Kyle Griffin

Breaking:

The Trump Organization has just been fined $1.6 million by a New York judge for running a 15-year tax fraud scheme.

BREAKING: Former Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg has just been sentenced to five months in jail for his role in the company's sweeping 15-year tax fraud scheme.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a 13th ballot. 6 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on an 12th ballot. 7 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on an 11th ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *tenth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *eighth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *seventh ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

The House has adjourned, again, without electing a speaker.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *fifth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *fourth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *second ballot. 19 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

Republicans in disarray.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has officially lost the first vote for speaker, sending the House to a second ballot for the first time since 1923.

BREAKING:

An Arizona judge has rejected Kari Lake's election lawsuit, affirming governor-elect Katie Hobbs' win.

The Republicans who Rudy Giuliani tried to call on Jan. 6: Jim Jordan, Marsha Blackburn, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and Ted Cruz.

Jan. 6 report: "What President Trump was saying was, in sum, exactly what the Russian government wanted said—but he was doing it on his own initiative and from the trappings of the Oval Office."

"President Trump had authority and responsibility to direct deployment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia, but never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other day. Nor did he instruct any Federal law enforcement agency to assist."

"The Select Committee estimates that in the two months between the November election and the January 6th insurrection, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation."

Thompson: "Our country has come too far to allow a defeated President to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and … opening the door to those in our country whose hatred and bigotry threaten equality and justice."