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House committee investigates the role of PR firms in spreading climate disinformation

On September 14, a congressional committee probed the history that PR firms have played in creating and spreading climate disinformation in order to block climate policy and promote fossil fuel interests. The hearing, held by the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee Oversight & Investigations, invited several firms, including Singer Associates, Story Partners, and Pac/West […]

Jan. 6 Panel Member Thinks Pence Will Testify to Committee

A member of the House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol thinks former Vice President Mike Pence will testify to the panel without being subpoenaed. “I would assume he’s going to come forward and testify voluntarily, the way the vast majority of people have,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) […]

Pence: ‘I would consider’ testifying to Jan. 6 committee

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Vice President Mike Pence hasn’t ruled out testifying before the Jan. 6 select committee investigating efforts by his former boss and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it,” Pence told a packed room at the New England […]

Parliament committee members, Supreme National Security Council study EU nuclear text

TEHRAN – Members of the parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy held a joint meeting on Tuesday with the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) to study the draft nuclear text presented by the European Union Source

Iran, Belarus hold 15th Joint Economic Committee meeting

TEHRAN – The 15th Iran-Belarus Joint Economic Committee meeting was held on Thursday in Minsk, the Iranian Industry Ministry portal Shata reported. Source

Democrat House Intelligence Committee Member Warns: DNA Testing Can Be Used as Bioweapon to Target Americans

Bio-weapons are being developed that use specific DNA to target and kill individuals through their medical profile, a Democrat member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee warned Friday. Source

January 6 Committee Downgrades Secret Service Story from Seizing the Wheel to ‘Heated Discussion’

The January 6 Committee’s eighth public hearing Thursday produced testimony that there was a “heated discussion” between then-President Donald Trump and the Secret Service during the Capitol riot — not that Trump tried to seize the wheel of the presidential vehicle. Source

Watch Live: January 6 Committee Holds Another Primetime Hearing

The January 6 committee will hold another hearing on Thursday regarding the Capitol protest and riot as Congress certified the 2020 election.  Source

Jan. 6 Committee Announces There Will Be Another Bonus Hearing After The Credits

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The January 6th Committee is urging Americans to stay tuned until the very end of the hearings, as there will be another very special bonus hearing after the credits roll. Source

January 6 Committee Tries to Fix Hutchinson Testimony with Cipollone Subpoena

The January 6 Committee issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone on Wednesday, despite the fact that he has already spoken to the committee, a day after testimony by surprise witness Cassidy Hutchinson fell apart. Source

Jan. 6 Committee Says Cassidy Hutchinson Told Them That She Heard Mark Meadows Say That A Secret Service Agent’s Friend’s Cousin’s Husband Once Heard That One Of Trump’s Other Aides Said She Thinks She Heard Him Say He Wanted To ‘Do An Insurrection’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The walls are closing in on former President Trump. In an explosive bombshell unprecedented star witness testimony yesterday, Cassidy Hutchinson told everyone that she heard Mark Meadows say that a Secret Service agent’s friend’s cousin’s husband once heard that one of Trump’s other aides said she thinks she heard him say he […]

Beclowning Themselves: The Far-Right Reacts to the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been holding public hearings for two weeks now, but take a look at right-wing media and its personalities and you’d hardly know it. Right-wing and far-right activists have largely ignored the hearings or, when they have addressed it, painted the hearings […]

Jan. 6 Committee Star Witness Caught Committing Perjury – US Secret Service DENY Trump Tried to Grab Steering Wheel

One of the Democrats’ star witnesses at the Jan. 6 hearings committed perjury on Wednesday after it was revealed she lied about President Trump grabbing the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent. Cassidy Hutchinson […] The post Jan. 6 Committee Star Witness Caught Committing Perjury – US Secret Service DENY Trump Tried to Grab […]

January 6 Committee Credibility Implodes After Hutchinson Testimony

The January 6 Committee’s credibility suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when reports contradicted Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Source

WATCH LIVE: January 6 Select Committee Holds Hearing — Day 3

The Select Committee investigating January 6, 2021 will hold its third hearing on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.

McClintock: Pence Right, but January 6 Committee ‘Show Trial’ Is Wrong

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) told C-SPAN Thursday morning that former Vice President Mike Pence was right to resist calls to reject the results of the 2020 election, but that the January 6 Committee was the wrong forum to explore the issue.

ABC’s Hostin: 1/6 Committee Will Send ‘Criminal Referral’ to DOJ for Trump

ABC’s legal analyst Sunny Hostin predicted Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that the House Select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot will make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for former President Donald Trump.

January 6 Committee Rehashes 2020 Election Night with Trump’s Advisers

The January 6 Committee spent much of its hearing Monday playing testimony of former President Donald Trump’s closest advisers as they recalled conversations they had on election night in 2020.

January 6 Committee Postpones Wednesday’s Scheduled Hearing

The partisan January 6 Committee on Tuesday announced the postponement of Wednesday’s scheduled hearing.

Hell Hath Frozen Over: Rachel Maddow Nukes Jan. 6 Committee

None other than Rachel Maddow makes the point that the Jan. 6 protesters who, in her words, “breached” the Capitol building, were a mile away from where Trump was giving his speech. The committee attempts to make the connection between events at the Capitol and Trump’s speech. The point could not be more important. As […]

Hell Hath Frozen Over: Rachel Maddow Nukes Jan. 6 Committee

None other than Rachel Maddow makes the point that the Jan. 6 protesters who, in her words, “breached” the Capitol building, were a mile away from where Trump was giving his speech. The committee attempts to make the connection between events at the Capitol and Trump’s speech. The point could not be more important. As […]

Day 2 of January 6 Committee Public Hearings Attack Trump for Doubting Election

The second day of public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was held Monday, and focused on attacking then-President Donald Trump for questioning the 2020 election results.

Liz Cheney Uses January 6 Committee for Political Retaliation, Subpoenas Primary Opponent’s Campaign Adviser

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appears to have used the January 6 committee as a political weapon against her primary opponent.

Jim Jordan: January 6 Committee ‘Has Altered Evidence and Lied to the American People About It’

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) criticized House Select January 6 Committee Democrats for their “choreographed” presentation earlier in the week.

NYT’s Brooks: January 6 Committee ‘Fundamentally Ill-Pointed,’ ‘A Little Too Parochial’

During Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks elaborated on his criticisms of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee, which he had suggested in a recent Times column as being too political. 

NBC News, MSNBC Hosts Express Skepticism of January 6 Committee: ‘A Lot of These Shots… Seem Familiar’

Multiple media figures including NBC News’ Lester Holt and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow have expressed doubt in the January 6th Committee and in at least one case admitted that the new evidence released at the primetime hearing on Thursday already appeared “familiar.”

Off the Bat, Jan. 6 Committee Edits Trump Speech to Omit Words “Patriotically and Peacefully,” 2020 Fraud Evidence Remains Undebunked

House Jan. 6th Committee video montage played during hearing 2020 Fraud Evidence Remains Undebunked Despite a concerted, incessant campaign in the media and in other quarters to proclaim the charge of a stolen 2020 election thoroughly “debunked,” a close look at some of the debunks shows them to be woefully inadequate. For example, on the […]

Off the Bat, Jan. 6 Committee Edits Trump Speech to Omit Words “Patriotically and Peacefully,” 2020 Fraud Evidence Remains Undebunked

House Jan. 6th Committee video montage played during hearing 2020 Fraud Evidence Remains Undebunked Despite a concerted, incessant campaign in the media and in other quarters to proclaim the charge of a stolen 2020 election thoroughly “debunked,” a close look at some of the debunks shows them to be woefully inadequate. For example, on the […]

House to Convene Public January 6 Committee Hearing Next Week

The House will convene the first public hearing for the January 6 select committee next week. 

Report: DOJ Approaches January 6 Committee to Use Transcripts in Prosecutions

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly approached the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, asking for transcripts of interviews that it can use in prosecutions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

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