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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) disagreed with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she defended a man who allegedly leaked sensitive military secrets.

During an interview on ABC, host Jonathan Karl noted that Greene and others had spoken in defense of suspected leaker Jack Teixeira.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested on Sunday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is not mentally fit to hold office.

Duffy's remarks came during a Fox News segment about Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) health.

Unless there is a surprise settlement in the works, lawyers for Fox News will have their work cut out for them when they enter a courtroom on Monday to do battle with attorneys representing Dominion Voting Systems who are seeking $1.6 billion in damages as part of what could become a landmark defamation trial, according to new analysis by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

Buffeted by revelations that Fox News execs and on-air personalities acknowledged that they knew were spreading false claims about the 2020 presidential election results, Fox lawyers will be hard-pressed to win their case before a judge who is already not happy with them.

This Monday, April 17, the trial in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is scheduled to begin. Defamation, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan back in 1964, is extremely difficult to prove. And attorneys for Dominion have to show that Fox News acted with "actual malice" when, in late 2020 and early 2021, it promoted the bogus, repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the election from then-President Donald Trump.

The very nature of defamation lawsuits, thanks to the late Chief Justice Earl Warren and his colleagues, gives Dominion an uphill climb. But Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple, in an April 13 column, lays out some reasons why he believes that pre-trial hearings in the case are an ominous sign for Fox News.

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon praised Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday after the lawmaker suggested psychiatric drugs were to blame for mass school shootings.

During an interview on the War Room program, Bannon noted that Gaetz's response to a school shooting in Nashville was not to blame guns.

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said former President Donald Trump was to blame for inflaming the crisis of fentanyl overdoses with his "brute force" policies on Mexico.

During a Fox News segment about spiking fentanyl imports, Rivera pointed to the recent calls by Republicans to bomb Mexico.

Conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk doubled down on his belief that gun deaths are "worth it" because of the liberty firearms provide.

After a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday, Kirk reacted by defending recent remarks that were highlighted by Media Matters.

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and four months of home detention after she was found guilty of obstructing government operations.

Peters was found guilty last month of obstruction for refusing to turn over an iPad allegedly used to record a court hearing. Peters has been outspoken about her belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) said on Monday that he could not stop two expelled representatives from being reappointed.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Sexton said that the speaker would not stand in the way of the reappointment of Democratic Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones. Both were expelled after they used a bullhorn on the House floor to call for gun safety laws.

Noble D'Amato, a 19-year-old friend of Rep. Lauren Boebert's son Tyler, has accused the Republican congresswoman of covering up details of a vehicle crash that left him injured.

D'Amato told Denver news site Westword that he was riding shotgun with Boebert's son on September 17 when Tyler flipped the SUV he was driving. D'Amato suffered "multiple concussions and a severely lacerated hand."

Fox Business host Liz Clayman defended MSNBC after the left-leaning network decided not to air former President Donald Trump's speech live following his arrest.

On the Sunday Media Buzz program, Fox News host Howard Kurtz and Federalist writer Emily Jashinsky took issue with MSNBC's decision not to air Trump's speech.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that liberals had recently flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court because conservatives failed to put forth a plan to ban abortions.

In a Sunday interview, Fox News host Shannon Bream told Graham that critics claim the Republican Party's stance on abortion is causing election losses.

Jim Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, insisted that the former president's attacks on a judge's family were "not something personal."

During an interview on ABC's This Week program, host Jonathan Karl confronted the attorney after Trump repeatedly called out Juan Merchan, the New York judge overseeing a criminal case against the former president. The judge received dozens of threats after Trump attacked his family.