The Daily Herold: 10/23/26 - FBI Shadow Government Charges, Alaska Senate Fight & Struggle Sessions

Jon Herold breaks down the DOJ charging two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Flores and Bradley Benavidez, with lying to Congress about the Foreign Influence Task Force's role in the Hunter Biden investigations, including Flores' message that she was 'basically running a shadow government' across the FBI. Jon explains why lying-to-Congress cases in front of a DC jury feel like low-hanging fruit next to the bigger crimes, and what happened to Durham and the Florida grand jury. He also covers the DOJ suit to block certification of Alaska's Senate race if Senator Dan Sullivan narrowly loses to Mary Peltola over a same-name candidate, Trump's post on the case, the voting struggle sessions on social media, Democrats shifting to in-person voting, the Schumer and Jeffries voter roll lawsuit, the CIA in Trump's Ukraine policy, the Toledo chemical cloud, and whether an October surprise is still coming before the midterms.