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Documents handed to the Jan. 6 committee don't contain details about who was calling in and out of the White House: report

The House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 has obtained a considerable amount of documents from witnesses and the National Archives. One key element not included, however, is information about those calling the White House on Jan. 6 and who former President Donald Trump was calling.

The New York Times reported Thursday that it's causing confusion and frustration among the committee members because it seems unrealistic that there were no calls, particularly given so many Republicans confessed publicly that they were attempting to reach Trump officials on Jan. 6.

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WATCH: Brawl erupts on Frontier Airlines flight – forcing plane to make emergency landing

A Frontier flight from New York City to Orlando, Florida was forced to make an emergency landing in Raleigh, North Carolina when a fight broke out on the plane.

According to the exclusive report from TMZ, a man flipped out when he said a woman sitting in the seat behind him poked him with a needle and attempted to steal his DNA. The report acknowledges that the incident may have been part of a mental health crisis and it doesn't indicate any alcohol was involved.

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Is the new GOP rule you can't make fun of Marjorie Taylor Greene if you can't attack Liz Cheney?

Republicans have spent the better part of 2022 attacking Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her refusal to placate former President Donald Trump. Last year, she voted to impeach Trump for the Jan. 6 riot and all that led up to it. Her participation on the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 has made things even worse.

This week, Senate Republicans and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come forward to complain about the RNC calling the Jan. 6 committee an attack on "legitimate political discourse." He, along with his Senate colleagues, said that a circular firing squad isn't productive for the GOP, particularly leading into the 2022 midterm elections.

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Trump continued his relationship with Kim Jong Un after leaving White House: report

Former President Donald Trump once told his supporters that he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un fell in love.

"I was really being tough - and so was he. And we would go back and forth," Trump told a rally in West Virginia. "And then we fell in love, okay? No, really - he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters."

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National Archives refers Trump's destruction of documents to the Justice Department

There has been much debate over penalties for former President Donald Trump for knowingly destroying documents and then taking official documents to take back to Mar-a-Lago. The statute lists, among the punishments, disqualification from office, which has been the key piece anti-Trump activists cling to.

The only way for that to be possible, however, is if the National Archives found the behavior to be so egregious that they referred it to the Justice Department. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that's exactly what happened.

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Steve Bannon thinks Donald Trump will be among the three worst presidents in American history: new book

Among the vignettes in Jeremy Peters' new book Insurgency is a story about Steve Bannon's revelation that former President Donald Trump didn't actually want to be president.

According to Bannon, it was COVID and George Floyd that convinced him Trump only really wanted the Oval Office when it was fun. Up until 2020, Trump was able to largely let the country run on auto-pilot. Racking up deaths was depressing.

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New book reveals how Kellyanne Conway was able to shift Trump's past to work for a right-wing evangelical audience

The new book by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters goes all the way back to the early days of President Donald Trump's foray into politics and how he was able to capture a Republican Party divided by their 2012 election failure.

Insurgency talks about how 2012 impacted Kellyanne Conway's way of spinning issues and the way that she was able to move Trump's history in the Democratic Party to appeal to the far-right base of the GOP.

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Former Trump aide tells The View she doesn’t even recognize Republicans in Congress anymore

The Republican Party has gone so far off the deep end that even former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah said she doesn't recognize them anymore.

As part of a Wednesday discussion on "The View," Farah addressed the report that Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) poked a female colleague in her back and told her to "kiss my ass" after she asked if he'd wear a mask.

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Trump's 'beef' with the Debate Commission might come from an old Casino foe: new book

Former President Donald Trump has taken issue with the Presidential Debate Commission over the past two elections. It was reported in January that the Republican Party may tell its candidates to commit to withdrawing from the debates.

"Republican committee officials alerted the debate commission to their plans in a letter sent on Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times," wrote Maggie Haberman. "If the change goes forward, it would be one of the most substantial shifts in how presidential and vice-presidential debates have been conducted since the commission began organizing debates more than 30 years ago."

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Texas Republicans battle to out-Trump each other as the GOP slips further toward the fringe

It wasn't too long ago that the Republican Party was friendly to immigrants and people of color. While at Liberty University, Christian Collins was finishing up his graduate thesis on how the GOP's talking points about Hispanics impacts how the group views the Republican Party.

Now that thesis is a key piece in a Texas Primary election in a GOP that now pushes a kind of no-immigrant policy, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.

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Kraken lawyers' appeal of sanctions gets slapped down after they make basic errors in court brief

One-time "Kraken" attorney Sidney Powell just flopped again with a legal filing to appeal a U.S. District Court Judge's penalty for ethics violations in court.

Powell and other lawyers filed a complaint appealing financial penalties ordering them to pay $21,964.75 for attorneys' fees for defendants Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Judge Linda Parker also said that Powell and other lawyers had to pay $153,285.62 for legal fees to the city of Detroit.

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'God help them': Former McConnell adviser warns RNC making 'a huge mistake' by denying the reality of Jan. 6

The fallout from the Republican Party statement calling the violence on Jan. 6 nothing more than "legitimate political discourse" continues to grow. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, former adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Scott Jennings joined in the chorus of Republican voices complaining about the circular firing squad against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

"It's a huge mistake," Jennings said. "It's an unforced error. It's wrong, as a political, tactical matter, it's a massive distraction from what the, you know, the correct political strategy would be for the Republicans right now, which should be to talk about the future, talk about the state of the country. Talk about, you know, anything other than trying to justify β€” going back in time and trying to justify something that we all saw with our own eyes on television. Where you get in trouble in politics is when you try to convince somebody they didn't really see what just happened or they're not really feeling what they're actually feeling. And that statement β€”and I recognize they've tried to clean it up afterward, after the fact, God help them, but that statement did not delineate between people who were ransacking the Capitol and people who just showed up for some political speeches."

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Kamala Harris' husband rushed from DC high school after bomb threat

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff was visiting Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday when the Secret Service rushed him from the event and out of the building.

CNN reported that a "credible" bomb threat was called into the school while he was visiting to celebrate Black History Month.

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