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Josh Hawley captured on film running for his life after fist pump for Jan. 6 rioters

Among the revelations from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, they detailed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) who was pictured pumping his fist in the air in support of the attackers.

Yet, when the Capitol was breached, and the attackers were flooding the building and making their way onto the floor, Hawley was filmed running for his life.

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Trump's attack on Secret Service in motorcade confirmed by security official's testimony

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 revealed a national security official and a former Washington D.C. metro police officer who were able to confirm Donald Trump's anger about not being taken to the U.S. Capitol.

"To be completely honest, we were all in a state of shock," said the White House Security Official with their voice disguised.

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'They enabled Donald Trump': Secret Service expert gives list of all of the things they messed up in 2020

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, who has spent nearly a decade reporting on the Secret Service listed off some of the most egregious behavior by the USSS in culminating in 2021 with the attack on the U.S. Capitol and a possible physical encounter with then President Donald Trump and sudden loss of documents.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday ahead of the eighth public hearing for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, Leonnig listed off everything from CDC violations to roughing up protesters of Donald Trump.

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Watergate prosecutor reveals why the Secret Service would have wanted to delete Jan. 5 and 6 messages

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman suggested one of the reasons that the Secret Service might want to intentionally delete evidence of Jan. 5 and 6 in a panel discussion ahead of the eight public hearing from the House Select Committee.

Akerman harkened back to the story of Vice President Mike Pence refusing to get into the Secret Service vehicles on Jan. 6 as they were in the holding location. According to testimony from his chief of staff, Marc Short, Pence told his chief of security that he trusted him, but that he wasn't driving the car. The presumption is that Pence didn't trust the agent driving the car.

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Injuries reported after brawl breaks out between two families at Disney World

The heat index in the shade of Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida is 96 degrees with very little wind. Heads grew hot between two families that broke out into a brawl at the Magic Kingdom park.

Walt Disney World News Today posted an initial report with the video on Thursday showing one family dressed in regular clothing and another group in matching red and white Disney-themed clothes. A woman left the line at Mickey's PhilharMagic theater to get her cellphone she'd left on a motorized wheelchair. When she tried to get back in line with her family the other family flipped out.

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Jan. 6 committee member reveals the Secret Service agents retained a private lawyer

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) revealed on MSNBC Thursday that agents with the U.S. Secret Service have retained their own outside lawyer after it was announced that they were potentially facing criminal prosecution for failing to preserve documents, an ongoing demand of all federal government agencies.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked if it was new that they had private counsel or if they had just retained the private lawyer. Lofgren said she believes that it's a new person.

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Lost body cam footage raises questions after officer shoots unarmed Black teen with raised hands

A 13-year-old boy, was paralyzed after Chicago police officer, Noah Ball, opened fire on him while he had his hands up. But according to the Daily Beast, the videos the family showed them have a glaring omission: the body camera footage of the officer that shot the boy.

It shows a chase and different angles of the shooting, but the video of the officer who shot the teen doesn't begin until after the teen was shot.

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Secret Service ‘better than Quantico’ at retrieving deleted texts says ex-prosecutor who wants ‘criminal investigation’

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is calling for a "criminal investigation" into the U.S. Secret Service's deleted text messages, revealing that the agency's forensic experts are "even better than" the FBI's Quantico lab at retrieving data like deleted text messages.

"I am not fully buying an innocent explanation," Kirschner, who was a federal prosecutor for nearly three decades, told Zerlina Maxwell on her MSNBC on Peacock show Wednesday.

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Rudy Giuliani 'most likely to be prosecuted' for his role in Georgia election scheme: legal expert

Rudy Giuliani faces significant legal jeopardy in Georgia for his role in former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a legal expert.

The former New York City mayor has been ordered to testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta about his efforts to corrupt the presidential election, and Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Giuliani should start preparing for criminal charges.

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MAGA world is going to have a hard time attacking Thursday's witnesses at Jan. 6 committee: Former Trump aide

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said that former President Donald Trump's allies in "MAGA world" are going to have a hard time trying to destroy the witnesses coming before the House Select Committee in the public hearing on Thursday.

Speaking to CNN, Griffin explained that Sarah Matthews, in particular, is a long-time Republican aide and she had been with Trump since the 2016 campaign.

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Watch: Parkland survivor David Hogg escorted out of hearing after going off on Republican inaction on guns

David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, appeared in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a possible assault weapons ban.

Nikolas Cruz took a rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018 and killed 17 students and staff members.

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The View sends a message to Jim Jordan after his rant against marriage equality

The co-hosts of "The View" unleashed on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) who spoke out on the floor of the House that the bill codifying marriage equality was unnecessary.

Jordan spoke out against the bill saying that Democrats were trying to distract from inflation with issues like gay marriage. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) shot back that the reason laws like that are necessary is that same-sex married couples need the same rights as straight couples. He specifically cited the problem that an LGBTQ spouse can't make decisions for their partner when they're in the hospital without being married.

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‘Everybody knows they’re lying’: Morning Joe unloads on Secret Service for aiding coverup of Trump’s ‘fascist takeover’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed the U.S. Secret Service for losing text messages requested by a Cabinet-level inspector general from Jan. 6, 2021, and the day before.

The Secret Service has determined that data requested by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general cannot be retrieved after an agency-wide reset of staff telephones starting in mid-January 2021, and the "Morning Joe" host said they were aiding a coverup of Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow the government.

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