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President Donald Trump's revenge campaign is coming from nothing more than a "scared little boy," former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele said Friday.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Steele talked about law firms on Trump's target list because they worked with Democrats nearly 10 years ago, as Reuters reported. That list continues to expand.

President Donald Trump flatly denied new reporting Friday afternoon that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was at odds with tech billionaire and Department of Government Efficiency honcho Elon Musk.

"No clash. I was there. You're just a troublemaker," Trump said to a reporter with reporters on asking about the incident. "Elon gets along great with Marco. They're both doing a fantastic job. There is no clash."

President Donald Trump on Friday delivered a seemingly contradictory message about the state of the war with Ukraine.

Shortly after Trump said he'd consider sanctioning Russia given that it is launching massive bombing campaigns in Ukraine, a reporter in the Oval Office asked him if he still believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make "peace" with the country he invaded more than three years ago.

A former chairman of the White House's economic advisors argued that President Donald Trump is entirely responsible for high economic uncertainty.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Jason Furman, who served on the White House counsel under President Barack Obama, said that the enormous swings of decisions on tariffs and pauses on tariffs are leading to economic chaos.

They may have been animated, but the co-hosts of "The View" agreed on one thing: Democrats are failing in the fight against the GOP.

The discussion began by talking about Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who was censured by the Republican-led Congress and ten Democratic lawmakers who joined with them. Green shouted back at President Donald Trump, disagreeing that he had a "mandate" after his election.

Reacting to Donald Trump's daily press availabilities where he sits at his desk and makes outrageous claims with no pushback from reporters, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to undermine the president.

Speaking with longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, the "Morning Joe" host grew louder and louder as he complained about Democrats falling down on the job.

Harkening back to when he was a Republican serving the House during President Bill Clinton's administration, the MSNBC host asserted it is not that difficult to perform a rapid response to lies made by the opposing party.

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"So Donald Trump stands up and says things that just aren't true," he began. "You know, he talks about 300, we had $350 billion to him [Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky], repeats it over and over and over again. 160 year-old people are getting Social Security. Right, that's not happening! But he says it, right? And here's the thing: if you don't know how to respond to a lie, that's the biggest audience any politician is going to get."

"So Americans, what are they to think? 'Okay, well, I guess 160-year olds are getting...' -- I'm sorry I know it. Well, no, I don't. It's not harder than it looks because I've been in Congress and I can tell you it's not harder than it looks," he elaborated before adding, "Where are the Democrats when he starts saying this nonsense?"

"Why don't they get one person out there who can communicate extraordinarily well?" he asked. "Make it a meritocracy, why can't somebody go up there like Barack Obama would have done, or like Bill Clinton would have done, and just sit there and laugh and go, he says there -- we used to do this all the time in Congress!"

Scarborough then mimed holding up a piece of paper and pointed in multiple spots as he exclaimed, "Yeah, Bill Clinton says this and you hold up a sheet. No, that's a lie! That's a lie! That's a lie!"

"Why can't Democrats do this?" he asked again. "Why are they –– why are there now millions of Americans who believe that, quote, 160-year-olds are getting Social Security checks? Well, millions of Americans believe it, I guess, because Trump said it."

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Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Friday pushed back on President Donald Trump's erratic decision making when it comes to slapping tariffs on foreign goods.

During an interview, Bartiromo pointed out to Trump that he was essentially ripping up a trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he negotiated during his first term, and she argued that this was adding unnecessary uncertainty to the markets.

According to one Democratic lawmaker, Donald Trump seems to be under the illusion that if he can force a peace agreement on Ukraine that will end the war precipitated by Russia's illegal invasion, that will put him in line for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with co-host Jonathan Lemire, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said the devil is in the details and Trump only siding with the aggressor in the war is going to leave him empty handed when Nobels are announced.

After addressing drastic cutbacks planned for the Veterans Administration, the ranking minority member of the House Armed Forces Committee turned to the Ukraine war and Trump's bullying tactics aimed at President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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"Trump is not doing this because he wants both sides to a peace agreement," he told the host. "He's put no pressure on Russia ––he's taken it off. He's doing it because he's sympathetic to Putin and Russia and not sympathetic to Zelensky and I'll leave it to therapists to figure out exactly why that is, but it is absolutely true."

A crypto reporter struggled to make sense of Donald Trump's moves to create a strategic reserve of the digital currency.

The president signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government ahead of a meeting with crypto founders and investors at the White House, and Axios correspondent Brady Dale set about explaining the situation.

Former Sen. Marco Rubio's brief tenure as secretary of state was panned on MSNBC on Friday morning by the New York Times' expert on foreign trade and affairs who labeled the Florida Republican as nothing more than a yes-man for Donald Trump.

Pointing to Trump's on-again, off-again tariff battle with key U.S. allies in a global economy along with his shunting Rubio off to the side as he and Vice President J.D. Vance battled with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Times' Tom Friedman noted Rubio went from a position of power in the U.S. Senate to a "bobblehead."

" Trump one was surrounded by buffers, responsible, intelligent adults, so when he came back from a night at the Mar-a-Lago restaurant or bar with some crazy idea, those buffers would contain it," Friedman told the "Morning Joe" hosts. "This Trump two is built around amplifiers. He comes back with some crazy a-- idea from the last person he talked to and these guys amplify it."

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"There's Marco Rubio though," he elaborated. "Marco Rubio is setting a land speed record for making himself irrelevant as secretary of state; He's basically secretary of state to Panama, okay?"

"And one reason is because Trump comes up with some crazy idea in Gaza or whatever that he's not briefed on, and Marco Rubio just amplifies it," the columnist accused. "Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, just amplifies it."

"Previously, buffers contained it and that's what scares me most for the long run," he added. "He's surrounded by amplifiers now, ––bobbleheads and not buffers."

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Donald Trump's growing attacks on Ukraine as he more openly embraces Russia is an alarming sign of a possible "dirty deal" between the American president and Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on MSNBC.

Appearing on "Morning Joe" for an extended segment on what some have called the expanding Trump and Putin "bromance," the longtime NYT columnist stated that he has come to believe that there is "something off" between the two.

Speaking with host Joe Scarborough, Friedman explained at length, "I mean, from the beginning of this war, Joe, there's been something off every time I hear Trump discussing this war."

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Noting the contentious meeting Trump had with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky one week ago, he continued, "Now, think of that meeting in the Oval Office; I was thinking about it the other day there was the leader of the free world, and Donald Trump was also there. The leader of the free world was Zelensky, okay? He was the one making the case for freedom and when you hear Trump talk about Ukraine, when you hear him talk about this war, there is something off."

"You know, the world, the government, the media, the courts spent $1 billion probably trying to prove collusion between Trump and Putin, that somehow Putin has some goods on him, some pictures, some money, who knows what," he added. "I never bought into that but I doubly don't buy into it now, because the real truth, Joe, is hiding in plain sight."

"Donald Trump likes autocratic Russia more than he admires, respects a democratic, free market Ukraine –– that is the truth," he asserted. "It's been true from the very beginning and he admires Putin because he wants to be Putin. And so unless we come to terms with that fact, this is the only way you can explain why he talks [like that]."

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President Donald Trump’s new executive order creating a “strategic reserve” of cryptocurrency was subjected to a brutal round of mockery by Rachel Maddow, who told MSNBC viewers Thursday that the move is reminiscent of collectors scooping up Beanie Babies in the 1990s.

“It is a deeply, deeply old fashioned simple scam at this point, which points right to the White House,” Maddow said.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency could soon see itself collapse under the political pressure of mass firings and sweeping changes to the federal government its head Elon Musk has set off.

That’s according to White House economics reporter Jeffrey Stein, who told viewers during an appearance on CNN Thursday that Musk “seems to have been dealt a bit of a blow in the White House today.”