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Last modified on Fri 1 Jan 2021 12.43 EST Sign up for the Guardians First Thing newsletter The Republican senator David Perdue of Georgia will quarantine after being exposed to someone infected with Covid-19, taking him off the campaign trail just days before a fiercely-contested runoff election to keep his seat. The senator was notified on Thursday that he had come into “close contact with someone on the campaign who tested positive for Covid-19”, according to a statement released by his c...

Good morning. Donald Trump’s calls for $2,000 relief checks for Americans were largely put to bed yesterday when the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, said the proposal had “no realistic path” forward. The initial stimulus payment in Congress’s coronavirus aid package was $600, but Trump threatened to reject the package if the sum was not more than tripled – despite the fact it had been capped by his own party. Unusually, Trump’s stance garnered widespread support from Democr...

Heard there. it was james comey. it was a lot of democratic officeholders and some republican officeholders and the justice department basically saying theres no evidence to support this. it could be there really are a lot of semantics here in the sense that, was there wiretap? did president obama impose a wiretap on donald trump in trump tower? figure no. was donald trump picked up on intercept order by the obama administration at some point when he was in trump tower? entirely possible. i thin...

Manafort first thing. i think the wiretapping thing is the establishment rejecting the result of the election are not trusting the incoming administration. >> bret: we dont know what we dont know but we will follow all aspects of it. thank you, panel. next up, are you safe from a cyber attack? is anyone? we will talk to an expert. frog leg, for my baby brother dont frogs have like, two legs? so they should have two of these? since im active duty and shes family, i was able to set my sister up wi...

down some of the leads. were going to try to do much more to promote people calling ip, getting the tip line out there. its really important to us that we get help from the community. this is wrun where we have to stand toorgether with the community. we want their help, and we hope well get some good calls, give us some leads. we have a lot of other leads were following up. were going to be dedicating 30 people to this operation, officers from the various agencies, its -- this is going...

Right back to jack for the cafferty file. >> big story the last several days. couple weeks now, the question what should u.s. policy be when it comes to offshore oil drilling. >> ryan writes its an unfortunate disaster. im concerned about the people, environment and the economic impact. however were in a world of shrinking energy resources. we need to get oil and be safer. sarah says what should our policy be? no new offshore drilling period. plus the imposition of new and very stringent standar...