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A House leadership aide undercut Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that he plans to swear in a new Congressional lawmaker as soon as possible.

Earlier on Tuesday, Johnson told CNN that he would move to seat Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, who recently won a House race in Arizona. Grijalva is expected to be the 218th lawmaker to support a bipartisan bill authored by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) clashed on Tuesday night over health care subsidies that Jordan claimed are preventing Congress from passing a funding bill to reopen the government.

Jordan joined Collins on her show "The Source" to discuss the government shutdown. The two got into a fiery debate over health care subsidies, which Republicans have used to accuse Democrats of trying to use to provide free health care to illegal immigrants.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday night over whether furloughed federal workers will receive back pay once the government reopens.

Jordan joined Collins on her show, "The Source," to discuss the government shutdown. Collins pressed Jordan about whether he supports President Donald Trump's threat to withhold pay from furloughed workers.

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Meghan McCain left in 2021. However, audiences didn't seem to understand Weiss's "centrist-right contrarian politics" and instead chose Alyssa Farah Griffin, President Donald Trump's former strategic communications director.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was visibly stunned by a Democratic Senator's claim about why the Republicans shut down the government last week.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined Burnett on her show "OutFront" on Tuesday to discuss the government shutdown. Republicans have claimed the shutdown occurred because Democrats tried to sneak a provision into the funding bill that would provide free health care for illegal immigrants, which is illegal under existing federal law.

Former FBI Director James Comey is likely to come out of the gates swinging with a scorched-earth strategy to get the charges President Donald Trump's Justice Department brought against him dismissed, a former federal prosecutor told CBS News on Tuesday.

Comey, against whom Trump has held a vendetta ever since he refused to shut down the Russia investigation for him in his first year in office, is being charged with false statements and obstruction of justice, based on testimony to the Senate that Trump's prosecutors couldn't even quote correctly.

President Donald Trump's administration and Republicans caught heat from political observers on Tuesday after reports indicated that a major airport would "go dark" for five hours because it didn't have enough air traffic controllers.

CNN aviation and transportation correspondent Pete Muntean reported on Tuesday that Nashville's airport would go dark tonight because of staffing shortages. The airport is the second such facility to shut down in as many days due to staffing issues, Muntean reported.