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Boebert's race to 'squeeze some money out of the suckers' could backfire with voters tired of the 'crazy': analyst

According to MSNBC analyst Bryan Tyler Cohen, Rep. Lauren Boebert's drive to launch impeachment hearings aimed at President Joe Biden is designed solely as a public relations stunt that she will use for fundraising -- but it could blow up in her face.

Noting her headline-making squabble on the House floor with fellow MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Cohen wrote that the two battling over who has the inside track of leading the Biden impeachment charge exposed them for who they are and what their motives are.

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden admin immigration policy

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a victory for the Biden administration, on Friday upheld the federal government's right to decide which undocumented migrants should be targeted for deportation.

In an 8-1 vote, the nation's highest court ruled that the states of Texas and Louisiana lacked the legal standing to challenge the federal government's policy.

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'Tough noogies': Georgia secretary of state slammed after blowing off worries about voting system bugs

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is under fire from cybersecurity experts after he dismissed the results of an audit that found bugs and vulnerabilities in the state's voting equipment, Politico reported Friday.

"In a letter sent to state lawmakers last week, Raffensperger argues that a newly unsealed audit finding that there are dangerous vulnerabilities in Georgia’s widely used voting machine software is overblown and no fixes are needed," reported John Sakellariadis. "'It’s more likely that I could win the lottery without buying a ticket' than that hackers flip enough votes to swing the election, he says in the letter."

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'Sure you're not in middle school?' Jen Psaki ridicules Lauren Boebert's House floor antics

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a few jabs at Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday over her House floor antics that led to a confrontation with fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Discussing the altercation between the two where Greene called Boebert a "little b--ch," over a dispute over proposing impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire called what is going on within the GOP House caucus a "clown show."

That led co-host Joe Scarborough to add, "Jen Psaki, again, the chaos continues in the House. I can't help but think, at the end of the day, all this is going to do is damage the House candidates and turn the House back over to Democrats. "

"Well, exactly," the smiling Psaki replied. "I mean, in some ways, the White House and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee don't have to do much aside from get out of the way."

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"As Jonathan just referenced, their entire message is competence versus chaos. As we just heard, kind of the outline from John Heilemann about the back-and-forth fight between Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, Lauren Boebert responded and said, 'I'm not in middle school.' It's like, are you sure you're not in middle school? That's how middle schoolers act, you know?" she laughed.

"If you're the American public sitting at home, you're thinking, 'what a waste of time, what a waste of my time that they are doing there," she added. "That is exactly the contrast that the White House, if you're sitting in the White House right now, my old colleagues there, if you're sitting in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and you're working with Democratic candidates, you're going to run on, 'We'll do something. We will fight for you the public. That is chaotic and crazy there, and we will not be that.'"

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GOP hardliners push to purge Marjorie Taylor Greene from House Freedom Caucus: report

Republican hardliners in the House Freedom Caucus reportedly don't think Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is enough of a right-wing ideologue for their standards.

Politico reports that two Freedom Caucus members recently pushed for the group to start purging members who are inactive or who are too cozy with Republican leadership -- and that includes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has been accused by some on the right of cozying up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) at the expense of her right-wing purity.

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Morning Joe hammers 'scared' Lindsey Graham for crawling back to Trump

On Friday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough took aim at Republicans who continue to support Donald Trump despite his legal woes and evidence that he compromised national security with his treatment of stolen top secret documents.

Expressing both his disappointment and anger with the lawmakers the former Republican lawmaker singled out Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who served next to him in the House for his cowardice in not standing up to the former president and his fans.

"Take Lindsey Graham," Scarborough told co-host Mika Brzezinski. "I came in, in 1994 with Lindsey Graham. I considered Lindsey to be a friend of mine. Lindsey Graham, he supported Donald Trump through Donald Trump saying he wanted his attorney general to arrest Joe Biden and Joe Biden's family two weeks before the election. Supported him through all of that."

"Supported him through the first impeachment, where he held up money and defensive weapons to Ukraine, trying to get dirt on a political opponent," he continued. "Then on January 6th, January 7th, he opposed him. Then he was chased down in a national airport by three people and a hound dog and, suddenly, he went back to supporting the anti-democracy candidate."

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'I think it is more than that," co-host Brzezinski interjected. "Knowing Donald Trump, it's more than that."

"No, it's not," Scarborough protested. "Everybody says it is more than that. It's not. It's not more than that. They're not scared of Donald Trump -- they're scared of their base. They're scared to be leaders. They're scared to stand up in a town hall meeting and tell people something that people may not want to hear; keep their head down and continue telling them that. They'll be surprised if they do that, what happens, but they never take that chance."

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Swing-district Republicans seethe over far-right 'temper tantrums' that could endanger their jobs

A new report from CNN reveals that Republican lawmakers from swing districts are getting increasingly fed up with their colleagues' insistence on pushing them to vote right-wing messaging bills that have no chance of becoming law.

According to CNN, GOP hardliners such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) have been trying to force votes on measures such as impeaching President Joe Biden that would require the votes of Republicans from districts that Biden won in 2020 to pass.

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Billy Crystal, Queen Latifah among Kennedy Center honorees

Beloved comedian Billy Crystal and pioneering rapper Queen Latifah are among the 46th crop of Kennedy Center honorees, one of the United States' most prestigious arts awards, the center announced on Thursday.

Crystal and Queen Latifah will be honored on December 3 along with acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming, sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb and singer Dionne Warwick at the annual gala held in Washington, according to a statement.

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Despite concerns, Georgia election officials plan to delay voting fixes till after 2024 election

A long-running dispute over Georgia’s voting system has further fueled claims that state election officials haven’t done enough to ensure election security ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The State Election Board this week rejected a petition to expedite the Secretary of State’s decision to wait until 2025 before updating the Dominion Voting Systems’ software. The decision comes after state election officials urged caution against making rash recommended changes to technology that Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger declares to be secure and battle tested.

A U.S. District court judge last week unsealed a cybersecurity expert’s report that details how the state’s electronic voting system could be hacked to manipulate election results. Meanwhile, state officials are also mulling the findings of another analyst who greatly discounts any possibility of electronic manipulation of the Dominion voting system that has been in place in Georgia since 2019.

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'You've been yapping your lips': Former RNC chairman condemns far-right Biden impeachment attempt

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Thursday assailed far-right elements in his party over efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.

Steele’s comments followed a House vote Thursday to send a resolution to impeach Biden introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) the previous day to committee, which effectively paused a privileged motion that would have compelled a vote on the House floor, CNN reports.

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Hunter Biden to attend presidential state dinner where Kevin McCarthy will also be present

President Joe Biden is hosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state dinner, as he makes an official visit to the United States.

But one member on the president's guest list is notable: Hunter Biden, his younger son.

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Narendra Modi denies religious discrimination exists in India

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied that discrimination against minorities existed under his government during a press conference with U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday, even as rights groups and the State Department have made detailed allegations of abuses of minorities, dissidents and journalists. Biden said he discussed human rights and other democratic values with Modi during their talks in the White House. Asked at the press conference what steps he was willing to take to "improve the rights of Muslims and other minorities in your country ...

'We can lose this majority very easily': GOP reportedly worried far-right will cost House leadership

House Republicans are reportedly becoming increasingly worried that the far-right wing of the GOP will cost the party its already slim grasp of the majority.

Rep. Lauren Boebert's recent push for impeachment of Biden, as well as a freshman congresswoman's spearheading of the move to censure Democrat Adam Schiff and other recent developments, have led moderate Republicans to question if their far-right colleagues are misusing the government's official processes, even where they agree on the motives, according to the Washington Post.

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