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Russian President Vladimir Putin has crafted a hit list, according to his Russian state media mouthpiece.

The Daily Beast cited the Russian show The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov made it clear that things aren't going well with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and now the leader is plotting revenge.

CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane posted the court filing of Jan. 6 attacker Sean McHugh, who alleges that being housed in the Washington, D.C. jail could make his client "vulnerable to radicalization." McHugh is accused of fighting with police and spraying them with the chemical irritants, either pepper spray or bear spray.

Jan. 6 defendants are all housed in the same area, and Republican officials are claiming that the conditions are unacceptable and they should be released pending trial. Some have even gone so far as to request that they be sent to the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba instead of staying in the Washington facility.

The age-old double standard was the topic for the table of the co-hosts at "The View" on Wednesday, as Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker's latest scandal persisted.

Walker was exposed as a hypocrite for claiming to be a virtuous pro-life conservative when he was sleeping with tons of women, having several children out of wedlock and paying for abortions for other women. Former NRA TV host Dana Loesch attacked the women as "skanks," which didn't sit well with the hosts of "The View."

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig revealed that Donald Trump's collection of lawyers are a complete disaster, even as he appeals to the Supreme Court to stop the Justice Department investigation into the stolen White House documents.

Former Brooklyn prosecutor Charles Coleman destroyed the Trump legal team's argument about the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals not having standing in the case where they went shopping for their own "friendly" judge. He explained that if it was really an issue then it should have been brought up long before now.

Help is slowly making its way across Florida after Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm. The Fort Myers News-Press told the story of one couple that barely survived while riding out the storm on Sanibel Island, just off the coast of western Florida.

Today was the first day that residents who left the island could come back and survey the damage. One couple who spoke to the paper described a horrifying scene of the couple using their refrigerator to float on the rising flood waters inside their home. Pete Crumpacker and his wife Tina clung to their cat Tilly as they tried to stay alive.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace about the recent filing to appeal the 11th Circuit Court's opinion to allow the Justice Department to continue its work on the investigation of the theft of government documents.

Justice Clarence Thomas is the one who generally oversees the 11th Circuit, but Vance explained that folks shouldn't read too much into that.

Maggie Haberman's new book "Confidence Man" was released Tuesday and it paints a startling picture of Donald Trump's relationship with his top adviser, son-in-law Jared Kushner.

After special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to look into the many ties Trump had with Russia, it was revealed that Kushner was part of several pieces of the scandal.

In the new book by Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter describes the strange evolution of Donald Trump Jr. in politics.

After the "Access Hollywood" tape dropped, exposing Trump's claim that he could grab women's genitals without repercussions, the first Donald Trump heir realized nothing was secret.

"The View" started off the Tuesday show dealing with the bombshell report from the Daily Beast revealing that self-proclaimed "pro-life" Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, paid for an abortion for one of his exes in 2009. Walker took to Twitter and Fox's Sean Hannity to deny the claim and continues to deny the claim. The woman has the receipt, a bank deposit and a get-well card.

It resulted in Walker's son, Christian, unleashing and attacking his father for lying, for abuse, violence and hypocrisy, while claiming he's living life as a Christian.

Donald Trump's White House counsel seemed a thankless job because it mostly consisted of telling the president "no" when something was illegal. But that wasn't the perception that Ivanka Trump had when helping craft the White House staff team in 2017.

The "first daughter," as she became known in the press, appeared to mistake the role of White House Counsel as a kind of legal pundit for Donald Trump. In Maggie Haberman's new book, "Confidence Man," the New York Times reporter revealed that Pam Bondi was the Ivanka's suggestion for the position.

In the wake of the Charlottesville attacks that left one woman dead, Donald Trump made what many saw as his first very public appeal to extremist groups by claiming that there were "good people on both sides" of the riot.

Trump's director of the White House Economic Council, Gary Cohn, was at work crafting the GOP tax plan that would deliver significant cuts to corporations and the uber-rich. Despite Republican promises, after two years it failed to pay for itself, NPR pointed out in 2019. Meanwhile, Cohn was ready to walk away from the Trump administration due to the president's Charlottesville remarks.

One of the more surprising scandals in the final years of Donald Trump's administration was his agreement with the Taliban to withdraw from Afghanistan. The agreement outlined specific dates and timelines. It was going to be a big, photogenic ceremony, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote in her new book "Confidence Man."

"To facilitate a permanent withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, had pursued a peace agreement with the country’s Taliban insurgency," the book described.