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A Republican’s vigorous defense of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol four years ago turned an on-air CNN discussion into a full-on debate about who was peacefully protesting, who was trespassing, and who should’ve been prosecuted.

The moment came Monday evening on CNN’s “The Source” when GOP strategist David Urban said that not only was the issue of Jan. 6 litigated in the courts, but also in the last election – “and the American people dismissed it as well.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is about to face a potential hurdle in his bid to be confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, reported The Daily Beast: a meeting with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), one of the few Republicans who may have reason to buck Trump on the issue.

Kennedy is widely known for his conspiracy theories on a broad range of health-related topics, from vaccinations to water fluoridation — and Cassidy happens to be one of a handful of members of Congress who worked as a medical doctor before his election.

A pair of inmates on death row are thumbing their noses at President Joe Biden's commutations of their sentences, according to a report.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, inmates at a penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, filed emergency motions in federal court last week seeking to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole, NBC News reported.

Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a close Donald Trump supporter, will join Meta’s board of directors in yet another signal that the company is moving to further align itself with the incoming administration.

The announcement came Monday and follows news last week that Republican Joel Kaplan would become Meta’s chief global affairs officer, and that the company would donate $1 million toward Trump’s inauguration.

President Joe Biden made good on something the United Steelworkers union wanted him to do, and blocked a $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by the Japanese-based Nippon Steel — but this is not good news for the union, wrote columnist Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post. Indeed, by giving the union what it wanted, Biden may have crippled the U.S. steel industry, and with it, thousands of union jobs he was so keen to protect.

"The Japanese are understandably insulted by Biden’s decision," wrote Rampell. "But Japan isn’t the only friend Biden betrayed. He also shafted the American union workers he claims to champion. In a way, the episode illustrates a broader problem within the Democratic Party: mistaking pandering and appeasement for loyalty."

A Long Island attorney is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to become the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Trump picked Joseph Nocella Jr. to run the office, which comprises the counties of Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond, and Suffolk, and is currently held by Breon Peace.

While Republicans work to pass the one "big, beautiful bill" that contains President-elect Donald Trump's biggest priorities — immigration, energy, and the economy — as he prepares to take office in two weeks, the party hasn't discussed its "first priority" nearly as much as the others, according to journalist Katelynn Burns.

"The first priority in the rules package House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled last week was banning trans people from sports," Burns writes. "The bill, which will be heard in the House now that the rules package has passed, seeks to define sex under Title IX for sports participation as defined at birth," she continued. "This follows a yearslong moral panic over a small handful of trans athletes who found mostly middling success at lower levels of competitive collegiate athletics."

President-elect Donald Trump is not backing down from his fixation on the idea of the United States acquiring Greenland — and announced he plans to send his son on a visit to the island.

In a post to his Truth Social account on Monday, Trump proclaimed, "I am hearing that the people of Greenland are 'MAGA.' My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!"

New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Monday forcefully pushed back against a former Trump White House spokesman’s attempt to play down the chaos that unfolded during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol four years ago.

The on-air confrontation came during CNN’s “The Situation Room” hours after Congress moved to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory Monday – which former White House deputy communications director Brian Morgenstern praised as “a clean and clear process” and “a great day for America.”

A firebrand Colorado Republican has introduced legislation to end part of the federal government that regulates guns, explosives, and booze and oversees arson probes.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, fresh off her victory in a new district in northern Colorado, proposed Friday H.R. 129, which would "abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."

A Republican former Georgia lieutenant governor who has been fiercely critical of President-elect Donald Trump — and who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president — scoffed as his own state's GOP hurled him out of the party on Monday.

Geoff Duncan frequently appeared on news networks such as CNN during the 2024 election cycle to bash the MAGA leader, even declaring in Election Day, "If Donald Trump wins, there's no doubt he'll wreck the car and continue to soil the brand of being a Republican."

Rudy Giuliani's attorney responded to Monday's decision holding the former New York City mayor and close Donald Trump ally in contempt of court with a furious, extended rant alleging the entire ruling was a miscarriage of justice.

"It’s tragic to watch as our justice system has been turned into a total mockery, where we have charades instead of actual hearings and trials," said Ted Goodman in a statement provided to Raw Story. "Unfortunately, it’s getting worse and worse because so few members of the legal community are willing to speak up or do anything about the weaponization of our justice system, and that needs to change."

Judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump's demand to delay his sentencing in the New York fraud trial involving the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Former FBI general counsel and top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann called the move "bold," saying Merchan was "trying to uphold the rule of law."