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'This looks like Russia': MS NOW panel rips ICE agents after watching brutal arrest clips

After running a collection of video clips of Department of Homeland Security agents brutalizing and dragging away U.S. citizens in Minnesota since an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Good in the face one week ago, a panel on MS NOW compared the U.S. under Donald Trump to police state Russia.

With viral videos showing ICE agents grabbing anyone they want off the streets proliferating, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough kicked off the conversation and claimed this is not the America anyone wants, outside of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Stephen Miller.

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'Contrary to everything you're taught': Expert stunned over DOJ move he has 'never' seen

CNN's Elie Honig questioned the series of decisions that led to the resignations of multiple high-ranking prosectors in the Department of Justice over an immigration agent's killing of a woman in MInneapolis.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche declared Tuesday "there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation" into the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, which prompted the departures of at least five prosecutors in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division and five others in the Minnesota U.S. attorney's office.

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Trump's latest speech was 'Exhibit A' that he is 'struggling' personally: MS NOW host

Donald Trump's speech at a Ford auto factory in Detroit on Tuesday was panned on Wednesday morning as being demonstrative of why his administration’s approval ratings are in free fall, according to the panel on “Morning Joe.”

On Wednesday, the MS NOW co-hosts started with Trump’s altercation with a heckler at the plant that got an employee suspended after the president gave him the middle finger, before turning to the president’s claims that the economy is booming despite all evidence to the contrary.

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'This is going wrong': Author reveals Trump's unsettling ploy to win the midterm

An author who has written extensively about Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday that the president's latest ploy to win the 2026 midterm election has unsettled White House insiders, and even the president is acknowledging that it is "going wrong."

Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, said during a podcast interview on Tuesday that Trump is trying to find an issue that will take up as much media airspace as possible to have a shot at competing with Democrats in the midterm. Currently, the president is polling poorly on a range of issues that are shaping up to dominate the next election, from affordability to the economy.

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'That's regime change': GOP Senator stumbles as Kaitlan Collins presses him on Iran strike

A GOP Senator stumbled during an interview on CNN when reporter Kaitlan Collins pressed him about his support for striking Iran in response to its brutal attack on anti-government protesters.

Protests erupted in Iran a couple of weeks ago over rampant inflation. All 31 provinces in the country have seen protests, and the Iranian government has responded in some heavy-handed ways. For instance, they imposed a total communications blackout and killed between 12,000 and 20,000 protesters, according to reports. Iranian state media said the regime plans to start hanging protesters on Wednesday.

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'Utterly chilling': Stephen Miller's 'glaring' Fox News interview sparks outrage

One of President Donald Trump's top aides sparked outrage on Tuesday after he claimed that immigration agents enjoy "federal immunity" while they're doing their jobs on Fox News.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller joined Fox News host Will Cain on "The Will Cain Show" to discuss the Trump administration's ongoing deportation operations. The interview happened at a time when the operations are facing increased scrutiny following the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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'You wouldn't have this job!' Trump melts down as new CBS reporter pushes him on economy

President Donald Trump grew agitated when newly-hired CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed him on persistent inflation numbers on Tuesday — and seemingly reminded him that he only got the job he's currently in thanks to the administration's legal machinations.

"The inflation numbers came out," said Dokoupil. "Overall not bad, but grocery prices—"

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'Put your big boy pants on': Ex-RNC chair tears into Trump after wild meltdown at heckler

President Donald Trump debased his office when he lost control and flipped the bird at a heckler in Detroit who called him a "pedophile protector," MS NOW anchor and former Republican National Committee chief Michael Steele observed in a discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Tuesday's edition of "The Weeknight."

"So we all know we have a very, in my estimation, a very underdeveloped man sitting in the White House," said Steele to Khanna, one of the main sponsors of legislation to compel the White House to release the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, which have still not been released in full despite legal deadlines.

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'Really?' Piers Morgan slaps down MAGA lawyer's justification for mom's killing by ICE

Justification for the killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Good floated by right-wing pundits got to be a too far-fetched for even conservative former CNN anchor Piers Morgan, who bristled at one such attempt on the latest episode of his YouTube show, "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

Morgan discussed Good's killing by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross with Nick Shirley, a right-wing YouTuber who shot to fame after making a viral video about fraud in Minneapolis, Tim Miller of "The Bulwark Podcast," former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, and MAGA lawyer Will Chamberlain during the episode.

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RFK Jr. stuns with remarks about Trump's diet: 'I don't know how he's alive!'

Comments Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made about President Donald Trump's diet during a new interview on a right-wing podcast caused the host to burst out laughing.

On Tuesday, Kennedy appeared on Katie Miller's eponymous podcast, where she often discusses soft life and culture topics with right-wing figures. Previous guests include Elon Musk, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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​Trump aide clams up during brutal grilling from CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Fed chair probe

A top economic adviser for President Donald Trump was forced to take cover following a barrage of pointed questions Tuesday by CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

Kevin Hassett, a conservative economist who serves as director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration, took questions from reporters, including from Collins, who demanded to know if Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell would be the subject of a criminal probe had he cut interest rates as Trump ordered.

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'Oops!' GOP senator mocked for saying 'corrupt part out loud' in Trump's Fed fight

A GOP senator was roundly mocked on Tuesday after he "said the corrupt part out loud" about President Donald Trump's latest fight with the Federal Reserve.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration had quietly opened an investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over his handling of the central bank's $2.5 billion headquarters renovation project. Experts have speculated that the investigation is an attempt to push Powell out so Trump can install a loyalist who will lower interest rates at Trump's whim.

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Protester permanently blinded after DHS agent fires nonlethal round at close range

A young protester in Santa Ana is permanently blind in one eye after being hit in the face at close range by a “nonlethal” round fired by a Department of Homeland Security agent last week amid nationwide protests against an immigration agent’s killing of US citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis.

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, the 21-year-old “underwent six hours of surgery and... doctors found shards of plastic, glass, and metal embedded in his eyes and around his face, including a metal piece lodged 7 mm from a carotid artery.”

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