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       Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family

       Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kushner is today set to appear virtually before the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. Mr Kushner is of interest to the investigation as an integral part of that administration.

       The meeting comes as White House records turned over to the committee by the National Archives and Records Administration do not include any calls made or received by Mr Trump between the hours of 11.17am and 6.54pm on the day of the storming of Congress.

       The panel is now probing whether Mr Trump or his advisers used untraceable “burner phones” to evade official record-keeping systems which documented the president’s inbound and outbound phone calls that day. Mr Trump denied doing so in a statement in which he claimed to have “no idea what a burner phone is” and has never used the term. However, law suits filed on his behalf and a statement by former national security adviser John Bolton indicate otherwise.

       Meanwhile, the current administration blasted Mr Trump’s request for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release potentially damaging information on President Joe Biden’s son in the middle of the war in Ukraine.

       “What kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin? There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said to reporters on Wednesday.

       Key Points Jared Kushner to meet with Jan 6 committee today John Bolton: Trump knew about ‘burner phones’ despite denial Trump hits out at Morning Joe hosts over condemnation for Putin favour Trump attacks Biden gas plan White House slams Trump’s call for favour from Putin

       Show latest update 1648746055 Cawthorn’s state senators back his primary challenger after orgy claims

       North Carolina’s Republican Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr said they’d support a primary challenge against freshman Represenative Madison Cawthorn after he made remarks alleging that colleagues engage in drugs and group sex.

       The Independent asked Mr Tillis about speaker of the North Carolina house of representatives Tim Moore and state president pro tempore Phil Berger partaking in a fundraiser for primary challenger Chuck Edwards. Mr Moore succeeded Mr Tillis as speaker after Mr Tillis won his Senate race in 2014.

       Eric Garcia reports from Capitol Hill.

       Madison Cawthorn’s state senators back his primary challenger after orgy claims Comes after Cawthorn made accusations that Republicans participate in orgies and do cocaine.

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 18:00

       1648745103 Biden to order 1 million barrels of oil per day released from US reserves

       President Joe Biden will authorise release of one million barrels of oil from US strategic petroleum reserves each day over the next six months as a “wartime bridge” to expected higher domestic production, White House officials said.

       Mr Biden is expected to make the announcement on Thursday as part of a plan to combat rising energy prices as a result of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the drop in supply brought on by US sanctions.

       Andrew Feinberg has details of the president’s plan that has already drawn the ire of Donald Trump.

       Biden to order 1 million barrels of oil per day released from US reserves ‘The President has said from the start that standing up to Putin's aggression would never be painless, but he's committed to doing everything he can help American families’

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 17:45

       1648744203 White House slams Trump’s call for favour from Putin

       The White House has blasted Donald Trump’s request for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release potentially damaging information on President Joe Biden’s son in the middle of the war in Ukraine.

       White House blasts Trump’s call for favour from Putin in midst of Ukraine war Communications director says only one American would even think this is the time to scheme with Putin

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 17:30

       1648743099 Pelosi: Ginni Thomas a ‘proud contributor to a coup’

       Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a withering condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday as it becomes clear that the highest court’s ethical standards and practices are facing historic scrutiny.

       At her weekly press briefing, the House Democratic leader told reporters that she never believed that Mr Thomas should have joined the Court in the first place, and added that his wife had been revealed as a “admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country”.

       The remarks were some of the sharpest criticism issued so far by a high ranking Democratic leader as the fallout over text messages Ginni Thomas sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows both prior to and following the January 6 attack continues.

       John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.

       Pelosi accuses SCOTUS Justice Thomas's wife of being a 'proud contributor to a coup' Speaker adds he never should have been appointed to court in the first place

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 17:11

       1648742403 Republican Senate campaign chief not backing down from party fight

       Barely halfway through his first Senate term, Florida Republican Rick Scott is already leaning into a fight against his own party’s leadership as he navigates a delicate alliance with former President Donald Trump and pushes a handcrafted policy agenda that many Republicans reject.

       GOP's Senate campaign chief won't back down from party fight Florida Sen. Rick Scott is barely halfway through his first term

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 17:00

       1648741203 DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine

       Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.

       That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.

       DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 16:40

       1648740925 Jared Kushner to meet with Jan 6 committee today

       Jared Kushner is today expected to meet virtually with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.

       Committee chairman Bennie Thompson told ABC News Mr Kushner is of interest “because he was an integral part of the administration. It’s, I think, important for us to find out if he knew anything about the planning before January 6, and to get it from him.”

       The committee has no evidence that he was involved in the planning for the events of 6 January 2021 and has not sought to obtain his email or phone records, Mr Thompson further told reporters.

       (AFP via Getty Images)

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 16:35

       1648740603 John Bolton: Trump knew about ‘burner phones’ despite denial

       Former president Donald Trump was aware that the slang term “burner phone” is used to describe an untraceable mobile phone used to evade surveillance and used the term on multiple occasions, his former national security adviser has said.

       Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

       Ex-Trump adviser claims Trump knew about ‘burner phones’ despite denial Amb John Bolton says Mr Trump’s claim to not know the slang term for a disposable, untraceable mobile phone is false

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 16:30

       1648740003 Trump hits out at Morning Joe hosts over condemnation for Putin favour

       Donald Trump once again launched an attack on an all-too-familiar target for the former president: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the husband and wife duo who co-host MSNBC’s popular Morning Joe programme alongside Willy Geist — this time about their reporting about his request to Vladimir Putin.

       Johanna Chisholm reports on the former president’s latest angry statement.

       Trump shoots back at Morning Joe’ hosts for calling him out on pro-Putin remarks The former president called the ‘low-rated’ Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski ‘psycho’

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 16:20

       1648739403 Trump attacks Biden gas price plan

       In a statement released through his spokesperson, Donald Trump has hit out at President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels per day of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months in a bid to combat high gas prices.

       The former president says: “So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration, and low energy prices, to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been mostly empty. It’s supposed to only be used for large-scale emergency or conflict. Now I see where Biden has just announced he’s going to take what we so carefully and magically built, and what will be a futile attempt to reduce oil and gasoline prices. They will soon bring it down to empty again. It just never ends!”

       Oliver O'Connell 31 March 2022 16:10

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