committee staffer. The staffer's grandfather made them for committee members and staff. It's inscribed: "Select committee members and staff to investigate attack on Capitol, thank you."
Your periodic reminder that Andy Biggs defied a subpoena by the January 6th Select Committee for helping Donald Trump try to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.
He shouldn't be investigating anything.
Three years since the deadly attack on our Capitol.
Two years since the January 6th Committee released our report to present, in detail, how Donald Trump led the multi-prong effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Forever proud of the work of this team.
What’s clear from the transcripts is that Hur is a Republican political operative who misrepresented President Biden, who himself recalled details from decades ago and even corrected the interrogators at one point.
Anyone who saw his SOTU speech knows he is in command.
The President was fired up about Hur’s claim that he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died… because it was false. He immediately said the date, according to the interview transcript.
Read more here:
New: Jamie Raskin releases intv transcript with the Russian oligarch at center of the Biden bribe allegation.
“No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement”
Yet again, James Comer is misrepresenting information that has already been reported that shows no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.
This pattern to continuously attempt to deceive the American people in order come up with a reason to impeach Joe Biden is disgusting.
Comer's statement and press release don't mention "truck" or the amount of money involved. Part of a pattern of them finding something and not being fully upfront about what they found.
Today in Kentucky --
A mobile billboard will be driving around with the below video from
@usintegrityorg
detailing the bombshell AP reporting last week about James Comer's own shady land deals.
HAPPENING TODAY: Our new mobile billboard is driving the streets of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, where a bombshell investigation by the
@AP
revealed House Oversight Chairman
@RepJamesComer
owns land in Tompkinsville with a long-time donor through a shady shell company.
WATCH >>
When
@GOPoversight
invited me to visit insurrectionists at the DC Jail, I saw far better conditions than the average jail in Texas. So I hosted a roundtable in Dallas with formerly incarcerated advocates to talk about how we can reform jail and prison conditions across the US.
It’s been over a week since RFK Jr. committed to releasing more medial history in an interview w/
@briantylercohen
.
It’s been almost four weeks since the discovery of the parasitic brain worm.
We’re still waiting to hear from RFK Jr.
My full statement >>
There's room for legitimate oversight in Congress, but the investigations we're about to see are far from it.
Thanks
@HallieJackson
for having me on yesterday to talk about what Trump-style political attacks we can expect to see starting this week from Republicans in Congress.
There couldn't have been a starker contrast this week between
@POTUS
SOTU & the bizarre political stunts by Republicans in committee hearings.
I joined
@BBCWorld
&
@Geetagurumurthy
yesterday to talk about how MAGA Republicans are using Congress to further their political agenda.
More Republicans (24%) prefer a candidate who supports the people who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 than one who criticizes them (15%).
6 in 10 prefer one who doesn't comment on Jan. 6.
The January 6th Select Committee had similar issues with Trump associated attorneys and witnesses we interviewed.
Cassidy Hutchinson changed her attorney after she was told to say she “didn’t recall” events that she did, in fact, recall.
NEW: Jack Smith’s team says a key witness in the documents case — whose testimony fueled explosive obstruction charges against Trump — changed his testimony after switching from a Trump-financed attorney to a public defender.
w/
@joshgerstein
Huge turnout for
@RepRaskin
and Oversight and Judiciary Dems who are calling out MAGA House Republicans for their bogus impeachment inquiry vote today, demanded by Donald Trump.
@usintegrityorg
Truly incredible how much of a failure this has been for Republicans. They have absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing against President Biden, and James Comer has misled the public so much about these investigations that he has even lost credibility in his own conference.
New: Republicans say it’s becoming unlikely they impeach Joe Biden
“I don’t know that the case has been made adequately to the American people”
“Let the American people decide in Nov”
Blame game starting: “It’s a jumbled mess”
Story w/
@MZanona
.
@kaitlancollins
gets it 💯 here.
If you’re looking for a breakdown on what crazy stunts McCarthy pulled in the House today on impeachment (and how he contradicted his own statements from the past) watch here:
It was 11 days ago that Speaker McCarthy said if they moved on an impeachment inquiry, “it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House & not through a declaration by one person.” Yet he did so today without that vote & through the declaration of just one person.
SCOOPLET: The Congressional Integrity Project has sent a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) calling on him to disinvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from speaking on a congressional panel given his baseless comments on Covid-19 sparing Jews and Chinese people.
Bobulinski’s lawyer was also Cassidy Hutchinson’s first lawyer for the January 6th Committee.
Thats right, the Trump-world attorney that told Cassidy to “not recall” to the committee and the one she got rid of in order to tell us the whole truth.
"The three whistleblowers who have been interviewed by committee staff have done so with the assistance of aides to former President Donald Trump and the conspiracy-curious Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a loose network that provides money and legal assistance to the GOP witnesses."
NEW this morning >>
@TheDemocrats
are hosting “DemPalooza” — full daytime programming and trainings every day at the Convention in Chicago to engage & prepare Democrats for the general election.
“It’s a party and everyone’s invited”
w/
@michaelscherer
Trump used his MAGA Republican allies in Congress to try to overturn the 2020 election.
Over the weekend, he directed them to interfere into the *multiple* investigations into him.
I joined
@MSNBC
this morning to discuss.
It’s important to lay out the facts when silly claims are made. Read ⬇️ for the real story about baseless claims about Secretary Blinken made by Jim Jordan.
Ahead of the 3rd anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack, I talk about the work we did on the
@January6thCmte
and the dangers Donald Trump and his MAGA allies in Congress still pose to our democracy.
Take a watch!
Jim Jordan would be a dangerous Speaker for our country. We cannot forget what he did to undermine our democracy before January 6th. There's no reason to believe he won't do it again. 8/
Speaker McCarthy and MAGA Republicans in the House are attempting to whitewash what happened on January 6th and the role President Trump played to incite violence on that day.
I joined
@CFraserBBC
to talk about this and the other partisan "investigations" by House Republicans.
Have you heard of James Comer? Turns out, maybe not unless you watch Fox News and A LOT of Hannity.
@usintegrityorg
These guys don’t care about “investigations”, they care about touting their conspiracy theories and avoiding hard questions.
100% of Comer's 50 media appearances in May were on conservative TV and radio stations, according to an analysis by the Congressional Integrity Project (w/
@zacharybasu
)
NEW on
@AriMelber
today >> RFK Jr. won't rule out pardoning January 6th rioters.
RFK Jr. proving once again he's a spoiler for Donald Trump.
Watch for yourself >>
.
@JudiciaryGOP
has Matt Gaetz at a podium showing videos perpetuating conspiracy theories about the FBI from discredited "whistleblowers". That's what this MAGA GOP is. It's an embarrassment to the institution of Congress.
NEW research from
@usintegrityorg
tracks at least 19 instances where Comer touted the false claims of the witness who was just arrested for lying re: his statements on President Biden & his son.
Most recent was just last month on Lou Dobbs. Full list >>
NEW: Check out the just-launched January 6th Report website. It features an Attack Timeline that takes you through a 3D model of the Capitol w/ photos and videos of the attack.
This was a labor of love.
McCarthy doesn't have the evidence, and he doesn't have the votes.
So he appeases his MAGA Republicans by bypassing a vote to open an impeachment inquiry -- an action he said would have been violating precedent in 2019 & which he said he would do only 11 days ago⬇️
McCarthy doesn’t take questions. He told Breitbart 11 days ago he wouldn’t launch an impeachment inquiry without a House vote. Opening one now unilaterally is a major reversal for the speaker. It comes as he doesn’t appear to have the votes to proceed.
Republicans are being led (once again) by Trump in this impeachment inquiry, when even THEY admit they have no evidence.
And who loses the most in this? The American people.
I had a great time with this rockstar women-powered panel
@AnaCabrera
,
@alivitali
,
@Maura_Gillespie
!
New setup. Nice shelf unit. January 6, Report. Polish ceramics are the best. Almost there. Add a plant on top/maybe visible wall art. 9/10
@HannahMuldavin
And even after all of this, we know from Cassidy Hutchinson that Jim Jordan spoke with White House staff the days following January 6th about the prospect of a presidential pardon for Members of Congress. 6/
NEW (but not surprising): MAGA Republicans are lying to the American people.
“Chung’s testimony excerpts also directly refute claims not only by chairman Comer but also Trump, who has sought to highlight Chung’s ethnicity as probable cause for suspicion.”
First on CNN: Excerpts of Joe Biden's former exec. assistant's interview w/House Oversight Committee provide more specifics on how she packed up Biden's then VP office & how the boxes ended up at Penn Biden Center
W/
@SaraMurray
@PaulaReidCNN
@ZcohenCNN
Jordan was the chief coordinator on how to handle the fake electors during the joint session. On January 2nd, he led a conference call with President Trump where they discussed, with other House GOP members, how they would delay the joint session. 4/
It’s been a long time coming…
@TheDemocrats
announce that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are officially the Democratic nominees for President and Vice President, ensuring they meet all ballot access deadlines & allowing every American the opportunity to vote for them.
Jim Jordan has always been a Trump loyalist. He was a loyalist before and throughout January 6th, never once wavering from that position. Trump has now endorsed him for Speaker, and we can bet that if Jordan were to be elected to that position, he'd be loyal to Trump again. 7/
The same Republicans in Congress who worked with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election are still in power.
Now, they're pushing for an evidence-free impeachment of Joe Biden.
I joined
@SymoneDSanders
to discuss
@usintegrityorg
's latest report on these efforts.
First, Jordan himself admitted he spoke to Donald Trump on January 6th multiple times.
While he defied a subpoena from the January 6th Committee's investigation, we know more about his involvement from the rest of our investigation. 2/
Jordan was in multiple post-election meetings with Trump, Giuliani, and others, to discuss strategies for challenging the election, mainly by claiming there was fraud (there was no fraud and no one from Trump's camp ever showed any evidence of fraud whatsoever). 3/
Today, the
@TheDemocrats
Rules Committee voted to adopt the permanent Rules of the 2024 Convention. Important timelines below for nominations >>
Read more:
NEW POLLING this am in
@semafor
: Americans believe the impeachment of President Biden is more about a political stunt than a serious investigation.
@kadiagoba
See the full poll from
@usintegrityorg
Jim Jordan and MAGA Republicans are repeatedly bringing in people to testify in front of Congress who either supported January 6th or were at the riot that day.
It’s insulting to both the institution of Congress and the American people.
Jordan was texting people like Mark Meadows before January 6th about how VP Pence should refuse the electoral certificates he didn't want to count (ie from states that Biden legitimately won with electoral slates that were legitimately certified by those states). 5/
In exchange for her pleading guilty to six misdemeanor charges, Powell will spend six years on probation, pay a $6,000 fine and pay $2,700 in restitution to the state of Georgia.
From the Jan. 6th Committee to
@NewsNation
, it was great being on “The Hill Sunday” with
@ChrisStirewalt
to talk about how
@TheDemocrats
are going to capture the energy and momentum from a historic convention & send the Harris-Walz ticket into the final stretch of the campaign.
Speaker Johnson gets back from a visit with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and almost immediately holds a press conference about impeaching Joe Biden.
New Speaker, same story. MAGA Republicans in the House are still doing Trump's bidding.
Speaker Johnson on the work of Comer, Jordan and Smith in impeachment inquiry: “They've done an exceptional job in uncovering the obvious corruption.”
“We owe it to the American people to continue this process… methodically and transparently.”
Says process can’t be rushed
MAGA House Republicans' impeachment stunt has made the far right very happy.
Some of the same people who organized online after Trump tweeted "Be there. Will be wild!" about January 6th are now celebrating the MAGA House impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas.
I joined
@AC360
last night with
@SarahAMatthews1
to talk about my experience working with Cassidy Hutchinson (and Sarah!) while they testified in front of the January 6th Committee.
These young women spoke up when a lot of men much older than them didn't have the courage.
Takeaway 1: Bank records reviewed by Committee Democrats do not indicate any wrongdoing by President Biden nor do they show any connection to policy decisions.
Up TODAY in Nevada >> the DNC has a new billboard reminding voters that by his own definition,
@RobertKennedyJr
is a spoiler candidate.
Both his campaign staffer and head of his super PAC have said his candidacy will help Donald Trump. Every vote for RFK Jr. is a vote for Trump.
If you thought McCarthy out as Speaker meant the MAGA Republicans weren’t running the show, think again.
Top 3 priorities include protecting Donald Trump and targeting Joe Biden (still with no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden whatsoever).
LUNA says she will support Scalise after receiving reassurances about her three priorities: 1. Defunding Jack Smith 2. Impeachment vote for Biden on floor of House 3. Subpoena for Hunter Biden
You can’t make this stuff up. Good thing we have receipts.
In February, MAGA House Rs say they want a special counsel. Now that they have it, they say it’s unfair.
They want to be able to complain about the situation no matter what is going on. It’s all partisan stunts.
Tonight at 9pm, I'll be a part of a new
@frontlinepbs
documentary detailing the work of the
@January6thCmte
!
I'll never forget my time on the Committee, & I hope being a part of this will help our work live on. Donald Trump must be held accountable.
I’m told the speakers at the first DNCC women’s caucus meeting next Tuesday will include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Harris campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Lois Frankel, Rep. Lauren Underwood, President of
@reproforall
While James Comer holds an impeachment hearing this week, 120,000 women and children in Kentucky are in danger of losing nutrition assistance if the gov't shuts down.
This MAGA GOP attempt to distract from their failure to govern has serious costs.
During our first
@January6thCmte
primetime hearing, we featured a 12 minute video depicting the violence of that day. I spoke to PBS Frontline about the impact of this moment for their documentary covering Trump's multi-pronged effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Great dive by
@sambrodey
into
@RepJamesComer
’s questionable ethical past.
“a closer look at the details of [Comer’s] about-face raises the kind of questions about influence and ethics in politics that might intrigue an investigator like Comer himself.”