Attorney General Merrick Garland shared on Tuesday his expectations for when a report from John Durham‘s special counsel investigation will be completed, and it doesn’t appear to be that far off in the future.

The rare update on Durham’s inquiry into potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe came during testimony before a Senate committee. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Garland about why former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who was found not guilty of lying to the FBI in a blow to Durham’s investigation, apparently had a badge to get into the bureau’s headquarters in the run-up to the 2016 election.

“On the particular question about Sussman, I think we’re going to have to wait until Mr. Durham finishes his report, which should be relatively soon,” Garland said.

“I certainly don’t in any way want to interfere with him,” Garland continued. “And he’s the one who would know the answer to that. On the more general question, I can certainly ask my team to look into how lawyers have special badges.”

Durham has been working on this investigation for nearly four years, dating back to the Trump administration. Though Durham resigned as U.S. attorney after President Joe Biden took office, Garland allowed his special counsel probe to continue. Garland testified to Congress in October 2021 that he hopes to make “as much as possible” of Durham’s report public, but not that he has “to be concerned about Privacy Act concerns and classification.”

The investigation has been cheered by former President Donald Trump and his allies while Democrats and others have criticized it as a politically tainted endeavor meant to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller and top officials from the FBI. Democrats have even begun to call for investigations into Durham’s endeavor.

Durham has secured one guilty plea: that of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was spared prison time and faced a one-year bar suspension.

Last year, Durham endured setbacks when prosecutions against Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, ended in acquittal in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, respectively.

The last public update on the investigation provided by the Department of Justice came in December, just before Christmas, in the form of a financial disclosure.

Podcast giant Joe Rogan mocked mainstream news organizations during a broadcast of his show this week for ignoring the biggest stories happening in the world today.

Rogan made the remarks Tuesday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” while speaking to physician Peter Attia.

“The media has lost its hold over the narrative,” Rogan declared. “Now, the media conveniently leaves out anything that it doesn’t want to be at the front and center — in terms of things that people concentrate on and talk about.”

“Like one of the greatest examples that’s happening right now is this massive protest in France. Massive protest in France. Nine million people on the street, literally up in arms,” Rogan said. “Macron in France. Takes his f***ing $80,000 watch off under the table while he’s talking to people about tightening up and about how you know this has to be done.”

“All it is, is like ‘January 6th. January 6th. Did you see what they did? — Trump is coming back, but January 6th looms large,’” Rogan said in mocking the news covered by mainstream organizations. “How about the fact that the guy who’s the president right now can’t form a f***ing sentence. He makes up words and stumbles through things and no one says a g*****n thing about it.”

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Rogan railed against far-left woke initiatives last week that he warned were really shams that political elites use to force people to submit to their ideological wills.

“Look at what they try to do, look at what people try to do to stop criticism on Twitter, they f***ing send the FBI to Twitter to try to remove people from Twitter because they’re saying things that interferes with the way they govern,” Rogan said. “All that s*** is natural and the Founding Fathers were the only people that put together a system to mitigate that.”

“Over time these f***ing c****, these corrupt s***heads have done an amazing job of trying to chip away at that or convince people it should be chipped away at, and convince people that ‘freedom is not important, what’s important is equity and inclusiveness and diversity,’” he continued. “No no no that is a sheep costume the wolf wears, and the wolf is control, the wolf is control over people and forcing people to bend to your ideological will, whether it’s the will of the people on the right or the will of people on the left. That’s the form that it comes in, it comes in the form of ‘equity and inclusiveness.’”