Michigan GOP Gov Frontrunner Arrested

We mentioned last week that after the top GOP candidates for the Michigan governor's race were stripped from the ballot over forged signatures, the remaining at least nominal frontrunner (poll leaders in most recent poll) was a guy named Ryan Kelley, who was literally part of the mob that stormed the Capitol building on January 6th and had a lot of connections to the guys who plotted to kidnap and murder Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Well, he just got arrested by the FBI. No details yet on what the charges are or why he was taken into custody.

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11:49 AM: Kelley's arrest was part of a raid on his home and stems from his actions breaching the Capitol complex on January 6th. Charges forthcoming.

See Also:  NBC Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to discuss key challenges facing the January 6 Committee ahead of their primetime hearings this week: getting a "distracted nation" to pay attention and understand what's at stake. "I think the biggest challenge for lawmakers here, as they talk about these sort of huge ideas of American democracy and sort of the experiment that we're all living in, benefiting from, possibly being brought to his knees, is whether or not they can make people care," says Alcindor. "The American public has been groomed to expect high value quick entertainment," says McQuade. "I think putting together a polished show can be very important."

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A Few Thoughts on the Hearings

I wanted to share a few quick thoughts with you before tonight's hearings.

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One very minor point is that for some time I've heard complaints to the effect of, "what has the committee been doing all this time? Most of what we've found out about January 6th has been from the media." This is mostly a misunderstanding. The great majority of reporting you've seen over the last six months revealing texts and other material about the insurrection originated with the committee's investigation. So this isn't an either/or. The committee investigation has almost certainly been the primary generator of new information even though very little of it has come officially from the investigation.

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The other issue is whether the committee can live up to the hype. Many Americans are convinced that none of this really matters. No one will face consequences no matter what is revealed. But precisely since many of the fruits of the investigation have already emerged in the press, is there a lot still to be learned? Is there enough game-changing information to sustain interest? I have no way of knowing the answer to this. But it has been striking to me that the top members of the committee have gone out of their way to say that there are lot of bombshells to come. We'll see.

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Finally, what is the goal of all this? I would say there are two goals. One is simply that when there's an armed insurrection aimed at overthrowing the government, you should compile a detailed record of what happened. You should do that regardless of whether it has any immediate effect on anything. The more practical goal of the hearings should be to put the country back in the mode it was in in the hours and days just after the insurrection. At the time the country overwhelmingly saw what happened as totally unacceptable and an effort whose leaders should either be prosecuted or at least written out of legitimate politics going forward.

See Also:  NBC Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to discuss key challenges facing the January 6 Committee ahead of their primetime hearings this week: getting a "distracted nation" to pay attention and understand what's at stake. "I think the biggest challenge for lawmakers here, as they talk about these sort of huge ideas of American democracy and sort of the experiment that we're all living in, benefiting from, possibly being brought to his knees, is whether or not they can make people care," says Alcindor. "The American public has been groomed to expect high value quick entertainment," says McQuade. "I think putting together a polished show can be very important."

You get a feel for that in the recording two New York Times reporters released last night from the immediate aftermath of the insurrection in which Kevin McCarthy told his GOP colleagues that Republicans couldn't "sweep this under the rug." It's a piercing, telling revelation since McCarthy quickly steadied himself and then spent the next 18 months sweeping the whole matter under the rug. But having that comment preserved does capture the shock and realism of those initial days.

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It is worth remembering that though I think there was always little chance of it happening in the 48 hours following the insurrection Vice President Pence found it necessary to release a statement stating explicitly that he had decided he would not seek to remove Trump from office by means of the 25th amendment. It was really a crazy thought since that was really never what the 25th amendment was intended for. But for a brief moment the possibility seemed very real. Real enough that Pence initially wouldn't say what he would do and then felt the need to address it directly.

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This was all before the establishment GOP decided that the insurrection was, if not good, then at least completely fine. Once Republicans became functionally pro-insurrection, to many observers of American politics the whole matter became just another squabble between the two political parties. Just more politics.

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You'll never get back to that original moment. The shock is gone. Too many people have spent too much time building stories which justify and minimize what happened. But that is or should be the goal: getting back as much as possible to that initial moment when the gravity and seditious nature of what happened was too clear to be ignored.

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Trump Tries Mid-Meltdown To Discredit Ivanka For Admitting She Knew Daddy Lost The Election

Sorry Ivanka, even you aren't safe from your dad's well-established pattern of publicly throwing people under the bus.

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Ivanka Trump, ex-President Donald Trump's eldest daughter who served as a White House adviser, struck a massive blow to her father's fake narrative about the 2020 election on Thursday night, when the House Jan. 6 Committee aired her recorded testimony that she had "accepted" then-Attorney General Bill Barr's assessment that there wasn't evidence of widespread voter fraud.

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And the former president didn't let that slide on Friday morning.

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To hear Trump tell it, his daughter didn't know what she was talking about, didn't really care about her job and was just being nice to Barr (who sucked, by the way!).

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"Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results," he wrote on his fake Twitter app, TRUTH Social. "She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!)."

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The House Jan. 6 Committee unveiled Ivanka Trump's testimony during the panel's first public hearing to establish how the ex-president's own inner circle didn't believe the 2020 election had been stolen.

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Key evidence lay in Ivanka Trump's response to the committee asking her during her interview how Barr shooting down her father's voter fraud lies affected how she saw the election.

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"It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr," she replied. "So I accepted what he was saying."

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'The View': Sunny Hostin And Ana Navarro Argue About Congress' Response To The Attempted Murder Of Brett Kavanaugh

Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin get into a skirmish on The View as the panel discuss the attempted murder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But Navarro makes the point that as much as it's wrong for anyone to try to attack a public official, the urging for legislation isn't as swift as it should be for victims of gun violence, particularly the 19 children and two adults who were killed in Uvalde, TX.

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According to Decider, Navarro commented on the incident, saying that Americans "should be worried about the Supreme Court, and we should condemn, and not condone any violence against any public official, whether we agree with them or not."

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"It shouldn't just be the Supreme Court. There's also federal judges," she continued. "There was one in New Jersey, Esther Salas, whose son got killed, and she's pushing her own legislation."

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Hostin interjected to contradict House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's insistence on Congress passing legislation to protect judges. She said, "Justice Sotomayor was threatened right after that judge's son was murdered, and you didn't hear about Mitch McConnell wanting to pass any legislation then. So let's remember that that wasn't a direct result. Let's put it all in perspective."

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Navarro replied that the fact that an attack could occur to any judge is why condemning violence "against any public official" is important.

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"But what we don't agree on," Navarro continued, "and what I want to know is, how come the reaction is an immediate call for legislation but our children get thoughts and prayers?"

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"She also said regarding the Republican insistence that mass shootings come from lack of prayer in school, "If prayer prevents mass shootings, then how come people are getting killed in churches?…What do you say to that?"

See Also:  NBC Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to discuss key challenges facing the January 6 Committee ahead of their primetime hearings this week: getting a "distracted nation" to pay attention and understand what's at stake. "I think the biggest challenge for lawmakers here, as they talk about these sort of huge ideas of American democracy and sort of the experiment that we're all living in, benefiting from, possibly being brought to his knees, is whether or not they can make people care," says Alcindor. "The American public has been groomed to expect high value quick entertainment," says McQuade. "I think putting together a polished show can be very important."

The View has been addressing gun violence extensively after the Uvalde massacre. Overall, the panel agrees that Congress should pass common sense gun reform.

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Ana Navarro Furious Over Jan. 6 Hearings on ‘The View’: “I Am So Angry Again”

Ana Navarro got heated on Friday's episode of The View, reigniting her anger over the Jan. 6 insurrection during a conversation about the ongoing hearings. As the country tunes in to the prime-time committee hearing, which kicked off yesterday (June 9), Navarro said she is once again feeling upset about what took place that day last winter.

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"History will not whitewash or erase what happened on Jan. 6. Donald Trump, no matter how much people try to change the narrative, is going to go down in the annals of American history with the names of Benedict Arnold and Richard Nixon. He is a traitor," Navarro said.

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The hearing, which presented the Jan. 6 committee's findings over the course of June, included evidence showing how former president Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election.

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Navarro continued, "We've had all these indictments so far, but the people who've been indicted were the cavalry. The generals have not yet been indicted. So what I hope is that as this committee goes through the case — and Liz Cheney did an excellent job yesterday laying out the case — seven different steps of things that Donald Trump did.

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"She was speaking legal jargon, she was speaking to Merrick Garland, who better get off his duff and do something about this, because we cannot be a lawless country where a president with the help of people in Congress, who apparently were asking for presidential pardons, we cannot be a country where a president can try to stage a coup, get that close to it, where police officers end up hurt, where we are all in a level of shock."

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Exasperated, Navarro practically spit out, "You know, I'm so angry again. I thought I had processed this because we've been hearing about it for so long."

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Her co-host Joy Behar agreed, chiming in, "I'm furious," as Navarro added, "All of a sudden, this thing has me. I will never forgive Trump or his accomplices for the havoc they've wreaked on this country."

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Pelosi defends not passing a bill, claims Supreme Court Justices aren’t in any danger despite assassination attempt this week…

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• Pelosi defends not passing a bill, claims Supreme Court Justices aren’t in any danger despite assassination attempt this week…
• Whoopi Goldberg says 'both sides' guilty of rhetoric like Schumer's against Kavanaugh, must 'be more careful'
• Texas Rep Jasmine Crockett blamed Republicans for shooting: 'The blood of these children' is on their hands

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Former Fox political editor says he will testify at January 6 committee hearing

Chris Stirewalt, the former Fox political editor, said Friday that he will be a witness during the House January 6 committee's next public hearing on Monday.

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"I have been called to testify before this committee and will do so on Monday," he said during an appearance on NewsNation, where he is employed as political editor.

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Fox fired Stirewalt in January 2021 after the right-wing backlash to the network -- correctly -- calling Arizona for now-President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt wrote in a Los Angeles Times piece after his firing that the refusal to believe the election results among many of former President Donald Trump's supporters was a "tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation."

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During the NewsNation interview, Stirewalt said, "I am not in a position now to tell you what my testimony will be about."

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He continued: "I was asked to testify and I got to go."

He criticized both parties for politicizing the January 6 investigation, adding, "These two parties have screwed it up from pen to post."

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When asked for comment on his statements, Stirewalt told CNN, "I'll let my on-air remarks speak for themselves."

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The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack held its first prime-time hearing Thursday evening, detailing the findings of the panel's investigation and playing new video from closed-door depositions of members of Trump's team and depicting the violence at the Capitol.

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Thursday's hearing was the first in a series this month that will highlight the findings of the panel's investigation, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people about how Trump and his team tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election on multiple fronts.

While the hearing aired Thursday, Fox -- which did not join other major networks in showing the hearing live -- downplayed the violence of January 6 and dismissed the revelations about Trump's conduct. The network also ignored its own role in promoting false claims about the election before the riot and the committee's publication of private messages between some of its hosts.

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