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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Oh) used a Fox News interview to yell suggestions that the FBI was responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Jordan crowed about the House Judiciary Committee's investigations into conservative grievances instead of how President Donald Trump was abusing the legal system.

On Sunday morning, MSNBC host Michael Steele used Donald Trump's attempt to boost Tesla sales by turning the front of the White House into a car lot, to make his feelings known about billionaire Elon Musk.

After noting that Tesla's stock is in a death-spiral, he called the White House stunt "a sad PR stunt," before pointing out he has never had an interest in Musk's cars dating back long before the billionaire became Donald Trump's shadow and set about dismantling the government.

"Look, I never had a desire for one of these cars because of the man who designed the car," he told his MSNBC "The Weekend" co-hosts.

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"So even back in the day, not like, even like a year?" co-host Symone Sanders Townsend asked.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested the United States could forgo elections in 2028 under President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper asked Crockett if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) should challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to lead Democrats in the Senate four years from now.

Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich suggested President Donald Trump had been "played" by Russian President Vladimir Putin while trying to end the war in Ukraine.

During a Fox News Sunday interview, Heinrich grilled National Security Advisor Mike Waltz about Trump's strategy in Ukraine.

Fox News host Joey Jones argued that President Donald Trump should be able to use the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants because the law wasn't struck down when the U.S. used it for Japanese internment camps in World War II.

Jones made the remarks on Sunday's Fox & Friends Weekend broadcast after a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump from using the law.

On Saturday morning, former prosecutor Katie Phang and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel ridiculed Donald Trump's 27-year-old press secretary Karoline Leavitt for making bold pronouncement to the press about constitutional law that have no basis in fact.

During a recent press availability, Trump's spokesperson asserted the Trump administration is " ...fighting back by appealing, fighting back by using the full weight of the White House Counsel’s Office and our lawyers at the federal government who believe that this [fired federal workers] injunction is entirely unconstitutional."

"And it is, for anybody who has a basic understanding of the law," she claimed. "You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the president of the United States. That is completely absurd! And as the executive of the executive branch, the president has the ability to fire or hire. And you have these lower-level judges who are trying to block this president’s agenda. It’s very clear."

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After sharing the clip of Leavitt, MSNBC host and lawyer Phang mocked her as "apparently amateur constitutional lawyer Karoline Leavitt."

Later during the segment Nessel asked if she could address Leavitt, who has a BA degree in communications after attending Saint Anselm College on a Division II softball scholarship.

"Firstly, I don't know where she got her law degree," Nessel began as Phang smiled. "I suspect it was at Trump University Online. But she is clearly misstating what the role of the courts are, right?"

"These are three co-equal branches of government," she continued. "I understand that the, you know, one of the branches, the legislature, Congress has sort of abdicated seemingly their entire role in this process, but the courts are doing their job."

"And even, quote, low-level federal judges who are federal district court judges, you know, they have the ability to issue injunctive relief and the. executive branch must abide by it. So it's deeply concerning to me to hear the president's own press secretary indicating that they may decide to do otherwise."

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During an appearance on. MSNBC on Saturday morning, an admittedly "angry" Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) urged her Democratic colleagues in the Senate to reconsider if they want Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to remain in his leadership position.

Speaking with a sympathetic Katie Phang, the Vermont Democrat also spoke to New York Democrats and pointed out that the 74-year Schumer is not entitled in any way to keep his Senate seat after folding on the budget bill he allowed to come to the Senate floor –– much to Donald Trump's delight.

Joining a chorus of Democrats in the House who feel betrayed by the New Yorker, Balint told host Phang, "On the Democratic side we run the risk of coming across as arrogant and as not listening to what our voters and what Americans are telling us, which is they want us to stand up to this administration and fight for those programs and not let Elon Musk have access to our personal. private data, and to not have them go after programs that we have already funded, and getting rid of our authority as Congress, having the power of the purse."

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"When we back down, this sends the absolute wrong message that we are not willing to fight and that is why I was so furious," she added.

"We don't own our seats," she later added. "It's not Chuck Schumer's seat, it's not Becca Balint's seat. The seats belong to the voters and so the people of New York are going to have to decide, in this moment, was caving the right thing for him to do?"

"And members of the Senate need to do some deep soul-searching about how they want to show up for the American people right now," she continued. "And so I always say we have to continue to do better and not continue to play by playbooks from 20 years ago, and that's where the rage comes from Americans that the Trumpism, the MAGAism has broken the system and yet we continue to play as Democrats as if the system is intact."

"We have to throw punches, we have to be able to go toe to toe and not blink because, if we don't, where does it stop?" she added.

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Reacting to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seeming to care more what the U.S. military looks like than preparing them to fight in future wars, former lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard and ex-Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) got in his own shot at the former Fox News weekend host.

During a panel discussion on CNN's "Table for Five," host Abby Phillip noted new grooming standards the Donald Trump appointee wants to implement which led to showing a clip of Hegseth making his case in February.

"It starts with the basic stuff, right?" Hegseth told the crowd. "It's grooming standards and uniform standards and training standards, fitness standards, all of that matters."

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"It's almost like the broken windows theory of policing: when you ignore the small stuff from criminals, and I'm not I'm not saying if you violate grooming standards, you're a criminal, the analogy is incomplete, but if you violate the small stuff and you allow it to happen, the big stuff, it creates a culture where big stuff you're not held accountable for. I think the same thing exists inside our services," he insisted.

That led Kinzinger, the recipient of six Air Medals earned while flying missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, to roll his eyes.

"This is what every terrible commander says," he began as host Phillip and co-panelist and conservative S.E. Cupp burst into laughter.

"Honest to god, they're like, you know, we'd wear like little pin patches on our flight suit and people would go, ''You can't wear that, 'and they're like, 'Because if I can't trust you to wear your uniform, right, how can I trust you to fly a gajillion-dollar plane?'"

"Well, you trained me to," he added.

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Reacting to Donald Trump's accusatory and, at some times, rambling, speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, MSNBC host Michael Steele said the message sent by the president should send a chill down everyone's spines.

Speaking with his co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the former Republican National Committee chair said the re-elected Trump has an "army" of lawyers this go-around willing to do his bidding, no questions asked.

During his speech, Trump asserted his opponents are "scum," called judges "corrupt” and accused prosecutors who investigated him of being “deranged.”

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That led Steele to state, "And so folks, you're seeing in real-time, the side of Donald Trump that basically says he's now drunk with the power given to him by the Supreme Court to act with impunity, drunk with the power of an election that, you know, he won, obviously the majority of the vote."

"But the reality of it is the idea of governing and serving the American people is the farthest thing from his mind," he accused. "And he's getting his little army that he's going to send out around the, around the country to enforce his view of what America should look like."

Addressing the DOJ speech once again, he added, '"In that room this week he got the ultimate confirmation that they don't work for us –– they work for him."

"So ya'll better watch out, all of us better watch out, because the Department of Justice has now been ramped up and turned on the American people," he warned.

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The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" burst into laughter on Saturday morning after watching Dr. Mehmet Oz getting embarrassed by a Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) during a Senate hearing on his nomination to head up the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a key federal department.

In a clip shown Saturday morning, Hassan asked Oz, a failed Republican candidate for a Senate seat representing Pennsylvania in 2022 with Donald Trump's endorsement, if he would balk at following an illegal order from the president.

Specifically, she asked, "First question that I'm asking of every nominee for this administration: if directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's directive?"

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"The president would never do that," Oz replied which earned him a rebuke from the Democrat who shot back, "That's absurd and it's a disappointing answer."

Following that exchange, the entire panel burst into laughter with co-host Michale Steele sarcastically pointing out, "Yeah, the convicted felon would never do that."

As Streele added, "Damn!" co-host Symone Sanders Townsend briefly stopped laughing to contribute, "The man that asked, in the last he was president, asked his defense secretary, secretary why they couldn't just shoot protesters outside the White House. He would never break the law?"

"Come on, now," she added.

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President Donald Trump’s controversial speech at the Department of Justice on Friday sparked a fiery CNN debate between two guests that sent accusations flying over a weaponized Justice Department, under Joe Biden and the current administration, and left the host struggling to keep order.

The tense exchange played out on CNN’s “NewsNight” as radio host and GOP political strategist Melik Abdul continued to insist that Biden’s administration "weaponized the Department of Justice.” That left Tara Setmayer, an ex-Republican and former senior advisor for the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, fuming.

A lively discussion about the Trump administration demanding oversight of courses at Columbia University culminated in two audible gasps from a culture critic aghast at a Republican co-panelist's remarks.

Abby Philip, host of CNN's "NewsNight" kicked off the discussion, sharing a letter from the administration threatening to revoke Columbia's federal funding unless they "overhaul the department that oversees the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies."

The U.S. Senate voted by a 62-38 margin to advance House Republicans' government funding bill on Friday, staving off a government shutdown but almost certainly giving President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) a major legislative victory assuming the final vote gets majority support.

According to Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak, nine Democrats voted with all 53 Republicans on the cloture motion for H.R. 1968, which keeps government agencies funded through the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, 2025. Funding levels are mostly similar to levels under former President Joe Biden's administration, save for $13 billion in non-defense budget cuts and an additional $6 billion for the Pentagon. Funding for Washington D.C.'s local government was also slashed by roughly $1 billion.