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An attorney representing Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes revealed in court on Wednesday that his client still believes that President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election was "illegitimate" -- and he said so to the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots.

Politico reports that attorney James Bright told a court that Rhodes's false election claims made before the Capitol riot committee shouldn't justify holding him in detention until his trial because "there’s plenty of public leaders that are still saying that on a regular basis."

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election issued subpoenas for six more people Tuesday, including state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin.

Mastriano, an ally of former President Donald Trump and Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate, attended the “Save America” rally, the morning precursor to the deadly riot. He has denied engaging in violence, but the state senator appears to have been much closer to the Capitol than he initially claimed, according to video footage.

Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, who also served as United States secretary of agriculture, has been named sole finalist to lead the state’s public college and university system despite worries over his lack of educational experience and fears that his conservative political past may be seen as divisive to some students.

The Georgia Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve Perdue as finalist for chancellor of the University System of Georgia at a special called meeting Tuesday afternoon. By state law, the regents must wait at least 14 days between naming a finalist and voting to approve them. If, as expected, Perdue passes the full vote, he will take the reins from interim Chancellor Teresa MacCartney, who has been leading the system’s 26 public colleges and universities since former Chancellor Steve Wrigley retired in July.

Thousands of text messages turned over to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol that were published on Wednesday by The Washington Post reveal that key figures inside former President Donald Trump’s orbit were thrust into a quagmire of chaos, confusion, desperation and panic before and during the deadly siege.

A blizzard of exchanges between administration officials, media personalities, lawmakers and members of Trump’s family has illuminated the numerous and largely fruitless attempts that were made to implore Trump to quell the violent unrest.

US retail sales boomed in January as shops more than regained ground lost in an unexpected December slump, despite high inflation, according to government data released Wednesday.

Retail sales rose 3.8 percent last month, the Commerce Department said, double what was expected and a dramatic reversal of the 2.5 percent decline in December, which was worse than originally reported.

More than 200 death threats and threats of violence sent to school board members across the country have been documented, including one sent over the Christmas holidays last year to the adult child of Brenda Sheridan in Loudoun County, Virginia.

“It is too bad that your mother is an ugly communist whore,” Reuters reports the hand-written note read. “If she doesn’t quit or resign before the end of the year, we will kill her, but first, we will kill you!”

Donald Trump's efforts to block the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol from obtaining government documents was once again rejected by the White House, which ordered the National Archives to hand over visitor logs.

"In a letter to the National Archives, Mr. Biden’s White House counsel, Dana Remus, said Mr. Biden had rejected Mr. Trump’s claims that the visitor logs were subject to executive privilege and that “in light of the urgency” of the committee’s work, the agency should provide the material to the committee within 15 days," The New York Times reported Wednesday. "Mr. Biden had similarly decided last year not to support Mr. Trump’s claim of executive privilege over other batches of White House documents and records sought by the committee."

Ukraine staged military drills and defiant displays of flag-waving patriotism on Wednesday as NATO warned Russia is continuing to mass forces for a possible invasion.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky watched troops training with some of their new Western-supplied anti-tank weapons on a range near Rivne, west of the capital.

The Georgia Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve Perdue as finalist for chancellor of the University System of Georgia at a special called meeting Tuesday afternoon. By state law, the regents must wait at least 14 days between naming a finalist and voting to approve them. If, as expected, Perdue passes the full vote, he will take the reins from interim Chancellor Teresa MacCartney, who has been leading the system’s 26 public colleges and universities since former Chancellor Steve Wrigley retired in July.

“I consider being named the finalist as the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia to be a wonderful capstone to a career of public service,” Perdue said in a statement. “Education is the most important issue at the federal, state and local level and it’s why, as a legislator, I sought to be chair of the Senate Higher Education committee to work on important initiatives with Gov. Zell Miller and former USG Chancellor Steve Portch.”