

Some companies are taking the lead to provide paid leave for their employees. The United States is the only wealthy country without national paid leave for new parents, and nearly a quarter of employed mothers return to work within 10 days of delivering. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza. RICHARD DONOGHUE and former head of the Office of Legal Counsel STEVE ENGEL. Among the expected witnesses: former acting A.G. Looking ahead: Wednesday’s committee hearing will focus on the efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure the Department of Justice into overturning the presidential election results. "Simply, the fraud that they were looking for didn't exist.” The common theme: "We're going to hear testimony from government officials who were the ones who looked for the fraud, and about how the effort to uncover these baseless allegations bore no fruit," a committee aide said Sunday night. attorney based in north Georgia who was pressured by Trump to pursue bogus election fraud allegations in the state following the 2020 election and resigned in January 2021 after learning Trump intended to fire him (3) AL SCHMIDT, a former Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia who was on the board that oversaw the city’s elections and whom Trump falsely accused of refusing “to look at the mountain of corruption & dishonesty.” The second panel has three witnesses: (1) BENJAMIN GINSBERG, a renowned Republican election lawyer who helped craft the GOP’s Florida recount strategy in the 2000 election between AL GORE and GEORGE W. One thing you can count on: Whatever Stepien has to say is sure to take over the news cycle - and, depending on what he says, earn him Trump’s ire. 7 meeting after a cascade of news outlets called the election for Biden, in which Stepien told “Trump of the exceedingly low odds of success with his challenges.” Interesting tidbit: Stepien is an adviser to HARRIET HAGEMAN, the Trump-backed candidate aiming to oust committee Vice Chair LIZ CHENEY in her Wyoming GOP primary. Trump’s chances of succeeding in an effort to win swing states, beginning on election night,” and part of a Nov.


But as Kyle points out, (1) if he really didn’t want to testify, Stepien could have sued to block or at least delay his testimony (as other Trump allies have), and (2) “existence of a subpoena doesn't necessarily mean a witness is resistant,” as we saw with filmmaker NICK QUESTED’s testimony Thursday.

6 attack (1) highlights the origins of the “Big Lie” about the 2020 election, (2) shows how it spread and (3) attempts to prove that in the weeks and months following Election Day, even as Trump continued to falsely claim that he’d actually won, he privately knew he’d lost - and that his public insistence otherwise led to the insurrection. Today at 10 a.m., that moment - and the avalanche of lies about the election that followed - will be front and center as the House committee investigating the Jan. 4, 2020, then-President DONALD TRUMP went before a group of supporters at the White House and prematurely declared victory over JOE BIDEN in an election he ultimately lost. | Evan Vucci, File/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY 6 committee hearing will focus on the efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure the Department of Justice into overturning the presidential election results.
