Pulitzer winner: Robertson 'demented old man'

While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was on television over the weekend, he proclaimed the intentions of his party to host an audit of the 2020 election. It appears that was news to election officials, who had no idea.

DFW's CBS outlet reported Monday that no one seems to know what the next steps are, what the plan will be or when things will move forward.

On Monday, following the refusal of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to provide any Republican votes in the House for funding the federal government and raising the debt ceiling, assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA) reminded the GOP leader of his own words six years ago, when Republicans controlled the House and did not want to own a debt default themselves.

"When the United States makes promises, it keeps them, which is why the House voted today to avoid the threat of a debt default," wrote McCarthy in the tweet posted by Clark, first flagged by Newsweek.

NBC 4 Washington reporter Scott MacFarlane on Monday said that recent court documents surrounding Capitol rioter cases are painting an "increasingly dark picture" of many rioters' violent fixation on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

MacFarlane points to a newly unsealed superseding indictment of one Capitol rioter whom prosecutors say openly bragged about being "the first to sit in Nancy Pelosi's chair" after breaking into the Capitol building, while also declaring Pelosi a "traitor."