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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday he opposed the way Fox News host Tucker Carlson depicted the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021.

Carlson aired the first part of his series on the Capitol attacks on Monday after being given thousands of hours of footage by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday came out against a bill that would require bloggers to register if they report on political figures.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Jason Brodeur (R), would have bloggers disclose who paid them and fine them up to $2,500 for late reporting.

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon called for imprisoning Justice Department officials — including Attorney General Merrick Garland — who participated in the prosecution of "QAnon shaman" Jacob Chansley.

On his Tuesday show, Bannon reacted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's broadcast of Jan. 6 footage after being given a trove of recordings by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, broke with her father's defense in a New York fraud case.

Bloomberg News correspondent Erik Larson reported that Trump had joined her father and brothers in asking for a trial delay, but she offered a very different reason.

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake suggested she constructed a sort of "life insurance" policy for herself because members of the Republican establishment might make her a mafia-style offer to leave politics or be murdered.

In a Monday interview with podcaster Charlie Kirk, Lake explained why she told a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) audience over the weekend that one acquaintance had tried to bribe her to leave politics instead of running for U.S. Senate.

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger said this week that he is unlikely to support his former boss, Donald Trump, in another run for president in 2024.

During an interview with The Washington Post, host David Ignatius asked if the former official had plans for endorsing Trump's latest campaign.

A Dominion Voting Systems legal brief that contains a wealth of text and emails sent between Fox News executives and on-air personalities that admits they were spreading lies about the 2020 presidential election results also contains about 35 redacted passages — and now questions are being raised about what is being hidden.

In his column for the Washington Post, media critic Eric Wemple pointed out the redactions came at the request of Fox News lawyers over objections by Dominion, and that does not bode well for the conservative news network as it attempts to stave off the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that some legal experts predict Fox will lose.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) was asked on Sunday how his select committee on Covid could be taken seriously when it includes conspiracy theorists like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX).

CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Wenstrup how his work could be taken seriously when committee members peddled conspiracy theories.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) took a shot at his former boss, Donald Trump, on Sunday by suggesting the former president was not a "true conservative."

Pompeo made the suggestion while appearing on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream.

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) called Susan Rice "militant" after President Joe Biden tasked her with heading an equity task force.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Jackson reacted to Biden's executive order creating a White House Steering Committee on Equity that will be chaired by Rice.

NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday pushed back against New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu's suggestion that all news networks lie to their viewers like Fox News did after then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

During an interview on Meet the Press, Todd asked Sununu about what News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch could do to regain trust in his network that was lost when on-air personalities lied about the election being stolen from Trump by hacked Dominion voting machines.

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) revealed that he is not running for president because he does not want to help former President Donald Trump win a third nomination.

"I did give it serious consideration, and I talked to people everywhere, and I talked to my family, and it was a tough decision," Hogan told CBS correspondent Robert Costa in an interview that aired on Sunday. "I've decided that I will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president."

On MSNBC early Saturday morning, Former Democratic Senator Doug Jones (AL), who formerly served as a U.S. Attorney, stated that Fox News appears to have a losing case as it attempts to stave off a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.

Speaking with "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart, the former senator claimed that it appears that Fox executives want to shift blame to their employees for spreading disinformation and attacks on Doniminion related to the 2020 presidential election, but internal Fox texts and emails will make that all but impossible.