CNN's Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) on the Jan. 6 Committee's next hearings during a new interview, despite the fact that she played her cards close to the chest throughout. 

The committee is scheduled to resume hearings on Tuesday, weeks after the surprise bombshell testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Tapper asked Lofgren all the right questions on Sunday, questioning the possibility of a live hearing with Steve Bannon, as well as the 8 hours of testimony the committee received from former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.

Lofgren remarked upon the significance of Cippollone’s appearance during a previous interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, in which she claimed that Cipollone “did not contradict” Hutchinson and other committee witnesses.

While speaking to Tapper, she once again insisted the testimony was “important,” but couldn’t elaborate on the details in advance because “the committee rules don’t allow us to disclose the testimony without a vote of the committee.”

Tapper continued to push Lofgren on the testimony regardless of her understandably tight-lipped response, noting that one of the biggest parts of Hutchinson’s testimony was when she said Cipollone told her “we’re going to be charged with every crime imaginable” if ex-President Donald Trump went to the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

“Two sources told CNN that the committee did not ask Pat Cipollone whether he said that,” Tapper said. “Is that true? If so, why wouldn’t you ask him that?”

"We never call in witnesses to corroborate other witnesses or to give their reaction to other witnesses. But I will say that he did interview with us for eight hours and provide very insightful information," Lofgren responded. 

"And that augments and certainly does not dispute Miss Hutchinson’s testimony. So stay tuned for this week’s hearings. We think they’ll be worth attending."

Newspaper opinion pages are often criticized for having a political bias, but one Florida paper showed the pitfalls of a poorly-executed attempt to tell both sides of the story.

An op-ed published on Sunday by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, titled, “Attacking Proud Boys does a disservice to caring school parents,” defended local school board candidates’ alleged association with the Proud Boys. 

The column claimed the group’s members, many of whom have been charged with serious felonies related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, were simply “caring parents” who were being unfairly attacked for their conservative political views.

Oh, and the paper failed to disclose the author, Melissa Radovich, was married to a Proud Boy herself.

The article garnered such an intense backlash that it was deleted on Monday, with the paper publishing a message to their readers from executive editor Jennifer Orsi.

While Orsi stressed that Radovich’s op-ed did not meet the outlet's standards, she never directly addressed the Herald-Tribune’s failure to disclose Radovich’s marriage to a Proud Boy. 

“The Herald-Tribune opinion page will not provide a forum for support of the Proud Boys, an extremist group that promotes white nationalist views, has been labeled a terrorist group by two countries, and has top members under indictment on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack," Orsi vowed retroactively. 

Radovich had penned the op-ed in response to a Herald-Tribune guest column published in late June by Lisa Gialdini Schurr, which called on Sarasota school board candidates to “show some courage” and “call out the Proud Boys.”

“When I think about the Proud Boys, I think of fathers, business owners and veterans," Radovich wrote in response.

"These fathers have spoken at many School Board meetings. They are concerned about the direction that their local schools are heading in, and I commend them for coming to School Board meetings.”