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Watch: Alleged shooter performs unhinged dance as he gets 'excited about Jesus'

The man suspected of killing two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was caught on video dancing as he said he was "excited about God."

In a 2021 video unearthed by Blue Georgia, Vance Boelter could be seen giving a speech to a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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'I'm not for it': Rand Paul likens Trump birthday stunt to 'Soviet parades'

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the military parade held on President Donald Trump's birthday.

During a Sunday interview on NBC, Paul was asked about Saturday's parade.

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'Not even close': MSNBC reporter shoots down White House parade attendance boast

A White House claim about the number of attendees at Donald Trump's parade on Saturday was quickly shot down by an MSNBC reporter who was on the scene Saturday.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend,' Vaughan Hilyard told the hosts that the president could not have been happy with how the day played out, with grandstands only partially full and those who did show up leaving early before he spoke.

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Mike Pence hits Trump for using military on protesters while pardoning J6ers

Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed his former boss, President Donald Trump, for using the military on anti-ICE protesters despite pardoning the January 6 rioters.

"FBI director, Kash Patel, warned to U.S., to L.A. protesters, rather, he said, hit a cop, you're going to jail," CNN's Dana Bash told Pence on Sunday. "This is from a director who supported the president pardoning all the rioters, including the ones who beat up police officers who are defending the Capitol, defending you on January 6th."

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'This helped me': Dem emboldened after 'overweight' Trump's 'pathetic' parade

A Democratic caller told C-SPAN that President Donald Trump's military parade helped him see how "pathetic" the Republican commander-in-chief was.

During Sunday's Washington Journal program, a New York Democrat shared his thoughts on the parade that coincided with Trump's birthday.

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'Low energy': MSNBC panel bursts into laughter after clip of Trump parade speech

Donald Trump's speech at his much-maligned U.S. Army 250th anniversary Saturday celebration on his own birthday did not escape withering scrutiny on Sunday morning.

For those who stuck around to hear the president's speech after the Army parade through the streets of D.C. they were able to witness a downbeat address compared to normal Trump events, according to the panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend."

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'Colossal waste of time': Retired Army general disgusted after Trump parade

Donald Trump's Saturday parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Army, which coincidentally fell on his 79th birthday, fell flat with one former Army general who expressed his disgust on MSNBC on Sunday morning.

The parade and following speech by the president, which was seen by a diminished crowd that reportedly started streaming out early, was panned on Saturday night and opinions did not change overnight.

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'Does your wife love you?' Proud Boys viciously booed at anti-Trump protest

Members of the Proud Boys were viciously booed and shouted down at a "No Kings" anti-Trump protest, and video shows the encounter.

A recording appears to show members of the far-right group crashing a protest, with people yelling and booing at them.

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57-year-old man identified by police as suspect in MN lawmaker shooting: AP

According to a report from the Associated Press, a 57-year-old white man has been singled out as the alleged shooter who gunned down two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses early Saturday morning.

Police were called to the home of state Sen. Sen. John Hoffman (DFL) at approximately 2AM, to find the lawmaker and his wife wounded from multiple gunshots. They were then transported to a local hospital.

Out of an abundance of caution, police were dispatched to the home of Melissa Hortman, a former Minnesota House Speaker, who along with her husband were found dead.

After an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, who was dressed as a police officer, he fled, leaving his car behind leading to a massive manhunt.

According to the AP report, the suspect has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter according to investigation sources who "could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation."

(UPDATE) : According to KSTP, "Documents obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS show Boelter, whose current address is listed in Green Isle, Minnesota, was twice appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz. His most recent term expired in January 2023."

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MAGA fans spin wild conspiracy that Democrats had MN Dem lawmakers shot

Hours after it was reported that a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party were ambushed and shot in their homes, supporters of Donald Trump leapt into action by suggesting the Democratic party was behind the "targeted" shooting.

Early Saturday, Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark were shot and killed in their home after police responded to a similar shooting of DFL State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, both of whom survived.

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FL sheriff who threatened protesters will end up 'boneyard dead' buried on MSNBC

Calling a Florida sheriff's threats against "No Kings" rally participants "beyond chilling," MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat hammered the lawman on Saturday morning.

On Thursday, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey held a press conference and addressed the Saturday nationwide protests, "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains because we will kill you, graveyard dead. We’re not going to play."

He later added, "If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you’re most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street. If you spit on us, you’re going to the hospital, then jail. If you hit one of us, you’re going to the hospital, jail, and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs we have here."

After sharing the clip, Ben-Ghiat shook her head in disbelief as Capehart asked, "Talk about how talk like that from an official like that feeds into your work looking at strongmen."

"Unfortunately, what happens is when you have a culture of kind of institutionalized lawlessness and where our the head of our government tried to overthrow the government and is calling protesters insurrectionists, but had incited a violent insurrection of his own, so when someone like that is in power, there's a kind of encouragement for all kinds of what they call a broad state security forces, including law enforcement and state militias and the military to feel empowered to be lawless themselves and speak like that," she explained.

"And so this kind of talk that any protests, and when protesters are criminalized and called insurrectionists, then all protesters are suspect. and you can speak the way that this individual was speaking,' she continued, "saying that we're going to shoot you graveyard dead, which is, again, a kind of trickling down of this idea that the strongman does not tolerate any force and, and sees any opposition as a personal affront that has to be met with maximum violence."

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'Too many DUI hires': Jamie Raskin takes shot at Hegseth over hearing answers

Rep. Jamis Raskin (D-MD) got off a shot at Pete Hegseth's well-documented drinking problems when asked about the defense secretary's alarming answers at a House hearing on Thursday.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Raskin was shown a clip of the embattled Hegseth being asked by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) if he would "respect any Supreme Court decision" that stopped the deployment of Marines on the streets of the U.S.

The former Fox News personality ducked the question and instead claimed, "What I'm saying is local district judges shouldn't make foreign policy."

After watching the clip, Raskin was asked, "So, congressman, when you have the secretary of defense saying that, yes, Marines might defy court orders are we at a constitutional crisis?"

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"Well, we clearly have too many DUI hires in the [Donald] Trump administration starting with Secretary Hegseth," the Maryland Democrat immediately replied, which got a smile and an "Oooo," out of co-host Elise Jordan

"But look, the Constitution says that the Constitution and federal law are supreme," he continued. "We have a supreme Constitution, we don't have a supreme leader. We have no dictators here, we have no kings, we have no monarchs."

"This is civilian government. and there's a reason that Congress is in Article 1, and all legislative power is vested in the Congress, just like all judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and in the inferior courts," he added. "So what's the job of the president? To take care that the laws are faithfully executed. So let the message go out through the Trump administration, your job is to faithfully execute the laws that have been adopted by the people in the House and the Senate and signed into law by the president."

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'Oh my god!' MSNBC panel stunned by ICE treatment of US Marine's immigrant wife

Reacting to a report that Donald Trump's ICE agents arrested the wife of a U.S. Marine in Louisiana who recently gave birth, set off the panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Saturday morning.

A furious and animated Elise Jordan exclaimed "Oh, my god!" as she noted the Marine father has been forced to bring the couple's 9-week-old baby to the jail where his wife is being held so the newborn can be breastfed instead of ICE releasing his wife.

According to a report from NOLA.com, "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Paola Clouatre, of Baton Rouge, after a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services check-in last month that she attended with her husband in New Orleans, according to the family's attorney."

"There's a story on Military.com that we cannot get out of our heads that you've been reading all week. I'm so haunted by it. A woman who has been in America since age 14, she fled Mexico violence, applied for asylum," Jordan reported.

"Now 25 years old, she has a 9-week old baby, and now she's in a detention center," she continued. "She's married to a U.S. Marine, also has a 1-year old, a 1-year old mother. The Marine is taking their baby to the facility so she can breastfeed. Oh my god! What kind of country are we? Where is our humanity if we aren't willing to let a mother breastfeed her child in the safety of her own home and married to a U.S. Marine?"

"And then, on top of it, you know, she gets snatched up because she's following the rules that was set out by the American government," she exclaimed. "That's the thing of all the of all the horrors of what we've been seeing around the country, people who are told you have to you have to follow the process, follow the procedures, follow the steps, do the right thing and you'll be rewarded."

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