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Former Fox News journalists ripped into the network for failing to stand up to former President Donald Trump and participating in "the destruction of democracy," in Part II of an Australian TV documentary that aired last week.

"Fox and the Big Lie," which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "Four Corners" program, details the relationship between Fox News and Trump and how it led to the network becoming a propaganda machine for the former president and his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen — culminating in the Capitol insurrection.

Former President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that he had saved "millions of people" from dying of Covid-19.

During an interview on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney noted that Florida is "catching hell" from Covid-19 after removing public safety measures like mask requirements.

Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters described working as a Fox News military analyst during the Trump administration in a new expose by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The special was titled, "Fox and the Big Lie: Trump returns to campaign trail amid 'stolen election' lawsuits."

Fox News will be the driver of America's next insurrection, the leader of a watchdog group that monitors right-wing communication warned on Monday.

The prediction came after Fox News personality Tucker Carlson warned of revolt if the Biden administration did not "change course immediately."

NBC correspondent Shaquille Brewster was threatened on Monday while reporting on Hurricane Ida from Gulfport, Mississippi.

The incident occurred as Brewster was updating MSNBC host Craig Melvin on the storm's aftermath.

OAN host Christina Bobb advised Americans over the weekend to ignore the U.S. government's warning about terrorist threats in Kabul.

The U.S. State Department has urged all Americans to leave the vicinity of the airport in Kabul due to ongoing terrorist threats. Last week, 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were killed in terrorist attacks near the airport.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) seemingly forgot on Sunday that it was former President Donald Trump who set a deadline to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan and then began the drawdown of U.S. troops.

During an appearance on Face the Nation, CBS host Ed O'Keefe asked Graham "what kind of consequence" President Joe Biden should face for the withdrawal in Afghanistan.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday surprised some viewers when she asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy why he had not used the power of the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden from office.

"Will you lead drawing up articles of impeachment? Will you look at the 25th Amendment?" Bartiromo asked. "What are your plans in terms of leadership as we are in this incredible moment of time?"

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday called President Joe Biden "clinically insane" for allowing Afghan refugees to live in the United States.

Miller yelled at the current commander-in-chief throughout a Fox News interview after host Maria Bartiromo asked him about "refugees" that are being brought to the United States from Afghanistan.

Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about his desire to fight an endless war in Afghanistan.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, McConnell argued that the Afghanistan war had been a "complete success" and that the U.S. could safely maintain an indefinite military presence in the country with just 2,500 troops.

In an interview with the Daily Beast's Molly Jong-Fast, talk show host and former CNN star Soledad O'Brien delivered a blunt appraisal of the state of cable television -- taking aim at both her former employer and Fox News.

O'Brien, who has a reputation as a blunt-talking take-no-prisoners media critic, spoke with Jong-Fast on her informative "New Normal" podcast which can be listened to here.

Over the years, author Noam Chomsky has often criticized the mainstream media from the left — and done so forcefully. Chomsky's 1988 book "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media," written with colleague Edward S. Herman, not only disagreed with the right-wing claim that the mainstream media have a liberal bias — Chomsky and Herman argued that the mainstream media went easy on U.S. politicians, encouraging the status quo. But in an interview with The Nation this month, the 92-year-old Chomsky says he is pleasantly surprised by some of the reporting he is seeing these days — even in some of the mainstream publications he slammed in the past.

Victor Pickard, writing in The Nation, explains, "For anyone critical of the media and politics…. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' was essential reading. The book's 'propaganda model' provided a useful framework for understanding how typical news coverage filters out some types of evidence while emphasizing others, ultimately privileging dominant narratives. One key lesson from this analysis was clear: To change the world, we must first change our media."

Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin pushed back against lawmakers and pundits who jumped to criticize the Biden administration over a series of terrorist attacks at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.

Griffin made the remarks moments after Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) appeared on the network and slammed President Joe Biden for the attacks.