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A Republican suggested to C-SPAN that food assistance for poor people was like feeding bears on the side of the road.

During a Thursday call-in segment with right-wing pundit Armstrong Williams, a Georgia Republican caller named Gary recalled his vacations to the Smoky Mountains.

Donald Trump issued an executive order that undermines the independence of regulatory agencies established by Congress in a move described as a power grab.

The order seeks executive authority over agencies established as independent by the legislative branch by requiring them to submit proposed regulations to the White House for review and claims the power to block them from spending money on anything that conflicts with the president's priorities.

Mercedes Schlapp argued that young conservatives should attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to find the love of their lives.

Schlapp, whose husband founded CPAC, hyped the conference in a Wednesday interview on Newsmax.

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michale McFaul went on a torrid rant on Wednesday morning to Donald Trump's comments about the Ukraine war, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemingly changing direction and allying himself with Russia.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McFaul went so far as to say what he witnessed on Tuesday was "horrific."

The White House clouded the already murky authority structure of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency in a court filing arguing that Elon Musk isn't even an employee of the advisory panel — and a reporter who has covered its inner workings tried to make sense of that Wednesday.

The tech billionaire has been installing youthful employees with no government experience at federal agencies, where they have accessed highly sensitive data on taxpayers and payment systems. Musk has made sweeping cuts to congressionally approved funding and the government workforce while claiming to have an outside role in Donald Trump's administration.

CNN's Scott Jennings was left momentarily speechless after host Sara Sidner challenged him to justify Donald Trump's attacks on a judge.

U.S. District judge Tanya Chutkan declined to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive government data across federal agencies, finding that Democratic state attorneys general had failed to show they would "suffer imminent, irreparable harm absent a temporary restraining order."

A conservative commentator compared Donald Trump's relationship with U.S. adversaries as "rival crime families," and said the president was remaking American foreign policy to fit his antiquated worldview.

U.S. and Kremlin officials met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss a deal to carve up Ukraine and its resources as part of an agreement to end Russia's invasion, but didn't include any Ukrainian representatives, and CNN commentator Jonah Goldberg said the president seems to view the world through an imperial lens.

Longtime Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was almost speechless on MSNBC on Wednesday morning after watching Donald Trump spew flagrant falsehoods about Russia's invasion of Ukraine while siding with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Speaking in Florida on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, "This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before pressing for elections in Ukraine, falling in line with Putin's hope to depose President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Ignatius cut right to the chase with, "Yesterday was in many ways a shameful day for the United States."

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"As you just said, standing up to Russian aggression for many decades has been at the center of American foreign policy and at the center of our identity as a country," he continued. "Yesterday two big things happened. First, the United States in the meeting in Saudi Arabia normalized a regime headed by somebody who's been designated as a war criminal and all of the crimes of this war, the killing, the just brutal assault on Ukraine –– illegal, brutal assault –– was, in effect, washed away."

"Then to have that followed by President Trump in Florida with the shocking comment that the war was really the fault of the victim, the war was really the fault of Ukraine, 'You never should have started it?' I can't believe that a president of United States would have said something as factually wrong and insulting as that."

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CNN panelists clashed over how long Donald Trump and his seeming co-president Elon Musk would remain in good graces, but they agreed that JD Vance had been sidelined after his election as vice president.

The pair appeared Tuesday night in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, who reacted to their apparent chumminess by comparing them to "two brothers," but conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg predicted that Trump's MAGA base would force a crackup between the president and his billionaire benefactor.

Donald Trump's attempt to blame Ukraine and its leaders for the Russian invasion during a press conference on Tuesday was torn apart on MSNBC on Wednesday morning as completely at odds with reality.

On Tuesday, the president, who has regularly heaped praise upon Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that the leaders of Ukraine have no right to complain that they are being excluded from peace talks being headed by neophyte Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Russian officials.

As part of his comments, Trump insisted, "You know, they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before adding, "So when they're worried about not being seated, you mean somebody that should have gone in and made a deal a long time ago? And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well."

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After sharing the clip from Trump's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough told his clearly appalled panel, "There's so many things wrong with that, I know you've got a fact check on it. I will say first of all, the idea that they could have just given away a little land to Vladimir Putin? Wrong."

"He [Putin] wanted Kyiv, he wanted to be in Kyiv in three days. He wanted Odessa. He wanted to rebuild the old Russian empire by seizing their capitol, Kyiv and Odessa," he continued. "So the idea that –– that is so factually inaccurate. There's not a single military historian, there's not a single person who's covered this war that would actually say that's accurate. But there's so many other things in. those statements that are just flat wrong factually."

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On Tuesday, the White House social media accounts published a video of people in leg restraints and handcuffs being loaded onto a plane as part of a deportation operation.

On the social media accounts, the White House joked it was an ASMR video, an acronym for autonomous sensory meridian response. Such videos have gained popularity in recent years among people who enjoy certain sounds. The video showcases the clanking of the restraints on the migrants.

President Donald Trump confirmed he would continue to punish The Associated Press if the news organization continued using "certain phrases" including the "Gulf of Mexico."

During a Tuesday news conference, Trump was asked if there was anything the AP could do to be allowed to report from the Oval Office and Air Force One again.