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Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Wednesday that from his perspective, it appeared Fox News was desperate to settle with Dominion Voting Systems ahead of the trial that was set to begin this week.

Smartmatic, the other company with litigation against the conservative network, said in a statement Tuesday that they'd "expose the rest."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shocked many when she announced she was standing with 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who is accused of leaking classified documents showing maps and other key information around Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other national security secrets.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. similarly came out in support of Teixeira. So far, however, it appears Greene is on a political island among her fellow Republican lawmakers, Politico reported Wednesday.

A county commissioner in southeastern Oklahoma has resigned days after an audio recording sparked outrage.

Earlier this week, a recording emerged in which McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy and McCurtain County Commissioners discussed hiring a hitman to kill members of the local newspaper and complained that lynching was no longer acceptable.

The co-hosts of "The View" wanted more out of the settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News.

The amount was about half of what Dominion sought in its defamation lawsuit, and there will be no public apology or disclaimer on the network. In the statement after the announcement, Dominion lawyers called it "accountability," which they said was their goal from the beginning.

It was revealed today that there is an ongoing debate about removing a lawyer for some of the fake electors in the Georgia case. None of the fake electors have been charged with a crime. But it appears there is an ongoing fear that charges are coming from the grand jury and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Buried in the stories about the legal drama unfolding in Georgia was the revelation that one of those fake electors had made a deal with the prosecutors.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman and federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti agreed that the settlement with Dominion Voting Systems was terrible news for Fox Corp.

MSNBC host Alicia Menendez asked Mariotti how that number was the one that was agreed upon. He explained that he was surprised by it, and that it's a significant number, but there is a chance Dominion was factoring in the cash they thought they'd get from the jury.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann said Tuesday that a special master investigation into Fox News could likely continue despite the settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and the conservative network.

Fox was found to have withheld evidence in the case that should have been part of the discovery process.

Recent campaign finance data released reveals shocking details about the support among donors in the Republican Party.

Politico reported Tuesday that Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) best fundraising period in the first financial quarter was during the days in which he was fighting now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to keep him out of spot.

The proceedings in a Jan. 6 trial were briefly halted on Tuesday after prosecutors started asking a witness to name individuals who entered the Capitol building.

In defense of accused Jan. 6 attacker Christopher Alberts, lawyers called David Sumrall, who runs a website raising money for the defendants. The problem with putting someone who knows the Jan. 6 defendants on the stand is that it allowed prosecutors to ask specifics about the others in the Capitol on Jan. 6, reported Politico.

The Washington Post noticed that Republicans put up a good front as if they were unified and progressing on legislation. After their first 100 days, however, they have only a few things to show for it.

"The growing rancor and lack of progress on major legislation sets the stage for months of tumult ahead for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA), who has struggled to shepherd his narrowly divided conference as both moderate and extreme GOP members seek to leverage their power in the party’s four-vote majority. The coming battles could have profound impacts on the U.S. economy as well as on the 2024 election, as House Republicans pursue numerous right-wing policies that could influence races for Congress and the White House."

A county in southeast Oklahoma was exposed over the weekend for breaking the state's open meetings laws after a leaked recording revealed a local sheriff and several McCurtain County commissioners discussing hiring hitmen to murder local newspaper reporters. County officials also discussed lynching people and beating them up.

As local KJRH reported Monday evening, the McCurtain Gazette's publisher Bruce Willingham was told that he and his family should flee town for their own safety.

CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Monday evening that the Justice Department is asking for the worst sentence yet of a Jan. 6 defendant.

Citing the sentencing memo, MacFarlane said that Pete Schwartz "stole chemical munitions, including pepper spray... left behind by the fleeing officers and used that pepper spray as a weapon to attack those same officers as they desperately tried to escape."

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was in New York on Monday, claiming that he sought to get to the bottom of violent crime in New York City. However, New York isn't the place with the highest violent crime in the U.S. — it's one of just two counties in America where the district attorney is conducting an investigation that could cost Donald Trump a lot in the end.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen explained that when Jordan announced his so-called "weaponization in government" panel, he was hopeful he would see a reckoning for some of the unethical and possibly even illegal things that happened to him at the hands of Trump's Justice Department. Instead, Cohen said, it's been a joke.