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A GOP guest booted from CNN after a bitter blow-up with a pro-Palestinian panelist hit back early Tuesday, claiming his comment that sparked a furious on-air fight was a "joke."

Republican strategist Ryan Girdusky infuriated guest Mehdi Hasan, a former MSNBC host, current editor-in-chief of Zeteo and a pro-Palestine campaigner, on the network's show "Newsnight."

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake faced an unrelenting line of questioning Monday revolving around whether she would finally concede that she lost in her 2022 bid for Arizona governor — which she refused to do in a tense back-and-forth with a CNN host.

“Have you changed your position on whether you lost the 2022 election for governor?" Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Lake on her show, “TheSource.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – once on Kamala Harris’ vice presidential short list – opened up about what he saw as the toughest part of the vetting process in a moment with Jon Stewart on Monday that left the comedian and his audience in hysterics.

“The hardest part of that vetting part was finding all of my old taxes, that was very hard,” Shapiro told Stewart. “It goes back pretty far.”

Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday night took aim on "The Daily Show" at Donald Trump's plan to deport millions of migrants, imploring viewers to question whether the former president's plan will be done with a "fine tooth comb."

Stewart kicked off his show by taking a swipe at The Washington Post over its 11th-hour decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates, joking: "Normally I just vote for who the Washington Post endorses. But I'm not an Amazon Prime member so..."

A CNN panel erupted on Monday after a Republican strategist told a former MSNBC host "I hope your beeper doesn't go off" — a reference to an Israeli attack involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon that targeted the militant group Hezbollah.

The comment came on CNN's "NewsNight" during a discussion over racist remarks made during a rally for former President Donald Trump.

A former GOP congressman's refusal to push back on the slew of racist attacks to come out of Donald Trump’s New York City rally left a CNN panel exasperated as some tried to make sense of his defense – including a conservative at the table.

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) on Monday night repeatedly deflected during an appearance on CNN from questioning from anchor Kaitlan Collins – and other panel guests – pivoting instead to topics such as Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and MSNBC.

Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) lost her temper during a roundtable discussion on Piers Morgan's show, getting into an argument with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who grilled her both on the double standard of painting herself and the MAGA movement as "anti-war," and her claim that President Joe Biden was destroying the U.S. energy industry.

"Why did you run with John McCain?" said Hasan of her former presidential ticket in 2008, adding that he believed if McCain had been elected, he would have gotten America into further wars.

A CNN conservative commentator on Monday refused to defend the disturbing remarks to emerge from Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, calling the rhetoric “stupid” and a distraction from what the Trump campaign intended to do.

“I don’t like it, I don’t like it one bit,” GOP strategist Scott Jennings said Monday on “AC360,” adding: “I’m not going to sit here and pretend like it’s good or helpful.”

Megyn Kelly, who once said she would "walk over broken glass" for Donald Trump, launched into a diatribe against former first lady Michelle Obama on Kelly's SiriusXM radio show Monday, saying the U.S. gave her "everything she has" and she should just "shut up" about any criticisms of the country.

This comes after Mrs. Obama expressed frustration at the country's inability to move past treating former President Donald Trump as a serious candidate for office at her speech in Kalamazoo, Michigan, saying, “I hope that you will forgive me if I'm a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse — all of this while we pick apart Kamala’s answers from interviews that he doesn't even have the courage to do, y’all.”

An MSNBC commentator on Monday said the slew of racist remarks that emerged from Donald Trump’s New York City rally on Monday caused even some of the former president’s allies to distance themselves from the rhetoric coming out of his campaign’s closing message – in defiance of “one of the number one rules of Trumpism.”

MSNBC co-host Alicia Menendez said Monday that the comments from the Madison Square Garden rally – which included comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's on-stage monologue about Latinos and Puerto Ricans, whom he said, “love making babies” and live on a “floating island of garbage" – could come back to haunt Trump, particularly in a battleground state like Pennsylvania.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) spoke out on MSNBC after a slew of racist and sexist comments were made during Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Monday show highlighting a comedian who called Puerto Rico a "floating pile of garbage" at the rally in New York City.

National Faith Advisory Board President Paula White, a televangelist, confirmed that former President Donald Trump turns to her when he wants a message from God.

Trump's "spiritual advisor" made the remarks during a Monday interview with the former president at an event for the advisory board.