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During an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt, NBC justice reporter Ryan Reilly claimed some of the accused Jan. 6 insurrectionists who have yet to appear in court may walk away without ever going to trial after Donald Trump is sworn in next January.

And for that, he stated, they can thank some FBI agents and officials who are sympathetic to their cause.

Appearing on MSNBC just days after Donald Trump won re-election over Vice President Kamala Harris, conservative lawyer George Conway suggested Donald Trump's biggest campaign promise will fall apart just like a similar one did after he was first elected in 2016.

Speaking with the co-hosts of "The Weekend," the Trump critic maintained that, if the former president's history with Congress is any guide, the president-elect will botch his mass deportation plans which he made central to his bid for a third shot at the presidency.

As part of the ongoing, and seemingly endless, postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump, the co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" attempted to tackle the finger-point at voting groups for not showing up and questions over running women and people of color for office.

According to co-Host Symone Sanders Townsend, she has spent years working in Democratic politics, "when there were usually, the people at the top were men and they were all white men and then over the course of years it has changed."

The entire panel of MSNBC's "The Weekend" was left speechless before dissolving into nervous laughter after a noted expert on authoritarianism detailed how Donald Trump managed to get himself re-elected and what to expect now that voters have handed him another four years in office.

Co-host Michael Steele prompted historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat with, "I want to get your thoughts of what we can now say is the emerged, the realized form of American fascism that the American people, by some 50-plus percent decided, 'Yes, let's do that.'"

"I mean there is much to say," she began. "We are here now, you know, Donald Trump was very skilled at conditioning Americans to think that democracy and American democracy in particular was failing."

"He called America a garbage can. He spread with his allies disinformation about the economy, said that America was failing and praised foreign dictators so he could bolster his own idea of leadership, which is 'I alone can fix it,'" she elaborated.

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"And all the slogans we have seen for years from him add up to this kind of strong men model of leadership which depends on having an enemy and an internal enemy, the enemy within," she continued.

"So you can justify these kind of crackdowns on the vulnerable, these repressions," she predicted. " And so this is all very unfortunate but he did a good job of conditioning over and over. We've have had eight years of this, Americans to see democracy is inferior to something else. That something else would be strong men ruled by him."

After she concluded, there was a long pause before Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend simultaneously uttered, "Hmmm," which then led to a smattering of nervous laughter before turning to guest George Conway.

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Kamala Harris was set up “to fail” by President Joe Biden's refusal to clear the way for a Democratic primary and instead pass the torch to his vice president with just over 100 days to pitch herself to the American public, one expert said Friday night on "Overtime" with "Real Time" host Bill Maher.

“When Biden refused to step aside and not run again, he was supposed to be that bridge, he backed off on that promise due to arrogance and then he drops out after a catastrophic debate performance and they set Kamala Harris up to fail,” said Sarah Isgur, a senior editor at The Dispatch and former director of the Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Despite the outcome of the election, the liberal comedian Bill Maher gave Democratic viewers of "Real Time" on Friday night a small note of optimism — and a dose of reality.

In his opening monologue, Maher said a "lot of people are freaking [out]" but he opened the window and the "sun was still shining, the birds were still singing."

A Republican strategist on Friday lampooned Democrats in an on-air rant where she called the party out for the way they speak to Americans struggling economically, before revealing what she sees as their “biggest problem.”

“They kept almost telling the American people from the podium like they're, they're dumb-dumb, the economy's fine…everything’s great, and it was so patronizing,” GOP strategist Erin Perrine said during a panel discussion Friday on CNN’s “NewsNight.” The Republican kicked off her vocal sound-off after journalist and contributing Boston Globe opinion writer Tanzina Vega told host Abby Phillip that Democrats’ messaging to the middle class “didn’t seem to connect.”

Tensions boiled over on CNN on Friday night as a rabbi and LGBTQ activist clashed with a Republican strategist over GOP ads attacking trans people.

Jay Michaelson, a columnist for Rolling Stone, butted heads with Shermichael Singleton on "NewsNight" during a discussion over whether Democrats' heavy losses in 2024 were partially due to the party's stances on culture issues.

President-elect Donald Trump likely had ulterior motives when he handed tech billionaire Elon Musk his phone while speaking with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an eyebrow-raising moment on Friday that a New York Times reporter called a “dominance play.”

Earlier Friday, Zelenskyy reportedly called to congratulate Trump while he and Musk were together, and somewhere in the conversation, the former president handed the phone to Musk. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has covered Trump extensively for years, said Trump clearly trusts Musk, but that she believes another factor was at play.

A CNN panel made a dark joke Friday night that vetting for top presidential administrations is an old-school mentality.

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson told anchor Anderson Cooper that she believes Elon Musk will be the "single most important and influential person" in the Trump administration, following reports the tech billionaire joined a call with President-elect Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod’s concerns about a second Donald Trump administration prompted him to hit back at a Republican insider during a back-and-forth exchange Friday evening that left Axelrod sarcastically remarking, “I actually took civics.”

The on-air moment happened on CNN’s “OutFront” after Axelrod expressed his worries amid reports that the Pentagon is preparing for a possible Trump order to deploy troops on Americans. Joining him in the discussion was former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), who similarly expressed fears about Trump’s threat to terminate the Constitution and surround himself with administration officials who “submit to him.”

The message being sent to Democratic Party leadership in the hours after voters propelled Donald Trump to a second White House term has been clear, a political reporter said on CNN: “Burn it all down.”

The bleak message to party leaders soul-searching after Tuesday night’s bruising defeat came Friday evening during a discussion on CNN’s “The Situation Room” revolving around Nancy Pelosi’s statement in which she blamed Biden for not bowing out of the race sooner.