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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) supports cutting government spending, but he does not believe someone receiving government money should decide what gets cut.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Murphy addressed Capitol Hill meetings with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy about their new entity, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Pro-MAGA Newsmax host Greg Kelly, a former anchor at Fox News, doubled down Thursday on his call for Pete Hegseth to withdraw from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense.

Kelly said in an interview on his network that Trump's supporters criticized him after he first called for Hegseth to drop out earlier in the week.

A large earthquake off the coast of Northern California sent the state into emergency mode on Thursday morning Pacific time.

According to local KNTV news, emergency services are asking people to get at least a mile away from the shoreline.

Donald Trump has chosen at least four people to join his administration who have allegations of sexual misconduct in their background, as does Trump himself. But one, Pete Hegseth, his choice to be Secretary of Defense, may have an issue that's too much for the President-elect: an alleged history of heavy use of alcohol. Hegseth has promised to not drink if confirmed, and says he does not have a problem with alcohol.

"I've never had a drinking problem," Hegseth said Wednesday, according to Newsweek. "No one's ever approached me and said, 'You should really look at getting help for drinking.' Never, never sought counseling, never sought help, but I respect and appreciate people who do. But you know, what do guys do when they come back from war oftentimes? Have some beers. How do you deal with the demons you see on the battlefield? Sometimes it's with a bottle."

Former Republican insider David Frum this week argued that there are striking similarities between President-elect Donald Trump and former President Richard Nixon.

However, Frum also believes that Trump is in a better position to succeed than Nixon ever was.

According to former ATF special agent Jim Cavanaugh, any notion that the man who ambushed and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Wednesday morning was a professional killer should be put to rest.

Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, Cavanaugh said that, based on video of the shooting that has been released, the masked man who pulled the trigger and struggled when his gun jammed was a rank amateur.

"What does this tell you?" the host asked after showing video clips. "He certainly knew the weapon, but the weapon was jamming from the first shot."

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"Right, he's sort of a doofus, really," Cavanaugh smirked. "He doesn't have the weapon in top functionality when he's going to commit his murder. A hired killer, someone with great firearms experience would not have his gun jam –– it would be clean."

"Second, his stance is natural, it's not really a weave or shooting stance he does have two hands up there," he added. "When he goes to clear the round, now the chief of detectives said he cleared the round so he's proficient with a firearm, he does have more proficiency than the average bear, Jose, but this is not the way any trained shooter would clear a round."

"The exercise to clear rounds are tap, rack, bang and that's drilled into you when you're an agent or officer," he elaborated. "Tap, rack, bang –– he doesn't do that. He racks the gun, the slide, and then he slaps the top of the gun, the top of the slide a couple of times. There's no trained shooter that would do that."

"That's the drill, that's beat into your head," he added. " So, he didn't do that, he just racked it and he started slapping the top of the gun. So I don't see this guy as a professional killer."

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A former national security official in Donald Trump's first administration stood by her criticism of FBI director nominee Kash Patel and said his threatened lawsuit was an ominous sign of "what's to come."

Olivia Troye, a former counterterrorism aide to Mike Pence, was threatened with legal action by Patel for calling him a "delusional liar" on television and criticizing the quality of his work as untrustworthy when the two of them served together in the first Trump White House, and she told CNN that she stood by her remarks.

Indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams was grilled by MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire on Thursday about his outreach to President-elect Donald Trump ever since his election last month.

During an interview on "Morning Joe," Lemire noted that Adams had echoed Trump's arguments about being "persecuted" by the Department of Justice after he was hit with wire fraud, bribery and other charges earlier this year after being caught up in a federal corruption probe.

Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe testified that an "autonomous robot" was being used to protect President-elect Donald Trump.

Rowe made the remarks Thursday during a hearing with a House task force investigating the attempted assassinations of Trump.

An attempt by embattled former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to use his mother as a character witness as he struggles to become Donald Trump's next secretary of defense may have backfired.

That is the opinion of MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski who stated on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," that Penelope Hegseth's answers during a Fox News interview only affirmed that her son has a sordid history with women as she insisted he has changed.

An email from Penelope Hegseth has become a central focus of his suitability for the job after she accused him of being a serial abuser of women back in 2017 which was only compounded by a separate report about his alleged drinking problem.

According to the MSNBC host, Hegseth's mom gave credence to multiple reports of his drunken escapades that have cast a cloud over his nomination to oversee the Pentagon.

Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump insisted that her father-in-law had "no intention on retribution or revenge" after a report said President Joe Biden was considering preemptive pardons for people who might be unfairly prosecuted.

During a Thursday interview on Fox News, host Bill Hemmer told Lara Trump that "some are fearing retribution on behalf of your father-in-law when he goes back to the White House."

A veteran Florida reporter revealed the message Donald Trump wanted to send to his embattled defense nominee Pete Hegseth by floating the name of a high-profile replacement.

Marc Caputo, recently hired away from The Bulwark by Axios, told CNN that the president-elect appears to have been behind rumors that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could be a potential backup pick to lead the Department of Defense if Hegseth's nomination can't be saved from allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct.