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Ukraine is being forced to dig mass graves after the brutality they're facing from Russia. Wednesday, a children's hospital and maternity center was bombed. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed it was a "military target."

Meanwhile, back in the United States, Republicans are clamoring to figure out how to blame everything on Joe Biden while justifying their cornucopia of positions. It only adds to the timeline of anti-Ukraine actions the GOP made over the past several years that they've turned to support Putin.

Former President Donald Trump was flying from New Orleans back to Palm Beach when he was forced to make an emergency landing. Now, he's asking supporters to send him money.

In an email to supporters mere hours after the news broke on his travel issues, Trump was asking them to pay for Trump Force One.

Politico reported Wednesday that the plane former President Donald Trump was flying in was forced to make an emergency landing after leaving a Republican Party donor retreat in New Orleans over the weekend. The Washington Post reported that the plane was owned by a company in Utah that is listed as a trustee.

The Trump plane took off for Mar-a-Lago and was in the air somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes when one of the engines failed. The pilot then returned to the airport.

There were concerns about Rick Scott's leadership of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee. After all, Scott was one of few senators willing to vote to change the 2020 election results. After Jan. 6, that became a huge problem for Scott raising money for the members of the senate committee. That, in turn, made it harder to recruit good Republican Senate candidates in a year that Republicans think will be big for them.

A National Journal report said that the first rule of chairing a campaign committee is "do no harm." Their goals are to raise buckets of cash, recruit candidates and try not to make news for mistakes. It's the latter two that Scott is having a problem with.

House Republicans demanded this week that President Joe Biden "unleash American energy dominance." While it's unclear what exactly that means from a policy standpoint, the facts show that the problem with high gas prices comes not from government, or Russian sanctions, but from oil companies who aren't using what they have and they're prioritizing stock buybacks while scoring record profits.

The 2021 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed that the oil that the United States gets from Russia was a small fraction (3.3 percent) of the entirety of the U.S. imports, totaling 72.6 million barrels. During the 2020 pandemic, due to lower demand, that import was even smaller, at 1.3 percent, which makes up 27.7 million barrels of crude oil.

Bulwark columnist and podcaster Mona Charen penned a column this week highlighting the short memories some appear to have of the politics in previous years.

In normal times, the idea of a political leader that is "fine" would frustrate each side pressing for change. But as Charen explains, calm, sane and rational leadership is reassuring, particularly as the world faces off against Russia.

Bill Barr's new book contains rambling details of the way he structured meetings and the ways in which President Donald Trump would receive people in the private dining room where he "spent a lot of his executive time." Nestled among the prose were vignettes of his encounters with the president.

Barr explained that it was always easy to get time with Trump because he was probably in the dining room watching Fox, which he did so "religiously." Impromptu meetings even seemed to happen there, with Fox blaring in the background and Trump signing autographed photos.

After just a few hours, Texan Guy Reffitt was found guilty on all charges for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His case was the first among the hundreds to not do a plea deal and go to a public trial.

As CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane tweeted, the five charges in which he was found guilty are obstruction, entering with a firearm, obstructing officers and transporting a firearm in furtherance of civil disorder.

In his newly released tell-all book, Bill Barr recalled a bizarre meeting he walked out of before it even started. According to the passage in One Damn Thing After Another, Barr was called to a meeting at the White House that top aides to Donald Trump lied to him about.

According to Barr, it was April 2020 and he was called to a meeting in Mark Meadows' office. Meadows wasn't there and they moved to the Roosevelt Room.

In his new book, One Damn Thing After Another, former Attorney General Bill Barr recalls the slow implosion of Donald Trump through 2020.

As the COVID-19 crisis was raging and the world was desperate for medical specifics, Trump took over press briefings by experts to instead focus on his own thoughts. It was disastrous. Not only did he create some of the most notorious soundbites of the Trump years, but he also drew ridicule for his lack of knowledge about basic facts.

Former first lady Melania Trump had a significantly reduced role than most other first ladies, even those with small children. However, she maintained privacy and focused more on her son and fashion while her husband played politics.

In Bill Barr's new book, One Damn Thing After Another, he describes meeting Melania for the first time and how elegant and intelligent she was. At one point, Trump told Barr that it was because of the first lady that he even had a job.

While serving as former President Donald Trump's senior White House counselor, Jared Kushner revealed the many mistakes that were made by amateurs in the administration.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr's new book, One Damn Thing After Another, wrote of his relationship with Kushner, who he described not as the chief of staff but a kind of chief of Trump. Barr described going to Kushner's office when it was free because Barr "found him a pleasure to work with."

As Russia invades Ukraine, Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin is being seen in a whole new light.

In Aug. 2019, as former Attorney General Bill Barr went on his first vacation while serving under Donald Trump's presidency and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had just filed a whistleblower report about what he overheard during Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Barr's new book One Damn Thing After Another.