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President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan erupted Sunday after NBC News’ Kristen Welker pressed him on an alleged $50,000 cash bribe he reportedly took in exchange for dishing out government contracts to private prisons.

Last September, it was revealed that Homan had been ensnared in an FBI probe in 2024, and was being investigated by the agency for allegedly accepting a $50,000 cash bribe from undercover FBI agents in exchange for promising to award private prisons lucrative government contracts under the second Trump administration.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was put in the hot seat on CNN Sunday after being backed into a corner over her “different standard” when it came to when law enforcement should be allowed to use deadly force.

Noem appeared with CNN’s Jack Tapper to fiercely defend the deadly use of force in the killing of Rene Good, a Minnesota woman who was fatally shot Wednesday by a federal immigration agent. She argued that by Good having accelerated her vehicle in the direction of the agent, she had become a physical threat, and therefore, her killing was justified.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was called out Sunday on CNN for repeatedly dodging Jake Tapper’s questions about her claim that Renee Good – the Minnesota woman fatally shot by an immigration agent last week – had engaged in “domestic terrorism.”

Good was shot last Wednesday in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent while in her vehicle, and after being given conflicting commands by law enforcement. The killing was fiercely defended by the Trump administration, whereas critics have called for the agent to face murder charges.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) appeared on CNN Sunday to defend the fatal shooting of Renee Good, the Minnesota woman shot last week by a federal immigration agent, but was called out in real time for contradicting his own argument in defense of the killing.

Good was shot on Wednesday in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross while in her vehicle, and after being issued conflicting commands, with one agent ordering her to “drive away,” and another, demanding she “get out of her car.” Good accelerated her vehicle just moments after Ross positioned himself in front of it, leading Ross to discharge his firearm three times.

Former George W. Bush administration strategist David Frum told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace that the dismal economic figures released on Friday aren't an accident — they are direct and intentional, a result of President Donald Trump's trade and immigration agenda.

"The message to drive home for Democrats about prices is Trump did it on purpose," said Frum. "That's one of the reasons that I don't quite like the 'affordability' slogan, because it makes it seem like this is like something happening because it's in nature, it's something that happened beyond any human control."

President Donald Trump was confronted by CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday about why his administration blocked Minnesota from being part of the federal investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting of a 37-year-old mom of three in Minneapolis — and his resulting answer, which meandered into attacks on Somali-Americans and false claims that he would have won the state without voter fraud, left observers stunned.

"State officials there have said that the FBI isn't sharing evidence with them," said Collins. "Typically they would conduct a joint investigation, as you know. Do you believe that the FBI should be sharing evidence with state officials in Minnesota?"

Former Republican Party strategist and speechwriter Tim Miller barely held his composure in a video Friday for The Bulwark, as he analyzed newly released cell phone footage from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis mother of three at close range through her open car window.

"As you can see there, the agent, Jonathan Ross, the one that kills Renee Good, walks around the front of the car, at which point, with her window down, Renee says to him, 'That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you,'" said Miller, a frequent critic of the president.

Mockery erupted Friday afternoon as President Donald Trump read aloud a note from his Secretary of State during a power lunch with big oil titans.

Trump held court to convince ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips executives to drop billions on rebuilding Venezuela's neglected energy infrastructure. Trump told the New York Times that Caracas must "give us everything we feel is necessary"—including exclusive oil partnerships with America and ditching ties to China, Russia, and Iran.