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Former federal prosecutor Kash Patel slams Republican lawmakers for failing to take charge and hold accountable corrupt government officials.

John Solomon shares an anecdote about the time he called Hunter Biden for a comment on a story he was writing and then-Vice President Joe Biden answered the phone.

At CNN’s town hall event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump said most people understand how the 2020 election was rigged. “…It’s a shame that we had to go through it, it's very bad for our country,” said Trump.

At CNN’s town hall event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump said he can’t get a fair trial in Washington D.C. or New York City.

James Cameron, Director of 'Titanic': "I think there is a great almost surreal irony here which is Titanic sank because the captain took it full steam into an ice field at night on a moonless night with very poor visibility after he had been repeatedly warned by telegram during the day that that's what was ahead of him."

“The famous socks case”: Speaking at the Georgia State GOP convention in Columbus, Georgia on Saturday, former President Trump highlighted the precedent set by the legal fight between Judicial Watch and former President Bill Clinton over audio tapes in Clinton's sock drawer that led to legal precedent regarding records held by former presidents.

Representative James Comer (R-KY) addresses the allegation that President Joe Biden’s grandchildren deposited funds from the family’s business schemes into his bank accounts. “In one of the interviews that we haven’t, I don’t believe, disclosed the transcript yet, the witness made reference to an account we didn’t know about. We’re researching that account. They also said that that account could’ve possibly been paid with some infusion from the grandchildren,” says Rep. Comer.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described having to evacuate a riotous Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as traumatic. But Capitol Police security footage obtained by Just the News shows the long-time Democrat leader exited Hollywood-style from the home of Congress that fateful day with her daughter filming her as security officers tried to guide her through a secret safe passage corridor.

Representative James Comer (R-KY) talks about the House Oversight Committee's government-wide investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to influence the U.S. “Our objective is to counter this infiltration and dismantle it,” says Rep. Comer.

Representative James Comer (R-KY) shares the biggest takeaway from the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door interview on Tuesday with Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden business associate involved in early contacts with CEFC China Energy. “We’ve now had two of the former Biden associates, Tony Bobulinksi and Devon Archer, who both said that Joe Biden was the brand, he knew all the people that were involved in sending his family millions of dollars, he met with all of them despite lying about it. And I think that is really the biggest news of the day,” says Rep. Comer.

Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says taped depositions of January 6 star witness Cassidy Hutchinson and all other testifiers from the original January 6 Select Committee investigation are now missing. “I wrote a letter to Bennie Thompson asking for them and he confirmed that they did not preserve those tapes. He didn’t feel that they had to,” Rep. Loudermilk says. “But according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and any information and documents that are used in an official proceeding.”

Former President Donald Trump shares his take on Republicans' strategy for tackling the debt ceiling. Trump says both Republicans and Americans “gained nothing” in the budget deals negotiated by Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Speaking at the Georgia State GOP convention in Columbus, Georgia on Saturday, former President Trump says the “joke of an indictment” by the Biden Justice Department has increased his poll numbers.

Cornell University Law Professor and Equal Protection Project Founder William Jacobson says the aggressive “racialization” of higher education institutions have fed student activists’ antisemitic hate toward Israel. “Much like Jews have been singled out for centuries as the obsession of hate, now Israel has been singled out by student activists and many faculty and some administrations as the object of hate,” says Jacobson.

Former federal prosecutor Kash Patel discusses potential legal hurdles facing the prosecution team’s case against former President Donald Trump. Patel adds that Trump's second indictment is a “very weak case for the government.”

King Charles and Queen Camilla waved to onlookers in Parliament Square on Saturday, May 6, as the coronation procession returned to Buckingham Palace. The royal couple was accompanied by nearly 4,000 armed forces personnel for the largest ceremonial military operation of its kind since the coronation of the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. King Charles can be seen wearing the Imperial State Crown, with Queen Camilla wearing the Queen Mary’s Crown. Both crowns were placed on the monarchs’ heads during the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey. Credit: David Torrance via Storyful

Title 42 is expected to come to an end on Thursday. Border agents, state and local officials and even President Biden’s top aides in Washington are all bracing for an immigration surge, tens of thousands of immigrants are expected to show up at the U.S. southern border in the coming days. According to CNN, people have already begun crossing into U.S. border towns, anticipating the end of Title 42. Three cities in Texas — Brownsville, Laredo and El Paso — have declared a state of emergency.

Representative Max Miller (R-OH) says former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s contradictory testimony to the original January 6 Select Committee exposes the “two-tier system of justice” in Congress. “The truth is coming out bit by bit and we’re seeing it as it goes along,” says Rep. Miller.

GRAPHIC: A passenger on the New York subway who held a man in a chokehold for several minutes was released without charge on May 2, pending further investigation, according to a New York Post report citing police. The man held in the chokehold died. Footage posted to the Luces de Nueva York Facebook page shows two men holding a man down on the subway. One of the men is applying a chokehold. The New York Post named the dead man as Jordan Neely, 30. He is seen in the footage flailing his arms around. Reportedly, the man was homeless and had a mental episode on the train half an hour before the men began aggressively restraining his movements. Neely was rendered unconscious after approximately 30 minutes of being choked and held down on the floor, while no other passengers intervened, most watched and others recorded the entire scene, as the cell phone video footage makes apparent. According to the NYT, Mr. Neely was not able to be revived by the time the ambulance got to him, after allegedly administering CPR and other life-saving techniques, EMS workers declared the man dead shortly after. The Post and the New York Times reported that the man who applied the hold to his neck was taken into custody before being released without charge amid an ongoing investigation. Credit: Luces de Nueva York/Juan Alberto Vazquez via Storyful Link to NY Post source: https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/nyc-subway-rider-who-placed-unhinged-man-in-deadly-chokehold-released-cops/

The House of Representatives voted 213-209 to censure Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) over allegations he made accusing former President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign. Congressional lawmakers on the chamber floor broke into disorder, chanting “Shame! Shame!” over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while he attempted to read the adopted resolution.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a less than welcoming reception at the Fancy Farm Picnic in Kentucky, with some attendees interrupting him and yelling 'retire' and 'ditch Mitch.' The calls for retirement come after McConnell froze in mid-sentence during a previous event, but he later resumed answering questions.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) discusses the letter he and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calling for a full account of U.S.-manufactured weapons seen in the hands of Hamas terrorists and Russian soldiers. "This shouldn't be a hard question to answer,” says Rep. Comer.

The manhunt continues for those responsible for the mass shooting that caused at least 28 injuries and 2 deaths in the South Baltimore, Maryland area. Mayor Brandon Scott (D-Baltimore) issued several statements Monday morning regarding his opinions and ongoing updates on the case. In an interview, the mayor stated that he "will not rest" until the shooters are found, and that the public should expect an official statement on the current status of the investigation to be released at some point later today.

Country music star Jason Aldean addressed the social media backlash surrounding his single “Try That in a Small Town” during a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio Saturday. “I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true, right?” said Aldean. “What I am is a proud American.”

Stanford University Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says he's been working on a public health reform plan for the next president to assess and fix the failures of government health agencies’ pandemic response. Dr. Bhattacharya says his plan includes removing Big Pharma influence from the FDA and refocusing the CDC on science instead of politics.