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Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on Friday stressed the need for testing to get students back in school in the fall.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his program offering a skeptical take on lockdowns initiated around the country in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski slammed President Donald Trump for refusing to publicly wear a mask.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has released the full version of a video purporting to show the French authorities transferring a boatload of illegal migrants to the UK Border Force in the English Channel.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CBS’ “Late Show,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Trump for walking away from the rest of the world during the coronavirus outbreak, which includes “not having our folks at any of the international meetings or the World Health Organization or dealing with those nations who are working on vaccines as well.”

Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) argued President Donald Trump was attempting to commit a crime with his threat to withhold funding allocated by Congress for coronavirus pandemic response.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) discussed the flooding in her state and said that 500-year floods, like the one that the state is currently experiencing, are “becoming more and more frequent. We’ve got climate change as a part of that.” And that “old infrastructure” is also an issue as well.

Thursday, during her weekly briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said because voting in the United States was “under assault” from the coronavirus, it must be protected with nationwide vote-by-mail so no one is “forced” to go to a polling place and risk their health.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to criticism from his House of Representatives counterpart Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding the House Homeland Security Committee’s use of subpoena power in the lead-up to the 2017 investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

During an interview with the Hill on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that “there is a strong likelihood” that another coronavirus relief bill will be needed, but the administration will “step back for a few weeks” to see if more money needs to be spent, and, if so, how to spend it.

Thursday on MSNBC, Ruud Dobber, the CEO of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, said he was confident the company would deliver 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine in October.

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) sounded off on the tension between China and the United States, which has increased since the Asian superpower’s cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak.

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto,” Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz discussed his organization’s full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal that calls for a “second opinion” to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s on the coronavirus shutdown.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said to be a model for the American people President Donald Trump should be wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic because “real men wear face masks.”

Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump is promoting an “already discredited conspiracy” theory with his Obamagate tweets instead of focusing on the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed the probe into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings with Ukraine that led to the younger Biden getting a role on the board of energy company Burisma despite having no experience in the energy sector.

Thursday on “CBS This Morning,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) called President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding from Michigan for sending absentee ballot applications to voters “unacceptable.”

Jeff Sessions, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, said during an interview on Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Wednesday he saw that as a critical attribute of Donald Trump’s presidency to highlight, which he said has gone beyond even what former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were able to accomplish with judicial appointments during their presidency.

In a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network host Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump of attacking his predecessor former President Barack Obama amid the Department of Justice’s review of the 2016 Russia investigation under Obama’s leadership  because “he is so upset that Barack is everything he would have wanted to be in life” while also being black and not having a “rich father.”

Wednesday on Fox News, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) downplayed the prospects of a fifth coronavirus relief bill given the latest effort from House Democrats under the leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Thursday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” shared the results of a recent Quinnipiac University poll showing 2020 Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden holding an 11-point lead over President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that coronavirus tests, tracing, and treatment, funding for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, direct payments and unemployment insurance, OSHA standards, funding for the Postal Service, vote by mail, and SNAP benefits are the “seven hills of Rome,” that House Democrats are “there to make sure prevail when we go to the table for negotiation” on the next coronavirus aide packag

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) dismissed complaints from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about President Donald Trump’s focus on China for its part in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is “two sneezes away from the presidency, with the fact that the president and vice president are not taking the necessary precautions.”

Wednesday on MSNBC, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez accused President Donald Trump of attempting to “steal the election” by opposing vote-by-mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) stated that Georgia seems to be “doing better as a state,” and that while there are lags in infections, under the state’s reopening, “things are not as

Wednesday on MSNBC, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of attempting to “suppress the vote” by opposing vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.

During a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that by holding a hearing to subpoena a firm linked to Burisma, the Senate Homeland Security Committee is “promoting conspiracy theories that have already been discredited” and “using Russian propaganda” to slander “the family of the president’s political opponent.”

With Senate Republicans pushing to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, for their shady dealings with Ukraine, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) is pushing back against the idea.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during her weekly press briefing declared that President Donald Trump and those who work for him had “doggie doo” on their shoes.

Wednesday on “MSNBC Live,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) continued his push to have universal healthcare in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The self-described Democratic socialist argued healthcare should not be a job benefit that people can lose if they are

On Wednesday’s broadcast of SiriusXM’s “Dean Obeidallah Show,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Republicans and President Donald Trump’s opposition to mail-in voting was an attempt to stop “people of color from participating in the upcoming 2020 general election.

Wednesday on MSNBC, network political commentator former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said former President Barack Obama’s administration did not have even “a hint of corruption during eight years.”

Wednesday, during a briefing with the media, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired a shot at Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is believed to be behind and actively promoting a narrative of wrongdoing within the Trump administration and the State Department, after the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.

Wednesday during an appearance Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said while it is not clear as to whether or not former President Barack Obama was involved in the ongoing saga involving former National Security Security adviser Michael Flynn and other, dubbed “Obamagate” by President Donald Trump, there does appear to be knowledge of it from other within the former Obama administration.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski voiced her displeasure with President Donald Trump floating out conspiracy theories about her husband fellow host Joe Scarborough as a means to deflect from his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.