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Schiff Warns Trump Coup Lawyer Against Defying January 6 Panel Summons

Schiff Warns Trump Coup Lawyer Against Defying January 6 Panel Summons

Reprinted with permission from AlterNet

John Eastman, the far-right lawyer who authored Trump's "coup memo," announced on Friday that he would be defying a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee.

Appearing on CNN later in the day, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made clear that Eastman is free to plead the Fifth if he has a good-faith reason to fear he could incriminate himself — but that doesn't entitle him to a free pass to ignore investigators.

"Eastman says the partisan makeup of the committee, he says makes it invalid and doesn't need to cooperate," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "What do you say to that?"

"Well, that was a frivolous argument," said Schiff. "If he uses that as a basis to refuse to answer questions, he will be in contempt of the committee, simple and straightforward. So we'll be seeing with each witness... whether they're properly invoking a privilege or to stall and delay for the former president, and will make the judgment as to what the repercussions should be once we see and hear the testimony.

"This comes after former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted on contempt charges for ignoring the committee, and as former DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark faces an upcoming contempt vote by Congress.


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Woodward Calls On Congress To Curtail Trump’s Assault On Constitution

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said that Donald Trump "cannot stabilize the electoral process" and is in fact making it unstable through his rhetoric and actions, including his performance in the first presidential debate.

Woodward called on Congress to "step up" and solve what he described as a "constitutional problem."

"It's reached a boiling point," Woodward said on Wednesday. "I mean we are teetering here. The Congress needs to step up."

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#EndorseThis: On CNN, Kellyanne Conway Hears Husband George Berate Trump

#EndorseThis: On CNN, Kellyanne Conway Hears Husband George Berate Trump

This had to happen — and maybe it had to happen for Impeachment Week.

During an interview with Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer finally confronted her, as so many have wanted to do, with the scathing remarks of her husband George Conway III — the Republican lawyer who has called her boss a narcissistic sleazebag. (And that’s one of his milder analyses.)

“I just have a final question, a sensitive question, and it’s a political question, it’s a substantive question. I don’t want to talk about your marriage. I know that there are issues there,” Blitzer began.

It went downhill fast, with an epic Kellyanne meltdown at the end.

Thanks for the lulz, Wolf.

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Endorse This: Kasich Says ‘Of Course’ — Anybody Would Be Offended By Me!

Endorse This: Kasich Says ‘Of Course’ — Anybody Would Be Offended By Me!

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This is not the kind of publicity John Kasich needs.

The Ohio governor and underdog Republican presidential candidate appeared on CNN last night, in order to clarify his statement earlier that day praising the women “who left their kitchens” to campaign for him in his first run for public office in the 1970s. (As we pointed out, this was actually true of how many campaigns worked in decades past — but it does get a bit dated to reminisce about it in the year 2016.)

But in his effort to bring this controversy under control, Kasich just couldn’t stop being really awkward about it.

“Well, you know look, Wolf, I mean, anybody’d be offended — of course,” Kasich sputtered out. “Sometimes when you operate on the high wire without a net, sometimes you know, you’ll fall off and not say things exactly the way you want to.

“But let me be clear: In the beginning of my campaign for public office, I did town halls — except they were in people’s homes, they were at breakfast tables, they were during — at evening, when we had coffee, and I recruited people. And I want to be clear, we had a lot of women that played a major role in my political campaign, political life, and they still do.”

Indeed, he touted that his chief of staff when he became governor was a woman, who is now running his campaign; his lieutenant governor is a woman; he appointed a woman to the Ohio Supreme Court; and many other women serve in his cabinet and other high-level government positions.

“Look, governor,” Wolf Blitzer responded, “a lot of women think it was insulting. Why not just say, ‘I made a mistake, I’m sorry.'”

“Sure, I’m sorry — anybody who’s offended, of course. I’m not — look, it’s not — of course. I’m more than happy to say I’m sorry if I offended somebody else out there. But it wasn’t intended to be offensive, and if you hear the whole thing you’ll understand the context of it.

“But look, all I’m saying to you, Wolf, is that without the power of the women who helped me out early in my career, to give me a chance to hold public office, I wouldn’t have made it, and I’m very grateful to all the work that they put in for me, and many of them that still do.”

Video via CNN.

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