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President Donald Trump's desire to acquire Greenland from Denmark isn't going over well with some Danes, including one of Denmark's politicians who used vulgarity to express his opposition earlier this week, and is now citing a century-long historical record to issue a warning to Greenlanders on America's refusal to grant full voting rights to its citizens in U.S. territories.

Anders Vistisen, a Danish Member of the European Parliament, reminded Trump earlier this week that "Greenland has been part of the Danish Kingdom for 800 years," and "is not for sale."

Unauthorized and irresponsible use of drones in wildfire zones can create problems for firefighting aircraft, as seen in a recent collision during the Los Angeles wildfires. A Canadian Super Scooper aircraft assisting with the wildfire suppression was grounded after being hit by a drone.

This incident forced a temporary halt on all air response operations for at least half an hour. Officials in Southern California have requested that people not fly drones in the wildfire zones.

President Donald Trump is visiting North Carolina and California to assess the damage from last year's hurricane and ongoing wildfires, and a pair of CNN commentators debated whether he could keep politics out of his tours.

The president is making his first trips Friday of his second term by touring damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and then seeing communities devastated by fires in the Los Angeles area, and Trump ally Madison Gesiotto praised his reported invitation to Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) – which he ended up denying shortly after her remarks aired.

Donald Trump may not have done his nominee to be the next secretary of defense any favors as he left the White House on Friday morning.

On Thursday two Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine made it clear they would vote no on Trump's pick.

With embattled former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth facing a do-or-die Senate vote later on Friday, and fending off accusations of sexual assault, domestic abuse, public drunkenness and financial improprieties, the departing Trump was asked about his chances.

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That was when the president, with the first lady standing conspicuously behind him in a knit cap and enormous aviator glasses, took a dig at the former Senate majority leader who has battled the president for years and has been close-mouthed about how he will vote in the closely divided Senate.

"Look, whatever it is, it is, he's a good man," Trump protested over Hegseth's problematic nomination.

"I don't know what's going to happen; you never know in those things. But Pete's a very, very good man, I hope he makes it, I hope he makes it. Uh, I was very surprised that Collins and Murkowski would do that. And of course, Mitch is always a no vote, I guess," he complained.

"Is Mitch a no vote? How about Mitch?" he asked the assembled reporters.

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Donald Trump made a risky decision right out of the gate that could come back to haunt him, according to CNN's Michael Smerconish.

The newly inaugurated president carried through on his promise to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters – including individuals who violently attacked police officers – on the first day of his second term, and Smerconish said Trump had a busy and controversial first week.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Friday morning, President Barack Obama's former chief of staff claimed Donald Trump and his team are making a grievous mistake in their efforts to round up immigrants they believe have no place in the U.S.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire, Rahm Emanuel was asked what Democrats can do to get back in the good graces of voters after Republicans took over the White House and both chambers of Congress.

According to Emanuel, who also served as President Joe Biden's ambassador to Japan, efforts being led by Trump advisers like Stephen Miller and "border czar" Tom Homan to wage war on immigrants with invasive raids followed by mass deportations will hand Democrats a weapon to use against the president and the GOP when it comes to public opinion.

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"We can't ignore a set of issues because it makes us uncomfortable, that makes the American people uncomfortable if they get right on how they live their lives, how they want to raise their kids, how they want to see what goes on in their communities and in their cities, then we're going to be okay," he said of Democrats.

"And I'll give you a classic example," he added. "I think this idea on what President Trump is talking about, raiding schools and places of worship on immigration is as stupid as the Democrats closing schools in places of worship during Covid."

"And they are going to make a massive mistake of going after immigrants in schools, hospitals and places of worship," he elaborated. "And that's where Democrats can stand up and say, 'Look, you got a criminal background? Out of here!'"

"Schools, hospitals, places of worship?" he continued. "That's as crazy as what we did during Covid. And we advocated, and it was very clear within six months that it was bad, it was a wrong policy as it relates to public health and achieving educational goals."

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Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon appears poised for confirmation despite concerns over his alleged drinking and mistreatment of women, but a former staffer for the president says another candidate will likely be rejected.

Pete Hegseth cleared a procedural hurdle Thursday to advance to a final Senate vote on his nomination to lead the Defense Department, despite the objections of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who expressed skepticism about his qualifications to lead an agency with 300 million employees and an $800 billion budget.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire received swift pushback from a guest on Friday morning when he tried to correct them after they called Donald Trump's secretary of defense nominee an "alcoholic."

Invited to "Morning Joe" talk about Trump's first four days in office, Rahm Emmanuel, who served as President Joe Biden's United States ambassador to Japan, went on the attack against the controversial ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth who has been battered by accusations of sexual assault, public intoxication and financial improprieties.

Speaking of Hegseth, the blunt-talking Emmanuel told the MSNBC host, "I don't think you have to fight every one of them [Trump nominees] but where you have clear stance like, I think the idea of the secretary of defense, an alcoholic and a person with drinking problems and other types of character and judgment issues."

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"[He] should be nowhere close to advising the president on nuclear issues," he added. "You've got 12 nuclear aircraft carriers, 30 plus nuclear submarines –– this person clearly is not qualified to be in the Situation Room and advise."

Given a chance to respond, Lemire told his guest, "We'll see the vote for Pete Hegseth later tonight. We should note he, of course, has denied the allegations that he is an alcoholic –– he says he would stop drinking if confirmed, Mr. Ambassador."

Emanuel fired right back.

"You know, the one thing here –– I don't agree with Donald Trump; I admire the fact that he has never had a drink...," Emanuel interrupted. "But once you have a drinking problem, you always have a drinking problem and that job is not stress-free."

"I have been in this situation," the former Barrack Obama chief of staff lectured. "You are two seats, the secretary of defense, down from the president of the United States. You have a million plus men and women under your command and that person should be nowhere close to advising the president, given what he has shown when he was just running a small veterans operation he couldn't handle the stress."

"You know, the stress of a secretary of defense is in the situation room, live or die, boots on the ground or not? Nowhere, and every senator knows it," he concluded.

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CNN commentators disagreed over President Donald Trump's economic threats to international business leaders.

The president repeated his false claims about the U.S. trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke told "CNN This Morning" that his speech came right out of his winning campaign platform.

At least four well-respected current and retired federal judges have spoken out to denounce President Donald Trump's sweeping, unilateral pardons of over 1500 people convicted of numerous crimes related to the January 6 insurrection and attack on the Capitol, and his commutations for "14 members of far-right extremist groups." A constitutional scholar and retired Harvard law professor has suggested Trump's acts of clemency could be considered a "high crime and misdemeanor," worthy of impeachment.

"No stroke of a pen and no proclamation can alter the facts of what took place on January 6, 2021," wrote U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the latest judge to denounce the pardons, as Politico's senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney reported. "When others in the public eye are not willing to risk their own power or popularity by calling out lies when they hear them, the record of the proceedings in this courthouse will be available to those who seek the truth."

A Democratic strategist issued a scathing rebuke of every senator who voted to advance the nomination of former Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary.

President Donald Trump's nominee appears to have enough votes to survive his confirmation hearing, planned for Friday, despite serious allegations of abuse and sexual assault, which he denies.

Tech reporter and podcaster Kara Swisher on Thursday said the sideshow at the White House on Wednesday in which President Donald Trump paraded fellow billionaires before the media was a choreographed message to the world.

The comments came during a roundtable discussion on CNN’s “NewsNight” revolving around Trump and his cozy relationship with billionaires including tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

President Donald Trump was forced to back down from one of his most unpopular policies this week, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said Thursday night: an underhanded move to sabotage health care at the Veterans Administration.

"U.S. veterans, including the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Paul Rieckhoff, started reporting publicly on what appears to be Trump's new hiring freeze at the V.A.," said Maddow.