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UPDATED, with additional details and reaction: Tucker Carlson aired the first clips of January 6th Capitol surveillance footage on Monday, and the Fox News host spent much of the time using clips to downplay the attack on the Capitol and cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election. Carlson had…

UPDATE, February 22: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer weighed in on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give Tucker Carlson access to thousands of hours of Capitol surveillance footage from January 6th. “This disclosure poses grave security risks to members of Congress and everyone who…

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican party outcast as a member of the January 6th Committee, is joining CNN as senior political commentator. Kinzinger served six terms in the U.S. House, representing an Illinois congressional district. In addition to the January 6th Committee, he served on the…

Amidst the final exit of several strapping small screen war horses, 2022 may go down as the year Peak TV hit middle age – in a good way Not saying a midlife crisis and cherry red sportscars are in the mix, yet. However, besides the ever-tightening economic constrictions girdling the industry, the past 12 months has…

UPDATED: Days after the January 6 Committee recommended four staggering criminal charges against former president Donald Trump, the panel this evening released its final report. “Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our…

"I sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics, and set us against one another," an optimistic President Joe Biden said this afternoon in a Christmas address to the nation. However, if the politically nimble Democrat in the White House hoped to break through the…

UPDATE: The January 6th Committee recommended that the Justice Department pursue four criminal charges against former President Donald Trump along with others they claim helped orchestrate an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The charges include obstruction of an official…

Police officers and family members declined to shake the hands of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Tuesday to honor those who defended the Capitol amid the January 6th attack. Video of the…

UPDATED with committee’s response: The House Select Committee Investigating January 6 took issue with former Vice President Mike Pence’s characterization of their work and motives. “From the time that January 6th was formed,” he told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan in an interview, “and every member was…

Former President Donald Trump on Friday filed a lawsuit against the House January 6th Committee and its members in the latest bid to avoid a subpoena by the congressional body to compel him to testify. The news comes ahead of a planned Tuesday event in which Trump is widely expected to announce he is…

Amazon has resumed political contributions to lawmakers who voted to object to the 2020 electoral vote count on January 6th, 2021, the day that Donald Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in an effort to block the results that would make Joe Biden the winner of the presidency. Amazon’s…

The January 6 Committee has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying Friday that it has “issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for testimony and records relevant to the Select Committee's investigation into the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol and its causes.” The…