Lunchbreak Live

Congress avoids a temporary, partial government shutdown by a healthy margin in both houses; what was the hubbub about, anyway? … continued aid to Ukraine is on the line … liberal lioness Dianne Feinstein dies at 90, and CA Gov. Gavin Newsom fills the seat with a black female, as he promised … updates on Biden crime family saga and the Biden impeachment inquiry … all this and more.

The clock is ticking on a government shutdown — less than one week left. What’s the latest? … Special Counsel Jack Smith tries to muzzle former President Trump … what’s the truth about US aid to Ukraine? … fact-checkers are rewriting their Biden-Ukraine narrative in light of new facts brought to light by Just the News … New Mexico’s Governor thinks the Constitution doesn’t apply … Hunter Biden is (finally!) charged with three felonies … all this and more.

House and Senate return from August recess a third of the way through September, to find a spending crisis staring them in the face … Dem mayors and governors learn the hard way that chickens have a tendency to come home to roost, at least when it comes to illegal immigration … Joe BIden used three different alias emails when he was VP! Who knew? … Can the 14th Amendment bar President Trump from a second term in the WH? No! … all this and more.

Whatever happened to Biden’s Iran nuclear arms deal negotiator, the one who lost his security clearance? … Illegal immigration is rising again, no matter what the Biden Administration says … Can the Constitution really prevent Donald Trump from serving again as president? A Florida lawyer thinks so, and sues to get an answer … Bombshell stories in the NYT and Politico reveal Hunter Biden’s lawyers’ intimidation and threats against DOJ attorneys … Viktor Shokin, at the center of the Ukraine controversy that goes back to Trump’s first impeachment, says he thinks that the BIdens were bribed … Trump indicted AGAIN for gibberish … all this and more.

House and Senate are gone until September — what awaits them when they return? … Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su has now waited longer for a confirmation vote than any cabinet nominee ever — will she ever get a vote? … State Dept gives House an update on the Biden envoy to Iran who lost his security clearance, but doesn’t say much … Hunter’s sweetheart plea deal blows up in the courtroomo; what’s next? … all this and more.

House and Senate begin consideration of the annual defense policy bill … Dems attack the Supreme Court, another Democrat (a Kennedy, no less!), and the First Amendment … Texas becomes largest GOP-led state to leave ERIC … IRS whistleblowers blow the doors off testimony before House Oversight … Grassley releases the FBI document with allegations of a $5 million bribe paid to Joe Biden, and you can read it for yourself! … All this and more.

House passes massive defense policy bill with lots of conservative amendments, now the Senate takes up its own version … Judge Doughty denies DOJ request to stay his order blocking comms between fed govt agencies and social media companies, so DOJ immediately appeals to 5th Circuit — will this go to SCOTUS? … new Hunter laptop email from 2015 reveals “ultimate purpose” of his million-dollar-a-year contract … IRS whistleblowers will testify in public in front of House Oversight Committee … FBI Director Wray was in the hot seat in front of House Judiciary last week … all this and more.

House Oversight Chair Comer threatens FBI Director Wray with contempt of Congress charge and finally gets his hands on a tip from a confidential informant that says that as vice president, Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from a foreigner in exchange for policy action … 11 House conservatives take down a rule unexpectedly to demonstrate their influence over the course of House proceedings, in case Speaker McCarthy forgot … has China been spying on us from a base in Cuba for years? … former President Trump becomes the first former president, and the first leading opposition party presidential candidate, ever to be indicted by the federal government … All this and more.

New documents reveal DHS Secretary Mayorkas has been using taxpayer dollars to target conservatives, Christians, Republicans, and Tea Party supporters, and equates them with Nazis … House and Senate pass a bill to suspend the debt ceiling and do other things, but not much of what conservatives wanted … an IRS whistleblower outs himself and sits for an interview with CBS News, charges political influence in Hunter Biden investigation … House Oversight Committee Chairman gets his hands on an FBI document that alleges that as VP, Biden took a bribe from a foreign actor … all this and more.

What’s the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations? And what’s up with all this talk of President Biden using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to bypass Congress and continue issuing debt on his own? … IRS whistleblower’s lawyers say he and his entire investigative team just got removed from the investigation, at the request of the DOJ … a federal judge in Florida smacks the Biden Administration for failing to follow the law on the border … all this and more.

The House passes a huge border security and immigration and asylum reform bill as Title 42 is lifted and tens of thousands crash the border … House Oversight Committee releases interim report on the Biden Crime Family showing millions of dollars received from foreign nationals, but no clue of what the payments were in exchange for … Dianne Feinstein returns to DC; will Schumer tee up the Julie Su confirmation vote now? … President Biden meets with congresional leaders at the White House to discuss debt ceiling; will they succeed in getting the fiscal house back in order? … All this and more.