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On Saturday morning, MSNBC host Katie Phang invited Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell on to discuss his new report on the turmoil at the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and quickly singled out a startling revelation of an accusation of cocaine use.

With Hegseth under the gun for what has been dubbed "Signalgate," new revelations that he included his wife, brother and lawyer in a separate Signal chat where he discussed war plan, and use of an unsecured internet commercial "dirty line" from his Pentagon office, Lowell reported that fighting among dismissed Hegseth aides has also gotten messy.

During a segment on MSNBC on Saturday morning about what the Democratic party needs to do to get back on track with voters, a former GOP House member suggested Donald Trump is giving them a helping hand.

Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," ex-Rep Joe Walsh (R-IL) took the side of newly-elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg who wants to oust some longtime House Democrats with younger candidates in safe districts to shake-up the party.

"That's all inside baseball," Walsh, a harsh Donald Trump critic admitted before adding, "Look, I'm not a Democrat. The Democratic party brand is in the toilet; they need to be shaken up, they need to fight I want to see the Democratic party fight."

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"I want to see new blood," he continued. "Some of this old blood needs to go retire. This is good for the Democratic party. I think what David Hogg is proposing is going to change the change the subject, as it should."

As the segment began to close, he offered a warning to Republicans.

"Look, just one quick final thought," he stated. "Because of the madness and the chaos and the disaster that is Trump, Democrats are going to be competitive in districts and states this year, next year that we can't even imagine right now."

"So doggone it, field candidates, get active, spend money everywhere," he suggested.

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A Saturday morning discussion on the devastating impact of Donald Trump's tariffs on American consumers spiraled into laughter on MSNBC after "The Weekend" co-host Symone Sanders Townsend read on-air a boast the president made in an interview this past week.

The co-hosts of the popular MSNBC show were peppering guest Bharat Ramamurti, a former deputy director of the National Economic Council, with questions about the long-term effects of the president's trade war, when Sanders Townsend directed their attention to an interview Trump did with Time magazine.

"I just want to ask because the president says he's making all these deals, okay?" the MSNBC co-host prompted her panel.

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"He's in this Time interview on Friday saying, 'I've made all the deals.' Time is like, 'When are you going to announce them?' Trump? 'I've made 200 deals.' Time said, 'You've made 200 deals?' Trump '100 percent,'" Sanders Townsend read.

"He also, in that interview, he also said --," she continued, but co-host Alicia Menendez exclaimed, "There are 193 UN members!" which led to an outburst of laughter.

"So he's rounding up there?" Menendez joked.

"They're rounded up," Sander replied before quipping, "I don't know who the extra seven are now."

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Following a report that Donald Trump is claiming he is making headway in negotiations with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after they met in Rome where they are both attending the burial of Pope Francis, former RNC chair Michael Steele wasn't having it.

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele, as co-host, noted the report that Trump "expressed optimism about ending the war in Ukraine. Posting online that negotiations are, quote, 'going smoothly and that success seems to be in the future,'" before adding, "Color me skeptical."

"You know, Trump doesn't engage in diplomacy, alright?" he exclaimed, "So can we stop pretending he does? He doesn't. This, you know, the social media posts on all of that is just because –– the bottom line is his design has been drawn up by Russia. The plan he's pushing is a Russian plan."

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"The reality of it is, and I appreciate President Zelenskyy's optimism of a good meeting, what what else is he going to say? It sucked?" he added. "But the reality of it is that you're dealing with someone who's not a good faith partner and someone who does not want to see you survive this."

"So why are we sitting down and pretending that this is all now going to shift in a direction in which a fair deal, in which the sovereignty of Ukraine remains intact and Russia backs the hell up and gets out," he asked.

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Former Department of Defense special counsel Ryan Goodman was taken aback by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public comments about the new criminal case involving Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.

Bondi on Friday sparked a firestorm of criticism from Democrats when she suggested the judge arrested by the FBI on charges of obstructing justice is “deranged” and implied she is “above the law.”

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) faced angry town hall attendees on Friday afternoon back home, with one attendee demanding he "do more" to impeach President Donald Trump.

One woman CNN showed in a video asked Ossoff why there were no calls for Trump to be impeached. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) announced on April 5 that he would submit his articles of impeachment in "30 days."

A former prosecutor tore into the Trump administration on Friday after Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on charges of obstructing justice.

Former state and federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner filmed a brief video on YouTube after Dugan's arrest.

President Donald Trump is approaching his 100th day in office, and CNN's Harry Enten said polling shows he's "failing" his audition so far.

The president entered office with a slightly positive approval rating, but those numbers have steadily drooped through the first three months of his second term in the White House.

The unrelenting onslaught of reports about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ranging from sharing war plans with his wife on an unsecured Signal app to screaming at military leaders at the Pentagon has become a major distraction for Donald Trump's White House, and a former President Joe Biden official had some advice for the current president.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller first stated Hegseth is in over his head and that placing him in such a high-profile job is coming back to bite the president.

"You mentioned Secretary Pete Hegseth," co-host Willie Geist prompted his guest. "Obviously, some of that classified information that was placed inside the Signal group chat. We learned this week about a second signal group chat, where you're sharing that information with his brother and his wife. We were talking a little bit in the break, and you said something that I've heard from a lot of other people who've worked in and around the government, which is this is maybe the toughest job in Washington, secretary of defense, one of the toughest jobs. It's near the top. we can say that it's no place to take a chance on someone, and it appears that this is backfiring extraordinarily."

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"Yeah. Look, there are cabinet agencies where you can hide a low performer –– I won't name any of them here because I don't need to hear from my friends that have worked at any of those agencies," Miller joked. "But there are. If there was one at the top of the list of where you can't hide a low performer, where you need someone strong, it's the Pentagon, because lives are at risk, American lives are at risk."

"And the thing that is most surprising to me about Pete Hegseth continued tenure in the job is that the administration is willing to take on this amount of risk, take on this amount of risk to our national security, and take on this amount of risk to Donald Trump's political future," he added. "Because every day that Pete Hegseth is in that job, they're at enormous risk that he bungles a major national security crisis, and they're left holding the bag."

Miller pointed out, "He has already made major mistakes transmitting classified information in a Signal group –– it's a major mistake that in any other administration, you would see a Cabinet member fired for. That was an excuse to say, look, we made a mistake, let's get out of this problem before we have a mistake that costs lives."

"They had they have to be able to see the risks that they're running, and the fact that they continue to run this risk to their own political future, and more importantly, to the safety of American soldiers, American servicemen and women, really defies belief," he advised.

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President Donald Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with Time Magazine on the occasion of his 100th day in office, and the reporter who spoke with him revealed what he believes was one the most "noteworthy" comments.

The magazine's Eric Cortellessa asked the president whether he had asked El Salvador president Nayib Bukele to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal U.S. resident mistakenly deported out of the country, and Trump said no one had asked him to request that – although the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled unanimously that the administration should facilitate his return.

A former State Department official had little good to say about Donald Trump's chief envoy to the world's hot spots and ripped into him on MSNBC for "dropping the ball" multiple times.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Matthew Miller, who served as the spokesperson for the State Department after heading the Office of Public Affairs at the DOJ, was asked about Steve Witkoff's performance with MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle pointedly noting the Trump appointee is a real estate lawyer with no international negotiation experience to speak of.

Barnicle pointed out, "He [Witkoff] gets very high marks here in New York City from people who know him in the real estate business but this isn't the real estate business," and then asked, "Have you ever heard of a single presidential envoy being involved in so many hotspots around the world, and so many flashpoints around the world?"

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"Steve Witkoff does seem like a very capable individual to me, a very smart individual," Miller responded. "The problem, I think, is that he has no idea what he doesn't know. He doesn't have the experience in these fields, he doesn't have the background, he doesn't have the diplomatic knowledge and, from all reports, he doesn't have anyone around him who can tell him what he doesn't know."

"And so you see him go to Russia and meet with Vladimir Putin and then come back and do an interview where he says, 'So the five regions that Russia is either wholly or partially occupying. I can't remember the names of all five of them. Nevertheless, I know that the people there want to be part of Russia," he recalled with a smirk before exclaiming, "No they don't! There's no evidence that they do."

"But he's heard that from Putin, and he doesn't know enough about the backstory, he doesn't know enough about the history, he doesn't know enough to push back on that when he hears it from Putin," he explained. "And the problem with him being stretched so thin as, as you note, is, you can't do all of those things."

"You can't negotiate peace in Ukraine and Iran deal and into the war in Gaza which you might recall was his initial portfolio, the thing that he was initially designed to do," he added. "And he has completely dropped the ball on –– you look at just what's happened in Gaza. This administration was handed a cease fire that we spent a lot of effort trying to get over the finish line, and we got over the finish line in the last days of the [Biden] administration, the entire conceit of that cease-fire, the way it was designed, was that the incoming administration would spend the six weeks of phase one to try to get it to phase two, and they have completely dropped the ball, haven't spent any diplomatic time, haven't spent any, spent any diplomatic muscle trying to get that to an end, get that to an end to the war."

"It's a complete catastrophe and they have completely lost focus on it, I suspect, because Witkoff is busy working on other matters," he suggested.

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Donald Trump misplayed what he thought was a winning hand when he decided to start a trade war with China .

That is the opinion of MSNBC contributor and financial analyst Steve Rattner who appeared on "Morning Joe" on Friday to deliver bad news to American consumers.

Speaking with co-host Willie Geist, Rattner suggested that the president met his match when speaking with President Xi Jinping of China who set the president straight.

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"I think they're desperately trying to show some kind of progress," he said of the Trump administration. "They talk about India and this and that; I think China is the really tough nut, we have these huge, huge reciprocal tariffs on on both sides."

"Now I think my personal view, which based on I'm not obviously in the White House, is that I think Trump did not expect this kind of reaction from China when he put them on," he elaborated. "I think he thought they would quickly come to the table because we buy so much stuff from them. But, instead, Xi basically said, 'I'm a real country, my economy is essentially as big as yours, a lot more people. I make all kinds of stuff that you need, and I'm not going to be pushed around by you.'"

"And so Xi put on his tariffs. Trump put on more tariffs and here we sit 154% tariffs on imports from them which basically means no imports," he concluded. "So the answer is look, at some point I think there will be conversations with China. I just don't believe at this point we're really making any progress."

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A House Republican broke with President Donald Trump late Thursday on CNN when pressed about his thoughts on efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) joined "The Source" with anchor Kaitlan Collins. The congressman, who previously served in the Marine Corps and now sits on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee, was brought on to give his thoughts on Trump possibly "rushing into making an agreement" between Russia and Ukraine that could "hurt his legacy."