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A former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence says she had to convince then-President Donald Trump not to send federal troops to shoot at her friends and their families.

Olivia Troye, homeland security advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence, appeared on CNN Tuesday morning to discuss her warnings of the authoritarian threat she believes the Republican presidential nominee now poses.

War Room guest host Monica Crowley lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris for doing an interview with Fox News, calling it "a sign of weakness and desperation, not strength."

During Tuesday's War Room program, Crowley sat in the host's chair while Steve Bannon was finishing his four-month prison stint.

Former President Donald Trump's half-hour music break in the middle of a town hall event isn't normal, argued former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) on MSNBC Tuesday — rather, he said, it is a clear sign of cognitive decline.

Trump has tried to play the event off as a fun time — but, said Rose, he isn't fooling anyone.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned Donald Trump's mental abilities after he gave long, rambling answers during a town hall event before abruptly ending the question-and-answer session to dance awkwardly onstage.

The 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee stopped taking questions after two audience members suffered apparent heat-related emergencies at the Oaks, Pennsylvania, venue. Instead, he requested "loud" music and danced and clapped his hands onstage as many supporters streamed out of the building.

Donald Trump abruptly stopped answering questions at a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Monday but instead remained onstage for nearly 40 minutes, dancing and swaying to an eclectic mix of songs as many supporters streamed out of the venue.

The former president paused the question-and-answer session after an attendee suffered a medical issue, and then halted a discussion moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after another person succumbed to heat inside the building. Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" compared that to Kamala Harris' recent schedule.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for looking past Donald Trump's "fascist" threats to use the military against his political opponents.

The Republican governor appeared Monday night on CNN, where host Jake Tapper pressed him to comment on Trump's threats, made the day before on Fox News, to call out the National Guard or military against "radical left lunatics." Youngkin sidestepped by suggesting the comments referred to criminals crossing the border, but the host pointed out that Trump had made similar comments Friday referring specifically to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement fit “the definition of fascism,” according to retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner who warned that if the former president were to return to office — especially in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling — “everything changes.”

“If he was to be the commander in chief again, everything changes," Manner said during an interview Monday night with CNN anchor Laura Coates. “The Supreme Court has given him immunity and the threshold for turning the National Guard into his personal police force is quite low."

Donald Trump's former secretary of defense told CNN on Monday night he's taking the former president's concerning remarks "seriously" that he wants to use military force against the "enemy from within" — whom he has described as "radical left lunatics," "sick people" and even political opponents.

"I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics,” Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Former President Donald Trump cut off answering any more questions abruptly at his town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Monday — saying, "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Who the hell wants to hear questions?"

Trump then proceeded to spend several minutes doing nothing, while several different songs blared out over the crowd, taking no further questions and seemingly leaving even his own surrogate, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) confused and unsure what to do.

Responding to recent comments that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) made about the end of their friendship, a former Yale classmate said Monday night that while she too is “sad about the loss of our friendship,” the Republican vice presidential nominee has “a different definition of what love looks like.”

“I’m sad about the loss of our friendship, but I think, you know, I have a different definition of love than J.D.,” said Sofia Nelson, Vance’s former Yale Law School classmate and one-time close friend, who clashed with Vance over their disagreements about gender-affirming health care. Nelson, who is transgender, told CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Monday night on her show “OutFront” that Vance’s stance on issues including LGBTQ+ and women’s rights “is dangerous.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) spent Monday night attacking broadcast news journalists — calling them "in-kind contributions for Vice President Kamala Harris — as he defended former President Donald Trump's decision not to reveal his medical records.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham played a clip on her show of Johnson's appearance on "Meet the Press" in which Johnson tells the interviewer it's "unnecessary" for Trump to release his medical records because "he's on display every minute."

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) tried to justify former President Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian threats against political opponents and the "enemy from within" on CNN — and a stunned Jake Tapper had to keep reminding him that Trump "literally" said the things Youngkin denied he said.

Youngkin repeatedly insisted that Trump was just talking about drastic measures to get border security under control.