MSNBC had an afternoon shakeup. It is about time in the case of Hallie Jackson. She will still have a place but with a different platform.
Jackson who hosted Hallie Jackson Reports from 3pm until 4pm with lead in to Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace will now have her show on its streaming platform NBC News Now. It will be expanded from 5pm until 7pm.
She has the Mehdi Hasan type of program. She joins Chuck Todd who was demoted out of MSNBC. He held on to MTP: Daily which was on at 5pm until 2020 when his show was moved to 1pm and Wallace was given two hours. And until mid-2022, Todd was hosting at 1pm until he was moved to NBC News Now with Meet The Press Now.
Chris Jensing who occupies the 1pm spot will host two hours and Katy Tur will have the 3pm slot.
Also Jonathan Capehart will now host weekends at 9am. Katie Phang will host a 8am show. Ali Velshi will now fill the 10am spot that Capehart and Tiffany Cross held. Jose Diaz-Balart’s show will move from 10am to 11am on weekdays. He will still host NBC Nightly News on Saturdays.
Andrea Mitchell will remain in the 12 pm.
Cross was fired from MSNBC in late November.
The reworking of daytime was messaged around the same time as an estimated 75 employees from NBC and MSNBC were set to be impacted by layoffs, a source confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. NBC’s news division counts 3,500 employees in total.
The legendary Ted Williams, the man with golden voice has a podcast and platform on social media.
From the bottom to the top, Ted was at his bottom.
At the exit ramp at Interstate 71 and Hudson Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, Ted was a homeless and addicted to crack. It was a person who gave a few dollars and a chance to get back into the limelight. In 2011, his life was given a jolt.
His voice shocked the world and everyone was amazed to hear a professional sounding voice homeless.
He quicky gained fame and was seen on every market in the world. He was sought from all angles and it literally almost shattered because of the fame.
He still struggled to overcome addiction and mental illness.
For the first time in almost 20 years, Williams found himself steadily working. He co-authored A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation with Bret Witter. He is the founder of the Ted Williams Project, a non-profit organization serving homeless shelters.
When you thought he would just fade away to repair his already damaged rap career, he done got married to a fashion designer after divorcing his high profile marriage to Kim Kardashian.
Kanye West had finished up 2022 with backing Washed Up 45, launching a possible bid for president in 2024, saying anti-semitic remarks, praising Adolf Hitler, getting dropped from Def Jam, losing his $1 billion deal with Adidas, with Candace Owens facing lawsuits from the family of George Floyd, facing lawsuits over his Donda Academy, having Donda Sports fold, getting dropped from his management agency, hanging out with Nick Fuentes, threatening Pete Davidson, threatening D.L. Hughley, threatening Trevor Noah, threatening Kim Kardashian, owing over $285,000 in child support, being dropped as a billionaire by Forbes, losing Pusha T, losing John Legend, losing Beyonce, losing Jay-Z, selling Nazi based propaganda and now this.
Bianca Censori became the latest victim of Ye's turmoil. She and Ye held a private ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Kanye and Bianca have not filed a marriage certificate to make it legal.
Kim K said it really difficult co parenting with Ye.
Ye has been ducking lawyers preparing to serve him.
The only daughter of Elvis Presley and Prisella Ann Wagner has passed away from a cardiac attack.
Lisa Marie Presley passed away at the age of 54.
“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday evening. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
The announcement came just hours after Priscilla Presley had confirmed that Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital earlier Thursday.
Los Angeles County paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas home at 10:37 a.m. following a report of a woman in full cardiac arrest, according to Craig Little, a spokesperson for the county’s fire department. Property records indicate Presley was a resident at that address.
Paramedics arrived about six minutes later, Little said. A subsequent statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said paramedics performed CPR and “determined the patient had signs of life” before taking her to a hospital in nearby West Hills immediately.
News of Presley’s hospitalization was first reported by TMZ and later confirmed by People magazine.
Presley, 54, attended the Golden Globes on Tuesday, on hand to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for playing her father in “Elvis.” She called his performance “mind-blowing” during a red carpet interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”
“I really didn’t know what to do with myself after I saw it,” she told ET of Baz Luhrmann’s movie. “I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible and so spot on and just so authentic that, yeah, I can’t even describe what it meant.”
Just days before that, she was in Memphis, Tennessee, at Graceland — the mansion where Elvis lived — to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary on Jan. 8.
Elvis with Priscilla and Lisa Marie.
Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Presley’s death on Thursday. She wore a black jacket with the well-known TCB lightning bolt (shorthand for (taking care of business in a flash) on the back as she described meeting Presley at a celebration of her father’s birthday on Jan. 8 at Graceland. Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland.
“Those are for Lisa,” she said.
She said Lisa Marie Presley was one of the last connections to her famous father.
“Everyone is shocked over this. Why? Why did this have to happen?” Sainato said, wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in front of the stone wall that borders the home-turned museum. “She deserved a long, happy life.”
Presley had recently penned an essay published in People about “the horrific reality” of her grief following her son Benjamin Keough’s death by suicide in 2020. Presley is also the mother of actor Riley Keough and twin daughters.
“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in August.
The infamous marriage to Michael Jackson.
Lisa Marie and the King of Pop. The infamous marriage to Michael Jackson. In late 1993, Jackson proposed to her over the phone. Some believe it was publicity stunt to deflect from allegations of sexual abuse by three boys.
They married in La Vega, Dominican Republic, in May 1994 by civil judge Hugo Francisco Álvarez Pérez.
The tabloid media speculated that the wedding was a publicity stunt to deflect away from Jackson's sexual abuse allegations and jump-start Presley's career as a singer. Their marriage ended little more than a year later, and they separated in December 1995. Presley cited "irreconcilable differences" when filing for divorce the next month and only sought to reclaim her maiden name as her settlement.
After the divorce, Judge Pérez said, "They lasted longer than I thought they would. I gave them a year. They lasted a year and a half." In an October 2010 interview with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, Presley revealed that she and Jackson had attempted to reconcile intermittently for four years following their divorce, and that she had travelled to different parts of the world in order to be with him.
So no more talk about crime. No more talk about inflation. No more talk about the gas prices. Republicans pivot right to culture wars and distractions from real issues.
They so far proven they can't govern.
Weren't they suppose to read the U.S. Constitution first?
Aren't they supposed to have a bill preview three days before the scheduled vote?
What does the abortion bill have to do with bringing down inflation, tackling crime, dealing with climate change and lowering the temperature of political violence?
Republicans in the House voted to pass a bill that would ban abortion and make it mandatory to save the life of a fetus if there is a chance.
It has no chance of getting passed in the Senate. If it does, President Joe Biden will veto it.
The measure, titled the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, passed in a mainly 220-210-1 vote. Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) was the only Democrat to vote for the measure. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) voted “present.”
The bill, which House Republicans vowed to bring up even before they clinched the majority, would mandate that an infant born alive after an attempted abortion receives the same degree of care that any other child born prematurely would receive. The measure also requires that the infant is taken to a hospital. And it threatens providers who don’t comply with a fine or up to five years in prison.
It is rare for an infant to be born after an attempted abortion, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A total of 143 infants were born after an attempted induced termination from 2003 to 2014, according to the agency, the majority of whom died between one and four hours later. Of those, 97 “involved a maternal complication or, one or more congenital anomalies.”
Softball Hannity in a sea of white saying Republicans are the party of diversity.
House passage of the bill comes days before the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which made access to abortion a constitutional right. The justices struck down that decision in June.
The move from the bench reverberated across the country, with conservatives hailing the court and liberals sounding the alarm about the future of abortion access in the U.S. That fallout lingered until the November midterm elections, with abortion proving to be a top priority for voters. Polls ranked it as the second most important issue, behind inflation.
Months after the election, and in their first week of legislating, House Republicans brought the born-alive bill and a resolution condemning attacks on pro-life facilities to the floor.
Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), a sponsor of the born-alive legislation, hailed its passage.
“Every single newborn, regardless the circumstances of their birth, deserves to share the miracle of life and have lifesaving medical care. We must act with compassion to protect these little ones and give women a strong support system as they navigate the miracles and challenges of motherhood,” she said in a statement. “This bill will save real lives, and it will give survivors a precious chance to build a future.”
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), a co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, said the measure affirms that “life is sacred.”
“Upholding the value and sanctity of life has been a personal mission for me, and this bill plays a key role in affirming what the American people have always known: life is sacred,” she wrote in a statement following the vote.
Democrats, on the other hand, sharply criticized the bill during debate on the House floor Wednesday. Some argued that the measure was not needed because infants are already protected through a law Congress approved in 2002.
That legislation, titled the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, said infants must receive the same legal rights as any other individuals. The legislation passed through both chambers and then-President George W. Bush signed it into law.
“It is illegal and always has been illegal in every state and then federal law to kill an infant born alive. It is illegal and always has been illegal not to provide that infant with appropriate medical care,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on the House floor.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) called the bill “extremist, dangerous and unnecessary.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America on Tuesday condemned this bill as “one that would allow politicians to interfere in personal family decisions.”
“These bills make it plain: House Republicans are patently rejecting the will of the overwhelming majority of Americans who voted to support legal abortion in November,” said Mini Timmaraju, the organization’s president.
Before I go, I want to address Softball Hannity and the Republicans celebrating diversity.
They have 16 Hispanic members, 3 Native American members, 5 African Americans members and 2 Asian American members. Overall, 85% white and 15% other.
Republicans are making small gains but it is not enough. They are really bad at gaining support among people of color.
Sen-designate Pete Ricketts (R-NE) (left) with Gov. Jim Pillen.
The guy who said that a woman should carry her rapist's baby is the senate-designate for Nebraska.
Former Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts (R-NE) is going to finish the term of former senator Ben Sasse. The new governor of Nebraska did a quid pro quo when it came to the selection of a replacement.
Born John P. Ricketts, he is an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is the son of Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade. He is part owner of the Chicago Cubs along with several of his family members.
Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced he will pick Ricketts to fill the term. It is likely Ricketts will run for reelection.
Pillen and Ricketts appeared together at a joint news conference at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, where Pillen described the selection of Ricketts as “very, very obvious.”
Sasse officially resigned on Sunday to become the president of the University of Florida, a job he will begin next month.
Ricketts’ support in last year’s Republican gubernatorial primary helped Pillen emerge at the top of a packed GOP field. Pillen took office last week.
He said Ricketts was “committed to the long haul” to attempting to keep the seat.
“I don’t believe in placeholders. I believe that every day matters,” Pillen said.
Ricketts ran for Senate in 2006 and lost to conservative Democrat Ben Nelson.
Ricketts was the 2006 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Ben Nelson. His opponents in the primary were former Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg and former state Republican chairman David Kramer. Ricketts spent nearly $5 million of his own money, outspending his opponents 10–1 in winning the nomination.
Ricketts received some high-profile campaign assistance, most notably from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush appeared at a campaign rally for Ricketts on November 5, 2006, just days before the election, in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Ricketts ran on a conservative platform, emphasizing fiscal responsibility, immigration reform, and agriculture, as well as championing a socially conservative platform opposing same-sex marriage and abortion. In all, he contributed $11,302,078 of his own money to his campaign, triggering the Millionaire's Amendment which allowed his opponent to raise larger amounts from each donor. He spent more money than any Senate candidate in Nebraska history, but lost to Nelson by a margin of 36%–64%.
Ricketts will be sworn in late January.
Currently the Democrats control the Senate. They have 48 senators and three independents who caucus with them. Republicans have 49 senators.
The New York Republican Party and Nassau County GOP has formally recalled its endorsement and support of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). They have formally called for him to resign and want the state authorities to investigate him.
The newly appointed U.S. Representative has become a distraction to the Republican agenda. The revelations that this man lied about his education, his religion, his sexuality, his wealth and his residency has become so bad, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) became one of the first lawmakers to call for his ouster. Mind you, we are still waiting on the criminal who spray painted on Mace's sidewalk. I mean the RING camera was on and the tagger did not take that nice bicycle in front of her home.
"It is deeply troubling to have someone like that in our body," Mace said in an interview, adding that she supported an Ethics Committee investigation. “It can take a few months and probably will. It will work itself out in the end.”
At least four House Republicans from New York said Santos should step down after Nassau County GOP officials on Wednesday first called for him to give up his congressional seat.
“George Santos’ campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies and fabrication,” county GOP Chairman Joe Cairo said at a news conference with other party officials.
Cairo took aim at Santos for having “disgraced” the House and made it clear that Santos is “not welcome here at Republican headquarters.”
“We do not consider him one of our congresspeople,” Cairo said.
Cairo pointed to various false claims by Santos, including his previous claims of having Jewish heritage. Cairo also told reporters that Santos gave the local GOP a fake résumé that included lies about having been a volleyball “star” at Baruch College who led his team to a “league championship.”
Santos, however, isn't backing down, saying in a tweet that he has no plans to resign.
Freshman Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., who was also just sworn into Congress and is the chair of the state Republican Party, said in a statement Wednesday that he supports Cairo’s decision to request Santos’ resignation.
“It’s clear that he cannot be an effective representative and it would be in the best interest of the taxpayers to have new leadership,” Langworthy said. “I will continue working with our local elected officials to ensure that trust and dignity are restored to the 3rd Congressional District.”
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a first-term Republican whose district borders Santos’, joined the Cairo news conference virtually. “At this point, I don’t think that George Santos can move forward as a member of Congress,” he said.
GOP Rep. Brandon Williams of New York said in a statement: “As more revelations become public, I concur with the Nassau Republicans’ decision to request George Santos’s resignation. The constituents in NY-3 elected Representative Santos in part due to his biographical exaggerations and apparent deceptions. He must resign.”
And in an interview with Axios, Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said he thought Santos should resign. LaLota's office later confirmed his remarks to NBC News.
But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Cairo’s call for Santos’ resignation doesn’t affect his thinking on the issue.
“I try to stick by the Constitution. The voters elected him to serve,” McCarthy said. “If there is a concern, he has to go through the Ethics [Committee]; let him move through that. But right now, the voters have a voice in the decision. It’s not where people pick and choose based upon what somebody’s press has. So he will continue to serve.”
Asked whether he trusts Santos, McCarthy said, “Look, he is going to have to build the trust here, and he’s going to have the opportunity to try to do that.”
Other local party officials also took aim at Santos throughout the news conference Wednesday.
Asked why Santos was urged to resign after he was sworn in, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that he believes in due process but that the situation became “untenable” when Santos admitted to lying.
“He needs help,” Blakeman said, while calling out Santos for being an “outright liar.”
My kind of people.
Santos officially took office following the election of McCarthy as speaker last week. Santos voted for McCarthy.
The Nassau County GOP's demand for Santos' resignation could put pressure on McCarthy, who leads a slim GOP majority that includes a group of detractors who threatened to tank his leadership bid.
Most congressional Republicans appeared to give Santos the cold shoulder upon entering Congress. Santos was often seen sitting by himself during numerous rounds of speaker votes last week.
In a complaint filed Tuesday, Democratic Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres, both of New York, requested that the House Ethics Committee investigate Santos for his “failure to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports.”
In their complaint, Goldman and Torres allege Santos violated the Ethics in Government Act, and they pointed to recent reports, as well as Santos’ own admission, saying he “misled voters in his district about his ethnicity, his religion, his education, and his employment and professional history, among other things.” They also cited Santos’ financial disclosure reports in 2020 and 2022, which they described as “sparse and perplexing.”
"George Santos is a man without a country," Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said in an interview Wednesday. "The GOP's turning on him. Dems obviously don't want him. His voters don't want him. Oh, my goodness, this guy's unbelievable."
Naomi Osaka taking a break from tennis to prepare for motherhood.
Japanese American tennis star and rapper are going to be parents.
Naomi Osaka announced she is pregnant and will be missing the 2023 tennis season. She and rapper Cordae are an item.
"The past few years have been interesting to say the least, but I find that it’s the most challenging times in life that may be the most fun," she said in a statement. "These few months away from the sport has really given me a new love and appreciation for the game I’ve dedicated my life to. I realize that life is so short and I don’t take any moments for granted, everyday is a new blessing and adventure. I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom.,’ haha. 2023 will be a year that’ll be full of lessons for me and I hope I’ll see you guys in the start of the next one cause I’ll be at Aus 2024. Love you all infinitely.
Can’t wait to get back on the court but here’s a little life update for 2023. pic.twitter.com/GYXRnutU3I
"Sidenote: I don’t think there’s a perfectly correct path to take in life but I always felt that if you move forward with good intentions you’ll find your way eventually."
She has been candid about her mental health experiences and told reporters the sport was no longer bringing her joy after a third-round exit at the 2021 US Open. Osaka then took an indefinite break but returned at the start of the 2022 season.
Osaka recently withdrew from the upcoming Australian Open, in which she is a two-time champion. She hasn't played a full match since her first-round loss at the US Open and played in just 11 tournaments in 2022. Osaka hasn't won a title since the 2021 Australian Open and hasn't advanced past the third round at a major since.
Joy Reid confronts the bullshit coming out of Byron Donalds' mouth.
Florida lawmaker called out Joy Reid on Fox numerous times. Reid wanted the lawmaker to come on her primetime program to say what he got to say to her directly. Reid had called Donalds a "prop" because he was being scapegoated into a leadership role he did not want in the first place.
After a year of delay, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) goes to The ReidOut.
The two had a contentious debate over President Joe Biden, Black voters, immigration, the Republican agenda and of course his "nomination" for House Speaker.
That nomination was a farce.
Donalds was a fervent supporter of Washed Up 45 and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his bid for House Speaker. However when 10 Republicans opposed his bid. Donalds would soon change his bid and it led to four days of chaos and dysfunction.
Some of the Republican holdouts nominated him as House Speaker.
Donalds, who only served one term in the process of his second has no political accomplishments other than being a Black Republican in a party that is 85% white.
Reid took the lawmaker to task.
Donalds, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), Rep. Wes Hunt (R-TX), Rep. John James (R-MI) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are Black Republicans. They have become fodder to the white nationalist agenda of the party.
You notice that most of the Republican leaders are white and male. Not once have the Republican Party ever prove to people of color they are willing to accept change.
Yet we have four Black Republican House members, one gay Republican House member (who lied about everything to win) and 14 Hispanic members (including the liar).
While Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is giving a committee despite lying about his past, a Somali-American lawmaker who has politically charged rhetoric is stripped. This lawmaker does not encourage violence. She expresses dire concern that our country's deep resentment toward different religions and race are still prevalent.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made concessions to the House Freedom Caucus to earn the gavel. His actions included the ousting of political opponents to the Republicans.
Two California Democrats and one Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota were booted from their key committee chairs as an act of revenge for removing Rep. Marjorie Tayl9r Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ). These two openly call for violence against political opponents and support white nationalists views.
In those cases, the Democratic majority and some Republicans in the House voted to remove Greene and Gosar over their inflammatory conduct, including Greene spreading conspiracy theories -- some of which she has since renounced -- and Gosar sharing an animated social media video depicting violence against President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). (Gosar said amid the controversy, "I do not espouse violence.")
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) were from the House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was removed from House Foreign Affairs Committee.
McCarthy has accused Schiff of lying to the public during references to a disputed dossier that claimed to outline links between Washed Up 45's 2016 campaign and Russia.
McCarthy has also called Swalwell a "national security threat" for Swalwell's reported run-ins with an alleged Chinese spy, stating there's no way he should be allowed to serve on the committee.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) engages conversation with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
Omar blasted the decision as a shameless cave to bigots and extremists.
"McCarthy's effort to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred -- including threatening to strip me from my committee -- does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with. It does nothing to address inflation, healthcare, or solve the climate crisis," she said in a statement in November.
"What it does is gin up fear and hate against Somali-Americans and anyone who shares my identity, and further divide us along racial and ethnic lines," she said.
Omar is a staunch critic of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Omar strongly opposes Israeli funding and the U.S. and their one sided support for Israeli interests over those living in the dwindling Palestinian regions. Benjamin Netanyahu vows to keep pushing for settlements despite warnings that it will inflame the Arab region. Republicans and some Democrats construde her remarks as anti-semitic and anti-American.
Most Republicans and some Democrats are Islamophobic.
She along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) are practicing Sunni Muslims.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) was asked during a press conference on Tuesday what the process would be for stripping Democratic members of their assignments and said no one had yet been assigned to committees. But he suggested removals were a new standard first set by Democrats.
"As we see what comes out, the Democrats set a precedent that we urged them strongly not to go down last Congress," Scalise said.
"They decided that they were going to break the precedent that had been in place for over 200 years and remove members of the opposing party that our party selected to be on committees," he continued. "And so that was a practice they set and so, obviously, we're going to be looking very closely at who they appoint. They haven't appointed anybody yet to committees, but we're gonna see if they do."
After Republicans won back the House in November, McCarthy reiterated to Fox News that he planned to keep the three Democrats from their committee posts.
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), the chair of the House Democratic caucus, on Tuesday declined to elaborate on next steps should Schiff and Swalwell be blocked or booted by Republicans from the intelligence panel.
"We will send the names of the individuals who this caucus supports and are qualified to serve on committees," Aguilar told reporters. "What the speaker does beyond that is something that we will handle ... but it isn't anything we're going to get in today."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
Schiff previously discussed the potential removal of his committee assignment during a November interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
"I suspect he will do whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do," Schiff said of McCarthy. "He is a very weak leader of his conference, meaning that he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator. And if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees, that's what they'll do."
Swalwell has not been accused of wrongdoing and he has said he stopped contact with the woman after federal authorities briefed him, according to the Associated Press.
Schiff served as the lead impeachment manager in Trump's first Senate trial, and both he and Swalwell were managers for Trump's second impeachment trial.
McCarthy, as speaker, has the power to keep Schiff and Swalwell off the intelligence panel, but for any other committee -- like Omar on foreign affairs -- the full House would need to vote by simple majority to block her.
Separately, McCarthy's criticized Omar over what he described as her "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks." Omar has previously apologized for some of her statements, including about lobbyists on behalf of Israel's government.
Dr. Dre told Marjorie Taylor Greene to not use his music in her propaganda.
Can't this woman ever do something for her damn district?
I swear, the constituents of Georgia's 14th Congressional District must really approve the job performance of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene has publicly feuded with her ex-husband, lawmakers, media personalities, people in the news and now a billionaire rapper.
Greene picks a fight with Dr. Dre after she used his music without his permission.
Greene used Dre's "Still D.R.E." in the background of a video she posted to Twitter. That's when Dre's lawyers served the controversial Georgia congresswoman a cease and desist.
The video was removed from Twitter and Greene was temporarily locked out.
Greene never to shy away from speaking, slammed the legendary rapper and producer.
According to TMZ, Dre’s attorney Howard E. King sent the formal cease and desist letter on Monday (January 9), giving her two business days to remove all unauthorized use of the song “Still D.R.E.” from her social media accounts.
America's least productive lawmaker now feuds with an entertainer.
The scathing letter, in which King admonished Marjorie Taylor Green for failing to follow laws laid out by the U.S. Constitution, follows a video shared by the controversial lawmaker shared via Twitter on Monday that saw her walking through Congress as Dr. Dre’s 1999 hit played in the background.
Once he caught wind of the post, the multi-platinum artist told TMZ that his music had been used without his prior consent, saying “I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one.”
Looks like Em has a new target in his book of rhymes. Trust me, you fuck with Dre, you're fucking with Eminem and 50 Cent.
Eminem never shied away from driving people nuts. He will likely release his latest album this year without warning. I've been expecting he would address The Game, Machine Gun Kelly, Charlamagne Tha Rapist and soon Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene is a business woman, far right politican and conspiracy theorist. She lives in the Rome, Georgia area and has been notable for her support of Washed Up 45.
Some classified documents found at Biden think tank.
Republicans vow to investigate agencies that used their powers to effect elections. They will seize upon a CBS report that details then vice president Joe Biden having classified documents. Now Republicans will go after President Biden for this.
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into a matter involving the president having classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. They were discovered a few days before the Midterms.
Roughly less than 10 classified documents were found and returned to the National Archives.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, said in a statement. “The documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.”
“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber added. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
Cue the outrage from Republicans, conservative agitators and Washed Up 45.
The former president complained about the feds not raiding Biden's Delaware home.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has vowed to investigate the allegations.
Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to find out how the material marked classified ended up at the Penn Biden Center. The review is considered a preliminary step, and the attorney general will determine whether further investigation is necessary, including potentially appointing a special counsel.
Lausch was nominated to be U.S. attorney by former President Donald Trump, and he is one of only two current Trump-era U.S. attorneys still serving. The other is Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is leading an investigation into the president's son, Hunter Biden.
Lausch recently briefed the attorney general and will eventually submit a final report to Garland. The review is expected to conclude soon.
The Penn Biden Center is a think tank about a mile from the White House, in Washington, D.C., that is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and named for the sitting president.
The Presidential Records Act requires all presidential and vice-presidential documents be turned over to the National Archives. There are special protocols to keep classified information secure.
Mr. Biden learned about the presence of the documents when his lawyer reported them to the White House counsel's office in November. A source familiar said the president is unaware of their contents. The documents are believed to be currently held in a secure location in Washington.
Lauch's review will examine, in part, how the documents got from Mr. Biden's vice-presidential office to the Penn Biden Center.
The Penn Biden Center and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to a request for comment. The National Archives declined to comment. Attorneys assigned to oversee Biden's vice presidential records, Robert Lenhard, James Garland and Dana Remus, did not reply to voice messages and an email seeking comment. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
A source familiar said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is aware of the Justice Department inquiry. The ODNI also declined to comment.
