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Republican lawmakers, conservative pundits and military veterans reacted with revulsion over the weekend at comments made by podcaster Tucker Carlson on Friday, in which he predicted that US troops would go on a campaign of sexual assault in Iran if the country agreed to Donald Trump’s “unconditional surrender" terms.

In an interview with “Breaking Points” co-host Saagar Enjeti, the former Fox News personality reacted to the “unconditional surrender” comments amplified by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, by telling the podcast host, “Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want — and everyone knows that.”

Kai Trump, the granddaughter of the president of the United States, made a video bragging about taking her Secret Service agents on a luxury shopping trip.

In a 20-minute YouTube video titled "I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon," Kai Trump shared her experience shopping at the upscale grocery chain.

Three pro-MAGA hosts on Real America's Voice and Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) pushed back on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt after she refused to rule out a draft of young Americans to fight in Iran.

In an interview on Sunday, Leavitt declined to say there would not be a draft when asked by Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

An MS NOW panel called out Donald Trump over his dismissive attitude and response to reports that Vladimir Putin is giving aid to Iran by helping the embattled regime target U.S. troops.

On Friday, the president was pressed by Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on reports that Russia is assisting Iran to attack American military targets, which led Trump to snap, "That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here, But I - can I be honest? It's just, I have a lot of respect for you. You've always been very nice to me. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

President Donald Trump's pick to replace the fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is a longtime congressional ally of the president who is likely to be confirmed without much controversy due to his strong working relationships with so many in the Senate.

But that doesn't mean Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) is likely to succeed in the job, NPR's Michele Norris told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" — because while he may not be as steeped in personal scandal as his predecessor, he doesn't fix the underlying problem DHS has right now: credibility.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) admitted on Fox News Sunday night that the Republican Party was “underwater” with Americans on the issue of immigration – once one of the party’s strongest issues – but pivoted to blame Democrats for the GOP’s poor polling performance.

“How can we get the numbers switched on immigration?” asked Fox News host Trey Gowdy, a former Republican lawmaker himself. “Trump closed the border, and yet we're underwater on that issue!”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth became evasive during an interview with CBS that aired Sunday when asked about the deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school last week that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, a strike that several analyses suggest was carried out by the Trump administration.

The strike, which was was carried out on Feb. 28, coincided with the Trump administration’s unprecedented attack on Iran, with Reuters, CNN and The New York Times all reporting that the strike was likely carried out by U.S. forces.

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut offered immediate push back on Sunday when CNN anchor Jake Tapper said a vote against an expected $50 billion request by President Donald Trump to fund his attack on Iran would be seen as “voting against the troops.”

“Oh come on,” said Murphy, incredulous. “I mean, the American people don’t want this war. They don’t want this war—they have seen what happens when American troops go into places like Iraq, places like Afghanistan. Ultimately we get a lot of people killed, we waste a lot of dollars. The one thing the people of the American people have been clear about is that they don’t want the United States dragged into another long-term war in the Middle East.”

Former White House energy advisor Bob McNally sounded the alarm Sunday on what he called an “authentic crisis” sparked by President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran, a crisis that he predicted would soon usher in “galloping further increases in oil prices.”

“I wish I had better news: the world is now a little more than a week into the largest oil disruption ever in history,” McNally said, appearing on CNN Sunday. “The 20 million barrels a day that have stopped flowing from [Strait of] Hormuz to the world is twice the amount of the biggest last disruption, which is all the way back in the 1950s, the Suez Crisis.”

Fox News was hammered Sunday for its follow-up coverage of a solemn event that critics argue was designed to shield President Donald Trump from criticism.

The network was forced to apologize for its coverage Saturday of the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members killed in Kuwait.

Former state attorney attorney Dave Aronberg took aim at the Trump administration on Sunday over its explanation as to why a series of accusations against President Donald Trump were withheld from the DOJ’s recent release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, an explanation he called “unlikely.”

In February, it was discovered that several records from a woman who accused both Trump and Epstein of sexual assault were missing from the DOJ’s release of files on Epstein. Last Friday, the DOJ released the records in question, claiming that they had been withheld due to being mistakenly labeled as duplicates.