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Former President Donald Trump doesn't deserve any devil's advocate interpretation of his comments that America would see a "bloodbath" if he loses the election, conservative former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols told CNN Wednesday.

Faced with backlash for the comments he made at a rally last weekend, Trump has tried to backpedal and claim he meant it metaphorically — not that he was threatening another insurrection or violent political unrest if he loses.

Fox News cut away from its coverage of a House hearing Wednesday as soon as one of the witnesses testified that Russia was behind allegations against President Joe Biden.

While the hearing was on impeachment, a much-talked-about topic at Fox News, the network did not spend much time covering it after Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani and a witness called by the Democrats, began speaking.

A Republican witness became unglued Wednesday after a Democratic lawmaker declined to question him.

At a Wednesday House Oversight Committee impeachment hearing, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) directed questions to Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani.

Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas told the House Oversight and Reform Committee impeachment hearing into President Joe Biden Wednesday that Donald Trump directly 'encouraged" Giuliani to find dirt.

Parnas began by recalling a 2023 letter he sent to committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that said he observed Giuliani's interference extensively in Ukraine politics.

Lev Parnas, a convicted criminal and former associate of Rudy Giuliani, said during testimony in the House of Representatives on Wednesday that he and Giuliani knowingly spread misinformation from Russia about President Joe Biden.

What's more, said Parnas, the two men knew at the time that this misinformation came from Russian intelligence operatives.

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday told the state's appeals court to ignore former President Donald Trump's claims that he can't cough up the $464 million damages he was hit with in his civil fraud trial, court records show.

James' taut slap-back comes as "panic" mounts among the Trump team just five days before the massive payment is due, sources close to the former president told CNN.

On Wednesday, a House Oversight impeachment hearing went off the rails in its first few minutes.

As witnesses were giving their opening statements, ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wondered why Republican witnesses were allowed to attend remotely while Democratic witnesses were not allowed to in the past.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) used his opening remarks at a House hearing on the impeachment of President Joe Biden to opine on pipe bombs and cocaine.

"Who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th?" Jordan asked to kick off the House Oversight hearing on Wednesday. "Nobody seems to know. Who leaked the [Supreme Court's] Dobbs draft opinion? You know, the leak that led to an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh."

CNN anchor John Berman tore into former President Donald Trump for his newest comments he's open to a national 15-week abortion ban, an idea he has reportedly been thinking of for over a month — which would impose new restrictions on states that protect abortion rights while leaving states with existing bans free to continue them as they wish.

"Just very quickly," said Berman, speaking to former Mitt Romney strategist Kevin Madden. "You spent a lot of time trying to appeal, make Republicans appeal to voters in the suburbs. Is this something that suburban voters, suburban women would buy?"

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is trying to keep the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden going, but even a host at the conservative TV network Newsmax seems to think it's running out of steam.

In an interview with Jordan on Wednesday, Newsmax host Rob Finnerty pressed Jordan about how realistic it is that Biden actually gets impeached in the coming weeks.

Donald Trump is reportedly considering convicted felon Paul Manafort for a role in his 2024 campaign, despite his fraud convictions and questionable foreign entanglements.

The former president has discussed a fundraising role for Manafort, whom he pardoned in his final weeks in office along with Roger Stone and Jared Kushner's father, and former White House director of communications Jen Palmieri told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the timing of his return was highly suspicious.

Many legal experts publicly slammed a brief Donald Trump lawyers filed with the US Supreme Court Tuesday, urging the justices to grant the former president absolute immunity from prosecution in his DC January 6 election interference case.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked CNN legal commentator Elie Honig about his thoughts on how he believes the high court may respond to the brief.

President Joe Biden has faced small but persistent opposition in Democratic primaries so far, with about one in 10 Democratic voters choosing "uncommitted" in states where that's an option, but MSNBC's Claire McCaskill tried to soothe concerns about his strength heading into the general election.

The average Biden protest vote, whether voters are choosing "uncommitted" or picking long-shot candidates, has been about 13 percent so far, but the former Missouri senator told "Morning Joe" that incumbent presidents often face opposition from fatigued voters in primaries who turn out for them in November.