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In a surprising take, conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot encouraged states to start mandating that residents take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Writing Monday, Boot said that it's time to stop pleading and start mandating, and he cited data showing that 99 percent of those in the hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated as justification to start getting tough.

Clad in a tan suit, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor Monday to demand any debate around the infrastructure bill be stopped until he can see the text of the bill.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) announced that he wants Republicans to slow walk all legislation until after the 2022 midterm elections. So, when McConnell and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) protested starting the floor debate, it made some wonder if they were slow-walking the bill for exactly that reason.

Forbes researchers walked through the four years of Donald Trump's presidency and calculated what they estimate to be the total profits that his businesses made.

Writing Monday, Forbes explained that they estimated Trump's business brought in a hefty $2.4 billion while he was president.

Former campaign manager to Donald Trump, Corey Lewandowski, is admitting that the campaign launch at Trump Tower was fueled by paid actors.

According to BusinessInsider, Lewandowski confessed that he lied in 2016 when he said, "You know Donald Trump. There is nobody who believes that when Donald Trump goes somewhere he does not generate the biggest, largest, and most rambunctious crowds on the planet. It's just not true, unequivocally. The Donald Trump campaign and Donald Trump did not pay anybody to attend his announcement."

Another book about the final year of Donald Trump's presidency will be released Tuesday. This one, by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, is extensively well researched and goes into much greater detail about interactions between the Trump White House and members of the House, Senate and Pentagon.

"I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" reveals a key piece to the ongoing questions about the failures on Jan. 6 and failures at all levels of government to protect the U.S. Capitol.

"Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade igniting a firestorm across the internet Monday when he said "the quiet part" out loud.

When talking about the dangerous increase in COVID-19 cases among the unvaccinated, Kilmeade told the audience that it's "their choice" if they want to die. It has turned the country into what conservative Jennifer Rubin called "the two Americas," where one is vaccinated and likely to survive and the other is risking their own lives by refusing to get the vaccine.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker were asked why they withheld so much information about President Donald Trump for their book.

It's a common question as new books are coming out about the disastrous Trump administration. When Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" came out, it revealed that Trump knew COVID-19 was dangerous early on in 2020 and was intentionally downplaying it. He was criticized for not revealing that fact to America as he was writing the book out of a duty to save lives.

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin started Monday morning talking about the dangers from right-wing media and Facebook as they're spreading COVID-19 conspiracies. As the Delta variant spreads through the United States, those who aren't vaccinated are filling hospitals again.

The worst areas of the country according to the New York Times data, are Florida, Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas. But there's also an increase in cases in southern Alabama, southern Georgia and southern Mississippi. Still, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has started a campaign against vaccines. He's selling t-shirts and koozies that say, "Don't Fauci my Florida."

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan attacked Republicans for being such snowflakes that they can't handle learning about civil rights. This is at the heart of the GOP's battle against so-called "critical race theory."

Taking to Twitter Sunday, Hasan asked why Democrats aren't fighting back against the Republican Party's resistance to teaching accurate history around slavery or civil rights because it can make white people sad.

MSNBC host Joshua Johnson welcomed Blake Chastain, the person who coined the phrase exvangelical to describe those who have abandoned white, Protestant evangelical churches.

Data continues to show that those growing disenchanted with the Protestant churches is increasing.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) bragged about his effort that brought $100 million in transportation funds from President Joe Biden's administration to Oklahoma.

According to the Department of Transportation announcement, the program will cover two $50 million projects, one for an I-40 interchange and the other is for an I-35 project through Texas, Oklahoma, and Chickasaw Nation.

One out of five Americans with COVID-19 are from Florida, according to shocking information revealed this week. The state is one of the worst in the country after the Republican governor celebrated that he was eliminating all precautions employed by other states.

The numbers tracked by the New York Times revealed that Florida is the worst state, followed by regional outbreaks like northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, both of which are experiencing enormous increases in disease spread.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva seemed confused when appearing on CNN Sunday. He is the sheriff who has said that he will not enforce the mask mandate as the COVID-19 numbers in his county spike.

Villanueva is up for reelection and believes that he should fight against the "woke left" in one of California's most liberal counties.