“To see this punk with that shirt on and his anti-Semitism that he has bragged about to be part of a white supremacist raid on this capitol requires us to have an after-action review,” Pelosi said.

Authorities arrested the man seen wearing the sweatshirt, 56-year-old Robert Keith Packer of Newport News, VA., and charged him with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds as well as unlawfully entering a restricted building.

Pelosi delivered her remarks two days after the House impeached President Donald Trump for inciting the riots that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. Those riots included an element of armed insurrectionists that federal prosecutors now say intended to assassinate top lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence for certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Pelosi said that as a result, she’s tapping a retired lieutenant general, Russel Honoré, to conduct a thorough review of Capitol security measures ahead of Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

She also said that the nine impeachment managers she appointed to lead the Senate trial have been meeting to prepare their arguments and strategy. She declined to say when she would formally deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which would kick off a trial in the first days of Biden’s administration.

Asked about the allegations by some House Democrats that Republican members of Congress may have aided the rioters, perhaps by giving them advance tours so they could scout the Capitol, Pelosi said she’s interested in finding the truth.

“In order to serve here with each other, we must trust that people have respect for their oath of office, respect for this institution,” she said. “We must trust each other, respecting the people who sent us here. We must also have the truth. And that will be looked into.”

Democrats have not presented specific evidence that any lawmakers helped lead these tours but have asked the Capitol Police to provide logs.

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In the days following the attack, it has become clear that federal agencies, including the F.B.I., did not do enough to heed alarms, raised within the bureau itself, that far-right extremists allied with President Trump planned to attack the Capitol. Several people on a terrorist watch list were also in Washington for the rally by Mr. Trump that devolved into the assault.

At the same time, questions have arisen about the Pentagon’s delay in sending national guard troops to help Capitol Police officers who were overwhelmed and, in some cases, badly beaten by the mob.

The review will examine all of the information relevant to the that was available to the Justice Department and the F.B.I. before it took place, and the extent to which that information was shared with the Capitol Police and other federal, state and local agencies.

Mr. Horowitz will also review what role Justice Department personnel had in responding to the siege, and whether weaknesses in the department’s protocols led to the security failure.

The Department of Defense review “will examine requests for D.O.D. support leading up to the planned protest and its aftermath at the U.S. Capitol complex, the D.O.D.’s response, and whether the D.O.D.’s actions were lawful” the Pentagon’s inspector general wrote in a statement on Friday.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/us/politics/capital-riot-investigation-justice-federal.html

One man, for instance, was arrested and accused of carrying a pistol on the Capitol grounds. Others wore tactical gear or brought zip ties, which can be used as handcuffs, officials said. And another was arrested after his truck was spotted nearby, allegedly with 11 molotov cocktails inside.

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(NEXSTAR) – President-elect Joe Biden announced a sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 recovery plan that includes, along with $1,400 stimulus checks to many Americans, a hike in the federal minimum wage to “at least $15 an hour.”

“No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line,” Biden said while addressing the nation Thursday. “That’s what it means, if you work for less than $15 an hour and work 40 hours a week, you’re living in poverty.”

The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It was last raised in 2009.

“People tell me that’s going to be hard to pass – Florida just passed it, as divided as that state is they just passed it,” Biden said. “The rest of the country is ready to move as well.”

He went on to address rising income inequality during the pandemic, separating Wall Street gains from “the real economy,” in which people rely on their “paychecks, not investments” to feed their families.

According to a 2019 report

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from the Congressional Budget Office, raising the minimum wage to $15 would boost the incomes of some 17 million people, raising 1.3 million Americans out of poverty. Another 1.3 million Americans would lose their jobs because employers would deem them too expensive to hire, the report found.

A 2019 Pew Research Center poll found that two thirds of Americans support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

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At least nine people were hurt in New York City on Thursday night when an “accordion-style” city bus went off the road, crashed a barrier and partially dangled off an expressway overpass.

Video posted on social media showed the BX-35 bus seeming to hang by a thread as first responders tried to figure out how to deal with the situation in the city’s Bronx borough.

The injured people were the driver and at least six passengers, all of whom were removed from the bus and transported to a hospital, WNBC-TV of New York reported. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.

Fire officials gave the total number of injured as nine but were unclear whether the total referred strictly to bus occupants or included others who were at the scene.

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Police said the crash may have resulted from brake failure or from the driver having trouble making a turn, WCBS-TV of New York reported.

Responders were working to ensure the fuel and other hazardous materials from the bus were secure before proceeding to remove the bus, FDNY Acting Battalion Chief Steven Moore said in an Instagram post.

The bus was a so-called “articulated” vehicle that includes a rubber-looking, “accordion style” section that helps increase bus capacity and allows the driver of the longer bus to negotiate turns more easily. That middle section was shown to have a significant tearin photos and videos posted online.

Photos showed the front end of the bus dangling off the overpass, perpendicular to the road below, while the back portion of the bus remained above, in a horizontal position.

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Fire Department of New York officials posted images early Friday, suggesting first responders were still working at the scene overnight.

The crash caused the temporary closure of the westbound lanes of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the area of the Major Deegan Expressway, WCBS Radio reported.

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When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20, the microblogging social network Twitter will create @SecondGentleman, an account for Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The account will be one way of marking the historic election of the first-ever female vice president.

During the administrations of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, the official @SecondLady Twitter accounts belonged to Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, and Jill Biden, wife of then-Vice President Joe Biden, respectively.

Next Wednesday, the @SecondLady account will officially switch over to @SecondGentleman; and it’s just one of several switchovers that Twitter will make in transitioning the White House’s top social media accounts from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration.

When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20, Inauguration Day, Twitter will create @SecondGentleman, an account for Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. In this August 12, 2020 photo, Harris and Emhoff wave from the stage after the first Biden-Harris press conference in Wilmington, Delaware.
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“As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with the U.S. government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations,” Twitter wrote in a January 14 blog post.

The other institutional White House Twitter accounts that will be transferred over to the Biden Administration’s control include those of the White House (@WhiteHouse), President (@POTUS), Vice President (@VP), First Lady (@FLOTUS) and the White House Press Secretary (@PressSec).

Before giving the handles and their logins to Biden’s team, Twitter will first transfer the current administration’s institutional accounts to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). There, each account’s tweets and histories will remain publicly available with their account usernames changed to reflect their archived status.

For example, the Trump administration’s current @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45.

Additionally, the Twitter accounts currently being used by Biden’s top officials will transition into their official institutional accounts.

For example, the account of the President-elect’s team, @Transition46, will become @WhiteHouse; Joe Biden’s account @PresElectBiden will become @POTUS; Harris’ political account @SenKamalaHarris will become @VP; Jill Biden’s current account @FLOTUSBiden will become @FLOTUS, as in First Lady of the United States; and the president-elect’s press secretary Jen Psaki, who currently uses @PressSecPsaki, will become @PressSec.

Twitter users who previously followed the institutional White House Twitter accounts or who currently follow the Biden Administration’s current accounts, will receive in-app alerts allowing them to follow the new administration’s accounts.

News of Twitter’s transitional process follows an ongoing dispute between the president-elect and the microblogging platform over its resetting of each institutional account’s follower count.

When Trump took office in 2017, he was allowed to take over the @POTUS account with its 12 million followers amassed during the Obama era. But now that it’s Biden’s turn to take it over, Twitter has said that it will reset the follower count to zero instead of letting Biden have the account’s current 60 million followers.

“[Twitter is] advantaging President Trump’s first days of the administration over ours,” Rob Flaherty, the soon-to-be director of digital strategy in the Biden White House told Bloomberg News. “They have given us less than they gave Donald Trump, and that is a failure.”

He added, “There is value in being able to communicate with an audience that doesn’t agree with us.” Instead, the @POTUS account may simply gain @PresElectBiden’s 213,700 current followers.

Joe Biden’s personal Twitter account @JoeBiden has over 23.9 million followers.

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Biden on Thursday revealed the breakdown of his proposed package, titled the American Rescue Plan, which includes measures aimed at sustaining families and firms until vaccines are widely distributed. The plan includes stimulus checks as well as unemployment support.

Sullivan said JPMorgan previously forecast a two percentage point drag on U.S. GDP as a result of the lack of fiscal stimulus.

“We had baked into our forecast a $900 billion fiscal stimulus package, that drove a move from a 2 percentage point drag to a 70 basis point push to U.S. GDP,” he said of the previous forecast.

With Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan now coming in at more than twice the amount expected by JPMorgan, the analyst said it will be a “positive surprise” for the market as well as for overall levels of economic growth in the U.S.

“Investor fund flows into Asia have been very aggressive over the course of the past couple of months, you could start to see that reverse out,” the analyst said. “I’d say, we’re maybe about halfway through the trade at this stage.”

China’s markets — among the top performers regionally in 2020 — could be among the first to be affected by this shift, Sullivan predicted.

“You’re likely to see the aggressive outperformers of 2020 be a source of funds,” he said. “China would be very much front and center there.”

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  • White House officials blame Rudy Giuliani for not one, but two impeachments of President Donald Trump, according to a report by The New York Times.
  • The president was impeached over his role in the deadly Capitol riots, which were largely fueled by Trump supporters’ unsubstantiated belief the election was “stolen,” an idea Giuliani has strongly pushed.
  • Though White House officials are reportedly angry with Giuliani, one of Trump’s advisors tweeted on behalf of the president and praised the former mayor.
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White House officials blame Rudy Giuliani for not one, but two impeachments of President Donald Trump, according to a report by The New York Times.

Trump became the first president to be impeached twice on Wednesday. Ten House Republicans joined Democrats in the vote, making it the most bipartisan impeachment in US history.

Trump was charged with “incitement of insurrection,” related to his role in the deadly siege on the US Capitol last week that forced lawmakers to evacuate and left five people dead.

Giuliani, Trump’s attorney and a staunch ally, has strongly supported the president’s election challenges and has relentlessly pushed the unsubstantiated claims of fraud that helped fuel the siege.

But even amid recent reports that the president at one point told aides not to pay Giuliani after he requested $20,000 a day in legal fees for his work challenging the election results, Trump continues to praise him.

Though the president is banned from Twitter, Jason Miller, one of his advisors, said: “Just spoke with President Trump, and he told me that @RudyGiuliani is a great guy and a Patriot who devoted his services to the country! We all love America’s Mayor!”

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However, while Trump may be on the mend with Giuliani, White House officials are “universally angry” with Giuliani, according to The Times, for encouraging the president to take actions that led to both of his impeachments.

Trump was first impeached in December 2019 over abuse of power and obstruction of justice.

That trial was related to the president pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Biden and his son Hunter over unsubstantiated allegations of corruption, an effort that was said to be spearheaded by Giuliani.

Giuliani is also facing scrutiny over his role in inciting the violence that occurred during the Capitol siege, as he told rally goers earlier in the day “we will have a trial by combat!” He later said the remark was a “Game of Thrones” reference.

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(CNN)There is growing concern about security on Capitol Hill, as well as worries from lawmakers facing threats to their personal safety, law enforcement sources and members of Congress tell CNN.

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A lawyer for Jacob Anthony Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, has urged President Donald Trump to pardon his client and others who took part in last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol at Trump’s “invitation.”

Attorney Albert Watkins reportedly made the plea in a statement released Thursday, insisting that Chansley had personally been “peaceful and compliant” during the riot while highlighting his dedication to practicing yoga and eating only organic food.

Photos of Chansley inside the Capitol quickly went viral due in part to his memorable appearance, which included a horned fur hat, American flag face paint and no shirt. Chansley was arrested days later, but Watkins maintains that the charges against his client should become moot following a presidential pardon because he took part in the riot after accepting “President Trump’s invitation to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol.”

“Mr. Chansley is an American; he served honorably in the U.S. military,” Watkins said, according to the Associated Press. “He has zero criminal history. He is a lover of nature, routinely practices meditation, is an active practicer of yoga and eats only organic food. He took seriously the countless messages of President Trump. He believed in President Trump. Like tens of millions of other Americans, Chansley felt—for the first time in his life—as though his voice was being heard.”

Chansley was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, demonstrating in a Capitol building, civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. If convicted, he could potentially face decades in prison.

Watkins did not limit his appeal for a pardon to only his client, insisting that all “like-minded, peaceful individuals” facing legal repercussions for their involvement in the Capitol breach should be given pardons by the president before he leaves office next week.

“My client had heard the oft-repeated words of President Trump,” said Watkins. “The words and invitation of a president are supposed to mean something. Given the peaceful and compliant fashion in which Mr. Chansley comported himself, it would be appropriate and honorable for the president to pardon Mr. Chansley and other like-minded, peaceful individuals who accepted the president’s invitation with honorable intentions.”

Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” is pictured inside the Senate chamber during the U.S. Capitol riots in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.
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Despite being present at multiple pro-Trump demonstrations both before and after the election and being well known as a dedicated adherent to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, the viral photos of Chansley were used as fake evidence by some online who were pushing false claims that the insurrection was carried out by members of Antifa instead of Trump supporters.

The baseless conspiracy theory that the “QAnon Shaman” adheres to claims, without a shred of evidence, that Trump is locked in an elaborate and secret war against a “deep state” controlled by Democrats and influential Hollywood figures who are otherwise heavily involved in child sex trafficking and sometimes eat babies.

The QAnon conspiracy has grown in popularity among supporters of Trump despite the fact that predictions from the purported government informant “Q,” who posts anonymously online and could be more than one person, have repeatedly failed to come true.

There is no indication that Trump plans to pardon Chansley or anyone else allegedly involved in the insurrection. Due to the nature of the alleged crimes and the possibility that Trump could be convicted by the Senate following his second impeachment, some experts have suggested that the outgoing president may not be able to legally pardon the rioters.

Before Amazon booted conservative social media app Parler from its servers on Sunday over fears of inciting further violence, a fake post appeared on the app that falsely claimed Trump was “strongly considering” pardoning “all of the patriots” involved in the January 6 riot, which resulted in the deaths of at least five people. The Department of Justice confirmed that information in the post was not true in a statement issued January 9.

Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment.

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NYC bus is left suspended in MID-AIR after plunging off an overpass and almost snapping in half – leaving at least seven injured

  • At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx
  • The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening 
  • The driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ near the Cross Bronx Expressway and University Avenue  
  • Police say there were seven to eight people on board, including the driver
  • All have been transported to hospitals suffering minor injuries
  • The bus is secure and officials were in the process of removing it after midnight 

At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx. 

The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening when the bus driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ and went off road, the New York Police Department said to DailyMail.com. 

The ‘accordion-style’ bus veered off the roadway near University Avenue by the exit for the Deegan Expressway, causing the bus to fall onto the Cross Bronx Expressway below. 

At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx

 The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening when the bus driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ and went off road, the New York Police Department said to DailyMail.com

 The bus has been secured and crews are in the process of removing it as of 12.30am Friday

The ‘accordion-style’ bus veered off the roadway near University Avenue by the exit for the Deegan Expressway, causing the bus to fall onto the Cross Bronx Expressway below

No other vehicles or people were injured in the accident. Cops pictured on the scene

There were seven to eight people, including the bus driver, on board and all suffered minor injuries and have been transported to area hospitals. 

No other vehicles or people were injured in the accident. 

Officials say they’re investigating the cause of the crash. 

There were seven to eight people, including the bus driver, on board and all suffered minor injuries and have been transported to area hospitals

An aerial view of the dangling bus above late Thursday evening

The bus has been secured and crews are in the process of removing it as of 12.30am Friday.  

Police have shut down the New Jersey-bound lanes of the Cross Bound Expressway.

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President TrumpDonald TrumpCotton: Senate lacks authority to hold impeachment trial once Trump leaves office Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will introduce impeachment articles against Biden ICE acting director resigns weeks after assuming post MORE‘s former lawyer Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenTrump in new legal jeopardy after Capitol riots The silver lining of the Trump presidency? Federal judge: ‘Not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals’ MORE has written a foreword to a bound edition of materials regarding Trump’s second impeachment, according to The Associated Press.

Trump became the first president in American history to be impeached twice in his presidency Wednesday when the House voted to impeach him for his role in the deadly Capitol attacks on Jan. 6 that left five dead, including a Capitol Hill Police officer. 

Skyhorse Publishing announced a new book on Trump’s historic second impeachment would be released Feb. 2.

The book will be titled “The Second Impeachment Report: Materials in Support of H. Res. 24, Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.”

Publishers do not require permission to sell congressional reports as books because they are not copyrighted, according to the AP.

Cohen published his own book, “Disloyal: A Memoir,” with Skyhorse in 2020 in which he detailed the work he did on behalf of Trump and alleged the president had taken part in multiple crimes.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to nine counts of campaign finance violations, tax evasion and false statements.

He was released to home confinement in May 2020 amid the pandemic before being sent back to jail for a short period. He was again released to home confinement in July after a judge found his re-imprisonment had been a form of retaliation.

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The plan also calls for $350 billion in aid to state and local governments, $70 billion for Covid testing and vaccination programs and raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

“There is real pain overwhelming the real economy — the one where people rely on paychecks, not investments, to pay for their bills and their meals and their children’s needs,” Biden said during a speech in Delaware Thursday night.

Savita Subramanian, Bank of America’s head of U.S. equity strategy, said on CNBC’s “Fast Money” that the additional government spending is part of the reason that the market leadership could shift from tech stocks to cyclical stocks in 2021.

“We’ve got this petri dish where everything that was good for tech and secular growth is starting to change,” Subramanian said.

The announcement comes after a quiet day on Wall Street, where the three major indexes finished with slight losses after tech stocks faded late in the session. Anticipation of the stimulus deal was reflected in other areas, however, as the more economy dependent Russell 2000 rose more than 2%.

A third major relief bill has been widely expected in recent weeks, especially after the December labor market report saw the economy lose jobs and Democrats won two key Senate races in Georgia, giving Biden’s party narrow control of both houses of Congress.

Another spending bill, focused on climate change and infrastructure among other initiatives, is expected to be introduced in February, according to senior Biden officials.

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