3:05pm- On Monday afternoon, Fox News announced that their prime-time host Tucker Carlson will be leaving the network. According to reports, Fox News will rely on a rotation of hosts until ultimately deciding on a successor. Carlson’s final broadcast on the network was Friday of last week. According to Bloomberg News, after announcing the departure of Carlson, Fox News lost nearly $700 million in market capitalization.

3:25pm- What’s next for Tucker Carlson—another news network? A podcast? Perhaps even a run for political office? Regardless, Fox News better have a back-up plan because he hosted the number-one-rated news program on cable television.

3:40pm- Dan McLaughlin—Senior Writer at National Review and a Fellow at National Review Institute—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent editorial, “The Tiki-Torch Charges Are Prosecutorial Abuse.” McLaughlin writes, “[t]he Charlottesville racists should be denounced, but prosecuting them for peaceful protest is abusive, unfair, and probably unconstitutional.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-tiki-torch-charges-are-prosecutorial-abuse/

3:55pm- Speaking with Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes on CBS, January 6th rioter Ray Epps accused Tucker Carlson of being “obsessed with him and wrongfully accusing him of being an employee of the federal government. Following his interview, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated: “Ray Epps has never been an FBI source or an FBI employee.”

4:05pm- Will Tucker Carlson’s departure result in the downfall of Fox News? Will his loyal audience still tune in without him appearing as a host on the network? According to Bloomberg News, after announcing the departure of Carlson, Fox News lost nearly $700 million in market capitalization.

4:10pm- Appearing on the Make Yourself at Home podcast, Bud Light Marketing Vice President Alissa Heinerscheid mocked her company’s customers for being “fratty and out of touch.” Months later, the brand’s association with trans-activist Dylan Mulvaney resulted in the company losing an estimated $5 billion in market capitalization. According to reports, Heinerscheid is now taking a leave of absence.

4:30pm- Congressman Guy Reschenthaler— Representative for Pennsylvania’s 14th District and serving on the House Appropriations Committee & the House Committee on Rules—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plan to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to federal government spending. Is there any chance President Joe Biden will agree to the Republican proposal? Rep. Reschenthaler also talks about his recent trip to Taiwan—where Taiwanese government officials expressed concern that a Chinese invasion could be imminent. How can we help guarantee Taiwanese autonomy?

4:50pm- While speaking with Rick Rubin, Phil Jackson—a thirteen-time NBA champion and widely regarded as the greatest coach in basketball history—said he no longer watches NBA games because the league has become too immersed in political activism.

5:05pm- The Drive at 5: Over the weekend, news spread that President Joe Biden is planning to announce his reelection campaign as early as Tuesday. During an MSNBC broadcast, pollster Steve Kornacki noted that only 26% of Americans think Biden should run for reelection, with 70% saying he should not run. On ABC’s This Week with Martha Raddatz, journalist Terry Moran said Americans do not want to vote for an 80-year-old president. Are Democrats finally starting to realize President Biden’s age is a major problem?

5:20pm- While speaking with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Congressman James Comer (R-KY) revealed that he believes as many as twelve Biden family members have been involved in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—concluding “there’s not going to be anybody left for a Christmas picture!”

5:40pm- Dr. Victoria Coates—former Deputy National Security Advisor & Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to talk about a recent Washington Post article, “EPA Plan Would Impose Drastic Cuts On Power Plant Emissions by 2040.” What are the consequences of immediately abandoning traditional, reliable forms of energy for less reliable, and less abundant, “green energy”? Dr. Coates also discusses the United States embassy evacuating diplomats and staff from Sudan on Sunday as fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces continues.

6:05pm- While appearing on Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Tucker Carlson of “inciting violence” and that Fox News should be regulated.

6:15pm- What is John Kerry’s favorite ice cream? Well, thanks to a hard-hitting interview conducted by MSNBC’s Jen Psaki we now know that it is a chocolate-covered Dove bar!

6:35pm- In a new editorial, Reason’s Robby Soave documents Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett’s (D-US Virgin Islands) threat to charge independent journalist Matt Taibbi with perjury for a typo. Soave writes, “Plaskett recently sent a letter to Taibbi accusing him of perjury and suggesting that he could face up to five years in jail…It is true that Taibbi made some errors: In one of his tweets about the web of organizations engaged in identifying so-called misinformation on Twitter, he confused CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—an organ of the federal government—with CIS, the Center for Internet Security—a nonprofit…Regardless, it is obviously not the case that Taibbi committed perjury. Plaskett's letter describes the CISA/CIS mistake as an ‘intentional’ one; this is simply false.” Ironically, over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris referenced a non-existent federal agency while discussing the controversial abortion drug mifepristone. Should Vice President Harris be criminally punished too? You can read Soave’s full article here: https://reason.com/2023/04/20/matti-taibbi-stacey-plaskett-jail-time-twitter-files-perjury/

6:50pm- CNN unearthed a campaign ad from Joe Biden’s 1972 Senate run where he suggested his opponent, Cale Boggs, was too old to serve effectively.