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Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump said over the weekend she was concerned President Joe Biden would set a "bad precedent" by issuing preemptive pardons to people who might be unfairly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.

Appearing Sunday on Fox News, Lara Trump responded to reports that the Biden administration was considering pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riots.

During the closing panel segment on CNN's "State of the Union," commentator Jamal Simmons admonished conservative Scott Jennings after his rant calling President Joe Biden a "disgrace."

With host Jake Tapper bringing up the pardon of Hunter Biden, Jennings, who has assumed the role of defender of Donald Trump on the cable network, grew agitated and lashed out about the pardon while others at the table took a more understanding view regarding the president protecting his son from incoming Trump officials who have vowed revenge.

"It was a total disgrace," Jennings said of the pardon. "He's leaving office in disgrace because of this pardon. And it's not just the pardon, it's the lying to the American people. According to NBC News, he and his top aides hatched a plan to lie to the American people. and then this week, he didn't even have the guts to go out to the White House podium and take questions about it."

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He added, "The media, the people who cover this White House, ought to be absolutely livid at the gaslighting and then the continued gaslighting and the hostility towards the idea of transparency," before insisting "He's going out of office as one of the least liked and most divisive presidents we've ever had."

That led Simmons to jump in with, "Let me just say this: let's not get too righteous, self-righteous about this, right?"

"If you walk into a boxing match and you find out the person you're fighting is an MMA fighter, sooner or later you got to take the gloves off and get into the fight," he explained. "I think what they have discovered in the White House is that everyone else is playing by these very pristine rules, while Trump is doing whatever he wants to do, whatever the heck he wants."

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tricked President-elect Donald Trump into nominating him for attorney general so he could resign from Congress before an ethics investigation exposed alleged sex crimes.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked McCarthy to react to Gaetz withdrawing as the nominee for attorney general after reports said that the House Ethics Committee heard testimony that the former congressman had sex with a 17-year-old girl.

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his promise to end birthright citizenship on his first day in office despite constitutional protections.

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, host Kristen Welker pressed Trump on his campaign promise to do away with birthright citizenship.

On Sunday morning CNN's Jake Tapper corrected a GOP lawmaker who tried to dismiss a video of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth boasting about drinking beer first thing in the morning as perfectly normal behavior.

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) was shown two clips of Donald Trump's embattled nominee to be secretary of defense in which the former Fox News host claimed he has never had a "drinking problem," and then, in the subsequent video, stating, "After returning from Iraq, I'd look around at 10:00, I'd be like, what am I going to do today? How about I drink some beers? How about I go have lunch and have some beers?" before later adding, "One beer leads to many leads to self-medication, leads to 'I've earned this'."

"How do you reconcile that with him now claiming that he's never had an issue with alcohol," host Tapper asked his guest.

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"Jake, that wasn't him saying he had an alcohol problem, that was him being honest," Mullin attempted. "Unfortunately, a lot of our combat vets have come back and faced the same thing that they're sitting there and that was their identity in the service. They had a job to do, they were responsible for certain things, and they get out of the service and they're back and they're sitting there twiddling their thumbs. They've had a lot of experiences that the regular population doesn't."

"For the media to go after him and start describing that as a drinking problem is individuals that doesn't understand combat veterans because they've never been there, they've never been in combat, they've never seen the horrific stuff that comes by. That they've never tasted the dirt in their mouths. They've never heard the horrible sounds in their ears, they never had the sights that they can't get rid of, they've never had the dreams in the middle of the night," he added. "And I think it's hypocritical for them to even question that now. Now, if he did have a drinking problem, that would be obvious. But to make something out of it that isn't there just because he's going through secretary of defense, the media should be ashamed of themselves."

"So I have done a lot of coverage of veterans and a lot of coverage of combat," the CNN host replied. "And while I have never worn the uniform, I think I do have an understanding of the need of our valiant troops when they come home to self-medicate. What I'm saying is, when you're talking about drinking at ten in the morning, that's a drinking problem. Now that doesn't mean there should be a stigma ––."

"There's a lot of politicians that have a drinking problem, Jake," Mullin interrupted. "And then there's probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too. Now I don't drink, I've never, I haven't, well, I haven't tasted alcohol in many, many, many years and, and never have drank at all in my life really. And so I really don't understand that. But there's a lot of alcohol that flows through Washington, D.C. on a regular basis and I wouldn't say that people are alcoholics or they have a drinking problem because of that."

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President-elect Donald Trump refused to deny that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the 2024 election.

During an interview on NBC's Meet the Press that aired on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Trump if Ukraine should expect less aid after he takes office.

NBC host Kristen Welker pushed back on President-elect Donald Trump after he claimed that gangs of immigrants were "taking over."

"I just want to make sure I'm clear, which is that you're saying, yes, you're gonna focus on the people with criminal histories, but everyone who's here illegally has to go," Welker told Trump in an interview that aired on Sunday.

In a deep dive by the Washington Post on the drastic measures government workers are undergoing to protect their jobs, or the possibility of legal harassment from president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, Republicans are also making plans to make them fall in line with the president-elect's agenda.

According to the report, panicked staffers are looking for jobs in the private sector, seeking to move to different departments that may not be impacted as much with the Post report adding, "...some civil servants are taking out liability insurance to cover lawyers if they’re demoted or fired."

Fox News host Will Cain grew angry Sunday at reports that former colleague Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, had a drinking problem.

After The New Yorker reported that Hegseth was removed from two veterans groups for aggressive drunkenness and sexual misbehavior, Cain hosted three "warfighters" who supported the nominee.

Republicans in Congress and the incoming Donald Trump administration are facing an internal battle over the president-elect’s “first 100-day agenda” as senators prepare to push border security and energy production over House GOP calls for a tax bill, CNN reports.

The strife represents “a preview of the landmines looming over the GOP’s ambitious agenda despite controlling all of Washington,” according to CNN.

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted three-way talks with Zelensky and Trump at the Elysee Palace on Saturday, as fears grow in Kyiv about the position of the incoming US administration.

Trump has openly scoffed at the billions of dollars in military assistance being sent to Ukraine and once boasted he could end the conflict in 24 hours.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday that extending provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law that are set to expire at the end of next year would shrink the U.S. economy over the long run, a finding that came as Republicans planned to move ahead with another round of regressive tax cuts within the first 100 days of the new Congress.

In its new analysis, the CBO found that allowing provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to expire as scheduled in 2025 would have a positive long-term effect on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth compared to permanently extending the provisions.