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Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Reince Priebus downplayed President Donald Trump's suggestion that anything he did was legal — including violating the U.S. Constitution — as long as he "saves the country."

Trump made the remarks during a Saturday post on Truth Social: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested Manhattan's former top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, was a "snake" with questionable morals because she resigned instead of dropping a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams after President Donald Trump's Justice Department ordered her to.

During a "snake story" Sunday morning on Fox & Friends, co-host Lisa Boothe noted Sassoon refused to drop the charges because she was "confident" Adams had committed crimes.

According to MSNBC host Katie Phang and ex-FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove will likely be called into the courtroom of Judge Dale E. Ho of Federal District Court in Manhattan to explain his rationale for letting New York City Mayor Eric Adams walk away from corruption charges.

Former prosecutor Phang kicked off her show by first referring to Donald Trump as a "convicted felon" before introducing her guest and asking about the chaos Bove has created among SDNY prosecutors that ended up turning into a major scandal as career prosecutors resigned rather than accede to his demands.

After Pang prompted her guest with a suggestion that Judge Ho will jump into the fray, Weissmann replied that the judge had good reason to. Two reasons he subsequently added.

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"I agree with you, and I think one of the reasons that that's going to happen is because as you and I know, this does not happen," Weissmann told Phang. "This is so, just so unusual to see career people resigning rather than follow an order and they do that when they believe that the order is illegal and or unethical."

"In fact, the only other time in recent history I can think of that is in Trump 1.0, when prosecutors resigned in the Roger Stone case, rather than carry out instructions that they believed were also improper," he explained. "So I think that Judge Ho is going to have a hearing, and he has every reason to do it."

"I can give you two reasons," he elaborated. "One is, as you noted, Danielle Sassoon and her colleagues say, that there's this improper quid pro quo and that has been disputed by Eric Adams' counsel, so there is a factual dispute and that gives every reason for a judge to hold a hearing. That's what judges do when there's a factual dispute and he can say to Emil Bove, 'If you think this is wrong, if you think that this is not what happened, you can come here and take the stand and put your right hand up and swear to tell the truth and I will make credibility determinations.'"

"And oh, by the way, and this is something you will appreciate as a trial lawyer, 'You know those notes that you confiscated and you didn't want anyone to see? Bring those with you I want to see what the contemporaneous notes are, that you didn't want anyone to take out of that room to see what people were saying about that meeting.'" he added with a grin.

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An attempt to praise Donald Trump's still-in-process intervention to bring about the end of the war in Ukraine after Russia's unprovoked invasion did not go well on CNN on Saturday morning.

During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five" hosted by Sarah Sidner, radio host Melik Abdul, a member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, was asked what he thought about the ongoing meetings at the Munich Security Conference where Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been holding court before the international press for the first time.

"I think it's a very good thing that Donald Trump is at least talking to [Russian president Vladimir] Putin, because the world has pretty much shut him out," he began. "You can't have a peace summit without inviting the other party there, so I think it's absolutely significant."

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"But if you listen to Pete Hegseth, our secretary of defense, said that this issue of this possibility of Ukraine getting NATO membership, it is a no. And if you consider what our military has said, even last year, you have military analysts saying that Ukraine –– this is aside from the 2014 borders –– that Ukraine was unlikely to get any of the territory that Russia has gotten so far."

"I think that it is now time to have a serious conversation about our investment in Ukraine, and I think that Donald Trump is doing the right thing with forcing these sides to actually talk, because Europe was not interested in doing this," he offered.

That brought a quick retort from podcaster and noted tech reporter Kara Swisher.

"Except he's giving away the store before it happens," she lectured. "I mean, why would you say we're not going to do this? We're not going to do that? "

"And then the whole thing about territory," she added. "I mean, you know, someone pointed this out in Britain: what part of the United States would you give away if Canada invaded? Would it be Maine or Michigan?"

"Russia was the invader here and right now they're talking about you can't be a NATO nation, "she continued. "We're going to let them keep their territory. It just feels like you don't negotiate ahead of yourself, you have a firm stance and they had to pull it all back."

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MSNBC host Michael Steele launched a fiery tirade on Saturday morning during a discussion on whether the courts can rein in Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and then ended up attacking both Democrats and Republicans for not forcefully pushing back.

After "The Weekend" co-host Alicia Menendez read from a report from The Nation stating the courts cannot "save us," the former RNC chair went off.

The battle for the next budget bill is being entirely played out among Republicans with three factions trying to get the upper hand and it will not end well for the Republican Party.

That is the opinion of New York Times congressional reporter Luke Broadwater who told the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," he expects war will break out between the multiple factions within the House GOP caucus.

As he noted, the far-right Freedom Caucus is demanding massive cuts to entitlements which is angering moderate Republicans in districts that could easily flip, thus putting them out of a job when the midterm elections roll around.

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Hovering over all of that are demands Donald Trump is making of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) who is trying to hold the GOP caucus together knowing he can ill afford to lose more than two votes on any deal.

According to Broadwater, "You have a lot of competing priorities in Congress, right? You have those blue state Democrats that you just mentioned and blue state Republicans that you just mentioned who want to see the state and local tax deduction be greater so there's less of a tax burden on their citizens."

"So look, all these people are going to be weighing in, they're going to be fighting over this," he later added. "You have the Freedom Caucus at the same time insisting on these $2 trillion in cuts and the president wants his big tax cuts, $4.5 trillion."

"So, you know, and it's like a 1 or 2 seat majority at any moment, depending on who's there and who's sick and who's out of town, so you lose 1 or 2 Republicans and you can't get the bill passed," he explained. "So yeah, look, I expect this to be a long, protracted fight. I expect it to get ugly and, you know, we're going to see some Republican-on-Republican violence."

Reacting to the chaos created by Donald Trump's second in command at the Department of Justice this week that led to well-regarded prosecutors resigning to avoid dropping corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former U.S. attorney slammed him on MSNBC.

Appearing on "The Weekend," Kristy Greenberg, former deputy chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, lashed out at Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, for how he has conducted himself at Trump's direction.

Applauding the prosecutors who resigned rather than bend to Bove's will, Greenberg told the hosts, "They took the hard road, but they did the right thing and they spoke truth to power."

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"And then you have the opposite," she continued. "You have someone like Emil who really sold his soul for power. That's just plainly what happened here. His memos are nasty, they're brash, they're disingenuous."

"He kind of changes his reasoning throughout, you know, from memo to memo and they're just, you know, they're just, not what you would be accustomed to seeing from a former prosecutor and certainly not somebody who is in DOJ leadership."

"It's extremely disappointing to see, but I'm glad that SDNY stepped up. And I think we'll just have to see now what Judge [Dale] Ho does in the Southern District of New York. I hope he has a hearing, and I hope he holds their feet to the fire and asks really tough questions about why this move would be in the interests of justice."

The suggestion that race played a role when prosecutors initially filed corruption charges against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams sent a CNN conservative commentator and a Democratic operative into a Valentine’s Day head-to-head confrontation.

The on-air clash came Friday night when former Hillary Clinton campaign official Karen Finney launched a fierce pushback during a discussion with Shermicahel Singleton, a GOP strategist, over the Trump Justice Department’s controversial dismissal of Adams’ case.

President Donald Trump’s series of executive actions since returning to the White House last month – from pardons of violent insurrectionists to mass firings of federal law enforcement personnel – fits an alarming pattern of "criminality."

That’s according to former Obama White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, who told former CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Friday that Trump’s “latest scandal” is “the kind of thing that happens in a dictatorship, not a democracy.”

CNN's Boris Sanchez grilled Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) on Friday about the role of X owner Elon Musk in unilaterally shutting down entire federal agencies.

During the interview, Sanchez asked LaLota if he was comfortable with Musk usurping Congress's power of the purse.

"The View" began Friday with commentary on Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) opposition to some of President Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees.

Trump attacked McConnell from the Oval Office Thursday, alleging that the senator's votes against Cabinet picks weren't about the nominees, but rather McConnell's personal animus toward him.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) characterized the Justice Department scandal over the prosecutor of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as nothing more than a "drug deal" and championed conservative prosecutors unwilling to take part in it.

A former assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York publicly resigned on Thursday, calling the Department of Justice's primary justification for dismissing the case against Adams a quid pro quo over immigration raids. That began a domino effect, with staff in the DOJ's public integrity section resigning Thursday night and another lawyer at SDNY quitting on Friday.

Following an abrasive speech delivered by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference, the former defense minister for Germany called what the U.S. is proposing "nonsense" and complained the U.S. is only sowing more confusion.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg lashed out at the Trump administration for doing nothing to clear up how the Russian invasion of Ukraine should be resolved.

"We're all puzzled, Ana," he stated. "It's a messaging that changes almost on an hourly basis. In the last few days we have been surprised by the call that the president had with Vladimir Putin and then especially by the fact that his newly appointed secretary of defense is obviously taking negotiation tokens off the table."

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"So and all of these things without without having the European allies and partners somehow included," he continued. "So there is confusion –– probably the mildest word I can find for that."

Asked about Trump's assertion that he doesn't see any way Ukraine could be admitted to NATO as he defended Russia, Guttenberg replied, "It's nonsense and we all know that that the war started out of very, very, different reasons. And the problem we are facing right now with that phone call Trump had with Vladimir Putin is that in our perception, it legitimizes aggression."

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