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In the midst of a softball interview conducted at the Republican National Convention with Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), CNN's Kate Bolduan had to pull the GOP lawmaker up short as he went on a rant about President Joe Biden.

Speaking before the GOP's proceedings restarted, Emmer boosted the candidacy of Donald Trump and his heir apparent, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) before turning the conversation to Biden who is expected to be the Democratic nominee.

When the talk turned to U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, the CNN host felt compelled to interrupt after she mentioned Vance's opposition to supporting the embattled nation.

Pointing out that Vance is one of the "most vocal critics of U.S. support for Ukraine, Bolduan asked, "Looking forward, if former president Trump wins again, is future support for Ukraine in serious question?"

"Actually, back it up just a little bit," Emmer protested. "First off, I might not have chosen the word 'provoked,' but the Biden administration and Joe Biden's feckless, aimless, 'I don't want to provoke anything' policy that showed a sign of weakness just opened the door for Putin to say we're going."

"There's something really important," he began as Bolduan cut him off with, "Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014. I mean, y'know..."

"I understand that" Emmer parried. "But I'm talking about most recently."

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Billionaire Elon Musk's relationship with Donald Trump — former president, convicted felon and Republican presidential nominee — is more akin to that of a Russian oligarch's with a dictator than an American businessman's with a political candidate, a former White House staffer said Tuesday.

Van Jones, a onetime official in former President Barack Obama's administration, warned of the effect that Musks' millions might have after the Wall Street Journal reported the Tesla CEO and X owner will flush $45 million a month into a pro-Trump super PAC.

Moments before "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarbrough took his bosses to task for pulling his show on the Monday following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, the MSNBC host criticized his colleague Lester Holt over his interview with President Joe Biden.

On Monday night, as the Republican National Convention kicked into high gear, NBC released the sitdown interview between Holt and Biden and, on Tuesday morning, Scarborough shared a clip and expressed his displeasure at what transpired.

Speaking with fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton, Scarborough stated he needed to address Holt's obsession with getting Biden to admit he has engaged in violent rhetoric and needs to tone down his criticism of the former president.

"We just need to talk about that line of questioning from NBC's Lester Holt," the MSNBC host stated after the clip ended. "It was an important question to ask, about what President Biden said in a private fundraiser to donors. It's a question I would have asked. I think any of us would have asked that question, but to ask that question without any context, about the politically violent rhetoric that Republicans have been engaged in for close to a decade now."

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"We could talk about Nancy Pelosi, we could talk about the assassinations of Joint Chiefs, the hangings of Mike Pence. We could go on and on and on. We could talk about it on both sides. Again, a good question to ask about what he said in a private fundraiser — a good question to ask, I would have asked the same question. But to ask that question absent of any context seems to me to be — you talk about a phony moral relativism."

"It was screaming throughout that part of the interview, and I must say, I was shocked," he added.

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Having been taken off the air on Monday by the NBC brass, the entire panel on "Morning Joe" spent the first 35 minutes of Monday's broadcast discussing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump three days ago.

An incredulous Joe Scarborough repeatedly ranted at about the Secret Service not sufficiently protecting the former president who quit walking to exhort the crowd, while showing a clip of the event and counting off the nine seconds he was exposed as agents hustled him to a waiting car.

With co-host Mika Brzezinski and "Way Too Early" host Jonathan Lemire sitting by mutely, Scarborough raged as the video rolled, "I'm hearing about resources, finite resources. I'm hearing that RFK Jr. – his last name, Kennedy! Kennedy doesn't have Secret Service."

"We have been, before this shooting, a nation on edge," he shouted. "Political rhetoric more violent than any time since the 1960s. This cannot be a question of manpower."

Leading U.S. unions warned voters on Monday not to be fooled by the pro-worker facade constructed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio who has opposed congressional efforts to strengthen organizing rights, allowed corporate lobbyists to influence his legislating, and raked in donations from the elites he claims to despise.

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO—the nation's largest federation of unions—said in a statement the combined records of Trump and Vance make clear that, if elected, they "would eviscerate unions and empty workers' pockets just to boost the profits of their corporate friends and donors."

A little over an hour into Tuesday's episode of "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough took time to address a decision by NBC higher-ups to boot his show on Monday — the first day they would have been on the air after the attempt on Donald Trump's life.

Viewers on Monday were furious to find "Morning Joe" pre-empted on Monday and Scarborough seemed to share their anger and frustration.

Climate campaigners reacted to former U.S. President Donald Trump's selection of Sen. JD Vance as his running mate Monday by highlighting the Ohio Republican's climate denial and strong support for the fossil fuel industry—one of his top campaign contributors.

"Like Donald Trump, JD Vance has proven that he will make it a top priority to roll back climate protections while answering to the demands of oil and gas CEOs," Sunrise Movement communications director Stevie O'Hanlon said in a statement. "Vance is one of Congress' biggest recipients of donations from oil companies."

Now that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is the official vice presidential running mate for former President Donald Trump, much of the focus turns to one of his most awkward flaws as a candidate: his lengthy history of attacking and condemning Trump.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow provided a number of clips of Vance, a former venture capitalist who was elected to the Senate in 2022 on a hard MAGA platform, going after the former president, and proclaiming him unfit for office.

CNN interrupted its broadcast of the Republican National Convention Monday after a speaker attacked President Joe Biden despite the Republican Party's promise of a "unity theme."

After airing several minutes of former Yammer CEO David Sack's speech, CNN suddenly cut to host Jake Tapper.