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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday suggested that those who participated in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump shared blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Johnson made the remarks despite claims that Trump tried to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by withholding military aid unless he manufactured dirt on Joe Biden, a Democratic political opponent.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday refused to condemn former President Donald Trump's praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Trump, who has called Putin a "genius" for invading Ukraine, declined to speak out against the Russian dictator during a recent interview on Fox News.

Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Sunday praised President Joe Biden after NATO united under him in a way that it did not under President Donald Trump.

"There's this worry among generals whom I've talked with," Fox News host Harris Faulkner told Rice. "Nobody wants a world war. But that [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would do something at this point that he might not have done a few years ago in terms of more of a land grab, the Baltics for instance. And because of Article 5 with NATO, what does that mean for us. We get involved in war. We can't go to war with a nuclear power."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has continued defending Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as he ordered a full invasion into Ukraine this week.

The Hill's John Kruzel points out that Kremlin-backed media outlet Russia Today has been keen on exposing its audience to Carlson, and even went so far recently to rebroadcast an entire Carlson monologue about Russia, complete with Russian subtitles.

CNN suffered a jarring moment on Thursday when an ad for boneless wings at Applebee's played during coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The network went directly from broadcasting air raid sirens in Kyiv to an ad for Applebee's, a national restaurant chain that bills itself as a neighborhood bar and grill.

Fox News correspondent Greg Palkot asked NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday to prove Russians troops had entered Ukraine.

During a press conference in Brussels, Palkot seemed to doubt Stoltenberg's claim that Russia has effectively invaded Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared independence for eastern regions of the country.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto revealed on Monday that his own viewers wished for his death while he was fighting for his life in the hospital with Covid-19.

After days of being off the air, Cavuto explained his absence during his Fox Business program on Monday.

Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance tried to do damage control on Monday after retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey suggested that he is a Russian "stooge."

After Vance said that he did not care if Ukraine is invaded by Russia, McCaffrey tweeted condemnation of the GOP candidate.

Glenn Kirschner, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Army, insisted over the weekend that former President Donald Trump is one step closer to being indicted.

Kirschner made the remarks after New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last week that members of the Trump family will have to testify under oath regarding accusations that their company illegally inflated and deflated property valuations.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Sunday hinted that he would be willing to serve as President Donald Trump's running mate in 2024.

During an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Scott if he would be open to running with Trump in the next presidential election. Scott did not rule out the vice-presidential nomination.

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) slammed people who have worked with Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for "failing upward."

Nunes, who quit Congress to work for former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that some people should face charges from special counsel John Durham for allegedly "spying" on Trump's 2016 campaign.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested on Sunday that it should be "illegal" for President Joe Biden to announce that he will nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court without considering white people.

"Democrats today believe in racial discrimination, they're committed to it as a political proposition," Cruz told Fox News host Bill Hemmer. "I think it is wrong to stand up and say we're going to discriminate, this administration is going to discriminate. What the president said is that only African-American women are eligible for this slot. They said that 94% of Americans are ineligible."

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday voiced his disbelief that Fox News personality Sean Hannity was better informed about the potential for violence on Jan. 6 than law enforcement.

Scarborough interviewed Washington Post political reporter Jacqueline Alemany, who is now a contributor for MSNBC, about the new report she co-authored titled, "Texting through an insurrection: Thousands of frantic text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together a picture of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack."