👀 Hutchinson recounts a bizarre episode in whith House Intelligence Committee Republicans, including Rep. Devin Nunes and staffers, carted over classified documents to the WH for Meadows and Pat Cipollone to review.
CHENEY remarks that this is pretty unusual for House Republicans to truck classified docs to the White House when they have their own SCIF.
What did Meadows do with the documents? He made a bunch of copies and kept some to give out to people in the "private sector," Hutchinson says. While it's not entirely clear what these are, this is consistent with Russia docs Trump attempted to declassify.
MOST NOTABLY: Hutchinson said Meadows wanted GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to have a set of the records.
MORE: Hutchinson said that Meadows was extremely secretive about the original HPSCI copy of the documents in his office, which she says he kept in a safe and didn't want others to know about. january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
HUTCHINSON said she recalled some conversations among Trump and GOP members of Congress about QAnon, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6.
Here's Hutchinson talking about Matt Gaetz's bid for a pardon, which she said began in early December 2020.
HUTCHINSON said that several GOP lawmakers reached out to her after Jan. 6 w/ question sabout White House's preparedness for the 25th amendment discussion. She name: Markwayne Mullin, Roy Blunt, Mike Johnson and GOP Leader McCarthy as people she talked about it with.
House admin staff director Jamie FLEET — a top adviser to Speaker Pelosi — told the select committee in an interview that he and his staff began preparing for GOP objections to the election over the summer of 2020 — because they read Trump's tea leaves.
FLEET says he never conveyed directly to Speaker Pelosi the security briefings from Capitol Police and the sergeant at arms because they were assured the professionals had it in hand.
Max MILLER’s attorney got particularly hostile with the select committee over what appeared to be pretty basic foundational questions.
The hostility actually got worse from there, prompting Kinzinger to jump in and accidentally refer to the committee as "the prosecution," which didn't help.
Miller accused Cheney of trying to intimidate him because "I knocked your buddy" — Anthony Gonzalez — "off the block."
Max Miller notes he advised Trump not to let Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman or Sidney Powell speak at his Jan. 6 rally. He also recommended that Mike Flynn not be permitted to speak. But Trump didn't take that advice for Rudy/Eastman.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."
MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."
BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Breyer stays his order until noon tomorrow, which should be enough time for Trump to seek emergency appeal at 9th Circuit and perhaps Supreme Court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
NEW: Judge Breyer said the violence in Los Angeles falls "far short" of the "rebellion" Trump described to justify calling in the troops. And he said Trump's use of the military over the actions of "stray bad actors" was "untenable and dangerous."
HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing in Newsom v. Trump, re dpeloyment of the Guard and Marines.
Judge Breyer making some "preliminary" remarks.
BREYER says he's 'appreciative' of both parties for filing a detailed record with the court on a short timeframe and says these are very serious/weighty matters and he intends to act as quickly as the urgency of the matter requires.
Breyer asks a hypothetical: If Trump didn't follow the letter of the statute in calling up the guard, would his order be invalid?
DOJ says no, and court has no role in policing it either.
NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors."
Jordin Melgar-Salmeron had a criminal record — he pleaded guilty in 2021 to possessing an unregistered gun — but his deportation had been on hold since 2024 amid broader Biden-era litigation.
DOJ had assured a federal appeals court court that Melgar-Salmeron wouldn't be deported before May 8-9. But after the court issued a May 7 order blocking his deportation, ICE put him on a plane just minutes later and told the court he was gone. politico.com/news/2025/05/3…
NEW: Trump's latest legal rejection comes from the U.S. Court of International Trade, which ruled his tariffs in response to "national emergencies" were illegal. politico.com/news/2025/05/2…
The three-judge panel that ruled against Trump? Appointees of:
HERE WE GO: Latest hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is underway with Judge Xinis on the bench.
XINIS says she intends to do as much of this in open court as possible, despite discussion of privileged materials. they can use the husher/phones if they need to reference confidential info, she notes.
XINIS signals frustration with the Justice Department for not making available officials with firsthand knowledge of Abrego Garcia's status and efforts to facilitate his return, despite her order. She notes the depositions were crammed with "I don't knows" from the witnesses.