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Updated October 14, 2022 astatine 9:29 a.m. EDT|Published
October 14, 2022 astatine 6:59 a.m. EDT
Today, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the erstwhile shot star, look disconnected successful 1 of the astir anticipated debates successful the midterm elections — a contention that could extremity the equilibrium of enactment power successful the U.S. Senate. The evening brushwood successful Savannah, Ga., is the latest successful a drawstring of debates successful marquee Senate races, including 1 Thursday nighttime successful Wisconsin that rapidly turned idiosyncratic betwixt Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes.
Meanwhile, erstwhile president Donald Trump is promising to respond Friday greeting to the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol. The sheet voted Thursday to subpoena him. President Biden is successful California, wherever helium volition clasp an lawsuit focused connected medicine cause prices.
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The latest: Trump lambastes Jan. 6 committee but is soundless connected subpoena
Former president Donald Trump connected Friday lambasted the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol but was soundless connected whether helium would comply with a subpoena for grounds and documents successful a 14-page letter sent to its chairman.
“Despite precise mediocre tv ratings, the Unselect Committee has perpetuated a Show Trial the likes of which this Country has ne'er seen before,” Trump claimed successful the missive to Rep. Benny G. Thompson (D-Miss.). “There is nary Due Process, nary Cross-Examination, nary ‘real’ Republican members, and nary legitimacy since you bash not speech astir Election Fraud oregon not calling up the troops. It is simply a Witch Hunt of the highest level, a continuation of what has been going connected for years.”
Noted: Oz says Biden’s determination connected marijuana possession is ‘rational’
Republican Senate hopeful Mehmet Oz said successful an interrogation that aired Friday that helium considers a determination by President Biden to contented wide pardons for anyone convicted of a national transgression for simply possessing marijuana to beryllium “rational.”
Most Republicans person been soundless connected Biden’s announcement past week portion Oz’s opponent, Democrat John Fetterman, a longtime advocator of decriminalizing marijuana, has applauded the move.
Asked by NBC if helium supported Biden’s decision, Oz, a personage physician, said, “Going to jailhouse for marijuana is not a omniscient determination for the country.”
Noted: Pelosi said she wanted to punch Trump arsenic Jan. 6 riot began, video shows
On Oct. 13, the Jan. 6 Committee played a video of House Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate person Schumer (D-N.Y.) and GOP leaders during the Capitol attack. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Video from Jan. 6, 2021, shows a frustrated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) telling aides that she wanted to punch President Donald Trump, and lawmakers pleading for the National Guard to beryllium deployed arsenic supporters of the erstwhile president forced their mode into the Capitol.
The Post’s Kelly Kasulis Cho reports that the videos of legislature leaders instantly earlier and during the Capitol riot, aired for the archetypal clip by CNN connected Thursday evening, were taken by Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker moving with HBO. Other parts of the footage were played earlier Thursday astatine a Jan. 6 House Committee hearing, which ended successful a unanimous ballot to subpoena Trump.
On our radar: Biden’s net promises successful limbo amid FCC nominee battle
The nation’s telecommunications regulator has been without a Democratic bulk for the entirety of President Biden’s 21-month tenure, hamstringing efforts to reconstruct unfastened net protections and adjacent the integer divide.
The Post’s Cat Zakrzewski and Cristiano Lima study that breaking the deadlock astatine the Federal Communications Commission hinges connected confirming Gigi Sohn, a longtime nationalist involvement advocator and erstwhile Democratic FCC authoritative who was archetypal nominated by the White House nearly a twelvemonth ago. Per our colleagues:
Noted: ‘There are nary editors anymore,’ Biden says successful critique of press
President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) headlined a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee connected Thursday nighttime successful the Brentwood vicinity of Los Angeles.
Among his comments to donors, according to our workfellow Tyler Pager: a lament astir the technological changes fracturing nine and making it harder to discern what’s existent and what isn’t.
“There are nary editors anymore,” Biden said. “The quality of newspapers to person overmuch interaction is de minimis.”
Spotted astatine the fundraiser, per Tyler: DCCC Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Democratic Reps. Steven Horsford (Nev.), Ted Lieu (Calif.), Brad Sherman (Calif.) and Dina Titus (Nev.), positive Tom Ford “milling astir outside.”
Analysis: Jan. 6 proceeding shows Trump knew helium lost, portion claiming otherwise
Former president Donald Trump’s communications manager recounted popping into the Oval Office astir a week aft the 2020 predetermination to find a morose Trump watching TV: “Can you judge I mislaid to this f---ing guy?” Trump lamented, referring to then-President-elect Joe Biden.
The Post’s Ashley Parker writes that the apt last proceeding of the Jan. 6 sheet painted a representation of an American president who, with assistance from a cabal of right-wing allies, embarked connected a premeditated program to garbage to cede powerfulness careless of the predetermination results and who — contempt privately acknowledging that helium had mislaid to Biden — yet executed that program to deadly effect connected Jan. 6, 2021. Per Ashley:
The latest: Biden to motion enforcement bid connected cause prices during California swing
President Biden volition motion an enforcement bid Friday, instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to research actions it could instrumentality to little medicine cause prices.
The bid is portion of an effort by Biden to item his administration’s efforts to fortify Medicare and Social Security and trim costs amid soaring inflation. During an ongoing sojourn to California, the president volition besides tout the provisions successful the Inflation Reduction Act to little medicine cause costs for seniors.
On our radar: It’s statement nighttime successful Georgia
The governmental satellite volition absorption connected Savannah, Ga., connected Friday nighttime erstwhile Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) shares a signifier with Republican challenger Herschel Walker for 1 of the astir anticipated debates of the midterm predetermination season.
It volition beryllium the archetypal gathering of the 2 candidates since stories surfaced that Walker, who opposes abortions successful each cases, allegedly paid for a pistillate to acquisition the process successful 2009 and subsequently pushed for the aforesaid pistillate to person different 1 2 years later. The communicative was archetypal reported by the Daily Beast.
On our radar: Trump says he’ll respond to Jan. 6 committee this morning
The Jan. 6 committee unanimously voted to subpoena grounds from erstwhile president Donald Trump connected Oct. 13. (Video: The Washington Post)
Former president Donald Trump is pledging to respond Friday greeting to a subpoena from the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol.
“I volition beryllium putting retired my effect to the Unselect Committee of governmental Hacks & Thugs time greeting astatine 8:00. Thank you!” Trump said successful a late-night posting Thursday connected Truth Social, his societal media network.
Earlier Thursday, the committee issued a subpoena seeking grounds and documents from Trump, a situation with small humanities precedent that members said was a indispensable last enactment earlier the sheet concludes its work.
Insight: The Senate statement successful Wisconsin turns personal
A statement Thursday successful Wisconsin rapidly turned to idiosyncratic attacks betwixt the 2 Senate candidates, with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) starting disconnected the hour-long league by characterizing his Democratic hostile arsenic offering “hollow left-wing rhetoric” and questioning whether helium has accomplished thing astatine all.
Mandela Barnes, the Democratic nominee for Senate and Wisconsin’s archetypal Black lieutenant governor, minimized Johnson’s occurrence successful the backstage sector.
Johnson’s “biggest accomplishment successful concern was … saying ‘I do.’ He joined into his business,” Barnes said. (Johnson spent overmuch of his vocation moving astatine a institution founded by his wife’s member and yet became the firm’s main executive.)
Noted: Secret Service knew of Capitol menace much than a week earlier Jan. 6
The House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol onslaught presented caller grounds connected Oct. 13, showing the Secret Service was alert of threats. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
The Secret Service had warnings earlier than antecedently known that supporters of President Donald Trump were plotting an equipped onslaught connected the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, according to records revealed successful a legislature proceeding Thursday.
The Post’s Carol D. Leonnig reports that Secret Service agents successful complaint of assessing the risks astir the protests had been tracking online chats connected pro-Trump websites and noted that rallygoers were vowing to bring firearms, people the Capitol for a siege and adjacent termination Vice President Mike Pence. Per Carol:
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