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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Tuesday that House Republicans are taking steps to protect people who illegally broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

When asked a question about releasing more internal batches of internal January 6th security footage, Johnson emphasized that "we're going through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been running on a campaign of ending the "weaponization" of government — but his hometown newspaper blasted him for Thursday for building a state machinery for which "anyone's a target."

The Miami Herald editorial board wrote, "Ron DeSantis’ shtick about 'slitting throats' of 'deep state' federal bureaucrats is a tired, rehearsed trope he’s repeated several times as he tries to survive as a Republican presidential candidate."

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) was among the Republicans who talked big on Jan. 6, 2021 — but behind closed doors he was visibly afraid, according to Liz Cheney's new book.

In "Oath and Honor," former Rep. Cheney (R-WY) describes Gosar as standing at the podium speaking when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was rushed out of the chamber. Quickly, others in the House leadership were escorted out. Gosar was left standing at the podium, dumbstruck.

While many fear that Donald Trump winning the presidency in 2024 will send America down a path to "dictatorship," that's exactly the message he's trying to put out, a Washington Post columnist wrote Tuesday.

The former president is fueling "fatalistic nightmares" in an effort to trick voters into thinking what they fear coming is inevitable, and that they should get on board or give up.

Former President Donald Trump has based much of his campaign for re-election on the current state of inflation, and promises that prices will be stable if he gets back in power — but not so, argued Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post.

In fact, she said, Trump's policies are part of how inflation got as bad as he claims it is.

Among the things former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) points out in her new book, "Oath and Honor," is that she does not trust Georgia's right wing Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).

After the attack on the Capitol, on Jan. 6, 2021, Republican caucus members met to discuss next steps. Some were behind impeaching Donald Trump, she said. All agreed that his actions were wrong and unacceptable.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's legal work for conservative Christian causes has become well known since he emerged from the back bench to claim the gavel, but new reporting shows that his work as a lawyer sometimes linked him up to some unsavory clients.

The Louisiana Republican represented clients, often for free, affiliated with some of the most extreme anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ groups in the country, including one who was present for the Jan. 6 insurrection and now leads a militant organization tied to the murder of a Kansas abortion provider, reported The Daily Beast.

The anti-Trump political operatives at the Lincoln Project got former President Donald Trump to melt down at their latest ad, as Trump even went so far as to accuse them of using artificial intelligence videos to make him look bad.

The video in question showed Trump making a number of verbal and physical gaffes over the years, all while insinuating that the former president is in steep mental decline.

Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY) was confronted on Tuesday morning by CNN anchor Poppy Harlow about the new dire warnings from former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) that American democracy is in grave peril under a second Trump term — and he appeared wholly unconcerned.

"Congressman, I'm interested, especially given you were elected in a Biden+14 district, what you think of what Liz Cheney ... has been saying recently," said Harlow, playing clips of Cheney saying that the country it "sleepwalking into dictatorship" and a Trump election could be the "last election that you ever get to vote in." "Do you share any of those concerns?"

Donald Trump's lawyers have argued that the former president's trials should be paused until after the election – or even after a potential second term ends in 2029 – and his frontrunner status in the Republican primary is launching politics and the law into "uncharted territory."

Attorneys for the ex-president say the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal law outweighs state law, should allow him to avoid a trial in Georgia if he's re-elected next year, and both Fulton County judge Scott McAfee and federal judge Tanya Chutkan signaled on Friday that those arguments have merit, reported The Messenger.

The Atlantic's McKay Coppins on Tuesday outlined the criteria that former President Donald Trump will be using to determine whom he hires should he win a second term in the White House next year.

Drawing from interviews he's conducted with many Trump allies, Coppins told CNN that the former president simply wants a cadre of yes men who will carry out his every whim.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski needled House Republicans for overhyping their latest revelation in the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.

House Oversight chairman James Comer (R-KY) obtained bank records showing Hunter Biden's law firm had made monthly payments to his father in late 2018, but those three checks were reimbursement for a pickup truck the elder Biden had purchased and allowed him to use.

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone initially rebuffed the House Select Committee's demands to testify about the events on Jan. 6 and what unfolded after the 2020 election.

In her new book, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) explained that he was only willing to talk because he was outed by Cassidy Hutchinson in her bombshell testimony.