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Vice President JD Vance found himself on the defensive Thursday as Fox News’ Bret Baier pressed him on the administration’s handling of the economy in the face of fresh data painting a grim portrait of the country’s economic condition.

“The economy shrank – first time in three years,” Baier told Vance in a Fox News interview. "People are pointing to the tariff policy. There are people looking at their 401(k)s that are worried. What do you tell them? Is this going to work?”

CNN's Jake Tapper was gobsmacked by Vice President JD Vance's insistence on Fox News that the transfer of Mike Waltz out of the national security adviser role into an ambassadorship is unrelated to his role in the Signalgate scandal.

Waltz was part of the unsecured group chat in which highly sensitive military attack plans against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen were leaked to a reporter from The Atlantic. However, the scandal has mainly focused on the role of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who was implicated in a second such leak just weeks later.

A former Republican strategist warned lawmakers in the GOP that there's no "off ramp" for them from the deal they made with President Donald Trump.

As part of a panel discussion on "Deadline White House," host Nicolle Wallace had two legal analysts who remained optimistic about the state of the United States and the rule of law.

Republican pollster and Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell sounded the alarm about President Donald Trump's comment that Americans would have to make do with only buying one or two toys for their children for the holidays instead of 30. Most Trump supporters will struggle to pay for those two, she explained.

Longwell spends most of her time speaking with focus groups of people who voted for Trump in 2024 after supporting former President Joe Biden in 2020.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) claimed that a scandal referred to as Signalgate was a conspiracy to undermine now-former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

After President Donald Trump announced that Waltz would step down to become his nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, Real America's Voice host Steve Gruber asked Burchett about the move.

President Donald Trump reassigned the role of his national security advisor, Mike Waltz, to the position of Ambassador to the United Nations, while tasking Secretary of State Marco Rubio to also serve as the new national security advisor.

One person who had a comment on Waltz was Cook Political Report writer Jessica Taylor, who remarked, "Not a bad consolation prize at all."

NBC News reporter Garrett Haake cracked jokes after National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was removed from the post and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was handed the gig.

Speaking with a group of commentators on MSNBC, Haake noted that it's unclear what priorities Rubio will set, given that he has numerous tasks.

Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was ousted from the post because Trump is looking for a fall guy for Pete Hegseth's failures.

He began by noting how badly foreign policy is going for President Donald Trump in his first 100 days.

Former State Department spokesperson Ned Price told MSNBC he fears that the firing of Alex Wong, the principal deputy national security advisor, could be a result of a far-right activist who has the ear of President Donald Trump.

"I fear, Alex, that the real fireable offense in all of this will be the word of Laura Loomer," Price told host Alex Witt about the activist. "It is what she has told the president about Mike Waltz. And I think there's a real tell here. It's not just Mike Waltz, it's also his deputy, Alex Wong. And I say that because Alex Wong, because of his background, and, I think, because of his ethnicity, has really been in Loomer's crosshairs and the crosshairs of other fringe conspiracists."

President Donald Trump revealed that he welcomes autocrats and despots into the Oval Office and tells them they are dictators, "but that's OK."

Trump made the remarks at a White House National Day of Prayer event on Thursday.

President Donald Trump used a National Day of Prayer event at the White House to push for the extension of his tax cuts.

While speaking at a Rose Garden ceremony on Thursday, Trump mentioned his "one big beautiful bill" that would extend tax cuts that primarily benefit wealthy Americans.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer was stunned by a Democratic lawmaker's blistering criticism of a House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was the first Democrat to join the Department of Government Efficiency caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he trashed the Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee headed by Greene during an appearance Thursday morning on "The Situation Room."