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The so-called Republican "Red Wave" ultimately looked a little more like a red mud puddle once the dust settled on the 2022 midterm election. Donors are now starting to ask questions about where their money disappeared to when it comes to Republican Party investments.

The New York Times explained that GOP chairperson Ronna Romney McDaniel was put into her office by Donald Trump, but now she's in the fight of her political life as she has to justify her success as a party leader. Bubbling under the surface of that issue, however, is the larger problem the party is facing: they're losing swing voters and there's no plan to get them back.

Newly elected Congressman George Santos said in an interview during the Conservative Political Action Conference that “I’ve been to Moscow many times during my career."

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok said that "Santos also received at least $2690 from Len Blavatnik, a close associate of [billionaire oligarch Viktor] Vekselberg."

The beginning of the end of the embarrassing nightmare that was Sen. Joseph McCarthy's red scare was when lawyer and actor Joseph Welch infamously called out, "Have you no sense of decency." Nearly 70 years later, incoming Congressman George Santos (R-NY) is leading to that same question of shame.

Writing for CNN.com, lawyer and author Jill Filipovic asked where the sense of embarrassment disappears when someone is caught in lies like Santos'.

Newly elected congressman, Max Miller, desperately tried to minimize his involvement in helping organize Jan. 6 when speaking to the House Select Committee investigating the attack on Congress.

Miller, who previously worked for Donald Trump as the advance director, despite his criminal rap sheet, decided to run for Congress in 2022. Miller recently sued former chief of staff to the first lady, Stephanie Grisham, for her allegations of his abuse in her book. He lost the suit.

After the swift downfall of Twitter leadership, investors appear to be bailing on Elon Musk's other company, Tesla. The company's stock closed at just $110 on Tuesday, and Forbes reported that they'd lost $800 billion over the course of the year. With China, Tesla's top market, dealing with the pandemic, few are thinking about buying a Tesla.

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman compared Tesla to cryptocurrency, which has some brands that have slowly collapsed over the year as well.

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," retiring Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) urged a criminal financial investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), who will be taking his seat in January.

Santos, who won Suozzi's vacant seat as part of a strong statewide performance by Republicans in New York, was revealed by a series of journalistic investigations to have fabricated large portions of his résumé, including that he graduated from Baruch College and New York University, that he worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, that he ran an animal rescue charity, that he lost coworkers in the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and even that his parents escaped from the Holocaust.

A teacher at the North Carolina Governor's School is suing state officials because he claims they fired him for questioning the school's critical race theory ideology, The Center Square reports.

David Phillips taught for eight summers at the Governor's School's residential summer program, and was fired mid-session without explanation in June 2021 following a series of three optional seminars he conducted which criticized critical race theory.

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that House Republican leadership is avoiding any public discussion of the scandal surrounding Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) — even as they privately acknowledge that the lies he has told about his professional life and qualifications are "problematic."

"Mr. Santos acknowledged in a series of interviews on Monday that he lied about graduating from college and made misleading claims that he worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. He also acknowledged owing thousands of dollars in unpaid rent and denied committing a crime anywhere in the world, despite a New York Times report to the contrary," said the report. "The muted response from party leaders suggested that so far they were prepared to mete out little, if any, punishment to an incoming lawmaker who, while deceiving voters, flipped an open seat formerly held by a Democrat and helped Republicans secure their razor-thin House majority."

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's best-selling book Betrayal walks through the startling tale of conversations among Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries as they discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office.

Testifying to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Mnuchin said that the conversation he had with Pompeo was brief and that there was no serious plotting around enacting the 25th, which would remove Trump from power.

On CNN Tuesday, analyst Gloria Borger reacted to new reporting that star January 6 Committee whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson saw Donald Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows burning documents in his office fireplace multiple times a week in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, including after a meeting with election conspiracy theorist Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

This information came as part of a new dump of transcripts this week from the committee, as investigators wrap up their work after issuing the final report.

The "Talking Feds Podcast" opened this week with a discussion about the next steps for the Justice Department as special counsel Jack Smith gets the full report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election.

Speaking on the panel was former prosecutor Harry Litman, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, former impeachment lawyer and ethics czar Norm Eisen and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

Caroline Wren, who had worked on the Trump campaign, told the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election that she never really tried to raise money for the rally, it just happened.

The testimony is a treasure trove of information about the inner workings of the Trump finance operation and how the political staff really viewed some of those working for Trump after he lost in 2020.