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'They will bring the draft back': The View predicts a NATO war if Trump is elected

"The View" began its show Tuesday talking about Jon Stewart's return to "The Daily Show" — and his first big segment pointing to the advanced ages of both presidential candidates.

While Stewart talked about the recent special counsel report claiming Joe Biden had memory issues because he answered questions with "I don't recall," the host showed clips of Donald Trump and his adult children similarly answering questions.

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Elise Stefanik makes last-ditch effort to disrupt Trump fraud case with ethics complaint

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) made a last-ditch effort to disrupt the civil fraud case against Donald Trump by filing an ethics complaint against New York Attorney General Letitia James Tuesday.

The New York Republican, who's considered to be a leading candidate to become Trump's running mate, alleged in a complaint to the state bar association that James is "conducting a biased investigation and prosecution" of Trump and "attacking" him through "extrajudicial statements."

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Feud pits Texas GOP senator against AG Ken Paxton: 'Criminal defense lawyers are calling'

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his state's senior senator, John Cornyn, publicly feuded over the senator's vote to advance a foreign aid bill Tuesday.

Cornyn joined other Republicans to defeat a conservative filibuster of the $95 billion aid package to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine — over staunch opposition from former president Donald Trump — and Paxton agreed with right-wing commentators on X that the Texas Republican was more concerned with the security of other countries rather than America's.

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Russian courts issued secret arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham: leaked docs

Although Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been taking some Moscow-friendly votes lately, that apparently hasn't been enough to get him off of Russia's "most wanted" list.

Vice reports that leaked Russian Internal Affairs Ministry records show that Graham is one of several foreigners who have been singled out for arrest by Russian prosecutors, who have also issued warrants against Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Piotr Hofmański, the president of the International Criminal Court.

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'Really bad for Republicans': New York snow slashes voter turnout for George Santos' seat

Voters on Long Island headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for the replacement of Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was expelled from the House after an ethics investigation into his campaign finances and a series of reports revealing he lied about many of his personal facts.

Democratic candidate and former Congressman Tom Suozzi is well-known in the district and has a track record of constituent services there. But Nassau County Republican county legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip has struggled to gain traction in recent polls — with criticism about her struggles to answer some basic questions about her positions on issues like choice, which turned into a contentious conversation in the only debate.

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‘Mass deport illegals’: Ex-Trump aide says he knows why speaker opposes bipartisan bills

The U.S. Senate overnight passed critical bipartisan legislation providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza, in a strong 70-29 vote, including 22 Republicans despite Donald Trump's opposition to the bill. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson quickly made clear the bill will never see the light of day on the House floor.

The bipartisan bill was crafted after Senate Republicans, also at Trump's direction, killed the previous bipartisan bill, which included the military aid provisions, billions for the border, and had the support of both the Democratic Majority Leader and Republican Minority Leader, not to mention the U.S. Border Patrol union.

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Trump vows to attend hush money hearing as Stormy Daniels case nears trial: report

Former President Donald Trump will be in New York on Thursday to attend a hearing about the criminal hush money charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, reported Axios on Tuesday.

The case, which alleges that Trump criminally falsified his business records to conceal a hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an affair quiet in the runup to the 2016 presidential election, is currently slated to be the first of Trump's criminal charges to move to trial.

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Justice John Roberts demands swift response from Jack Smith to Trump's immunity claim

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has given special counsel Jack Smith a week to file a motion explaining why former President Donald Trump should not have presidential immunity for election subversion crimes.

On Monday, Trump asked the high court to pause an appeals court ruling that said he did not have immunity from prosecution.

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GOP's star witness in Biden impeachment probe linked to Russian oligarch: report

The House GOP’s star witness in the Oversight Committee’s investigation into Hunter Biden turns out to be connected to a Russian oligarch, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

High-profile investor Tony Bobulinski has links to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, a Ukrainian-born energy magnate who’s been a longtime close ally of Vladimir Putin’s, according to the report.

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'Trove' of newly obtained docs detail Trump lawyers’ scheme to keep him in power: report

As he moves closer and closer to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump continues to face four criminal prosecutions and a variety of civil lawsuits. Two of the criminal prosecutions — one by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice and the other by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the State of Georgia — involve Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

In Willis' case, some of those indicted alongside him are attorneys who joined him in falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen — including Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

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Trump is 'slapping his supporters in the face' with attacks on military service: ex-aide

Former President Donald Trump is not just speaking off the cuff when he attacks former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's husband over military service, former Trump administration official Anthony Scaramucci told CNN on Monday — he's explicitly laying down a loyalty test for his supporters.

Specifically, he argued, Trump wants to be sure that Republicans trust him over their most cherished institutions.

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'Emasculated' Lindsey Graham shredded by critics for latest stunt

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who months ago pledged to stand by Ukraine and its efforts to repel invading Russian military forces, voted against passing military aid to Ukraine in the United States Senate on Tuesday morning.

In justifying his vote, Graham claimed that he opposed the package because it didn't do enough to address the migrant crisis on the southern border, despite the fact that Republicans had also killed a bipartisan deal aimed at tackling that exact crisis.

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'My father was a slave': White Republican makes startling declaration at NAACP event

A white Republican legislator who's seeking to ban diversity programs in Kentucky schools told a mostly Black audience that her father had been a slave.

State Rep. Jennifer Decker (R-Waddy), who sponsored a bill to eliminate educational opportunities and programs based on race, went before the Shelbyville Area NAACP a week and half ago and made a startling claim during a question-and-answer session, when someone asked if her family had played a role in the slave trade, reported the Courier-Journal.

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