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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot has obtained evidence showing new details about then-President Donald Trump's phone call to Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Two sources who have reviewed the call records tell CNN that Trump spoke on the phone at the White House residence with Jordan for 10 minutes on the morning of January 6," CNN reports. "That afternoon, Jordan took to the House floor to object to the certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College win, and pro-Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol. A key focus of the committee's investigation has been on the runup to the insurrection and the myriad ways Trump and his allies, including those in Congress, tried to overturn the election results. The new details about the morning phone call come as the committee is debating whether to move forward with a subpoena for Jordan after he refused to voluntarily appear for an interview."

China's support for Russia in the standoff over Ukraine upends the strategic calculus for US President Joe Biden, who must now contend with a second front in a geopolitical fight whose ramifications could be felt worldwide.

By jointly lashing out Friday at Washington's alleged destabilizing policies in both Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Beijing and Moscow indicated that sanctions alone would not deter their bids to play larger roles on the global stage.

The Texas Tribune spent January on the campaign trail with the Republicans looking to dislodge GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton. His primary challengers include Land Commissioner George P. Bush, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman and U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler. They are all arguing he is unfit for office due to his ethical baggage, while Paxton is running on his record of suing President Joe Biden — and boasting the endorsement of Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/03/ken-paxton-attorney-general-primary-texas/.

Fox News has filled at least nine editorial positions with former Trump administration officials or Republican operatives.

The conservative network further blurred the line between news and GOP politics by hiring Republican staffers for the roles, mostly on the network's digital side, according to a Media Matters analysis.

Last week's taping of the Fox series' season 7 premiere of The Masked Singer made headlines after the show cast Rudy Giuliani as a contestant, prompting the show's judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke to walk off the stage.

According to PEOPLE, a source says Jeong "was super upset and indeed stormed out" and "Robin actually followed him because he and Ken are very close friends and he wanted to check on him. Robin didn't storm out because of Giuliani."

- The US economy brushed off a spike in Covid-19 infections to add 467,000 jobs in January, far better than expected and a potential sign that the pandemic's days of disrupting businesses are numbered.

Labor Department data released Friday also showed major industries hiring, overall employment gains for 2021 revised higher, and more people entering the workforce, which pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to four percent.

Sean Spicer, the first Trump White House press secretary and the one who will forever be remembered for his lies about attendance at his boss' inauguration, is being mercilessly mocked after Friday's massive jobs report revealed the number of jobs created in January tripled experts' expectations and show that under President Joe Biden the U.S. for the first time ever created 7 million jobs in 12 months.

President Biden is expected to speak on the jobs report Friday at 10:45 AM.

In a speech in Orlando on Friday at the conservative Federalist Society’s conference, former vice president Mike Pence is expected to respond to recent attacks Donald Trump has made against him and undercut Trump's contention that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

According to the HuffPost's S.V. Date, aides to the former vice president are saying that Trump's claim that Pence could have stopped the certification of the election will be one of the topics in the speech that will be, reportedly, be closed to the press.

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is so devoted to Donald Trump that he resigned less than halfway through a term in Congress to serve as CEO of the former president's forthcoming social media company, but even he couldn't get behind what Mike Flynn was pushing following Trump's loss to Joe Biden.

That was revealed in a New York Times magazine story by Draper on Flynn's delusions of election fraud.

A RNC committee Thursday evening unanimously passed a resolution to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The resolution will be voted on by the full RNC, all 168 Republican National Committee members, Friday.

That resolution – submitted by Trump "dirty trickster" and GOP "shady partisan hit man" David Bossie – makes false claims about President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats,

The Department of Justice should launch an investigation into whether former president Donald Trump violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, according to former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman.

Appearing on MSNBC, Goldman reacted to the latest bombshell report detailing efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Washington Post reported Thursday on a memo that called for Trump "to invoke the extraordinary powers of the National Security Agency and Defense Department to sift through raw electronic communications in an attempt to show that foreign powers had intervened in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win."