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Attorney John Durham's inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation, which critics claim is meant to discredit Mueller's work. Barr is also under intense scrutiny for U.S. Weissmann, now an NBC News legal analyst, has defended the FBI while raising concerns about Barr, who faced criticism this week after he intervened in the case of Roger Stone, another Trump associate caught up in Mueller's investigation. Louis, to work alongside the Flynn case's lead prosecutor Brandon Van Grack one month after the former Trump national security adviser filed to withdraw his guilty plea in Mueller's investigation. Dude, look in the mirror."All they did was swapped out a loser case for starting an investigation that is going to be of Comey, McCabe, Pete Strzok," Weissmann told MSNBC host Chuck Todd.Īll three officials were involved in the investigation into the Trump 2016 campaign's alleged ties to Russia, which Trump and his allies have called a "witch hunt." Mueller, who took over the inquiry after FBI Director James Comey was fired in May 2017, found no criminal conspiracy when the investigation ended last year.Īttorney General William Barr picked Jensen, the top federal prosecutor in St. "During these times, we need to be able to put differences aside and work to support one another," complained Kittitas County Commissioner Laura Osiadacz. Maybe Biden can help by, say, canceling all student debt and making public school more affordable? Just spitballing!Īccording to Kittitas County officials, the Washington State Department of Transportation refused their help to clear record-levels of snow from the roads because the county has no vaccine mandate for their employees, reports KOMO. Wild that the prospect of racking up tens of thousands of dollars in debt while attending Zoom school isn't appealing to Generation Z. In a statement released yesterday, McCarthy called the investigation "illegitimate" and said the "committee's only objective is to attempt to damage its political opponents." The committee is interested in McCarthy because he spoke with President Trump as rioters ravaged the Capitol building and "may also have been involved in conversations afterward about the president's culpability in the assault," reports the New York Times.Ĭollege enrollment hits record lows: Over 1 million fewer students are currently enrolled in college than before COVID hit the United States, the lowest that number has been in 50 years, reports NPR. Kevin McCarthy to cooperate with their inquiry-and the House Republican minority leader refused to play ball. The House select committee on the January 6 insurrection asked Rep. Rain decreases through the day, with mostly dry weather by tomorrow! #wawx /gC7FJdQTM1 Some rain spreading across the area this morning, so be sure to plan ahead if you're heading out this morning. I slept with my window open for the first time in ages. I'm surprised at how balmy yesterday and the day before were. Weather break: Expect some rain this morning, but things will get progressively less soggy throughout the day. Neither the OPA report nor the Police Department have named the officer, who’s referred to in the OPA report, Maxey said, as Named Employee #4. Yet one of the employees who left, in September 2020, returned last month, Brian Maxey, the department’s chief operating officer, said Wednesday. They are expected to announce a federal deployment of medical teams to six states where the teams will be "providing relief, triaging patients, and helping to decompress overwhelmed emergency departments" according to one official, reports CNN. Speaking of: Today, President Biden is scheduled to give a speech on his administration's response to the pandemic and will be joined by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. and U.K., there's still a lot more people who will get sick between now and then. While there's talk of a rapid drop in cases in the U.S. According to the Seattle Times, we hit 500,000 cases in August and officially lost over 10,000 Washingtonians to the virus as of last Friday. Washington state racks up one million cases of COVID-19: Nearly two years after our first recorded case of the disease, our state hit the landmark number largely "thanks" to the highly contagious omicron variant, which caused nearly vertical case growth in the past month.