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Right-wing host and activist Charlie Kirk called on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the nominee for attorney general, to arrest Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) and other Pennsylvania officials after a recount was automatically triggered because incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) lost to challenger Dave McCormick (R) by 0.2%.

During his Monday show, Kirk expressed outrage because Pennsylvania officials were conducting a recount that could find that Casey won his Senate race. The state automatically conducts recounts on races decided by a margin of 0.5% or less.

MAGA supporters were forced to cut short a celebration Monday after right-wing host Steve Bannon falsely reported that President-elect Donald Trump had named Kash Patel as the next director of the FBI.

On his daily War Room broadcast, Bannon shared what he called "blockbuster" news.

Jeff Mordock of conservative newspaper The Washington Times defended President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint an all-white cabinet Monday.

During the Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, Mordock was confronted by a Democratic caller from California.

A Republican man from Indiana told C-SPAN on Sunday that "colored people" would not have basketball if former President Abraham Lincoln had not abolished slavery.

During Sunday's episode of Washington Journal, an Indiana Republican named Rick told host Kimberly Adams that the Bible said "that man is supposed to rule the house" and a woman should "just do the cleaning."

Fox News host Howard Kurtz challenged Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski about the president-elect's decision to nominate former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general by noting that a conservative media outlet had described him as "nuts."

"Well, the biggest uproar in the media, as you know, has been over Matt Gaetz," Kurtz told Lewandowski on Sunday, "not just because of the sex trafficking investigation that led to no charges, but because he only practiced law for a couple of years."

Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leading President-elect Donald Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with billionaire Elon Musk, suggested over the weekend that the federal Dept. of Education would be "deleted outright" under the new administration.

"Elon and I aren't in this for the credit," Ramaswamy explained to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But I think we're gonna build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven't been made for most of our history."

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (OK) argued that a House Ethics Committee report about alleged sexual misconduct on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) should absolutely be released before President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general is confirmed.

Mullin made the comment on Sunday's Meet the Press program after host Kristen Welker recalled that the senator had accused Gaetz of admitting to sexual misconduct and abusing drugs on the House floor.

CNN host Jake Tapper called out House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) Christian faith after the influential Republican lawmaker tried to scuttle a sexual misconduct investigation into attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, Tapper noted that Gaetz had faced a House Ethics Committee investigation "over numerous allegations, including one that he had sex with a 17-year-old."

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went ballistic after his Infowars website was taken down during a live broadcast.

During a simulcast with Steve Bannon's War Room on Thursday, Jones announced that Infowars.com was offline after The Onion successfully won an auction for the site's assets.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to respond to Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy after he posed a question about a hypothetical golf match between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump.

During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Doocy inquired into a meeting between the president and the president-elect that occurred earlier in the day.