Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. I’m Dylan Byers. Tonight, news and notes on Tucker Carlson’s fundraising plan and Fox’s new primetime strategy. Tina Nguyen will be back tomorrow with updates from inside Kevin McCarthy’s fractious House G.O.P. conference.

But first…

By Abby Livingston

• Biden’s Benghazi: It’s already abundantly clear by now that Hunter Biden’s guilty plea won’t conclude the House Republican efforts to investigate the president’s son and the unsubstantiated claims of a “Biden crime family” conspiracy. Nevertheless, it’s an open question regarding whether Republicans can draw political blood on the topic. Some G.O.P. operatives that I talk to roll their eyes at the whole matter, which they dismiss as...