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KPCC president VM Sudheeran said he could not understand the meaning of the party leaders’ statement that a decision on participation in the ceremony would be taken in due course after discussions.

Mark meadows told donald trump because mark meadows wont testify. based on what youve seen in merrick garland, merrick garland seems to have his own set of considerations running the department of justice. what is your reasonable expectation, honestly, based on what youve seen of garland, for what he would do? >> i want him to be independent. he indicted steve bannon. that was an easy call. i hope he indicts or looks at the laws and the facts with mark meadows. thats his call. im not the prosecu...

It will be up to the department of justice to decide whether to pursue criminal charges. new data expected today about how effective vaccines are against the omicron variant, which is now doubling covid numbers in some countries every two days. so far research out of south africa adds to evidence that omicron sneaks past vaccines, but may cause milder symptoms. and president biden heads to kentucky this morning to survey the catastrophic damage from the series of tornadoes that killed at lea...

Gop had taken credit for some kind of improvement in their home district. prompting washington monthly it call them highway hypocrites. but this is more than mere partisan hypocrisy, it is part of the zero sum game that stops people in congress from reasoning together in good faith. republicans after all only seem to care about deficits and debt when a democrat is president. they attack popular social spending bills as socialism run amok and turn around and take a victory lap at home when the mo...

Who were with me in the chamber are all aiming their concerns at the white house and trump is doing nothing. and this is just one witness who is only giving us a very little amount of information, all the more reason to probe further. >> why does it matter? >> donald trump may be on the hook for criminal liability. it wasnt an accident that liz cheney laid out the elements of the offense of essentially not acting to save the congress while were performing the electoral college count. there may b...

If i can. possible crimes. what crimes? >> impeding congress ability to carry out an official act. obstruction of congress. thats a possible crime. still a lot more to learn. i hope the department of justice is also looking at this. this should not fall on congress. >> do you have any reason to believe the department of justice is looking at it? >> there have not been leaks. it may be a good thing. typically you hear about people going in for grand jury testimony. we havent heard anything like t...

Assassination, they have in fact covered a great deal of information related to sensitive intelligence activities during the height of the cold war. now, jfk-ologists, historians, congress members who are worried that not releasing this information is damaging in american faith and institutions, theyre saying this is ridiculous. like, what sources and methods do we need to protect from the 1960s? intelligence agencies say, look, no, like, we are in fact genuinely worried about this, theyre argui...

Action or inaction, and inaction really only can apply to him. hes the commander in chief. his dereliction of duty, not sending reinforcements, not sending the national guard, that would be inaction that would lead to the obstruction of congress. still early. >> do you need to prove that either the president or others had a role in getting people inside the capitol in order for it to be a crime? >> we have shown -- no. but we have shown in the second impeachment, this committee is showing that t...

To. so this cavalier attitude in the same week that we have hit 800,000 covid deaths in this country shows a real callous disinterest in facebook understanding and stemming its own role. sure, we cant control people, but facebook has a role that is separate and apart from that that is driving the flow of hate and lies across its platforms. they show no interest in stemming that. we have been calling on congress and the federal trade commission to take action. >> i think most important words you ...

Presidency. so there is about 95% of the material from this bunch that is actually out there already. there are about 15,000 documents that have some redactions, and about 500 that are withheld entirely. were told that is almost entirely tax return information to include lee harvey oswalds tax returns. are people going to be satisfied? probably not. we already have seen a prominent jfk researcher threaten to sue biden for not releasing all of this information today, claiming hes flouting congres...