memeorandum: What the Jan. 6 committee's star witness knows (Politico)

1:10 PM ET, June 28, 2022

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:

January 6 committee focuses on phone calls among Trump's children and aides — Footage captured by documentary film-maker understood to show ex-president's children privately discussing election strategies — The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Insider, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Mediaite

Politico:

What the Jan. 6 committee's star witness knows — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — HEARING NUMBER SIX — On Monday afternoon, the House Jan. 6 committee, which was supposed to be on a hiatus for the next two weeks, abruptly announced it would be holding …

Discussion: Axios, YouTube, Raw Story, Punchbowl News, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire

Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger - who was in charge of Capitol security on January 6 and who blamed ‘professional agitators’ - dies suddenly, hours before TODAY's surprise hearing moved up because of ‘safety concerns’ for Mark Meadows' top aide — Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, 71, died suddenly on Monday

Discussion: RADAR, Washington Examiner, Gizmodo, BizPac Review, Just The News and THE FIRST LIGHT REPORT

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Ron Johnson lied — Text messages released by the January 6 Committee last week revealed that Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) tried to deliver a list of fake electors directly to former Vice President Mike Pence. This was part of a broader scheme to use Pence's ceremonial role overseeing …

Discussion: Journal Sentinel and Washington Post

New York Times:

Federal Agents Seized Phone of John Eastman, Key Figure in Jan. 6 Plan — The action suggests that the criminal inquiry is accelerating into the efforts to help overturn the results of the 2020 election. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Federal agents armed with a search warrant …

Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Jan. 6 surprise witness is Meadows aide

Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, New York Post and Washington Times

Politico:
Hutchinson prepares to bring Jan. 6 committee inside Trump World

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post and PoliticusUSA

Washington Post:
Who is Cassidy Hutchinson? — Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Trump White House chief …

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CNN:
Former Meadows aide will testify before January 6 committee on Tuesday, sources say

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ABC News:
Surprise Jan. 6 hearing featuring White House adviser signals urgency by the committee

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New York Times:

Live Updates: At Least 46 Migrants Found Dead in San Antonio — Three people were detained in what appeared to be one of the worst episodes of migrant death in recent years on the southern border. A heat wave in Texas has brought record temperatures and drought.

Fox News:

Texas-Mexico border chaos: 46 migrants found dead in San Antonio inside 18-wheeler, reports say — Arrests and deportations of migrants have plummeted under the Biden administration as it faces pressure from states like Texas over immigration policy — Aerial footage of Texas crash with 46 dead migrants found inside an 18 wheeler

Emily Green / VICE:

What We Know So Far About the Sweltering Trailer That Killed 50 Migrants — The truck—found in San Antonio, Texas late Monday afternoon—contained dozens of bodies of people who had likely been smuggled across the U.S-Mexico border. The truck was abandoned and they suffocated in the heat. — EG

Discussion: BBC, Cyprus Mail, Insider, NewsNation and NBC New York

NBC News:
Dozens of migrants found dead inside a truck in San Antonio, officials say

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Washington Post:

Frustration, anger rising among Democrats over caution on abortion — A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders in the face of hard-hitting GOP tactics on abortion and other issues. — Just hours after the Supreme …

Discussion: Forbes, Graffiti, Daily Kos, CNN, ABC News, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, Morning Consult, Zipcode Zero, Voice of America, HotAir, Axios, Politico, Steady, Breitbart and Washington Examiner

Ben Goggin / NBC News:

Instagram restricts some abortion resource posts and hashtags — Instagram has deleted some posts and limited at least two hashtags related to abortion services, according to some of the platform's users and warnings that have been added to certain topics. — The platform also briefly suspended …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Protocol, Associated Press and The Gateway Pundit

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democrats Press the White House for a More Assertive Response to Roe's Fall

Discussion: Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Critical Reader, Raw Story, New Republic, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, The Hill, Fox News, NPR, Daily Kos, WTOP News, Common Dreams and ABC News

Rasmussen Reports:
Abortion: Half of Voters Approve Supreme Court Ruling

Discussion: Althouse

Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez wants two justices impeached for ‘lying under oath.’

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, Newsweek and IJR

Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
Republican Yesli Vega Falsely Suggests Rape Victims Are Unlikely to Get Pregnant

Discussion: New York Magazine, Blue Virginia, Washington Post, HuffPost, Democrats, Axios and WTOP News

Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Court Delivers

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Washington Post:
Abortion providers are turning to state courts to halt bans

Discussion: Washington Examiner, TheStreet, Data For Progress and The Root

Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Lessons From the Terrible Triumph of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Discussion: Morning Consult, CNN and ABC17NEWS

Adela Suliman / Washington Post:

GOP Rep. Boebert: 'I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk' — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who faces a primary election Tuesday, says she is “tired” of the U.S. separation of church and state, a long-standing concept stemming only from a “stinking letter” penned by one of the Founding Fathers.

Discussion: YouTube, Mediaite and Mercury News

John Thune / Fox News:

Google may send Republicans to spam, but we're holding Big Tech accountable — Big Tech has an outsized ability to shape our online experiences — Thune says alleged Google discrimination against GOP emails is ‘anti-democratic’ — Today's debates around Big Tech giants like Facebook …

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Scoop: Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam

Discussion: Understandably and Washington Examiner, more at Techmeme »

Ben Jacobs / New Republic:

How Iowa Fell in Love With the Republican Party — Back in 2014, Iowa politics were at an inflection point, though it wasn't yet apparent at the time. Back then, Iowa was still one of the quintessential purple states. Barack Obama had won two years prior, but longtime Democratic Senator Tom Harkin …

Josh Sweigart London Bishop / dayton-daily-news:

Tears, confusion at abortion provider after ‘Heartbeat Bill’ becomes law — The parking lot of Dayton Women's Med Center in Kettering was busier than usual Monday as patients inside tried to understand their options now that abortions are banned in Ohio after the detection of a fetal heartbeat — about six weeks into pregnancy.

Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:

Samuel Alito: The 21st-Century Roger Taney — The author of ‘Dred Scott’ and the author of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization stripped fundamental rights from Blacks and women, respectively. And sundered their nation in the process. — Associate Justice Samuel Alito sits during …

Discussion: BizPac Review

Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:

Podcasters are organizing to support abortion rights after Roe is overturned — Plus, Howard Stern runs for president, Slate reminds people of life before Roe, and SCOTUS leaves libel law alone (for now) — I hope you all had a good weekend. I certainly wasn't huddled in a ball of anxiety …

Discussion: Mediaite and Variety, more at Mediagazer »

Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:

Live Updates: Colombia Panel Will Issue Report on Decades-Long Civil War — Here's what you need to know: — A truth commission is set to publish the most comprehensive account yet of Colombia's war. — BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It was a 58-year-conflict, involved almost every sector …

Associated Press:

G-7 leaders end summit pledging to hurt Russia economically — ELMAU, Germany (AP) — Leaders of the world's biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia's income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a united stance …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Newsy, Washington Post, Associated Press, Washington Times, Denver Post, Voice of America and WTOP News

Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
G-7 leaders pledge $5 billion to combat food shortages caused by Russia's war in Ukraine

Discussion: The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Associated Press and NBC News

New York Post:

Judge throws out NYC law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections — A New York City law allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections was struck down Monday by a judge who said it violated both the state constitution and various provisions of state law.

Discussion: National Review, American Greatness, IJR and Just The News