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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called out Republican House Minority Whip Steve Scalise after the GOP representative from Louisiana attempted to discredit the testimony against President Donald Trump in the ongoing impeachment inquiry, suggesting that the witnesses were partisan. As Wallace emphasized that Trump had specifically urged Ukraine to investigate his domestic political rivals in exchange for military aid, according to multiple credible witnesses, Scalise interrupted, saying: "Those were Schiff's witnesses," during an interview on Fox News Sunday . The congressman's remark was a reference to Democratic Representative Adam Schiff of California, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and is leading the impeachment inquiry. "Well wait a minute, no sir," Wallace responded. He then proceeded to fact-check Scalise's claim, pointing out that the witnesses served in Trump's administration and were not partisan. "They're career foreign service officers and these are people … [Read more...] about Fox News anchor fact-checks GOP congressman as he attempts to dismiss impeachment witnesses as partisan

This week saw the highly politicized Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade , a landmark 1973 ruling protecting a woman’s right to an abortion (in other words, granting women bodily autonomy and keeping the government out of their uteruses). The move was met with widespread condemnation, especially given how right-wing organizations have launched an ugly decades-long campaign against a woman’s right to choose (including bribing Jane Roe, aka Norma McCorvey, to speak out against the decision) , and four of the five conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to strike down Roe —Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—stating during their Senate confirmation hearings that it was settled law. The move will result in 22 states banning abortion, along with 13 states that immediately banned it due to trigger laws. “It’s absolutely horrifying,” exclaimed John Oliver on Sunday evening’s edition of Last Week Tonight , before taking aim at some of the … [Read more...] about John Oliver Rages Against Dems’ Embarrassing Roe v. Wade Response

On Sunday evening, John Oliver dedicated the top of his must-see series Last Week Tonight to the ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings—specifically the testimony of John Eastman, Trump’s legal adviser at the time of the insurrection. “Eastman was the one who devised the theory that Mike Pence could single-handedly negate the election results,” explained Oliver, adding, “The idea that a single person could decide the presidency is completely against the ideals of this country, which is why the Constitution starts with ‘We the people’ and not ‘Mike.’” The HBO host proceeded to note that over 100 GOP primary winners in the midterm elections have backed Trump’s false election-fraud claims—most troubling of whom are the secretaries of state, who may be in the position to influence the next presidential election. For example, Jim Marchant , the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, is a wacko conspiracy theorist who believes “the people of Nevada have not elected … [Read more...] about John Oliver Reveals How the GOP Is Planning to Hijack the 2024 Presidential Election