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Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican House Judiciary Committee chair who has struggled to prove the corruption he’d like to impeach President Joe Biden for, wants information from the ghostwriter referenced in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s recent and controversial report.

Jordan released Wednesday a letter to Mark Zwonitzer, just days after the release of Hur’s report, which found Biden had committed no criminal act linked to confidential documents the former Vice President retained, but noted he had read classified notes to the ghostwriter of his memoirs.

Special counsel Robert Hur will most likely testify before Congress early next month about his report on President Joe Biden's handling of classified materials, and House Republicans hope to use that hearing to highlight his age.

House Republicans are salivating about the chance to ask the special counsel, whose report described Biden as "an elderly man with a poor memory," about the president's fitness for office in hopes of keeping the issue in the spotlight, reported Axios.

Republicans' election loss in the New York special election this week is indicative of a broader problem for the party, argued MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday's edition of "All In": It shows that they are too trapped in their ideological bubble to even understand what sounds normal and reasonable to a typical voter.

"Republicans approach each election with a kind of unbridled undeserved confidence," argued Hayes. "They believe the voters are with them. They think they represent real Americans and therefore the real majority of the country ... so Republicans do not have to think about whether their message is working or whether they are running good candidates. It is simply their destiny." By contrast, "The Democratic Party, in the larger coalition, is in a near-constant state of anxiety. They're always worried that the coalition will crack, they lose the support of real Americans."

Donald Trump has effectively taken control of the Republican National Committee during an important election cycle, and that's probably bad news for down-ticket candidates.

The former president hand-picked daughter-in-law Lara Trump to co-chair the RNC, and she made clear the organization's primary focus – indeed, possibly its only priority – is re-electing the twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted GOP nominee who's gone one-for-two in his past campaigns, reported The Daily Beast.

Atlantic journalist David Graham thinks that former President Donald Trump's promotion of his own daughter-in-law to co-chair the Republican National Committee is going to come back to bite the GOP in a significant way.

In his latest column, Graham argues that Trump has taken an entire political party and has essentially made it "yet another subsidiary of Trump Inc."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough busted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for trying to spin the Republican Party's loss of another seat in New York's special election.

The GOP majority shrunk after Democrat Tom Suozzi won back the seat formerly held by Republican George Santos, who was expelled following multiple ethics scandals and criminal indictments, and Johnson insisted that Democrats had underperformed and ran to the right on immigration – but the "Morning Joe" host was unpersuaded.

Special Counsel Jack Smith earned praise from former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal for his latest legal filing that struck a blow against former President Donald Trump's immunity claims.

Katyal appeared on MSNBC's "Last Word" to weigh in on Smith's latest Supreme Court response to quash former President Donald Trump's claim that he possesses absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.