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Matt Walsh rips toothless grandstanding by GOP senators at Fauci hearing

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Conservative pundit Matt Walsh suggested that Republican lawmakers were engaging in toothless grandstanding during Wednesday’s grilling of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci at a Senate committee hearing. The […]

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Rand Paul chose clicks over accountability — and Fauci walked away silent

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Rand Paul chose clicks over accountability — and Fauci walked away silent

The images from Capitol Hill this week are striking. Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before a Senate committee. Instantly, partisan finger-pointing began. Critics saw a clear attempt to avoid accountability. Supporters saw a necessary shield against a political circus. But look past the cable news theater. A deeper, structural issue is […]

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Trump folds on Blanche as GOP senators hand him devastating defeat

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Trump folds on Blanche as GOP senators hand him devastating defeat

President Donald Trump conceded Thursday he may pull his own attorney general nominee rather than give two outgoing Republican senators what they are demanding.Trump made the admission on Truth Social after the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination Wednesday night. The vote was canceled when it became clear two Republicans would block it.Those two senators — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) — are leaving Congress at the end of the year. "Todd Blanche is a STAR, and everyone knows it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "He has the potential to go down as one of the Greatest Attorney Generals of All Time.""I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd's name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office," Trump wrote.Trump also attacked both senators directly, calling them men "whose political careers have been ended by my action" — a reference to his decision not to endorse them. He added that "both Cornyn and Tillis voted for Merrick Garland," invoking former Attorney General Merrick Garland, a name Republicans cite as a symbol of Democratic overreach.On Capitol Hill Thursday morning, Cornyn told reporters the situation had taken a turn for the worse. Asked whether Blanche could be confirmed before the August recess, he said the odds were against it."It's looking doubtful," Cornyn told reporters, according to NBC News congressional reporter Laura Weiss.Cornyn said talks with Blanche had been "very constructive" and that he believed a deal was close Tuesday night. But by Thursday morning, something had shifted."Other people intervening," he said. He told NBC News congressional correspondent Julie Tsirkin he did not know whether the president himself was standing in the way.At the heart of the standoff is a settlement Trump's Department of Justice reached with the Internal Revenue Service. The deal granted Trump and his family immunity from tax audits and created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who said they had been targeted by the government for political reasons.The fund was later abandoned, but Cornyn wants that abandonment in writing — and wants the audit immunity narrowed so it does not cover future tax filings, according to MS NOW."All I want them to do is to confirm what he said in his sworn testimony before the Judiciary Committee, with regard not only to the weaponization fund, but also who is protected from future audits and what agencies of the federal government are bound by the release," Cornyn told reporters, according to CBS News.The Department of Justice, Cornyn said, had not delivered. "They've simply refused to cooperate," he said, according to The Hill.As of Thursday morning, Cornyn said he was waiting on a DOJ response to his latest offer and had no meetings or calls scheduled with the White House or the Department of Justice.

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Trump public health nominees advance in Senate despite Democratic opposition over vaccines

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Trump public health nominees advance in Senate despite Democratic opposition over vaccines

The Senate health committee greenlit two of President Donald Trump’s top public health nominees after scrambling last week to garner enough support for them because of doubts about their willingness to promote vaccines. Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump’s nominee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with Sean Kaufman, the nominee for a pandemic […]

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Senate HELP Committee advances Trump’s CDC, ASPR, Labor secretary nominees

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Senate HELP Committee advances Trump’s CDC, ASPR, Labor secretary nominees

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday voted to advance President Trump’s nominees to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). The committee voted 12-10 to move forward with Erica Schwartz’s nomination to serve as the next director of…

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The Fauci Circus and the Covid Debate That Never Ended

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The Fauci Circus and the Covid Debate That Never Ended

Surely Anthony Fauci has earned the right to party with Robert De Niro in peace. But instead, America's embattled former Covid-19 czar was hauled before the Senate today to defend five-year-old diary entries.

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Pleading the Fifth Doesn't Spare Fauci

He claims his Senate hearing was a witch hunt designed to entrap him. But his record convicts him on its own.

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Senators Cornyn and Tillis Force Delay of Blanche Nomination Over Trump’s IRS Deal

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Senators Cornyn and Tillis Force Delay of Blanche Nomination Over Trump’s IRS Deal

John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the nominee for attorney general of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump’s suit against the agency.

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'Prepared to vote no': GOP Senate holdout drops live-TV bomb on Trump

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'Prepared to vote no': GOP Senate holdout drops live-TV bomb on Trump

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) made it clear during an impromptu interview on MS NOW that he is prepared to stop acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from assuming the permanent position. As MS NOW host Stephani Ruhle was discussing Blanche’s travails at getting out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she broke away to Ali Vitali, who had flagged the unaccompanied Cornyn down in a hallway."Hold!" Ruhle cried. "Ali's actually talking to John Cornyn right now." MS NOW swiftly cut to Vitali and Cornyn as he delivered some blunt truths to Trump. “We want Blanche to conform the settlement documents and the tax lawsuit to what a sworn testimony was in the hearing," he said."I don't know whether it's the White House, or somebody who works there, or somebody works for the president is basically telling them, 'Don't agree to those terms' — and so we're kind of back to square one.”“We’re line now on MS NOW,“ Vitali told the Texas Republican. “As you think through what you need from DOJ, if they’re not able to give you the narrower look at that IRS immunity deal, does that mean you are willing to vote no?”“I am prepared to vote no,” he answered. “I owe it to my constituents and, to Mr. Blanche to try to negotiate in good faith. And that's what we've been doing."When asked if Cornyn had spoken to Trump, he replied, "No." "He could fix this in a minute," said Cornyn. "But I don't know who he's listening to." - YouTube youtu.be

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Matt Walsh rips toothless grandstanding by GOP senators at Fauci hearing

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