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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) offered Fox News host Maria Bartiromo a lesson in inflation on Sunday after she suggested that President Joe Biden was to blame.

In an interview on Fox News, Bartiromo told Khanna that Covid-19 legislation signed into law by Biden "was the beginning of inflation getting stoked."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) responded to a Fox News host after he suggested that law enforcement and House Speaker Nancy Peolosi (D-CA) were responsible for the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

In an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Bret Baier argued that the Jan. 6 Committee should be investigating why law enforcement failed to stop the riot that was incited by former President Donald Trump.

As the House Select Committee on January 6 has produced bombshell hearing after bombshell hearing, Fox News has largely tried to avoid giving much airtime to the matter, outright refusing to carry Thursday's hearing at all.

But on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "The ReidOut," former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said that Fox's efforts to diminish the political impact of the hearings is likely to be in vain.

During a segment on Fox News' The Faulkner Focus this Friday, host Harris Faulkner discussed the attack on GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, who was attacked by a man carrying a sharp object during a campaign event in New York this Wednesday.

She connected the incident to the recent arrest of a protester who allegedly planned violence against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Fox News pundit Joey Jones said on Thursday that President Joe Biden had been punished with a Covid-19 infection as "karma."

During a breaking news segment about the president's Covid-19 diagnosis, Jones recalled that he had been infected with the virus on two occasions and experienced "fever" and a "cold."

Newsmax host John Bachman reminded Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that Dr. Anthony Fauci has not been found guilty of any wrongdoing with regard to his response to Covid-19.

During an interview on Newsmax, Greene previewed the investigations that Republicans will launch if they take over the House in the midterm elections.

Fox News reported on Wednesday that a candidate endorsed by Donald Trump had promoted a message claiming he was not the president in 2017.

According to the report, Arizona candidate for governor Kari Lake shared an "anti-Trump post" days before the then-president-elect's inauguration.

U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Donald Trump, ruled against Steve Bannon, an ex-adviser to the former president, on Wednesday and cautioned him not to turn his trial into a "political circus."

Prosecutor Amanda Vaughn told Nichols that Bannon's attorneys appeared to be trying to inject politics into his trial for contempt of Congress. She said Bannon's lawyers have been suggesting that it is a "politically motivated prosecution."

Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield has vanished without explanation from the channel's airwaves.

The former NRATV host lost his prime-time program in a shakeup to make room for Greta Van Susteren, who got the 6 p.m. slot, while former White House press secretary Sean Spicer moved to 5 p.m. and former Fox News commentator Eric Bolling got Stinchfield's 8 p.m. slot, reported The Daily Beast.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell promised this week that at least a billion people would watch his upcoming summit on election fraud.

Lindell first announced last month that he would hold "The Moment of Truth Summit" on Aug. 20-21 in Springfield, Missouri.

A Bloomberg deep dive into the background of a mysterious Florida equity firm tied to the Trump Media & Technology Group revealed a company that has also backed technology that allows cash to be transferred without using banks. Trump Media & Technology Group is currently facing both federal and state investigations.

In June, the New York Times reported that Digital World Acquisition made an 8-K filing that revealed it was "aware that a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York has issued subpoenas to each member of Digital World’s board of directors," and that led to "requests relating to Digital World’s S-1 filings, communications with or about multiple individuals, and information regarding Rocket One Capital."

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon scolded conservative economist Stephen Moore on Thursday after he suggested that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election fairly.

"I am so frustrated right now because I really believe if Trump, if the American people had not made such a big mistake in November," Moore explained. "And I think people recognize they did."

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump could face manslaughter charges for his delay in calling off a mob of rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC, McQuade asserted that Trump and his associates could not rely on free speech arguments to protect them from criminal charges.