Liz Cheney hits again at Trump after saying January 6 committee members ought to be jailed – stay updates

Good morning, US politics weblog readers. In his first sit-down interview since profitable the presidential election, Donald Trump made clear to NBC Information on Sunday that he deliberate to upend an array of governing norms as quickly as he will get into the White Home. The president-elect mentioned he would pardon most January 6 insurrectionists, and that the previous Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and different lawmakers who served on the bipartisan Home committee that investigated the assault on the Capitol “ought to go to jail”. That prompted a livid riposte from Cheney, who was ousted from Congress’s decrease chamber two years in the past over her break from Trump.

“Right here is the reality: Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize energy,” Cheney mentioned in a press release, the place she additionally known as for the justice division particular counsel, Jack Smith, to launch proof he gathered into Trump’s makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. We’ll see if another former members of the committee communicate out right now.

Right here’s what else is occurring right now:

• Joe Biden speaks on the Tribal Nations Summit in Washington DC at 3.45pm ET, then events with members of Congress at their Vacation Ball at 6pm.

• Andy Kim of New Jersey and Adam Schiff of California, each Democrats, are anticipated to be sworn into the Senate right now, after resigning their seats within the Home to take up their new roles.

• Congress is constant work on an enormous year-end protection spending invoice that can be one of many final issues it does earlier than the brand new Republican majority takes their seats subsequent yr.