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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) made a floor speech in the Senate this week after President Donald Trump alleged that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine starting in 2014 and continued with a full-scale invasion in 2022.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) was scheduled to appear on CNN Friday to discuss his disastrous town hall the day before.

But according to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, he bailed at the last minute.

President Donald Trump took it upon himself Friday afternoon to call out a White House reporter on live TV for having the gall to ask him a prepared question.

The moment came Friday during a question and answer segment when Trump stopped a reporter mid-sentence to deliver a presidential scolding over how she was asking her question.

Far-right activist Henry "Enrique" Tarrio was arrested after an altercation at the U.S. Capitol on Friday, MSNBC reported.

Tarrio, a convicted seditionist, served as the chairman of the Proud Boys from 2018 to 2021. He, along with Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, were banned from Washington, D.C., though Rhodes had that ban lifted in January. It's unclear if Tarrio's ban is still in effect.

President Donald Trump invited the governors of the U.S. to the White House on Friday for lunch — and he appeared not to be the biggest fan of one of his guests.

Trump bragged about his ongoing war against transgender youth in sports.

Donald Trump's choice to be the new director of the FBI got off to a rough start on Thursday after he was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate by only two votes.

According to MSNBC's Ken Dilanian, on Friday the controversial Kash Patel struck a "conciliatory" tone with employees of the FBI, which was a change from his first encounter.

Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, the justice and intelligence correspondent reported that, before Patel made his appearance on Thursday, the 7th floor at the FBI headquarters was ordered cleared.

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"Yesterday when he first arrived at the bureau headquarters, to some people, he was sending a bit of a different message because what I'm told by three people familiar with the matter, is that before he arrived all the support employees on the seventh floor where the director's office is –– I'm talking about executive assistants and people who move the paper around, the bureaucracy ––they were all told to pack their desks."

"They were being reassigned, and they were to be removed from the seventh floor and then when he arrived with his own team the director's suite was sealed off, I'm told, and no one else saw him essentially assuming command."

He then added, "So those people they're not fired, they're civil servants, and they're going to find other jobs within the organization. But it is sending a message to some people at the FBI, at least, that Mr. Patel doesn't necessarily trust the workforce that he has now been assigned to oversee."

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got personal with an NBC reporter on Friday morning after he called her out for misrepresenting a dollar figure the Department of Government Efficiency claims it uncovered in its search for fraud.

In a brief gaggle outside of the Brady Briefing Room, NBC's Peter Alexander put the fledgling press secretary on the spot after she praised the work DOGE has been doing, which led her to drop her smile and snarl at him.

In the exchange, Leavitt proclaimed, "I think it's fraudulent that the American government has been ripping off taxpayers in this way and we also do know there has been extensive fraud, particularly if you look at Social Security."

Americans have reacted to President Donald Trump's vast cuts to government services by flooding their local lawmakers with complaints, and one former congressman expects this will scare off future town hall events.

Trump tasked Elon Musk with making massive government cuts to eliminate "waste, fraud, and abuse" through his Department of Government Efficiency. Since then, lawsuits have plagued the departments over the cuts it has made to the government without any congressional input.

President Donald Trump was ridiculed on Friday morning for going down another internet conspiracy rabbit hole and telling reporters he fears Ft. Knox does not contain all the gold the government has been claiming.

In a recent interview on Air Force One, the president told reporters, "We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox,” before adding, "If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”

Using a late-night monologue on Trump latest obsession by TV host Stephen Colbert as a leaping-off point, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire laughed at the president for buying into another unsupported fantasy pushed in conspiracy circles.

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After watching the Colbert clip, a laughing Scarborough told a smirking Lemire, "You know, Jonathan, well, a couple of things here. Ronald Reagan's aides used to be distressed that he would look at Reader's Digest and, in reading Reader's Digest, he would get ideas for policies. Right now, like, if that's all Donald Trump read instead of the garbage on X, all of the conspiracy theories on X, that would be like for his staff members, that would be a wonderful thing."

"But so much that gets like so many conspiracy theories that get knocked around on X actually end up coming out of the president's mouth," he pointed out. "I mean, he could talk to Steve Mnuchin. You remember that picture of Steve Mnuchin and his wife at Fort Knox back in the in the first term? Yeah, exactly, so I think I think there's still gold at Fort Knox but, yeah, it's just it's an example isn't it? Conspiracy theories run wild."

That led Lemire to quip, "Right now the nation turns its lonely eyes toward Reader's Digest."

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"Voters are angry" at Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor Elon Musk for cutting thousands of government jobs across the country, according to new polling.

The South Africa-born tech mogul and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency have taken a figurative chainsaw – like the literal one he brandished onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) – to the federal government and scooped up troves of highly sensitive personal data about workers and taxpayers, and CNN's Harry Enten said voters are furious at his activity.

A clip of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) brutally dismantling the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a man to be trusted, as Donald Trump has claimed, is indicative of how the majority of GOP lawmakers are privately appalled at Trump's Russia cheerleading.

That is according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who claimed GOP lawmakers are "whispering" in the GOP cloakroom about the president's seeming betrayal of the people of Ukraine.