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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show, former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele gave a thumbs up to a plan by Democrats and liberal operatives to fire back at Republicans who are itching to open up multiple investigations now that they have taken control of the House.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, Steele was asked about plans by allies of Hunter Biden who are setting up a warroom to combat the coming Republican-majority investigation into President Joe Biden's son.

During an appearance on CNN on Saturday afternoon, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said that the opposition to the prisoner exchange that President Joe Biden arranged with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which "Merchant of Death" arms dealer Viktor Bout was traded for Women's National Basketball Association star Brittney Griner has significant racial undertones.

Griner was arrested in Moscow in February for traveling with vape cartridges that allegedly contained cannabis, which is illegal in Russia. She was tried, convicted, and sentenced to nine years in prison before being transferred to a penal colony. Following months of negotiations, on December 8th, Biden and Putin agreed on swapping Griner for Bout.

Kari Lake is demanding that the courts overturn Katie Hobbs’ victory in last month’s midterm and instead declare the former television news anchor governor-elect or, barring that, entirely throw out the 2022 election and re-do it.

In a sprawling lawsuit that claims the election in Maricopa County was irredeemably flawed by “intentional misconduct,” including the “hacking” of election equipment to disenfranchise Republican voters, and hundreds of thousands of allegedly “illegal ballots (that) infected the election,” Lake says the court must throw out her 17,000-vote loss to Hobbs and order the county to conduct a new election.

According to a Washington Post article, allies of Hunter Biden are not going to sit idly by as GOP House members and supporters of Donald Trump ramp up Congressional investigations and attacks on the son of President Joe Biden.

The report states that lawyer friends of the younger Biden are meeting to plan out counterattacks that could include defamation lawsuits and investigations of their own into his tormentors.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the brother of Paul Whelan, who is still sitting in a Russian prison after WNBA star Brittney Griner was repatriated back to the U.S., claimed there was "no interest" within Donald Trump's administration in engaging in negotiations for the return of detainees.

Speaking with host Zinhle Essamuah, David Whelan said he is making much more headway with President Joe Biden when it comes to getting his brother freed after being convicted and imprisoned in Russia 2018.

With Republicans poised to take control of he U.S. House of Representatives in January, the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will likely be dissolved in the coming weeks.

But Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told constituents this week that the committee will issue a final report that draws damning conclusions about former President Trump’s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 election.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced early Friday morning that she has officially left the Democratic Party, registering as an independent in her state and surprising very few people who have seen her as a major obstacle to her party's progressive agenda while serving powerful corporate interests.

"She's driven by which corporations and lobbyists are giving her the most money — which makes her an elected mercenary, not an elected representative of the people."

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis report notes that "the United States was underprepared for a major public health crisis for years before the coronavirus pandemic," and that "chronic underfunding and long-standing health disparities put many Americans at heightened risk of becoming infected and developing severe illness as a result of the coronavirus."

"The Trump administration's reckless pandemic response resulted in devastating and lasting harm," the Democrat-controlled subcommittee contended. "The toll of the coronavirus fell hardest on those who were already most vulnerable. Communities of color suffered disproportionally high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalization, and death. Nursing home residents suffered high levels of infections and deaths, exacerbated by understaffing and meager wages and benefits for their workers."

Syracuse University is looking to rescind the honorary degree it bestowed on former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani all the way back in 1989.

In an interview with Business Insider, Syracuse University Student Association President David Bruen revealed that the university's board of directors this past summer got the wheels rolling on clawing back Giuliani's honorary degree, which would mark the first time in the school's history that such a degree has been rescinded.

On Friday, POLITICO reported that Authentic, a Democratic consulting firm that provides digital work and donor list acquisition, is dumping Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as a client following her announcement she would be leaving the Democratic Party and working as an independent.

"Authentic has represented Sinema for years. But the firm saw an internal revolt over its work for the senator earlier this year as she voted against several of the Biden administration’s initiatives and refused to support revamping filibuster rules to move legislation on voting rights," reported Hailey Fuchs. "One employee wrote in a union message that the person felt that they were 'doing the devil’s work.' Employees were told they could be removed from the account if they did not feel comfortable."