Video

On Tuesday morning's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC regular John Heilemann went at each other over a disagreement over the nomination of Pete Hegseth to become the next secretary of defense and whether Donald Trump should drop the embattled former Fox News host.

According to Scarborough, the president-elect would not be serving America or himself well by letting Hegseth be grilled by Democrats in nationally televised hearings about allegations of sexual assault and public drunkenness by those who have worked with him.

Donald Trump was given a stern warning on MSNBC on Tuesday morning that nothing good will come of allowing his pick for secretary of defense to be grilled in a nationally televised Senate hearing.

Now that it looks like ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth may have avoided being forced to step aside by appealing to the president-elect's fondness for public defiance, the next step would be his confirmation hearing — where he can expect Democrats to make a show of grilling him on allegations of sexual assault and former Fox News colleagues' accusations of being drunk on the job.

Pete Hegseth seems to have saved his nomination for defense secretary with assistance from a MAGA pressure campaign, but a Republican strategist tried to calm fears that it suggested right-wing influencers would exert outsized control over the incoming Congress.

The former Fox News host has conducted interviews on his old network to dispute allegations about excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, which seems to have impressed Donald Trump and made his nomination a rallying cause for the GOP base. Panelists on "CNN This Morning" described how outside allies have worked to keep dubious senators in line.

A prominent British broadcaster and former CNN anchor clashed with a former Washington Post tech columnist during a tense exchange over reaction to the killing of a health insurance CEO's killing in Manhattan.

ALSO READ: Agenda 47: Alarm sounded about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term

A friend of the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last week described the man as a “thoughtful person” who led a book club, practiced yoga and calisthenics – and suffered from chronic back pain.

“I'm beyond shocked. It's unimaginable,” said R.J. Martin, a friend and former roommate of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Martin opened up in a revealing interview with CNN on Monday night, hours after a nationwide manhunt led police to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s location where Mangione was arrested on weapon and fake ID charges, according to media reports.

A far-right lawmaker and vehement defender of President-elect Donald Trump gave the MAGA leader a glowing review when asked about his awkward handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Trump and Macron shared a notably intense handshake Saturday as they attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The encounter happened as Trump arrived for a meeting at the Elysee Palace as part of ceremonies to mark the reopening of the Cathedral, about five years after a fire left the Gothic masterpiece with extensive damage.

America got a slap on the wrist from the Pennsylvania governor Monday evening as authorities announced the arrest of Luigi Mangione on forgery and gun charges stemming from the killing in Manhattan of a health insurance CEO.

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday afternoon vowed that "justice will be delivered" in the shooting death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, who was slain last week outside a hotel. He had been in New York for an annual UnitedHealthcare investors meeting and the shooter fled on a bicycle.

A Fox News host with a self-described bias for his former on-air colleague Pete Hegseth made an odd case for placing Hegseth as head of the Department of Defense.

In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Fox News’ Will Cain referenced an interview bestselling author and University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson conducted with John Stossel in which the two discussed “being dangerous – that men should be dangerous.”

Fox News hosts Sandra Smith and Jeanine Pirro criticized Republican state Delegate Nino Mangione of Maryland after his cousin, Luigi Mangione, was arrested for the murder of CEO executive Brian Thompson.

"Another twist in this story, this just into our newsroom, the suspect's cousin is a Maryland State Delegate," Smith reported Monday. "So this is now being confirmed, the suspect's cousin is a Maryland State Delegate, Antonio D. Mangione, goes by Nino."

Fox News host Bill Hemmer argued that the Constitution's 14th Amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people born in the United States was a "loophole."

While speaking to Hemmer on Monday, Fox News contributor Kayleigh McEnany doubted President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to end birthright citizenship on "day one" of his presidency.

CNN's Pamela Brown challenged one of Donald Trump's top allies to provide evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6.

The former president has pledged to pardon at least some of the U.S. Capitol rioters and threatened to prosecute the congressional investigators who referred him for criminal prosecution, and Brown asked Trump adviser Jason Miller what crimes those elected officials had committed.

Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, suggested that his boss could bypass the U.S. Constitution to end birthright citizenship.

During a Monday interview on Newsmax, host Jon Glasgow asked Lewandowski about Trump's promise to end birthright citizenship on "day one" of his presidency — despite the 14th Amendment of the Constitution declaring that "all persons born" in the United States are citizens.

Co-hosts at "The View" got into a heated debate Monday as they talked about threats from Donald Trump against his perceived foes.

During an interview with "Meet the Press" Sunday, Trump had argued that the members of the Jan. 6 investigatory committee belong in jail. "The Views" Sara Haines dismissed the comments, saying that Trump made the same threat against Hillary Clinton and never delivered, with Whoopi Goldberg adding that people shouldn't panic — and said that there would be time for that.