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MSNBC host Jen Psaki made her way through a history of presidential inaugurations that were held in extreme cold before suggesting Donald Trump pulled the plug on his for alternative reasons.

With the president-elect's team moving the proceedings to the toastier confines of the Capitol, leaving a multitude of MAGA supporters out in the cold, Psaki first pointed out the late President Jimmy Carter wasn't deterred when "when temperatures dipped below 30 degrees."

As she noted, "It's going to look a lot different than the first time around, in large part because it will take place inside. The Trump team pointed to the frigid forecast as the reason for moving it indoors," before adding, "Yes, it is indeed going to be frigid here in Washington tomorrow."

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She added, "Barack Obama, when wind-chills were in the teens and nearly 2 million people still gathered? It was cold. very cold, I can promise you. Heck, I mean, JFK didn't even wear an overcoat when the high was 26 degrees and there were eight inches of snow on the ground."

"So sure, they say it's the weather," she continued. "I have a hunch crowd size anxiety might just be a factor -- who knows?" she smirked.

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Incoming border czar Tom Homan said he was reconsidering plans to begin mass deportations in Chicago on day one of Donald Trump's second presidency.

In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Homan revealed that he was troubled by leaked details of the proposed deportations in Chicago.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) lashed out at CBS News host Margaret Brennan, accusing her of not "fairly" reporting about FBI director nominee Kash Patel's so-called enemies list.

During a Sunday interview on Face the Nation, Brennan noted that former Attorney General Bill Barr said Patel had "virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world's preeminent law enforcement agency."

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon insisted that billionaire Elon Musk — and other notable people — would be "washed away and forgotten" when compared to President-elect Donald Trump.

In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's This Week program, Bannon said he was "shocked" at the lack of hard questions for Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth at his confirmation hearings.

ABC News host Jonathan Karl challenged MAGA influencer Steve Bannon on President-elect Donald Trump's apparent focus on billionaires after promising to look after "the forgotten men and women."

During an interview on ABC's This Week program, Karl noted that Trump had recently met with tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a fiscal hawk, agreed to support President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan "no matter what the cost."

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that mass deportations could cost the American taxpayer "trillions" of dollars.

A former Republican lawmaker who has been thought by some to be a target of Donald Trump spoke out on Saturday against one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominees.

Former "Tea Party" Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA), a Trump-skeptical Republican who helped assist the House Select Committee on January 6 with its investigation, has previously sounded the alarm about purportedly dangerous Republicans rising to power.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former Naval War College professor, and current columnist for the Atlantic, Tom Nichols implored Republicans to look elsewhere for a replacement for Donald Trump's choice to be the next secretary of defense.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Nichols made the case that Fox News personality Pete Hegseth is fooling himself and everyone else by claiming he can handle the the job because he lacks the experience and character to make sound decisions and advise the president.

"Yes, he was a major in the Army," Nichols conceded. "I taught at the Naval War College. I taught dozens and dozens of young majors and they are fine men and women, but that doesn't make him qualified to be advising the president in the middle of a crisis or potentially even a nuclear crisis."

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"The secretary of defense is a job that that is always reserved for someone who can meet both the intellectual experience and character standards that's required to be at the top of the Pentagon," he continued before later adding, "There's a real threat of real bad things happening in the world for which we need the people who have the best and most sober judgment and the most sober temperament –– and I don't mean that as a pun on the allegations of drinking."

"I mean a level and steady temperament," he elaborated. "And I don't think there's any evidence of that with Pete Hegseth who, again, other than having served in the military and been a morning talk show host and has no business being secretary of defense."

He then predicted, "I'm uncomfortable with the civilian/military relationship where the president calls the Pentagon and the secretary of defense says, ''We're not going to do that,' or in this case the secretary of defense says, 'Sure, whatever you want to do, Mr. President."

On CNN's newly launched "Table for Five" with host Abby Phillip, journalist Cari Champion butted heads with attorney Arthur Aidala during a heated discussion over companies abandoning their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies.

Conservative complaints about DEI has led to unfounded and unjust attacks on a multitude of government and corporate employees who are not white and male and Champion pointed out that if one if not white with an Ivy League education you become a target.

"You think about Ketanji Jackson, our [Supreme Court] Justice and I think of this woman and how hard she worked and they said she was a DEI justice," she stated. "And I thought to myself –– or like when you look at Kamala Harris or people who have went to Harvard and Yale and have the same exact, the same exact resume as their white counterpart, their white male counterpart, DEI is so trendy."

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"And when it comes from someone from a conservative side and they label that, it becomes this truth," she noted. "I often ask my question when I look at [Fox News personality] Pete Hegseth, I wonder, if they say he's a DEI candidate, would that be unfair to say? I don't know why we can't use them? Cha cha cha cha cha. Why we can't use the same words?"

As attorney Aidala leaned into her reply, she added, "I know, I'm gonna let you get to it. But why can't we use the same words that they use on us? "

"But it comes from the United States Supreme Court," the attorney interjected. "The decision last year about the Harvard admissions, and they just said it violated the 14th Amendment and it really had to do with, I think, Asian students who were being excluded from going to Harvard because there were too many Asian students."

"Their grades were very high and so that's where this all comes from," he added. "Corporate America is basically following, well, if they did it to Harvard –– don't worry, I can't even spell Harvard so, you know, I'm not from Harvard –– if they're going to rule there the next stop is corporations because you're only hiring this person because of the DEI.''

"That's just not true!" Champion exclaimed as CNN host Phillip stepped in.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's appearance this week before a Senate committee considering her nomination to the Donald Trump's next U.S. attorney general drew no small amount of scorn on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

Reacting to Bondi's answers, many of which avoided the topic altogether, MSNBC host Michael Steele singled out one exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that he found stunning.

Speaking with his co-hosts on "The Weekend," Steele noted that Bondi was given an obvious free ride by many of the Republican senators on the committee.

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"What is stunning to me is that level of questioning was not put on Pam Bondi," he told his co-hosts. "And the moment, to me, what made the hearing a real sort of slack-jawed, whacked-out moment was the exchange with, you know, the senators around Donald Trump in his election results."

"You know, she and Ted Cruz having this, finishing each other's sentences moment where they're talking about, you know, the election and she's like, '"Oh yes, 77 million people," he laughed as he mimicked her voice.

"You know, it's like really? I mean, I know you're concerned about the one and not the 330 million. So this is, I don't know, I think you said it right, Symone [Sanders Townsend], you know," he continued. "Going to find out –– y'all going to find out a whole lot of stuff and people going to be running around looking for help for people who aren't there and that's going to be a big problem."

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