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Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) over the weekend declined to say if he is "putting country above party" by opposing a commission to study the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked Blunt why he is trying to prevent a new investigation into the events of Jan. 6.

On Saturday, the Huffington Post reported (https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60a92fa6e4b0313547978140?6pa) that Rick Santorum has been fired by CNN as a commentator following racist remarks about Native Americans.

"Santorum, a former Republican senator and two-time failed GOP presidential candidate, sparked outrage last month after claiming there was "nothing" in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native people haven't contributed much to American culture, anyway," reported Jennifer Bendery.

In an interview with the far-right One America News Network on Thursday, former President Donald Trump took time to rage against his one-staunch ally Fox News, calling them a failure and ranting about their ratings.

"Americans are tuning out and turning off the vast majority of news channels that are out there now, and the latest data showing their numbers are plummeting," said OAN's Chanel Rion.

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday for using "poisonous nonsense" to cover up the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Earlier this week, McCarthy expressed his opposition to a new commission to study Jan. 6. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he also opposed the commission on Wednesday.

Liberal Fox News pundit Jessica Tarlov on Wednesday pushed back against her network colleagues who equated a joke told by President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump's hatred for the press.

During a panel segment, Fox News host Harris Faulkner suggested that members of the media were hypocrites because Biden had not been condemned for "teasing" a reporter who asked him a question on Tuesday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday spoke out in opposition to creating a commission to study the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a speech on the House floor, Greene argued that Black Lives Matter protests are also an "insurrection."

A Republican caller suggested to C-SPAN on Monday that women who have abortions should be punished by having their uteruses removed.

The woman named Linda called in from Geneva, New York on Washington Journal's Republican line.

A new poll from Morning Consult shows that Republicans' trust in Fox News has plunged over the last year after the network accurately reported that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

In fact, the poll shows that Republicans' confidence in Fox News fell by eight percentage points over the last year, which Morning Consult directly links to the network's 2020 election coverage.

Marjorie Clifton, a former consultant for the Obama campaign, derailed a Fox News segment on Monday by reminding host Harris Faulkner that former President Donald Trump had dangerously suggested ingesting bleach to cure COVID-19.

Clifton's remarks came during a Fox News segment that criticized President Joe Biden over a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendation that permits vaccinated people to go without a mask in public places.

Longtime conservative Charlie Sykes argued this week some Republicans are "incredibly naive" for thinking that they can save the party from former President Donald Trump.

On Monday, Sykes appeared on MSNBC to talk about his recent op-ed advising "never-Trump" Republicans that it is "time to say goodbye" to their party.

A fugitive Chinese businessman with ties to Steve Bannon is allegedly the "linchpin" in a massive disinformation campaign about the 2020 presidential election and the novel coronavirus.

The Washington Post has obtained a new report from network analysis company Graphika claiming that Chinese real estate developer Guo Wengui is at the center of a disinformation network that peddles falsehoods about former President Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 election, and also lies aimed at discouraging the use of COVID-19 vaccines.

CBS host John Dickerson on Sunday pressed Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his motivations for using disproportional force to kill Palestinian people, including civilians and children.

"You are under investigation for bribery, fraud, breach of trust," Dickerson noted. "You've also had some difficult -- four failed attempts to put together a government in the last 23 months. This leads to the criticism that your current actions are basically an effort to stay in power."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Sunday suggested that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is withholding "important information" about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

During an interview on Fox News, Cheney told host Chris Wallace that she was ousted from Republican leadership because she refused to be "complicit" in spreading former President Donald Trump's so-called "Big Lie" about the 2020 election being stolen.