That is all for today’s Guardian politics live blog. Here’s what’s happened so far:
Joe Biden met with leaders from South Korea and Japan at Camp David. The trio discussed their ongoing cooperation. Biden says he believes the trilateral summit marks a new era of partnership between the US, Japan and South Korea, which he says are “capable and indispensable” allies.
According to a report from CNN, Kenneth Chesebro, one of the alleged legal architects of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, was in the crowd outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and spent part of that day closely following the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Miami’s Republican mayor and GOP presidential candidate Francis Suarez has claimed that he has reached the polling and fundraising threshold needed to qualify for the GOP presidential debate set to take place next week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Associated Press reports.
Matt Gaetz introduced a resolution to censure the judge overseeing the federal trial into Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In a statement, Gaetz, a Republican congressman from Florida, accused US district judge Tanya Chutkan of “showing open bias and partisanship in her official duties on the bench”.
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Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of defense, has released a statement following Biden’s summit with leaders from South Korea and Japan at Camp David.
Today’s summit reaffirmed that cooperation among our three countries delivers security and prosperity for our people, the Indo-Pacific region, and the world … Our leaders have charted an ambitious course for our mutual defense and for the security of our people, and I look forward to continued cooperation with Minister Hamada and Minister Lee as our teams work to implement these initiatives moving forward,” Austin said in a statement.
Read the entirety of the defense secretary’s statement here.
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