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On MSNBC Monday, former Solicitor General Neal Katyal tore into former Attorney General William Barr, arguing that his testimony against Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories does not absolve him of everything he did to encourage Trump to try to overthrow the election in the first place.

"Neal, I want your assessment, having worked in the Justice Department, to be as fair as possible," said anchor Ari Melber. "There are times when internal concerns are not best aired in the public in real-time. This seems like a very abnormal situation where he says he's resigning in part because of this, he's concerned about the president being detached from reality. Should he have spoken out in some way?"

One of the main issues that wasn't discussed in the second public hearing for the House Select Committee hearings on Monday is the degree to which former President Donald Trump's lies were investigated by the government, paid for at taxpayer expense.

Speaking to MSNBC, former House impeachment counsel Dan Goldman pointed out that it isn't something that is discussed because it's an issue that is lower down on the level of importance up against the attempt to overthrow the government.

Bestselling author James Patterson, who currently ranks third on the list of richest — and most successful — authors of all time, caught heat after suggesting that white, male writers are struggling to find work during these trying times.

Patterson voiced his concerns during a Sunday interview with The Times, in which he asserted that white men are facing racism within the film, theater, TV and publishing industries.

On Monday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former national security official Miles Taylor outlined how former President Donald Trump's election lies undermined the institutional guardrails of American democracy.

A key point, Taylor told anchor Nicolle Wallace, is that Trump knew what he was saying was false — and continued to go ahead pushing it.

Washington Post columnist and former conservative Jennifer Rubin responded to the second day of public hearings from the House committee investigating Jan. 6 by tying the Republican Party to Donald Trump's criminality.

One of the things the committee pointed out is that former President Donald Trump was already spinning false election fraud claims months before the election. The evidence presented by former Attorney General Bill Barr, and acting AG Jeffrey Rosen, Fox editor Chris Stirewalt and Bill Stepien made it clear that the 2020 election not only wasn't stolen but that there was nothing Trump could do to change the results.

On Monday morning, June 13, former Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt testified during a series of public hearings being held by the U.S. House of Representatives’ select committee on the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Stirewalt was working Fox News’ decision desk on Election Night 2020, and during his testimony, he recalled that then-President Donald Trump failed to understand some basic facts about the counting of election results.

Trump and his allies were furious when Stirewalt, on Election Night 2020, called Arizona for now-President Joe Biden. Fox News, in fact, called Arizona for Biden before other media outlets, although Stirewalt’s reporting was totally accurate: Biden won Arizona — a fact that was upheld and confirmed by subsequent vote recounts.

On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that the police department in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is being bombarded with angry messages — including death threats — after a high profile mass arrest of the members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front.

The arrests took place over the weekend, after 31 men were caught piled into a rented truck, on their way to a local Pride event where they allegedly were intending to cause a riot. The arrested white supremacists came from at least 11 states around the country, and included 23-year-old Thomas Ryan Rousseau of Grapevine, Texas, believed to be the group's leader.

Fox News on Monday aired footage of a former Fox News editor suggesting that the network knew President Biden won the 2020 election in several battleground states, even though the channel went on to promote Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud for months.

The development centers on Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News editor who worked on the channel's decision desk during the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt – who was fired after calling Arizona, a swing state, in then-candidate Joe Biden's favor – provided testimony this week to the Jan. 6 select committee about the circumstances behind his controversial call.

During today's testimony in front of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot on Monday, the panel heard about former Trump aides and legal professionals who purportedly tried to tell the former president that his claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election were bogus -- a group of people branded as "Team Normal" by Trump spokesperson Jason Miller.

Among those included in "Team Normal" is former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien. But according to The Bulwark's Tim Miller, Stepien "spent 5 years watching Donald Trump’s cruelty, pathological duplicity, irrationality, narcissistic personality disorder, buffoonery, and criminality."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that Republicans are flirting with authoritarianism by supporting former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" about the 2020 election.

During a debate hosted by Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Sanders pointed out that many of the candidates supported by Graham have also promoted lies about 2020.

This Monday, the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said that former President Donald Trump fundraised off his false claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.

“The Trump campaign knew that these claims of voter fraud were false yet they continued to barrage small-dollar donors with emails encouraging them to donate to something called the ‘Official Election Defense Fund,’” senior investigative counsel Amanda Wick said. “The select committee discovered no such fund existed.”

Speaking to Raw Story after the second of four House Select Hearings on the attack on Congress, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) connected the dots about how important the testimony was about the plot to overthrow the election and the violence seen on Jan. 6.

The committee walked through many Republican witnesses who testified under oath that they told former President Donald Trump that his conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen were false. Over and over, the committee showed former officials who worked at both the state and federal level who investigated Trump's claims of fraud. Each of the witnesses said that they were able to prove that the claims were false.