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CNN host Anderson Cooper attacked President Donald Trump Tuesday for continuing to spread his dangerous lie that he won the 2020 election.

He started off his show saying that new voter suppression laws are being called out by current President Joe Biden. While Trump's spread of the "Big Lie" has taken over the reality for Republican voters, a new Trump conspiracy is that he'll return to office in August. According to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump has told many of his confidants that it's happening at the end of the summer.

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," Russell Moore, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention who has warned evangelical pastors are "exhausted" trying to combat QAnon conspiracy theories, told anchor Erin Burnett that people are turning to QAnon as a new religion — and the challenges of preventing congregants from falling down the rabbit hole.

"It is a situation where conspiracy theories are going through not just churches, but the entire community," said Moore. "As a Christian, I am concerned about this because we are people of truth, and we are people supposed to be looking for truth revealed by the words of God, not conspiracy theories around social media."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has threatened to withdraw all pay for lawmakers in the state House and Senate if they don't hold a vote on the GOP's voter suppression efforts. The problem, however, is that isn't exactly a threat.

Speaking to MSNBC, State Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, implied that Democrats didn't care about money, they're standing up for voting rights.

Speaking to MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday, former FBI director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi warned that considering them as crazy and nutty is dangerous to the country.

"What you said we should go over, the stupid part and dangerous part," began Figliuzzi. "It's that ludicrous, silly part that keeps us from seeing that this has become an actual viable threat to our democracy. It's no longer acceptable to write this off as the rantings of some deluded people when we see what they were capable of on Jan. 6th and see that the desire has not gone away. Convicted felon Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, is actually saying, 'Yeah, we should have a military coup. Yup, yup, we should.' When we see the indictment that dropped on the Oath Keepers this weekend and planning of what happened. And what was it that actually kept the president from invoking the Insurrection Act? It was the fact, read the indictment, that no counter-protesters, BLM, Antifa, showed up and actually got into it with the insurrectionists. If they had, this would be the trigger, in their minds, that would have created an all-out conflict that would have allowed the president to invoke the Insurrection Act."

Legal experts with inside information into the grand jury in the Manhattan district attorney investigation into Donald Trump spoke to MSNBC's Ari Melber Tuesday about some of the information about the proceeding. Melber explained that there is a very real chance that at least one person at the Trump Organization will be indicted as part of the investigation.

Grand juries are secret, but witnesses can reveal some information. Former executive assistant for the Manhattan DA's office, Adam Kaufmann, who worked on white-collar crime, explained that no one would form a special grand jury like this one if indictments weren't coming.

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has tried to walk back and deny his endorsement of a military coup to overthrow the U.S. government at a QAnon convention in Dallas, Texas.

But, said political science professor Daniel Ziblatt on CNN Tuesday, the damage by his speech has already been done — and not just by Flynn himself, but by the Republicans who have not come out forcefully against his words.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) just scored a key endorsement for his third term in office. Texas doesn't have term limits for the gubernatorial seat as of the Reconstruction-era constitution of 1869. It's one of only 14 total states in the U.S. which doesn't have term limits.

"Greg is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment ... and is all in on Election Integrity (sic)," Trump said in a statement. Abbott has fought to restrict voter access to the polls. While the legislature didn't pass the strict voter ban bill, Abbott is threatening to call a special session to ensure the bill's passage. It's the key piece of legislation that Donald Trump wants in each state to prevent non-Trump voters from access to the polls.

Over the weekend, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) proclaimed to CNN's Jake Tapper that even though there wasn't any actual voter fraud, that Texas should pass the voter suppression bills to make people feel better. MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace shouted through her television at him saying that it was he and Republicans like him who created the insecurity they now cite a need to fix.

"I think the intent, and I'm not in the state legislature, is to restore confidence in the elections that fraud isn't taking place," McCaul told Tapper. "Now, you make a good point, and I'm a federal prosecutor and in a court of law, that hasn't really been born to bear. This may be more of an optics issue, restoring confidence with the American people. In my state, they actually do believe there was tremendous fraud."

On Tuesday, at speech marking the centennial of the deadly Tulsa Race Massacre, President Joe Biden doubled down on his call to protect voting rights — and without mentioning them by name, took a swipe at two Senate Democrats who have been an obstacle to passing the legislation.

"I hear all the folks on TV saying, 'why doesn't Biden get this done?'" said Biden. "Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends."

A Sacramento hotel was the scene of a homophobic incident when a group of people witnessed two women kissing and flipped out.

The Black Bay Area Instagram account showed the white women losing their minds while queer Black women were kissing. They insisted they weren't racist, just homophobic, mentioning there were children.

Speaking on MSNBC this Monday, retired four-star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey addressed recent comments from former national security adviser Mike Flynn, who seemingly suggested that citizens should form a coup to topple the U.S. government during a QAnon conference.

McCaffrey said Flynn's "dangerous rhetoric" is "harmful" to the country.

Americans discovered this week that a grand jury was impaneled in the ongoing case involving the Trump Organization. The case involved the business operations of former President Donald Trump's company. Because grand juries are secret, the only information known is what witnesses called have revealed.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, explained that the way it appears currently the grand jury is set to issue criminal indictments. He explained that as witnesses are called they will reveal more about what the prosecutors are exploring.

Two pastors are working to protect their church from QAnon conspiracies after several of the members turned toward the right-wing cult that follows former President Donald Trump.

Speaking to CNN for a special segment about the outbreak of QAnon in evangelicalism, Pastor James Kendall of Grace Community Church in Madera, California explained that the two simply don't work together.