Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
Prominent Republicans rejected the views of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, though some refrained from directly criticizing Tucker Carlson for interviewing him.
Senators Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell criticized Mr. Carlson, as well as Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, who defended Mr. Carlson as a “close friend.”