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Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane expressed astonishment on Sunday at the viral reach of a Senate floor speech by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) cataloging alleged corruption across the first 500 days of President Donald Trump's second term.

"Wow," MacFarlane wrote, noting that Murphy's floor speech on Trump administration corruption "has now received 1 million views."

MS NOW host and former GOP lawmaker Joe Scarborough sharply rebuked House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday, accusing him of hypocrisy after the speaker claimed Democrats were trying to "steal" elections.

The exchange stemmed from Johnson's appearance on Fox Business's "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo," where, according to a clip shared by the anti-Trump outlet The Bulwark, the speaker framed an election fight in stark partisan terms.

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch his unpopular war against Iran earlier this year has already sparked a global “shift,” renowned economic professor Richard Wolff argued recently, one that also set the president on an imminent path toward total irrelevancy in “only a few months.”

A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former professor at Yale, Wolff pointed to the recent progressive sweep last week in New York as evidence of his theory, and compared it directly with the civil unrest sparked during the Vietnam War that ultimately helped – at least, in part – bring about the U.S. withdrawal.

An MS NOW host argued Sunday that President Donald Trump squandered a rare political gift — a bipartisan housing bill that could have eased financial pressure on millions of Americans — because he "threw a temper tantrum," choosing instead to hold the legislation hostage to his voter ID agenda.

In an opening monologue, the host laid out what they framed as a baffling self-inflicted wound. Trump, he said, "had the opportunity to actually do something that could ease the financial burdens for countless Americans" and could have signed "the largest housing affordability bill in a generation" — a rare bipartisan measure that would have handed his own party something to campaign on in November.

Iranian state media has reportedly declared that the country now has "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb," according to a post circulating online — a statement that, if accurate, would mark a dramatic escalation amid the ongoing exchange of strikes between the U.S. and Iran.

The claim was relayed by the account The Hormuz Letter, which posted what it described as a breaking statement from Iranian state media. According to that post, Iranian state media argued the country must "absolutely reach nuclear deterrence" before current negotiations can be conducted, framing the pursuit of a weapon as necessary to remove what it called "the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran" from the table.

Reporting from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Fox News’ Peter Doocy claimed that people were “still coming out” to the Great American State Fair, though he soon became the butt of a joke online after viewers noted a glaring contradiction directly behind him.

“It’s really something!” Doocy said Sunday, speaking from an elevated news desk on the National Mall about the fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250. “The weather, not the best today, but people are still coming out.”

The Supreme Court is “on the brink” of ruling on major cases regarding President Donald Trump’s “most audacious gambits,” Bloomberg reported Sunday, and one law professor is predicting the outcome may bode poorly for the commander in chief.

The Supreme Court is set to rule this week on two cases that will determine whether Trump can eliminate birthright citizenship and remove leaders from independent federal agencies — as he attempted with Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a grave warning to viewers last week in response to the recent progressive sweep of Democratic congressional candidates, a warning that included a potential “implication” that left two podcast hosts laughing hysterically.

“If we turn our government over to a bunch of Democrat socialists, Israel will be treated like South Africa was in the 1980s,” Ingraham said on Fox News last week. “It will be boycott all the way.”