Jeanine Pirro, the judge and television star-turned U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, could soon be out of a job, journalist Molly Jong-Fast said Sunday.
“Trump operates on this sort of 'Earth 2' scenario where things are as he says they are," Jong-Fast said during an appearance on MS NOW. "We saw this with Kristi Noem where you can only shift reality so much."
A loyal ally to Trump, Pirro invoked the president’s anger this weekend after her office dropped charges against a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
Pirro was forced to admit in a court filing that the damage to the pool was instead caused by a “flawed installation.”
For Jong-Fast, crossing Trump – especially as a woman in his administration – was an easy indicator of an early termination.
“She got this job because Donald Trump liked her on television, so it's not as if she's eminently qualified,” Jong-Fast said. “Part of being in this administration – especially for women – is appearing in a way that pleases Donald Trump, whatever that means.
"You could certainly see her losing her job over this.”
Stuart Stevens, former campaign strategist for Republican Mitt Romney during his failed 2012 presidential bid, then jumped in to express his exhaustion over Trump’s Reflecting Pool fixation.
“We're talking about the Reflecting Pool?” Stevens said.
“We're at war, under 30 percent of the people in the country think the economy is going in the right direction, and this is what it's like? I just say to my former Republicans, good luck this November, baby, because nobody cares about this but Donald Trump.”
President Donald Trump was left dumbstruck following the Iranian strikes on a U.S. military base in Jordan last month, Fox News’ Trey Yingst revealed on Sunday, citing a phone call he had with the president the day after the attack.
The new details come as the Trump administration scrambles to secure an end to the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran, with Trump revealing Saturday night that he had called off a planned attack designed to destroy Iranian energy infrastructure.
“It's a challenging landscape for the Trump administration because they are dealing with, not only an unstable regime, but an unpredictable regime, and we saw this last week,” Yingst said, reporting live from Tel Aviv, Israel.
“The president sent his negotiators to try and reach a deal with Iran – the Iranians launched missiles toward U.S. forces in Jordan, and I spoke with the president the next morning and he said: 'was this an April Fool's joke?'”
In mid-July, Iran launched strikes at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, a major hub for U.S. air power in the region, killing at least two U.S. service members. Later that same day, Trump was spotted at one of his golf clubs in New Jersey.
Yingst commiserated with Trump for facing an enemy in war that did not reveal its plans of attack ahead of time.
“This is what they're dealing with at the negotiating table: the Iranians not only come out and say one thing publicly and then something different behind the scenes, they're also not good faith actors whenever they sign an agreement,” Yingst continued. “So the question remains if they will be willing to adhere to this deal that is in the works right now.”
Iran has also accused the Trump administration of being bad faith actors, and has taken the remarkable step of enlisting “senior psychologists” believing Trump to be “legitimately mentally ill.”
The Trump administration has also launched surprise strikes against Iran amid negotiations, including with the launch of the U.S. war against Iran in late February.
Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) refused to abandon his reelection campaign Sunday and denied allegations he physically abused his ex-wife by holding a gun to her head, throwing boiling water at her, and breaking his 2-year-old daughter's collarbone.
“Every one of these allegations traces back to a single source: my former wife,” Miller said in a lengthy livestream broadcast. “I'm not getting out of this race, and I'm winning in November.”
Miller's campaign has been plagued by abuse allegations made by his ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), in court records tied to their divorce.
Miller noted that no criminal charges have been filed against him, and that Child Protective Services had found all accusations leveled against him to be unsubstantiated. He also shared a trove of documents that he argued supported his denials.
The nearly 20-minute video went live just days after Moreno filed a new restraining order, alleging Miller physically grabbed one of her attorneys during a hearing and spurring her to demand, “Get your hands off of him," the Washington Post reported.
Stated the report, "She also alleged that Miller used a profane slur to insult Zashin’s fiancée as they were leaving the courtroom."
Miller on Sunday addressed several specific allegations leveled against him by his ex-wife, including an accusation that he threw boiling water on her.
“It was horseplay in our kitchen” Miller said. "I sprayed water at her from the sprayer attached to our kitchen sink tapwater, which does not reach boiling temperature."
Miller added, “Our court-appointed parent coordinator testified, under oath, that the single photo she was shown of this supposed injury looked a little red and that there was no physician's report – none.”
Miller also addressed an allegation that he had “thrown” his ex-wife “against the wall” in February.
“She came to my home in a good mood – and we have text messages to prove it – to pick up our daughter early for a friend's birthday party,” Miller said.
“The video shows her walking out, carrying our daughter calm, in the same good mood, showing no distress whatsoever. As they left, you could hear me say 'goodbye, I love you,' literally telling my ex-wife that I still cared for her.”
Miller continued, posing a rhetorical question: “Does that sound like somebody who would just walk out and who have [sic] been violently thrown against a wall?”
The Ohio Republican argued Moreno's decision not to seek out law enforcement or medical help proved she had not been attacked.
“She didn't go to the hospital, ladies and gentlemen," said Miller. "She went straight to a child's birthday party."
Miller claimed the pair later had a friendly talk on the phone and she offered to cook empanadas.
“If I had assaulted her," Miller said, "would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?”
Finally, Miller refuted allegations that he had broken his 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone, claiming she was not in his care at the time.
He also argued that the time he'd spent with his ex-wife and daughter since the divorce was further evidence of his innocence, boasting, "I actually have more time with her and our daughter than the average divorced father in Ohio!"
UPDATE [1:30 p.m. EST]: Emily Moreno's spokesperson Stefan Mychajliw responded to Miller's video with the following comment:
“It is shameful that Max Miller decided to go on a bizarre and lie-filled rant about his ex-wife to desperately try to save his political career. There is a documented trove of evidence that Miller has a history of violent and dangerous behavior and no amount of victim shaming will change that. It is despicable and abhorrent that Miller lied on an unhinged and humiliating video for their daughter to watch one day. No loving parent would have ever used their daughter as a PR pawn to save their own political career. Miller can lie and spin on X, but he cannot do so under oath in a court of law. We are confident that justice will prevail in court.”
An epic CNN shouting match earned scathing rebuke for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday after he "barked" unsubstantiated facts then accused his interviewer of being "flustered."
"I am not flustered," host Dana Bash replied. "I am frustrated."
Bash's frustration was shared by CNN viewers who professed themselves shocked by Kennedy's response to repeated questions about President Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a U.S. measles outbreak and the legitimacy of his anti-vaccination rhetoric.
"I don’t think she was the one who was flustered," replied New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush.
During the interview, Kennedy nearly lunged across the table, jabbed his finger at Bash, interrupted her questions and hurled insults.
"You probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist," Kennedy told Bash.
"You're not, either," Bash replied.
Added X influencer Covie, "She just pointed out at he's not a scientist while he's been yelling lies about vaccines and someone she is the one who is flustered?"
Kennedy also dodged Bash's questions about why he wanted Americans to get the measles vaccine if we felt vaccines for infants up to six months old had not been properly vetted.
"It's the only one that has been studied," Kennedy claimed, falsely, and not for the first time.
In January, Kennedy's Health and Human Services department released a new childhood immunization schedule that reduced the number of universally recommended vaccines from 17 to 11, cutting hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, flu, RSV, and COVID immunity shots.
Bill Hanage, professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said at the time, "The bottom line is that if fewer people are protected, there will be more preventable illness, suffering, and death."
Such fears are why U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) decided to post a lengthy response to Kennedy's interview that included insults he argued needed to be said.
"If slow the deployment of vaccines that have kept people from getting measles, polio, hepatitis and countless other communicable diseases, people will die," wrote Casten. "Not because RFK Jr. is evil. But because he is a true believer who is totally unqualified for his job."
Casten issued a jab at the Republicans who nominated and appointed Kennedy to his role for granting status and power to a man with no medical degree.
"The danger however comes when we confuse his title for his expertise," he wrote. "Far better to say 'Heroin addict Kennedy', 'Man who eats road kill and has a brain worm', 'Harvard drug dealer' or even 'Nuzzi's ex boyfriend'."
Casten then justified his insults.
"Not to be mean," he said. "But because all of those things do a better job of attuning the public to whatever he is about to say next. And it's the best way to ensure that the kooky s--- he says doesn't get any more people killed."
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erupted on CNN Sunday morning as anchor Dana Bash grilled him on an ongoing measles outbreak and his anti-vaccination rhetoric.
Kennedy roared that Bash was "flustered" and "talking nonsense" as he issued sputtering responses to her questions about scientific data and misinformation.
"You are saying nonsense!" Kennedy roared. "You're making assertions you can't support and when I call you on them, you tell me I'm arguing with you!"
"You want talk about assertions you can't support?" Bash snapped back. "I'll get there in a second."
Bash tried to get Kennedy to explain the scientific backing for his famously anti-vaccination stance that she argued endangered and cost American lives.
Kennedy frequently took advantage of Bash's pauses to demand she provide him with sources as the CNN host tried to engage in what she described as a "productive" conversation.
"Let me finish!" Bash was forced to cry out.
Bash asked Kennedy to explain why U.S. measles cases have peaked to a record-breaking 2,371 despite the existence of a vaccine.
"The outbreak has happened on your watch," she said. "Do you accept some responsibility?"
"Absolutely not," Kennedy replied. Then he leaned in and snarled, "We're doing better at handling it than anyone in the world."
Again, Bash demanded to know if he felt responsible for children becoming sick as he spread misinformation about preventative care.
"They're hearing you say it could cause autism," said Bash.
Kennedy then demanded the CNN host personally show him studies on the first eight vaccines in the first six months of life — and claimed she couldn't.
That's when Bash got Kennedy in a corner.
"So if that's the case," replied Bash, "Why are you telling people to get the measles vaccine?"
After more bluster, Kennedy looked to Bash and said, "I know you're flustered."
"I'm not flustered," Bash replied. "I am frustrated."
Fox News host Mark Levin appeared visibly shaken Saturday night after a progressive influencer's take on the 2028 presidential race left him seemingly emotional, so much so that he soon faced accusations he was "crying."
Hasan Piker, a progressive influencer and streamer who’s played an outsized role in Democratic politics, told CNN recently that there was “a 0% chance” the Democratic presidential nominee for 2028 would be pro-Israel “in any way, shape or form.” Levin was asked to respond to Piker’s prediction by Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Letting out a long sigh, Levin slowly took off his glasses and adopted a somber tone when issuing his response.
“You know, this guy is… well, we’re on cable TV, I gotta watch it: he’s a real low-life,” Levin said. “You know, it’s a funny thing, this guy ‘Puker,’ he doesn’t condemn communist China. In fact, he says Mao [Zedong] was the greatest man to ever walk the planet.”
Late Saturday night, Piker responded to a clip of Levin’s remarks with mockery.
“Oh my god he’s crying?!” Piker wrote in a social media post on X to his more than 1.7 million followers.
Previously a “Never Trump” conservative, Levin has championed President Donald Trump amid his deeply unpopular war against Iran. After the Trump administration reached a tentative peace deal with Iran in June, however, Levin appeared to reverse course and repeatedly attacked the Trump administration for having “capitulated” to Iran’s demands.
A former Reagan administration official, Levin has also sparked fury from Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, who accused the Fox News host of working on behalf of Israel, flagging a report by The Times of Israel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s supposed plans to “use right-wing media personalities” to “influence” the terms of the tentative peace deal. The report explicitly named Levin as an example.
President Donald Trump made a brief visit to the secluded presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland on Friday, one that Trump biographer Michael Wolff found not only “odd,” but a potentially telling sign of trouble within his administration.
While Trump has been vague on his feelings about the presidential retreat in recent years, in 2017, he gave the property “the equivalent of a bad Yelp review,” The Washington Post previously reported. For Trump to make his third trip to the presidential retreat of his second term, Wolff theorized, “probably means something.”
“This is odd, because Trump hates Camp David. Hates it! Every time that he went there in the first administration, he would come back in a rage; a rage against the accommodations... so the fact that he is at Camp David now actually probably means something,” Wolff said in a video published Saturday.
“And what it means is that he's trying to be presidential. He is trying to evoke, in the middle of a war that he can't get out of and that he can't solve, it's 'I am a serious president.' Now, of course, then he goes to Camp David and it doesn't appear to be serious at all. It's just more of the Trump show, which he cannot not do, but the fact that he is doing it at Camp David is a kind-of sign of some desperation.”
Wolff's remarks come amid a war Trump has struggled to end. Trump has declared ceasefires with Iran multiple times since the conflict began in February, only to see them collapse and resume fighting, most recently in July after Iran struck commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
A Quinnipiac University poll published this week put Trump's approval at 32%, an all-time low in the pollster's surveys, with 60% of voters opposed to the war. An AP-NORC poll similarly found approval at 33%.
MS NOW host Ari Melber was left in disbelief Saturday after prominent Democratic strategist James Carville dropped a bold prediction about President Donald Trump.
“I don't think Trump matters that much anymore. I think he's a washed up, fat, old man,” Carville said, appearing on MS NOW’s “The Beat: Weekend” program.
“I think he's gonna have a massive loss in November, and I've said this repeatedly: I think he's going to walk away. I don't think he's capable of leading this country, I don't think he has the energy, I don't think he has the intellect.”
A visibly taken aback Melber asked Carville to expand on his remarks.
“What does 'walk away' mean?" Melber asked. “Are you trolling? You're trolling. You think he's gonna quit?”
Carville confidently reiterated his prediction, clarifying that he did, in fact, believe Trump was poised to “walk away” from his presidential duties out of fear of facing a “massive” electoral defeat.
“Yes, 'Walk Away Renée,' you're too young to remember that song, but it was a great song. He is going to walk away!” Carville claimed. “He is not skilled enough, he is not tough enough, he is not going to be able to deal with the massive defeat coming his way!”
Carville's prediction of a rough November for Republicans lines up with recent polling.
Democrats have held a lead of 3 to 4 points on the generic congressional ballot every week since spring, a reversal from a nearly 3-point GOP lead in January 2025. Trump's approval rating has also reached historic lows and remains weak among independents and Latino voters. A PBS/NPR/Marist survey found an even wider gap, with Democrats leading by double digits and independents breaking heavily their way, findings echoed by other recent surveys aggregated by RealClearPolitics.
Dem strategist @JamesCarville predicts Trump will quit the presidency to avoid dealing with "the massive defeat coming his way"
Carville also said he was "certain" Harris would win in 2024, predicted a landslide victory for Clinton in 2016, and described @SenatorBennet as the… pic.twitter.com/4zzzFB1FoS — Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) August 1, 2026
Fox News host Tomi Lahren aggressively pressed Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) on Saturday's "The Big Weekend Show," accusing the congressman of pushing an "amnesty" bill framed as a lifeline for family farms in just the latest example of MAGA pushback to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
“I just have to ask you, if this isn't amnesty, please tell me what I'm misunderstanding,” Lahren said, referencing H.R.9535, which would expand and streamline a H-2A agricultural guestworker program.
“If we do not solve this, we will have to import our food, and it is literally to that point, we already are faced with heavy imports from Mexico and other places southbound,” Sessions said. “It is a national security issue that we have family farms. This is about getting enough workers.”
Lahren didn’t hold back with her condemnation of Sessions’ remarks.
“Congressman, with all due respect, I'm from South Dakota, an agricultural state, I come from a ranching family, and I deeply resent the narrative that family farms and ranches must rely on illegal aliens, otherwise they won't be able to survive,” she said.
“To insist that we simply need to have illegal aliens that are willing to work for less, undercutting the American worker and farmers, I'm sorry but I deeply resent that.”
Sessions claimed that Lahren was the first person he’d heard that “stated that,” and argued that farming jobs performed by migrant workers were “hard work,” noting that it required “getting up at 4 O'clock.”
“Congressman, Americans are willing to get up at 4 a.m., sir, with all due respect,” Lahren said. “I just deeply resent that assertion.”
"I don't see her feeling as though she has to face any real repercussions," Maura Gillespie said on MS NOW Saturday morning. "If she can offload the blame to somebody else, she will."
Pirro drew ire from Trump and Gillespie for very different reasons but on the same subject: her decision to drop charges against an Olympian canoeist on Friday.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia finally admitted to a lack of evidence that David Hearn, 67, vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
"Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt," Pirro said in a filing.
While Trump raged at Pirro for rejecting his claim that vandalism — and not slapdash construction — was to blame for issues with the reflection pool lining, Gillespie unloaded on Pirro for trying to dodge blame.
"Pirro largely blamedthe Department of Interior forthe confusion on her part," Gillespie said. "[Pirro] learned that from the top."
MS NOW host Alex Witt marveled at Pirro's sudden backtrack after having initially pursued the case with such aggression.
"She really came hard at this," said Witt. "That is herstyle, no doubt."
Gillespie agreed, then took aim at the Trump administration for having botched the renovation job in the first place.
"What's important to highlightis the misuse of funds," she said. "American dollars...are beingspent frivolously becausethey're not being thoughtfullyplanned and orchestrated anddecided upon.
"If I were aRepublican running for officeright now, I would point togetting a better handle on oureconomy, getting a betterhandle on how our dollars arespent, which was the initialgoal of the Trumpadministration."
A pair of legal experts sounded the alarm over how the Trump administration plans to use a secret terrorist court.
During a recent podcast episode, former FBI counterterrorism agent Frank Figliuzzi and lawyer and former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa detailed how President Donald Trump and his administration could use the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, which sat dormant for 30 years before a sudden activation earlier this month.
According to Rangappa, the court allows the Trump administration to deport noncitizens from the United States if it can convince a single judge that the defendant is a foreign terrorist. A defendant facing immediate removal would never see the evidence against them, as an attorney general would be able to argue that a person is a terrorist with classified evidence.
"This administration plays pretty fast and loose with who is considered a terrorist," Rangappa said. "It's also possible that it is some rando that was rounded up at Home Depot."
Figliuzzi said that the "darkest possibility" would be, "We've got a left-wing accused terrorist, maybe from overseas, that is now before this court."
The court held its first case earlier this week. The DOJ is seeking to deport a Texas mom through the court because her son and son-in-law were convicted of conspiring to launch an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack, according to reporting by NBC News, which noted that the mom hasn't been charged with a crime.
The two experts pointed to Stephen Miller as the likely Trump official who pitched activating the court, with Rangappa calling it "a Stephen Miller special."
Figliuzzi said he sees elements of the Trump administration's "inherent laziness" and "flexing of power," adding, "Somebody tells them, 'Hey, you got this court that's never been used,' and they go, shoot, let's try it."
MS NOW's Michael Steele kicked off his segment Friday night with a bizarre tale of an encounter he once had with President Donald Trump that revealed his twisted priorities.
Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, regaled viewers with this story to make more sense of Trump's humiliation earlier in the day, as his Justice Department was forced to throw out a defective criminal case against an Olympic canoeist for "vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
"Remember, Trump spent months micromanaging this project, folks," said Steele, noting the president went on and on about the pool's lining, its new color, and every detail of the project before it went awry. "He went around the normal process for government projects and contracts and handed out a no-bid contract to a company that apparently just screwed the whole thing up."
Trump, said Steele, famously "doesn't have a whole lot of interest in the minutiae, the details, the importance of public policy. But when it comes to the stuff he really cares about, well, like his pet projects, his businesses, the stuff that he gets, you know, money from that puts money mo money in his pocket, Trump becomes the ultimate micromanager."
Steele then dove into his personal story of encountering Trump years before.
"A long time ago, I was in a meeting with Donald Trump, and at one point, Ivanka Trump walked in with options for different paint colors for the bathroom walls of one of his hotels," said Steele. When that happened, he continued, "Trump stopped the meeting for a full 15 minutes as he looked through the different colors, before settling on the one he liked. And folks, you better believe that was the color they used for those bathrooms."
This sort of thing is far from a one-off, said Steele, since new Wall Street Journal reporting revealed that "Almost every night in the White House, President Trump calls his fundraiser, Meredith O'Rourke for an update ... which companies and donors have cut checks and which haven't, and for how much," and he then instructs her on exact amounts to ask those companies and donors to give.
"Even a president who's up for re-election should not be that intimately involved in his own fundraising operation," said Steele, saying he has seen this process up close as a party operative, and it simply doesn't happen. But Trump isn't even up for re-election. "He's in his second term as president. He has no more campaigns to run."
Despite that, said Steele, "the man is still taking time out of his day. A lot of time to make sure that some of America's richest people and corporations are giving him money that he can play with."
A Fox News anchor had to get a humiliating fact check from one of his guests after blundering on basic biology.
Will Cain had on Matt DuBoise of Carolina Coops, a poultry coop manufacturer in North Carolina, to talk about boxing legend Mike Tyson's coop for pigeons — and he opened the segment by asking DuBoise, "Mike Tyson knows pigeons don't lay eggs, right?"
After an awkward second, DuBoise said, "Uh, well actually, they — they do, but just not the chicken eggs that we want."
"Ah!" said Cain, smiling as he recovered.
Pigeons, like all birds, do in fact lay hard-shelled eggs. They're even edible, although they're not very commonly sold and fetch a hefty price due to the difficulties in producing them at scale.
This isn't the first Fox News egg-related controversy. The network infamously hosted Trump administration Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Jenkins last year in the middle of a critical egg shortage, where she proclaimed people should just raise chickens in their backyards if they want cheap eggs.
