Biden News Live: Today’s Latest Updates As Trump Shuffles Impeachment Attorneys

This line from press secretary Jen Psaki seemed like an incongruity in the middle of today’s press conference:

“The last thing I want to do before I get to your questions, I often notice that I’m going to back off, I hate to disappoint the conservative Twitter, but I’m going to back down on a number of things, as we usually do directly. “

Psaki made the comment earlier … backtracking … with answers to past questions about the Hurricane Maria funding and the White House fence.

What are you talking about? Various versions of this supercut go rounds on how often you’ve been answering questions at the moment.

Georgia’s Republican Party was already licking its wounds after the previously solid red state elected two Democratic senators in the January 5 runoff and voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992. Now a fight is brewing in the match over controversial representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Republican state electoral manager Gabriel Sterling told Politico: “If you have any common sense, you know that she is an anchor in the party. She is weighing us down. “

Gustaf Kilander has the latest in the MTG saga.

Jen Psaki initiated today’s media call about the White House’s support for the massive blizzard on the East Coast.

Queen Elizabeth will host President Joe Biden, as well as other world leaders, ahead of the G7 summit in June, the Sunday Times reported.

The queen will be joined by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, Charles and Camilla, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the report.

Britain will host the G7’s first in-person summit in two years in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. The G7 group is made up of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Leaders from Australia, India and South Korea were also invited to participate.

The rioters who broke into the US Capitol building with claims that the presidential race was “stolen” were found not to have voted in the election. A CNN analysis covered more than 80 arrests that occurred in the days following the assault on the Capitol, which sought to “stop the robbery,” as former US President Trump claimed.

One was Donovan Crowl, a former Marine who authorities said had joined the extremist movement The Oath Keepers prior to the assault, and supported Trump.

Under Biden’s administration, the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have awarded an Australia-based company $ 230 million to expand manufacturing of its Covid test at home.

Follow the story as it unfolds.

Cuomo’s manifesto on solving the Covid crisis, “Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” could be on sale soon.

At least nine senior New York health officials have resigned from their jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as Governor Andrew Cuomo faces charges for undermining advice of experience in handling the new virus.

It comes after the New York Attorney General’s office said its administration had underestimated deaths in nursing homes by 50 percent.

Fact Check: Yes, there are certainly lessons to be learned from this crisis.

The independent Danielle Zoellner reports on the latest leadership lessons from the Cuomo administration.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a highly influential figure in the party, has urged Joe Biden to cancel the student debt of millions of Americans amid the raging coronavirus pandemic.

The president of the United States has already extended the freeze on student loan debt collection until September, but Ms. Warren wants the administration to go much further and forgive the debt entirely.

“It would help get our economy out of this crisis. And we don’t have to wait for Congress – the Biden-Harris administration can do it with its executive authority, ”Ms Warren tweeted.

Former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy Avi Berkowitz have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kushner and Berkowitz were nominated for the award Sunday for their role in negotiating four normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab nations, called the “Abraham Accords.”

The four agreements were announced between August and December 2020, and were the most important diplomatic advances in the Middle East in 25 years, according to Reuters.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig has said that the apparent defense of Donald Trump’s “big lie” against impeachment is “the best possible way to make it difficult for Republican senators to vote not guilty.”

The former president faces his second impeachment next week, and it seems likely that he will once again falsely claim that there was massive fraud committed in the presidential election that he lost to Joe Biden.

The unsubstantiated claims helped prod pro-Trump rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol last month, an incident that triggered the latest impeachment against Trump.

Persisting with such a myth will inevitably make it harder for Republican senators to acquit, a move many have indicated they want to do, in part out of fear of the president’s base.