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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," MSNBC host Ali Velshi claimed that the wheeling and dealing of the stock issued by Trump Media & Technology Group, which trades under the ticker DJT, is likely drawing more than the normal amount of scrutiny by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Velshi, who started out at MSNBC as a business reporter, claimed he has been closely watching the price plummet and the lawsuits tied to the company play out in the press and there should be cause for concern that not everything looks above board.

After first taking a shot at the stock centered on the lackluster performance of Truth Social, which caused the value to go into freefall, he claimed he didn't, for the moment, see anything Donald Trump has done that would have him in trouble with the SEC, but there should be concerns for investors.

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"We know the FBI is involved because of these two guys who were insider trading," he told host Phang. "We are not sure what the connection is, and we are not sure whether Donald Trump or anybody in the company knew about it."

"That said, the SEC does have rules and nothing Donald Trump does generally sounds like a guy who is equipped to follow those kinds of rules," he continued. "So, I would imagine the SEC is looking at it very closely. I have been studying it closely, there is nothing I have seen that is clearly an SEC violation, but it is awfully messy."

"If you are going to run a public company, there are actual rules and if you violate them, the SEC will come after you," he elaborated. "I don't know what it is; everything that I talked about right now seems to be legal, including [TikTok investor] Jeff Yass involving himself in this company, possibly for the benefit of his TikTok stocks. But I would assure you there are some people at the SEC who are watching it closely."

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The latest jobs report showed another month of enormous growth, with over 300,000 new jobs created, far above the expected number of 200,000 — and Fox News' Maria Bartiromo struggled to find a negative spin to put on things.

Ultimately, she told viewers that the economy was probably "too" good.

One week into trading on Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. stock led the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to warn long-term investors they need to avoid the company at all costs because there is no evidence it will ever be successful.

Appearing with co-host Joe Scarborough, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, who came to broadcasting after a successful career on Wall Street, agreed with American businessman Barry Diller who trashed the company during an appearance on CNBC on Thursday.

Appearing on "Squawk Box," Diller told the host, "I mean, it’s ridiculous. The company has no revenue.”

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“It’s a scam, just like everything he’s [Trump] ever been involved in is some sort of con," the founder of Fox Broadcasting Company continued.

First stating she wished the clip would be shown again on MSNBC, Ruhle stated, "When we're talking about the truth, nobody likes to go on TV and drop a truth-bomb like Barry Diller does. I called Truth Social a fakakta company, whatever word you want."

"This company is absolutely not worth where it's at on paper," she added. "What's happened in the last 24 hours is Donald Trump is now pumping it up on his platform — earlier this week it was funny because he wasn't. His entire universe is talking up his game. Now that he has a public company, he could get himself entangled in huge problems with the SEC."

"It's going to be interesting to see how he plays this," she later added, "I would make one other point: it shows how clever this is. He's not on the board of the company. [JPMorgan Chase CEO] Jamie Dimon cannot come out and pump up his company because they'll come for him. But Donald Trump, who owns 60 percent of the company and is suing his cofounders, is not an officer of the company. He may have found a loophole where he gets all of the upside and none of the downside, a true Trump special."

MSNBC regular Donny Deutsch jumped in to add, "Let me give you one simple reality: advertisers will never advertise on there. There's a reason Fox let Tucker Carlson go. No matter how big their numbers are, they can't get advertisers."

"You will not have advertisers on Truth Social," he reiterated. "Maybe you'll have gold bouillon or eagle statues and pillows and whatnot. Be clear if you're investing in this company, there's no chance this will ever be successful from a revenue point of view."

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"CNN This Morning" host Kasie Hunt had her panel laughing on Friday morning after CNN's Melania Zanaon reported that an inebriated Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) had to be cut off by servers at a GOP function where she kept bothering Donald Trump.

As Zanona reported, Boebert was singled out for being "overserved" alcoholic beverages at the event while seated at the same table with the former president and also had to be reined in by his security detail.

"It was a Republican event, Donald Trump was headlining, and the server who was coming to bring alcohol refused to bring her any more alcohol because they thought that she was overserved," Zanona recalled. "She also was trying to take pictures with Donald Trump and eventually Donald Trump's security detail stepped in and asked her to stop doing that, according to those who witnessed it that I spoke to."

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"Now, Donald Trump still did endorse her, so clearly he wasn't maybe that bothered by this incident, but a Trump endorsement alone is not going to be enough to put her over the finish line. So she is facing a very tough challenge in that June primary," she added.

"So just to be clear, basically," a smirking Hunt interjected, "She went to a fundraiser in New York City with Donald Trump, got so drunk they had to cut her off? And then tried to take repeated pictures with Trump, and then they had to tell her, 'Hey lady like tone it down,' according to the witnesses?"

As the panelists laughed, Zanona replied, "This is how it went down and I want to remind viewers here that this came a few months after she got in trouble and had to apologize for her conduct at a Denver theater where she was watching a performance, a musical performance of Beetlejuice, she got kicked out for vaping and being loud, and there's security footage of it."

"There was much more than vaping," Hunt added to more laughter.

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Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) has gone all in for former President Donald Trump following his defeat of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the GOP primary — but many of Haley's rank-and-file supporters appear unwilling to follow him, and President Joe Biden is trying to seize on this with a new volley of battleground state advertising.

On CNN Friday, in response to reports of how aggressively the Biden campaign is targeting disaffected Republicans, he told anchor Kate Bolduan that Trump would shortly "pivot" into a more inclusive campaign — and was met with laughter.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early" on Friday morning, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg accused U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon of trying to protect Donald Trump from being tried for obstruction of justice.

Speaking with host Jonathan Lemire, the Florida prosecutor stated the Trump-appointed judge has plunged special counsel Jack Smith into "legal purgatory" with her latest ruling.

Late Thursday, Cannon denied Trump's bid to use the Presidential Records Act (PRA) as cover for hoarding sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort but still left a door open for the former president's lawyers to bring it up again during the trial — which still does not have a start date.

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According to Aronberg, Cannon is giving Smith little room to turn to the 11th Court of Appeals to intercede on his behalf.

After arguing that "Jack Smith is in a bit of a trick box. He wants to essentially call the judge's manager but the judge has to approve it first, and she hasn't done so yet," he was asked by Lemire what is next up for the special counsel.

"You've said the tone of special counsel Smith's filing shows he's right up against the edge, basically he's fed up with what he's heard from this judge and he might even consider going to the 11th Circuit Court and try to push them to remove Judge Cannon from the case. Do we think there's a possibility that could actually happen?" Lemire prompted.

"Judge Cannon has given Jack Smith reason to do so, but it's a high burden to reach," Aronberg replied. "If he thought he could get her removed he would have done so. He may try to file a motion to prevent Donald Trump from using this PRA defense at trial, and thus it wouldn't appear in the jury instructions. We'll see what happens, but then Judge Cannon has to hear the motion and rule on it and she can do a bunch of things to hurt Jack Smith here. He's in a bit of legal purgatory here. He can't really appeal that order so he's going to have to find other means — maybe the motion to recuse the judge is the option he chooses."

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents slog of a case, has put special counsel Jack Smith in a tough spot.

Laurence Tribe, while appearing on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, described the predicament Smith is in for as long as Cannon remains on the bench in the case.