与...的关系里克·克莱因
尽管人们关注前总统唐纳德·特朗普在1月6日没有做的事情，但他做的一些事情——在一条推文中称时任副总统迈克·彭斯为“懦夫”，而彭斯和他的特勤局人员有理由担心自己的生命安全——可能会在共和党内带来最大的政治后果。
如同周四晚上黄金时段的听证会很明显，这一举动引起了特朗普助手的愤怒和厌恶——“火上浇油”，这是两名在1月6日辞职后立即辞职的人所用的比喻。
这也巩固了特朗普和彭斯之间的分歧，这对2022年和2024年都有影响。这不仅关系到谁可能成为下一届共和党总统候选人——很可能两人都不是，尽管两人都有可能竞选——而且因为这在共和党人中间引起了共鸣，他们无法容忍特朗普在1月6日及其前后的行为。
听证会浮出水面的是一名国家安全官员透露的令人不寒而栗的无线电通信，保护彭斯的特工打电话“向家人告别”。根据作证的前助手的说法，还确定是彭斯下令动用军事资产来保护国会大厦，而特朗普则发泄愤怒，并对“绞死迈克·彭斯”的口号表示赞同。
彭斯和特朗普都将于周五在亚利桑那州开展竞选活动，争夺州长候选人。特朗普支持的候选人继续对2020年大选的结果提出质疑;本周早些时候，特朗普选择的马里兰州州长在1月6日的集会上搭载支持者并在当天发推文称彭斯是“叛徒”后赢得了初选。
彭斯很少公开谈论1月6日的相关话题，并刻意淡化与特朗普的任何分歧，称之为分心。
但随着特朗普对2024年的调情，他坚持对1月6日的虚构，正如委员会成员周四指出的那样，他从未对自己的行为承担公共责任。听证会的一个主题仍然和以往一样重要:上个周期发生的事情可能会再次发生。
与...的概要阿维里·哈珀
拜登总统的COVID诊断尽管“症状非常轻微”，但可以说这引起了人们对他死亡的进一步关注。
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白宫新冠肺炎应对协调员Ashish Jha博士说，拜登正在经历流鼻涕，干咳和疲劳。
这位79岁的总司令是在职最老的总统，并表示他可能在2024年再次竞选。虽然年龄是更严重疾病的一个风险因素，但总统已经完全接种了疫苗并加强了两次。据白宫称，他还开始服用抗病毒药丸Paxlovid。
拜登在社交媒体上发布的一段视频中说:“我真的很感谢你的询问和关注，但我做得很好，完成了很多工作，并将继续完成这些工作。”
白宫和拜登的盟友都传播了多种信息，保证总统正在康复，并在例行测试产生积极结果后隔离工作。
白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔在推特上说，总统“感觉很好”民主党参议员鲍勃·凯西。他在推特上说，他与拜登通了电话，他“听起来很好”众议员马特·卡特赖特。，在推特上说总统“做得很好”
拜登的疾病，以及他可能出现的任何挥之不去的症状，只会让他在2024年82岁时是否能参加竞选的话题更加活跃。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
距离亚利桑那州初选不到两周，来自“把亚利桑那州放在第一位”政治行动委员会的非法行为指控在共和党州长竞选中引起轩然大波。
据凤凰卫视ABC电视台报道KNXV周四，亚利桑那州国务卿提交了一份投诉，声称支持唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的政治行动委员会(PAC)支持的州长候选人卡利·莱克(Kari Lake)“在2022年共和党州长初选中非法收受并花费了200多万美元。”据提起诉讼的公共诚信联盟(Public Integrity Alliance)描述，该组织还被指控“谎报其唯一捐款人的身份”或“以他人名义为非法捐款提供便利”。
根据诉状，“Put Arizona First的216.45万美元收据表面上来自一个名为“SPH医疗有限责任公司”的实体。”诉状称，该实体“引人注目的是，shares将Arizona First的邮寄地址放在了凤凰城的一家UPS商店设施上。”公共诚信联盟(Public Integrity Alliance)呼吁亚利桑那州司法部长进行潜在的调查，并表示“没有任何自称‘SPH医疗有限责任公司’的企业曾根据亚利桑那州法律组建或注册为外国公司在该州开展业务。”
鉴于选民已经提前投票超过两周，目前尚不清楚这些指控及其与莱克的邻近地区是否会对初选结果产生影响。与此同时，随着莱克和她的共和党初选对手卡林·泰勒·罗布森(Karrin Taylor Robson)就各自候选人资格的真实性和对特朗普的忠诚相互指责，8月2日竞选的准备工作变得越来越糟糕。
在周五与唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)一起露面之前，莱克的竞选团队最近在一条推文中称罗布森为“开放边境的全球主义者”，并质疑她的反堕胎立场。
“如果她声称自己是素食者，亚利桑那州的每头肉牛都应该跑去躲起来，”这条推文说。
与此同时，罗布森得到了任期有限的亚利桑那州州长道格·杜西(Doug Ducey)的支持，他一直抨击莱克过去有反特朗普的情绪。
罗布森本周早些时候在推特上写道:“在就职典礼前几天，她正与她的左翼同伴一起帮助组织反特朗普的抗议活动。”。
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79.根据皮尤在5月份进行的一项民意调查，这是认为拜登的环境政策正在使国家朝着正确方向发展的民主党人的百分比。问题是，即使在赞成拜登政府做法的民主党人中，五分之三的人仍然认为政府可以做得更多——这是在参议员乔·曼钦(Joe Manchin)破坏民主党最新的环境政策努力之前。阅读更多来自FiveThirtyEight的Zoha Qamar为什么民主党人在气候变化问题上大失所望。
Trump-Pence divide defines near-term future of GOP: The Note
The TAKE with Rick Klein
For all the focus on what former President Donald Trump didn't do on Jan. 6, something he did -- a tweet calling then-Vice President Mike Pence a "coward," while Pence and his Secret Service detail had reason to fear for their lives -- might have brought the biggest political consequences inside the Republican Party.
As Thursday night's prime-time hearing made clear, that move prompted anger and disgust from Trump aides -- "fuel on the fire," in the analogy employed by two who resigned in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6.
It also cemented a split between Trump and Pence that has implications for 2022 and 2024. It matters not just for who might be the next GOP presidential nominee -- it could easily be neither of them, though both could still run -- but because it resonates among Republicans who can't tolerate how Trump acted on and around Jan. 6.
The hearing surfaced chilling radio traffic revealed by a national security official, with agents protecting Pence making "calls to say goodbye to family members." It also established that it was Pence ordering military assets to secure the Capitol, while Trump vented anger and expressed approval for "hang Mike Pence" chants, according to former aides who testified.
Pence and Trump will both be campaigning Friday in Arizona, for competing candidates for governor. Trump's endorsed candidate continues to dispute the results of the 2020 election; earlier this week, Trump's choice for governor of Maryland won the primary after busing supporters to the Jan. 6 rally and tweeting that day that Pence is a "traitor."
Pence rarely engages publicly on Jan. 6-related topics and goes out of his way to downplay any splits with Trump by calling them distractions.
But as Trump flirts with 2024, he maintains fictions about Jan. 6 and, as committee members pointed out Thursday, has never taken public responsibility for his actions. A major theme of the hearings remains as relevant as ever: what happened last cycle could happen again.
The RUNDOWN with Averi Harper
President Biden's COVID diagnosis, despite "very mild symptoms," arguably calls further attention to his mortality.
Biden is experiencing a runny nose, dry cough and fatigue, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said.
At 79 years old, the commander in chief is the oldest president to serve and has indicated he could run again in 2024. While age is a risk factor for more severe diseases, the president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted. He has also begun taking the antiviral pill Paxlovid, according to the White House.
"I really appreciate your inquires and concerns but I'm doing well, getting a lot of work done, going to continue to get it done," Biden said in a video posted to social media.
The White House and Biden allies alike disseminated multiple messages of assurance that the president was on the mend and working in isolation after routine testing yielded a positive result.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted that the president "feels fine." Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., tweeted that he spoke with Biden on the phone and he "sounded great." Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., tweeted that the president was "doing well."
Biden's illness, and any lingering symptoms he could have, will only invigorate conversations about if he can run in 2024, when he would be 82 years old.
The TIP with Alisa Wiersema
Less than two weeks before Arizona's primary elections, allegations of illegal actions from the "Put Arizona First" political action committee are causing waves in the Republican gubernatorial contest.
As reported by Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV, a complaint was filed Thursday with the Arizona secretary of state claiming the PAC -- which backs Donald Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake -- "illegally received and spent more than $2 million in the 2022 Republican primary for governor." The group was also alleged of having "misrepresented the identity of its sole contributor" or "facilitated an illegal contribution in the name of another person," as described by Public Integrity Alliance, the group filing the complaint.
According to the complaint, "the entirety of Put Arizona First's $2,164,500 in receipts ostensibly originated from a single entity" called "SPH Medical LLC." That entity, the complaint says, "remarkably, shares Put Arizona First's mailing address at a UPS store facility in Phoenix." Public Integrity Alliance is calling for a potential investigation by the Arizona Attorney General and says that "no business claiming the name 'SPH Medical LLC' has ever been organized under Arizona law or registered to do business in this state as a foreign company."
It remains unclear if the allegations and their adjacency to Lake will have an impact on the outcome of the primary given that voters have already been casting early ballots for more than two weeks. At the same time, the lead-up to the Aug. 2 contest has grown increasingly ugly as Lake and her Republican primary opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, exchanged barbs about the respective authenticities of their candidacies and their allegiance to Trump.
In a recent tweet ahead of her appearance with Donald Trump on Friday, Lake's campaign called Robson an "open-borders globalist" and questioned her anti-abortion stance.
"If she ever claims to be a vegetarian, every beef cow in Arizona should run and hide," the tweet said.
Meanwhile, Robson, who has the endorsement of term-limited Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, has been slamming Lake for having anti-Trump sentiments in the past.
"Days before the inauguration she was helping organize anti-Trump protests with her fellow leftists," Robson tweeted earlier this week.
79. That's the percentage of Democrats who said that Biden's environmental policies were moving the country in the right direction, per a Pew poll conducted in May. The problem is that even among Democrats who approve of the Biden administration's approach, three in five still think the administration could be doing more -- and this was before Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed Democrats' latest environmental policy efforts. Read more from FiveThirtyEight's Zoha Qamar on why Democrats are disillusioned when it comes to climate change.
