Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi Minimum wage setback revives progressive calls to nix Senate filibuster House Democrats to keep minimum wage hike in COVID-19 relief bill for Friday vote Schiff sees challenges for intel committee, community in Trump's shadow MORE (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats will fight to keep the focus of the Jan. 6 investigative commission on the topic of the attack on the Capitol that day. Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Minimum wage setback revives progressive calls to nix Senate filibuster Schiff sees challenges for intel committee, community in Trump's shadow McConnell says he'd back Trump as 2024 GOP nominee MORE (R-Ky.), have recently indicated they want to expand the scope of the investigation to include unrelated cases of political violence, including scattered episodes of rioting that accompanied the national protests against police brutality last summer. Pelosi, however, said the enormity of the Jan. 6 Capitol rampage — which left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer — demands a targeted probe into that singular event, including the rise of white supremacists and other domestic terrorist groups that stormed the Capitol that day. ADVERTISEMENT "We had an event on Jan. 6, which I'm sure the world has not forgotten," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol. "And so we're saying, 'OK, something happened here. It's about domestic terrorism. We want to solve this,'" she continued. "And I will do anything to have it be bipartisan so ... that it would be well-received by the American people. But if we're talking about scope and saying, 'Well, we've got to go and look at all mob [violence]' — it's the Ron Johnson Ronald (Ron) Harold Johnson Cruz hires Trump campaign press aide as communications director Pelosi: Dems want commission focused on Capitol mob ...
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Trump in 2024? ‘Absolutely,’ Mitch McConnell says
close Video McConnell says he would support Trump if he wins 2024 GOP nomination Byron York tells ‘Special Report’ All-Star Panel Senate minority leader's declaration is 'extraordinary' Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here's what you need to know as you start your day ... Trump in 2024? 'Absolutely,' Mitch McConnell says Mitch McConnell , R-Ky., said Thursday he would "absolutely" support Donald Trump if the former president were to win the Republican nomination in 2024. However, McConnell told "Special Report " host Bret Baier that "there's a lot to happen between now and '24. I've got at least four members, I think, that are planning on running for president, plus governors and others. There is no incumbent, [so it] should be a wide-open race and fun for you all to cover." Video McConnell was lambasted by the former president recently after the senator condemned Trump’s behavior during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. When asked by Baier to respond to Trump’s allegation that the Republican Party could never be respected if leaders such as McConnell remained in charge, he replied, "The Republican Party is actually in very good shape. "We gained seats in the House. We elected 50 Republican senators when everybody was predicting we were going to lose the Senate. The Democrats didn’t flip a single state legislature. We flipped two [and] picked up a governor. "The Republican Party had a very good day on November 3," McConnell continued. "We’re sorry we lost the White House, but the Republican Party demonstrated once again [that] this is a 50/50 nation, we are very competitive and will be competitive again in '22." CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON OUR TOP STORY. In other developments: still the future of the Republican Party' election reform bill as 'wrong response' to lack of faith in elections eyeing 2024 campaigns seize chance to woo conservatives Who is speaking at the ...
Russia’s Putin, Belarus’ Lukashenko spark backlash for skiing, riding snowmobiles during mass protests
close Video Putin, Lukashenko spark harsh reactions after ski, snowboard trip Fox News' Amy Kellogg gets perspective on the authoritarian leaders' power move From Minsk to Moscow, there has been an extended season of discontent, so the images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko shushing down ski slopes and riding snowmobiles in the mountains around Sochi evoked some strong reaction. There were meetings, of course, around the outing. Details on what was actually discussed were thin, but the pictures spoke volumes. Lukashenko's constituents reached the boiling point in August after presidential elections that were widely considered fraudulent. Opposition figures were barred or thrown in jail. Their wives and a campaign manager stepped in and female troika led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stole the imagination of many, something that Lukashenko reportedly never thought would happen. In rare images, hundreds of thousands of Belarussians took to the streets day after day, Sunday after Sunday, the day of rest becoming their standing rally date. The protesters were peaceful. Not a shop was looted. They often carried flowers. But the crackdown was brutal. Thirty thousand were detained, and an estimated 10 people were killed. US B-1 BOMBERS ARRIVE IN NORWAY FOR HISTORIC VISIT THAT SEEMS TO SEND MESSAGE TO MOSCOW Western countries, including the United States, have sanctioned Belarus for the violence employed against the demonstrators and for a host of ballot irregularities. But Lukashenko carries on as if the undisputed victor, getting himself sworn in in an almost secret ceremony. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrive at the mountain resort of Krasnaya Polyana near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) (AP) Often ...
