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Trump's pre-planned 'ambush' on Zelensky makes the U.S. look 'weak': senator

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recalled President Donald Trump's bone spurs after a stunning Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that turned hostile.

Trump yelled at Zelensky after he warned the United States will eventually feel the pain of Russia's invasion of Ukraine if they don't stop Russia's aggression. Trump lashed out, saying Zelensky can't tell him what the U.S. will feel.

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'This was a mistake': GOP consultant warns of fallout from Trump's Oval Office rage

Fox News' Karl Rove on Friday couldn't find a way to spin the disastrous spat that erupted between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Shortly after the meeting between the two men concluded, Rove delivered a somber assessment of what just transpired.

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Watch: MTG's boyfriend harasses Zelensky for not wearing a suit in the Oval Office

Prior to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance ganging up and demanding Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky thank them in a contentious and ugly Oval Office press availability, the boyfriend of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) harangued the leader of the war-torn nation for not wearing a suit.

In a video posted to Bluesky, Brian Glenn, who reports for fringe conservative site Real America's Voice, demanded of the Ukrainian leader, "Do you — why don't you wear a suit?"

"Why don't you wear a suit? You're the highest level in this country's office, and you refuse to wear a suit," he pressed, while J.D. Vance could be seen laughing, before adding, "Do you own a suit?"

"I will wear a suit after this war is over," Zelensky politely replied. "Maybe something like yours. Maybe better."


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'Never in the history': World famous journalist staggered by Trump and Zelensky meltdown

A world famous international journalist was left agape Friday as she watched President Donald Trump berate Ukraine’s leader in an unprecedented Oval Office meltdown.

“Never in the history of modern diplomacy, war, peace, whatever, have I ever, ever, ever seen anything like it,” a gobsmacked Christiane Amanpour said on CNN as she held her head, mouth wide open.

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'Horrific': Ex-Russian Ambassador aghast at 'shocking' Trump meeting with Ukraine leader

President Donald Trump yelled at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office after the latter challenged Trump's facts and corrected his false information.

Zelenskyy was set to visit for an agreement about sharing rare earth minerals from Ukraine. The meeting began in a polite way but went off the rails when reporters began asking questions.

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'Wow, just wow': CNN host stunned by Trump's Oval Office blow-up with Zelenskyy

CNN's Dana Bash was flabbergasted after watching President Donald Trump berate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office Friday.

"Wow. Just, wow. That was...that was something," Bash began before remarking on Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour's reaction.

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'People can feel the pain': Analyst highlights 'very troubling number' for White House

The rising cost of eggs played a major role in Donald Trump's election win, and CNN's harry Enten said voters are growing frustrated that prices keep going up.

The president promised during the campaign to bring down grocery and egg prices on “Day One," but a combination of factors, including bird flu, have driven up the costs of eggs so much that some restaurants are charging extra for them and store owners are selling them individually.

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GOP lawmakers privately saying Trump has 'gone too far': Dem senator

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) on Friday revealed to CNN's Sara Sidner that some of her Republican colleagues are privately getting squeamish about President Donald Trump's actions.

During the CNN interview, Shaheen discussed Trump's declaration that he "trusts" Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has a very long track record of being untrustworthy given his insistence that he had no intentions of invading neighboring Ukraine shortly before he launched a military invasion into that country just over three years ago.

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'Most troubling' thing about Gene Hackman's death singled out by expert on CNN

A veteran homicide investigator highlighted "one of the most troubling" aspects about the scene at the late actor Gene Hackman's home.

Joseph Scott Morgan, a longtime death investigator who now teaches applied forensics at Jacksonville State University, appeared Friday morning on "CNN News Central" to discuss evidence after the 95-year-old Oscar winner and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead this week at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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'A nightmare for Republicans' in Virginia over DOGE devastation: MSNBC guest

During an appearance on MSNBC on Friday morning, Dave Weigel of Semafor claimed that Republicans in Virginia are facing possible crushing losses at the ballot box this year courtesy of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

While federal workers across the country are being forced out of their jobs by the indiscriminate, and possibly illegal, purge being conducted by the Donald Trump administration, Washington D.C. adjacent Virginia is taking the hardest hit.

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'Don't know what he's smoking': Strategist blasts Mike Johnson's latest deflection

A Democratic strategist mocked House speaker Mike Johnson's claim that town hall meetings hosted by Republican lawmakers have been populated by paid protesters.

Lawmakers have been facing constituents angry about cuts to federal programs by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and they've been demanding that congressional Republicans step up and stop them, and CNN conservative Shermichael Singleton entertained Johnson's notion that those dramatic confrontations were staged by Democratic plants.

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'This is the problem!' CNN conservative ripped for defending Musk's conflict of interest

A Republican strategist drew heavy flak on "CNN This Morning" for defending tech billionaire Elon Musk's dual role as a government contractor and federal budget slasher.

Donald Trump's megadonor-turned-close adviser posted on his X platform that Verizon's communication system for air traffic control was "breaking down very rapidly" and recommended his own Starlink satellite internet service as an upgrade, but GOP strategist Brad Todd didn't see any problem with Musk dramatically cutting the federal workforce while scooping up government contracts himself.

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'Stop the presses': MSNBC hosts single out 'extraordinary' Trump comment about Russia

A comment made by Donald Trump about Russia and Vladimir Putin during a White House talk on Thursday drew the attention of two MSNBC hosts on Friday morning which led them both to rip it apart.

Asked by a journalist if he could trust the Russian strongman, the president replied, "I think he'll keep his word. I've spoken to him, I've known him for a long time now, you know, we had we had to go through the Russian hoax together –– that was not a good thing. It's not fair, that was a rigged deal and had nothing to do with Russia. It was a rigged deal inside the country and they had to put up with that too. They put up with a lot."

Trump's return to talking about the "Russian hoax" led "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist to fact-check the president.

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"Before we get on to talk about Ukraine, we have to just pause right there and that statement was extraordinary," Geist stated. "The president of the United States saying he and Vladimir Putin went through the Russia hoax together, they were in this thing together that people were out to get them, when it was well documented whether you think the Trump campaign in 2016 sought the help or welcomed the help or not."

"It's not disputed that Russia put its thumb on the scale in that election, but he [Trump] sees a partner in that fight and a fellow victim," he added.

Co-host Joe Scarborough contributed, "Every single one of Donald Trump's intelligence select leaders that he selected, agency heads that he selected, believed, and it was the position of our government that Russia interfered in the 2016 election."

Continuing in that vein, he added, "But there is no hoax behind the central fact that Russia interfered in the election for the benefit of Donald Trump, whether he sought that help or not. Again, that's been a raging debate since 2017 but even Marco Rubio, when he was running the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio and Republicans said that Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and actors in it, caused a direct counterintelligence threat to the United States of America's security."

"That's what Marco Rubio that's what the Republican Senate Intel Committee said and, again, not to belabor this point, but, you know, they're just some things that that that, you know, stop the presses, and this is one of them," he added.

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