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White House declines Comer testimony invite, declaring impeachment investigation ‘over’

White House declines Comer testimony invite, declaring impeachment investigation ‘over’

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President Biden declined to appear before House impeachment investigators, writing in a Monday letter through an attorney that the investigation “is over.” Though brief, the letter tears into the impeachment investigation being led in part by House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), which has yet to uncover any wrongdoing by President Biden. “Your Committee’s purported ‘impeachment inquiry’ has succeeded only in turning up abundant evidence that, in fact, the President has done nothing wrong. Yet rather than acknowledge this reality, your March 28, 2024, letter contains the same litany of false allegations that have been repeatedly debunked and refuted by the very witnesses you have called before your Committee and the many documents you have obtained,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, wrote in a letter to Comer obtained by The Hill “Your insistence on peddling these false and unsupported allegations despite ample evidence to the contrary makes one thing about your investigation abundantly clear: The facts do not matter to you.” CNN first reported Sauber’s response. Comer’s March letter to President Biden contained numerous …

Comer urges President Biden to testify in impeachment inquiry

Comer urges President Biden to testify in impeachment inquiry

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House Republicans are pressing President Biden to testify before the Oversight Committee as part of their impeachment inquiry, raising disputed claims and requesting the president sit for questions about his family’s business dealings. “I invite you to participate in a public hearing at which you will be afforded the opportunity to explain, under oath, your involvement with your family’s sources of income and the means it has used to generate it,” House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote. The letter asks President Biden to appear on April 16.  It’s an extraordinary ask of a president, who typically only appears before Congress once a year to provide the State of the Union address. It also comes as House Republicans have struggled with how to close their impeachment probe into Biden in the face of doubts from within their own party on whether investigators have found any wrongdoing. Comer has suggested in recent weeks he may seek to draft a criminal referral to the Justice Department rather than pursue an impeachment vote in the House, which would …

Alone in the Dark review – Jodie Comer and David Harbour can’t save this soporific horror | Games

Alone in the Dark review – Jodie Comer and David Harbour can’t save this soporific horror | Games

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It’s fitting that this latest Alone in the Dark game should choose a generational curse for its premise, as the series that pioneered the survival horror genre hasn’t been good in about 30 years. Its various misadventures include the disastrous 2008 game of the same name, which among many strange design decisions included a button dedicated to blinking. Yet at least it was terrible in an interesting way, which is more than can be said for this dull and derivative reimagining of the game that started it all. Set in Louisiana in the early 20th century, Alone in the Dark sees Emily Hartwood (Jodie Comer) visiting her uncle Jeremy at the Derceto Manor convalescence home for mentally ill people after receiving a worrying letter from him. So worrying, in fact, that not only has she hired private detective Edward Carnby (David Harbour) to accompany her, but one of the first questions she asks Carnby is whether he’s brought a gun, as she expects he might have to “wave it around a bit” in order to …

‘The hardest thing is for a woman to say I was raped’: Jodie Comer on the Prima Facie effect | Books

‘The hardest thing is for a woman to say I was raped’: Jodie Comer on the Prima Facie effect | Books

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After the opening night of the hit play Prima Facie in London in 2022, a young female producer came up to playwright Suzie Miller and said, “Loved the play. I’m one in three,” a line from the script referring to the number of women who are sexually assaulted in the UK. “She didn’t have to say ‘I was raped,’” Miller recalls. “It was this moment where I thought, ‘Oh, you can say that now.’” “The hardest thing is for a woman to say ‘I was raped,’” adds Jodie Comer, whose solo performance as the young defence lawyer forced to confront the failings of the legal system after she herself is sexually assaulted made the play a sensation. “Women struggle with those words. To see people come and voice ‘This happened to me’ is enormous.” This month Miller publishes a novelised version of the play, also called Prima Facie: it is dedicated to “all the women who comprise the ‘one in three’.” It is a sunny morning in London when we meet at the offices of Miller’s …

James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit

James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit

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Last week, the “whistleblower” that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to the FBI. In a twist that should surprise exactly no one, it appears almost certain that Alexander Smirnov’s claim to have evidence implicating the president and his son, Hunter, in criminal activity was fabricated. Worse yet, it also seems plausible that the “source” of the lies was Russian intelligence services. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had built the effort to impeach Biden around Smirnov’s invented testimony, and has now tacitly admitted that this arrest may derail the Biden impeachment, which has been in the works since long before Republicans had even decided what “crime” they would pretend to believe Biden committed.  In the wake of Smirnov’s arrest, a narrative has surfaced among the punditry holding that Comer and other Republicans who championed Smirnov’s fictions must be a bunch of morons. Joe Scarborough of MNBC, the bellwether of centrist Beltway thinking, unleashed on Wednesday morning about “Republicans being played once again by Vladimir Putin,” …

“The math keeps getting worse”: James Comer admits he may have to give up on Biden impeachment probe

“The math keeps getting worse”: James Comer admits he may have to give up on Biden impeachment probe

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The impeachment inquiry House Republicans launched into President Joe Biden may not end with an impeachment vote, House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., admitted in a recent interview with Spectrum News. Speaking to the news source last week, Comer indicated that the House holding a vote is decreasingly likely because the “math keeps getting worse” for the GOP, a statement reflecting Republican’s narrowing majority and internal skepticism about the merits of the investigation, Mediaite reports.  Comer’s probe — which is examining allegations that Biden accepted bribes, laundered money and peddled influence in connection to his son’s overseas business activities — has yet to yield any substantial evidence of the president committing any wrongdoing, which some Republican representatives have admitted. How the Democrat-controlled Senate addresses the recent impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be an indication of how their inquiry will go, Comer told Spectrum.  “I think the conference will get to see what happens with this Mayorkas impeachment in the Senate and how serious the Senate treats that as to whether or not …

The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer is gripping in climate drama

The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer is gripping in climate drama

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The Woman (Jodie Comer) and her baby must survive floods Signature Entertainment The End We Start FromMahalia BeloOn general release in UK cinemas US release to be announced ACCORDING to Thames Water, the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, parts of London experienced a month’s worth of rainfall in a single hour in July 2021, affecting over 2000 properties. And with reports estimating that several areas of the city will be below sea level by 2030, this poses a key question – are UK cities prepared for excessive flooding? This question is… Source link

Jodie Comer Responds To Nude Scenes In The End We Start From

Jodie Comer Responds To Nude Scenes In The End We Start From

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If you fancy seeing what might happen if the UK went through a climate change-related societal downfall, The End We Start From is for you! The movie, which is the feature film debut of BAFTA award-winning director Mahalia Belo, hit cinemas last Friday and has already garnered praise for its stunning visuals and incredible acting. Starring Jodie Comer as the lead – known only as “Mother” – The End We Start From follows a young woman and her newborn baby who must try and find their way home amongst the chaos of a society in crisis. Speaking to HuffPost UK, the actor recounted her experience shooting nude scenes at the beginning of the film, when her character is still pregnant. “When I met Mahalia early on, we kind of chatted in depth about those more intimate moments, the nudity and the depiction of showing a woman’s body in this way, and we both really wanted to go for it. We had an intimacy coordinator… but I feel like she had more trepidation than I did.. …

The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer is phenomenal in end-of-days survival thriller | Thrillers

The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer is phenomenal in end-of-days survival thriller | Thrillers

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When her waters break, life changes for ever for the heavily pregnant unnamed Woman (a phenomenal Jodie Comer) at the heart of Mahalia Belo’s superb feature debut The End We Start From. The onset of labour coincides, almost to the moment, with a national disaster, the catastrophic breaching of London’s flood defences, which leaves the capital and much of the rest of the country submerged and uninhabitable. As supply chains disintegrate, civilisation starts to collapse into a snarling, semi-feral competition for resources. But what sounds like the setup for a generic, post-apocalyptic survival movie is actually far more intriguing and insightful. The film, adapted by Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth, Normal People) from a novel by Megan Hunter, uses environmental catastrophe – the moment-to-moment uncertainty, the sense of worlds torn apart – as a metaphor for the crisis mode that kicks in during new motherhood. And it’s not just the mother-child connection that the film captures, but also the intense female friendships that ignite between new mothers. Katherine Waterston bursts into the film like the sun …

Jodie Comer on the ‘challenging’ and ‘beautiful’ moments of working with 15 babies on The End We Start From | Ents & Arts News

Jodie Comer on the ‘challenging’ and ‘beautiful’ moments of working with 15 babies on The End We Start From | Ents & Arts News

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Jodie Comer says working with 15 different babies on the set of her latest film – disaster movie The End We Start From – was both “beautiful” and “challenging”. The 30-year-old Killing Eve star plays a nameless woman, giving birth to her first child just as apocalyptic floods hit London. She told Sky News: “The babies are allowed on set for 20 minutes and then they have to go, so you’re often having to adapt to that. “Sometimes you could be in a very honest moment with the baby, you know, the baby’s giving you something that makes you react in a certain way, and then you have to try and recreate that with a doll – it’s difficult. “And sometimes the kind of terrain we were working on when we were filming in Scotland, you can’t have the baby, or if you were in a boat. “So, there are lots of different kinds of challenges along the way. But I think some of the most beautiful moments that we have [in the film] are …