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President Donald Trump's commutation of former Congressman George Santos' prison sentence, based by his own admission in large part on him being a loyal Republican, was stupefying to conservative attorney turned anti-Trump activist and Society for the Rule of Law founder George Conway.

Speaking to "The Weeknight" on Friday, Conway detailed the crimes for which Santos was sent to prison — and laid into Trump for showing no concern for justice at all.

The Bulwark's publisher, Sarah Longwell, criticized President Donald Trump for "humiliating" himself and the United States with his handling of classified documents and information.

Trump was found to possess a number of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago country club and refused to return them to the government. The Justice Department subsequently indicted him, but in July 2024, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed the entire case in a controversial ruling, finding the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump segued into a bizarre rant during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, about how Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) supposedly wants a train to be built from the mainland across the Pacific Ocean to her state — a plan she has never advocated for.

“She wanted a tunnel from the mainland to Hawaii," said Trump. "Then she said, ‘Well, we can’t do that, so we’re gonna build a railroad to Hawaii.’ Do you remember? She’s a current, sitting senator, a Democrat. She wants a railroad to go to Hawaii. You know who that is, right?”

MSNBC host Alex Witt questioned a GOP congressman about whether it's true he's gone into "legislative witness protection" to dodge constituents amid the government shutdown.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) lashed out after being asked about comments from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday morning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared at the White House on Friday as part of the ongoing conversations with President Donald Trump over ending Russia's years-long invasion.

And at the end of the question-and-answer session with the press, Trump was asked about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offering all of the country's minerals to work with the United States.

Protesters have been gathering outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Illinois for the past few weeks in objection to the federal takeover of the city and the ongoing raids. On Friday, those protesters were moved, leading to a conflict with police.

A federal judge ordered that the large fence erected by the Department of Homeland Security around the Broadview processing facility must be removed. The Village of Broadview took DHS to court, demanding that the fence be removed, WGN reported. The judge agreed it "created a public safety concern" and that it was erected without the proper permits.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was taken aback on Thursday by a KFile report that revealed deleted social media posts in which a rising star in the Democrat Party once called himself a "communist," said all police are "b-------," and described people who live in rural America as "racist" and "stupid."

Graham Platner, an oyster farmer running for Senate in Maine against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), made several inflammatory social media posts, according to the report. He told KFile that the post no longer reflects his views on a range of issues.