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MAGA Rep Mike Lawler: Dems can't tell me apart from NYC's Zohran Mamdani

A MAGA lawmaker from New York claimed on Fox News on Wednesday night that Democratic state lawmakers can't tell him apart from New York City's surprise mayoral primary election winner Zohran Mamdani, and suggested it could be due to their beards.

Mamdani made waves late Tuesday, poised to complete a stunning upset win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Mamdani was leading with 44% of the ballots to Andrew Cuomo’s 36%, prompting Cuomo to concede the race and congratulate Mamdani on his victory.

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Fox News host confronted over Trump's war powers: 'This isn't what I want'

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Fox News host Will Cain sparred Wednesday afternoon over whether President Donald Trump fulfilled his legal obligations before bombing three nuclear facilities in Iran.

Over the weekend, Trump sent congressional leaders a brief letter outlining his legal authority to approve the strikes under the War Powers Act. The letter does not mention any intelligence or evidence used to justify the strikes.

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'Super embarrassing': Senator says Trump's 'angry' because he was 'caught lying'

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) alleged that President Donald Trump's administration got "caught lying" on Iran.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, the senator said that Trump's administration is now scrambling to explain why conflicting statements from Trump can both be true.

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‘Math ain’t mathin’: Jasmine Crockett torches Melania Trump over 'Einstein visa'

During a House hearing on "restoring integrity in the visa process" this week, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called out first lady Melania Trump's own visa history to illustrate the point that the Trump administration doesn't fully grasp the meaning of the word integrity.

"Integrity isn't snatching lawful visa holders off the streets and throwing them into unmarked vans," Crockett began. "Integrity is not revoking visas based on social media posts that hurt somebody's little feelings, because kids decided they wanted to go after Trump or this administration -- we have a thing called free speech in this country."

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'That stuff lands': GOP strategist shares key message resonating with Trump fans

A longtime Republican strategist and focus group expert revealed on Wednesday that those she's speaking with are repeating messages from Democrats on cuts to Medicaid.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Sarah Longwell, also the publisher of The Bulwark, said that the message is sinking in: Republicans are cutting Medicaid to fund a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.

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'Got your timeline mixed up': Dem fact checks CNN anchor to his face

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) argued Tuesday that diplomacy was still the best option to ensure Iran's nuclear enrichment program remained below weapons-grade levels, now that a ceasefire has been reached over the nation's nuclear capabilities.

Smith blamed President Donald Trump for tearing up the original diplomatic solution, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal.

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Emil Bove caught making conflicting statements during Senate grilling

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) questioned President Donald Trump's nominee at the Third Circuit Court on Wednesday and pinpointed the attorney's conflicting statements.

Speaking to top Justice Department lawyer Emil Bove, Welch pointed out complaints about his temperament and allegations of bullying colleagues, as well as accusations of prosecutorial misconduct.

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Dem mocks Kari Lake's AZ loss: 'Do us all a favor and run for governor again'

Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) mocked Kari Lake, special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, over her losses in Arizona elections.

During a Wednesday House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Stanton accused Lake of lying by falsely claiming she had not lost the Arizona governor's race or the U.S. Senate contest.

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'Trying to have it both ways': Democrat asks why Emile Bove can't square stories

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, confronted President Donald Trump's judicial nominee about conflicting stories in his testimony.

Questioning Emil Bove, who is Trump's nominee to the Third Circuit Court, Durbin cited the firings of several Justice Department prosecutors who worked on cases around the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Bove, he said, also sent the names of FBI agents who worked on those cases in what Bove called the "weaponization of the FBI."

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'Ridiculous!' CNN host defends rival network after Trump's brutal take down

CNN's Dana Bash defended a rival network on "Inside Politics" after President Donald Trump used his platform at Tuesday's NATO summit to admonish the news media for reporting on an initial intelligence assessment of his strikes on Iran.

Bash recounted the early assessment made by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reported the strikes didn't completely "obliterate" Iran's nuclear sites, as Trump has been claiming.

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Chuck Grassley handcuffs Democrats from questioning Trump's court appointee

At the start of the confirmation hearing of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit Court, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) invented a new rule that restricted the questions and answers from Bove, claiming that it fell under a "deliberative process privilege."

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took issue with the rule he outlined in the opening statement, saying that never has such a restriction been invoked for a witness before their committee.

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Warren blasts Fed chair for ‘outrageous giveaway’ to banks amid market turmoil

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was grilled Wednesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for what she called an “outrageous giveaway” to banks amid rising costs and stagnant wages for working-class Americans.

In 2018, the Federal Reserve imposed an asset cap on Wells Fargo, capping the company’s permitted assets to a value of $1.95 trillion, after the bank engaged in a number of widespread illegal practices, including secretly opening up millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts for customers without their consent to meet sales targets.

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'I can't name it': Kari Lake forgets that people in Armenia speak Armenian

Kari Lake, special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, struggled to remember that the people of Armenia speak Armenian.

During a Wednesday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) asked Lake about the status of America's Voice of Armenia.

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