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WATCH: Jim Jordan squirms when asked if he talked to Trump about riots — and pivots to blaming Pelosi

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had a tough time when Fox News host Bret Baier asked him about what happened when he spoke to President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 during the attack.

At first, Jordan confessed that he spoke to Trump that day, but rambled around trying to find some other way that he could pivot to attack Democrats.

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‘What kind of monsters’ are you: MSNBC panel says MAGA riot-denying GOP is still hurtling toward rock bottom

NBC News commentator John Heilemann attacked Republicans who came out against Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for participating in the Jan. 6 select Committee that will research the failures on that day and the days that led up to it.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Heilemann said that he has never seen a hearing that has had such an emotional impact.

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GOP lawmaker says Liz Cheney is 'blinded by ambition' — even though she got punished for her stand on Capitol riots

Republican Rep. Matthew Rosendale (R-MT) attacked fellow Republicans Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for what he said was just "blind ambition" that spurred joining the Jan. 6 Select Committee.

In reality, Cheney was actually the No. 3 in the GOP House until she spoke out against the Jan. 6 attack and supported accountability for it. She lost that position in primarily because she refused to move past the violent Trump-incited riots.

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CNN's Jake Tapper: Why aren't national police unions 'speaking out on behalf' of Capitol cops?

After the first day of the Jan. 6 Committee hearing, CNN host Jake Tapper made the point that the national police union is nowhere in sight.

Since Jan. 6, officers from the DC Metro Police and Capitol Police have been willing to speak out about what they experienced and the injuries that so many of their fellow officers experience. But the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is nowhere to be found.

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'Fascist traitors': Maryland Democrat says Jan. 6 insurrection will forever stain Trump rioters

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) denounced the Jan. 6 rioters as "fascist traitors" during an investigative hearing on Tuesday.

The Maryland Democrat, who led the second impeachment of Donald Trump, praised four police officers who battled the rioters during the insurrection, and he blasted the former president's supporters who violently attempted to overthrow the government.

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'He egged them on!' Capitol cop levels Trump for calling violent assaults 'hugs and kisses'

Sgt. Aquilino Gonell laid the blame for the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection squarely on the twice-impeached shoulder of former president Donald Trump.

The U.S. Capitol police officer testified before the a House select committee hearing on the assault, and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) asked what he thought when he heard the former president describe the rioters as a "loving crowd" -- and Gonell unloaded.

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Capitol cop shames ‘Blue Lives Matter’ crowd: ‘I’m still waiting for them’ to ‘condemn the violent attack’

A U.S. Capitol police officer shamed Republicans who publicly back law enforcement to serve a racist agenda but tolerate violent attacks by Donald Trump's supporters.

Sgt. Aquilino Gonell was the first witness to testify in the House commission hearing to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he called out GOP lawmakers and others who object to protests against police brutality but defended the rioters who brutally attacked officers as they attempted to overturn Trump's election loss.

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Liz Cheney opens Jan. 6 hearing with shots at GOP: 'No member of Congress should defend the indefensible'

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took shots at her fellow Republicans for trying to block a full accounting of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Wyoming Republican, who was stripped of her leadership responsibilities after voting to impeach Donald Trump, blamed Senate Republicans for preventing a nonpartisan investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot, leaving the process up to the Democratic-controlled House.

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'Just insane': How did 'raging lunatic' Mike Flynn 'thrive' in the military for decades?

A former White House staffer blasted retired U.S. Army general Michael Flynn as a "raging lunatic" for joking about assassinating government officials.

Flynn was given an AR-15 rifle during a church event and drew laughs by suggesting he would "find somebody in Washington, D.C." to try out the weapon, and MSNBC contributor Elise Jordan lambasted Donald Trump's conspiracy-mongering national security adviser.

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'It's what stupid people do': MSNBC's Morning Joe burns Kevin McCarthy for 'childish' games

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for making up "stupid" nicknames for a pair of Republicans who refuse to go along with Donald Trump's election lies.

Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) were among 10 GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and they will sit on the House panel investigating that assault on democracy -- and McCarthy mocked them as "Pelosi Republicans."

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'The horror and disgrace of the Republican Party' will be on full display tomorrow: MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Monday delivered a preview of the first hearing of the January 6th Committee that will begin by talking to police officers about what they experienced during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to Wallace, who previously served in President George W. Bush's administration, it will "disgrace" the Republican Party.

Wallace read aloud one account from an officer who faced off against President Donald Trump's supporters enduring both psychological and physical injuries.

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe busts anti-vaxxers for making ‘smart people dumb and dumb people insane’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted anti-vaxxers for distorting the debate over life-saving shots with lies and misinformation.

Vaccination rates show a clear partisan divide, and now the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus has exploded in states won by Donald Trump -- and the "Morning Joe" host ripped the bad actors who prolonged the pandemic and placed younger children and others at risk from the deadly disease.

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John Oliver destroys those willing to lift COVID restrictions as anti-vaxxers begin to die

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver unleashed on people like Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Olympic Committee and general fools for being so eager to bring loads of people together despite the seriousness of the COVID-19 delta variant.

He began by criticizing the Olympics for bringing together thousands of people from every country of the world and thinking that they could somehow keep people safe from a deadly virus that travels through the air everyone breathes. There has been a 122 percent increase in COVID cases in the area since the Olympics began in Japan. While the Japanese people desperately attempted to get the Olympics to pause the games a little longer, they went ignored.

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