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June 13-19: Jan. 6 hearings continue, more primaries, Ukraine war

June 10, 2022
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A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. Delivered to your inbox on Fridays.

Leading the week 

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds three more hearings this week (June 13, 15 and 16) following Thursday’s prime time return after over 10 months, which focused on Donald Trump’s culpability for the attack. Monday’s session is expected to focus on how Trump tried to steal the election despite being told by aides and allies that there was no evidence to support his claims. 

Later in the week, the hearings look at allegations that Trump planned to replace Department of Justice officials with allies, encouraged right-wing groups to carry out the insurrection, and pressured Mike Pence and state officials to overturn the election results. One of the most high-profile officials associated with this effort is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is reportedly set to testify in the week commencing June 20. 

Primary season continues on Tuesday (June 14) as voters head to the polls in Nevada, South Carolina, Maine and North Dakota. 

Nevada will be the most closely-watched state, with competitive Republican primaries taking place up and down the ballot. In the GOP Senate primary, Trump-endorsed former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt faces retired Army Captain Sam Brown in the race to take on vulnerable incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. Though Laxalt maintains a lead in the polls, Brown has narrowed the gap in recent weeks, winning straw polls for the Clark County and Carson City Republican parties, often seen as an important indicator of grassroots support. While Trump’s endorsement power may be waning in the Senate race, his chosen candidate in the gubernatorial race, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, holds a commanding lead in the battle to take on Democrat Steve Sisolak. 

The Democratically held 1st, 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts are all considered toss-ups. 1st District Congresswoman Dina Titus faces a particularly tough reelection bid as her district was redrawn to include more GOP voters, improving Susie Lee and Steven Horsford’s prospects in the 3rd and 4th Districts. Titus faces a primary challenge from progressive Amy Vilela.

Nikki Haley speaking

Meanwhile in South Carolina, keep an eye on the 1st Congressional District where Republican incumbent Nancy Mace faces a primary challenge from Katie Arrington. While Arrington has been endorsed by Donald Trump, Mace is backed by former Governor Nikki Haley, who is widely expected to run against Trump in the 2024 presidential primary. In Maine, former Congressman Bruce Poliquin faces Liz Caruso in the race to take on Democratic Congressman Jared Golden. Poliquin narrowly lost to Golden in 2018, and with the district voting for Donald Trump in 2020, the seat is one Republicans are keen to flip. 

Janet Yellen

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision will be announced on Wednesday (June 15). In a bid to bring down what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently described as ‘unacceptable’ levels of inflation, the Fed is expected to raise rates by another 0.5 points. Though the rate of the increases could lower to 0.25 if inflation begins to settle, minutes from the Fed’s May meeting indicated that as many as three 0.5 increases will likely be necessary to ‘expeditiously’ bring down inflation as the war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China and Covid-era supply chain issues continue to drive up costs for both consumers and manufacturers. 


Looking abroad 

Nearly four months on from the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the conflict looks set once again to dominate international news this week. Monday (June 13) sees the start of a regular UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, which comes in the wake of yesterday’s news that a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced two British nationals and a Moroccan to death for alleged crimes, claiming they were mercenaries. The session begins with the traditional update from High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, in which she will likely address the conflict. Later in the week (June 16), there is session dedicated to the situation in Mariupol where the last remnants of Ukraine’s armed forces surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in the second of half of May, with many of them since transferred to Russia to face an uncertain fate.

Residential damage in Mariupol

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, meanwhile, will be in Brussels on Wednesday (June 15) for key meetings on the war, including the last gathering of NATO defense ministers before the Madrid summit later this month and a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Allies are likely to use the meeting to discuss the supply of weapons to Ukraine as the conflict grinds on, notably in the east of Ukraine around the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which straddle the strategically important Siverskyi Donets river. Both the US and the UK recently announced they would be sending sophisticated rocket-launcher systems to Ukraine, which the Kremlin warned will only prolong the conflict.

Vladimir Putin speaking at SPIEF

Meanwhile, the looming global food crisis provoked by the conflict is likely to be addressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin when he speaks at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday (June 17). Ukraine has a critical role as a global exporter of wheat, corn, and sunflower oil, and Russia has blamed Kyiv for mining blockaded ports and international sanctions for limiting its own exports, while the West has countered that Russia is “solely responsible for this looming food crisis”. 


 

Also look out for...

June 13

Supreme Court opinion(s) announced 

Michelle Obama at When We All Vote Summit 

Ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte retried on espionage charges  

NBA Finals (game 5)

June 14

Joe Biden at AFL-CIO convention 

Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Austrian World Summit 

FDA advisory committee considers Moderna’s vaccine for under 17s

June 15

House and Senate committee hearings on gun violence 

Supreme Court opinion(s) announced 

FDA advisory committee considers vaccines for under 5s 

Microsoft retires Internet Explorer

June 16

Sonia Sotomayor at American Constitution Society convention 

Confirmation hearing on ambassadorial nominee to Saudi Arabia 

June 17

Peter Navarro arraigned on contempt of Congress charge  

Joe Biden hosts virtual Major Economies Forum climate meeting 

Jerome Powell speech on roles of US dollar 

Faith & Freedom Road to Majority Conference 

US Open Championship begins

June 18

Donald Trump at an American Freedom Tour event in Memphis 

WNBA star Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia expires unless extended 

Emmanuel Macron attends Mount Valerien ceremony

June 19

French parliamentary elections (second round) 

Canadian Grand Prix  

US Open Championship Final Round 

El Colacho (Spanish baby jumping festival)

Statistics, Reports and Results

June 13

Results from: Oracle

June 14

Producer Price Index 

June 15

Advance Monthly Retail Sales  

NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index 

China monthly press conference on economic data

June 16

New Residential Construction  

Russia GDP Q1 

UK interest rate decision 

June 17

Industrial production figures 

EU inflation statistics 

Japan interest rate decision

Anniversaries and Awareness Days

June 14

Donald Trump turns 76 

Flag Day 

Five years ago: Grenfell Tower fire 

40 years ago: Falklands War ended 

June 15

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 

10 years ago: DACA program created 

June 16

Day of the African Child 

June 17

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 

One month ago: US Covid-19 death toll reached one million 

50 years ago: Watergate break-in

June 19

Father’s Day 

Juneteenth 

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 

10 years ago: Julian Assange took refuge in Ecuadorian embassy


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