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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) pointed out that Elon Musk, chair of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), "admitted that he was lying" about government waste at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) first subcommittee hearing on the billionaire's efforts to cut spending.

During Wednesday's subcommittee hearing chaired by Greene, Crockett noted that the Georgia Republican "missed every single one" of the hearings on improper payments in the previous Congress.

A former White House aide to Donald Trump believes he doesn't mind sharing the presidency with billionaire benefactor Elon Musk quite as much as outsiders seem to think.

The president has allowed the tech mogul to make recommendations for sweeping cuts to government agencies and the federal workforce, which has prompted comments about Musk serving as co-president, and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN that her spotlight-seeking former boss might not mind that dynamic for now.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) brought what he called a "d--- pic" of "President Elon Musk" to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) subcommittee hearing on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this committee," Garcia said at Wednesday's hearing. "Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a d--- pic [of Hunter Biden] in our Oversight congressional hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well."

Moments before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) convened her first hearing as chairperson of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Democrat who will serve on the committee served notice he plans to make her life miserable.

With the controversial Greene being handed a chairmanship designed by Republicans to assist unelected billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to gut government operations, a fiery Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said he will show up for the hearing, but has no intention of lending her a hand.

Appearing on MSNBC, he told host Ali Vitali Musk is an "... unelected billionaire with almost as much power as the president of the United States and I think we're going to bring the fire today."

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"And so I think even though we don't have all the power that we would like, we're going to use every minute that we are given at this hearing to call out the corruption and the lies and I think we're going to bring the fire today," he repeated.

"There's some that may question why Democrats are participating in a committee like this; if Republicans are cutting you off at the pass with subpoena power and wondering if you all being on committees like this doesn't validate or normalize the work of DOGE," host Vitali pressed him before adding the unofficial government agency, "... is certainly going about in anything but normal capacity here as it tries to basically rip out root and stem various parts of government, even agencies themselves."

"What would you say to folks like that?" she asked.

"Yeah, I would say that first, I have zero interest in working with Marjorie Taylor Greene, our chairwoman, on this committee or the House Republicans on this committee with anything as it relates to DOGE."

"What we're there to do is to fight, to push back on the lies, to bring attention to what's going on right now at our agencies, and to make sure that people know that we are going to fight every single day to ensure that we get Elon Musk out of our private information," he continued.

"But let's make no mistake about it, we are not going to be working with the House majority and we're certainly not going to be working with Marjorie Taylor Greene," he added. "I think, folks today are going to see us get really engaged and ask really tough questions."

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A Fox News segment admitted this week that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi was biased toward his agenda, which was "quite the 180" from Attorney General Merrick Garland under President Joe Biden.

During a Wednesday report, Fox News host Bill Hemmer noted that Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, had been tapped as the Justice Department's second-highest-ranking official.

CNN host Kate Bolduan confronted Republican Scott Jennings for questioning her integrity during a feisty segment on Wednesday morning about Elon Musk's appearance in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

After sharing clips of Musk attempting to explain what his controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been doing while claiming he has been "transparent," Boldaun asked the conservative CNN contributor if he agreed.

Instead, Jennings began by pointing out that Musk was working for free as if that had anything to do with her question.

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"He could be doing anything else," Jennings attempted. "He's got companies, he's the richest guy in the world, doesn't need to do this. He has decided to give his own time to a government of a country that he loves, that has given him all this opportunity."

"I take him at his word that he wants to be transparent, that he invites transparency," he added. "Obviously, everybody in the English-speaking world, media is looking into him every single day."

"The definition of it is he's not been on the front end of this so far, he has not been transparent. I mean, there maybe they ––," Bolduan shot back only to have Jennings talk over her with, "They are making routine announcements about the things they are finding, and they are inviting questions about the things they are finding every single day."

"But by definition, he's not being transparent, they're not, they're not providing data for the things that they say they have found evidence of. They just aren't," the CNN host corrected him.

"I mean, the White House has provided––," Jennings replied.

"You can make announcements, and he also did admit that he actually––," Bolduan stated.

"You just don't believe it," Jennings interrupted again "I mean, they are providing information. You just choose not to believe that it's true."

"No no no," Bolduan shot back. "I don't think anyone should just believe that it's true. Do you think that people have taken kickbacks of tens of millions of dollars from USAID?"

"Don't accuse me of just ––," the CNN host complained as Jennings cut her off with, "I'm just asking you, do you believe that there is any level of fraud, waste, fraud and abuse?"

"No, no, no, that's not what you're asking me and I'm going to ask the questions; don't accuse me of just ––," she exclaimed.

"If you believe that, do you believe that it's possible that they are finding and producing information about it?" Jennings interrupted again.

"Of course," the host replied. "That wasn't my question. My question was by definition, they're not being transparent."

"What do you want them to do?" the conservative asked.

"Provide data, if they're firing, if they're providing data that they have found people, everyone would want to know if someone has received kickbacks to the tune of tens of millions," she informed him.

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Ukraine's defense minister Rustem Umerov appeared to come away unimpressed from his meeting with U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, according to a national security reporter.

The newly installed Pentagon chief held talks with U.K. defense secretary John Healey before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, and CNN's Natasha Bertrand read between the lines on official summaries issued about Hegseth's meeting with his counterparts.

Elon Musk's staggering wealth has exploded since the election, and a Democratic lawmaker cast suspicion on his motives for gaining control of the federal government's payment system.

The tech billionaire and his DOGE lackeys have gained access to the Treasury Department's system for issuing payments, infiltrated the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management and proposed sweeping cuts across government agencies and the federal workforce, and Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) told CNN that he's concerned about what Musk is up to.

Reacting to the Oval Office press conference in Tuesday where Donald Trump sat at his desk and let billionaire Elon Musk soak up all the attention and answer a flurry of questions, the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were stunned to see the president let someone else be the center of attention.

After sharing clips of Musk fielding questions while his young son joined Trump in being a passive observer, co-host Jonathan Lemire promoted guest John Heilemann, "Weigh in, if you will, on that body language in the Oval Office –– It's so striking. When was the last time Donald Trump was in a press availability where he only got a couple questions and Elon Musk got the vast majority. It didn't seem to be sitting too well with the commander-in-chief."

"Well I think if there was any question about, Jonathan, who is the president right now and who is the co-president, at least the semiotics of that scene made the pretty clear," he replied. "Musk in the position of total dominance. The notion that they standing next to each other doesn't really give an accurate picture of what was happening. I mean, you had Musk towering over Trump. Trump at his desk kind of looking at Musk's kid, barely contributing to the conversation."

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"Way Too Early" host Ali Vitali contributed, "I'm glad we drilled down deeper on the optics of what was happening in the Oval yesterday, because it was striking to see Musk standing the attention of the room seemingly oriented around him. The tone that he used, I think, was also instructive: this flippant tone of we're doing things quickly, we may be wrong. But there are real impacts to that flippant tone and the fast pace that they're trying to enact here–– so that's the optics and the tone."

According to journalist Mark Leibovich, that may be the last time such a press conference will occur.

"I don't think a scene like what we saw yesterday is going to be repeated anytime soon, certainly without, you know, a kind of split-screen scenario with Donald Trump sitting there," he explained. "And I mean ... the bizarre sort of spectacle that it was. But yeah, taken alone, this could be a piece of real political hay that Democrats could make here."

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House speaker Mike Johnson downplayed president Donald Trump's defiance of court decisions blocking his executive orders, but a legal expert said his claims were completely off base.

The Louisiana Republican expressed agreement with vice president J.D. Vance's position that "judges aren’t allowed to control the executive branch’s legitimate power," which Johnson justified by claiming that former president Joe Biden had "literally trampled over the rule of law," but former U.S. attorney Michael Moore told CNN the comparison was invalid.

A discussion revolving around tech billionaire Elon Musk and his potential government conflicts quickly went south when longtime GOP strategist Scott Jennings put his fellow CNN guests – and host Abby Phillip – on blast for what he claimed were inappropriate suggestions.

The on-air moment unfolded Tuesday as Phillip introduced reports that staffers at Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency had greater access to government databases than previously reported.

President Donald Trump welcomed home an American teacher late Tuesday who was freed from Russian custody after being detained for more than three years — but refused to disclose what he gave up in the deal.

Marc Fogel was arrested in August 2021 at a Moscow airport after being found with less than an ounce of marijuana, which he used for medical purposes to alleviate back pain. Fogel, now 63, lived and taught in various countries, including Russia for nine years, including teaching the children of diplomats at the Anglo-American School in Moscow.

Moments after CNN’s Anderson Cooper slapped an on-air insult to former Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH), the host found himself apologizing for the remark.

The moment unfolded Tuesday on Cooper’s eponymous show “Anderson Cooper 360” as the primetime host and his guests discussed Elon Musk’s Oval Office appearance earlier in the day and transparency in government spending.