Maryland lawmaker Jamie Ruskin gave his assessment Friday in an interview with Washington Post’s Early 202, a day after Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the bipartisan committee, announced that a series of public hearings would begin on June 9. Ruskin had previously claimed that the hearings would “blow up the roof of Parliament” and said in an interview on Friday that the public had so far learned “a very small fraction” of the information gathered so far by the bipartisan committee on the conspiracy. Trump and the deadly attack on the Capitol by supporters of the former president. Jamie Ruskin. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Summonses to testify against Trump allies who could have critical information, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and right-wing members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobro, are not preferred. said Ruskin. However, he warned that if McCarthy, who has already failed to respond to a request, and other Trump allies, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, continued to lash out, more force could be taken. : The committee decided to hear from everyone who has relevant information about what happened on 6 January. We have also expressed a strong preference for inviting people to come and speak voluntarily at least first. Once summonses are involved, prospective witnesses can lock him in court for a long time. I’m not saying it will not happen. But it would be much better if everyone recognized their legal and civil obligations. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, pleaded not guilty to contempt, and Parliament voted to propose similar charges against former Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in December. As for the information the panel learned, Ruskin said: Even with all the leaks, it is a very small fraction of the information we have that has been made public. Most of the details have not been revealed. And, in any case, it is not written in such a way as to tell a single coherent story. And that is our challenge. White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield is the latest Biden government official to say she tested positive for Covid-19. Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive earlier this week after recent attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Democratic senators Chris Murphy and Ron Wynton. In a tweet, Bedingfield said it was not considered “close contact” by President Joe Biden, despite the fact that she saw him on Wednesday. Bedingfield said she was vaccinated and refreshed, had only mild symptoms and worked from home. This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19. I last saw the President on Wednesday at a social meeting wearing an N-95 mask and it is not considered close contact as defined by the CDC. – Kate Bedingfield (@WHCommsDir) April 29, 2022 My colleague Hugo Lowell has more to say about the January 6 committee’s efforts to persuade Republicans to testify voluntarily: The House Selection Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to issue letters requesting voluntary cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and about a dozen other Republican members of Congress, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Scott Perry. Photo: Carolyn Kaster / AP The committee intends to issue a letter to McCarthy – the leading Republican in the House of Representatives – and is considering further letters to Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mo Brooks, Lauren Boebert, Andy Biggs, and some Republicans. senators, sources said. . MP Bennie Thompson, chairman of the selection committee, is expected to authorize the list of Republican members of Congress who may be involved in the inquiry as early as this week. The letters may come either this week or next week, sources said. The scope and subject matter of the letters have not yet been finalized and sources have warned that members of Congress who have approached for co-operation may change. On Thursday, Thompson only said he would send letters to McCarthy and other Republicans. But the select committee’s move to seek cooperation from some of Donald Trump’s toughest defenders in the Capitol – and for some members like McCarthy, Jordan and Perry, the second such request – marks a new tool for research as it arrives. in its final stage. Read more: Calls for Republican politicians from the Jan. 6 House inquiry into Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse his election defeat may be imminent, a senior Democrat on the panel has hinted. Maryland lawmaker Jamie Ruskin gave his assessment Friday in an interview with Washington Post’s Early 202, a day after Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the bipartisan committee, announced that a series of public hearings would begin on June 9. Ruskin had previously claimed that the hearings would “blow up the roof of Parliament” and said in an interview on Friday that the public had so far learned “a very small fraction” of the information gathered so far by the bipartisan committee on the conspiracy. Trump and the deadly attack on the Capitol by supporters of the former president. Jamie Ruskin. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Summonses to testify against Trump allies who could have critical information, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and right-wing members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobro, are not preferred. said Ruskin. However, he warned that if McCarthy, who has already failed to respond to a request, and other Trump allies, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, continued to lash out, more force could be taken. : The committee decided to hear from everyone who has relevant information about what happened on 6 January. We have also expressed a strong preference for inviting people to come and speak voluntarily at least first. Once summonses are involved, prospective witnesses can lock him in court for a long time. I’m not saying it will not happen. But it would be much better if everyone recognized their legal and civil obligations. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, pleaded not guilty to contempt, and Parliament voted to propose similar charges against former Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in December. As for the information the panel learned, Ruskin said: Even with all the leaks, it is a very small fraction of the information we have that has been made public. Most of the details have not been revealed. And, in any case, it is not written in such a way as to tell a single coherent story. And that is our challenge. Good morning readers, welcome to Friday’s political blog in the US. It’s a weekend party in the capital, with DC figures, including Joe Biden, looking forward to tomorrow’s return of White House correspondents – those who do not have at least Covid-19. However, there is no holding back on the Jan. 6 House Republican House committee looking for Republicans who could have critical information about Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse his electoral defeat. The committee is scheduled to hold public hearings in June, and my colleague Hugo Lowell reports that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and right-wing congressmen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are in the spotlight. This morning, the Washington Post published an in-depth interview with Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who says the public is aware of “only a very small fraction” of the information the committee has gathered to date. For developments in the conflict in Ukraine, go to our live 24-hour news blog here. In the US today:
Joe Biden will speak this afternoon with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss mutual interests and priorities in the region. Biden will later meet with inspectors general of various government agencies to discuss how the $ 1 trillion infrastructure package will be implemented. Democrats’ fears are growing that changing ballot papers across the country poses a major problem for their prospects in the November midterm elections. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki will deliver her latest update of the week at 2:00 p.m.
