The Biden Administration Wants To Make It Hard To Fire Career Bureaucrats

CNN's Dana Bash challenges Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) over the lack of attention and failure to condemn Hamas' use of sexual violence and rape against Israeli women.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responds to former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney's warning that if there's a second Trump presidency, the country would be "sleepwalking into a dictatorship."

Is nothing sacred anymore? Don't we have any priorities anymore? Despite winning the Tour de France, despite winning all those Academy Awards, winning all those Superbowls and serving with honor in Afghanistan, they have fired George Santos. Don't worry about Santos, he'll be OK. He's got that job as head bunny at the bunny ranch, the papacy and best selling author to fall back on. But what about the country?

“A former American diplomat who served as U. S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government,“ the AP reports. “Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court appearance Monday.”

Wealthy businessman Scott Mayer tells the National Journal's Sydney Kashiwagi that he's still interested in challenging Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin—and that he's willing to run against the National Republican Senatorial Committee's top recruit if it comes down to it. D. C. Republicans have been wooing another rich businessman, Eric Hovde, but he has yet to make up his mind and face a contested primary if he decides to run after all.

“The U. S. government is making an intense effort to persuade Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations so they can once again pause hostilities and exchange more prisoners for hostages,” the New York Times reports.