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'You gotta go!' GOP strategist demands Trump Cabinet member and his 'baggage' get the boot

A Republican strategist urged another of President Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries to resign during a CNN segment on Tuesday.

Shermichael Singleton, who hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, said during a segment on "The Lead" with CNN's Jake Tapper that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should resign from the administration for being too much of a distraction. Lutnick is facing scrutiny over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and for allegedly profiting from Trump's tariff policies.

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MAGA congressman gets more than he bargained for from Jake Tapper: 'Guess I'm confused?'

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) to answer his questions, with the longtime journalist pressing the Trump administration's claims over its objectives in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

As President Donald Trump announced an extended ceasefire as the current deadline was set to end, Flood told Tapper during a live broadcast on Tuesday that congressional leaders had been receiving classified briefings surrounding the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

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GOP senator worth an estimated $20M complains he can't get past The Atlantic's paywall

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) made a surprising remark on Tuesday during a CNN live broadcast about how he couldn't access an explosive report about FBI Director Kash Patel in The Atlantic, complaining about the publisher's paywall.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt asked the GOP lawmaker, whose net worth is by some estimates about $20 million, if he had read the report citing accusations from Patel's colleagues who had expressed concerns about the FBI director's alleged alcohol consumption and asked if he was worried about Patel's ability to do his job. Patel this week filed a lawsuit against the publication following the story.

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'There will be some changes': MAGA senator delivers ominous prediction for Trump's Cabinet

MAGA Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) predicted that "more changes" are coming to the Trump administration during a new interview on CNN.

Kennedy joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" on Tuesday, where the two discussed the recent departure of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer following allegations of impropriety by DeRemer and her husband. DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to leave the Trump administration this year. The other two are former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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'He's a moron!' CNN conservative fumes after ex-Fox News host apologizes for Trump support

MAGA commentator Scott Jennings had a stinging response to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's comments that he was regretful for supporting President Donald Trump.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt asked Jennings to comment on Carlson's remarks that he would be "tormented" by his decisions to endorse Trump, which led to a heated exchange between the two during the live broadcast. Carlson had issued a public apology Monday for having supported Trump in the 2024 election, telling his millions of followers that he was “sorry for misleading people.”

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'Don't want to tell you jack!' Right-wing reporter gets vulgar retort from irked Dem

LindellTV reporter Alison Steinberg got an earful from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she pressed her for details about her finances.

While Omar was waiting outside an elevator at the Capitol on Tuesday, Steinberg approached the lawmaker about "discrepancies" on her financial disclosures.

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Trump warned he just gave away his leverage in Iran negotiations

President Donald Trump received a stern warning from a journalist covering the war in Iran during a segment on CNN on Tuesday.

Barak Ravid, a journalist and Middle East expert for Axios, warned Trump during an interview on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt that Trump had just given his leverage away in negotiations to end the war in Iran by announcing on social media that he had extended the ceasefire between the two countries.

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'Disgusting': Fury as MAGA CEO of military tech firm calls to reinstate national draft

A political analyst was outraged on Tuesday when a giant Trump-aligned security company urged the U.S. government to reinstate the national draft.

Krystal Ball, co-host of the "Breaking Points" podcast on YouTube, discussed several points from Alex Karp's book, "The Technological Republic," in which the CEO of Palantir called for Americans to share in the cost of war and for national service to be a universal duty in a new episode. Ball was repulsed by the idea that a private company with U.S. military contracts could try to force average Americans into military service.

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Trump DOJ official blames DEI after ignoring GOP lawmaker's arrest warrant for assault

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin argued that Washington, D.C., DEI policies were to blame after he refused to comply with an arrest warrant for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).

Last year, the Metropolitan Police responded to the report of a domestic assault at Mills' apartment. Although no arrest was made at the time, a warrant was later forwarded to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office, which Martin was leading.

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MAGA lawmaker gets all he can handle on MS NOW: 'You just want to spew!'

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) went to bat for President Donald Trump's leadership in the Iran war during a Tuesday MS NOW segment — but anchor Katy Tur refused to relent as she poked holes in his arguments.

"First question, do you think the war with Iran is going well?" asked Tur.

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'Predator': Right-wing podcast concludes Trump is a 'sociopathic abuser'

Right-wing podcaster Shannon Joy concluded that President Donald Trump was a "predator" after speaking to former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about her fallout with the commander-in-chief.

In a Tuesday interview with Joy, Greene recounted how Trump had attacked her after she pushed for the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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MS NOW appalled as GOP turns hearing for ex-Trump lawyer into a 'trip into bizarro world'

President Donald Trump's former attorney Jeffrey Clark testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill, with Republicans giving him a platform to challenge former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, an MS NOW analyst reported.

Ken Dilanian, MS NOW justice and intelligence correspondent, pointed out how Clark, who played a key role in Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election and was pardoned by the president in 2025, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Smith's investigation into the fake electors scheme as Republicans were continuing to take on Smith's probe. Democrats argue Clark continues to promote conspiracy theories.

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Senator rips election-denying lawyer protecting Trump: 'You assert privilege willy-nilly'

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called out former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark after Clark insisted that details surrounding a letter aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election were legally privileged.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Whitehouse questioned Clark about the letter he had drafted while working for the Justice Department, which he suggested should be sent to Georgia, where President Donald Trump was seeking additional votes to reverse former President Joe Biden's victory.

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