U S Senate Republican leader McConnell says Trump provoked Jan 6 riot netscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from netscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
12:49 p.m. ET, January 19, 2021
Current and former officials who ve been critical of Trump have been invited to his send-off
From CNN s Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta, Kevin Liptak, and Kate Bennett
Dozens of current and former administration officials have been invited to President Trump s farewell ceremony tomorrow, including those who have been extremely critical of Trump since leaving the White House.
Trump s former chief of staff John Kelly recently told CNN s Jake Tapper he d vote to remove Trump from office if he could yet he was still invited to the event.
So was Don McGahn, the former White House counsel who angered Trump by sitting down with Robert Mueller s team for hours. Other former senior aides who have maintained good relationships with Trump, like his first chief of staff Reince Priebus, were also invited but aren t expected to attend. Both Kelly and McGahn won t be attending, CNN reported earlier today.
Boris Johnson Offers Congratulations to Biden: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/19/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The U.K. prime minister offered congratulations ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration. The president-elect’s morning stop Wednesday will have echoes of the last Catholic president. And some U.S. Capitol Police officers have contracted the coronavirus since the Jan. 6 riot.
U.K. Prime Minister Johnson Congratulates Biden (5:56 p.m.)
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and said he looked forward to “working closely” with him to “defeat Covid and build back better from the pandemic.”
In a statement released Tuesday, Johnson said the U.K. shared U.S. goals on “climate change, defense, security and in promoting and defending democracy” and the nations would work “hand in hand” to achieve them.
Updated 7:10 p.m. ET Gen. Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to head the Pentagon, went before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday