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The Republican congresswoman said the House select committee would be revealing "new information" related to January 6, 2021.

Cheney previously served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, but was ousted from that No. 3 leadership role last May. She is also facing a Trump-endorsed GOP primary challenger in Wyoming, while Kinzinger has decided not to seek another House term. Both of the House Republicans have faced substantial backlash from the GOP as a result of their consistent criticism of Trump. "And that is a process that we will continue to build until we hold everyone accountable who committed criminal acts with respect to January 6." Trump and his allies insist that the entire investigation is baseless and partisan in nature. Whether Trump faces some form of accountability or legal consequences as a result of January 6, 2021 and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results remains an open question. "Our first priority is to make recommendations," Cheney said.

January 6 committee member splits from fellow Republican Adam Kinzinger but says first impeachment informs panel's workUkraine – live coverage.

Though a stringent conservative, on January 6 at least the daughter of the former defense secretary and vice-president Dick Cheney has emerged as a rare figure able to bridge the partisan divide. “Our first priority is to make recommendations,” Cheney said. A bipartisan Senate report connected seven deaths to the riot and around 800 people have been charged.

Few Republicans are echoing Trump's description of the Russian president​ as savvy or smart.

In the North Carolina GOP primary for an open U. S. Senate seat, former Gov. Pat McCrory released an ad accusing his Trump-backed rival Rep. Ted Budd of taking Russia-friendly votes and praising Putin. The ad uses an interview clip in which Budd calls Putin a  "very intelligent actor." So we should arm the Ukrainians and give them every defensive weapon that they want," Hawley told CBS News. "We need to do everything we can do asymmetrically there in Ukraine to help the Ukrainians. And we should do that for the long haul, as long as it takes." "There's probably a lot of mistakes that we could look at…I know Trump is criticized for his rhetoric. Colin Dueck, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who wrote a book on post-WWII Republican foreign policy, told CBS News that even though Trump tapped into voters' frustrations with traditionally hawkish GOP views, party voters still maintained their support of NATO and opposition to Putin. The invasion reminded them of those views, he says, and there has been a rallying around a hardline against Russia. Hawley joined all Senate Republicans, with the exception of Mitt Romney, in exonerating Trump at his impeachment trial in 2019 that centered on his asking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden in exchange for military aid. According to Politifact, McCrory's ad cut out Budd's full quote: "I would say Putin is evil. And he has had to catch up with it." Now, McCarthy is trying to keep some members of his conference who are speaking ill of Zelenskyy or echoing Trump's praise of Putin at bay. But in this case, polling shows support for taking a tougher stance on Russia among the party's rank and file. Condemnation of Vladimir Putin is a rare unifying force on Capitol Hill. Few Republicans are echoing Trump's description of the Russian president as savvy or smart. And I'm glad to see it." But when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, GOP officials are no longer taking their cues from the former president.

A far right wing of the Republican Party tightly bound to former President Donald Trump is fighting to push the GOP toward the “America First” isolationism that ...

Every policy discussion, he said in an interview, starts from the standpoint of “What’s in America’s best interests?” Newt Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker who has written a book called “Understanding Trump,” defined the concept in vague terms. H. R. McMaster, another Trump national security adviser, wrote about this phenomenon in his 2020 book, “Battlegrounds.” Some of the strategists surrounding Trump felt a “peculiar sense of kinship with and affinity for Russian nationalists,” McMaster wrote. Many experts argue that Ukraine’s survival matters to the U. S. If Putin conquers Ukraine, an emboldened Russia might then carry the war to neighboring NATO countries, setting off a direct clash between nuclear-armed nations. Starting with his 2016 campaign, Trump embraced a more isolationist strain in American foreign policy thinking that went back to the nation’s founding. “They’re speaking to a generation of us that watched them fail,” she said. Undeterred, the "America First" adherents believe that Trump’s approach to foreign policy is durable and denied they were in retreat. In this view, Putin was standing up for a Christian and Caucasian culture that he saw as under threat. And polls suggest that Americans are absorbed in coverage of the war and inspired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s resistance to the Russian siege. After objecting to the abundant attention the war is getting, she said that what “real Americans care about are gas prices that they can’t afford,” inflation and security along the southern border. What’s more, some of them argue that GOP leaders are reverting to Bush-era neoconservative positions that enmeshed the U. S. in "unwinnable wars." Surveys show that majorities of Americans are prepared to accept financial sacrifices if it means helping Ukraine defend its sovereignty.

A man holds up a sign against Rep. Liz Cheney. Another Republican strategist who has poll-tested the effectiveness of RINO messaging ...

“It’s terribly effective,” he said. The use of RINO has become so widespread that it can now include almost any Republican, including some of the most conservative stalwarts in the party. But the term is also, plainly, an exclusionary one. It’s true that some uses of the term are more effective than others. But the term may still wear out. Today, in a reflection of the GOP’s murkier ideological grounding in the Trump era, it’s a term reserved almost exclusively for lack of fealty to Trump. The evidence of that is explicit. “The party no longer has orthodoxy, so now it’s, ‘You’re not loyal.’” For the MAGA set, the term has become a useful shorthand to refer to the establishment. The mushrooming of the insult is measurable. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has begun running social media messages asking voters to choose “RINO Establishment vs. In Pennsylvania, a super PAC working to undermine Mehmet Oz’s conservative credentials in that state’s Senate primary ran TV ads depicting him crouching behind a rhinoceros.

Congresswoman says Jan. 6 committee looking into 'additional enhanced criminal penalties'. In this July 27, 2021, file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, ...

One of the others who did so is Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who is also on the House Jan. 6 committee. Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 were ‘supreme dereliction of duty,’ Rep. Liz Cheney says Cheney was one of only 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 violence. The committee is expected to hold public hearings later this spring. In an interview Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” the Wyoming Republican said the select committee will also reveal new information that it discovered about the insurrection and the Trump administration’s response. Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 were ‘supreme dereliction of duty,’ Rep. Liz Cheney says

The January 6 committee could hold public hearings as early as this May; The Wyoming Republican lawmaker would not go into specifics but said she has 'not ...

Cheney said the panel is considering recommending penalties for the "kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump."

We all lived through that attack." "We all watched that unfold in real-time.

Barr acknowledges, and then shrugs off, Trump's lies about election fraud and his incitement of an assault on the U.S. Capitol.

He is angry that Trump wrecked Republicans’ chances to maintain control of the U. S. Senate by petulantly sabotaging the party’s candidates in the runoff election in Georgia. Does Barr believe Trump did not prioritize himself over country and party during the first three and a half years of his presidency? Country and principle took second place.” “One Damn Thing After Another,” Barr’s memoir about his two tours of duty as attorney general (for former President George H. W. Bush and for Trump), demonstrates that in 2022, it’s déjà vu all over again. Convinced that the United States needs a president capable of “persuading and attracting,” who can “frame and advocate for an uplifting vision of what it means to share in American citizen,” Barr ends his memoir with the hope that one “of an impressive array of younger candidates” will get the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Despite Trump’s tweet claiming that “our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job,” it appears the president soured on the attorney general, Charles Pierce wrote in Esquire, because he refused to be in sync with the president’s “stalactite-riddled mind” on a rigged election or to “punch Hunter Biden’s ticket to Leavenworth.” Pierce cautioned readers, however, against assuming Barr “felt a twinge in his largely vestigial political conscience.”

“Trump Challengers” – The presumption right now is that former President Donald Trump will take a “third bite at the apple” in 2024. As I've often reported, if ...

Will Trump continue certain comments that smack of praise of Putin (though the recent invasion is not among them). In 1980 President Jimmy Carter was flummoxed by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, and it contributed to his loss to Ronald Reagan. Will Biden rally, or face a similar fate as Carter’s in 2024? “Rep Liz Cheney” – She is one of the Republican House incumbents who is facing a primary against a Trump-backed challenger. “A Powerful Address" – President Zelenskyy’s address was a rarity. At some point, you’ve got to look and say, ‘Is the House the best place to do it?’” Kinzinger told Roll Call last month, fueling speculation of a White House bid. Foreign leaders are seldom given permission to address a joint session of Congress. It was extraordinarily powerful, especially with a raw video he showed of the continued unprovoked Russian bombings. We need to give them more weaponry to fight back against the Russians. The video he showed was very powerful to me. Manchin cited concerns about Raskin’s view of the fossil fuel energy industry. Senator Joe Manchin (D) West Virginia announced he was opposing President Biden’s nominee to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. With 50 Republicans opposed, Manchin was the key 51st no vote, and so Sarah Bloom Raskin withdrew her nomination. “Manchin in the Middle” – In other headlines this week, he’s done it once again, as he has done so many times before. “Trump Challengers” – The presumption right now is that former President Donald Trump will take a “third bite at the apple” in 2024. His was pronounced cancer-free in 2016, and he underwent successful skin cancer surgery last year. Over the next few weeks, we will look at some possible contenders, along with other headlines.

"In 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House," Trump said at the American Freedom Tour on Saturday.

Biden has said concretely that he plans to run for reelection in 2024. Since losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump has continued to peddle the false claim that he actually won. "I think if I run, I'll get it," he said on a Fox Business appearance.

Former President Donald Trump says he will attempt to win the Republican nomination and the presidency in the 2024 elections.

Donald Trump wants to have his cake and eat it too on a potential presidential run.

The rules that would kick in with an official declaration would encumber Trump in a number of ways. He can reap the attention and money that come with being a powerful politician saying he’s running for the White House — but without having to subject himself to disclosure regulations and restrictions on how he could raise and spend campaign money. Trump remains a fundraising juggernaut, with an extraordinary ability to rake in cash.

Federal prosecutors have charged more than 700 people in 48 states over the deadly attacks.

Five police officers who served on January 6th died in the aftermath of the attack. The Wyoming congresswoman told NBC’s Meet the Press that the January 6th committee is considering whether to recommend criminal punishment for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump”. “I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway,” Rep Cheney said.