Johnson staffs up attempted assassination task force
The Daily Punch
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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| 0:49.9 | Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. |
| 0:53.5 | Number one, we've got some |
| 0:54.3 | news. A look at who speaker Mike Johnson is installing to staff the assassination task force. |
| 1:00.5 | Number two, what Harris gets with Waltz. And number three, on the ground in Nevada. |
| 1:06.3 | All right, Jake, let's get into it. We are leading Punch Bowl News a.m. With some news this morning with a look, one, not only at the staffers that Speaker Mike Johnson is installing, |
| 1:18.3 | but also just kind of the level of involvement that the speaker has when it comes to the task force |
| 1:25.0 | investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, we have the, those are two important elements. |
| 1:34.1 | Let's take them piece by piece here. |
| 1:36.5 | So Mike Johnson has installed several key staffers on the assassination task force, which Congress created just a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:47.5 | Frederick Hill, who is an alum of Daryl Issa, somebody that keyed in Daryl Issa's chairmanship |
| 1:55.0 | of the Oversight Committee back in the day, will be the staff director. |
| 1:59.8 | Hill has kind of a, I don't know about rare, but an interesting |
| 2:05.0 | background to somebody who was involved in communications and strategy and oversight. Lauren Holmes, |
| 2:12.1 | who is also an oversight alum and a George Mason University Law School graduate, will be deputy staff director. Now, |
| 2:19.0 | this is interesting. Bill Burke, who is the global managing partner of Quinn |
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