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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), an active leader in the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his potential co-conspirators, laughed off a seemingly unintentional “Freudian slip” Saturday after mistakenly referring to the disgraced financier as Donald Trump.

Stansbury spoke with the progressive media company MediasTouch in a video published Saturday about the importance of her committee reaching out to individuals previously associated with Epstein to obtain depositions. The interview was briefly derailed, however, after Stansbury appeared to refer to Epstein as Trump before quickly correcting herself.

An answer by a California conservative, scrambling to keep his job in the House, was on the receiving end of rolled eyes on MS NOW on Saturday morning after he repeatedly ducked a question about US military potentially being deployed to Iran if Donald Trump’s war drags on.

Appearing on “The Weekend," Rep. Kevin Kiley, who switched his affiliation from Republican to independent after redistricting put his job at risk, was asked by co-host Jackie Alemany, “A quick yes or no question, do you support boots on the ground in order to accomplish regime change?”

Donald Trump's impetuous decision to launch a war on Iran, despite being warned against it, has handed Vladimir Putin an unexpected windfall, as the U.S. Treasury's decision to lift sanctions on Russian seaborne oil shipments has effectively relieved the economic stranglehold that was finally beginning to cripple Moscow's war machine.

The 30-day license announced this week was designed to control skyrocketing oil prices triggered by the U.S.-Israeli conflict. Instead, it has become a lifeline for Russia's teetering economy—exactly when sanctions were inflicting maximum damage, reports the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump derailed his own administration's effort to investigate the Federal Reserve by incessantly posting political attacks against Chairman Jerome Powell on social media, Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward argued on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" Friday — effectively handing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg proof that the probe was politically motivated.

The probe, conducted by D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, was ostensibly about mismanaging money to renovate the Fed headquarters — but, the MS NOW panel concluded, Trump gave the game away that it was about trying to bully the Fed into lowering interest rates beyond what their governors thought prudent.

Jeanine Pirro, United States attorney for the District of Columbia, lost her temper after a reporter confronted her over her low conviction rate in the district.

At a press conference on Friday, Pirro unloaded angry remarks at U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after he quashed two subpoenas because he said they were designed to force the Fed to cut interest rates, a public demand of President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) confidently proclaimed this week Republicans will retain their majority in this year's midterm elections — but as MS NOW congressional reporter Mychael Schnell told anchor Katy Tur, he appears to be the only one in the House Republican caucus who believes it.

"Don't bet against him, Speaker Mike Johnson says, but is he the only one feeling that confident about his party's prospects in November?" said Tur. "The war with Iran, general frustration among the MAGA base, and the president's low approval numbers are all weighing the GOP down. One lawmaker, who requested anonymity, told MS NOW, quote, 'No one thinks we're keeping the majority except for the speaker.'"

Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, unloaded Friday on U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after he torpedoed an investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell by quashing a subpoena.

In his ruling on Friday, Boasberg argued that a "mountain of evidence suggests" the subpoena was intended to pressure the Fed into cutting interest rates, a long-standing demand from President Donald Trump.

Vice President JD Vance insisted that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was losing her job because she had a "great opportunity" to serve in the Shield of Americas, a multinational military cooperation initiative recently dreamed up by President Donald Trump. He also said that the agency "needed new leadership" due to failures at FEMA.

During a speech in North Carolina on Friday, a local reporter pressed the vice president over the administration's slow rollout of FEMA aid to the state, which is governed by a Democrat.