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Ray Epps’s January 6th interview is bizarro-world.The entire thing reads like an exculpatory public relations effort, replete with assistance from committee members more concerned with helping Epps clear his name than getting to the bottom of his actions that day. But Epps’s interview is even stranger than these “CYA” attempts.Reps Schiff, Murphy, Aguilar, and Kinzinger were present during the interview finally conducted on January 21st 2022, after months of work by Darren Beattie’s Revolver.news, among others, which brought Epps’s activities on January 5th and 6th to light.Here are the top 12 strange, stand-out moments:

Conservative Republican Rep. Bob Good of Virginia says the threat of a government shutdown should be used as “leverage” to force “fiscal responsibility.” But another Republican, Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida, is more cautious: “I think it should be considered as something of last resort. I don’t think it should be something that’s out there, it’s one of the first things that we’re going to do,” Giminez told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Monday. “That’s why I believe that there should be, along with any — any passage of any of the appropriations bills that come out of the House,...

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin declared the discovery of classified documents at the Penn Biden Center was a "huge win" for Donald Trump and said it "kills" the Mar-a-Lago case. "Absolutely no one's going to like this take, but I'm going to go there anyway," Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration aide, began. "I want to be clear the facts are different then the Trump case, however I think this is a huge win for Trump. Because if you're Merrick Garland, who is already extremely cautious and doesn't want to break the longstanding precedent of not indicting a president,...

President Joe Biden’s mishandled classified documents at the University of Pennsylvania’s “think tank” include intelligence materials related to Iran and Ukraine, according to CNN. Among the documents Biden stashed at the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the university were at least ten documents with classified markings on them. The classified documents were dated between 2013 and 2016 and reportedly contain classified intelligence inflation about Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

A federal judge in West Virginia has upheld a state law that prohibits biological male student athletes who identify and present themselves as female from playing on girl's school sports teams. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the Southern District of West Virginia ruled on Thursday that H.B. 3293, the "Save Women's Sports Bill," which defines "girl" and "woman" as biologically female for the purpose of secondary school sports, is "constitutionally permissible." The court found that West Virginia's definition of "biological sex" for school sports is "substantially related to its important interest in providing equal athletic opportunities for females."

WARSAW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 10th January, 2023) Poland is asking for the US Congress' help in making Germany agree to paying reparations for the damage inflicted on Warsaw during the Second World War, the Polish government's envoy for reparations, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, said on Tuesday. Poland has already made the same request to UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations, as well as 50 countries, including EU and NATO member states. "We are counting on the support of our partners from the United States, US legislators, in the issue of Poland receiving compensation for the consequences of...

A Las Vegas judge ordered the man facing terror-related charges connected to a fire at a southern Nevada solar facility to undergo a competency evaluation during a hearing Tuesday. As the 8 News Now Investigators reported Friday, Mohammad Mesmarian 34, faces terror-related charges for allegedly ramming a car through a fence at the facility and setting the car on fire next to a transformer. Mesmarian spoke out of turn during his first court appearance before Judge Nadia Wood. “Your honor, can I say something,” Mesmarian asked Wood. “There’s so much wrong in the whole system since I entered here. Nothing’s...

A Texas grand jury will decide whether or not criminal charges should be brought against a customer who shot and killed a robber in a Houston taqueria last week. Eric Eugene Washington, 30, died after being shot nine times - with one bullet hitting him execution-style in the head - by a vigilante customer who was said to be 'protecting everyone' in the Texas restaurant. It can now be revealed that Washington already had a lengthy rap sheet. He was already on bond for domestic violence for attacking his girlfriend during the ambush - and he previously spent six years...

BEIJING — China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to roll back harsh antivirus restrictions.The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers and issued temporary or permanent bans on 1,120 accounts.The ruling Communist Party had largely relied on the medical community to justify its tough lockdowns, quarantine measures and mass testing, almost all of which it abruptly abandoned last month, leading to a surge in new cases that...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow highlights the 2023 College Football Hall of Fame class. The two-time national champion and 2007 Heisman Trophy winner was among 18 players elected Monday. Tebow became the first sophomore to ever win college football's top individual honor, awarded to the most outstanding player.

The senior Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee is warning that government shutdowns are all but inevitable if the newly empowered Republicans insist on dropping federal funding back to 2022 levels, as some conservatives have demanded. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) emphasized that any spending bills will need the support of Democrats in both Congress and the White House, and vowed that they’d never back proposals that revert funding to last year’s levels. “You cannot pass appropriations bills without them being both bipartisan and bicameral. The president will not sign,” she said during a press briefing in the Capitol on...

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker closed the year — after his November general election and December runoff — with more than $5 million in cash on hand, new filings show. Walker's campaign filed its campaign finance reports covering the end of the runoff period through the end of the year late last week, documents that provide new transparency into how the campaign ended the political cycle. The campaign spent its war chest significantly in the final weeks — taking in $15 million and spending $19.8 million between Nov. 17 and Dec. 28 (while the runoff was on Dec. 6,...

Republicans in the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax. Fox News Digital has learned that the House will be voting on Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter's reintroduced Fair Tax Act that aims to reel in the IRS and remove the national income tax, as well as other taxes, and replace them with a single consumption tax. The vote on the bill was made as part of the deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and members of...

Hi Freepers Happy New Year! I humbly request a prayer for me and many others who feel skittish about their jobs. It would be wonderful if a great opportunity comes along or I can still keep my job for years to come. Alot of times, it's self-fulfilling prophecy (you can say lack of faith). I need to have more faith in God, believing that He protects from all harm. Amen. Thank you in advance for your prayers!

J’ accuse President Joseph Biden of the following allegations which require an investigation by an independent counsel, not any of his political appointments: Please feel free to add to the list. 1. Forcibly penetrating one of his senatorial staff’s vagina with his fingers after her refusal. Evidence: her statement. 2. Pinching the nipple of an 8-year-old girl. Evidence video online. 3. Taking “inappropriate showers” with his daughter a minor. Evidence: her statement. 4. Using his office to enrich himself and his family. Taking his son to other countries during official visits so he can do business with his father endorsing...

Joy Behar told her co-host Tuesday on ABC’s ‘The View” that President Joe Biden should get the “benefit of the doubt” regarding the classified documents found in his office while former President Donald Trump should not on classified documents removed from his Florida estate. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “So the White House says it’s been cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department’s review since November after discovering classified documents from when the president was the VP. They were locked in his old office.”

Eggs have been a pretty cheap, basic food across history. Well, they were cheap anyway, until recently: The rising cost of eggs in the U.S. is denting household budgets. Americans in recent years have increased the number of eggs they consume while reducing their intake of beef and venison, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ... In California, for example, data shows the average price for a dozen eggs reached $7.37 last week, compared with $2.35 a year ago. The national average egg price per dozen wholesale is now $3.30, the USDA said last week. The average...

Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon has filed impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, delivering on a promise he made last week before the 118th Congress was officially sworn in. The articles of impeachment against Mayorkas for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” known as House Resolution 8, were introduced by Fallon in the House on Monday and have been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Last week, Fallon vowed to file impeachment articles against Mayorkas after the Congress was sworn in. The effort from Republicans in the House is one of many that the new GOP majority will take as...

“More Freedom, Less Government, and We are Just Getting Started,” Lauren Boebert announced before she cast her vote for the first bill for this congress. She announced the first bill is two pages long, one subject and zero earmarks, and “it will help stop the harassment of the American citizens by prohibiting those 87,000 agents from ever being hired. That’s conservative governance at its finest.” The vote to repeal the Democrat’s plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents was unanimous. Speaker McCarthy tweeted “House Republicans just voted unanimously to repeal the Democrat’s army of 87,000 IRS agents. This was our...

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs. “Two years older than me, Willy was the Heir, whereas I was the Spare,” the exiled prince wrote in explaining the title of his memoir, “Spare,” which was officially released Tuesday. “I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B. I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy,” he wrote of his 40-year-old brother and current heir to the throne, William. He said he understood his role was to be a...