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+  President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday will take place in a U.S. Capitol on high alert, with memories fresh of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the building by supporters of his predecessor, Donald Tr*mp. + The crowd inside the Capitol will be a fraction of the hundreds of members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, top government officials and guests who typically attend, to allow for more social distancing in a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 572,000 Americans. + But security will be higher than usual, even for what is officially designated a "National Special Security Event," with the Secret Service in charge of security. + The white-domed building is still surrounded by a black steel mesh fence with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops from 18 states plus the District of Columbia on duty in the city, the vestiges of a much larger force put in place after Tr*mp supporters stormed the building as Congress was voting to certify Biden's election victory.

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+ The charges in the case include conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and unauthorized entry to a Secret Service-restricted area — in some cases with weapons. + The new indictment appears to be the third major conspiracy case lodged by prosecutors in connection with events at the Capitol on Jan. 6. + While the two other large conspiracy cases focus on groups known as the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers that allegedly stormed the Capitol building, only one of those charged in the new case is accused of actually entering the Capitol.  Instead, prosecutors allege that the remainder crossed police lines and went onto the Capitol’s Upper West Terrace. + Two men charged in the new indictment, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor, were among organizers of a Virginia Women for Tr*mp rally held outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 5, endorsing Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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+ “This is a very ongoing investigation and there's a lot more to come," Wray said during an oversight hearing held by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. "I would expect to see more charges — some of them maybe more serious charges." + Wray testified that the FBI considered the attack an act of "domestic terrorism." He said he understands why Democratic lawmakers have called the attack an "insurrection," but said it would not be appropriate for him to use that word because of the effect it could have on pending criminal cases. + "In my role as FBI director, because that's a term that has legal meaning, I really have to be careful about using words like that," Wray said. + Democratic lawmakers repeatedly grilled Wray, appointed by Tr*mp in 2017,

over what they said were intelligence failures that left law enforcement ill-prepared for the deadly attack.  "The FBI's inaction in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 is simply baffling," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said. + "It is hard to tell whether FBI headquarters merely missed the evidence — which had been flagged by your field offices and was available online for all the world to see — or whether the Bureau saw the intelligence, underestimated the threat, and simply failed to act,"  Nadler said. + Wray responded that on Jan. 5 an FBI field office in Virginia issued an explicit warning, sent to U.S. Capitol Police, that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence.  Wray added that "almost none" of the 500 people charged so far with participating in the attack had been under FBI investigation previously, suggesting it would have been difficult for the FBI to have monitored them in advance. + "You can be darn sure that we are going to be looking hard at how we can do better, how we can do more, how we can do things differently in terms of collecting and disseminating" intelligence, Wray said. + Asked whether the FBI was investigating Tr*mp or his associate Roger Stone, Wray said he could neither confirm nor deny any FBI investigation. + "I'm talking about Mr. Big, Number One," said Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, referring to Trump. "Have you gone after the people who incited the riot?" + Wray responded: "I don't think it would be appropriate for me to be discussing whether or not we are or aren't investigating specific individuals."

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+ Yogananda Pittman told the leaders Thursday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that the board that oversees her department has so far declined to extend an emergency declaration required by the Pentagon to keep Guardsmen who have assisted Capitol officers since the riot. + Pittman said she needed the leaders' assistance with the three-member Capitol Police Board, which reports to them. She said the board has sent her a list of actions it wants her to implement, though she said it was unclear whether the points were orders or just recommendations. + The letter underscored the confusion over how best to secure the Capitol after a dismal lack of protection in January and biting criticism for law enforcement's handling of the invasion.

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+ The  memo represented a rare step for a U.S. military leadership that has sought to keep the American armed forces out of the nation’s rancorous partisan politics in recent years. It came after a number of the rioters, who stormed the Capitol last week falsely claiming last year’s presidential election had been stolen from Pres-ident Tr*mp, turned out to be veterans of the U.S. military.

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+ Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.  As a result of a plea deal, he will face a substantially lower sentence and fine, which Judge Randolph Ross estimated could range between 15 months and 21 months in prison, though that could be subject to change.  Hodgkins also will pay $2,000 in restitution, the judge said. + In April, a self-described member of the Oath Keepers militia group became the first Capitol rioter to plead guilty to the charges against him and enter into a plea agreement with the government.  That agreement requires the man, Jon Schaffer, to fully cooperate with the government's investigation. + Last month, another assistant U.S attorney told a judge she had put in a request for a plea offer in the case against Couy Griffin, a New Mexico elected official and founder of the group "Cowboys for Tr*mp." + Hodgkins was arrested in February in Florida after a tipster first identified him to the FBI. He was originally charged with four additional felonies, which were dismissed as part of the plea deal, said Mona Sedky, the DOJ prosecutor in the case. + According to charging documents, Hodgkins was caught on surveillance footage inside the Senate chamber carrying a red "Tr*mp 2020" flag. He was

seen standing near the main desk where other individuals, including self-described "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley, were "shouting, praying, and commanding the attention of others in the Senate Chamber," according to the document," to which Hodgkins "rais[ed] his flag in salute."  Hodgkins was also captured on video putting on protective eye goggles as well as latex gloves while standing near a desk with papers on it, according to the documents. + During the court hearing, Hodgkins said the gloves were part of a first aid kit he carried, and that he had attempted to offer first aid to another individual, who ultimately refused care. + Hodgkins told investigators that he had traveled to Washington, D.C., from Florida, according to court documents, but Hodgkins denied that he participated in the more violent conduct that he witnessed happening around him, which he said included "breaking windows, individuals engaged in a knife fight, and other injured individuals," the document said.   Hodgkins is scheduled to be sentenced July 19. 

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+ Fresh off the defeat, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set up a June vote on another crucial priority — an elections overhaul bill that confronts restrictive new voting laws emerging in several key states after Donald Tr*mp's loss in the 2020 presidential election to Biden. + The ambitious elections bill has been seen as a defining test case for changing the Senate filibuster rules that require the 60-vote hurdle in the evenly split chamber.  Democrats see the legislation as a vital step toward protecting voting systems, but Republicans are unlikely to give it much support. + The stunning GOP rebuke of the proposed bipartisan commission on the Capitol riot, on a 54-35 vote, accelerated the argument, showing Democrats — and perhaps the broader public — how intense partisan loyalties are likely to make it difficult for Biden's party to strike bipartisan compromises on elections reforms, infrastructure or other parts of his agenda. ... + The filibuster is a Senate procedural rule that requires a vote by 60 of the 100 senators to cut off debate and advance a bill. With the Senate divided

50-50, Democrats would need the support of 10 Republicans to move most bills. The vote on advancing legislation to create a commission to investigate the insurrection highlighted how reluctant the GOP will be to cooperate. + While some senators prefer to stick to the long-standing rules, despite the often cumbersome process, others say the time has come to lower the threshold to 51 votes. The vice president of the party in the White House — currently Kamala Harris — is able to break a tie. + “I will tell you that when it comes to voting rights and democracy, we have to defend the democracy, not the Senate,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a leading proponent of the elections and voting rights bill, said ahead of Friday's vote. + Overhauling the filibuster would require the support of a majority of senators, but not all Democrats are ready to do so. Two centrists, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are holdouts against any efforts to alter the filibuster, preferring to stick with the current practice, which typically requires bipartisan compromise. + But in a rare joint statement as tensions rose ahead of Friday's vote, Manchin and Sinema expressed exasperation with Republicans, imploring their colleagues not to stand in the way of a bipartisan commission to investigate the assault by a mob loyal to Tr*mp seeking to overturn Biden's election.

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+ The vote was a stark display of loyalty to former pres-ident Donald J. Tr*mp and political self-interest by Republicans determined to shield themselves from an inquiry that could tarnish their party. They feared an investigation that would remind voters of the consequences of Mr. Tr*mp’s election lies and how Republican lawmakers indulged them, spurring their supporters to violence. + It all but guaranteed that there would be no comprehensive nonpartisan inquiry into the attack’s root causes, the former pres-ident’s conduct as his supporters threatened lawmakers and the vice pres-ident, or any connections between his allies in Congress and the rioters. + While members of both political parties agreed in its immediate aftermath that an investigation was needed, most Republicans have since toiled to put the episode behind them, and some have actively sought to deny or play down the reality of what happened. + On Friday, only six Republicans joined Democrats to support advancing the measure to create the independent commission. The final vote, 54 to 35, fell short of the 60 senators needed to move past a Republican filibuster. + The vote was a stinging defeat for proponents of the commission. They had argued that the only way to assemble a truly complete account of the riot for a polarized nation was through an inquiry modeled after the one into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which outside experts with subpoena power undertook a

thorough study. + Some Republicans expressed disgust with their own party for blocking it, saying that they had put politics over the finding of what promised to be a grim set of facts. + “I don’t want to know, but I need to know,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of the six Republicans who voted to form the commission. “To be making a decision for short-term political gain, at the expense of understanding and acknowledging what was in front of us on Jan. 6 — I think we need to look at that critically.” + While the Justice Department has opened hundreds of criminal cases against rioters, and congressional committees are likely to expand nascent inquiries, they will almost certainly confront limits that a commission staffed with national security experts, jointly appointed by Republicans and Democrats, would not.  Among them are partisanship, defiant witnesses and turf wars that are likely to leave unanswered key questions about how the party rallied around Mr. Tr*mp’s stolen-election lies and his demands that Republicans invalidate Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. ... + Top Republicans had entertained supporting the measure as recently as last week. But they ultimately reversed course, and the House approved it with only 35 Republican votes. Leaders concluded that open-ended scrutiny of the attack would hand Democrats powerful political ammunition before the 2022 midterm elections — and enrage a former pres-ident they are intent on appeasing. ... + Though Mr. McConnell said he would continue to support criminal cases against the rioters and stand by his “unflinching” criticisms of Mr. Tr*mp, the commission’s defeat is likely to only embolden the former pres-ident at a time when he has once again ramped up circulation of his baseless and debunked claims. Republicans had already saved Mr. Tr*mp from conviction in two impeachment trials.In a matter of months, his lies have warped the views of many of his party’s supporters, who view President Biden as illegitimate. + They also have inspired a rash of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states and a quixotic recount in Arizona denounced by both parties. And they have fueled efforts by Republican members of Congress to diminish and reframe the Capitol riot as a benign event akin to a “normal tourist visit.”

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+ About one-quarter of Republicans, 23%, agree with a set of conspiratorial beliefs linked to the QAnon movement, according to a PRRI report released Thursday (5-27-2021). + These believers said they mostly or completely agreed that "the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation," that "there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders," and, finally, that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country." + Among the full American public, 14% mostly or completely agree with all those statements, with a broad majority saying they disagree. + Beyond partisanship, belief in QAnon conspiracy theories is also strongly associated with consumption of far-right media, the report finds.  Only a fraction

of the public, about 3%, report that their most trusted TV news sources were right-wing networks like One America News and Newsmax.  But nearly half of that group say they believed in "a storm coming soon," with 42% agreeing that "patriots may have to resort to violence" and 40% that "a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles" control U.S . government, media and finance. The findings don't indicate whether consuming far-right media instills these beliefs in viewers, or whether believers in those theories tend to gravitate to such news sources. + Attempting to quantify the precise share of the public who subscribe to a particular theory is often challenging -- the depth and intensity of people's beliefs vary, making it rarely as simple as a yes or no question. That's especially true in the case of QAnon, which the PRRI report describes as a "loosely connected belief system" that "involves a constantly evolving web of schemes." + A small core of QAnon supporters, for instance, actively identify themselves with the movement; others might be less actively engaged, but still sympathetic to that brand of conspiratorial thinking if asked. + Further complicating matters, partisans sometimes express extreme or incorrect views to pollsters partially as a form of political signaling.  While fully embracing QAnon talking points remains a minority position within the GOP,  denying the legitimacy of the 2020 election has become the mainstream position inside the party. + A majority of Republicans, 56%, say they believe that the 2020 election was the result of illegal voting or election rigging, per an Ipsos/Reuters poll released last week, with about 6 in 10 agreeing with the statement that "the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Tr*mp."  Republicans also say, 54% to 30%, that they agree with the myth that the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol "was led by violent left-wing protestors trying to make Tr*mp look bad."  The rioters who breached the Capitol were Tr*mp supporters, and sources ranging from the FBI to alleged participants in the riot have shot down the notion that left-wing agitators were involved. + One-quarter of the American public as a whole say they think last year's election outcome was determined by illegal voting or election rigging, with about 30% saying the election was stolen from Tr*mp and roughly one-third that the Capitol riot was led by left-wingers. + Polls, however, show even more pronounced partisan divides on how the country should chart a path forward. In a new Quinnipiac survey, 74% of Republicans say that "too much is being made of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and it is time to move on," compared with just 18%, who say that it was an "attack on democracy that should never be forgotten." Overall, 55% of Americans say that January 6 should never been forgotten, and 39% that it's time to move on.

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+ Michael Fanone, who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the attack, told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" that "I'm not a politician. I'm not an elected official. I don't expect anybody to give two sh*ts about my opinions. But I will say this, you know, those are lies." + During a congressional hearing Wednesday about the breach of the Capitol, House Republicans spent much of their time repeating a number of false claims about the insurrection as well as sugarcoating the actions of former President Donald Tr*mp and his supporters.  The hearing followed House Republicans' ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership post after she repeatedly denounced Tr*mp's "Big Lie" that the 2020 election was stolen. + In pushing their false narrative during (5-12-2021) Wednesday's hearing, GOP lawmakers attempted to downplay the events of January 6, suggesting

Tr*mp supporters may not have been involved in the attack and even questioning whether the attack should be called an insurrection. + Some defended the rioters and cast them as the victims instead of the perpetrators of a deadly insurrection that included attacks on police officers like Fanone. + "Peddling that bullsh*t is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol," Fanone said Thursday (5-13-2021).  "It's disgraceful."

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+ The FBI arrested Federico Klein, one of former Pres-ident Tr*mp's appointees for State Department, on Thursday in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. + Samatha Shero, a spokesperson for the FBI's Washington Field Office, confirmed the arrest to The Hill on Thursday evening, but referred additional questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C.  Klein's arrest is the first known instance of one of Tr*mp's political appointees facing criminal charges in connection with the riot. ... + Trump was impeached for inciting the riots, but the Senate ultimately voted 53-47 to acquit him. Over 300 people have been charged in connection with

the riot that forced Congress to halt certification of President Biden's electoral college victory and resulted in the deaths of five people. News of Klein's arrest was first reported by Politico. + According to the news outlet, Klein was taken into custody in Virginia. According to a financial disclosure published by ProPublica, Klein was appointed to the State Department on Jan 22, 2017, as a special assistant. + Prior to his appointment, Klein worked on Tr*mp's 2016 campaign, and reported making $15,000 in income. + At the State Department, Klein was a special assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the State Department, and was a "Schedule C" political appointee, Politico reported. 

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+ The revelations are part of a sweeping  congressional inquiry into the U.S. government’s intelligence about and response to the siege of Congress that disrupted lawmakers as they certified President Biden’s victory over former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp. + Major Gen. William Walker, the commander of the District of Columbia National Guard,  testified on Wednesday at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that the military’s response that day included a 2:30 p.m. phone call with key military leaders, including Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for operations, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of the Army staff.  Walker said the two military officials were worried about the “optics” of Guardsmen showing up at the Capitol and were concerned it might agitate the mob further. + The Army previously  denied in January that Charles Flynn was involved with that phone call, though it eventually admitted that he was a participant. Flynn

himself issued a statement admitting his participation. “I entered the room after the call began and departed prior to the call ending as I believed a decision was imminent from the Secretary, and I needed to be in my office to assist in executing the decision," he said. + Flynn was responding to a Washington Post reporting that noted how weeks earlier his brother, former Tr*mp national security adviser Michael Flynn, publicly suggested Tr*mp could use "military capabilities" and "rerun" election in swing states. The report stressed there was no indication that Charles Flynn in any was way influenced by his brother in performing his duties Jan. 6. ... + During his testimony on Wednesday, Walker said now-former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and Metropolitan Police Department acting Chief Robert Contee both asked the military leadership to send help during that call, with the director of D.C.’s deputy mayor and the head of its homeland security department, the chief of the U.S. Secret Service uniformed division, and other military officials were also participating. + Walker testified that the Army did not inform him was authorized to send help until after 5 p.m. that day, though Walker said he had a quick reaction force ready to go hours before.  

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+ The backup "football" of equipment and nuclear codes needed to launch a strike is identical to the one carried by officials near the president. It always follows the second in command in case the president becomes incapacitated. + A Pentagon official told CNN that U.S. Strategic Command became aware of the threat to the football after a startling video played at the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday showing Pence, his Secret Service agents and a military officer carrying the briefcase with classified nuclear launch information fleeing the Senate. ... + The timeline unveiled by House Democrats revealed how close a call it was for Pence and, by extension, the briefcase containing nuclear codes.  According to CNN, it is unclear if officials at the National Security Council or the Pentagon were aware of the threat against Pence and members of his team prior to the impeachment video.

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+ The deployment for the entire D.C. National Guard has been extended until March 31 in anticipation of “civil disturbance” throughout the nation’s capital, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO on Tuesday. + The new orders suggest that law enforcement agencies in the nation’s capital are preparing for potential unrest in the coming days and weeks, as former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp’s impeachment trial kicks off and his supporters issue threats to lawmakers. + POLITICO previously reported that the upcoming Senate trial poses a security concern that federal law enforcement officials have warned will require as many as 5,000 National Guard troops to remain in Washington through mid-March. But the D.C. National Guard will now be in place for at least two weeks longer, standing by in case law enforcement needs backup.

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