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• Shafik says professor who called Hamas attack "awesome" was removed as committee chair but later walks back answer
• Shafik says Columbia is firing professor who posted support for Hamas after October 7 attack
• At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses
• Angry fights over past elections – but they can't compare to 2020
• Committee chair Bennie Thompson to open by saying "we can't sweep what happened under the rug"

But in all these contested elections, the president or nominee never called the election or the process illegitimate. The president or nominee never assailed the process before the election began (as Trump did) and never sought to mobilize public opinion against the very procedures that elected the eventual winner. In 2000, Florida gripped the nation as a recount tried to assess obvious questions about voter intent in some counties.

Shafik says professor who called Hamas attack "awesome" was removed as committee chair but later walks back answer

"January 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup. A brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident." Barr said he couldn't live in a world where an incumbent administration stays in power based on "unsupported by specific evidence that there was fraud in the election." Cheney said testimony will also show that Trump refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave the Capitol.

Shafik says Columbia is firing professor who posted support for Hamas after October 7 attack

The committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, will deliver an opening statement insisting the attack on the Capitol was an "attempt to undermine the will of the people." Cheney detailed the committee's plans to examine the legal strategy underpinning Trump's efforts to overturn the election results, specifically the work of conservative attorney John Eastman, a professor who crafted a plan for Pence to reject states' electoral votes. The committee is planning several more hearings this month to continue laying out the findings of the 11-month investigation. Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney in their extraordinary opening statements detailed how many Trump administration officials themselves did not believe the former president's baseless claims of a stolen election. Miller emphasized that the military must play a "subordinate role" when it comes to troops needed to get involved in domestic situations to support local law enforcement agencies.

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At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses

"We're deeply disturbed by what we're seeing at Columbia, any of the things we've heard in today's hearing," US Rep. Virginia Foxx said. While Republicans say their inquiry is ultimately focused on the president, they have taken particular interest in Hunter Biden and his overseas business dealings, questioning whether the president profited from that work. He added, “There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing — they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life — so much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people. Shelving the contempt of Congress charges would likely further stoke conservative criticism that the Justice Department is politicized — especially given that two one-time advisers to former President Donald Trump were prosecuted for contempt of Congress by the Biden administration. If the contempt referral against Hunter Biden passes the full House it would be yet another challenge for federal prosecutors already under heavy scrutiny for their handling of charges against him related to his taxes and gun use.

While the Democratic-led House select committee was laying out its findings on the Capitol insurrection, Republican leaders were again blasting the panel — and trying to change the subject. In opening statements, committee members have put former President Donald Trump squarely at the center of a conspiracy over election fraud that led to the deadly riot that day. At the end of Wednesday's hearing, Foxx left open the possibility that the committee would convene another hearing centered on Columbia. She told school officials, "We are prepared to bring you back if we don't see more tangible progress." Columbia is under investigation by the House Education Committee for "the inadequacy of Columbia's response to antisemitism on its campus," according to a letter the committee sent to the school.

DC police officer explains why he is referring to the Jan. 6 rioters as "terrorists"

TikTok has blasted lawmakers’ efforts to potentially ban the app as an affront on free speech and disputes lawmakers’ suggestions that it is beholden to China or any government. The Senate plans to take the matter up Tuesday, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement emailed to The Post. TikTok is “a spy balloon in Americans’ phones” used to “surveil and exploit America’s personal information,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said Saturday as he introduced the measure for debate. The unorthodox maneuver could expedite the crackdown’s path through Congress, where negotiations had slowed after an earlier attempt hurtled through the House last month. With growing support in the Senate, the legislation appears more likely than ever to become law. The topic surfaced early in Wednesday’s hearing about Columbia, and the Columbia witnesses did not hesitate when they answered.

Committee chair Bennie Thompson to open by saying "we can't sweep what happened under the rug"

House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine. Four Columbia University officials, including the university’s president and the leaders of its board, went before Congress on Wednesday to try to extinguish criticism that the campus in New York has become a hub of antisemitic behavior and thought. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici asked Columbia President Minouche Shafik, board co-chairs David Greenwald and Claire Shipman and David Schizer, co-chair of a task force on antisemitism, for a simple yes or no response. All four said “yes,” calls for the genocide of Jews would violate Columbia’s code of conduct. The arrival of the president’s son at the Oversight Committee, which has been engaged in a yearlong probe, sitting in the audience with his legal team, including attorney Abbe Lowell, sent the panel into chaos.

Investigations into Columbia

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Capitol kicked off the first in a series of public hearings with never-before-seen footage from the attack that day as well as clips of videotaped testimony from some of people in former President Donald Trump's orbit, including his daughter Ivanka Trump. The hearings might lead the House committee to recommend more criminal charges, says William Banks, a professor of law and public policy at Syracuse University. But any actions the DOJ may take in the aftermath of the hearings and the committee's report on the investigation could take time. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, spoke to reporters after the panel's first hearing wrapped. Lawmakers heard from four police officers who tried to defend the US Capitol during the riot. The prime time hearing of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack ended with a video montage of various rioters saying why they showed up to try to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.

Cheney says McCarthy was "scared" and called Trump's family members on Jan. 6

But the main theme of the hearing was detailing the chaos and violence of Jan. 6, 2021. Cheney said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy texted Trump family members and told them he was "scared" about what was happening. Miller also told the committee that there are “complexities to redeploying forces in an urban environment" that also played a role.

Attorney for Delaware, Trump appointee David Weiss, who Garland kept on to finish the probe and insulate it from claims of political interference. Garland granted Weiss special counsel status last month, giving him broad authority to investigate and report his findings. The panel has reserved seats for some members of the "gallery group," a group of Democratic lawmakers who were stuck in the House gallery on Jan. 6 while others were being evacuated. Among those who'll attend Thursday night are Democratic Reps. Ann Kuster of New Hampshire, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington. In addition to the widows of Officers Liebengood and Smith, we can expect to see House Democratic lawmakers sitting in the audience at the Jan. 6 committee hearing tonight.

Meanwhile, GOP appointees like Justice Samuel Alito sounded more concerned with presidents facing criminal accountability than with the dangers of presidents committing crimes with impunity. But since then, a number of senators have come out in favor of the proposal and plans to tuck it into the foreign aid package. Cantwell announced Wednesday that she now supports the legislation after lawmakers agreed to give ByteDance more time to sell off TikTok. After House lawmakers passed the earlier TikTok legislation in just over a week, many senators called for slowing down deliberations in the upper chamber. Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), whose committee has jurisdiction over the bill, initially expressed concerns about whether the proposal could withstand legal scrutiny and called for hearings. The response offered a stark contrast to the lawyerly answers that university presidents provided during the December hearing before the same committee.

There are hundreds of still-unidentified photographs of rioters on the FBI's "most wanted" website, indicating that plenty of people who stormed the Capitol haven't been charged yet — and that the unprecedented investigation continues. In an exchange with Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch, the lawmaker asked about remarks Miller made earlier this year to Vice saying he believed Trump's speech on the morning of Jan. 6 incited the rioters who stormed the US Capitol. “Outright propaganda and lies are being used to unleash the national security state against law-abiding US citizens, especially Trump voters,” Gosar said. “In my career as a judge and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol,” Garland said.