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The Washington Post is reporting that President Joe Biden is leaning toward releasing any information involving former President Donald Trump and his aides during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

According to the report, it could have some "significant political and legal ramifications."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during her Thursday briefing, recalling his previous statements about the debt ceiling being necessary.

Previously, McConnell had said that America always pays its debts. According to Pelosi, McConnell is now shirking that responsibility.

Former President Donald Trump announced this week that he would be suing his niece Dr. Mary Trump, the New York Times and some of its reporters for "stealing" his personal tax documents. But as Business Insider explains, it wasn't that long ago that Trump's lawyers were threatening to sue, saying the documents were false.

Trump inadvertently confessed that his tax documents were real in the lawsuit he announced this week. It put Trump in the position to decide, are the tax documents fake and he wants to sue the Times, or are they real and "stolen?" While the new lawsuit doesn't make an argument about the documents' authenticity, one wouldn't likely sue if they were fake documents.

Speaking to a group of supporters of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Justice Amy Coney Barrett tried to claim that the Supreme Court isn't staffed with a slew of partisan hacks. Many found it to be a strange claim since McConnell mocked Democrats when Coney Barrett was approved by GOP members.

Writing for the Washington Post on Thursday, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin explained that no one is buying the claim. She cited "a raft of recent polls" showing that the High Court lost its luster with the public.

Former Trump National Security Adviser and admitted felon Michael Flynn went off on a rant about vaccines being put in salad dressing as a means for the left to force the vaccine on those refusing to get it.

Fact-checker Mike Rothschild noted that the study he's talking about is actually an effort by scientists to create an mRNA vaccine that doesn't have to be stored in a deep freeze. The mRNA vaccines like Moderna and Pfizer all have to be stored in extremely cold locations, which is why when they open one vaccine bottle they have to throw it away if it goes unused.

This week, it was revealed that court documents obtained in the case from Dominion Voting Systems showed President Donald Trump, his staff and lawyers should have known that they were making false claims about election fraud.

While these internal Trump campaign memos are likely to heavily factor in the Dominion lawsuits, one MSNBC analyst noted that employees for the company may also have an opportunity to sue Trump and his lawyers as well.

The new book Peril by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward details how, in the final weeks ahead of the Jan. 6 vote to certify the election former Vice President Mike Pence consulted with Judge J. Michael Luttig, who is now speaking out about the role he played in saving American democracy.

Pence was getting pressure from President Donald Trump to refuse to certify the election results and send the vote back to GOP-run state legislatures. John Eastman, a Federalist Society figure who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, penned a two-page memo outlining the legal argument for overturning the election. Pence didn't take the memo as gospel and reached out to Judge Luttig.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was part of a hearing involving voting rights laws on Wednesday when he asked the expert panel whether the Texas voting laws or voter identification laws were racist. One by one, each expert explained to him that it was.

Franita Tolson, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, began by telling the senator that one major thing is that people shouldn't treat all voter I.D. laws the same. Understandably there are laws that allow for all forms of I.D. from student I.D.'s, utility bills, cell phone bills, or any other possible way to prove identity. Other states restrict voter I.D. to only being a driver's license. Technically, because driver's licenses cost money, that could be considered a poll tax.

Mary Trump spoke to John Aravosis and Cliff Schecter promoting her latest book about the collective trauma Americans have faced over the years from the Trump administration.

In the early part of the conversation, Trump explains some information about the upbringing of former president Donald Trump's children and how her uncle carried on some of the mistakes Fred Trump made with him.

Former president Donald Trump announced a lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump, the New York Times and three reporters on Wednesday for $100 million. According to the ex-president, they hatched an "insidious plot" to obtain his private tax records for a report about his history.

NBC News reporter Tom Winter noted that this lawsuit effectively acknowledges that the facts in the story were correct. The story at the time revealed that Trump showed massive losses. It also proved that Trump wasn't merely given a few million dollars by his father to get started but was instead given "at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s."

After the assassination attempt against the Michigan governor and the attack on the U.S. Capitol there has been a greater public focus on violent domestic extremism.

Appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, FBI director Christopher Wray revealed two main reasons that Americans haven't been able to fully grasp the dangers coming from far-right groups. The first, he explained, that the format that previous public reports were in wasn't one that could be accessed by the general public.

In a strange story, MAGA lawyer John Pierce, the man who has agreed to help many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, is making a unique case to get his client free from pre-trial lockup.

In his attempt to get Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson out of prison, Pierce claimed that his client had COVID-19. The problem he ran into was that the medical records state pretty clearly that he doesn't have COVID.

Bulwark columnist Mona Charen explained Wednesday that the only issue that should matter in the off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey is "the truth."

In an era of "fake news," unregulated deep-fakes and politicians who will tell obvious lies, Charen explained that in the past it would have been no contest. She said she would have voted Republican. Not anymore.