Trump news – live: Vance slated for ‘kissing Trump’s ass’ as new details of McCarthy’s Jan 6 call emerge

Liz Cheney has vowed that the House January 6 select committee will not allow former president Donald Trump to turn his testimony into a “circus”.

The Wyoming Republican made the assurance in an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, two days after the committee formally issued a subpoena to compel Mr Trump to produce documents by 4 November and appear to give evidence in a sworn deposition before the panel on 14 November, setting up a confrontation between the twice-impeached ex-president and the nine-member panel with just months to go before its mandate expires in January.

Ms Cheney was asked if the committee is open to considering Mr Trump’s reported offer to give testimony in a live setting.

Here’s what she said:

A right-wing group founded by prominent conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump allies ran a covert nationwide campaign to fuel the former president’s plans to upend the nation’s elections after his 2020 defeat.

An investigation from Reuters discovered that the influential America Project surveyed more than 260 election officials in eight battleground states without revealing the group’s agenda and its founders’ explicit attempts to seize voting machines.

According to Reuters, interviewers told election officials that they were nonpartisan observers conducting the surveys only for educational purposes.

Alex Woodward reports.

Is something untoward afoot at the elite agency charged with safeguarding the life of President Joe Biden?

Adam Kinzinger certainly thinks so.

Andrew Feinberg looks at the evidence.

Just weeks before the Nov. 8 vote, Utah‘s senior senator, Republican Mike Lee, is now acknowledging a real reelection threat from Evan McMullin, an anti-Donald Trump independent and former Republican challenging him in the state’s most competitive Senate race in decades.

Lee’s campaign insists it is confident heading into Election Day, but there are unmistakable signs of anxiety in a race shaping up as a referendum on the direction that Trump has taken the Republican Party.

Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly preparing challenges to 2022 midterm elections, raising baseless claims of voter fraud that fuelled his failed attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The former president has reportedly convened a series of in-person meetings and conference calls with allies and officials in battleground states to prepare for legal challenges to upcoming elections that could determine the balance of power in Congress ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Alex Woodward has the story.

Donald Trump has repeated his claim that he will sue the Pulitzer Prize board, this time saying it will happen within the next two weeks.

The former president has previously threatened to sue the organisation if it does not rescind awards for reporting on Russian 2016 election collusion by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched another attack against Donald Trump on Sunday, effectively daring the onetime president to testify before the Jan 6 committee.

She made the comments during an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, predicting that Mr Trump would attempt to fight the January 6 panel’s subpoena for his testimony by whatever means possible.

John Bowden reports.

President Joe Biden joked that it’s difficult acknowledging he’s about to turn 80, but said he’s physically and mentally capable of serving a potential second term in the White House.

Biden, who turns 80 on 20 November, said it’s “totally legitimate” for voters to question whether someone his age can manage the demanding stresses of the American presidency. Biden made the comment in response to a question about his age during an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday.

He said people should judge for themselves whether he is up to the task as polls show that voters would rather not see a rematch with Donald Trump.

Donald Trump repeated one of his favourite rants about US airports at his latest rally in Texas, after flying to the state on his newly-repaired jumbo jet dubbed “Trump Force One”.

Speaking at a “Save America” rally in Robstown on Saturday night, Mr Trump griped that America’s “once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess”.

Megan Sheets and Lucy Thackray report.