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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) downplayed President Donald Trump's "private" dinner with investors who pumped $148 million into his crypto venture.

During a Sunday interview, CNN's Jake Tapper asked Johnson about the president's controversial event.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the Director of Immigration Studies at the conservative Cato Institute fired back at the White House's Stephen Miller for trying to override the Constitution to snatch up immigrants and ship them out of the country.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Cato's David Bier shot down Donald Trump's key adviser's contention that the law, particularly the notion of due process, can't halt his immigrant purge.

"They do know how to do this," he said of the Trump administration. "And ultimately, this time around, they just said, 'No, we're just not going to cooperate with the fundamental process of our constitution.' And they just keep coming back to this point."

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"I'll say this again, that Stephen Miller will go on Fox News and they'll say, they elected us to do this –– and that does not matter!' he continued. "Under our Constitution, elections do not change laws. They do not change our Constitution. So they could –– every single person who voted him could have voted for him in order to do this, which is certainly not the case."

"I know many Trump voters who do not support this, but even if it was the case, it didn't change our Constitution," he added. "It did not amend habeas corpus out of the Constitution when Americans voted in November. If you want to do that, you've got to change the Constitution through the proper procedure."

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Newsmax pundit Dennis Kneale blasted "unseemly" anchor Jake Tapper for "shilling his book" about President Joe Biden's mental decline on CNN.

After pitching his own book about the "genius" of Elon Musk on Sunday, Kneale turned to attack Tapper's book, "Original Sin."

Vice President J.D. Vance was slapped down on MSNBC Sunday morning over comments he made earlier in the week about the Supreme Court where he suggested the Donald Trump administration is beyond the court's control.

In an interview with the New York Times' Ross Douthat, Vance lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts by stating, "I saw an interview with Chief Justice Roberts recently where he said the role of the court is to check the excesses of the executive. I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment.”

He then added, "That’s one-half of his job. The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch. You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for. That’s where we are right now.”

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Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, no relation to the VP, set Donald Trump's right-hand man and attack dog straight.

"So I'm not going to mince words here," she began. "J.D. Vance is a Yale-educated lawyer; he understands how judicial review works. And since early in the history of our country, a landmark Supreme Court case, Marbury versus Madison, just after the founding the Supreme Court has had the power of judicial review."

"It can review conduct by either the legislative branch or the executive branch, the president, for constitutionality," she bluntly elaborated. "It is not supposed to execute the will of the American people and the vice president knows that."

"It's supposed to compare actions taken by other branches of government for consistency with the Constitution," she told host Jonathan Capehart. "And it has the ability to strike them down when they run afoul of that."

"End of story," she concluded.

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At the conclusion of Donald Trump's speech to graduating West Point cadets on Saturday, CNN host Victor Blackwell called portions of Trump's comments a "political rally" and CNN reporter Kevin Liptak pointed out that was when the speech fell flat with attendees.

During the address that included his opinion on marrying "trophy wives" –– where he advised the soon-to-be second lieutenants, "A lot of trophy wives doesn't (sic) work out" –– he also brought up his election victory last year while complaining about being investigated

According to Liptack, Trump did not get close to the type of response he normally gets from his MAGA rally crowds.

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"I think this was a speech that really kind of combined the traditional commencement speech; he talked to these 1002 cadets who will soon become second lieutenants in the U.S. Army, about his advice, about how he sort of sees them carrying out their mission going forward," Liptak told the host.

"It was also, as you pointed out, something of a political speech in some moments when the president clearly had gone off the teleprompter," he reported before admitting, "It's always interesting to see how those land outside of a political setting."

"It was well received in the stadium, but certainly not sort of an overwhelming crowd like you might hear at a rally when, for example, the president talked about his election victory in November, the mandate that he says he has, going into some of the grievances that he has about the investigations that were carried out into him during his time out of office," he added.

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In the middle of his almost hour-long commencement speech to graduates at West Point, Donald Trump went off on a rambling discussion of "trophy wives" to a mostly silent crowd.

Wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat, the president decided to discuss pioneering real-estate developer William Levitt, as he recalled meeting him at a New York party.

During his tale, which led to him using Levitt's life as an example of "momentum," he brought up Levitt's divorce at which point he seemed to go off-script before getting to his curious point about "momentum."

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"He sold this company and he had nothing to do," he told the future military leaders. "He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't –– and that doesn't work out too well, I must tell you."

"A lot of trophy wives doesn't work out. But it made them happy for a little while at least," he continued. "But he found a new wife, he sold his little boat and he got a big yacht; he had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world. He moved for a time to Monte Carlo, and he led the good life. and time went by and he got bored and 15 years later, the company that he sold to called him and they said, 'The housing business is not for us.'"

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A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about Donald Trump's ambush of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office this week led one conservative contributor to note the president biggest problem with world leaders.

With CNN's Sara Sidner filling in for regular host Abby Phillip, conservative S.E. Cupp stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers himself lucky that his adversary is Trump.

"Donald Trump, just to psychologize this a little bit, Donald Trump desperately wants the respect of world leaders," she told the panel. "He doesn't have it, that is so obvious."

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"Putin can't believe his luck that he got such a gullible counterpart in America," she continued. "He [Trump] has not been able to end that war on day one, he has not been able to push for peace in Gaza. the EU countries are ignoring his tariff threat because they're like, 'Well, we'll just wait, we'll just wait him out.'"

"He desperately wants the respect, and I think that's why he resorts to some of these bullying antics in the Oval Office, because the only way he can get it is through strong-arming," she added. "They don't respect him, they think he's a joke. They think he is the embodiment of America's ugliest stereotypes."

"So I think there's an insecurity and a chip on his shoulder there when he's meeting with his counterparts," she remarked. "He wants something he knows he doesn't have. He won't get it, so he'll do what he can to strong-arm it."

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Politico legal analyst Ankush Khandori had the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend' laughing on Saturday morning when he ridiculed the legal skill of Donald Trump appointee Ed Martin.

After co-host Jonathan Capehart shared a clip of Martin describing his new job at the Department of Justice after his nomination to be the U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. was yanked because even Republicans senators found him unpalatable, Khandori pounced.

In the clip, Martin, who now describes himself as the "captain" of the DOJ's “weaponization” group, told reporters, "There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we'll charge them. But if they can't be charged we will name them and we will name them. And in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are shamed and that's a fact."

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Following that Khandori joked that anyone indicted by Martin should feel lucky because he is a legal lightweight.

After pointing to interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's plan to take Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (NJ) to trial for assault outside of an ICE detention center, and calling the charges unsupportable, the legal analyst veered back to Martin,

"That is going to a problem for Ed Martin too," he told the panel. "Such as it is, the silver lining for the people in his crosshairs is that it's Ed Martin."

As the panel laughed, he added, "And we've seen over the last few months that he's not particularly good at his job, and he's not particularly good at being a lawyer," which led to more laughter.

"So, honestly, if someone were coming after you, you'd want it to be him," he pointed out.

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President Donald Trump has signed more than 150 executive orders, often with cameras rolling and staff looking on. The ritual rarely varies: seated at the desk in the Oval Office, the President listens as someone—typically the White House Staff Secretary—reads a brief summary of the order. On occasion, Trump interjects with a question, prompting speculation that he may not be fully familiar with the contents. He is seldom seen fully reading the orders themselves, which can span anywhere from a few pages to nearly 70.

On Friday, President Trump signed several executive orders, but according to The Daily Beast, one particularly revealing moment suggested he may not have known what he was signing—describing it as “a telling moment” that implied the president hadn’t read the order.

Yet another Republican broke with President Donald Trump on Friday over a private dinner he held this week with top investors of his meme coin.

David Urban, former Trump campaign adviser, joined "OutFront" to discuss the dinner, in which 225 of the top investors in Trump's personal $TRUMP meme coin got to dine with the president at an exclusive, high-profile dinner on Thursday night at his private golf club in Sterling, Virginia. The event rewarded the largest investors in his cryptocurrency venture.

President Donald Trump has no chance of getting Apple to make iPhones in the United States, even if he deploys supernatural powers.

NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday that one analyst told her even Trump's threats of a tariff wouldn't result in new Apple manufacturing in the U.S.

President Donald Trump's efforts to push cryptocurrency as an asset for the U.S. government to hold smells rotten, Trump-favoring CNN commentator Doug Heye conceded in a CNN panel on Friday evening.

This comes as Trump hosts a dinner for the top people holding a meme coin from which he personally profits — and as the Senate considers a "stablecoin" bill known as the GENIUS Act that stands to potentially benefit a crypto company partially held by Trump's family.

A federal judge accused the president of enacting an executive order he declared an "unconstitutional abuse of Donald Trump's power." One of the lawyers targeted in the order is celebrating the ruling, saying he "loves" the judge's smackdown.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday as the news broke, former partner Andrew Weissmann smiled as he spoke about the judge's decision to stop the Trump order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block. Weissmann worked for the firm until 2011. More recently, Weissmann worked as one of the prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.