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Alina Habba's name was 'in the mix' for AG as Bondi's ouster was planned: MS NOW

Speaking just as Fox News was reporting that Attorney General Pam Bondi was relieved of her duties by Donald Trump, MS NOW’s Laura Barrón-López listed off possible long-term candidates for the job which included former Trump lawyer Alina Habba.

Speaking with host Chris Jansing, the White House correspondent reported, “I know that Fox News is reporting that this decision has come down, but our sources have told us that it was going to be, you know, potentially as early as today, but that she is out.“

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Trump names interim replacement for fired AG Pam Bondi: report

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will reportedly temporarily replace Pam Bondi as attorney general.

After speaking to President Donald Trump, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy said that he had confirmed that Bondi had been fired.

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CNN host confronts GOP lawmaker who contradicted Trump on air: 'I don't mean to interrupt'

CNN's John Berman flagged a Republican congressman for seemingly contradicting President Donald Trump's claims about his objectives in the Iran war.

The president claimed in his prime time address that regime change has already been accomplished, although there's no indication the authoritarian Islamic Republic has fallen out of power, and Rep. Martin Stutzman (R-IN) seemed to understand that.

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Trump's obsession with 'stuff blowing up' videos alarms national security experts

National security experts were concerned that President Donald Trump has ignored important briefings and instead prefers to watch videos of explosions from the Iran war, according to an analyst on Thursday.

Salon's Chauncey DeVega described how Trump has started to treat the war — which has killed 13 American troops and nearly 1,500 Iranians — as entertainment. In the past, presidents have sought information from daily security briefings. Trump, however, has not followed this method.

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'Shocked!' Financial pundit says Trump's speech 'triggered' 60-cent gas price spike

MAGA financial pundit Eric Bolling revealed that President Donald Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation had likely "triggered" a 60-cent spike in gas prices.

During a Thursday interview on the War Room podcast, Bolling said he had been giving MAGA influencer Steve Bannon updates on the oil market as Trump was speaking about the war in Iran.

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'Fidgeting' Trump had to be moved during Supreme Court hearing: ACLU attorney

Donald Trump’s unprecedented appearance at the Supreme Court encompassed both a request that his seat be moved and the reported inability of the president to hold still while lawyers made their case before the nation’s highest court.

Appearing on MS NOW with host Jonathan Lemire, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero stated the president sat right in front of him, so he had a ringside seat to watch the president react to arguments over his attempt to override the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship.

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GOP rep. spills the beans about Ted Cruz: 'I don't know if Cruz has any friends'

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) suggested that, behind the scenes, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not have any true friends in Washington, D.C.

During an interview this week on the Sources Say podcast, host Juliegrace Brufke asked Crenshaw about his recent loss in the Texas primary.

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Trump's big TV address underwhelms MAGA host: 'I was like, that's it?'

Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon revealed that she was underwhelmed by President Donald Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation about the war in Iran.

During a Thursday morning segment, Loudon reflected on the speech with co-hosts David Brody and Terrence Bates.

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Trump is about to become even more 'disoriented' as political reality sets in: ex-pal

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) suggested that recent events demonstrate Donald Trump is losing his power as the courts and Republican lawmakers balk at his demands and he is beginning to face a new political reality.

Not long after political analyst John. Heilemann observed on MS NOW that Trump is becoming a “lame duck” as some of his key allies edge away from him, Christie, speaking from his experience as a termed-out governor, pointed out that it can make someone used to power lose their bearings.

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Trump's 'rupture' with two key allies has pushed him into 'lame duck' territory: analyst

As part of a discussion on Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday night, where he once again restated his stance on waging war on Iran, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire and “Morning Joe” regular John Heilemann agreed that two of his closest allies backing away from him is a sign that he is in the twilight of his political career.

As Heilemann, a political strategist, noted, no one in the White House could be happy about the headlines that followed the address, because it did little to convince skeptical voters that things are going well as they watch the price of fuel skyrocket.

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Ex-White House official casts doubt on new rumors of Cabinet shakeup

President Donald Trump has been talking about swapping out Attorney General Pam Bondi due to his continuing frustration with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, but a former White House official said that might be politically perilous in an election year.

The 79-year-old president has floated the possibility of replacing Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, four sources told the New York Times, but Trump's former White House communications director Mike Dubke told "CNN This Morning" that he doubted the exchange would take place.

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Trump's new candid remark set to 'come back to haunt him': 'Going to be in campaign ads'

President Donald Trump blurted out that his military operations around the world were cutting into domestic spending, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" agreed those candid remarks would likely be used against Republicans this fall.

The 79-year-old president told attendees at an Easter lunch at the White House on Wednesday that the federal government couldn't afford to pay for daycare, Medicaid or Medicare because "we're fighting wars," calling those congressionally mandated entitlement programs "little scams," and host Erica Hill wondered how that would play with voters.

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CNN's Abby Phillip trips up GOP insider Scott Jennings with his own Iran words

CNN's Abby Phillip clashed with MAGA loyalist Scott Jennings in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's address on the Iran war — and backed him into a corner using his own words.

Jennings has increasingly exasperated his CNN colleagues with his more and more insistent partisan defenses of the Trump administration, and the aftermath of Trump's Iran address was no exception.

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