Smith drops the blunt truth on antivax athletes. Cuomo under fire. Plus: We're living in Groundhog Day, sigh.

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character Phil Connors is stuck repeating the same day over and over again until he can learn to be a better person (We would have marked this with a spoiler alert, but come on, the movie is nearly thirty years old).
Many recent news stories have left us feeling like Connors at the beginning of the film, exhausted from seeing the same crap happen over and over again, the same tired arguments and silly conspiracies trotted out about the 2020 election and Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but without the peppy Sonny and Cher soundtrack to kick it off.
The much-maligned "audit" of the 2020 election in Arizona has been completed, and -- quelle surprise! -- the results show that President Joe Biden won. Again.
Former President Donald Trump touted the results of this audit, somehow not quite understanding that they showed he was a bigger loser to Biden than ever. He also complained about the media reporting on the results of the audit before they were officially announced, ignoring the fact that he had done the exact same thing.
The official Maricopa County Twitter account went off on the goofballs doing the audit, slamming them as incompetent.
“No one has lost the state of Arizona more than Donald Trump,” CNN's John Berman mocked the former president. We'd laugh at that more if we didn't believe we'd be seeing the same dang story all over again soon in another state, because Trump is now demanding an audit of the election in Texas, a state he won by more than 600,000 votes.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson recycled the ridiculous suggestion from a Georgia congressman that the Jan. 6 rioters looked like "tourists." Never mind that that congressman was seen barricading a door that day, or that Carlson not-so-curiously neglected to show his viewers the more violent video clips from that day, as Mediaite's Michael Luciano details.
Meanwhile, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has issued subpoenas for documents and witness testimony from Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon, and Kash Patel. We expect a round of stonewalling and dubious claims of executive privilege, but this time around, at least for Bannon, Trump isn't in the White House to issue any pardons.

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'They looked so real!'

Michael Strahan and Jimmy Fallon gave visitors of New York City’s Madame Tussauds quite a fright on Thursday night.
The late-night host invited his first guest, Michael Strahan, to join him at the museum, as they both wanted to “have a little fun” with those looking to see wax figures of their favorite stars.
The two managed to fool the museum’s visitors by sitting perfectly still as fans posed for pictures with what they thought were wax figures of the stars.
The video is a delightful three minutes of Fallon and Strahan shocking the heck out of some very surprised, and very happy, fans. Watch it here.