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A former speech writer for George W. Bush reamed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for "sandbagging" South Africa's president during what he called a test run of a "new reality show in the White House: "Surprise the World Leader."

David Frum, an Atlantic writer who has long identified as a conservative Republican but has become an outspoken critic of the modern Republican Party under Donald Trump, joined CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Wednesday on her show "OutFront" to discuss Trump's jaw-dropping meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put the smackdown on President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, during a hearing this week, over the administration's move to suspend and slash environmental grants across the board, including those vital to mitigating lead exposure threats in children.

Zeldin, who previously served as a GOP congressman from Long Island and mounted a failed bid for governor of New York in 2022, grew visibly annoyed at Schiff's line of questioning and tried to dismissively swat aside his concerns.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Wednesday show discussing the Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, where Wallace said President Donald Trump "humiliated" the United States "again."

As Wallace explained, Trump attacked Ramaphosa for what he said was a "white genocide" of "white farmers." It's a conspiracy theory spun by David Duke, former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) battled Fox News host Martha MacCallum for focusing on former President Joe Biden's mental fitness while ignoring President Donald Trump's incompetence.

During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, MacCallum suggested Moulton should have called on Biden to step down while he was president because of the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

President Donald Trump summoned Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and members of the House Freedom Caucus "for a scolding," MSNBC host Katy Tur reported Wednesday. One reporter noted that the president might be losing his patience with the lawmakers.

NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles revealed that there are still over 500 amendments to the House budget bill that must be voted on before the vote on the full bill.

President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter who asked him about a luxury jet offered to him as a gift by Qatar's royal family.

The U.S. president was holding a joint press conference Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander asked about the $400 million Boeing 747-8 the Pentagon was accepting from the foreign government.

CNN host Dana Bash and fact-checker Daniel Dale pounced on Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. president "ambushed" South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office with patently false claims of murders of white farmers in his country.

After Trump showed a highly manipulative video disparaging South Africa, he followed up by making sweeping assertions and arguing with the African leader, which seemed to have stunned CNN's Bash.

Cutting away, Bash told her audience, "Okay we're going to continue to monitor what has been a truly extraordinary what? Half an hour plus inside the Oval Office. I just, I want to go back to Daniel Dale because there's a lot of fact-checking to do."

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Dale jumped in, explaining, "The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36."

"36 about 0.2 percent," he re-emphasized. "That includes employees like security staff, farm workers. How many of them were actual farmers? Seven out of more than 19,000 and it's not even clear that those are all white farmers. Contrary to what the president said, many farmers in South Africa are Black."

"Even the white ones who have been victims of crime, it's not clear, have been targeted for racial reasons," he elaborated. "Experts and white farmers themselves in South Africa have repeatedly told media outlets and think tanks that they feel they are often targeted for robbery and even attacks because they are geographically isolated and therefore vulnerable."

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CNN's Dana Bash described president Donald Trump's meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as an "ambush."

The two world leaders met Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office, where White House aides showed a video of speeches made by the Economic Freedom Fighters party calling for violence against white farmers – which Ramaphosa insisted was "not government policy" and represented the views of "a small minority party."

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter from NBC after he asked about a free jet that Qatar was providing while the commander-in-chief was trying to make the case that white genocide was taking place in South Africa.

During a Wednesday Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump asked for the lights to be lowered so he could play a video of Black South Africans threatening white farmers.

A decision by interim New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba to announce her decision to charge Rep. LaMonica Mclver (D-N.J.) with felony assault on X may have put the case on the fast-track to nowhere according to two MSNBC legal analysts.

Habba was handed the position by Donald Trump after he appointed his first choice, John Giordano, to be ambassador to Namibia, after previously having served as his lead defense attorney when he was sued by writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation which ultimately led to her client being slapped with an $83.3 million judgment.

When announcing, she has "charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement," Habba attached a statement claiming, "I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges and have given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined."

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According to MSNBC analysts Lisa Rubin and Kristy Greenberg, everything about her presentation of the case is problematic.

With Rubin pointing there has yet to be a grand jury indictment, Greenberg added, "They would need to show there is physical contact, but that there was an intentional physical assault. And here, if you even looked back at that video, it's not clear that there's any intention behind the physical contact –– it looked like at least there was a lot of jostling."

"As you said, agents were putting hands on her and she was kind of pushing them away," she told host Ana Cabrera.

Rubin jumped in to say Habba has already put her case on shaky ground.

"The thing here, Ana, that's so unusual, is that I can't recall another instance in which you see a U.S. attorney going out publicly as charges are filed and before they're even in the defendant's own hands, which is something we know from her legal team and saying, we tried to negotiate a solution here and that wasn't forthcoming," Rubin explained.

"You have an obligation as a U.S. attorney not to engage in conduct in terms of your public statements that could prejudice a jury pool against a defendant by saying that she offered her an opportunity to come to a resolution," she elaborated. "That could be prejudicial contact, conduct, I'm sorry, in and of itself: really unfortunate and also highly unusual, as Kristy knows."

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a disgraced ally of President Donald Trump, volunteered to take the job of special counsel and prosecute Joe Biden after it was revealed that the former president has prostate cancer.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Bannon asked Giuliani how he would prosecute the Biden "cancer cover-up."

Donald Trump's meeting with House Republicans in a basement room where the budget reconciliation bill is being hammered out did not go as smoothly as the president told reporters later in the day with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) at his side.

After the meeting, Trump told reporters, "I think it was a really great; that was a meeting of love. Let me tell you, that was love in that room. There was no shouting. I think it was a meeting of love," before calling anyone who had a contrary opinion about what had ensued a "liar."