President Donald Trump called on Republicans to take over elections.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, February 3rd.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

The Constitution grants states, and not the federal government, the authority to run elections in the U.S.

Nevertheless, President Trump said yesterday that Republican lawmakers should nationalize voting.

Here's what he said, speaking to right-wing podcaster and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino. The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting

in at least many 15 places. The Republicans order to nationalize the voting. And we states that are so crooked, and they're counting votes.

We have states that I won that show I didn't win.

Yes, that was Trump once again falsely alleging that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

His suggestion to Republicans comes less than a week after the FBI executed a search

warrant at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia. That county is at the heart of right-wing conspiracy

theories about the 2020 election. But U.S. national security officials have said they found no

evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020

election. And numerous courts have rejected claims of election irregularities as unfounded.

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

That's number two.

The former president and former Secretary of State said yesterday that they have agreed to speak with members of the House Oversight Committee.

That's a reversal.

The Clintons had previously refused to testify in the committee's investigation of the

convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their announcement came days before a planned vote on whether

to hold them in contempt of Congress. Neither Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing in connection

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