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8:10 AM ET, January 7, 2022

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Susan Glasser / New Yorker:
Biden, Back Into the Breach  —  A year after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, the President delivered the speech that he never wanted to give.  —  He never mentioned Donald Trump by name.  He didn't have to.  Joe Biden gave the speech of his Presidency on Thursday …
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Politico:
Harris was inside DNC on Jan. 6 when pipe bomb was discovered outside  —  Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was discovered outside the building, according to four people familiar with her movements that day.
Washington Post:
Biden breaks his silence: Inside his decision to forcefully denounce Trump  —  Throughout the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, Donald Trump was the name that shalt not be spoken.  —  As the former president solidified control over the Republican Party, spread lies about the 2020 election …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden finds a new Manchin whisperer  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The White House is looking to Sen. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) to help thaw out its frosty relationship with Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) in hopes of resurrecting President JOE BIDEN's Build Back Better plan.
Katelyn Caralle / Daily Mail:   SEVENTH aide since Kamala Harris's disastrous June border trip announces he is leaving in staff exodus: Press director Peter Velz heads to the State Department …
CNN:
Inside Biden's fiery speech and his decision to confront Trump's danger head-on
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Biden lays out the stakes for democracy. Can he sustain the case?
Associated Press:
Taking on Trump is Biden's reluctant calling
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Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
White House backs Dem chances in midterm races amid high turnover: 'we'd rather be us than them'
Discussion: Townhall and Daily Kos
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Capitol Police officer who suffered concussion on January 6 is latest to sue Trump seeking accountability  —  Biden tears into Trump during January 6th speech  —  (CNN)US Capitol Police Officer Briana Kirkland is suing former President Donald Trump for the physical and emotional pain she endured …
Discussion: NBC News and New York Times
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Geneva Sands / CNN:
DHS warns online threats have increased on extremist platforms over past 48 hours with some against lawmakers
Discussion: The Guardian and GovExec.com
Axios:   In photos: An hour-by-hour record of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ted Cruz Begs Tucker Carlson's Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists  —  Senator Ted Cruz has tried to cling to what has become the safest ground in the Republican Party: Denouncing the violent attack on the Capitol one year ago without criticizing either the lies that inspired …
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Yacob Reyes / Axios:   Gaetz: “We're proud of the work we did” on Jan. 6
Selene San Felice / Axios:
Florida leads nation in Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases
Discussion: Palm Beach Post and National Zero
Washington Post:
Dick Cheney returns to the House and receives a warm welcome . . . from Democrats  —  Former vice president Richard B. Cheney visited the House floor on Thursday and patiently waited to greet more than a dozen members waiting to shake his hand.  —  They were all Democrats.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Dick Cheney comes to Capitol on Jan. 6, says he's ‘deeply disappointed’ in GOP leadership  —  He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.  —  While most Republicans were absent on Capitol Hill for the Jan. 6 anniversary Thursday, one of the party's most prominent elder statesmen was there.
The White House:
Remarks By President Biden To Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months  —  America isn't just seeing less of Mike Pompeo because the Trump administration is no longer in the White House.  We are seeing less of the former Secretary of State because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.
JAMA Network:
A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID  —  Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD1; Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH2; Celine R. Gounder, MD, ScM3  —  As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates, COVID-19 is here to stay.  In January 2021, President Biden issued the …
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JAMA Network:
A National Strategy for COVID-19
Discussion: TracingCOVID
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Mo Brooks was ‘cheering on’ Trump supporters invading the Capitol: Former Kevin McCarthy staffer  —  A former staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday made an explosive claim about Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and his reaction to the January 6th Capitol riots.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Woman tied to Capitol riots was wrong-way driver in fatal crash in Franklin County  —  FRANKLIN COUNTY — A woman tied to the U.S. Capitol riots a year ago was drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 44 on Wednesday night when she killed a woman and seriously injured the man driving another car …
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Zoe Richards / The Daily Beast:
Family Fumes After Capitol Rioter Out on Bond Kills Young Mom in Drunken Crash
Discussion: KMOV-TV and Insider
Laura Cassels / Florida Phoenix:
DeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL  —  Quality Journalism for Critical Times  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, acknowledged Thursday that 800,000 to a million COVID tests had expired in a state stockpile …
Ken Bensinger / BuzzFeed News:
The Government Says A Key Informant In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Was A “Double Agent”  —  Federal prosecutors say a key FBI informant in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan was a “double agent” who was “working against the interests of the government” by trying to destroy evidence and prevent arrests.
Washington Post:
In the nation's hospitals, this covid wave is different  —  The number of Americans hospitalized with covid-19 reached more than 126,000 this week — the highest level in a year.  But this wave of the pandemic looks different from what came before, with dueling variants on the move.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
 
 
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Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.
Haley Talbot / InStyle:
I Was in the Capitol on Jan. 6, and I Won't Stop Telling My Story
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Shannon Bond / NPR:
Kicked off Facebook and Twitter, far-right groups lose online clout
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Is a Civil War Ahead?
Discussion: Today in Tabs
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
If the Jan. 6 coup succeeded, what would Michigan Republicans have done?
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Don't come to Atlanta without a plan to pass voting laws, groups tell Biden, Harris
Discussion: Supercreator and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
White House Nominates Airborne Officer to Lead Central Command
David Gilbert / VICE:
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