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Axios reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has ousted Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, multiple GOP sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Axios. Turner, who was tapped to lead Republicans on the panel by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in 2022, has at times broken with party leadership in a way …

The Daily Beast reports: Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) affirmed a fellow Republican colleague’s statement that pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine messaging had penetrated the party base in Congress. That colleague, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mike McCaul (R-TX), criticized conservative news outlets when he said, “Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, …

“Unfortunately, the chaos caucus has continued to want to stop everything that occurs in Congress. It’s not as if they have an alternative plan. They’re just against those things that are necessary. This is necessary for national security. It shows that we can have radical fringes, even radical individuals — who don’t really have an ideology or an agenda other …

“I don’t trust this court decision. You know, being a practicing lawyer in commercial transactions, I think the whole premise of the case, which all legal analysts have said is unusual, is not really justifiable. We’ll have to see ultimately how the appeals run in this case. “But I think if this case stands, it’s going to be a threat …

NBC News reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders. Four sources with knowledge of the issue said the threat is a Russian military capability. Turner, in his statement, did not …

“It’s important for Americans to know the truth. This has been fraught with an unbelievable amount of misinformation and untruths. When you see the footage yourself, it’s going to give you an understanding of what was there and what occurred that day. Because we’re currently only depending on really partisan descriptions of what happened. Now the American people can see. …

“Certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents. That’s how they write their memoirs. They don’t have, you know, great recall of everything that occurred in their administration. And we don’t know that they were classified. We know according to the FBI documents that they were identified as marked classified.” – Rep. Mike Turner, on …

From the Washington Post: Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) became the first Republican to call for a new, independent investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of email during her years at the State Department, saying in a statement that the defunct independent counsel statute should be revived to “make an independent and impartial decision” about whether Clinton should be charged. “The investigation …