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During two interviews on January 2, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) outlined steps moving forward after months of investigation of the violent January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters.

The Chair of the special committee to investigate the January 6, 2021 attack said in a January 2nd interview that the violent insurrection appeared to be a coordinated effort on the part of a number of people to undermine the election.

Thompson also indicated that the Department of Defense may have interfered with assistance to the Capitol from the National Guard.

There were significant inconsistencies in coordination, that the National Guard from the District of Columbia was slow to respond, not on its own, but it had to go to the Department of Defense. We have actually fixed that right now, where the mayor of the District of Columbia can access the Guard right now, Thompson said.

Thompson is planning televised hearings of the committees work in January. Thompson also mentioned a task force within the committee that will investigate the financial support of Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The committee is bi-partisan with two Republicans: Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Liz Cheney (R-WY).

The attack on the legislative branch of the U.S. government happened on the same day that the election of President Joe Biden was to officially be certified as the victor of the 2020 presidential election by Congress. The certification process is typically a non-eventful procedure that involves officially receiving the certification papers of all the states during an hours-long ceremony and vote on the House floor.

There were 147 Republicans in the U.S. House who voted against the certification of Bidens election even after the violent attack on the Capitol.

On January 6, 2021, former President Trump, who lost to President Joe Biden on November 3, 2020 by over 7,052,770 votes, had only 14 days left to remain in The White House before Bidens inaugural. On the morning of January 6, 2021, Trump appeared at a gathering of his supporters and lied to them, as he had since November 2020 claiming the election was stolen. Trumps lie that his election loss was the result of fraud has been advanced on Facebook by his supporters and in right-wing media non-stop.

I think it is critically important, given everything we know about the lines that he was willing to cross he crossed lines no American president has ever crossed before. You know, we entrust the survival of our republic into the hands of the chief executive, and when a president refuses to tell the mob to stop, when he refuses to defend any of the coordinate branches of government, he cannot be trusted, Rep. Cheney said about Donald Trump on January 2.

Trump lost to Biden by double the amount of votes that he lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Clinton won the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes but lost the electoral college 304 to 227.

All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what theyre doing. And stolen by the fake news media, Trump bellowed from a stage on the eclipse near The White House. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesnt happen. You dont concede when theres theft involved, Trump continued citing no evidence.

Several Republican election officials in states such as Georgia, Arizona and New Mexico certified Biden as the winner of the election without controversy.

Trumps supporters violently attacked the Capitol shortly after Trumps speech, over-running entrances, assaulting police officers and breaking glass doors as Vice President Michael Pence during the violent insurrection at the Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called Governors in surrounding states for assistance from their National Guard.

Trumps supporters set up a fake guillotine they said was for Pence on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol between the reflecting pool and a memorial of U.S. Grant. Trumps supporters chanted hang Mike Pence in the Capitol during the insurrection.

We have significant testimony that leads us to believe that the White House had been told to do something. We want to verify all of it, Thompson said on CNN.

The next committee meeting is expected soon.

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Why don't the union bosses in America represent their union members anymore? Could it be because the union leadership has become more beholden to the Democratic politicians in Washington than the rank-and-file workers who pay the dues?

We saw an example of this betrayal of the workers not long ago when the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters brass endorsed Joe Biden for president even though Biden openly opposed all fossil fuels and wanted to end the building of pipelines.

Talk about selling the rope to the hangman. The union bosses acted surprised that Biden's first act as president was to kill several thousand union jobs by killing the Keystone XL pipeline. And in recent months, the Biden officials have been on a crusade to shutdown Midwest pipelines that carry natural gas to the midwestern states.

More recently, we witnessed one of the dumbest union leadership campaigns in American history. The United Mine Workers Association endorsed the Build Back Better bill, which is stuffed with $550 billion of subsidies for green energy projects and energy mandates explicitly designed to kill America's coal production. Wipe coal and coal miners right out of existence.

Then, UMWA President Cecil Roberts wrote an extraordinary letter to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, admonishing him for opposing the bill. "We are disappointed that the bill will not pass," Roberts said. "We urge Sen. Manchin to revisit his opposition to this legislation and work with his colleagues to pass something that will help keep coal miners working." Manchin was standing up for the coal miners in his state. Why wouldn't the union do the same?

I've been to Charleston, West Virginia, and talked to many of the coal miners. They hatethe Biden bill and know that their jobs are in jeopardy. They remember that Hillary Clinton came to West Virginia in 2016 and told the coal miners that under her plan, these workers could build wind panels instead. They laughed at her arrogance and fantasy.

The UMWA wants more funding for victims of black lung and other benefits for laid-off coal miners. That's fine. But if Build Back Better passes, there won't be any miners left working in states like West Virginia, and the UMWA will be defunct.

What's next, the Steelworkers union coming out against steel production?

Even the United Auto Workers union is putting at risk tens of thousands of union jobs by backing Biden's risky plan to divert production of gasoline-powered cars toward electric vehicles. More than 90 percent of the car sales in the U.S. are still traditional cars. If they are not made in the U.S., they will be made in Japan, Korea and Germany. How does that create union jobs?

The union bosses haven't caught on to the reality that the green movement they are partnering up with is essentially supporting an agenda that will deindustrialize America. There is no way that we can have a $22 trillion economy that makes everything from steel to cars to pipelines to buildings and airplanes and technology and corn and cotton without affordable energy. My question for the union bosses is: How do we create jobs in America if our energy comes from wind turbines and solar panels ... made in China?

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at Freedom Works. He is also author of the new book: "Govzilla: How The Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy."

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The 2022 midterm elections are still ten months away, but Democrats already have reason to be concerned about their presidential ticket in 2024 namely, over the fact that none of the potential candidates have the stature to win a general election, nor the experience to lead when in office.

President Joe Biden realistically will not seek a second term due to his age, and Kamala Harris is less popular than any other vice president in recent history. Even if Harris herself was slightly more viable, the Biden Administrations unpopularity has become a millstone around Democrats neck, and she would inevitably be tainted by the administrations political baggage.

Indeed, voters are turning on the Biden presidency: Republicans now lead in the 2022 generic vote for Congress; and in a hypothetical Trump-Biden rematch, 48 percent of voters say they would back Trump, compared with 45 percent for Biden.

Assuming Harris will not be the default nominee, we can expect that a drawn-out primary process will ensue in which progressives and moderates duke it out in a contest that further exposes the partys deep divisions. Other Democrats that could potentially win such a primarylike Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegmay be relatively stronger than Harris, though not much.

There is only one potential solution, which Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently suggested could happen: bring back Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton would offer Democrats a new approach that is separate and apart from the Biden Administration. She would also likely sweep in a primary race, allowing the party to quickly coalesce around one candidate.

Admittedly, a Clinton candidacy is unlikely to occur. However, the fact that it is even being discussed reflects the degree to which the Democrats have moved away from their traditional positioning, and how extreme the partys positions have become in international and domestic affairs.

That being said, the Biden Administration has three major problems that a Clinton candidacy could remedy.

First: their foreign policy. The administration either does not have a coherent foreign policy strategy, or their approach has failed.

In August, the world watched the U.S. botch the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, which led to Taliban militants with ties to transnational terrorist groups seizing control of the country. The Biden Administration still has not articulated a strategy to deal with the wide-ranging fallout from Afghanistannamely, how to confront the militaristic aggression exhibited by China and Russia, two autocratic nations emboldened by the U.S.s strategic failure.

Second: the administrations rudderless domestic policyespecially following the failed effort to pass Bidens Build Back Better plan before the end of the year. To that end, majorities of voters disapprove of Bidens handling of major domestic issuesincluding the economy (53 percent) and immigration (56 percent), per a recent Politico/Morning Consult poll.

The third problema biproduct of the first twois President Bidens deteriorating overall approval rating, which now stands at just 43 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove, per Politico/Morning Consult.

Bidens overall decline is largely attributable to a drop among Independent voters. Though Biden won Independents handily in 2020, just 33 percent of Independents now approve of the job Biden is doing, while 59 percent disapprove.

In light of these three major problems, only a pivot to Hillary Clintonas desperate a move as that may becan save the party from evisceration in the midterms and a potential wipe out in 2024.

This would begin with Biden forcing a resignation from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and elevating Clinton to the position. If appointed, she would become the frontrunner for 2024 in the event that Biden does not seek a second term.

In terms of addressing the first problem Ive identified; Clinton represents a clear new direction in foreign policy.

If past is precedent, Clinton would be tougher on China for their undemocratic actions toward Taiwan and Hong Kong, and for their human rights abuses against religious minorities. As Secretary of State, Clinton spear-headed the Obama Administrations pivot to Asia, and made it known early on that the U.S. would not sit by as China took aggressive actions in the South China Sea.

With regard to the Middle East, though Clinton has voiced skepticism about the Iranians, she was more cautious in her approach to the Iran Nuclear Deal than the president she served under.

On domestic policy, Clinton has one primary advantage: she would be able to create distance between herself and the letdowns of the Biden-Harris Administration, while still offering experience.

And in light of the controversy surrounding the abortion bans in Texas and Mississippi, Clinton could be uniquely positioned to excite groups of Democratic and Independent female voters. She has throughout her career championed womens rights, and of course, was the first women to be the presidential nominee of a major political party.

To be sure, I am well-aware that Hillary Clinton lost an election she should not have.

In retrospect, that was most likely the result of the October Surprise of FBI Director James Comey reopening the investigation into her email server. Some will say it had more to do with Russias interference, others will point to her campaigns lack of an economic message.

Clinton remains ambitious, outspoken, and convinced that but for Comeys intervention that she would have won the 2016 electionand she may well be right.

Thus, with the correct messaging, one could argue that Clinton has the stature, the positions, and the record that Democrats need.

If we are to have a foreign policy that is respected around the world and Democratic leadership at home that is a clear break from the Biden Administration, at this point, there is no clear alternative.

Douglas Schoen is a longtime Democratic political consultant.

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Human rights are womens rights and womens rights are human rights, Hillary Clinton said at the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Her words were reaffirmed at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards, an annual awards ceremony held on campus that recognizes and celebrates women who have advanced global peace and security. The event included remarks from Hillary Clinton and President John J. DeGioia, as well as Melanne Verveer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for global womens issues and current executive director for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS).

The 2021 awardees hail from around the worldMexico, Russia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, and Chinaand focus their work on a wide range of issues affecting women, from climate change to ending child marriage. Despite facing resistance and threats from authorities, they continue to pioneer womens rights activism in their countries and fields of expertise.

Awardee Marina Pisklakova Parker from Russia created the first hotline for reporting domestic abuse in Russia, an issue often disregarded by Russian authorities. Palwasha Hassan from Afghanistan pioneered the first womens legal support organization in Afghanistan, Roazana, and continues to advocate for womens access to education while in exile in the U.S.

Following the awards ceremony, Verveer led a discussion with the recipients, during which they reminisced about the 1995 conference and the impact it had on their work and on the larger context of gender equality.

The conference itself was a turning point in both the definition and the fight for gender equality, Clinton said.

Awardee Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), added, Beijing was a change in my view, Beijing was a change in human history. I think we really need to see it in this bigger dimension.

Clinton and Verveer extended gratitude and recognition to womens rights activists in Afghanistan in particularincluding Hassan, director of The Afghan Womens Educational Center.

I especially want to recognize and celebrate an especially courageous group of women: women from Afghanistan, Verveer said. We and others have been working to help evacuate them and will continue to support them and their resettlement.

Georgetown and GIWPS have been active in responding to the crisis in Afghanistan by helping the evacuation efforts of women activists through the GIWPS-launched Protect Afghan Women project established last summer. The initiative supports Afghan women whose lives are in imminent danger through a donations-based emergency fund. Georgetown also co-founded the U.S.-Afghan Womens Council (USAWC), a non-partisan public-private partnership bringing different stakeholders together to support Afghan women and girls education, health care, economic empowerment, and leadership, in 2002.

Following the event, Clinton visited Lauinger Librarys fifth floor exhibition highlighting the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, which includes 85 artifacts gathered by Verveer from the conferences time. Students gathered around the library hoping to catch a glimpse of Clinton as she left the building.

For many Georgetown students, attending the event and seeing an influential political figure like Clinton was an incredible opportunity to engage with global issues they care deeply about.

I love being able to attend these events where I get to relate them with what Im learning in my classes, in the news, and with what Im doing outside of academics, Elisabeth Koch (SFS 24) said.

Koch also emphasized her appreciation of Clinton and the awardees acknowledgement of the long-term action still needed to improve gender equality worldwide. Among the long-term goals Clinton and the awardees emphasized were the inclusion of women in climate change negotiations and the creation of a global treaty that addresses domestic violence.

We have a lot at stake and we need women leaders from every corner of the globe to continue to speak up, to stand out, and yes, to seek power, Clinton said.

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Hillary Clinton has urged the Democratic Party to be clear eyed about what wins elections, ahead of next years potentially defining midterms.

The former presidential candidates warning appears to be aimed squarely at the progressive wing of the party, which has grown in size and influence over the past few years.

Speaking to MSNBCs Willie Geist, Ms Clinton asserted that the Democrats need candidates who are capable of winning in purple states, in order to have a Congress that will get things done.

The splintering of the Democrats has been especially apparent of late, with President Joe Bidens Build Back Better legislation coming under fire from centrists like Joe Manchin.

For the partys establishment figures, Ms Clinton included, concerns remain over the growing influence of The Squad a group of progressive representatives whose support amongst young people is well documented.

Leading members of the group include Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, who are already two of the most well-known Democrats in Washington.

Cuatro congresistas demcratas de color conocidas como 'The Squad' han ayudado a inflar las filas de progresistas en la Cmara de Representantes de Estados Unidos.

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For Ms Clinton, however, who lost the 2016 Presidential election to Donald Trump, the party has to be mindful of its overall strategy heading into next years midterms.

I think that it is a time for some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat or so-called progressive Democrat is going to win, the 74-year-old stated.

Regarding the current state of the Democratic party, she added:Weve got to be very clear eyed about what its going to take to hold the House and the Senate in 2022.

And to win the electoral college because also Republicans are doing everything they can to create an environment in which winning the Electoral College, even narrowly the way Joe Biden did, will be out of reach for Democrats.

With Joe Bidens current approval rating consistently hovering below 50 per cent, the GOP is expected to make huge gains in both houses next year.

With this in mind, the former secretary of state has emphasised the importance of trying to keep and maybe even add to the partys narrow majority in the House of Congress.

Nothing is going to get done if you dont have a Democratic majority in the House. Our majority in the Senate comes from people who can win in not just blue states and hold those wins ... but can win in more purpleish states, she said.

Winning the midterms in 2022, while crucial, very much depends upon the Democratic party rallying to form a compelling and coherent message to voters.

Nevertheless, the partys clear lack of unity over domestic issues, including the Presidents $1 trillion infrastructure bill, does nothing but shine a light on existing divisions.

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