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Kash Patel eviscerated for cooing over 'love story' podcast amid Brown shooting manhunt

FBI Director Kash Patel sparked outrage Tuesday after being featured in a preview for an upcoming podcast with his girlfriend as a fullscale manhunt for the Brown University shooter goes on.

“Doing podcast fluff while the Brown shooter is still at large?” wrote Blakeley Bartley, a New York songwriter and political commentator who’s amassed more than 70,000 followers on X.

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Trump's 'indefensible' comments called out by president's staunch defender on CNN

A prominent GOP strategist called out President Donald Trump's "indefensible" statements about a slain director on Monday during an interview on CNN.

On Sunday night, director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Hollywood, California, home. Authorities have said the Reiners' son, Nick, is "responsible" for his parents' death, and he faces murder charges in their killings.

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'Unserious': Mark Kelly tears apart Trump officials' legal threats against him

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) publicly refused to back down on CNN amid the Trump administration's legal threats against him for his joint video with ex-military Democrats reminding active servicemembers they must refuse illegal orders.

This comes after Kelly's legal team sent a warning to the Secretary of the Navy that they would pursue all avenues to stop an "unconstitutional and extraordinary abuse of power," like recalling him to active duty to court-martial him.

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'This is absurd': Ex-GOP speechwriter flags troubling part of Trump's latest 'emergency'

A former GOP speechwriter flagged a troubling part of a new "emergency" that President Donald Trump declared on Monday.

Trump announced during the Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation at the White House on Monday that his administration is designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The designation could give the administration more leeway to conduct its strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters.

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'Scared into submission!' Legal experts take victory lap as Trump official resigns

A pair of legal advocates took a victory lap on Monday night after one of President Donald Trump's allies resigned from her office.

During a new episode of the "Norm and Katie's Legal Fight Club" podcast, Norm Eisen, founder of Democracy Defenders Action, and independent journalist Kate Phang discussed the abrupt resignation of Trump’s U.S. attorney in Delaware, Julianne Murray, on Friday. Murray is the former leader of the state Republican Party and was appointed on an interim basis over the summer.

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'Old Kash wrong again': Ex-prosecutor blasts Trump's FBI chief after massive 'blunder'

A former federal prosecutor slammed FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday for making the same mistake he made during a previous high-profile shooting.

Glenn Kirschner, a former Deputy U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., made the comment on a recent episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters," calling Patel's announcement "premature" about a person of interest who was detained in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, which left two students dead and injured nine others.

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Mike Johnson ducks reporters on Trump's Reiner attack: 'I don't do ongoing commentary!'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again tried to duck reporters literally pursuing him for comment on President Donald Trump's attack on the slain Hollywood actor Rob Reiner.

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home in what authorities are treating as a double homicide. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, was booked into jail on suspicion of killing his parents.

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Right-wing extremists seethe as Trump 'missed' moment handed to him on a 'silver platter'

A pair of right-wing extremists seethed in a recent podcast interview that President Donald Trump may have squandered an opportunity to crush the left, which one of them said was handed to them "on a silver platter," according to a new report

Richard Spencer, an avowed white nationalist, and Nick Fuentes, a right-wing provocateur and Nazi sympathizer, discussed the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a recent podcast episode, Right Wing Watch reported on Monday. The discussion occurred at a time when MAGA figures like podcasters Candace Owens, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Matt Walsh had locked horns over conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk's death.

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Trump heaps blame on Brown University over his own FBI for failing to catch mass shooter

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Brown University over his own FBI for failing to catch the suspect in a mass shooting at the school.

Investigators on Monday were still searching for the gunman in the shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured over the weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, CNN reported.

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'Deranged!' Trump rips Rob Reiner as 'bad for our country' as he doubles down on attack

President Donald Trump refused to backtrack on his criticism of Rob Reiner following the Hollywood director's killing.

During an Oval Office event on Monday, one reporter told Trump that some Republicans had condemned him for attacking Reiner after his death.

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'Skyrocketed!' CNN data analyst taken aback as 'massive shift' spells bad news for Trump

There has been a “massive shift” in the party Americans trust more on inflation, one of the top issues in the country.

CNN forecaster Harry Enten revealed on Monday that a strong majority of Americans now believe that when it comes to fighting inflation, the country is on the wrong track: 56%, up from 36% when President Donald Trump took office.

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FBI officials in the dark about new 'terror group' targeted by Bondi's DOJ: reporter

An announcement by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice of breaking up what she described as “what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot” in California received a small amount of skepticism on MS NOW Monday afternoon.

Earlier in the morning, the Donald Trump appointee announced on X: “The Turtle Island Liberation Front—a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group—was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles. This was an incredible effort by our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the @FBI to ensure Americans can live in peace. We will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice.”

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'This is a concern': GOP strategist Trump’s 'bubble' creating massive problems for party

President Donald Trump's second administration is radically different from his first. When he was in the White House before, Trump famously clashed with a long list of traditional conservatives he appointed — from then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to then-National Security Adviser John Bolton. But in his current administration, Trump is surrounded by MAGA loyalists who tell him what he wants to hear instead of challenging him.

As a result, Trump's second presidency is often described as a MAGA "bubble."

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