The death toll from the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of
Moscow has risen to 137, authorities said on Sunday according to state news agency TASS. The state Investigative Committee had earlier put the number at 133 but said the death toll was likely to rise as emergency workers continue to search the rubble. More than 150 people were injured when gunmen fired indiscriminately at concert-goers at the packed venue on Friday evening, with many still in critical condition, according to the authorities.
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Sunday. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of
BREAKING U.S. laws in an effort to quash a House ethics investigation . During an interview on Face the Nation Sunday, McCarthy praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she filed a motion to have Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) removed. "Look, the one thing I've always found, when you sit down with a member and talk to them, find out what their concerns are, especially when it's based upon policy, you can solve that problem," he said. "And I watched that with Marjorie, from the vote to Speaker to the vote for the Fiscal Responsibility Act. There's times she [had] a difference of opinion, and you sit down and find common ground." McCarthy then turned to Gaetz, who orchestrated the bid to oust him. "Matt's case was much different," McCarthy said. "It was about a personal thing that he had done, and that's what he was trying to get something illegally stopped." ALSO READ: Scientific proof
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Women "This is not the case here," he added. "So I would not be afraid of a motion to vacate. This is about policy." CBS host Margaret Brennan asked McCarthy if he had "evidence to back up your allegation" about Gaetz. "Well, I think the Ethics Committee, it was purely Matt coming to me, trying me to do something illegal to stop the Ethics Committee from moving forward an investigation that was started long before I became Speaker," McCarthy recalled. "Something illegal?" Brennan pressed. "I don't know what the facts are there," McCarthy said of Gaetz's ethics case. "It's a personal issue of what he'd done as a member of Congress." "I simply would say the Ethics Committee has the right to look at whatever they're going forward, and I'm not going to get in the middle of it one way or another." Watch the video below from CBS or at the link .. CONTINUE READING Show less During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance claimed
Donald Trump is not making the lives of his attorneys any easier as they move into a critical week in the courts . As the former president scrambles to come up with the nearly half billion dollars he needs for his financial fraud appeals bond and he is slated to be in a Manhattan court on Monday to see when his hush money trial will start up, the former prosecutor stated his recent antics are creating new problems . Speaking with host Ali Velshi, who noted the former president claimed on Truth Social that he is flush with cash while also pleading poverty to the appeals court he wants to lower his bond amount, Vance marveled at the chaos the former president is creating. ALSO READ: Here's why conservative elites are bailing on Trump now "Imagine being one of his lawyers and saying one thing in your court papers and having your client undercut you publicly the next day on Truth Social," she began. "The judges are certainly entitled to take a look at Trump's posts in this vein and it would be fair to deny him any sort of measures for forgiveness of the full amount of the bond in the form of the surety bond he has asked for simply because he says he can afford it and he chooses not to." "And I think we have reached a point with Trump where judges should hold him accountable for his words rather than letting him get away with having it one way in court and one way in public," she added. "We are past the point in time where the courts can afford to let that happen." "To your point, there is a little bit more to executing the judgment than showing up with a sheriff," she added. "I think what [New York AG] Tish James has done, has made it clear she is serious, particularly by registering the judgments in Westchester County,
New York where some of the Trump family favorite properties including the National
golf Course are located. So she is sending a signal if he does not get a bond in place she intends to go forward." Watch below or at the link. MSNBC 03 24 2024 10 08 48 youtu.be CONTINUE READING Show less Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after House Republicans passed a bipartisan government funding bill. "Republicans and the House of Representatives, where we hold on to a razor-thin majority," Greene told
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But yet this week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe." Greene blasted the bill passed to fund the government before excoriating Johnson for allowing Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) to retire without leaving time for a special
election to replace him. "You're right, Maria, and those people stepping down early and leaving are the ones that are leaving us at risk of the
Democrats controlling the majority, not me," Greene said. "I filed this motion to vacate , but I haven't called it to the floor," she continued. "This is like issuing a pink slip and giving our conference a notice saying that we have got to find a new speaker." ALSO READ: Marjorie Taylor Greene to federal election regulators: get bent over 'MTG' Greene said that finding a new speaker "may take months, and it may not even happen until next Congress, but Speaker Johnson cannot remain a speaker of the House." "Speaker Johnson has also failed our majority because he is allowing Mike Gallagher to leave
Congress after the deadline date, where his district cannot hold a special election and elect a new representative for the rest of this entire Congress," she ranted. "Mike Gallagher betrayed all of us, and Speaker Johnson, as the one who's responsible for our majority, praised Mike Gallagher on Friday after he announced his departure, saying that he's great and praising him and thanking him for his service in Congress," Greene added. "Speaker Johnson should be forcing Mike Gallagher to leave early so that his district can hold a special election, and any strong
Republican speaker of the House would expel a member for leaving our razor-thin majority in such a delicate, delicate state. We cannot allow this." Watch the video below from Fox News or at the link . CONTINUE READING Show less