Special Counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee that he believed he had built a case to convict President Donald Trump “beyond a reasonable doubt” of having “engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.’ Smith told Congress that the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol “does not happen without” Trump urging it on.

On New Year’s Eve, the House Judiciary Committee released the 255-page transcript of Smith’s testimony, which lasted some eight hours in a closed-door session on December 17th. Smith had repeatedly asked to testify publicly before Congress, but the GOP leadership in the House refused. Smith’s testimony was made public only after his sent Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) a letter on Dec. 24th demanding the “prompt public release” of his testimony.

Smith was barred by Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida from discussing any non-public details of the case against Trump in the classified documents case, which Smith also brought against Trump – following the indictment he filed over the January 6th riot and the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Smith detailed his indictment against Trump regarding the 2020 election, which Trump has falsely claimed was rigged against him. “The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power,” Smith told the House, adding:

Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities.

I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases. These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs. I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.

We took our actions based on the facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor. We followed Justice Department policies and observed legal requirements. The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial. If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.

Watch the full testimony above.

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Fox News’ Leslie Marshall was comforted by her colleagues after she revealed that she’s had 11 miscarriages on Thursday’s edition of Outnumbered.

Marshall peeled the curtain back on her personal life during a discussion about the legacy of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination rocked the nation this past fall.

After Joe Concha praised Kirk for telling young people to get married and have children, Tomi Lahren asked Marshall: “Is there anything that the left can learn from someone like Charlie Kirk? Or is there anything that your side of the aisle can glean from what he represented, or what he meant, especially to young people?”

She replied:

I just think it’s great that young people, left or right, talk about politics and get involved in their community, especially when so many kids are, you know, on social media. You know, I went to school in Boston, and when I went school, there were clubs for everything, and there were speakers from everywhere, and I think that actually is a good idea. I want my children to hear everything and to make their own decisions. And they can’t just make a decision that’s not biased if they’re only hearing one biased side, whether it’s my side or another side.

Joe, I do wanna say something though. I understand marriage and family is important to a lot of people, but I know people that would love to get married just haven’t met the right person or the guy hasn’t asked yet. I suffered 11 miscarriages and I have two children, one after adoption, one after 13 IVF cycles, and I have a son who died. So I just say that because I know that when people say you know get married and have children, it’s not as easy for everybody. There are a lot of women that struggle with infertility and just because a woman doesn’t have a child, left or right, it doesn’t mean that they don’t want a child, maybe they actually can’t have.

“I am so sorry,” said Concha, who clarified that Kirk meant “the pursuit” of a family.

Lisa Boothe also clarified Kirk’s argument and offered her condolences: “So I hear what you’re saying, Leslie, and I’m so sorry that you went through that. I know that’s-, I’ve had friends who have gone through miscarriages — it’s heartbreaking. So I’m so sorry you went through that.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly pronounced the death of legacy media on Thursday, declaring “nothing will happen at CBS” in a post on X.

She seized the opportunity to slam the network in her reply to a post featuring incoming CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil instructing viewers to make him “earn” their trust.

“Nothing will happen at CBS,” Kelly wrote on X. “Nothing. Legacy media is dead and evening news has been totally irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in more than a decade. It’s not reversible.”

In his initial statement, to which Kelly was responding, Dokoupil agreed with critics who have criticized the media for not always reporting reality.

The feud began at Turning Point USA’s America Fest where commentator Ben Shapiro blasted his fellow conservatives, naming Kelly and Tucker Carlson, for refusing to condemn Candace Owens‘s conspiracy theories about the death of Charlie Kirk. Weiss published a transcription of Shapiro’s speech, titled “Only Cowards Tolerate Conspiracy Theorists,” in The Free Press.

After GOP pollster Frank Luntz quizzed Kelly on her rapid shift from praising to lambasting Weiss, Kelly parroted the language in Weiss’s own headline and threatened more to come.

“I was reliably informed this week that it is cowardly not to call out your friends with the unvarnished truth about their defects,” she posted on X. “So my days of being a polite friend (to her) are over. And there’s more truth coming.”

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