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A shocking letter released this week revealed that an official from former President Donald Trump's Justice Department tried to push the department to directly intervene to overturn the election results in Georgia.

The official, Jeffrey Clark, was stopped by others in the DOJ but the country came shockingly close to an official coup. If Donald Trump had fired the acting DOJ chief, as he attempted, and appointed Clark, the plan could easily have been put in motion to steal the 2020 election.

Arkansas is one of the states seeing a dramatic increase in COVID-19 infections, particularly among young people. Nearly 1 in 5 of the infections in the state are in children under 18, reported the Arkansas Secretary of Health.

Arkansas Secretary of Health Jose Romero explained that hospitalizations among children 18 and under have increased by 270 percent in recent weeks and ICU admissions for children are also up 275 percent. Sadly, 20 percent of those are among children under 12.

Last week was a difficult week for the Trump-led Republican Party and the Lincoln Project captured it in one damning video that perfectly illustrates the non-stop absurdity that has taken over the Republican Party.

They went after Fox News hosts eager to destroy Capitol Police officers who testified about their injuries and experience after the Jan. 6 attack. They showed the sad and pathetic way that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was shouted down by a whistle.

Last week the Justice Department ordered the IRS to hand over former President Donald Trump's taxes to Congress.

There has been an extensive legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the justices punted back to the lower courts to regulate and those lower courts said that Trump had to hand them over. He's still fighting it, but most legal experts say it isn't likely to work.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent the past several days playing the victim over criticism for his handling of the COVID-19 crisis in his state.

Last month Florida accounted for 1 in 5 of every COVID cases in the United States, and this week the state shattered its own records for COVID cases and hospitalizations.

Miami Beach mayor Dan Gelber ripped Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Tuesday night after another day of high COVID-19 infections in the state of Florida.

Tuesday marks the third straight day in a row where the Sunshine State broke hospitalization records, and they now have more people in the hospital with COVID than they had at any time in 2020.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso ruled Tuesday that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) executive order targeting migrants is unconstitutional.

While the formal ruling hasn't been issued, the judge did agree to the restraining order or preliminary injunction that "the United States is likely to prevail on its claims that Texas Governor Greg Abbott's 'executive order No. GA-37 relating to the transportation of migrants during the COVID-19 disaster,' ... violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because (1) it conflicts with, and poses an obstacle to, federal immigration law; and (2) it directly regulates the federal government's operations."

Answering questions from CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at a press conference Tuesday, President Joe Biden agreed that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign.

Biden, who helped pass the Violence Against Women Act, said earlier this year that he would wait until the attorney general's investigation had concluded before making a comment. After New York AG Letitia James (D-NY) revealed her findings, Biden agreed that Cuomo should step down.

MSNBC's Lisa Green found the evidence against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "extraordinarily damning," and felt sympathy for the government employees he's accused of harassing.

New York Attorney General Letitia James determined the Democratic governor had broken state and federal law by harassing multiple women, including employees in his own office, and the MSNBC legal analyst pointed out that Cuomo's own office had strengthened rules against workplace harassment.

The Pentagon was locked down after multiple gunshots were fired at a nearby transit station.

The gunman was shot by a Pentagon police officer and did not go inside the building, officials told Politico, and one officer was treated at a nearby hospital for injuries suffered in the incident.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called on Republican lawmakers to stand with the Capitol police officers who defended them against Jan. 6 rioters after a fourth officer has taken his life since the violent insurrection.

Four officers have committed suicide since the riot and a fifth died from injuries shortly after Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent effort to overturn the presidential election results, and the "Morning Joe" host said Republicans need to speak out against their colleagues trying to block an investigation of the attack.

Mary Trump took a swipe at Meghan McCain for ducking out of her latest appearance on "The View" on Monday.

The twice-impeached one-term president's niece tussled with McCain last year while promoting her memoir, and the conservative co-host mysteriously disappeared for the next two segments but reappeared without explanation after Trump's appearance ended, and she missed her segment Monday despite appearing in others.

A public health expert condemned the order by Gov. Ron DeSantis banning mask mandates in Florida schools.

The Florida Republican, who is widely seen as the 2024 GOP frontrunner if Donald Trump chooses not to run, overruled local mask orders and threatened to withhold funding from schools that impose masking as the delta variant of the coronavirus explodes across the state, where 49 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated.