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Vance reveals Marco Rubio's bizarre Jesus joke that derailed 'very serious' conversation

Vice President JD Vance was put off by a joke that Secretary Marco Rubio tried to tell during a "very serious" conversation about the Middle East.

According to a Daily Beast report, the story came from Katie Miller, the wife of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller. On her debut podcast episode Thursday night, Miller spoke with Vance and gave him a series of "Marco questions." Specifically, she wanted to know the "funniest joke" Rubio had ever told him.

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Trump’s purge of ‘best and brightest’ draws chilling Pol Pot comparison

A number of long-time FBI officials were ousted on Friday as part of their ongoing purge of anyone who touched investigations into President Donald Trump or his MAGA supporters.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, longtime author and researcher of the FBI and CIA, Tim Weiner, compared Trump to Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator who led the communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled from 1975-1979. He imposed radical policies that resulted in genocide, with approximately 2 million people dying due to executions, forced labor, starvation, and disease.

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'Not sure they can come back': No end in sight after 'bizarre' Trump move exiled Democrats

Texas Democrats intend to remain in exile until at least Aug. 19, the end of a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to pass a gerrymandered congressional map, but the end of the political saga is far from over.

President Donald Trump asked for the mid-decade redistricting that could gain Republicans five seats in next year's midterms, but Democrats fled the state this week to prevent the necessary quorum to vote on the measure, which other GOP-led states are also considering.

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Ex-Trump official Scaramucci deflates president's 'ridiculous' jobs chart stunt

Donald Trump's latest attempt to clean up the mess he created after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he was furious over the latest poor jobs report was laughed off by a former member of his first administration.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Mika Brzezinski, former Trump White House communication official Anthony Scaramucci couldn't contain himself after watching the president fawning over charts created by the Heritage Foundation and presented to him by economist Stephen Moore.

After watching Trump calling a purported increase in household income "...an incredible number. It just came out, so that's a giant thing," the MSNBC host asked her guest, "Anthony, the continued trashing of the former head of BLS and also this new number, what do you make of it?"

The laughing Scaramucci replied, "I mean, listen, I mean, it's a cliche but it's: there's lies and there are damn lies and then there are statistics. You can take the statistics and cut them any which way that you want."

Joking about Trump's redecoration of the Oval Office to look more like Mar-a-Lago he pointed out, "It's hard to see the charts with all the gold leaf, Mika. I mean, it's like shining so brightly behind them but it's a mixed bag, the economy is a mixed bag. You can go through the economy and pick out things that are doing okay, and you can see the underlying surface cracks in the economy and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that there's a slowdown coming."

Repeating, "It's a mixed bag," again he concluded, "I think what the president's doing there is a little bit ridiculous."

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CNN host flabbergasted as Pete Hegseth's pastor explains his views on women

CNN's Pamela Brown sat down with self-described Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a follower, and she was flabbergasted by his views on women.

The Idaho-based right-wing preacher has expanded his network of churches into Washington, D.C., where the defense secretary and his family worship on Sundays, and Wilson's theocratic views are gaining influence among other MAGA conservatives with an assist from the newly created White House Faith Office, reported CNN.

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'Uh-oh': 'Warning signs for Republicans' reported amid 'clear Democratic momentum'

Republicans across the country are looking to redraw their state's congressional maps, and CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that might explain their zeal.

Texas Democrats have left the state to deprive the GOP-led legislature the quorum needed to pass a redistricting plan that could gain five new U.S. House seats for Republicans, and lawmakers in Indiana and other states may try to do the same at the urging of President Donald Trump, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that's because they're in danger of losing their congressional majorities.

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Trump White House worried as GOP lawmakers become more willing to 'defect and defy': MSNBC

Above and beyond Donald Trump having to deal with the relentless blowback over the failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his White House is in turmoil over the poor jobs report and a softening of his support in Congress.

Building upon his report for The Atlantic, where he pointed out that Trump's second term is not going nearly as well as Republicans would like to think, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said there is trouble ahead for the White House.

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'Very bizarre': MSNBC panel stumped by 'mind-boggling' DOJ response to employee's scandal

A decision by Department of Justice officials to rush to the defense of a senior adviser who attended the Jan. 6 insurrection and urged fellow rioters to kill Capitol police officers left an MSNBC panel flabbergasted on Friday morning.

After "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski reported on the DOJ having hired and placed Jared Wise, who screamed at police officers, calling them "Nazi" and "Gestapo," and then exclaiming "kill 'em," co-host Joe Scarborough called the DOJ's response to the controversy "very bizarre."

As was noted, the DOJ curtly responded to inquiries about Wise with, "Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team."

"This is very bizarre coming from a political party holding up such a person that is calling for the killing of cops," Scarborough told the panel. "Very bizarre that he's working in the preeminent law enforcement agency in America for a president and a party who claim to be supporting law enforcement officers and claiming it's the liberals that don't support law enforcement officers."

"What can you tell us about this, this person who, at really the most heated time on January 6th, was calling for the killing of law enforcement officers?" he asked MSNBC's Ken Dilanian.

"It's mind-boggling, Joe," he replied. "I will say that Mr. Wise did express contrition for those comments during his trial which was cut short when Donald Trump ended all the prosecutions of January 6th defendants and pardoned them all."

"But I think what we're seeing here is the consequences of an administration that has rewritten history, rewritten the history of January 6th, and as I, you know, Donald Trump pardoned all the defendants including those who assaulted police officer and is now going about firing FBI agents who worked on those cases and FBI supervisors and then hiring people who were part of the riot."

He then added, "And, you know, to your point Joe, I suspect if you polled most Americans, even most Republicans, they're not necessarily on board with this."

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'We don't do this': GOP lawmaker cut off for yelling as he is put on the spot in interview

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough had to intervene after a Republican lawmaker bristled at tough questions about health care and started yelling at another panelist.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) appeared Friday on "Morning Joe" to defend the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law last month by President Donald Trump, and former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill put him on the spot over cuts to Medicaid in the massive tax-and-spending measure.

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'Stop putting words in my mouth!' GOP lawmaker shouts over MSNBC host amid major factcheck

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough turned up the heat Friday on Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) after the New York Republican tried to dismiss claims that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would harm hospitals and kick Americans off Medicaid.

Scarborough asked Lawler how hospitals in his own district will manage the more than $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid included in the OBBBA, with many hospitals in Lawler’s own district projected to be severely impacted. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned this week that Trump’s megabill would see more than $31 million in cuts to New York hospitals.

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GOP lawmakers pressured by ex-colleague to put 'Pam Bondi under oath' as walls close in

Republican lawmakers may have no choice but to call in Attorney General Pam Bondi and put her on the spot, under penalty of perjury, to get answers on what the Department of Justice has on Jeffrey Epstein, according to a former Republican lawmaker.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," to talk about the war over redistricting that is spreading across the country, ex-Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) moved on to the Epstein crisis that has the White House on its heels and GOP lawmakers scrambling to distance themselves as evidenced by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sending his caucus home early.

As he told the MSNBC hosts, they may only have one way to escape before they get caught up in the wrath of the MAGA base that is clamoring for scalps.

After pointing out that GOP lawmakers are already worried the gerrymandering battles "may come back to bite them," he moved on to their fears that the Epstein firestorm may do the same.

"In this case, it's the hardcore conservatives, the MAGA base, the president's strongest supporters in the House who are demanding this information that the president has asked them to stop doing," Curbelo pointed out. "So it's a very complex situation."

"It's not going to go away until Republicans address it in a meaningful way, unless they get Pam Bondi out there under oath, answering questions, unless they're able to release some information," he warned. "This drumbeat is going to continue and if they don't, then this really does threaten their chances in the 2026 election. President Trump's a guy who has bet everything on his base. If his base isn't enthusiastic, if they're not motivated, that spells big trouble for House Republicans in particular."

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'He's getting strung along': Trump busted over key campaign promise that 'hasn't happened'

President Donald Trump came into office promising to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, but seven months later both conflicts have escalated.

Trump's deadline for Russia to end its war in Ukraine expires Friday, but he has not committed to imposing consequences for failure and has opened the door to a private meeting with Vladimir Putin, and the president has not publicly spoken out against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to launch a new military operation to occupy the entire Gaza Strip.

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'Completely insane!': Elections expert outraged by Kash Patel's 'crazy' move in Texas

A ploy to allow the FBI to catch Texas Democrats and return them to Texas for the special legislative session had one lawyer up in arms on Wednesday.

Texas Democrats fled the state last week to break quorum in the state legislature. The move prevents Texas Republicans from voting to pass a new election map that would take away four Democrat-held seats in the state.

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