Biden news: White House admits struggle to vaccinate Republicans as Trump accused of new vulgarity

Tucker isn’t the only anchor losing his mind over at Fox.

Shweta Sharma has this on Hannity’s bizarre accusation that Biden is “taking credit” for his predecessor’s achievements (again, half a million dead?) just a day after Trump issued a statement saying he deserved the acclaim for the “China Virus” vaccines promising to liberate the world from lockdown.

Well this is a surprise.

In February, Cyrus Vance's office won its bid to obtain eight years’ of Donald Trump's taxes and financial documents after the Supreme Court ruled in his favour.

But it now seems he is not seeking re-election, leaving the future of the criminal investigation he has spent two years working on in the hands of his eventual successor.

New York Assembly speaker Carl Heastie has authorised the opening of an impeachment investigation into the state’s governor by the body’s judiciary committee after Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment by six women.

Graeme Massie has the very latest.

The QAnon congresswoman for Georgia told the former Trump strategist and Breitbart editor (yuck and yuck) that “the system needs to be torn down” and launched into an astonishing assault on America’s capital city during an interview on his no-doubt-highly-lucrative War Room show.

Oliver O’Connell listened in so you don’t have to.

Here’s Alex Woodward on how the new president’s address last night compared to the one his predecessor gave on 11 March 2020 just as the coronavirus was beginning to take hold.

The Biden administration is hitting back at claims from the governor of Texas that its “open border policies” are to blame for a surge of unaccompanied children at the US-Mexico boundary.

“That is absolutely incorrect,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a testy exchange with Fox News’s Peter Doocy during a Thursday press briefing. “The border is not open. The vast majority of individuals apprehended or encountered at the border continue to be denied entry and are returned.”

The Border Patrol says it apprehended nearly 700 unaccompanied minors on Wednesday, well above its 450-child daily average.

Psaki said the administration’s focus was treating them humanely even as others are told to go home.

Here’s more from Josh Marcus.

More from the permanently-aggrieved Fox pundit, who claims - not for the first time I’m sure - that he’s the real victim here, not the women in the military he disparaged.

So much so, in fact, that he’s even been made the subject of a government plot, apparently.

Graeme Massie takes this one.

A Republican lawmaker in Arizona has defended GOP-sponsored legislation to restrict ballot access as a means to protect “the quality of votes”, arguing that “everybody shouldn’t be voting” as Republicans in at least 43 states introduce dozens of bills to curb voting rights, compelled by spurious fraud claims and election conspiracy theories in the wake of 2020 elections and disproportionately impacting black voters.

Uh huh.

Alex Woodward reports.

With Carlson increasingly finding himself the face of Fox News (and, arguably, the entire American conservative movement) in the wake of Trump, here’s a nice little throwback to see you through Friday: Jon Stewart accusing the human bowtie of “partisan hackery” from his CNN Crossfire days in 2004.

Gino Spocchia has this.

The Russian president mocked the events of 6 January in Washington, DC, during a meeting at the Kremlin on increasing investment activity, according to the Associated Press.

Here’s what he said:

“Some of the people who took a stroll to the US Congress - 150 people were arrested, they face imprisonment from 15 to 25 years.

“Will all these internal controversies end there or not? We do not know, but we want it to end, because we are interested in stable relations with all our main partners.”