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On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali said that Republicans in Congress will use the FBI 1023 form on the Biden family and Ukraine that was released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) earlier in the day “to bolster these investigations that we saw them do earlier this week with IRS so-called whistleblowers about Hunter Biden” and how the tax investigation into President Joe Biden’s son was handled. -------------------- The FBI knew about President Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows. -------------- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to smears lodged by Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, on Thursday at the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government’s hearing on censorship.

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hear testimony from IRS whistleblowers on “the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes” on Wednesday, July 19. “At this full committee hearing, the American people will hear from IRS whistleblowers who possess critical information related to the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes,” the committee announced. “In addition, the whistleblowers will testify about the politicization and misconduct at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with respect to the Hunter Biden investigation.” -------------------------- During a portion of an interview with CBS News released on Wednesday, IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, one of the whistleblowers on the Hunter Biden investigation, stated that he can’t comfortably say if President Joe Biden received any financial benefit from his son’s dealings because “Any time we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the President,” investigators were told, “We can’t ask those questions” because it would require too many “approvals” to do so. CBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent Catherine Herridge asked, “Did you uncover evidence that President Biden financially benefited from his son’s deals?” ---------------- The Florida Board of Education passed new rules and standards for African American History in schools Wednesday. Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. noted the standards include “tougher subjects,” along with beginnings of the slave trade, Jim Crow laws and more.

Many Republican lawmakers defended former President Donald Trump after his announcement of being a target in the Justice Department’s January 6 probe. Trump said he must appear before the grand jury in four days, noting his appearance likely means “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith will indict him. ------------------- The Louisiana legislature voted in favor of overriding Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a law that would ban medically transitioning minors. Sponsored by Republican State Rep. Gabe Firment, the law would ban doctors from “prescribing hormone therapy and puberty blockers to minors, and from administering gender-transition surgical procedures,” according to NOLA. The state legislature passed the bill in June, only to be vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards. ---------------------- President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) with inactive tuberculosis into American communities in the last year, the Washington Times reveals. A court-ordered report, reviewed by Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times, details how HHS has been releasing thousands of UACs with latent infections as part of the federal government’s pipeline of migrant children into the United States.

House Oversight Committee lawmakers are set to hold a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) next week. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the panel who has helped drive the conversation about UFOs on Capitol Hill, said a hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 26. --------------------- Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis fired back after being disrupted on Monday by an apparent left-wing activist at a packed event in South Carolina. The Florida governor is set to become the first Republican candidate to file paperwork in the state for the first-in-the-South 2024 presidential primary, according to Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard. ---------------------- A former FBI supervisory agent confirmed “key” aspects of whistleblower testimony about the federal investigation of President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, according to a top Republican lawmaker. House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the FBI veteran participated in a transcribed interview with his panel on Monday, just two days before a pair of Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers are set to testify about the inquiry.

Tucker Carlson does not have the power to expose politicians’ hidden beliefs, but he can pressure politicians to briefly expose their hidden priorities. “That’s not my concern,” former Vice President Mike Pence snapped when Carlson pressured him on growing aid for Ukraine as U.S. cities decline. ------------------- Attendees at a major conservative conference over the weekend overwhelmingly voted for former President Donald Trump in a Republican presidential primary straw poll. ------------------ Tech billionaire Elon Musk has cautioned China’s top communists about the potential threat of a superintelligent AI seizing control of the country, even as he continues with his own AI ventures. ------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis touted his administration’s efforts to crackdown on election crime after the Office of Election Crimes and Security had been in effect for about a year. The office reviews reports of alleged election law violations and investigate any violations and oversees the Department of State’s voter fraud hotline.

The Secret Service announced Thursday it is unable to identify who smuggled cocaine into the White House on July 2, triggering a number of reactions from lawmakers and pundits after President Joe Biden pledged to “restore” decency and honor to the White House. President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to call reservists to active duty “for the effective conduct” of U.S. military support to Ukraine. Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have joined a number of House Republicans, urging President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to drop a plan that opens taxpayer-subsidized healthcare benefits to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

FBI Director Christopher Wray did not confirm or deny if President Joe Biden is under investigation for alleged bribes from an executive at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter Biden $83,000 per month for a board position. ------------------ A former Donald Trump supporter who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, saying the network made him a scapegoat for the U.S. Capitol insurrection. -------------------- Democrat legislators in Massachusetts are looking to give foreign nationals on green cards the right to vote in municipal elections. A series of bills filed by Democrat legislators in the Massachusetts House and Senate would open municipal voting rights to foreign nationals living in the state on green cards.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the country was “still in the thick of this fight to defend American democracy” from so-called kleptocrats like former President Donald Trump. On House Republicans investigating President Joe Biden, Raskin said, “Really what we see is a grasping at straws in attempts to find something, anything to get at Joe Biden. Why? Because it is a massive distraction from the fact that Donald Trump had one overriding purpose for being in office and one overriding purpose for coming back into office. He had a moneymaking operation. He converted the presidency into an instrument of profit maximization for himself and his family any wants to keep this grift going. So there’s gotta be an effort to bring down Joe Biden by putting him in the same category which is ridiculous and it is not convincing to the American people.” ----------------------- President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, is ignoring a request from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to disclose the number of illegal aliens the agency has released directly into American communities through its massive parole pipeline. --------------------- The Justice Department (DOJ) avoided naming CEFC China Energy Co. — a CCP-linked company associated with the Biden family — until page 21 of Dr. Gal Luft’s indictment. Suspicious activity reports obtained by House Republicans show Hunter Biden’s business partner, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC in 2017. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign saw another setback over the weekend as the Republican candidate saw support withdrawn from top America First movement figures such as Mike Cernovich after DeSantis’s staff attacked him and others for asking questions about DeSantis’s position on the Russia hoax. ---------------- U.S. Women’s National Team star Megan Rapinoe says it would be a welcome development for men claiming to be women to join the USWNT roster because “trans women are real women.” ---------------- Attorney General Ashley Moody released a new “Scams at a Glance” resource to help Floridians avoid online shopping scams Monday. Scams at a Glance is a resource to help consumers avoid falling for fraudulent schemes when making purchases online.

President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday after he revealed sensitive U.S. military information during an interview that critics said could make America’s adversaries more aggressive. Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the reason that he is giving cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the U.S. is running out of 155mm artillery shells. ----------------- The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain have called upon U.S. President Joe Biden to not send cluster bombs to Ukraine amid concerns over the danger they pose to civilian populations. ------------- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addressed a recent narrative in the media that his campaign is struggling to find its footing by highlighting his recent fundraising numbers and other factors in primary, which still in its early stages.

rida employers are raising wages and urging greater investment in wage-boosting technological innovation after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a state-wide set of immigration reforms. “Some of them have raised wages” amid a worker shortage, said Jeannie Economos, a manager at the Farmworker Association of Florida, which opposes the law. --------------- White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates could not say whether or not the cocaine found at the White House on Sunday belong to Hunter or President Joe Biden, citing the Hatch Act. ----------------- The Republican Party of Florida will require all 2024 presidential primary candidates to sign a loyalty pledge, vowing to support the eventual nominee in the general election. “The days of outlier party grifters – such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – using Republican Party resources to secure a title and then weaponize that title against our own team must end,” said Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Florida GOP.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday said she did not “have anything to share” when asked whether President Joe Biden considered Hunter Biden’s daughter with former stripper Lunden Roberts one of his grandchildren. -------------- The Biden administration revealed on Wednesday plans to appeal a judge’s order blocking several government agencies and officials from contacting social media companies. -------------- North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a bipartisan bill that would protect women’s sports on Wednesday. ---------------- Six states, including Florida, reportedly saw their aggregated share of the national Gross Domestic Product soar above New York and the Northeast during the pandemic – a shift that shows “no signs of reverting.”

A substance found inside the White House on Sunday that prompted an evacuation tested positive for cocaine, according to a report. The Washington Post reported late Monday evening that the substance — found Sunday evening “inside the White House” was “a white powder” that “indicated positive for cocaine.” ------------------- The Biden administration released a State Department review of its botched Afghanistan withdrawal the Friday before the July Fourth holiday weekend, in what Republicans say was an attempt to bury its release. ------------------------- President Joe Biden vowed last week that his Department of Education was primed to attack unfair college admissions practices that favored “legacy” students and those who came from wealthy or powerful families — but he personally helped at least one member of his own family benefit from those practices.

Ahead of the Fourth of July, only 29 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the United States is “heading in the right direction,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey found. Conversely, 64 percent of voters think the nation is “headed down the wrong track.” Rasmussen Reports conducted the survey with 1,743 likely U.S. voters between June 25-29 with a ± two percent margin of sampling error at the 95 percent confidence level. ----------------- A federal judge has blocked two provisions of a Florida law that bans foreign nationals from registering voters and makes it a third-degree felony for those collecting voter information to retain a voter’s information for purposes unrelated to voter registration. ------------------ Storms across the country have canceled 89 flights the day before the Fourth of July holiday. At least 15 states are facing severe weather conditions ahead of Independence Day. Hail, wind, and possible tornado damage have wreaked havoc on the East Coast and Mississippi River regions, according to hundreds of reports.

Cities across the country are ditching fireworks and opting for a more environmentally friendly patriotic celebration with a drone light show. Both Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boulder, Colorado, will be celebrating the 4th of July with its first drone show. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said drones are a “safe and sustainable alternative to fireworks. -------------- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced an expansion to the number of daily asylum appointments available to migrants seeking admission through one of several southwest border ports of entry. The increase will raise the daily total of migrant admissions through the application from 1,250 per day to 1,450. According to CBP’s announcement on June 30, the number represents a nearly 50 percent increase from the daily total appointments available from May 12, when CBP officers began processing 1,000 appointments daily. ---------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed parental rights, education, inappropriate books in schools and some of his 2024 presidential plans during a conference with Moms for Liberty Friday. “2024 is the time to put up or shut up. No more excuses about why we can’t win against the left,” DeSantis said.

Advocates for eliminating affirmative action hailed the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to scrap race-based criteria in college admissions. The Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action policies in a decision that will have a profound effect on the admissions processes at universities across the country. ------------------- Transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a man living as a woman, publicly bashed Bud Light, charging that the company has not been supportive enough amid the backlash over their botched partnership. -------------- On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” President Joe Biden criticized the Supreme Court’s rulings in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down racial preferences in college admissions and stated that the court is straying away from what “the Constitution says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator” and that ruling that there isn’t a right to privacy in the Constitution and states can make their own laws on abortion in Dobbs is “giving states power that we fought a war over in 1860.”

Disney faced backlash online Wednesday after news broke that it is trying to get its lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to begin on the same day that the Republican National Convention is set to kickoff next summer. The left-wing company wants legal proceedings to begin on July 15, 2024, which is the day that the convention begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. --------------- President Joe Biden touted the benefits of government infrastructure during a speech on “Bidenomics” in Chicago on Wednesday — but could not seem to keep the lights on, and delivered his remarks in semi-darkness. ------------ Republican Presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” that his administration would use deadly force on drug dealers at the U.S. border. DeSantis said, “People are dying by the tens of thousands because of the fentanyl that’s trafficked in.”

Today, Senator Rick Scott issued a formal travel advisory for all socialists visiting the state of Florida. The travel advisory comes in direct response to the Biden Administration attempts to erase capitalism and the system that has brought prosperity to Florida and the entire United States. -------------------- Support among House Judiciary Committee Republicans for an impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Merrick Garland grew stronger after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy threatened impeachment proceedings if IRS whistleblower allegations turn out to be true regarding the politicization of the Justice Department’s Hunter Biden tax probe. ------------- Former President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on prosecutor Jack Smith following the leak of an audio tape which featured Trump discussing a classified document he retained post-presidency. The audio recording, mentioned in Smith’s indictment but only publicly revealed by CNN on Monday, purportedly captures dialogue between Trump and a writer at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey in July 2021.

Monday, CNN aired a recording of former President Donald Trump talking about “highly confidential, secret” documents at his club in Bedminster, NJ. Cooper said, “We begin tonight with breaking news. We have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government’s case against Donald Trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he’s showing a highly classified document on US war plans against Iran with people not cleared to even know it exists, let alone what’s in it. In a moment only on CNN you will hear what jurors will hear one day.” -------------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a detailed plan to secure the border at an event Monday, making his first formal policy rollout of his 2024 presidential campaign. “What I’ve seen at the border is just humiliating as a country – that we can’t even enforce the territorial integrity of this nation,” DeSantis said at the event. ------------ Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, admitted the 2017 WhatsApp text demanding money from a CCP-linked businessman while “sitting” next to his dad was indeed Hunter’s message. On Friday, one day after the House Ways and Means Committee released IRS whistleblower testimony that alleged Hunter Biden demanded payment using proximity to his father as a cudgel, Clark released a statement acknowledging the whistleblower’s revelation. The statement tried to distance President Joe Biden from the scandal by framing Hunter Biden as a victim.

Intelligence officials were conducting detailed briefings at the White House, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill about the potential for unrest in Russia a full 24-hours before Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin launched the ultimately failed march on Moscow, two newspaper outlets have claimed. The Washington Post and New York Times were the two sources of the same claim, built on the fear a major nuclear-armed rival of the United States could descend into chaos. ----------------- LGBT activists at the annual Drag March on Friday in New York City shouted a troubling message regarding children across the nation. As Pride Month comes to a close, the participants marched through Tompkins Square Park in the East Village while chanting, the New York Post reported Saturday. ---------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon launch a slew of nationwide policy proposals as part of his 2024 presidential campaign, according to ABC News. The campaign told the outlet that new policies during “targeted events, interviews and more” will be released as the summer progresses.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) told reporters Thursday that the Justice Department twice prevented United States Attorney David Weiss from bringing stronger charges against Hunter Biden. Upon the committee’s vote to unseal IRS whistleblower evidence of alleged Justice Department political interference in the Hunter Biden tax probe, Smith said IRS whistleblowers allege that President Joe Biden’s DOJ twice prevented charges against Hunter Biden in Washington, DC, and California in 2022. -------------------- President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland may face tough questions after Thursday’s release of the testimony of an IRS whistleblower, which was released by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. -------------- U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle struck down a Florida medical rule that bars certain transgender operations for minors to be covered under Medicaid. “The rule and statute violate the federal Medicaid statute, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of sex discrimination,” Hinkle decided. ----------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted to head of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten being seated on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security school safety board. The board will have 20 new members and is set to have its first public meeting in the near future. The members were appointed by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The House voted on party lines Wednesday to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as a formal condemnation for Schiff’s outspoken promotion of allegations that former President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.The vote passed 213 to 209. Six voted present, including five Republicans on the House Ethics Committee, who are now required to probe Schiff as part of the resolution, and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO). ---------------------- Hunter Biden will reportedly appear in a Delaware Federal court next month for his plea deal with United States Attorney David Weiss. On Tuesday, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws. He will likely not serve jail time, according to legal experts. On July 26, he will appear before a judge who will presumably enter the plea deal, Fox News reported. ----------------- The Fort Myers City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday to reject the city manager’s chief of police recommendation. City Manager Marty Lawing recommended Virginia Beach Police Department Deputy Chief Reo Hatfield for the Fort Myers police chief position. ----------------- – Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris touted Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Framework for Freedom” budget as supporting “strong and resilient families.” The budget includes $4.7 billion for the department, which a press release from the department described as “part of the state’s ongoing investment in children and families.”

Conservatives blasted the “sweetheart plea deal” federal prosecutors have given to Hunter Biden, where he will plead guilty to two counts of “willful failure to pay federal income tax” and enter a “pretrial diversion program” for a firearm offense. --------------- Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, slammed the plea deal announced for Hunter Biden on Tuesday, calling it a “massive coverup” and election interference. He posted in a statement on Truth Social: The Hunter/Joe Biden settlement is a massive COVERUP & FULL SCALE ELECTION INTERFERENCE ‘SCAM’ THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE. A ‘TRAFFIC TICKET,’ & JOE IS ALL CLEANED UP & READY TO GO INTO THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – AND THIS AS CROOKED DOJ, STATE, & CITY PROSECUTORS, MARXISTS & COMMUNISTS ALL, HIT ME FROM ALL SIDES & ANGELS WITH BULL….! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! ----------------- According to new data from the Florida Division of Elections, Florida Republicans now outnumber state Democrats by nearly 500,000 registered voters. The data, which extends through May 31, found that Florida is host to 5,311,365 Republicans and 4,815,215 Democrats – a GOP lead of 496,150.

Former President Donald Trump said during an interview on Monday that he did not show classified documents to individuals without security clearances despite his claim on an alleged audio tape that he did. -------------------- Former President Donald Trump said during an interview this week that his family will not play any role in his administration if he becomes the Republican Party nominee and wins the 2024 general election. --------------- A federal judge issued a protective order on Monday blocking former President Donald Trump from being able to release any of the evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to his defense team as part of the discovery process in the classified documents case ------------------ Florida’s unemployment rate for May held at a low 2.6%, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office. That number is 1.1% lower than the national U.S. rate of 3.7%. ------------------ The man responsible for comments that suggest getting rid of the no-kill policy at the Department of Animal Services is telling his side of the story after making the controversial comments. Collier County Commissioner Chris Hall got some pushback after recently commenting on no-kill shelters.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he now believes former President Donald Trump will face charges over the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Co-host Robert Costa said, “Trump was indicted and arraigned in the records case. Do you believe is a target, potentially in the January 6 case? ------------------- Earlier this month, Amazon locked a man out of his account, disrupting his extensive smart home system. The suspension was driven by a delivery driver who claimed the man used a racial slur through his automated doorbell system. The only problem is that the man captured the entire interaction on his security system — the communication to the worker was an automated greeting of, “Excuse me, can I help you?” ------------ Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the government should not be involved in the decisions of children and their parents regarding gender issues.