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'He's an adult toddler': Journalist recalls the time angry Elon Musk called her 10 times

Longtime journalist Kara Swisher appeared on "The View" Thursday, discussing her decades-long relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Among her comments was that Musk was upset when President Joe Biden's White House excluded him from a gathering of electric car manufacturers. This incident created his attraction to Trump from the beginning.

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'Fight Nazis, not students!' Protesters occupy Trump Tower over detained activist

Demonstrators occupied Trump Tower in New York City to demand the release of pro-Palestinian organizer Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and graduate student at Columbia University.

The Jewish Voice for Peace group was said to have flooded the lobby of Trump Tower. Videos posted to social media showed throngs of protesters in the golden-colored building.

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'Canadian people loathe this idea': CNN fact checker rips Trump's 'wildly unpopular' claim

CNN's Daniel Dale examined some of Donald Trump's claims about Canada and found them lacking in proof.

The president has imposed steep tariffs on Canadian imports, which has triggered retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, and threatened to annex the nation's northern neighbor as the "51st state," which he claimed had broad support, and Dale walked through his claims justifying the sudden turn against the longtime ally.

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‘Unsatisfactory’: Bannon lashes out at Trump for pulling vaccine critic as CDC nominee

MAGA influencer and former White House adviser Steve Bannon lashed out at President Donald Trump's White House after the nomination of former Republican Congressman Dave Weldon was pulled as director for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

According to Axios, the decision to withdraw Weldon's name came as concern grew over his anti-vaccine views amid a measles outbreak in under-vaccinated areas.

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'Without precedent in history': MSNBC analyst highlights unique feature of Trump's America

Richard Haas, the president emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday that what President Donald Trump is doing to the United States is truly historic -- but not in a good way.

In breaking down Trump's continued quest to take a wrecking ball to decades-old military and economic alliances with other democratic nations, Haas struggled to recall the leader of any other great power behaving in a similar manner.

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'God's view': Elon Musk reportedly scooping up private data to give himself 'spying' power

Elon Musk wants to position himself above the federal government in an unprecedented way, according to veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought himself a powerful perch in the White House by giving more than a quarter billion dollars to Donald Trump's re-election campaign, and he has set about eliminating thousands of government jobs and entire federal agencies, but Swisher told "CNN This Morning" that Musk is scooping up sensitive data to give him a "god's view" of the entire government.

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'Screams his freaking head off!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow floored by Dem's searing takedown

The epic fist-pounding rant unleashed by Rep. John Larson (D-CT) left MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow celebrating the explosive takedown of DOGE head Elon Musk’s efforts to dismantle Social Security – and the surprising result.

Maddow devoted the opening minutes of her primetime show on Wednesday to the top Democrat’s outrage over Musk’s absence during a committee hearing where Larson, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, shouted and pounded his fist.

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‘You've lost your mind!’ GOP lawmaker trades barbs with ex-MSNBC host over 'speech crimes'

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan laid into Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) in an aggressive sparring match Wednesday that sent them both hurling jabs at each other as the GOP lawmaker twice insisted the journalist “be quiet.”

The combative exchange unfolded during a discussion on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on YouTube revolving around the immigration arrest of former Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. During the back-and-forth, Crenshaw held firm that the arrest was not only legal, but also justified given Khalil’s “incitement of violence.”

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'Little mongrel': GOP rep waves off Tucker Carlson's attack he's a 'freak' and 'warmonger'

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) went on a rant against former Fox News host Tucker Carlson during an interview with Piers Morgan released Wednesday, firing another salvo in the public feud between the two.

"Why don't we try and end where you both agree on something, all right?" asked the host of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on YouTube. He steered the conversation away from fellow guest and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan demanding Crenshaw answer for the pardons President Donald Trump issued to January 6 insurrectionists. "Dan's ongoing spat with Tucker Carlson. Now this began when you were caught, you thought you were off camera, still on mic, saying he was the worst person, you've talked a lot on Twitter about your beef, you've said, I'm going to f'ing kill him."

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‘Not above the law’: Fist-pounding Dem explodes and demands to know ‘where’s Elon Musk?’

A top House Democrat exploded in anger during a committee hearing on Wednesday, outraged over the absence of Elon Musk, the leader of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose team has turned their attention to Social Security. Musk this week has suggested there is tremendous fraud and waste in “entitlements,” which would also suggest a focus on Social Security.

“Most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six, 700 billion,” Musk said on Monday.

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'No, not regardless!' Trump official hurls insults as CNN's Jake Tapper cites WaPo report

Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka unloaded a torrent of insults in a combative interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, where he lashed out at the host, the media, the Biden administration – and still saved some ammo for a foreign terrorist who he labeled a “piece of human filth."

The remarks came Wednesday as Gorka appeared on CNN amid the Trump administration’s loosening of rules for U.S. military airstrikes. But Gorka came ready to spar and quickly snapped back at Tapper when the host queued up a question about USAID cuts by first referencing The Washington Post.

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'No pain, no gain': Republican senator tells Dems to 'shut up' about Trump's tariffs

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Democrats should "shut up" about the negative effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday.

"No pain, no gain — that's what we used to tell our football players," said Tuberville, who coached college football before he entered politics. "There's going to be some pain with tariffs. But tariffs got us back to the strongest economy in the world when President Trump was in the first time. He knows what he's doing. Democrats, get out of the way, shut up. You have no answers, you didn't do anything right in the last four years with Joe Biden. We have a game plan, Trump has a game plan."

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'Master troll': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace cheers WSJ after searing takedown of Trump

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace championed the Wall Street Journal editorial board during her Wednesday show after they shamed President Donald Trump for his trade war with Mexico, Canada and China.

Wallace called it a "master-troll" because the board wrote that the "trouble with trade wars is that once they begin they can quickly escalate and get out of control."

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