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The top of the Hour Radio News said Kevin McCarthy stepped in and said Liz Cheney will be part of any GOP Leadership. McCarthy’s support scuttles any effort to send the old bat packing. GOP Leadership: McCarthy, Cheney, Graham, McConnell

WASHINGTON -- Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump’s inaugural parade route. Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers. Officers arrested 217 protesters, CBS affiliate WUSA reports. Six police officers were hurt during the protests, including three who were hit in the head with flying objects. All of them have minor injuries.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made racial allegations against those who stormed the Capitol last week, stating they chose their “their whiteness” over Democracy. Pelosi made the comments during a video meeting with constituents in San Francisco. “It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy,” Pelosi said. It’s hard to even interpret what such a statement means. The protests had little to do with race and everything to do with simmering anger regarding election integrity. ... Pelosi’s comments...

A federal prosecutor, questioned about President Trump’s role in the Capitol riots, refused to rule out criminal charges. Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. Attorney for D.C., repeatedly assured reporters in a press call that he would investigate and charge “all actors” involved in Wednesday’s riot. Journalists pressed Sherwin about Trump’s speech and what motivating factor it may have been in inciting supporters to storm the Capitol. “I don’t want to sound like a broken record,” Sherwin said following a question specifically about the President. “I’m going to stand by my earlier statement – we’re looking at all actors here, and...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a racially charged statement regarding the Capitol protests and demanded social media platforms permanently ban President Trump. In a statement posted to social media, Mrs. Obama slammed the mostly pro-Trump crowd as a “gang” who “laid siege to the United States Capitol.” She called for full, unadulterated censorship of the President. “Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior – and go even further than they already have by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used...

President Trump tweeted Friday morning that he will not be attending the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” the president wrote. In a statement issued on Thursday, Trump vowed that there would be an “orderly transition” of power on the day that Biden’s inauguration and swearing-in ceremony will take place. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” the statement read. Despite promising an...

Two House members nearly came to blows and had to be separated by a Capitol staffer after several lawmakers had preached about coming together as Americans. The wild scene took place as lawmakers debated certifying the Electoral votes from Pennsylvania. An altercation reportedly took place between Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) and Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), though what prompted it remains unclear. Reporters in attendance, according to Fox News, suggest Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb’s characterization of the violence earlier in the day may have prompted the scuffle. “It didn’t materialize out of nowhere,” Lamb said of the violence. “It was...

Rep. Ilhan Omar said she is drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump and Rep. Cori Bush drafted a resolution calling on the expulsion of Republican lawmakers after the violence at the Capitol Wednesday. ... One of the newer members of the Squad, Cori Bush (D-MO) sought to hold Republican lawmakers responsible for the violence at the Capitol for the crime of challenging the Electoral College results. “I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences,” Bush tweeted. “They have broken their sacred Oath of...

Big tech giants Twitter and Facebook continued their assault on free speech, blocking President Trump from sharing messages with his followers, with at least one platform threatening a permanent ban. The move comes following violence at the Capitol that resulted in four deaths and 52 arrests. ... President Trump has long advocated for Republican lawmakers to repeal Section 230 – which provides liability protections for Big Tech companies. He suggested it “is a serious threat to our National Security [and] Election Integrity,” a point ultimately proven correct as social media platforms continuously censored the President and his supporters leading up...

Tulsi Gabbard, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, blasted her own Democrat party for eliminating gendered language from the official House rules. Speaker Nancy Pelosi proposed to eliminate the language and stated instead that only gender-neutral terms such as “parent,” “child,” “sibling” and “parent’s sibling” would be allowed. The rules package was passed along partisan lines on Monday. Gabbard called the removal of gendered language by the Democrats “the height of hypocrisy.” Removing the language, according to the Democrat Representative, “does the very opposite” of empowering women. “It’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions...

Stephane Girard said his outbuilding was hit with buckshot, a second near-miss at his homeStephane Girard remembers the day his wife heard gun shots close to their Elgin home. She asked if he had fired a gun: he hadn't. The avid hunter didn't think much of it until he went to paint his well house two days later and saw five buckshot holes in the siding. Girard said this isn't his first close call. "There was a near miss two years ago," he said. After hearing a gun fire, shots landed within about 40 metres of where he was working....

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continues to lose support among Republicans in the aftermath of a leaked video where he's caught making vulgar remarks about women. The most recent is former Secretary of State Colin Powell who said, two weeks before Election Day, that he is voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton. The ongoing condemnation from across the Republican Party by elected officials has resulted in 50 Republicans who have demanded he drop out or won't vote for him, according to NBC News' count. Here's how they break out: [cut] Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said Trump "let us down again" and...

A new Rasmussen survey indicates 72 percent of Republican voters want their legislators to be more like President Trump. In fact, in their view, Trump is an extraordinarily better role model than most members of Congress. The national telephone and online survey “finds that 72% of Likely Republican Voters think their party should be more like Trump than like the average GOP member of Congress,” Rasmussen reports. By contrast, 24 percent see the average Republican in Congress as a better example for their party. Overall, voters gave the “average member of Congress” 45 percent to just 40 percent for the...

The basic gist of the story is this: Mimi Groves posted a joke video years ago in which she used a racial slur. A half-black classmate of hers, Jimmy Galligan, saw that video and saved it, waiting for a chance to use it against her. Ms. Groves, a cheerleader, got accepted into the UT cheer program and admitted to the university, which was a dream come true for her. Mr. Galligan, once Ms. Groves had announced her exciting college plans, released the video on every social media site and turned a mistake she made years beforehand into a huge issue....

A video taken in December shows a “desperate” restaurant owner confronting a health inspector over COVID restrictions, blocking his vehicle in with a truck. The incident involved Carlos Roman, owner of Bread & Barley restaurant in Covina, California, and a health official checking that his establishment was adhering to the government’s onerous restrictions. Roman told CBS Los Angeles that he dipped into his personal savings and shelled out thousands of dollars to create a patio at his business for outdoor dining, only to have outdoor dining halted as well. The health inspector reportedly found two customers dining outside who Roman...

A team of data scientists testifying before a state Senate panel in Georgia earlier this week said thousands of votes were switched from President Donald Trump to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden during balloting last month. The team, led by Lynda McLaughlin that includes data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, told the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Wednesday they found that 17,650 votes changed from the president to Biden. “What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, we can prove it with data,” Mealey, who...

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been together for 37 years -- and the Hollywood couple have zero plans to tie the knot. The duo first began dating while filming 1984’s “Swing Shift” and have since built a life together without the need to get married. “You’ve just got to want to be together,” the actress told People magazine in this week’s cover story. “I don’t think there’s any other way to do it,” added the 75-year-old. Despite their union, the pair have been selective when it comes to working together, the outlet shared. They appeared together in 1987’s “Overboard”...

Olivia Troye, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, claims she is “very concerned” about violence taking place on January 6th. Troye, who made the assertion during an appearance on MSNBC’s Deadline, added any violence that might ensue would take place because President Trump is encouraging it. “I’m actually very concerned that there will be violence on January 6th because the president himself is encouraging it,” she fretted. “This is what he does,” Troye continued. “He tweets, he incites is, and he gets followers and supporters to behave in this manner, and they believe they are being patriots because...

Republican Josh Hawley (MO) became the first senator to announce he would back a plan by House GOP members to and object to election vote counts on January 6th. January 6th is the day that a joint session of Congress will be called and lawmakers officially certify the Electoral College votes. In a statement posted online, Hawley said he believed states like Pennsylvania failed to follow their own election laws, while social media platforms, like Twitter and Facebook, “interfere[d]” in the election. “At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity...

Among those attending the meeting were Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Trump Campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Four representatives-elect who will take their seats on Jan.3 2021 also committed their support: Barry Moore (R-AL), Bob Good (R-VA), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA.) They discussed logistics, such as what the objection language for each state would look like and how the floor proceedings will work. Gaetz announced his intentions publicly at Turning Point’s Student Action Summit in Florida this weekend. When Greene exited the...