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A well-connected Florida journalist rolled his eyes at a recent report that suggested Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) would not last long as Donald Trump's secretary of state, but he did single out one nominee who might not even get confirmed.

Axios reporter Marc Caputo appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, where he discussed a Politico report that quoted foreign policy experts predicting that Rubio would be undercut by MAGA loyalists as the nation's top diplomat.

CNN's Elie Honig identified some pointed questions that Pam Bondi should be compelled to answer before she's confirmed as Donald Trump's attorney general.

The former Florida state attorney general faces the start of her confirmation process in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the CNN legal analyst urged the Democratic minority to press Bondi on her assistance with Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

CNN's Sarah Sidner pushed back against a Republican consultant who played down concerns about the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration.

Russell Vought, the president-elect's nominee for White House budget director, is expected to face tough questions from senators about his involvement with the right-wing agenda that became a key topic in the 2024 campaign after polling found it was widely known and deeply unpopular with voters, but Sen. Marco Rubio's former campaign manager told CNN that those concerns were overblown.

For the second time in a week, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough got into an argument with one of his regular "Morning Joe" panelists which led, in this case, to co-host Mika Brzezinski interceding and taking the show to commercial.

Last week Scarborough got into an argument with fellow MSNBC host Michael Steele over the effectiveness of being civil with Donald Trump with Steele at one time telling his counterpart, "I'm telling you something you seem to forget –– so, let me make my point, you may not like it, but I'm going to make it."

Donald Trump's former defense secretary refused to state that the president-elect's latest nominee was qualified to lead the Pentagon.

Mark Esper, now a CNN global affairs analyst, appeared Wednesday morning on the network to discuss the confirmation hearings for defense nominee Pete Hegseth, and host Kasie Hunt challenged him "bottom line" to say whether the former Fox News host and National Guard veteran was qualified for the job.

A former White House aide to president Joe Biden reacted to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) challenging Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to a fight during an argument during a meeting of the House Oversight Committee.

Crockett accused her Republican colleague of demonizing transgender athletes to scare donors into giving her campaign cash, but Mace objected to the Democratic lawmaker using the colloquialism "child" in reference to her and invited her to "take it outside" – which former Biden aide Meghan Hays told CNN was completely unacceptable.

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth's appearance before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he seeks approval to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense, got a thumbs down on MSNBC Wednesday morning.

After sharing clips of the embattled Hegseth attempting to blow off credible accusations of public drunkenness and sexual improprieties, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough singled out what he called an "outrageous lie" from the Trump nominee.

Beginning by stating Hegseth and the GOP senators indulged in enough "misinformation" to fill the morning show's entire four hours, he focused on Hegseth saying the job finally requires someone with "dust on their boots" –– implying former defense secretaries lacked his experience.

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"This idea, Republicans that we need somebody with dust on their boots and this position and the suggestion that we haven't had people with dust on their boots in this position is either willfully lying or willfully ignorant," he told the panel.

"We have had actually some of the most decorated, heroic, brave, battle-tested men that have been holding the top positions over the past 4 to 8 years in the military and yes, women as well that have been there," he continued. "So the idea that this is some feel good exercise ignores the fact that whether from 'Mad Dog' Mattis to General [Mark] Milley, you have people that have been fighting and in Iraq and Afghanistan were there at the worst times in Fallujah."

"We've just got to go full stop because I'm sick and tired of people tearing down the men and women in uniform that are protecting us," he stated before later adding, "This insult that somehow our military is weak and woke is just an outrageous lie and it's an insult to our men and women in uniform."

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) had some choice words for legendary Watergate journalist Bob Woodward in an escalation of the back-and-forth between two Washington insiders over bombshell claims in the lawmaker’s book.

“Listen, Bob Woodward can kiss my rear end,” Comer said during a Newsmax interview when asked to respond to Woodward flat-out denying claims the Kentucky congressman attributed to the journalist in his new book, “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) made clear on Tuesday who she thinks was behind a series of demonstrators who interrupted the opening day of Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing – the senators themselves.

The far-right Florida lawmaker floated her new conspiracy theory during an appearance on the Benny Johnson Show, where she called protesters “crazies” and “no-Christian jihad[ist].” She told Johnson she was not only at today’s hearings, but she had her own sign taunting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which she complained she was barred from displaying.

Special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Jan. 6 and the 2020 election was released overnight, but a former victim of the MAGA attack says Americans simply don't care.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Former Washington, D.C. Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone said it's become clear that Americans saw what happened to him and are too selfish to be bothered.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) lashed out at a "gay men's choir" and what he called "woke policies of the left" after wildfires ravaged parts of California.

During a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, the Texas Republican claimed that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were not standing with suffering Americans.

A fellow lawmaker triggered Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) so much that the MAGA lawmaker asked the Democrat if she wanted to "take it outside."

Mace has been on the offensive over which bathroom her new trans colleague uses. The Republican has lashed out about transgender people and where they urinate.

A Fox News segment mocked Iowa Republicans dancing to the Village People's YMCA and suggested "white America" needed a "rhythm counselor."

Fox News host Martha MacCallum seemed taken aback after playing a clip of Republicans in Iowa dancing out of sync to President-elect Donald Trump's signature song.