Good Morning DC,
Today is the official start of summer.
At 1 pm, January 6 committee will hold its fourth hearing today. There will be two panels in which Rusty Bowers, Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling, and a former Georgia election official Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, will present their testimonies to the American public.
We have obtained an excerpt from today’s opening statement Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) will deliver at the hearing.
This pressure campaign brought angry phone calls and texts, armed protests, intimidation, and, all too often, threats of violence and death. State legislators were singled out. So too were statewide elections officials. Even local elections workers, diligently doing their jobs, were accused of being criminals and had their lives turned upside down.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California)
Your top news stories of today are below.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Following the fall from his bike, President Biden said yesterday he was feeling great.
“What happened was, do any of you guys ride bikes? Well, they have some that have this thing you put your toe in — holds your foot so it doesn’t slip out. I was getting off the bike, and it got stuck on the right side,” said Biden.
Last night, president Biden jogged down the steps of Maine One and then waited for the First Lady to come down. They walked to the White House holding hands. The President did not stop to answer any shouted questions.
Today, Joe and Jill Biden will visit a local COVID vaccination clinic hosted by the District of Columbia’s Department of Health.
For the play-by-play schedule see here.
DIGITAL ASSETS
Elon Musk says he will continue to support Dogecoin.
During a video interview at Qatar Economic Forum he said that he intends to “personally support Dogecoin, because I just know a lot of people who are not that wealthy who have encouraged me to buy and support Dogecoin—so I’m responding to those people.”
Musk insists that he “never said that people should invest in crypto.” He added that, “SpaceX and Tesla and myself did all buy some Bitcoin, but it’s a small percentage of our total cash assets, so not all that significant.”
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Asked if he was still planning to go to Ukraine, President Biden responded that this decision “depends” on many things. Biden said his future trip to Ukraine depends on “whether or not it causes more difficulty for the Ukrainians, whether it distracts from what’s going on.”
Biden said he has been in regular contact with Zelenskyy “four times a week.”
President will be traveling to Germany, Spain, Isreal, and Saudi Arabia over the following weeks for a “larger meeting of the community.” According to Biden, “I’ll be coming home probably, direct,” which makes going to Ukraine on this trip “not likely.”
A Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has sold his Nobel peace prize medal for more than $103.5 million to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been urged to resign after losing an absolute majority in the French parliament.
Britain has been hit by the biggest rail strike in 30 years this morning. Boris Johnson is calling for a “sensible compromise.”
More than 14,000 shop floor staff and junior management at Rolls-Royce will be given a one-off payment of £2,000 to help with the rising cost of living.
The Duke of Cambridge celebrates his 40th birthday today.
Across the pond, following a no-confidence vote in PM Boris Johnson, Sir Keir Starmer of the Labour party said the Conservative party had ignored the British people by keeping Boris Johnson in power.
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