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Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared on CNN on Sunday to discuss the January 6 Capitol protest. Pence told CNN’s “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper that the FBI did not contribute to the January 6 Capitol protest and cheered the arrest of more than 1,200 Trump supporters. “I’ve heard the many repeated assurances from the FBI that they were not involved, and I take them at their word,” Pence said. Pence said he takes FBI Director Christopher Wray at his word that the FBI did not instigate the riot. “I’ve seen the director of the FBI repeatedly assure...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied Monday he was behind a 2020 statement signed by 51 current and former intelligence officials that discredited a report by The New York Post about Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation. Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the CIA and one of the 51 signatories of the public statement, told the House Judiciary Committee in a recent deposition that on or around Oct. 17, 2020, Blinken, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, reached out to him to discuss the laptop story. Morell said although the outreach was couched as gathering...