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Georgia GOP chairman 'should be worried' about charges in election probe: legal analyst

Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer is one of the highest risk individuals for being indicted in Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis' investigation into election interference in that state, said legal analyst Lisa Rubin on MSNBC on Friday.

This comes as Shafer tries to justify his actions in standing as one of the fake Trump electors in a scheme to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the voters' choice in the state — a move he asserts he was advised to do by former President Donald Trump's legal team.

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Nebraska legislature clears balconies amid protests over abortion measure: report

Security cleared the balconies of the Nebraska Legislature on Friday amid protests over a controversial measure targeting abortions and gender-affirming care for children, ABC News’ Omaha affiliate KETV reports.

Crowds packed the Nebraska chamber to protest LB574, causing disruptions that delayed debate on the measure that passed later in the day. The so-called Let Them Grow Act bans abortion at 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors. The measure was a compromise after the bill’s authors first sought a six-week ban.

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California driver’s racist rant captured on video prompts CHP probe

Authorities are investigating the report of a driver captured on video going on a racist rant on a California freeway, The Daily Beast reports.
The driver of a white Jeep Wrangler, who appears to be a white man and who was seen wearing a white shirt and sunglasses with silver frames, is shown on the video hurling expletives and using the N-word at least eight times in the direction of a video on his left, and at one point is seen swerving in the direction of the vehicle recording him. He eventually collides with a retaining wall to his right.

The incident occurred Wednesday on Interstate 880 near Oakland’s Columbia Gardens neighborhood, according to the California Highway Patrol.

IN OTHER NEWS: Joe Biden nixes 14th Amendment option to avert debt-ceiling crisis

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Georgia was epicenter of coup plot because Trump allies were 'so surprised' he lost there: analyst

As Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis enters the home stretch before making a decision on filing charges in the election interference case, former January 6 Select Committee investigator Timothy Heaphy broke down on MSNBC Friday why Georgia was such a crucial linchpin of the plot by allies of former President Donald Trump to nullify his election loss.

The short version: they simply couldn't believe they had lost Georgia, which had been a reliably red state for so long — and which had scores of Republican officeholders they hoped could help them.

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AOC slams McCarthy on spending: “then undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday called on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to "undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed for themselves" in response to McCarthy's call to rein in spending by the government.

McCarthy, who is leading the charge by Republicans to force President Joe Biden and the White House to give up ground on certain expenditures in the highly publicized negotiations, posted on Twitter, "Washington has to spend less. It's as simple as that."

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‘Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber’: Roger Ailes’ widow says he warned Murdochs would destroy Fox News

Roger Ailes before his death told his wife that Rupert Murdoch’s two sons sought his ouster and wanted to turn Fox News into a centrist or even liberal outlet, Elizabeth Ailes said Thursday during an appearance on Newsmax.
“Roger made running Fox News look easy, and as you know, it was anything but,” she told Newsmax host Eric Bolling.

“Rupert has the checkbook, he has money, but he couldn't hold a candle to Roger in terms of genius, and the ideas that Roger put forth back in '96,” she said, noting that it was her late husband who developed the the right-wing network’s “fair and balanced” and “we report, you decide” slogans.

“That was a challenge to the establishment mainstream media who thought that just because they said they were objective people we would take them at their word, and we all know that they were very liberal all that time.”

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'I've been a victim of it!' Giuliani claims FBI is going to be weaponized by Dems in 2024 election

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he was a "victim" of a politically weaponized FBI, and warned that Democrats would be engaging in similar prosecutions of their political enemies in the run-up to the 2024 election.

Giuliani, who was recently accused of requiring a staffer to perform sex acts as part of her job duties, was on Eric Bolling's show on Newsmax on Thursday. He began with a swipe at the Bidens, and then launched into a monologue about the purported politization of the FBI.

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Lauren Boebert defends 'angry' estranged husband: 'Jayson doesn’t sit around cleaning guns'

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Wednesday spoke out in defense of the husband she is divorcing.

The Daily Beast first reported that Boebert's husband, Jayson, was "extremely angry" after being served with divorce papers.

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Steve Bannon helps Giuliani dodge sex abuse claims: 'I'm not going to let you respond'

Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon helped Rudy Giuliani dodge accountability for a sexual abuse lawsuit. He also insisted allegations of selling pardons were a "bald-faced lie."

Bannon began Wednesday's The War Room interview with Giuliani by stating that the former New York City mayor did not need to respond to allegations that he forced an employee to have sex.

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'Where are the charges?' Steve Bannon blows up over 'epic failure' of John Durham's report

Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon blasted special counsel John Durham's report on the FBI's Russia probe as an "epic failure" because the effort resulted in no criminal convictions.

"People come to me all the time, 'Steve, Why don't you spend more time on Durham?'" Bannon said. "But that's the epic failure of Durham that shows you — when you say the courts, there's got to be some kind of driver prosecuting."

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Marsha Blackburn: 'All along it was Hillary Clinton' colluding with Russians for her defeat

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Tuesday blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for colluding with Russians, who were working to defeat her 2016 presidential campaign.

During an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Blackburn took a victory lap over special counsel John Durham's report on the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. election. A clip of Blackburn's interview was shared on social media.

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'They are missing': Marjorie Taylor Greene confirms GOP has lost several Biden 'whistleblowers'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) confirmed on Monday that Republicans were out of contact with all but one "whistleblower" in their investigation of President Joe Biden and his family.

Greene spoke to War Room host Steve Bannon after Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed on Fox News that at least one informant had been lost.

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'He didn't solve it': Zelensky hits Trump for not stopping Putin's war during first term

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against claims that former President Donald Trump could stop the war on his country in 24 hours if re-elected.

Ukrainska Pravda reported Zelensky's remarks to Italian media over the weekend.

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