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It took fewer than 10 minutes into former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee for the panel’s Democratic minority to offer their response to his report on his year-long probe into how documents with classification markings ended up in President Joe Biden’s Delaware home and former office in Washington, DC.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) bolstered his opening remarks ahead of former special counsel Robert Hur’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday with a supercut of Donald Trump’s speaking blunders.
What to know about today's hearing:Special counsel Robert Hur is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.Members of both parties are grilling Hur over his decision not to charge Biden while characterizing him as "an elderly man with a poor memory."The White House has pushed back heavily against Hur's report. Democrats are also trying to contrast the classified documents probes into Biden and former President Donald Trump, who was charged.The hearing is being led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.The transcripts of Hur's five-hour interview with Biden are now public; they show memory lapses as well as detailed exchanges.Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur, who is a registered Republican and worked under the Trump administration, as special counsel.
The California Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell has called for the rightwing activist and Trump ally Roger Stone to be prosecuted over an alleged death threat he also made against Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York.
Leading progressive and Jewish members of Congress have criticized the US’s “unconditional support” for Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu declared bluntly that he was opposed to a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza and directly rejected American policy.
New York Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler said he has been in communication with Capitol police and the FBI about a reported death threat from the far-right activist and Trump ally Roger Stone.
The U.S. Capitol Police are investigating alleged comments made by Roger Stone after Mediaite published audio of the political operative appearing to discuss the assassination of two Democratic congressmen.
The Republican operative and close Donald Trump ally Roger Stone reportedly told an associate one of two prominent Democratic congressmen “ha[d] to die before the election” in 2020.