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NBC News reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Tuesday that a Washington, D.C. city planning website that had maps detailing the tunnels under the U.S. Capitol saw a dramatic increase in traffic.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, MacFarlane explained that there was at least a 40 percent increase in traffic coming from all over the country, where the website is typically only read by people in the D.C., Virginia and Maryland area. The traffic then "grew and grew," he said, it "was off the charts."

On Fox News this week, hosts have lambasted President Joe Biden for being MIA while Afghanistan falls into chaos. But the reality, according to an exclusive Axios report reveals that behind the scenes, the Biden team is scrambling to save American allies.

There is a backlog of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) applications that the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan was rushing to process using just a skeleton staff. Now, Afghan allies are in a complicated position because the Taliban won't allow them through to the airport without the proper paperwork. Afghans can't get the paperwork unless they get the necessary documents from the Embassy staff who are at the airport.

Georgia has already removed 101,000 voters from their rolls, but now the state is moving to take over the elections in Fulton County.

Rev. Al Sharpton described it as the very definition of nullification, "spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King and John Lewis."

In an exclusive interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, President Joe Biden revealed that he always expected the withdrawal from Afghanistan would result in the kind of chaos that was witnessed on television over the past few days.

"So you don't think this could have been handled -- this exit could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes?" asked Stephanopoulos.

Capitol riot defendant Robert Reeder was set to appear in court Wednesday when the proceedings were called off at the last minute due to new videos that surfaced showing his actions on Jan. 6.

BuzzFeed reported that Reeder pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor "parading, demonstrating and picketing the Capitol" charge, which would result in a low-level punishment. He was going to argue for no jail time, the report claimed.

After a briefing by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, MSNBC spoke to Zorah Aziz, who is working to get her husband out of Afghanistan.

She described the organized way that Germans currently in Afghanistan have managed to have a meeting place for areas of the country where they can then transport their people safely to leave the country. But for Americans or Afghans authorized to leave with Americans, that isn't available.

Over the past several months, former President Donald Trump hasn't been seen much on television. He's pushed out a lot of press statements, he's called into several shows, he's spoken to a few conferences and done a few rallies, but he's largely stayed away from the Fox News interviews he once loved.

Speaking to Fox host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump patted himself on the back for the work he did in Afghanistan and attacked President Joe Biden on the work he's done since taking office.

California Republicans hoping to recall and replace Gov. Gavin Newsom met for a debate on Tuesday evening. But what should have been a focused attack on some of the governor's unpopular policies turned into a GOP circular firing squad.

Politico reported that the Sacramento debate focused primarily on attacking frontrunner Larry Elder, who didn't attend the debate.

In the final minutes of an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump claimed that he couldn't reveal whether or not he's running for president in 2024 because it's "illegal."

It's not true, far from it.