Russian President Vladimir Putin praised former President Donald Trump during an interview with NBC News.
"Well even now, I believe that former U.S. president Mr. Trump is an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become U.S. president," Putin told NBC's Keir Simmons.
"He is a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn't come from the U.S. establishment. He had not been part of big-time politics before, and some like it, some don't like it but that is a fact," Putin argued.
Putin also sized up Joe Biden, who will be the fifth U.S. president he has met.
"That's a different kind of person, and it is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting U.S. president," Putin said.
WATCH: In an exclusive interview, @KeirSimmons presses Russian President Vladimir Putin on accusations that he has… https://t.co/Ig6v3BiMQL— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt) 1623458431.0
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday teased the release of security camera footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to several news agencies.
The right--wing congresswoman in a tweet confirmed that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) had provided conservative commentators John Solomon and Julie Kelly, along with an unnamed third outlet, “unfettered” access to the tapes.
“I’m excited to share the good news that, just as I promised, the J6 tapes are being released!” Greene tweeted.
“@SpeakerMcCarthy has given @jsolomonReports, @Julie_kelly2 , and a third outlet unfettered access to the J6 tapes, and their reporting on it starts tomorrow.
“This is the transparency the American people deserve and I look forward to their reporting!”
Greene earlier this month called for the public release of the video footage.
“A lot of people are asking me when we are going to release the J6 video tapes,” Greene wrote in a May 11 tweet.
“Well I’m wondering the very same thing and waiting too. The American people paid for the video cameras that are installed all over the Capitol building that they also pay for.
“And most of all the riot scenes have been shown repeatedly a gazillion times in loop for over two years anyways.
“It won’t give the Democrats anything new, but it might give us all something new.”
Greene in the May 11 tweet suggested that publicly releasing the video footage would prevent Democrats from using the insurrection to their political advantage.
“January 6, 2021 is the most politicized day in American history and Democrats are going to base their entire 2024 campaigns attacking Republicans and President Trump about J6 because their party and their policies are SO BAD and America Last that they have no record to brag about, only tremendous failure,” she wrote.
“Over 1,000 people have been arrested, charged, served time, and are still awaiting trial AND the Democrat weaponized DOJ says they are arresting 1,000 more.”
Greene claimed that the footage shows that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s was not related to the insurrection “like ALL the Democrats and the media told you.”
“Yes well the rest of the video footage needs to be released to THE PEOPLE because it’s hard to lie to people all the time when they can go look at it and form their own opinion,” Greene wrote.
“AOC and the well funded anarchist communist groups that support her are still organizing riots against police because she’s big mad at another white guy for bravely defending people from a dangerous known criminal who died later, instead of the innocent law abiding tax paying citizens who suffer from her horrible America Last Criminal First Democrat policies, and none of her Antifa ground troops are rotting in jail.”
Greene added: “We need to release the J6 tapes to a public on line source so that everyone knows what did and didn’t happen, we need to restore fair justice, and America can move on.”
Greene’s announcement that the tapes will be released to three outlets drew rebuke from a far-right Twitter user with 1.7 million followers, who suggested the announcement was a way of mitigating political fallout among conservatives over the debt ceiling compromise.
“Again ... the promise was to release it to the public,” Twitter user “Catturd” wrote on the social media site.
“Releasing it to 3 members of the press is a million miles away from that…and this is being released today to soften the blow of McCarthy caving and screwing us again” on the debt ceiling deal.
“Tired of these games.”
\u201cI\u2019m excited to share the good news that just as I promised the J6 tapes are being released!\n\n@SpeakerMcCarthy has given @jsolomonReports, @Julie_kelly2, and a third outlet unfettered access to the J6 tapes, and their reporting on it starts tomorrow.\n\nThis is the transparency the\u2026\u201d— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1685556918
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Wednesday he was launching a commission tasked with looking at budget cuts – and he suggested Social Security and Medicare could come under his scalpel.
His pledge came just months after vowing such cuts to mandatory spending programs were off the table.
In February, President Joe Biden spoke before a joint session of Congress, telling Americans the GOP wanted to cut the programs they had paid into their whole lives. "Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years," he said.
"That means those programs will go away if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them. Other Republicans say if we don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, they’ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history."
His comments got a chorus of boos from the audience of Republicans. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) shook his head.
As he repeated the claim at his State of the Union address, Biden incensed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) so much she leaped her feet yelling “liar!", while Republicans committed on television to never making such cuts.
McCarthy even told CBS's Face the Nation he was taking Social Security and Medicare “off the table” in debt ceiling negotiations.
And then, on Wednesday, the speaker announced he's starting a commission to look at how to make cuts.
Appearing on the Fox network, McCarthy explained, "And now we're cutting, and you know what? It's gonna make some people uncomfortable by doing that, but I'm not going to give up on the American people."
"I'm going to announce a commission coming forward from the speaker — from bipartisan, both sides of the aisle," he added. "...The majority driver of the budget is mandatory spending; it's Medicare; it's Social Security, interest on the debt."
McCarthy told Fox host Harris Faulkner that only 11 percent of the budget could be negotiated during the debt ceiling talks because Biden had "walled off" parts of it – including the part that included discretionary spending programs.
Now, he said, "We have to look at the entire budget."
See a clip of the interview below or at the link here.
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Conservative investigatory news outlet Project Veritas is suing its founder and former CEO, alleging he spent thousands of dollars on personal luxuries, The Messenger reported.
The suit claims that James O'Keefe breached his contract and took protected information during his split from the company earlier this year.
The suit mentions the initial reason for the company's falling out with O'Keefe -- that he allegedly used the company credit card for a $10,000 helicopter flight and $150,000 for private cars in Manhattan. The suit also alleges he “targeted female employees with mean-spirited comments."
O'Keefe has since created a new company, O’Keefe Media Group. The suit alleges he has used Project Veritas donor lists, contact information, equipment, and material already filmed by Project Veritas to benefit the new venture. He also allegedly tried to persuade Project Veritas employees to come work at his new company, the lawsuit claims.
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