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WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) spoke to reporters outside of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 on Thursday conveying that he thinks the panel has done most of what it sought to do and that they were able to gather considerable details to ensure the American public understood who the major actors were in an attempt to overturn the election.

"As the vice chair [Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)] observed we were actually able to nail down every salient detail and pretty much every area of defense except for a number of things related directly to what Donald Trump was doing and what he was saying. Obviously, we got some of it but we didn't get all of it. So one way of addressing the witnesses who took the Fifth [Amendment] when it came to Donald Trump's own actions is to call Donald Trump himself. It's hard for me to imagine any American citizen essentially being accused of trying to overthrow his or her own government who wouldn't welcome the opportunity to come forward and testify."

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Secret Service, spoke out about the revelations revealed by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Thursday.

The committee showed text messages, emails and reports from the Secret Service Protective Intelligence Unit that indicated the agency knew well in advance that the Capitol would be attacked and that former Vice President Mike Pence would be a target. One Secret Service agent even went so far as to text message “Probably not going to be good for Pence.”

WASHINGTON — After startling revelations revealed in Thursday's House Select Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, members of Congress told Raw Story how horrified they were about what was known about the threats.

The Committee showed Americans that the Secret Service, the FBI and the White House all knew that the attacks were coming and they not only did nothing, but they kept it quiet.

The Secret Service revealed in information sent to the House Select Committee that they knew that the U.S. Capitol was going to be a target on Jan. 6, 2021.

"This email, for example, was an alert that the Secret Service received on December 24, with the heading, armed and ready, Mr. President," read Rep. Adam Schiff, citing the intelligence. "Multiple users online were targeting members of Congress, instructing others to march into the chambers on January 6, and make sure they know who to fear. In this report, received on Dec. 26 the Secret Service Field Office-related tip that had been received by the FBI."

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Thursday during a hearing held by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack that former President Donald Trump knew full-well that he lost the 2020 election. Meanwhile, he was acting on that loss, and trying to quickly withdraw troops from around the globe even though the Department of Defense urged him not to.

Kinzinger showed videos of several defense officials who testified that it was young staffer Johnny McEntee, who did nothing more than run the staffing office of the White House, and who penned the directive ordering all troops out of Afghanistan and Somalia.

The co-hosts of "The View" called out the double standard facing Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Fetterman had a stroke this spring and is still having lingering issues where he's not hearing things properly. He has requested a closed captions option so he can read what people are saying to ensure he hears it correctly. His opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz has spent the past months making fun of Fetterman for his health issues.

Michael Cohen's new book "Revenge" walks through the ways in which he became a victim of Donald Trump's efforts to silence him using government resources. In one part of the book, Cohen illustrates the "Trump crime family" by calling out the corruption that he knew would manifest in Trump's government and how it was turned against him.

Calling Trump "the mirror into the depths of the soul of government corruption," Cohen highlights the desperation the former president had to become the kind of dictator that he so admires.

Michael Cohen's lawyer Guy Petrillo penned a letter to Deputy U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami that is featured at the end of Cohen's new book, asking for a meeting to discuss the Cohen case and the grand jury.

The book, Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics walks through what Cohen describes as the dogged way in which Donald Trump used the government to make his life miserable, attack him, threaten his family and ultimately land him in prison for a number of crimes Cohen explains he never committed.

After 18 months of negotiation with the Justice Department and the National Archives, the FBI moved in on Mar-a-Lago to seize the documents that former President Donald Trump took from the White House. The reason that negotiations were stopped was that a worker of Trump's told the FBI that the boxes were about to be moved.

The Washington Post revealed in a Wednesday report that what the witness told law enforcement is corroborated by the security-camera footage. The footage also shows Trump's actions after he was given a government subpoena and told to hand over the documents. At that time, Trump gave the FBI nothing more than an envelope with a few things included.

The Washington Post got a heads-up about what the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack will be revealing in what is expected to be the final public hearing. One of the reporters who penned the piece spoke to Nicolle Wallace and explained that all of the things that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson said under oath are going to be corroborated by the Secret Service on Thursday.

One of the key pieces of the Jan. 6 probe was the radio traffic that they were able to play during the last committee hearing. Secret Service agents reported several people with weapons outside of the security perimeter at the White House.

“He’ll be broke now for the rest of his life," said former prosecutor Harry Litman of Alex Jones, moments after the right-wing fringe host was told he must pay nearly $1 billion to the family members of the Sandy Hook victims.

It has been nearly a decade since the shooter at Sandy Hook took 26 lives, including children and teachers in the school. In wake of the shooting, Alex Jones used his platform to claim that it was all an act, a farce with actors and that the children of the family members didn't even exist.

The verdict in the second Alex Jones defamation case has resulted in the InfoWars host being forced to pay another chunk of money to families he slandered. This trial is taking place in Connecticut and looked at the damages that the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims faced as a result of Jones lying that the massacre never took place.

At least one family was forced to move about a dozen times due to ongoing threats as a result of the conspiracy theories crafted around the shooting.