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NBC News Pete Williams and Julia Ainsley are reporting that the inspector general's investigation into the Department of Homeland Security over the missing text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, has now become a criminal probe. The results of what unfolded could also be referred to federal prosecutors for indictment.

"The DHS Inspector General informed the Secret Service on Wednesday evening that the investigation is now criminal and that it should halt all internal investigations on the missing text messages," a letter relayed to reporters says.

Leaked audio of Steve Bannon published earlier this week by Mother Jones confirms that days before the 2020 presidential election, Republican incumbent Donald Trump planned to prematurely declare victory on the night of November 3 regardless of whether it was true.

Steve Bannon's leaked footage from J6 Committee might be damning evidence for jurors | RawStory.TVSteve Bannon's leaked footage from J6 Committee might be damning evidence for jurors | RawStory.TV

In the wake of Donald Trump's presidency, strains within the evangelical community have resulted in significant numbers of people defecting from the right and opening themselves to social justice stances on issues of race, immigration, climate and economic fairness. Should the trend escalate, it could send tremors that extend well beyond the religious community and reverberate throughout U.S. politics.

Let’s take a look at one evangelical activists’ perception of where the party was headed back in 2016 when Trump was the Republican candidate.

U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols told a jury at Steve Bannon's contempt trial Wednesday afternoon that claims of executive privilege by former President Donald Trump are "irrelevant." Bannon has said that he refused the committee's subpoena because Trump claimed to have "executive privilege."

Nichols instructed the jury that executive privilege and an offer to later cooperate were not legitimate defenses for contempt of Congress.

Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former chief of staff Mark Meadows are in "deep doo-doo" after the Supreme Court rejected the former president's claims of executive privilege regarding White House records related to Jan. 6, according to former acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal.

"It's a real problem for them," Katyal told MSNBC. "Remember, Steve Bannon has been indicted already for contempt for not giving these answers to Congress, so he's facing criminal charges. Mark Meadows is on his way to the same thing. Both of their defenses to contempt is executive privilege, and the Supreme Court today blew that out of the water."

House Democrats are trying to pass a bill that would codify marriage equality for LGBTQ Americans, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is not happy about it.

Speaking on the House floor Tuesday, Jordan lambasted Democrats for trying to pass marriage equality via the legislative process, which he suggested was an attempt to somehow "intimidate" the United States Supreme Court from overturning its own past ruling that established marriage equality as the law of the land.

Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has been hit with a formal misconduct complaint over his threats to prosecute Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. During a recent Fox News interview, Rokita attacked Bernard's credentials as a doctor and said he and his office were looking into potentially having her license to practice medicine pulled.

"We have this abortion activist acting as a doctor with a history of failing to report," Rokita said. "So we're gathering the information. We're gathering the evidence as we speak and we're going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure, if she failed to report."

Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to Trade Advisor Peter Navarro is expected to speak to the January 6th Committee on Tuesday morning. Ziegler announced his interview in a message to his followers on Telegram at the stroke of midnight on Monday, writing, “Yours truly going before the scam committee on Tuesday morning. Such a joke, but don’t worry — I’ll do nothing but tell the truth: Trump did nothing wrong & the election was stolen! ”The Telegram post has since been removed.

Ziegler played a crucial role in facilitating an infamous late-night meeting in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020 by using his guest access pass to usher lawyer Sidney Powell, retired Lt. General Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne into the White House. In the meeting, which has been a topic of great interest to the committee, they proposed a plan to have the president invoke the Insurrection Act while ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines and re-run the election in states narrowly lost to Joe Biden. Ziegler described the events of that evening in the video below.

CNN analyst Margaret Hoover on Monday hammered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for saying the Supreme Court should now move to roll back marriage rights for LGBTQ Americans. Cruz recently said that the landmark case establishing nationwide LGBTQ marriage rights "was clearly wrong" because "marriage was always an issue that was left to the states."

Cruz recently said that the landmark case establishing nationwide LGBTQ marriage rights "was clearly wrong" because "marriage was always an issue that was left to the states" and "the court said, no, we know better than you guys do and now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage."

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