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The decision by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the faces of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation was laughed off on MSNBC on Friday morning as it was pointed out they have no credibility due to their ties to Donald Trump.

MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough couldn't stop laughing as he called it "amateur night."

The Trump administration has been ignoring one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our generation, according to a CNN panel.

Israel's war in Gaza has been raging since October 7, 2023, with almost no end in sight. CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked the panel whether the images and videos of children starving in Gaza should be an inflection point in the war, one that gets the U.S. to assert more leverage over Israel to let more humanitarian aid into the country.

At least one GOP senator is starting to feel out of place within the party.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Thursday that the Republican Party she grew up supporting has become a party completely controlled by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Her comments come at a time when the Republican Party appears to be fracturing over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

Maria Farmer, one of the many women assaulted by deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein in her youth as part of his trafficking operation, spoke out about how all of the explosion of controversy around the case is re-traumatizing her in an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Thursday — and she called out those trying to rehabilitate Epstein's convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for political purposes.

In recent days, as Trump's Justice Department interviews Maxwell in prison to try to deflect from the anger from their own base over the lack of transparency, some right-wing commentators have begun to push a narrative that Maxwell might have been railroaded, with Newsmax's Greg Kelly suggesting she might even be a victim herself.

Popular podcasters Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, who openly supported President Donald Trump during last year’s presidential election, are now criticizing him for refusing to release the Epstein files.

In an episode of their podcast Flagrant released Thursday, Schulz and Singh leveled scathing remarks at Trump, citing frustration with his handling of the controversy surrounding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes tore into MAGA influencers attempting to use the potential testimony of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, to build a narrative that excuses President Donald Trump's involvement in the scandal.

Hayes noted commentator Greg Kelly from the right-wing channel Newsmax, who said of Maxwell, "She just might be a victim. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment."

President Donald Trump quietly released an executive order Thursday that advocates say will make homelessness worse.

The order, titled "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets," directs multiple federal agencies to discontinue funding services such as Housing First, Safe Consumption Sites, and other harm reduction practices. It also directs states to detain people with serious mental illnesses regardless of "forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals."

CNN legal analyst Paula Reid was taken aback Thursday evening at the announcement made by the Justice Department following a day of questioning convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell — a move that experts have already regarded as suspicious.

"I know you have some breaking news here as we're learning more about what happened, possibly in this meeting between Ghislaine Maxwell and attorneys from the DOJ," said anchor Erin Burnett. "What are you learning?"

The panel on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" threw shade at the approved merger between Skydance Media and Paramount on Thursday.

The merger, which was announced last year, was approved by MAGA-aligned commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission. In a news release, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said he welcomed "Skydance’s commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network," which includes agreeing to get rid of any Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and create more politically diverse programming.

The Justice Department's attempt to extract new testimony from convicted Jeffrey Epstein conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is a parade of red flags, warned former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen on MSNBC's "The Lead" Thursday — and in fact, it only adds another dimension to why the whole affair is blowing up even among President Donald Trump's base.

"Norm, do you see this as kind of ethically murky for a few reasons?" said anchor Antonia Hylton. "I mean ... [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche, having served in a personal capacity for the president. And then I was reminded today that Blanche actually, at one point, went on David Markus' — that's Maxwell's attorney's — podcast. They know each other in a sort of social or at least casual way. So do you see something ethically murky here?"

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace welcomed Hollywood insider and Deadline executive editor on to laugh about the Comedy Central show "South Park" making fun of President Donald Trump, along with their parent network, Paramount.

Dominic Patten explained that behind the scenes, "South Park" was set to make its season premiere on July 9, but was embroiled in a legal battle with Paramount/CBS over the merger with Skydance Media, which totaled approximately $8 billion.

CNN host Kassie Hunt was caught off guard on Thursday after a Democratic lawmaker and GOP strategist got into a heated argument on her show.

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) and GOP strategist Brad Todd joined Hunt on "The Arena with Kassie Hunt" to discuss the news of the day, which included Trump visiting the Federal Reserve headquarters to check out the renovation project. The conversation quickly escalated after Landsman claimed Republicans shut down the House of Representatives to avoid a bipartisan vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.