House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Tuesday summoned Jack Smith, the former special counsel who had twice indicted Donald J. Trump, to testify about what they called his “partisan and politically motivated prosecutions,” in their latest bid to further the president’s campaign of retribution, the New York Times reports.
Graham Platner Goes After Janet Mills In New Ad
Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner (D) criticized Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) as business as usual in the first candidate TV ad of the state’s marquee Senate race, Axios reports.
Says an older woman in the ad: “Janet Mills again? She was a good governor, but I think it’s time for change.”
Warren Will Try to Block Argentina Bailout
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will try to block President Donald Trump’s bailout of Argentina and dare Republicans to defend U.S. financial aid to a foreign government while the U.S. government remains shut down, the HuffPost reports.
Both Parties Brace for ‘Long Conflict’
“At the two-week mark, Republicans and Democrats are bracing for a long government shutdown, with both parties seeing more upside in persisting with their conflicting demands,” NBC News reports.
“As a result, neither side is willing to give an inch in the standoff, now the fifth-longest shutdown in the country’s history.”
Maine Senate Seat Moves to Toss Up
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Gov. Janet Mills (D) entered the Maine Senate race on Tuesday morning, giving Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) a more proven potential challenger even as other Democrats are seeking the nomination.”
“We are moving the Maine Senate race from Leans Republican to Toss-up, which means we now have four Senate Toss-ups: Republican-held Maine and North Carolina and Democratic-held Georgia and Michigan.”
Pentagon Retreats from Climate Fight
Floodlight News: “For decades, the Pentagon viewed climate change as a national security threat — not for environmental reasons, but because it undermined operations and readiness… Now the Trump administration is dismantling that approach. Pentagon leaders have cut climate research funding and abandoned adaptation plans.”
Said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “The Department of Defense does not do climate change crap.”
Trump Ordered Strike on Another Drug Boat
President Trump on Tuesday announced another lethal military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat off the coast of Venezuela, which killed six people, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Harvard’s Funding Restored After Judge’s Ruling
“Administrators at Harvard University have informed faculty and staff that the majority of the school’s research grants canceled by the Trump administration have been restored following a federal judge’s ruling last month that the cuts were illegal,” the Boston Globe reports.
Eric Trump Certain His Father Will Get to Heaven
Eric Trump vouches for his father: “Make no mistake, he is heaven-bound. He’s probably too humbled to say it. I can say it as his son because I’ve seen the hand of God on him for a very long time.”
Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans’ Chat
“Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway,” Politico reports.
“They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”
“The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.”
Israel Accuses Hamas of Violating Ceasefire
“Israeli officials and hostage families have accused Hamas of violating the new ceasefire deal by failing to immediately return the remains of many of the former captives still in Gaza,” the New York Times reports.
“The truce agreement called for the immediate handover of all remaining bodies in Gaza, but acknowledged that some could be difficult to locate and may take more time to retrieve because of the destruction. Gaza was highly urbanized before the war, but two years of Israeli strikes have turned large parts of it into a flattened landscape of cement rubble.”
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Fight Over Adelita Grijalva’s Swearing-In Heats Up
“The Arizona attorney general’s office is laying the groundwork today to take legal action in a bid to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ),” Punchbowl News reports.
“Arizona officials are set to formally certify Grijalva’s election win at 1 p.m. ET. The Arizona attorney general will then send a letter to Johnson demanding that he seat Grijalva.”
Worm Ate ‘Just a Little Bit’ of RFK Jr.’s Brain
Actress Cheryl Hines addressed her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “brain worm” as she wrapped up an interview on The View.
Said Hines: “It ate a little bit of his brain and died, so don’t worry.”
Democrats Keep Their Distance from Katie Porter
“Katie Porter’s public-relations meltdown last week was damaging enough. What may be more humiliating is how few of her former House colleagues or Democratic leaders are rallying to her defense,” Politico reports.
“Much like her time on Capitol Hill, Porter, the frontrunner in the race for California governor, is on an island — still reeling from the fallout over a pair of viral videos that captured her on-camera outbursts with a staffer and reporter.”
The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives
Elaine Godfrey: “The age of the conventional Democrat is over. The time of the Democratic contrarian has come.”
“So says Adam Jentleson, anyway. The veteran political operative and former adviser to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently launched a think tank that asks Democratic candidates to ignore pressure from the far left, take positions outside the ‘liberal box,’ and be a lot more ‘heterodox’ in general. If this seems to you like Beltway speak for asking Democrats to sound more like Republicans, well, you would be at least partly correct. The Democratic Party used to have supermajorities in Congress because it allowed its members to hold a wide range of positions, Jentleson told me. To start winning again, the party needs to bring that back, he said. His new think tank, Searchlight Institute, plans to help.”
“With its seven-person team, a polling arm, and a $10 million budget, Searchlight promises to offer a ‘menu’ of orthodoxy-challenging ideas for Democrats to run on.”
Indictments Make It ‘Terrifying’ to Oppose Trump
Rachel Maddow believes that the recent indictments of Letitia James and James Comey are aiming to make Donald Trump’s enemies terrified to oppose him, The Wrap reports.
Said Maddow: “I think that the most obvious answer is probably the real one, which is that they want to make it either illegal or terrifying to oppose him. And so they’re putting heads on pikes and putting those pikes up at the gates to the city to say it’s not possible to criticize, let alone oppose, this president. If you do, look what we’re going to do to you and your family and your career and your livelihood and your reputation.”
She added: “I think that’s all it is. And I think that they don’t have anybody holding them back. And so they’re going to do it as long as they can and as much as they can.”
It’ll Be Trump’s Fault
Brian Beutler: “Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
“We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault, and everyone who cares about the future of the country should be prepared to blame them.”
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