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'Trying to take me out': Marjorie Taylor Greene makes wild claims about Pentagon

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested the Pentagon and deep state were trying to take her out after she pushed for an audit of military spending on Ukraine.

During a Wednesday interview on the War Room podcast, Greene told host Steve Bannon that the U.S. should not be involved in Ukraine's defense.

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'Clickbait coming from inside the house': CNN host upends GOP guest's argument

CNN's John Berman flipped a Republican strategist's argument upside-down during a discussion of the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Many of president Donald Trump's supporters are furious over a Justice Department and FBI memo stating there's no evidence that the notorious sex trafficker kept a "client list," and everyone from MAGA influencer Laura Loomer to conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly have called for attorney general Pam Bondi to be fired over the matter.

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‘Was evidence destroyed?’ MTG says Pam Bondi’s Epstein excuse ‘hard to swallow'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at the Justice Department after Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein did not have a client list.

On Wednesday, Greene reacted to Bondi explaining that she had been misunderstood when she told Fox News that she had Epstein's client list on her desk.

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'Defies reason!' MSNBC's Morning Joe hoots with laughter at Pam Bondi's excuse

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed out loud at Attorney General Pam Bondi's explanation of a missing minute in an 11-hour surveillance video recorded outside disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell.

The Justice Department released the video to help dispel claims that the convicted sex trafficker had not committed suicide, but skeptics questioned why time stamps of the video skipped from 11:58 p.m. to midnight, which Bondi explained was standard operating procedure for Bureau of Prisons surveillance systems as they reset each night.

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Trump subjects Rubio to 'petty' humiliation in front of other Cabinet members

President Donald Trump humiliated Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a cabinet meeting by revealing that he'd taken a grandfather clock from his office.

The president ventured off topic Tuesday from foreign policy and global tariffs by bragging about the changes he'd made to the Cabinet Room in the White House to resemble his gilded Mar-a-Lago residence, and boated about pulling rank on Rubio to swipe a clock from his State Department office, reported The Daily Beast.

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'I can't even': MSNBC host stunned by latest 'embarrassment' staining Pentagon

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership has again been called into question after sources revealed he did not inform the White House before he paused a weapons shipment to Ukraine, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski wondered whether this might be the last straw.

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he hadn't ordered the pause, but sources told CNN that Hegseth had gone over his head and authorized it last week, which the "Morning Joe" co-hosts agreed was an astonishing act of insubordination.

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'Branch going to break': GOP insider says Hegseth committed a 'fireable offense'

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent decision to keep Donald Trump in the dark on a key issue could mean he will be fired, according to a former GOP official.

Doug Heye, the communications director for the Republican National Committee in 2010, appeared on CNN on Wednesday to discuss reports about Hegseth halting certain weapons help to Ukraine without ever telling the president.

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'Stunning': CNN panel shocked that Trump was left out of Ukraine weapons deal

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" was shocked when they learned that President Donald Trump's Department of Defense kept him in the dark when they halted a shipment of weapons destined for Ukraine last week.

CNN reported that DoD Secretary Pete Hegseth did not tell Trump about his plans to halt the weapons shipment, citing five anonymous sources. During the press availability portion of a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump said he had nothing to do with the decision, which left the panel on NewsNight wondering who is making decisions within the federal government.

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'Astonishing': NYT's Haberman warns more to come after explosive Ukraine report

President Donald Trump's abrupt about-face this week to support sending more weapons to Ukraine after months of trying to coax Russia's Vladimir Putin into a "deal" to end the war, left New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has covered the president for years, taken aback in a Tuesday evening interview on CNN.

"Do you think the president has changed his tune on Vladimir Putin?" asked Anderson Cooper. "Is this just the latest chapter in this relationship?"

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CNN insider ‘astonished’ at how White House learned of Ukraine aid freeze

A CNN reporter's eye-popping new revelations about the Trump administration's decision to freeze — and later unfreeze — military aid to Ukraine baffled panelists Tuesday evening.

Reporter Natasha Bertrand shared what anchor Erin Burnett called "real breaking news" on what went on behind the scenes with the United States' sudden decision last week to pause weapon shipments to Ukraine.

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'Came as a shock': Flood rescuers blindsided as Texas gov reveals new toll

CNN reporter Isabel Rosales broke some important news on Tuesday to rescue crews working to find survivors of the deadly flood in central Texas.

Rosales was on the ground reporting on rescue efforts when she told crews that the number of missing people had increased to more than 170. That figure was news to the crew members, Rosales said, who were putting in long hours to find missing survivors.

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‘Horrifying’: CNN host stunned by claim Texas flood toll far worse than reported

A CNN anchor expressed astonishment Tuesday evening as a volunteer search and rescuer said he believes Texas officials are undercounting the number of flood victims by hundreds.

Ryan Logue, deputy incident commander for the United Cajun Navy, told Erin Burnett on her show "OutFront" that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was likely way off when he said 170 people were missing, 161 in Kerr County alone. That number skyrocketed from an earlier estimate of just 18.

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'Shocking news': CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as number of missing in Texas soars

CNN's Jake Tapper was taken aback as he reported on the rapidly growing toll from the flash floods in central Texas on Tuesday afternoon.

"Republican Greg Abbott said there are at least 161 people known to be missing in Kerr County alone," said Tapper. "We previously had been told that the number was closer to 20 for Texas as a whole, but now we're being told 161 missing. The governor vowed that each person missing will be found."

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