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With her confirmation hearing scheduled this week, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) may see her nomination to be Donald Trump's next labor secretary go down in flames due to Republican Party resistance.

That led MSNBC's Michael Steele to express mock indignation that Republicans are actually bucking the president on a Cabinet nominee who also happens to be a Republican herself.

Referring to a report that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has claimed he thinks at least 15 GOP senators will not vote to confirm the nominee, Steele made a point about the hypocrisy involved in the confirmation process.

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With Paul stating Chavez-DeRemer won't get his vote and telling reporters, "I’m the national spokesman and lead author of the right-to-work bill. Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work but would pre-empt state law on right to work — I think it’s not a good thing," Steele reacted to "The Weekend' co-host Alicia Menedez's reporting.

After being told the nomination is in peril because "...some business lobbyists are unhappy and mystified by the pick," Steele exclaimed, "Now hold up. I'm a little bit confused this early on a Sunday morning. So you mean to tell me these Republicans are prepared to level up absolute incompetence like Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and they're concerned about the labor secretary that's been nominated by Donald Trump?"

"She was nominated by Trump, right?" he joked. "So they're going to lose 15 Republicans due to her union-aligned views. But wait a minute Republicans. I thought we were now pro-worker. I thought we were for the working man and woman –– you know, they're part of unions. But, you know, we know what the game is here."

"So the lady who's competent and can actually do the kind of bridge building that Republicans always bragged they are doing into the labor market, into working families" he lectured. "Y'all don't want her because of her so-called union-aligned views. I don't even know what the hell that means since she was nominated by Donald Trump."

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller lashed out at "radical left" judges who have blocked Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department's federal payments system.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Miller to respond to "efforts by some of these liberal judges to stop President Trump from allowing Elon Musk access to these issues."

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem refused to rule out detaining shoplifters at Guantanamo Bay with other migrants.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Dana Bash asked Noem about the possibility of detaining people who committed low-level crimes at the offshore detention center.

Fox News host Shannon Bream grilled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after he pushed claims that USAID was a waste of taxpayer money, noting that many of the claims from conservatives had been "debunked."

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Johnson suggested he was "comforted" by the way President Donald Trump and DOGE Chair Elon Musk were dismantling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy warned of "lazy" potheads during a segment on smoking marijuana.

During a Sunday Fox & Friends discussion about a Canadian study that linked marijuana use to schizophrenia, Duffy and Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier decried the "dangers of smoking."

Joe Scarborough is "accommodating" Donald Trump and Elon Musk, a former GOP insider said Saturday.

Political strategist Steve Schmidt weighed in on his show, The Warning, saying the MSNBC "Morning Joe" host didn't do enough to stand up to two Republican lawmakers singing Musk's praises in a recent TV interview.

MAGAland voters who are now unhappy with Donald Trump's appointees running roughshod over the government with billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE workers doing the most damage, got no sympathy from MSNBC's Michael Steele on Saturday morning.

From his perch on "The Weekend," the former head of the Republican National Committee noted that the plans found within the controversial far-right Project 2025 document are being enacted and those who thought before the election that it would never happen are now getting a rude awakening.

With co-host Symone Sanders Townsend pointing out that many Americans are just now finding out how dependent they are on federal employees and government policies that impact their daily lives, Steele stepped in.

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"It hurts, it hurts a lot of people, it hurts a lot of families," he offered." And you know, I know from some folks in MAGAland that I've talked to who are now sitting there going, 'Well, I didn't think, I didn't think that it would go here. I didn't think it would be like this.'"

"And I was like, 'I don't know what to tell you, boo!'" he continued while laughing and then adding, "The man told you this! What you want to do? What do you think being a dictator for one day meant?"

"Let's go back, I don't know, five years, six years," he later added. "Donald Trump has always told you what he wants to do, and he tells you because he doesn't think you can stop him. And so it was very important to understand what leveling up Project 2025 was all about."

"Keep in mind they backtracked on Project 2025 because they got called out on it," he continued. "If no one had focused on a 900-page policy paper, trust me, right now you'd be going, everybody would be going, 'Where? What Project? 2025?' But you knew. You knew, you had it."

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A proposal from Donald Trump's Department of Justice to promise to give FBI agents who investigated the Jan 6 insurrection two days before their names are released to the public was swatted aside by a former federal prosecutor on Saturday morning.

In a fight playing out in the courts, CNN is reporting, "Several FBI employees, along with the agency’s union, sued, saying they feared for their safety should their identities be made public. The employees specifically feared that the list would be handed over to either the White House or DOGE, which they said raised the likelihood that names would become public."

Taking the side of the FBI agents whose lives could be threatened by Trump's MAGA followers if they are exposed, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann appeared on MSNBC's "The Weekend" to make his feelings known.

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"So I'm going to channel my inner Michael Steele, which is 'on what planet is there any justification for making the names of these people public? " he told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez as co-host Steele looked on. "I mean, the idea that it's, 'Oh, don't worry, there's a 48 hour window'? Great, that's better than nothing but there's no legitimate reason to ever make these names public.'"

"I mean, the idea that the Department of Justice went in there and said, 'Okay, well, we'll agree to a 48 hour period,' if I were the judge it should be like, 'I'm sorry, what about never?' I mean, the idea that this is what's going on. There's a list of people who did their job! And we all saw the January 6th events unfold in front of our eyes. It would have been a dereliction of duty to not do something."

"The Department of Justice's view is not only should the criminals be pardoned, but the people who investigated should be under investigation for doing their job," he added before exclaiming, "I mean, it is insane."

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The chair of the former "Arab Americans for Trump," which underwent a name change after Donald Trump declared he wanted to clear the Gaza Strip of Palestinians as part of a U.S. takeover, was forced to scramble on Saturday morning on CNN.

Appearing with host Victor Blackwell, Bishara Bahbah grew aggravated when asked if he was lied to by Trump prior to the election only to be betrayed this past week during a press conference.

"The last time you were on, the name of your group was Arab Americans for Trump. You changed it this week after those announcements about Gaza. Do you no longer support the president?" Blackwell pressed his guest.

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'Well, Arab Americans for Trump was created to help President Trump win the election," Bahbah replied. "We wanted an end to the war in Gaza, primarily, and the president also promised us a lasting peace in the Middle East that is satisfactory to all parties. Based on those two promises, we lent the president our vote. Now, when he started suggesting that relocating Gazans, which is against international law, against Palestinian interests, against the continuity of a Palestinian state between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, we could not come out with a statement under the title of Arab Americans for Trump. First of all, we're not a cult. Secondly, we want peace. We started supporting the president because we wanted peace and as a result, we changed the name."

"So you say that the president told you in your response to saying that you're in this for a two-state solution 100%? Do you think the president lied to you?" Blackwell asked.

"You know, it remains to be seen," Bahbah deflected. "We're three weeks into this game, and a lot of things have been happening as you mentioned on your show and I believe that the president wants a legacy of peace. He wants to be known as a peacemaker, he wants to be known as the president who has been able to achieve that, something that no other U.S. president has been able to achieve, which is peace in the Middle East. there cannot be peace in the Middle East without a two-state solution, period."

"He apparently doesn't believe that because what we've heard from him this week is that he wants the Palestinians out, everybody can come back," Blackwell fired back.

"I mean, we'll play a little bit more from the president, but you say that will remain to be seen. What else do you need to see from the president? What he told you before the election is not what he's saying now. What additional variable are you waiting for to determine if he's committed or not to a two-state solution?" the CNN host persisted.

"Well, you know, we helped the president win the elections. Next year there will be elections for Congress and Republican's hold on Congress is very shaky right now," Bahbah offered. "So without our support, the Republicans will not be able to hold Congress. So we have the leverage over the political system. With our votes to make sure that the president's agenda continues on. But we will not accept the relocation of Palestinians outside of Gaza. Period."

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A MAGA Republican operative got testy with a culture critic Friday night on CNN when asked if he was ok with racism in the GOP.

The exchange happened during a discussion over Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump supporting the rehiring of a 25-year-old staffer in the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, who resigned after racist posts came to light this week.