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Just spoke to Markwayne Mullin on this. Has no regrets. “He called me out. I was just answering the call. Don't say something you're not going to back up. It's that simple," Mullin said.
 
"He's a president of a union. I'm still a guy from Oklahoma.”
Mullin said he was "raised different" when asked about the propriety of settling disputes physically. “Don't say something stupid like that unless you're going to truly back it up," Mullin told us. "He's a thug. He's been running at the mouth forever."
Mullin did say he considers it a "done deal" and he's willing to get a get a coffee with the witness.
 
And he pushed back at Sen. Bernie Sanders admonishing him at the hearing.
 
"I'd hate to be that guy some days," Mullin said of Sanders.

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Nov 14
News -- Rep. Tim Burchett accuses Kevin McCarthy of a "sucker punch" to the kidneys and describes heated scene as he chased the former speaker down the hallway.

Said he's the type of the guy who as a kid would "hide behind his mama's skirt."
McCarthy denies it was intentional
Burchett told me he’s still in pain from McCarthy’s elbow.
“I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back (and) there, there was Kevin, and for a minute I was kind of what the heck just happened and then chased after him of course.”
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Aug 1
#BULLETIN: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the 2020 election interference probe. He now faces two federal criminal indictments and one NY criminal indictment, unprecedented for a former U.S. president
Here are the four charges Trump is facing as he is ordered to appear in court on Thursday Image
The indictment alleges that Trump knew he lost the election yet continued to lie that it was stolen. Here’s the evidence the indictment cites: https://t.co/wslhiFZ3u9storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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May 15
Rep. Gerry Connolly told me the assailant -- who attacked two of his aides today -- did so with a metal bat. The attacker struck one senior aide in the head with the metal bat, he said. The attacker also hit an intern -- on her first day on the job -- on the side with the bat.
The attacker, who is a constituent from his district but who Connolly says he doesn't know, caused wide damage in his office, shattering glass in a conference room and breaking computers along the way.

"He was filled with out of control rage," Connolly told CNN me
Connolly was at a ribbon cutting at the time for a food bank when the assailant drove to his district office and entered the building. The congressman estimates it took police about five minutes to respond to the emergency call for help.
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May 10
More GOP calls for George Santos to resign.
GOP Rep. Steve Womack told me “absolutely” that it would be better if George Santos resigned.
 
“We we don't need these distractions. That's the unfortunate thing,” Womack said. “This has been going on now since we took the majority.”
Womack added: “Frankly I would have hoped along the way that Mr. Santos would have done what I believe was the right thing, and of course, if leadership forces action, but for him to do it on his own.”
GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke said Santos should step aside if the charges are true — and he called on the House Ethics Committee to “act on it now.” Zinke said if the panel’s “determination is expel, absolutely on board.”
 
“I'm surprised he's still here,” Zinke said of the Santos.
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May 8
News -- McConnell on Senate map and engaging in primaries
- Sees four states as key: OH, MT,
WV and PA (wants McCormick in)
- Still assessing WI, NV
- Likely to wait until after AZ primary to decide whether to spend there
- Doesn't see Sinema joining Rs
cnn.com/2023/05/08/pol…
“No, no -- I'm not," McConnell said with a laugh when asked if he were confident they'd take back the majority next year. "I just spent 10 minutes explaining to you how we could screw this up, and we're working very hard to not let that happen. Let's put it that way."
On Sinema flipping to GOP: “I think that decision was made when she ended up continuing to caucus with the Democrats. We would love to have had her, but we didn't land her."
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Durbin didn’t think it rose to a DOJ probe. And he said that Feinstein’s absence makes moving ahead on ethics legislation more difficult.

“It's difficult, particularly because the Republicans have basically taken the position that they are opposed to this.”
But Blumenthal called for a DOJ probe while reiterating calls for subpoenas to Thomas and for him to testify under oath.

“The drip, drip, drip of these destructive disclosures is going to destroy the United States Supreme Court unless there is an effective proper investigation”
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