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"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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New York City Mayor Eric Adams appeared on "The Fox & Friends" Friday morning with the so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, and left people scratching their heads.

A little over 17 hours previously, former acting Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned with an explosive letter accusing top Justice Department officials of a quid pro quo to drop Adams' corruption charges if he cooperates with the administration's mass deportations plan.

Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was raked over the coals on Friday morning for interfering with the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's office prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, which led to mass resignations

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg lashed out at Bove, and the entire Donald Trump Department of Justice, for letting Adams off the hook on corruption charges in return for helping the president's administration round-up undocumented immigrants.

That, in turn, led to the resignation of acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and five other prosecutors to also step down after also refusing to take part of the dropping of charges.

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Pressed to weigh in, Aronberg fired off a furious response.

"The whole thing stinks!' he told "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire. "So let's go back to what Eric Adams said on Fox News. He said I have a lawyer, Alex Spiro who's a really good lawyer, he would never do something like this. Well, Alex Spiro is a very good lawyer, but he's also known for being hyper-aggressive."

"He was criticized by the judge in the Jay-Z matter, he represents Jay-Z for his over aggression, attacking the other lawyer," he continued "He's also the same lawyer for Elon Musk, so I'll leave that there."

"So, as if to prove that this was part of a corrupt deal, Eric Adams is not only appearing with the border czar [Tom Homan] but he's also assuring publicly the border czar that he will use his executive powers to allow federal immigration authorities to back into Rikers Island. That's like a 180 degree turn from the typical sanctuary city policies that New York City had."

"So, you know, it sure looks like there's a quo in exchange for the quid here," he continued. "And then you have Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who I think is doing Attorney General Pam Bondi a disservice by his actions. He wasn't even approved by the Senate yet and he was Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, and he's not even trying to hide his motivations here."

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Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he lobbed culture-war criticisms at European allies but said very little about the core security issues facing the continent, most prominently the United States government's position on the war in Ukraine.

In analyzing the speech on CNN, foreign correspondent Nick Paton Walsh predicted that Vance's speech would mostly fall upon deaf ears among Europeans.

Former prosecutor turned U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) hammered Donald Trump's Department of Justice for forcing a U.S. attorney to resign rather than drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill was asked about the resignation letter written by then-acting U.S Attorney Danielle Sassoon to AG Pam Bondi and the blistering response that Sassoon received from Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.

McCaskill responded by flagging what she felt was an alarming part of the exchange.

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Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, she explained, "Prosecutors across the country are tremendously proud of this woman. I think that the cold bucket of water that was dumped on prosecutors all across the country, state, local, federal was the letter from Bove instructing her to dismiss the case."

"And here's what about that letter was so alarming," she continued. "Typically, Mika, there's only two reasons that a case would be dismissed after filing, and those are based on either the soundness of the legal arguments in terms of where the facts apply to the law, or secondly the quality and quantity of the evidence –– there has to be a problem with one of those two for a case to be dismissed ethically."

"This guy Bove admitted in his letter they had not considered either one of those things –– that's called political corruption," she added. "That's called using politics to influence the application of a law in this country, and it was startling when I read that letter because, you know, having been in the position to make terribly hard decisions about charging someone you have to be guided by the law and the evidence and not all of this BS that the Trump Justice Department is using."

"I mean the greatest city in the world deserves better than Eric Adams," the former senator added.

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Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney has opened the Department of Justice up to "some embarrassment" with his demand to drop corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, according to a CNN correspondent.

Emil Bove, a former Trump lawyer and now acting deputy attorney general, directed Danielle Sassoon, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to dismiss the case with prejudice, but she resigned in protest, and CNN's Kara Scannell reported what could come next in the case.

Reporting from the Munich Security Conference where the ongoing war between invading Russia and Ukraine is expected to be the main topic, the Washington Post's David Ignatius told MSNBC that mixed messages from Donald Trump's White House has attendees on the edge of their seats.

Speaking with the hosts of "Morning Joe," the venerable Ignatius claimed that an overnight speech from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has created increasing alarm that the unpredictable Trump could insert U.S. troops in Ukraine.

Speaking with MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire, the columnist reported, "Behind me is the packed lobby of the hotel where the Munich Security Conference is taking place. Everybody's jostling, its like a huge dinner party where everybody's trying to get a seat and that's kind of a metaphor for me of what's going on in these pre-negotiations. "

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Adding, "Everybody's trying to figure out what positions the U.S. is taking, how to respond to them, and the positions have been all over the map," he continued, "President Trump's initial description of his meeting with, or his conversations with Vladimir Putin was very warm. It led people to worry that Trump might be getting ready to sell out Ukraine."

"Similar comments by Pete Hegseth denying Ukraine the likelihood of membership in NATO added to those worries," he elaborated. "In the following two days, we've had people pulling back some of those comments to the point that Vice President J.D. Vance said yesterday that the U.S. might want to put tariffs on Russia and might even send troops into Ukraine to guarantee the peace agreement –– the very thing that President Trump had said two days before wouldn't happen."

"So there's a lot of confusion during the three days of this conference here in Munich, where every foreign policy or national security official from around the world gathers," he added.

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CNN's Jim Sciutto challenged a conservative commentator to justify Donald Trump's weakness against Russia, and then moved on when he was unimpressed with his response.

The TV host started out by asking Republican strategist Brad Todd why the president had made concessions to Russia heading into negotiations to wind down the war in Ukraine after antagonizing U.S. allies.

Reacting to the explosive legal drama playing out in New York where an acting U.S. attorney resigned rather than drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a former member of Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said it could have a major ripple effect across the country.

Late Thursday, interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon and five other officials resigned when pressured by the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department, Emil Bove, to drop the case.

CNN's Jim Sciutto interrupted a conservative commentator who argued there was nothing extraordinary about an interim U.S. attorney resigning rather than carry out a directive from Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon and five high-ranking DOJ officials resigned Thursday after she refused to carry out an order from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove – a former Trump criminal defense lawyer – to drop corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, but GOP strategist Brad Todd argued the case was no unusual.

A Republican strategist and former staffer for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lamented on CNN infighting between President Donald Trump and the former Senate majority leader.

McConnell has repeatedly swiped at Trump in recent weeks, criticizing the president's isolationist foreign policy views and even opposing some of his Cabinet nominees.