NEW:
Per NYT: Jan 6th Select Committee has issued subpoenas to Trump associates Bannon, Meadows, Scavino & Patel
Demanding they provide documents by Oct 7th and appear for depositions the following week
They are NOT fooling around!
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Here: nytimes.com/2021/09/23/us/…
2/"The committee issued subpoenas for information from Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff; Daniel Scavino Jr., a former deputy chief of staff; Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s former adviser; and Kash Patel, a former Pentagon chief of staff.
3/"The committee is demanding the four men turn over documents by Oct. 7 and submit to depositions the following week.
In letters transmitting the subpoenas, the committee said it was seeking information about Mr. Trump’s actions in the run-up to and during the riot.
4/"Mr. Bannon was present at a meeting at the Willard Hotel the day before the violence, when plans were discussed to try to overturn the results of the election the next day, the committee stated. He was quoted as saying, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”
5/"Mr. Meadows was involved in the planning of efforts to subvert the results of the election, the committee asserted.
6/"Mr. Scavino was in contact with Mr. Trump and others who planned the rallies that preceded the violence of Jan. 6, and Mr. Patel was reportedly in constant contact with Mr. Meadows on the day of the assault, the committee said.
7/"The subpoenas come as the committee has demanded detailed records about Mr. Trump’s every movement and meeting on the day of the assault, .
8/"in a series of requests to federal agencies that suggested it was focusing on any involvement the former president may have had in the attack’s planning or execution." ~NYT
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Wow
SO:
Per Dylan Byers at Puck:
The front runner emerging to take Rachel Maddow's place in the 9pm MSNBC time-slot next year
is none other than Nicolle Wallace!!
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or more here: puck.news/msnbc-stares-d…
2/"NBC executives and producers told me much of Chris Hayes‘ audience at 8 p.m. and Lawrence O’Donnell‘s audience at 10 p.m. is made up of Maddow viewers who show up early and stay late.
3/"Not a single one of those high-level insiders thought either host could sustain their current audiences without her, let alone come close to matching hers
2/"The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president’s objections-a decision that could have significant political and legal ramifications.
3/"Trump has said he will cite “executive privilege” to block information requests from the House select committee investigating the events of that day,
NEW: per NYT
In response to Trump's power abuses House Dems are expected to introduce a package of proposed new limits on executive power designed to strengthen checks on presidency nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/…
2/"House Democrats are planning to introduce a package of proposed new limits on executive power on Tuesday, beginning a post-Trump push to strengthen checks on the presidency that they hope will compare to the overhauls that followed the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War.
3/"Democrats have spent months negotiating with the Biden White House to refine a broad set of proposals that amount to a point-by-point rebuke of the ways that Donald J. Trump shattered norms over the course of his presidency.
Gov't funding cr still in Appropriations
staffers from House & Senate met today
-they're hashing out remaining funding issues
It then goes to House Rules for markup
Bill is expected to be filed tonight or tomorrow am
No word yet on debt limit attachment
Leadership mtg at 5:30
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Important point:
If the House leadership do decide to attach debt limit language to the gov't funding bill it'll pass House via party line vote
Word is Senate could strip debt language from CR and send a clean bill w/o it to keep gov't open
Or shorten stop-gap funding to 3 wks
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If they shorten the gov't funding to 3 wks it'll be up in mid-Oct which is estimated to be the same time that the debt limit deadline
Pushing ALL of it
-gov't funding, debt limit & reconciliation & BIF
to mid-Oct
What does that solve?
GOP will still tank debt limit increase
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fmr Trump aide Max Miller is the candidate Trump has endorsed to replace retiring House member Anthony Gonzalez in OH-16
Miller's a Trump poster child
And he's a BAD guy: politico.com/news/magazine/…
2/"Ranging from people who grew up with Miller in the affluent Cleveland inner suburb of Shaker Heights to those he worked with and for in the White House and on Trump’s campaigns—some of whom were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation from Miller,
3/"Trump or both—these people told me Miller can be a cocky bully with a quick-trigger temper. He has a record of speeding, underage drinking and disorderly conduct—
This pc references internal investigation docs from USCP re improper action taken by cops on 1/6
At least one was a Trump supporter, turned in by a friend of 40 yrs "he's fallen into this cult.."
Good read miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
2/"The allegation stems from a conversation the officer had with a friend the week after the riot in which he allegedly revealed information about the secure location he helped evacuate lawmakers to during the riot.
3/"The friend, who is referred to as “ANONYMOUS” in the documents, called the FBI tip line to report the conversation and expressed concerns that the agent subscribed to Trump’s election conspiracy theories.