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CNN: ‘7‑hour Gap’ Story in WH Logs False

The establishment media were abuzz this week with stories about a “seven-hour gap” in White House switchboard logs on January 6, but on Thursday night it emerged that the gap was likely the result of using ordinary landlines and cell phones.
Documents turned over to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and then leaked to the media, suggested that there was a gap that could have been caused by President Donald Trump or his aides suppressing information.
“A 7‑hour gap in Trump’s calls evokes a missing spot on Nixon’s tapes,” the Washington Post reported breathlessly, recalling the 18-minute gap in President Richard Nixon’s White House tapes that ultimately led him to resign his presidency in 1974.
The Post‘s left-wing opinion columnist Greg Sergeant suggested the absent Trump phone logs were “worse than Watergate”:
In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs on the da …

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Manchin on 42: ‘Borders Have To Be Secure’

On Thursday, Senator Joe Manchin (D‑WV) reiterated his opposition to the Biden administration’s potential action to do away with Title 42 immigration restrictions. “I think they should reconsider,” Manchin told the press, per Fox News. “I sent a letter, I’m against removing Title 42.” “If anything we should be looking at permanency on Title 42,” he said. “Maybe that would spur us to get a good immigration policy that works for Americans and secure our borders — the borders have to be secure,” he noted.“Oh my goodness. Just watch the news y’all put out every day, what’s coming across,” Manchin said, per The Hill. Manchin also called for Title 42 to be extended in a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky earlier this week. Manchin said in the letter, “In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, encounters with migrants reached an all-time high of 1.7 million people. That is four times higher than the 400,000 encounters reported the previous year, and we are on pace to set a new record again this year. Through the first five months of FY22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has experienced more than 838,000 migrant encounters. Unfortunately, due to annual migration patterns, those numbers are only expected to increase during the upcoming spring and summer months.” “T …

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Graham flips on Ketanji, will oppose

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R‑S.C., said Thursday he will oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, a change from a year ago when Graham was one of three GOP senators to approve Jackson to an appellate court. Graham announced his opposition on the Senate floor Thursday, citing, in part, Jackson’s record as a federal court judge in sentencing child pornography offenders to lesser sentences than the guidelines stated.  “I oppose and will vote against the nomination of Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court,” Graham said. “My decision is based upon her record of judicial activism, flawed sentencing methodology regarding child pornography cases, and a belief that Judge Jackson will not be deterred by the plain meaning of the law when it comes to liberal causes.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R‑S.C., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Jackson got three GOP votes last year for her confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: Graham, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.SUSAN COLLINS TO VOTE ‘YES’ ON KETANJI BROWN JACKSON FOR SUPREME COURT, IN FIRST REPUBLICAN BACKINGMurkowski has not yet announced how she’ll vote, whereas Collins announced this week she would support Jackson, giving the White House at least some level of bipartisan support for President Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee. 
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. 
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)In Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, …

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BIDEN DOJ TARGETS TRUMP RALLY

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is expanding its probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack to include the events leading up to the preceding rally, and the wider conspiracies that fueled the violence, people familiar with the issue told The Washington Post.

Before supporters of former President Trump attacked the Capitol, many participated in a rally that had multiple speakers, including Trump himself.

Sources told the Post the DOJ is now looking to the planning of the rally and the conspiracy theories that surrounded the event.

The rally was based around the false claims that Trump won the 2020 presidential election and that election fraud was the reason President Biden won.

The DOJ has begun issuing subpoenas to investigate the funding and planning of the event as well as who was involved. People familiar with the issue told the Post the subpoenas were issued against those in Trump’s…

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NATO Head: Biden’s Russia Plan Worthless

“I can’t argue with your conclusions.” So said Gen. Tod Wolters, head of U.S. European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), in agreement that Joe Biden’s threat of sanctions to “deter” Vladimir Putin from launching an invasion against Ukraine was a failure. (Joe begs to differ.)
Gen. Tod Wolters, the head of U.S. European Command, admitted that the Biden administration’s attempts to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine did not work.
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 30, 2022

Wolters made the admission on Wednesday during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on the continuing war in Ukraine and its “overarching effect on the United States and NATO,” as reported by the Washington Examiner. Joining Gen. Wolters in testimony was Dr. Celeste Wallander, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
During questioning from Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, Wolters said he was part of the effort to deter Russia, as well. Gallagher asked, as transcribed by WE: “Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?”
Wolters began to give a typical non-answer to Gallagher’s question: “Number one, I would say that NATO’s solidarity remained” — prompting the lawmak …

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Fed Warns Of Housing Bubble

New data from the Census Department released last week reveal that the average cost of a new home hit a record high in February at $511,000. Now, the Federal Reserve is warning about a housing bubble.The Daily Wire’s Cabot Phillips joined Thursday’s episode of “Morning Wire” to explain more about the skyrocketing housing market.Housing prices have spiked 25% over the past year, and since 2012, the cost of a new house has doubled, Phillips explained. “Cities with the biggest spikes were Phoenix, Miami, and Tampa, but overall, it was houses in southeastern states that saw the largest spike in 2021,” said Phillips to “Morning Wire” hosts Georgia Howe and John Bickley. “But again, it’s really everywhere across the country.”Phillips was asked exactly why housing costs are spiking so much. He pinned the reasons on inflation, which is currently at an 8% year-to-year rate, rising costs for lumber and fuel, and the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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Kamala’s word salad after Jamaican PM meet

Vice President Kamala Harris tossed up another word salad following a meeting with the prime minister of Jamaica Wednesday, drawing a new round of ridicule from her critics.
The White House sit-down with the island nation’s leader, Andrew Holness, commemorated the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the countries and marked the first time in nearly 30 years that a Jamaican leader has visited the White House. Harris, whose father is Jamaican, said she and Holness discussed COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine.

KAMALA HARRIS STUCK IN THE ‘PASSAGE OF TIME’
“For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic … we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by …

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Biden to tap Gas Reserve, again, bigly

You can’t say we weren’t warned. One month ago, we learned that the Biden administration was in talks with NATO allies regarding the possibility of yet another release of American oil supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Despite warnings from many industry analysts who immediately pointed out that such a move would deplete the SPR to dangerously low levels not seen in decades while having almost no direct impact on gas prices, it appears that Joe Biden is ready to do it again. And if the estimates we’re hearing are anywhere close to accurate, this release could be more than three times larger than the one in November. (Does anyone recall gas prices suddenly dropping back to more “normal” levels in November? I don’t.) But be that as it may… here we go again. (CNBC)President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, according to two people familiar with the decision, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked as the U.S. and allies have imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
The announceme …

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Why F‑35 Stealth Fighter Is Being Cut

White House Budget Proposal Pinches F‑35s for NGAD? – The White House released its new defense budget proposal for FY23 on March 28. The Pentagon would get a total of $773 billion if Congress approves. This is an increase of $31 billion or a four-percent raise from the prior fiscal year. This budget hike doesn’t reward every service branch. The Air Force, under the proposal, would have to cut down on some of its airplanes, retiring 150 aircraft, including purchasing fewer F‑35s. However, there is more spending earmarked for the Next-generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program.NGAD Gets a Funding BoostThe Air Force budget proposal is a total of nearly $170 billion with a substantial portion (a nine billion dollars increase) dedicated to research and development, testing, and evaluation. This is where increased spending on the NGAD comes in.
What Is the NGAD?
The NGAD fighter plane is the 6th generation successor to the F‑22. There could be two NGAD models planned – one for a long-range strike in the Indo-Pacific with a higher payload and one for tactical air superiori …

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Border Patrol Braces for Title 42 Nix

Title 42 has been in place at the U.S.-Mexico border since the onseet of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago. With the virus no longer posing the threat the world as it once did, it appears the last enforcement tool favored by Border Patrol agents during a historic surge of illegal crossings may be going away.Title 42 is designed to quickly expel illegal immigrants caught at the border to prevent overcrowding at holding facilities so individuals do not spread the virus amongst each other and to the agents. Title 42 has been heavily criticized by open border advocates because they say it denies people the chance to claim asylum. They also say it doesn’t work to deter illegal crossings since the rapid expulsions has resulted in people crossing multiple times.Und …

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