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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested this week that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed affirmative action college admission programs for minority students because the policies do not judge "the content of their character."

During an interview on Monday, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Johnson about his views on affirmative action policies.

According to a report from Politico, the embattled partnership between Donald Trump's social media start-up and the company behind the SPAC that would take it public is on the verge of falling apart for good as potential investors either renege on their plans to fund it or demand a bigger return on their investment.

At issue is the proposed deal that was supposed to inject over a billion dollars into the increasingly troubled start-up before it went public -- which now may collapse under its own weight.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) refused six opportunities to condemn racist and violent rhetoric from former President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

CBS host Margaret Brennan spoke to Scott a day after Greene told supporters at a Trump rally that Democrats are "killing" Republicans. Brennan pointed out that Trump has used similar language and has made racist remarks about Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) wife.

A woman at a Trump rally told a conservative broadcasting network that she wanted to apologize to "humanity" after voting for former President Barack Obama.

Real America's Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam spoke to the woman, who identified herself as Jeanie, prior to a rally with former President Donald Trump in Michigan on Saturday.

Democratic strategist Laura Fink called out Fox News host Brian Kilmeade for defending former President Donald Trump against the Jan. 6 Committee even though he claimed he wasn't.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz pointed out during a Sunday segment that Trump ally Roger Stone had been caught on video calling for violence before the Jan. 6 riot.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) pushed back on a suggestion by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that the U.S. government had funded the creation of the Covid-19 virus.

"I want to get your thoughts on the headlines this morning about China and this continued funding from the NIH to the EcoHealth Alliance and [President] Peter Daszak," Bartiromo told Turner. "Apparently, the NIH is giving more money through EcoHealth to study bat coronavirus!"

The hosts of Fox & Friends encouraged House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to defund the FBI if Republicans take control of Congress and he becomes Speaker of the House.

"Some people have said, if the Republicans win in the midterms, it just puts the brakes on what Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing," Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy noted. "But you're saying, with you as the Speaker and Republicans in the majority in Congress that we can actually reverse these things."

Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry lost a motion to dismiss allegations he violated New York's so-called “revenge porn” law responding to allegations he sexually assaulted a colleague.

"U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams also ruled that ex-Fox associate producer Jennifer Eckhart's accusation of sex trafficking against Henry could continue, though the judge did toss out several counts of retaliation against Henry for filing salacious and 'intimate' photos of Eckhart on the public docket," The Daily Beast reported Friday. "Henry was later accused of 'slut-shaming' Eckhart when his legal team added 15 explicit photos to a court filing that sought to dismiss the ex-Fox employee’s lawsuit, prompting Eckhart to file the 'revenge porn' count and additional retaliation charges.

Former Trump adviser Roger Stone on Thursday confirmed that he had recommended pardons for himself, members of Congress and anyone else "who came forward" with an election challenge.

During an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Stone admitted that he had asked then-President Donald Trump's lawyer for a pardon, confirming a report from The New York Times.

Mark Mitchell, a pollster with the conservative Rasmussen organization, revealed on Thursday that American voters are "much less likely" to vote for a Republican than they were a year ago.

In an interview on Real America's Voice, Mitchell told conservative podcast host Steve Bannon that President Joe Biden's poll numbers had surged over the summer. Still, he said that boost was beginning to erode.

Newsmax host Bob Sellers disputed former Trump adviser John Browne after he claimed that Democratic President Joe Biden's "Marxist administration" is plotting to cancel the midterm elections.

During an interview on Wednesday, Browne suggested that Biden was behind possible sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.

Today, ProPublica filed a complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent the U.S. Navy from continuing to withhold military court records and docket information filed in the United States v. Mays case. Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays’ court-martial trial is currently underway on the San Diego Naval Base and is expected to conclude later this week.

In “The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures,” ProPublica examined details of the Mays case, where a sailor has been accused of aggravated arson and hazarding a vehicle in the 2020 fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard. After the fire, investigators uncovered in exhaustive detail an astonishing array of failures — broken or missing fire hoses, poorly trained sailors, improperly stored hazardous material — that had primed the ship for a calamitous fire.