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CNN anchor Audie Cornish slammed Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) Monday morning, calling a sarcastic apology the lawmaker issued to voters over the weekend a “head-shaking” moment.

Cornish began the segment by replaying a clip from last week of Ernst defending cuts to Medicaid.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough apologized for starting off Monday's edition of "Morning Joe" with a lengthy condemnation of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

The speaker insisted the GOP spending bill was "not going to add to the debt" or cut Medicaid, and Scarborough said Johnson was either ignorant or lying.

Donald Trump's longtime "fixer" predicts things will get ugly between the president and Elon Musk.

Michael Cohen, the president's former personal attorney who has since become an ardent critic, told MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime" on Sunday that Trump and his billionaire benefactor's "bromance" would soon come to an end, reported The Daily Beast.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatened to bring one of his pillows to his defamation trial to prove it wasn't "lumpy."

Over the weekend, Lindell talked to MAGA influencer Steve Bannon about the trial he was facing on Monday after being sued by Dominion Voting Systems and one of its employees. Lindell has accused the voting machine manufacturer of rigging the 2020 election against President Donald Trump.

A caller to C-SPAN's Washington Journal program accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of being a "liar" because he espouses Christianity while stripping aid from impoverished people.

During Sunday's program, an Oklahoma Democrat named Joe called in to speak to right-wing pundit Erick Erickson.

"Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan continually called out Donald Trump's choice to head the FDA on Sunday morning for making blanket statements about vaccine studies and undergoing a conversion to align himself with HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

With Dr. Marty Makakry batting away the host's questions on why he's dismissing previous studies of the safety of vaccines, Brennan put him on the spot about pregnant women.

"We're saying it's going to be between a doctor and a patient until that committee meets or more experts weigh in, or we get some clinical data. If there's zero clinical data, you're opining. I mean, you're just, it's a theory, and so we don't want to put out an absolute recommendation for kids with no clinical data at this point," he stated while talking about inoculating children," he told the host.

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"So you made this pronouncement as well on pregnant women. There is data," she pressed before reading from a document. "Researchers in the UK analyzed a series of 67 studies, which included 1.8 million women, and the journal BMJ Global Health published it. People can Google it at home, and it says the COVID vaccine in pregnant women is highly effective in reducing the odds of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospital admission and improves pregnancy outcomes with no serious safety concerns. This is data that shows that it is recommended or could be advised, for pregnant women to take this vaccine. Why do you find otherwise?"

"There's no randomized control trial. That's the gold standard," he parried "Those 67 studies are mixed. The data in pregnant women is different for healthy versus women with a comorbid condition. So it's a very mixed bag. So we're saying your obstetrician, your primary care doctor, and the pregnant woman should together decide whether or not to get it. 12 percent of pregnant women last year got the COVID shot. So people have serious concerns, and it's probably because they want to see a randomized trial data, the randomized trial of pregnant women–."


"But in the meantime, the world moves on," the CBS host protested. "And you published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 20. In that report, you referenced, you listed pregnancy as an underlying medical condition that increases a person's risk for severe COVID. You said that. So then seven days later, you joined in this video announcement saying you should drop the recommendation for the COVID vaccine in healthy pregnant women. So what changed in the seven days?"

"In the New England Journal of Medicine, we simply list what the. what the CDC has traditionally defined as high risk, and we're just saying, decide with your doctor. We're not saying the other–," he replied only to be interrupted again.

"But doctors want data and information as well from you," Brennan pointed out.

"-- and the randomized trial," Makaray continued.

"So here's the data on pregnant women," he attempted. "A randomized control trial was set up, and it was closed without any explanation. We wanted to see that trial complete so women can have information that in a randomized control trial, which is the gold standard, this is what the data shows. We don't have those data."

"All right. It is still unclear what pregnant women now should do until they get the data that you say--," Brennan replied as Makaray interjected, "I'd say talk to their doctor."

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Fox News host Howard Kurtz called out billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk for deflecting questions about his alleged drug abuse.

"At the Oval Office Presser, Fox's Peter Doocy started to ask Musk about a detailed report on his allegedly frequent drug use, including ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, to the point where the article says it damaged his bladder," Kurtz noted on Sunday.

During an appearance on MSNBNC on Sunday, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi was asked about Donald Trump and his family's embrace of crypto and he responded the timing is not coincidental.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, claimed there is little to stop the Trump family from getting away with accepting bribes in the current atmosphere in Washington, D.C.

"We talk about espionage in terms of spies and classified information," host Velshi began. "But what happens when financial systems like unregulated markets, like crypto become this new battleground for influence operations? We're not built for this, we're not prepared for this. "

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"Yeah, we're not," the ex-FBI director replied. "And it's never been easier to try to get access to a president to try and bribe a president, because now the machinery of that is out in the open."

"I'm old enough to remember when corruption and espionage, like activities on the business-side happened in dark rooms, smoke-filled back rooms, dark restaurants. It's out in the open, and it's almost challenging for us to do something about it, daring us to to find a way to hold people accountable."

"The law has not caught.up with technology, with the financial world," he elaborated. "This is a constant game of trying to play catch up and in this environment, our elected legislators, because they align with the majority, align themselves with the man in the Oval Office, they're unlikely to go for anything that impedes the kind of corruption that can happen when you can literally buy access to the president."

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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for complaining about the national debt and deficit instead of proposing solutions.

"From my standpoint, I want to see the president succeed," Johnson opined in a Sunday interview. "I want to take a tax increase, an automatic tax increase, off the table as soon as possible."

During an interview on CNN with host Dana Bash, Donald Trump's budget director was out on the spot for previous comments he made about wanting federal workers to be "in trauma."

Appearing on "State of the Union" to defend the current budget bill coming out of the Republican-controlled NHouse, Bash switched it up on OMB Director Russell Vought by playing a clip of him glibly attacking civil servants.

In the clip he can be heard stating, "“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”

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"Is that your goal as OMB director?" Bash asked.

"Look, I love how you jerry, jerry-picked (sic)the quote on trauma," he parried. "What I was referring to there was the bureaucracy. We do believe there is weaponized bureaucracy. We do believe that there are people who have been part of administrations that are fundamentally woke and weaponized against the American people."

"I have great people at OMB. There are great people at the FAA. There are great people a the NIH who are doing hard work and important public service activities and I think it's important to provide the full context of what people like me have said in the past," he pushed back. "But we're not going to be pushed, receive push-back, from the notion that we're going to dramatically change the deep woke and weaponized administrative state. "

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NBC host Kristen Welker confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) because she said President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful bill" would "add to the debt and deficit."

"Mr. Speaker, a number of Senate Republicans share Elon Musk's concerns that it will add to the debt and deficit," Welker told Johnson in a Sunday morning interview.

Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline (R) said he wanted his children's school to be "celebrated" because it was one of the "least vaccinated" schools in the state.

In a recent Instagram post, Schatzline railed about Star-Telegram reporter Bud Kennedy, who revealed the school's unvaccinated status.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was brutally ridiculed by political observers on Saturday after she released an awkward selfie video at a cemetery in response to a recent town hall scandal.

The Iowa Republican came under fire at her town hall when she defended rolling back benefits for those she said were not supposed to be eligible for assistance. "People will die," one woman shouted out.