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CNN panel spirals into shouting match with claim Trump 'hates Black people'

A CNN panel discussion on the dilemma Democrats are facing with the candidacy of Graham Platner, who is running to oppose Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), turned into a shouting match that led to charges that Donald Trump is a racist.

On CNN’s “Table for Five,” host Abby Phillip noted there is a growing debate about “purity tests” within the Democratic Party as more revelations about Platner’s past drop prior to Tuesday’s primary.

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25th Amendment calls swirl as Trump seems to forget name of Washington Monument

A clip from President Donald Trump's Friday agriculture roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, spread quickly online, with critics saying it showed the president struggling to recall the name of the Washington Monument.

The video, shared by liberal account Acyn, shows Trump holding up a picture of his Reflecting Pool renovation.

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Trump cuts interview short as rain pounds metal barn roof and he clashes with host

Trump cut short an interview with NBC News as the sound of rain on a barn's metal roof kept interrupting, journalists shared.

Gabe Gutierrez, a senior White House correspondent for NBC News, revealed that the interview took place inside a Wisconsin barn "at the request of the White House," Gutierrez noted, but "rain repeatedly was hitting the metal roof of the barn."

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Chris Hayes says vulnerable GOP senator got 'sham vote' to look independent against Trump

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has endured a brutal week of reporting on his personal history and unsavory interactions with women — issues that have left many people wringing their hands over the state of the race. However, MS NOW's Chris Hayes, who interviewed Platner earlier in the week, noted that Maine voters on the street largely seem unfazed.

Part of the reason, he suggested, is that there is genuine disgust with longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins — despite their "reservations about his character."

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Ex-MAGA insider blows lid off White House aide behind right-wing influencer campaigns

An ex-MAGA insider named which top Trump aide is involved in coordinating media campaigns with right-wing influencers through group chats.

Ashley St. Clair said in an interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that deputy White House chief of staff James Blair is working with MAGA influencers on "incredibly coordinated and sophisticated" media campaigns.

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Trump arrives late and unhappy to Wisconsin event — and CNN reporter reveals why

A CNN reporter pointed out that President Donald Trump seemed displeased ahead of his event Friday night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent, was traveling with the president and other reporters and commented that Trump was not too thrilled as he headed to the Midwest battleground state to discuss his economic agenda among struggling farmers and the agriculture community.

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Nick Fuentes turns on his fans after CNN segment — and his followers sent death threats

Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes mocked his followers after they were interviewed for a CNN segment, the network reported on Friday.

CNN senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan interviewed two men in Miami named Rich and John, who are Groypers — young, white men who are followers of white supremacist Fuentes.

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Car drives into protest line outside ICE detention center as tensions boil over

A tense confrontation outside Newark's Delaney Hall immigration detention facility escalated Friday when a red sedan slowly drove into a line of protesters blocking a facility exit, pushing them backward until someone hurled an object that left two large shatter marks in the vehicle's front windshield.

Video shared on X by @Patrick_Nealis showed the car sitting for several minutes as protesters blocked the exit, then creeping forward, making contact with demonstrators and forcing them back. As the car advanced, protesters could be heard shouting, "That's blood money! You will reap what you sow!" Protesters appeared to presume the driver was a facility employee, though that has not been confirmed.

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Trump DOJ's 'ludicrous' new court claim leaves CNN legal expert speechless

President Donald Trump's Justice Department made a claim in court this week that left CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams stupefied.

During a hearing about the validity of the White House ballroom project, DOJ lawyers explained that the work had been done so quickly that there was nothing courts could have done to reverse it — and when the judge asked if, by that logic, it would be legal for the Trump administration to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty if they did it too quickly for there to be a legal challenge, they agreed.

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Trump flies into fury on the tarmac over GOP senator's conditions to confirm Todd Blanche

President Donald Trump raged against Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Friday after the GOP lawmaker gave Trump's former personal lawyer and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche conditions for approving his nomination, The New Republic reported.

Trump was heading to an event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and boarding Air Force One when a reporter at Joint Base Andrews asked him about the ultimatum from Tillis, who plans to retire at the end of his term in January 2027 and has made it clear that Blanche needs to disavow the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists for him to consider approving him as attorney general.

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Red state official rips Trump admin's slow response to flesh-eating parasite invasion

A red state official ripped the Trump administration for how it mishandled a dangerous parasite now spreading fear.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said on CNN that he started talking to the White House and Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins "for the first time" recently about New World Screwworm, despite giving them information about how to mitigate it much sooner.

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MAGA senator shrugs off Ebola risk in anti vaccine rant: 'It generally snuffs itself out'

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is dismissing the need for Ebola vaccines — even as public health officials scramble to contain a real Ebola outbreak ahead of the FIFA World Cup being held across the United States, Canada and Mexico this summer.

In an interview with LindellTV's Cara Castronuova, Johnson argued that federal health agencies are laying the groundwork for another mass vaccination campaign — this time targeting diseases like Hantavirus and Ebola.

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Trump's latest Oval Office nap reignites fears days before 80th birthday: MS NOW

Continuing questions about Donald Trump’s health were not helped on Thursday during an Oval Office press availaibility that led to more questions about his ability to keep up at his current pace.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-hosts Johnathan Lemire and Willie Geist highlighted the 79-year-old president “slumped’ in his chair as EPA Head Lee Zeldin talked about clean coal, with the two pundits observing the president was clearly asleep.

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