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US onAir – 1/19/22

US onAir - 1/19/22

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Senate resumes debate on voting rights bills, setting up a potential filibuster showdown
January 19, 2022 – 10:00 am (ET)

At 11:20:00 to 11:31:

Back and forth debate about new voting rights laws affecting Georgia between Senator Jon Ossoff and Senator Susan Collins. After their short debate, Senator Jeff Merkley said “perhaps the most substantive exchange I witnessed in my 13 years here in the senate. Followed by some Senators clapping.

Biden hosts rare news conference as administration approaches 1 year in office
January 19, 2022 – 4:00 pm (ET)
Supreme Court clears the way for House to get Trump White House documents
Ariane de Vogue, et al.January 19, 2022

The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the release of presidential records from the Trump White House to a congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

The court’s order means that more than 700 documents will be transferred to Congress that could shed light on the events leading up to the insurrection when hundreds of rioters converged on the Capitol attempting to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results.

Only Justice Clarence Thomas said publicly that he would have granted former President Donald Trump’s request to block the document handover from the National Archives to the House select committee. No other justices made an objection public.

NewsHour live episode, Jan. 19, 2022
CNN, January 19, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/antony-blinken-ukraine-trip-russia/index.html

Biden predicts Russian invasion of Ukraine, but says ‘minor incursion’ may prompt discussion over consequences
CNN, Kevin LiptakJanuary 19, 2022

President Joe Biden on Wednesday predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing existential concerns by the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, even as he warned of significant economic consequences should such an incursion occur.

But he suggested a “minor incursion” would elicit a lesser response than a full-scale invasion of the country.

“I’m not so sure he is certain what he is going to do. My guess is he will move in. He has to do something,” Biden said, describing a leader searching for relevance in a post-Soviet world. “He is trying to find his place in the world between China and the west.”

Biden’s prediction of an invasion is the firmest acknowledgment to date the United States fully expects Putin to move after amassing 100,000 troops along the Ukraine border.

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CNN, Kevin Liptak,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-news-conference/index.html

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