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This week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that Republicans are just going to have to suck it up that former President Donald Trump is the head of their party.

"You're just not going to be a leader in the party if you're anti-Trump...I think it would be a disaster for the Republican Party if we just didn't acknowledge the fact that Donald Trump's the most popular person in the party," Graham said as the reason he opposes Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in GOP House leadership. "The American First agenda is well-respected. If you tried to run him out of the party, he'd take half the party with him."

Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to not know that the United States government had been hacked by foreign powers before when he reported about the hacking of Colonial Pipeline.

Speaking to his audience Tuesday, Hannity said, "Now we are the victim of a cyber attack against the U.S." neglecting to mention that the U.S. has been the target of cyber attacks for the past decade.

On Tuesday, Axios reported that Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) is planning to launch a Senate campaign against Marco Rubio — a recruitment Florida Democrats had been hoping to secure.

"Murphy, who fled Communist Vietnam as a child, calls herself a 'proud capitalist' and has warned Democrats about embracing socialism. She knocked off a longtime GOP House incumbent in 2016 at age 38," reported Hans Nichols and Kadia Goba. "Murphy has been on a 'listening tour' across the state as she explains her life journey." This comes after former President Donald Trump carried Florida by 3 points in 2020 — an unusually wide margin for a state historically decided by razor-thin margins — partly by linking the Democratic Party to socialism in communities of Cuban and Venezuelan ex-pats.

On CNN Tuesday, reporter Athena Jones profiled voters from Willsboro, a town in Rep. Elise Stefanik's northern New York district — their sentiment best encapsulated by one voter referring to her as "a breath of fresh air" while another called her a "miserable, ambitious demagogue."

"One of just 25 districts in the country to vote twice for Barack Obama, choose Donald Trump in 2016, and pivot back to Joe Biden in 2020," said Jones. "Maybe that's why Elise Stefanik, poised to be the highest Republican woman in Congress after embracing Trump's lies about the 2020 election, are decidedly mixed here in the small town."

If former Seminole County, Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg wants to change his plea he must do it by Saturday. Greenberg is expected to do it, changing his plea from innocent to guilty after giving prosecutors information on Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and alleged crimes he committed.

Tuesday, it was reported that a former intern-turned-girlfriend of Gaetz's and his former wingman were both interviewed by investigators. Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that this wouldn't happen if they didn't already have proof.

On Tuesday, writing for CNN, business analyst Anneken Tappe shredded the GOP narrative that overly rich unemployment insurance benefits are demotivating people to work and causing excessive job openings — a belief that has already led multiple Republican-controlled states like Montana and South Carolina to severely roll back benefit availability.

"The money to fund these benefits has already been allocated by Congress and is out of the door. What's more important now is that Americans — jobless or not — spend the cash in their wallets to help the nation along on its road to recovery," reported Tappe. "The US economy runs on consumer spending and every dollar in every wallets counts. While pundits are arguing, Americans are on the same page. Consumer confidence is soaring, retail sales jumped in March and gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — is on pace for a super-strong 11% annual growth rate this quarter, according to the Atlanta Fed."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) stood on the House floor Tuesday night as her Republican colleagues were talking about "cancel culture." Cheney began by saying that she has a unique perspective and understanding of "cancel culture" given her current situation, but she said that she wanted to speak about the American democracy.

"God has blessed America, but our freedom only survives if we protect it," she told the chamber. "If we honor our oath, taken before God in this chamber, to support and defend the Constitution. If we recognize threats to freedom when they arise. Today, we face a threat America has never seen before. A former president who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive efforts to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him. He risks inciting further violence."

On CNN Tuesday, calling in from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, reporter Brian Todd revealed that the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. gained new details from watching just under 20 minutes of unreleased body camera footage of Brown's death, that completely contradicts the version of events told by the sheriff's office and district attorney.

"Tonight, the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. describes what the body camera footage shows during the final moments of Brown's life," said Todd, playing a clip of Brown's son Jha'rod Ferebee saying, "My father did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to get killed. In any way, shape, or form, he did not pose any threat at all. There's no way this could be justified."

On his politics and law podcast Tuesday, former federal New York Prosecutor Preet Bharara questioned why Rudy Giuliani and his allies are begging for financial help as legal problems stack up. Giuliani's son Andrew Giuliani worked for former President Donald Trump as a special assistant, but that doesn't mean the family is close enough to score cash for their legal troubles.

In a discussion with former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance, Bharara explained that in the entirety of his life, Trump has never been known to pay for anyone else, much less himself.

Rudy Giuliani is grasping at straws as his own comments continue to make his legal situation more complicated. The latest tenuous defense from former President Donald Trump's lawyer is that if someone is accused of a lower-level felony then they shouldn't be raided by the FBI.

"I don't know why they're searching my house. I have no idea what they, what they allege I supposedly did, acted as an agent for some Ukrainian? It's just totally untrue," Giuliani said on his radio show. "I don't know what they base it on. Either their own supposition or some liar? But, I can prove that I wasn't. I've offered to come there and prove it."

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," correspondent Jamie Gangel broke down the efforts of the Republican Party to claim they are a "big tent" party — even as they prepare to take a vote to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as conference chair for criticism of former President Donald Trump.

As Gangel noted, Republicans only seem to have this sort of hostility for independent thinkers like Cheney who are challenging the personality cult within the party — and not for far-right extremists like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who are mired in scandal and controversy.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) isn't welcome in today's Republican Party, according to many in his state. The Arizona leader left office after drawing the ire of former President Donald Trump and was ultimately censured by the state GOP for it.

"It is elementary to have to say this, but we did not become a great nation by believing or espousing nonsense, or by embracing lunacy. And if my party continues down this path, we will not be fit to govern," wrote Flake in a column for the Washington Post Tuesday.

The NRA lost in court today after attempting to file bankruptcy to escape fraud lawsuits in New York. Attorney General Letitia James tweeted that the "NRA doesn't get to dictate if and where it will answer for its actions...No one is above the law."

"The Court agrees with the NYAG that the NRA is using this bankruptcy case to address a regulatory enforcement problem, not a financial one," the judge announced in court Tuesday.