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CNN: Do you have confidence in the impartiality of Trump's Justice Department right now?

GOP Rep. Bacon: If he's making demands and then indictments occur, it undermines the perception of fair justice.

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CNN: Some new details about the Justice Department's indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Pam Bondi was caught off guard by the charges after Trump's handpicked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, did not coordinate with senior DOJ leadership before presenting the case to the grand jury.

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Rep. Khanna: Bondi didn't want to answer the question about whether there were pictures of Trump with young girls. Then she has the gall to tweet out she believes in one tier of justice for all Americans. What about the rich and powerful men in the Epstein files?

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OR Gov. Kotek: We have a president and an administration that doesn't care about the safety of Americans. What I heard from the Secretary was, 'We have the right to be aggressive with military policing tactics, we don't care if it creates more tension and more problems for your city.'

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Gov. Pritzker: They set up dozens of cameras for social media. And they used all of that footage to turn it into this sort of adventure looking thing. And the result is traumatized children. We've got elderly people held for hours. We've got an entire community who's wondering, are they next?

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Gov. Pritzker: The only invasion that's occurring is because the of the Trump administration. We had ICE agents rappelling out of a military helicopter. 130 people had their doors broken down. They took innocent people out and zip tied their hands, and a number of these people were US citizens

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OR Gov. Kotek: This is not what Americans want to see. They don't want to see their citizen soldiers in the streets of American cities.

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Gov. Newsom on Trump sending the National Guard to US cities:

"This is unprecedented in modern American history. This is, dare I say, a constitutional crisis."

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NJ Attorney General: Trump cannot take the criminal justice system of this nation and say, because you sued me for something that courts have held me liable for, I'm going to indict you on bogus charges. That's not how the rule of law works.

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Federal workers speak out about the financial hardship they're experiencing during GOP government shutdown:

"Very stressful and honestly I pray that it doesn't roll into those many days. There's already a strain... I think the blame is on Trump and the Republicans"

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Reporter: The US finalized this $20 billion lifeline for Argentina and also took the unusual step of directly buying Argentine pesos. Democrats and some Republicans are accusing the Trump administration of bailing out Argentina while workers here are not getting paid and farmers are facing hardship

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The Trump administration has signed off on building a Qatari air force facility on American soil.

The facility will be located in southwestern Idaho.

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Trump accepted this $400M 'palace in the sky' jumbo jet from Qatar in May btw

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A dispirited Trump ignores questions from the press pool as he departs for his second 'routine yearly checkup' of 2025

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Sen. Warnock describes a hospital in rural Georgia facing cuts due to Trump's budget bill:

"They're going to see a $3 million cut to their hospital. They may have to close their ICU. This is unsustainable, it's unjustifiable... Republicans need to focus on the people and not the politics."

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Reporter: This report really signals that the US economy is still not working for many Americans. Consumer sentiment has fallen year-over-year 22%. That is the seventh weakest reading since World War II.

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Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Mamdani: Trump ran on three promises. He ran on the punishment of his political enemies, easing the cost of living crisis, and mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. Yet he's unwilling to deliver on that because he's beholden to billionaires

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Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a tenth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Leader Jeffries: Republicans don't want to call us back into session, because that would require that Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva be sworn in, and she will be the 218th signature needed to trigger a vote on the release of the Epstein files

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Leader Jeffries: We're not gonna be intimidated. We don't work for Donald Trump. We don't work for JD Vance. We don't work for corrupt billionaires. We work for the American people. I'm so thankful for my colleagues who continue to defend the health care of the American people

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Nobel Committee Chair explains why Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize:

"All laureates [have] both courage and integrity... We base our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel."

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Donald Trump has failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize after months of desperate public campaigning.

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Soybean farmer: We're not doing well at all as an industry. We have zero sales on the books of this new crop to the Chinese, who are our biggest export customer historically. And right now, with them being a big zero in the purchase column, that's a five-alarm fire for our industry.

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Soybean farmer: Unfortunately, there's not enough market competition right now due to the trade war. This package is being proposed is really just putting a band-aid on an open wound. We are bleeding economically. We need a level playing field, and we get that by not having tariffs.

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