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Crowd erupts as Trump asks 'should we run one more time?'

President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he might want to run for president again, prompting people in the audience at a rally in Pennsylvania to cheer.

Trump was speaking at a Mack Trucks assembly plant, in Macungie, Pennsylvania, to speak about the economy.

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Trump squirms as reporter challenges his Reflecting Pool vandalism claims

President Donald Trump appeared to scramble on Tuesday when a reporter pressed him for evidence after he claimed someone had taken a knife and damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump was visiting a Mack Truck facility in the swing state of Pennsylvania when he was pressed to respond to his vandalism allegations.

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JD Vance's 'painfully awkward' knee pat to his wife sends onlookers wild: 'Cry for help'

The internet on Tuesday mocked Vice President JD Vance for patting his wife's knee during her podcast.

Second lady Usha Vance hosted her husband for a special Father's Day edition of her series "Storytime with the Second Lady." The couple read "Winnie the Pooh" and discussed their family dynamics — and expecting their fourth child together.

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Elizabeth Warren insults GOP senator by clucking like chicken at tense hearing

A Senate hearing devolved into chaos when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) clucked like a chicken at Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for refusing to let her answer his own question.

The confrontation erupted Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on housing and consumer affordability. Tillis had been pressing a witness on whether credit card rate caps had ever succeeded anywhere in the world.

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Reporter catalogs Trump's cascading pet project failures: 'Consumed by botched renovation'

President Donald Trump has turned his focus from the Iran war to the ongoing setbacks in his renovation of the Reflecting Pool, but it's clear the project won't be ready in time for the July 4 celebration.

The $14 million renovation has been bedeviled by issues from the start, and CNN's Kevin Liptak provided an update to "The Situation Room" on the continued issue that Trump has tried to blame on vandals.

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'It blows my mind': ​MS NOW host dumbfounded by details of Trump's new oil deal with Iran

Reacting to reports that Donald Trump has given the okay from Iran to start selling oil to the United States, handing the extremist leadership an immediate source of billions of dollars, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle admitted she was dumbfounded.

On her “Money Power Politics" morning show, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, reported, “We learned the administration will allow Iran to sell their oil for US dollars. Why is this a big deal? It is a decision that upends decades of US policy that was meant to make it harder for them to develop their nuclear program.”

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'We checked': New CBS Reflecting Pool probe finds 'no sign' of Trump knife slash

CBS News and other news organizations have investigated President Donald Trump's claim that vandals left a 350-foot gash in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have found that there is "no sign."

On Monday, Trump doubled down on his assertions about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco happened, saying it "has been given a 300-foot-long gash." The president told CBS News that he would present the evidence in court.

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Rubio wants nothing to do with JD Vance's Iran negotiations that are bound to fail: MS NOW

Vice President JD Vance’s becoming the face of the Iran peace negotiations has all the appearances of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Donald Trump leaving the veep out to dangle in the wind by defending a deal that will go nowhere.

That is according to MS NOW’s Jake Traylor, who told host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday morning that one administration insider called Vance’s hyping up the negotiators' efforts a “complete capitulation” to Iran and characterized Trump’s initial praise of it as “salesmanship,” before adding, “That’s putting lipstick on a very ugly pig.

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Susie Wiles battled Vance over 'unsubstantiated' Trump/Epstein accusations: NYT reporters

Vice President JD Vance had no qualms about releasing all mention of Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files when he convened a Situation Room “war room” with other members of the president’s inner circle.

According to New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, during an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” White House chief of staff Susie Wiles had to forcefully tell the veep that there was no way that everything was going to be released, including an “unsubstantiated” accusation that Vance insisted should be included.

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NYT reporters reveal 'jarring' response from Trump about 'power' on MS NOW

During an appearance on MS NOW to promote their new book “Regime Change“ about Donald Trump’s current term, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan recalled a meeting they had with the president in the Oval Office where they were surprised by his demeanor when asked about wielding power.

Haberman took the lead in answering the question about the president’s current “state of mind.”

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'Get your story straight!' Analyst gets into fiery exchange on CNN over Trump's deal

A political analyst and a conservative columnist got into a heated exchange on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip on Monday.

Charles Blow, author of "Blow the Stack" on Substack, and Caroline Downey, a columnist for The National Review, got into an argument over the deal President Donald Trump made with the Iranian regime during a panel debate. The argument happened at a time when the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties is being sharply criticized in the U.S. The agreement includes terms such as allowing Iran to resume selling oil and delaying talks about stopping the country from pursuing a nuclear weapon.

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Rachel Maddow can barely contain herself as she ticks off Trump's string of losses

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow opened her show Monday night with high spirits, gleefully telling viewers she had roughly 10 good-news stories to deliver in a row, a rarity for the program, as legal and political setbacks piled onto President Donald Trump in a single day.

Maddow noted that Sunday marked the longest day of the year —and that Trump was forced to mark the occasion with an exceptionally long day himself.

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'Disastrously bad': Trump loyalist stuns CNN with workforce culling

A legal expert was stunned on Monday by reports that one of President Donald Trump's loyalists had begun firing career intelligence officials.

Bill Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and serves as the acting director of national intelligence, reportedly showed up to work a day early to get a list of all of the employees under his purview and then promptly began firing them on Monday. Reports did not indicate how many people were affected, but one source told CNN that those being fired are considered part of the "deep state."

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