Tipsheet: Jan. 6 panel hesitates in asking Pence to testify

View in your browser     Jan. 6 panel hesitates in asking Pence to testify BY REBECCA BEITSCH   As the select committee plows ahead with hundreds of interviews about the attack on Capitol on Jan. 6 there’s one figure central to the investigation who’s giving them pause: Mike Pence.     The former vice president is unique in being both an eyewitness to the attack and a target of former President Trump and his supporters that descended on the Capitol.  Read the full story here     CNN faces new questions about post-Jeff Zucker future BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO   Jeff Zucker’s abrupt resignation as CNN’s president this week has roiled the network internally and sent shockwaves across the media landscape.   Read the full story here     Pence breaks with Trump: 'I had no right to overturn the election' BY BRETT SAMUELS   Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday sharply rebuked former President Trump for suggesting he had the ability to overturn the results of the 2020 election, calling the idea "un-American." Read the full story here     Five takeaways on a stunning jobs report BY SYLVAN LANE   Rarely have so many economists been so glad to be so wrong about the jobs report. Read the full story here       North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn maps as unconstitutional BY CAROLINE VAKIL   The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday struck down Republican-drawn legislative and congressional maps as unconstitutional and asked for new maps to be submitted by Feb. 18. Read the full story here     Corporate PAC donations to GOP objectors surpass $9 million since Jan. 6 BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM   Corporate PACs affiliated with Fortune 500 companies and their trade associations have donated more than $9 million to Republicans who objected to the 2020 election results following the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a new report from Accountable.US. Read the full story here     US passes 900,000 COVID-19 deaths BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL   The latest number, fueled largely by the highly contagious omicron variant, comes less than two months after the nation surpassed 800,000 deaths. Read the full story here     Congressional staffers launch efforts to unionize amid support from Democratic leadership BY CAROLINE VAKIL   Congressional staffers on Friday announced they were launching unionization efforts amid growing support from Democratic leadership. Read the full story here     McCarthy: Cheney, Kinzinger would have 'hard time ever coming back to Congress' BY CAROLINE VAKIL   House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday he believes GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) would have a “hard time ever coming back to Congress” following their censure by the Republican National Committee (RNC). Read the full story here     Supreme Court could act soon on Alabama racial gerrymandering dispute BY JOHN KRUZEL   The Supreme Court could soon act on a dispute over whether Alabama’s new voting map infringes on the rights of Black voters in the first major redistricting case to reach the 6-3 conservative majority court.    Read the full story here     Is it time to recall the recall? BY JAMES D. ZIRIN   OPINION | All this leads to a philosophical question: Why not recall the recall? An official is elected to a term of years and should have the security in office to make tough decisions, even if unpopular, with those who elected him. A once-popular governor who imposes vaccine mandates in a pandemic should not be unseated by those whose interests or convenience he frustrates. Read the full story here     Despite intentions, Biden's Supreme Court promise is deeply misguided BY SHANNON PRINCE   OPINION | I wish that instead of promising to name a Black woman, Biden would have drawn attention to the underrepresentation of people of color and women on the Supreme Court across time and vowed to conduct a proactively and innovatively inclusive search for the wisest legal mind. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Olympic teams raise concerns over quarantine hotels BY JAMES ELLINGWORTH Not enough food. Inedible meals. No training equipment. Some Olympic athletes unlucky enough to test positive for the coronavirus at the Beijing Olympics feel their quarantine conditions are making a bad situation much worse. Read the full story here     Reuters: China's Xi meets four more heads of state in Olympic diplomacy push BY DAVID STANWAY Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of Serbia, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan on Saturday as Beijing used the opening of the Winter Olympics to seize the diplomatic initiative amid simmering tensions with the United States. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Voters cite anti-gerrymandering laws in suing to block new congressional maps BY AARON ZITNER AND JIMMY VIELKIND Newly drawn congressional maps in states across the country are facing a wave of novel legal challenges in state courts that could shape the balance of power in the U.S. House next year. Read the full story here     Bloomberg: US labor, supply ‘nightmare’ seen extending into second half BY VINCE GOLLE The helter-skelter playing out on U.S. factory floors from labor and supply shortages, transportation bottlenecks and the coronavirus looks likely to persist into the second half of the year. Read the full story here     The New York Times: A tenacious winter storm moves across the Northeast BY JESUS JIMÉNEZ AND SOPHIE KASAKOVE A tenacious winter storm that stranded travelers, closed schools and snarled roadways as it swept from New Mexico to New England this week continued to bring hazardous weather on Friday, dumping a mix of snow, sleet and ice on parts of the Northeast. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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