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During an MSNBC segment on Donald Trump launching what could turn into a trade war, one MSNBC host claimed that a bevy of emails she received on Saturday seemed to indicate panic at the White House.

With the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" joined by MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes to discuss the tariffs that went into effect on Saturday aimed at Canada, Mexico and China, co-host Alicia Menendez claimed there may be doubts behind the scenes in the Trump administration.

After guest Hayes said of Trump, "He has a pathological obsession with tariffs. Like he genuinely, truly believes like –– yes, it's part stunt, yes, it's part demonization –– but also you can't move him off this idea, this wrongheaded idea that tariffs are the solution to all of America's problems," Menendez interjected a personal note aimed at her co-host Symone Sanders Townsend.

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"Symone, I was thinking of you last night," she began. "Did you notice, I had, like, I went into my email and there were, like, five different emails from the White House as though they put out five statements from this and i was thinking of you as someone who has done that work before. It didn't project confidence, right?"

"Like when you actually believe that what you're going to do is work, you're like, ''Here's the thing, we're doing,'" she added. "It felt like they kept explaining."

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Vice President J.D. Vance suggested Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) "not to hire" white people.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Vance said the Trump administration would "do a better job at the policy so that we make sure that aviation is as safe as it possibly can" after a recent deadly plane crash near Washington, D.C.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused to rule out housing women, children, and families at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Noem about President Donald Trump's plan to expand Gitmo detention facilities for immigrants and migrants.

Donald Trump's enhanced deportation policy is harming law enforcement, according to a local Colorado prosecutor.

Brian Mason, district attorney for Colorado's 17th district, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Trump's immigration policies.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican and ally to President Donald Trump, is reportedly "struggling" with supporting a key Trump nominee.

Cassidy recently confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to lead the health department, with questions about vaccines during Kennedy's initial confirmation hearing.

Longtime CNN host Michael Smerconish butted heads with one of Donald Trump's biggest fans in the House on Saturday morning over the firing of key FBI officials late Friday to be followed by what is being called a "purge" of the department.

On Friday, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove, who previously served as part of the president's legal team in a criminal case in New York where Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts related to business fraud, oversaw the firing of key FBI officials and then demanded the names and titles of all the FBI employees who took part investigating the insurrection at the nation's Capitol on Jan. 6.

Speaking with the CNN host, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said he saw no problem with cleaning house at the FBI which led Smerconish to note it sounds like something disgraced Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) attempted in the 1950s.

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"Who in the world, in the FBI, if this takes place, is going to be willing to investigate any malfeasance alleged within this administration," the CNn host prompted his guest. "People are going to say, if 'I now pursue what is reported as someone breaking the law who works for this president, I’m going to lose my job.'”

The Florida Republican protested, "No. That’s simply not true because there’s a difference between you have actual evidence that would lead towards an investigation versus –– no pun intended, ––trumped up evidence, which is exactly what took place as far back as the Russia collusion scandal."

Claiming FBI officials "...led to the FISA courts knowingly to open up an investigation into President Trump’s first presidential campaign," Donalds maintained, "You have to deal with the fact that, yes, during this current presidential campaign, the Biden administration and the DOJ were either working with or allowing these indictments, which were silly."

"Everybody knew they were political, but they were allowed to continue. They brought in Jack Smith. They raided Mar-A-Lago. I mean, I can go on," he added, as the CNN host attempted to interrupt his guest's harangue.

"Real quick and I want to add this point," Donalds exclaimed. "I would add for the rank-and-file FBI agents who do their job every single day, they were shaking their heads, saying, 'What the hell is going on?' So we need this place cleaned up.”


"I myself have been plenty critical of [former attorney general] Merrick Garland and [ex-special counsel] Jack Smith and this whole process over several years and I'm not thinking about them," the CNN host countered. "I’m thinking about a woman, a man in a DC field office who played no policy role and was given an assignment to go out and conduct an investigation whose name now shows up on a list."

"It sounds awfully McCarthy-like and they might lose their jobs," he added.

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Daily Beast executive Joanna Coles ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday morning when both conservative and liberal CNN panelists pounced on her for saying Donald Trump should put "genius" Elon Musk to work solving America's homelessness crisis.

During a discussion on CNN's "Table for Five," Musk's deep involvement in the Trump's administration, including his alarming take-over of various critical U.S. government offices that included locking government workers out of computer systems and accessing sensitive private data, was a topic and Coles, the chief content officer at the Daily Beast, rushed to his defense.

It did not go well.

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Technology journalist Kara Swisher explained to the panel, "You can control who gets paid too. It's not just the privacy. It's that if he [Musk] could decide California shouldn't get paid or are if we are going to make cuts here what are they going to do about it? Deny government could hold back federal funds?"

"The question is: what is Elon doing here?" the Beast's Coles remarked. "Why does he want to be involved in this? I think the the sort of merging of tech and government is actually very exciting. I think it's exciting having Elon involved, but just not doing this."

"Elon should be given enormous real structural problems like homelessness," she proposed.

"Apply your enormous brain and brilliant creativity, and I love your description of the genius bar," she said to a stone-faced Swisher. "To something like homelessness, where he might be able to make a difference. We don't need him fiddling around in the minutiae of ––."

"He's doing it for power, Joanna," Swisher protested. "He's doing it for government power it's beyond contracts."

"Well, sort of the same thing," Coles attempted. "But actually it is incredible to finally bring tech into the White House."

"But not like this," Swisher shot back.

Host Phillip then jumped into the fray, stating, "I don't think it's about fixing the payment system, okay? I think it's about them wanting to be able to say, 'You get paid and you don't get paid, you get paid and you don't get paid.' The problem is there is a government in this country that decides who gets paid and who doesn't."

Columnist Solomon Jones interjected, "You want you want to be in charge of the data, that's what that is, that's what his business is at Twitter. When you don't pay anything for something, you're the product, so when we use Twitter, we're the product, right? And so imagine being in charge of the data of everybody who gets paid –– no –– imagine being rich enough that you can get the guy who's really running the Treasury Department out because you want the data, and he doesn't want you to have it. I mean, he's that rich and that powerful, and nobody elected him and I think that's the scary part."

Conservative Melik Abul also piled on, telling the panel, "And I wrote in the Washington Examiner, the problem with Elon Musk is that he's an unelected billionaire bureaucrat, and he's not responsible for anything that an elected official is responsible for."

"What's interesting here about this is the way that [Donald] Trump is running it like a TV show and actually we have a bit more transparency ––we know that Elon is doing this," Coles protested.

That led to protests from the entire panel with Jones lecturing Coles, "He [Musk] should apply his genius to homelessness. Well, you have to care about homelessness to want to solve it."

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A clearly frustrated GOP strategist and member of Black Americans for Trump Coalition lashed out at the man he helped elect on CNN on Saturday morning.

It took less than two weeks in office for Donald Trump to exasperate Melik Abdul, who complained on Saturday that the president is making life difficult for Black voters who supported his second re-election bid.

During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five," with host Abby Phillip, Abdul jumped into a conversation about the president blaming the tragic Washington D.C. plane crash on DEI policies without evidence –– but not to defend Trump.

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Noting that there have been questions raised about a female pilot who was on the Black Hawk chopper that collided with the airliner, Abdul explained, "I call it the woke right, on the right, who are were literally saying that, I think the male pilot had 1000 hours, the female, this phantom female pilot had 500 hours of training time. They don't know anything about what the requirements are. They don't know how long that person had been in service."

"Donald Trump appealing to these people in his second week, when we're not talking about the economy, we're not talking about any of that," he complained. "We're talking about DEI and he [Trump] had no evidence and people are out there defending it."

"I'm not going to get on television to defend it," he exclaimed "I want Donald Trump to know you are making it hard for us who are not looking for a payout or some sort of association, or the social media influence behind supporting Donald Trump or any politician."

"We want to support you because we believe in what you're doing and when you get out here and do this stuff around, DEI, knowing that this support that he's gotten from Black people, this uptick, it's not permanent!"

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Looking back on Donald Trump's first response to the tragic plane crash earlier in the week that claimed the lives of 67 people, including three members of the U.S. Army who were on the Black Hawk chopper that hit the airplane, three MSNBC co-hosts were stunned out how callous the newly- re-elected president was on national TV.

So stunned, in fact they ran a press conference clip for their audience to prove they were not "making it up."

With Trump immediately pivoting to blaming the crash on DEI -- the conservative catch-all term for anything they object to –– Trump told reporters he was certain it was related to diversity policies because, as he claimed: "I have common sense."

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That led "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele to repeat, "'It's common sense.' The most ignorant statement from a president in a very horrific moment for the nation. It's been 20 years since we've had an airline tragedy like this."

"No survivors, 60 plus families in mourning, a nation shocked and in mourning and this man wants to blame prior administrations, DEI policies and he wants to set a blame narrative in place as the nation is trying to grip itself around the idea of what just happened," he added. 'We see now the images; people are watching the planes collide, the explosion. You know what's happening there and he has that to offer us –– this insensitive, cold response to an American moment. Folks, we've seen this so many, so many times before and, it's for me, I'm really trying to be good with my language here because I can't –– their families are in pain right now and out of respect for them. I'm not going to share exactly what I think about the man sitting in the White House at this moment,"

As he was calling Trump "This individual who clearly has no sensitivity or heart regarding the tragedy in front of the country," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend interjected, "I want people to ensure that they know that we are not making this up, let's just play what Donald Trump said," before the show's producers ran the clip.

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Reacting to a firing of key FBI officials late Friday by one of Donald Trump appointees, combined with a threat to purge every FBI employee who had anything with investigating the Jan. 6th insurrection that Trump inspired, MSNBC's Michael Steele ripped into lawmakers who are standing by doing nothing.

On Friday, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove began the purge and demanded the FBI put together a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff “assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions” tied to the Capitol riot.

Saturday morning, Steele, from his perch as co-host of "The Weekend" launched into scathing attack on both parties, singling out so-called "law and order Republicans."

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"You've got [Democratic House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries in a statement saying Republicans are 'hollowing out the world's premier law enforcement agency and leaving everyday Americans more vulnerable to violent criminals and terrorists. This complete disregard for national security in pursuit of vengeance should shock every American.'" Steele quoted the lawmaker. "Okay, color me shocked! Alright, everybody in this town is shocked but the crap still happens and no one seems to be doing anything about it!"

"No one seems to be outraged and put out," he exclaimed. "People are losing their jobs, people are on the verge of retirement, two years, one year, six months from retirement. Lose out on that opportunity."

"You've got folks who are now in situations where Monday comes, 'What am I doing? I'm just sitting around waiting to be fired.' What are what are the responses from Democrats and Republicans on the Hill? Or is this one of those oh, you know, 'Color me tears, color me shocked –– we're so, so upset by all of this, but we're not going to do a damn thing about it.'"

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A Ring doorbell cam appeared to capture the dramatic moment a mid-size jet crashed into a building near a Philadelphia mall, sending a plume of smoke into the air and confusing homeowners scrambling for safety.

The footage began making its rounds on social media and network television moments after what is believed to be a mid-size jet plummeted from the sky and into a “high traffic” area, according to media reports. Officials said Friday night that several buildings were "impacted."

President Donald Trump once again doubled down on his baseless accusations that diversity hiring at air traffic control was responsible for the deadly American Eagle plane crash this week at National Airport in D.C. — despite several ways in which his administration left the Federal Aviation Administration unprepared for securing the skies.

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale laid into Trump's claims on that, and many more issues the president brought up on Friday.