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Vice President J.D. Vance attacked Denmark Friday while speaking from the Greenland.

Vance told U.S. military members that shoring up Greenland — an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark — was now considered essential to the U.S.

Vice President J.D. Vance told U.S. service members at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland Friday that "didn't realize" until recently what they do while there.

Vance was on a "national security" visit to the autonomous territory which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which President Donald Trump has said must be acquired by the United States for safety reasons.

President Donald Trump's obsession with annexing Greenland is wildly unpopular among not just Greenlanders but among Americans as well.

CNN polling analyst Harry Enten this week broke down new polling showing that Trump's pitch to incorporate Greenland into the United States was going over like a lead balloon among residents of the massive North Atlantic island, as just 6 percent of Greenlanders believe it's a good idea, while 85 percent were opposed.

A self-described "MAGA junkie" from West Virginia tearfully recanted her vote for Donald Trump after her job was eliminated by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Jennifer Piggott, of Parkersburg, told CNN that she once flew a Trump flag outside her house in Wood County, where 70 percent of voters backed the president, but the DOGE team he established at billionaire backer Elon Musk's behest cut her job along with more 100 others at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's decision to run to the defense of Donald Trump's administration that finds itself under siege over allowing journalist Jeffrey Goldberg access to planning an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen led to laughter on MSNBC on Friday morning.

With the Senate leaning toward an investigation about the military security breach among high-ranking Trump officials with bi-partisan support, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted that the South Carolina Republican who is normally a strong supporter of U.S. military stated no one should be fired.

Addressing national security adviser Mike Waltz adding Goldberg to the chat, Graham said he still had faith in him and then told reporters, "We dodged a bullet. I hope we understand what happened and never do it again.”

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That, in turn, led to a shout-out from Donald Trump on Truth Social which was panned by the MSNBC panel.

On Wednesday night, Trump wrote: "Senator Lindsey Graham is working incredibly hard for the Great People of South Carolina, a State I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024!"

With Lemire pointing out the comment was a sign that the president is "keeping score" over who has his back as the Signal scandal lingers, co-host Joe Scarborough laughed at the endorsement pledge.

"An endorsement for what?" Scarborough asked. "You mean just like whenever it's Lindsey's next run?"

As Lemire explained, Graham is "... up in 2026," Scarborough continued and smirked, "If Lindsey like slices a ball into the woods and like hits a bird or something, I mean, what good does an endorsement a year and a half off do for any Republican?"

"Well Donald Trump is happy to give it for Graham," Lemire replied.

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An MSNBC host claimed Friday that the Trump administration's failure to admit concern over including The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat where plans for an attack on Yemen were detailed is handing Democrats a major weapon.

Joe Scarborough said polling on the scandal shows a substantial amount of Republicans have major concerns — and that shrugging it off is not a good tactic.

CNN's Audie Cornish redirected a conservative blogger after he justified vice president J.D. Vance's visit to Greenland.

The vice president will join his wife Usha Vance in a drastically scaled-back unsolicited visit as Greenland officials and citizens make clear they're not welcome amid president Donald Trump's threats to take control of the autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, but Vance tried to put a happy spin on the backlash.

Despite protestations from high-ranking Donald Trump officials that the Signal chat scandal that has engulfed the administration is much ado about nothing, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted new polling that the president is facing a growing revolt over it among GOP voters.

Yesterday Attorney General Pam Bondi blew off questions about the security breach which has cast a dark cloud over the immediate futures of national security advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and instead deflected to attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

On Friday's "Morning Joe," Lemire shared the clip of Bondi's press conference and followed it by commenting, "That's not great."

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He then explained why.

"Despite her bravado there, new polling shows Americans see the incident more concerning than her emails, i.e. the Clinton email server," he began. "A new YouGov poll finds that three out of four Americans believe the Signal chat about strikes in Yemen is a serious problem. That includes 53 percent who called it very serious, and another 21 percent who said it was somewhat serious."

"When broken down by party, 89 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents and, look at this: 60 percent of Republicans believe the situation is a serious problem," he added. "And of note, a higher share of adults said the Signal chat was indeed more serious than Hillary Clinton's personal email use. A YouGov poll from September 2022 found that about three out of five Americans viewed that controversy as a serious problem. and, Joe [Scarborough], the White House is aware of this. "

"Our new reporting out last night is President Trump privately still very angry about this, but what a distraction it's become," Lemire told the panel. "He can't talk about what he wants to talk about: tariffs, immigration the like at the moment. Signals from the White House are no heads will roll, but there's a lot of scrutiny on both the secretary of defense and especially the national security adviser about how they handled this. And this is a story that is simply not going away, and that, poll suggests, has really permeated both sides of the aisle."

"Not great," co-host Scarborough repeated while he and the rest of the panel laughed.

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President Donald Trump appearing to be clueless when asked if he's been briefed on the four missing soldiers in Lithuania set a CNN panel discussion on fire after a longtime Republican strategist instead flipped the argument to center around former President Joe Biden.

The feisty exchange unfolded Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight” as Neera Tanden, a Biden administration domestic policy adviser, flagged “a serious problem” with the MAGA leader.

Primetime CNN anchor Anderson Cooper expressed disbelief that Attorney General Pam Bondi is refusing to have the Justice Department investigate the Signal group chat thread in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed imminent attack orders with other high-level officials and a journalist.

Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz drew fierce criticism over their involvement in the Signal group chat, in which Hegseth shared live updates about a U.S. airstrike on Yemen's Houthi militants, including disclosing sensitive details such as launch timings. Waltz initiated the group chat and inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in the conversation.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) fired back at tech billionaire Elon Musk for continuing to insist that the former decorated veteran and one-time astronaut was “a traitor” to the United States for defending Ukraine in its war against Russia's invasion.

Kelly on Thursday delivered a terse takedown of Musk on CNN moments after the head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency upped his beef with Kelly in a Fox News interview.

J.D. Vance earned mockery this week from a former Republican lawmaker as the vice president tried to salvage the second lady's cultural trip to Greenland by refashioning it as a national security visit.

President Donald Trump has pressed the idea of the United States acquiring Greenland, a territory of Denmark that has ambitions to be its own independent state.

Peter Navarro, a counselor to President Donald Trump, clashed with CNN's Kasie Hunt on Thursday after he attempted to claim that American automakers weren't really American.

Navarro claimed that the tariffs would ultimately put more money in Americans' pockets, as much as $1,000, he said at one point.