Good morning from Washington, where a key House committee digs into Twitter’s decision to bury the Hunter Biden laptop and the fallout from its contents. Fred Lucas reports. The panel also is looking at the president and China, Samantha Aschieris writes. GOP lawmakers hold a mock impeachment of Biden’s homeland security chief, and Virginia Allen has details. On the podcast, a former defense secretary explains why it’s doubtful China sent a spy balloon over the U.S. on Trump’s watch. Plus: a California-based think tank decamps to Florida, and “Problematic Women” interviews a Sunset State congresswoman on Biden’s “stupidity” on abortion. On this date in 1971, pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated to the Baseball Hall of Fame, where he is inducted six months later.
“I think you guys wanted to take it down. I think you guys got played by the FBI. And that’s the scary part,” Rep. Jim Jordan tells a former Twitter executive.
“We know the Biden family’s received millions and millions of dollars from Communist China. We don’t know exactly what Communist China got in return for that,” says Rep. James Comer.
Chris Miller discusses some of President Biden's comments on China during his State of the Union address and his thoughts on how the Biden administration responded to the Chinese spy balloon.
“Gov. DeSantis has shown fearless intellectual and political leadership in the fight against woke leftism,” says Ryan Williams, president of Claremont Institute.
The Biden administration recently announced it's considering declaring a "public health emergency" on abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
The Jan. 23 document includes a list of organizations the SPLC brands “radical traditional Catholic hate groups,” without noting that the SPLC’s accusations have faced severe criticism.
