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Fox host shouts down Dem over married women losing their vote: 'What's the problem?'

A Fox Business segment on Thursday morning devolved into shouting as anchor Maria Bartiromo tried to talk over the objections of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to certain provisions of the SAVE America Act, the controversial Trump-backed legislation that would put extreme new restrictions on voting rights and effectively give the Department of Homeland Security oversight of state voting rolls.

Khanna focused on the fact that under the terms of the law, married women who had legal name changes would face significant obstacles to voting because they can't use the name on their birth certificate to verify their citizenship — but Bartiromo, who is known for embracing conspiracy theories on air, didn't see any issue with this.

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US ally in 'state of panic' over Trump's betrayal: ex-CIA official

According to former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which has set off a deluge of criticism within the Republican Party, has left the leadership of Israel in a state of shock.

Appearing on MS NOW with “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Polymeropoulos, who just returned from Tel Aviv, claimed he found a sense of betrayal during his visit. Geist prompted the 26-year veteran of the CIA with, “Marc, take us to Tel Aviv this morning. And what Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking; that he got his man in the White House in Donald Trump, that he went to the Situation Room, sold the war successfully. He thought that Donald Trump, the United States military, would come in and finish off Iran, take out the regime, and now he sits here this morning with this memorandum of understanding anyway, with explicit language that says there can be no attacks on Lebanon.”

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'Trump is not invited': CNN host shuts down MAGA spin on Obama library bash

CNN's Audie Cornish schooled a former Donald Trump staffer who pooh-poohed the opening of Barack Obama's presidential library.

The 64-year-old former president will be joined at his library's grand opening Thursday by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and the event will include performances by legendary artists like Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson and The Roots, and Cornish couldn't help but compare that to President Donald Trump's lackluster Freedom 250 lineup.

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Republicans enduring '35 stage of grief' over Trump's deal: journalist

Donald Trump's highly controversial Iran peace deal is causing the Republican Party no small measure of angst, with conservative journalist David Drucker half-jokingly stating on MS NOW that the GOP is caught up in the throes of the “35 stages of grief" — a far cry from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "5 stages of grief" when death approaches.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” the conservative “The Dispatch” pundit attempted to explain how Republicans — with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading the charge — are laboring to defend the president just moments after co-host Mika Brzezinski read off widespread criticisms of the president and his deal from GOP lawmakers and conservative media outlets.

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'Kind of an insult?' CNN host mocks Trump over site chosen for 'self-defeating agreement'

President Donald Trump signed an agreement aimed at ending his war in Iran, but many noticed the symbolism of the location he chose to do it.

The 80-year-old president signed the so-called memorandum of understanding Wednesday during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron in Versailles, the historic setting of the 1919 treaty that ended World War I, and CNN's Audie Cornish asked her panelists about his choice.

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Morning Joe 'aghast' at Trump's off-hand remark: 'Wait, what?'

Reacting to remarks Donald Trump made at a press conference in France on Wednesday that he could easily start bombing Iran again just before signing a peace deal with the war-torn country, left MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski baffled and appalled.

MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” began with a clip of the president standing between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with Trump remarking, “It's a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn't get done in 60 days, that's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good, but we might have to because we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. But they've agreed not to and you'll see that very clearly in the agreement.”

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MAGA senator skewered online after 'surreal' CNN remarks on Trump deal

A MAGA senator was walloped online after he parroted a head-spinning Trump defense of his dubious Iran deal.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was asked by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday about Trump's deal to end the war with Iran.

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'Idiotic': Ex-GOP operative lambasts Trump for 'screwing over his partners'

President Donald Trump didn't just fail to accomplish all his objectives in Iran and damage the U.S. economy, former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told MS NOW's Chris Hayes on Wednesday — he also left Israel in the lurch, after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went all in on attaching himself to the U.S. president.

"Something happened, which is that they lost," said Hayes. "The leverage created by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz turned out to be the trump card."

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Erin Burnett throws Trump's past Iran claims back in his face: 'Exact same talking points'

CNN host Erin Burnett threw President Donald Trump's previous criticisms of former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face on Wednesday, noting that Trump was now using the same talking points that he rebuked Obama for using.

Trump has described Obama's Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as giving away too much money to the Iranian regime and not preventing the regime from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon. Burnett noted that those criticisms sound like an apt description of the deal Trump just signed with the regime over the weekend.

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Conservative warns Trump riding a delusional war 'sugar high' as he seeks 'glory' in Iran

Conservative former Naval War College professor and writer for The Atlantic, Tom Nichols, had a blunt assessment of President Donald Trump's pie-in-the-sky dreams for the Iran war, as the president goes all in on a deal to end it that makes Iran considerably stronger than before everything started and left many of his own supporters furious.

MS NOW's Melissa Murray showed him a clip of Trump justifying the deal on the world stage, saying, "The alternative would be a worldwide depression. We run out of reserves in about four weeks. You know, there are reserves all over the world. And we would really run out. And there would be a time when you couldn't get it. And you would've seen bedlam."

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Legal experts skewer Trump DOJ as its effort to bury evidence of misconduct backfires

Legal experts pounded the Department of Justice as it faces a possible probe into its failed effort to bury evidence of misconduct.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, and Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, weighed in on a court filing demanding a special counsel probe into DOJ's botched prosecution of the Broadview Six, a group of protesters arrested for demonstrating outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago.

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Trump floors onlookers by dismissing reporter's question on Iranian school strike: 'Wow'

President Donald Trump floored onlookers on Wednesday after he dismissed a reporter's question about the bombing strike on an Iranian girls' school more than three months ago that left about 175 people dead, many of whom were children.

Trump was asked during a press conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, whether he would hold anyone in his administration accountable for the strike. Trump's ambivalent reply left some political analysts and observers stunned.

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JD Vance's bizarre Jeffrey Epstein claim on 'The View' may have sunk him: expert

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt unloaded on Vice President JD Vance in a YouTube video published this week, zeroing in on Vance's interview on "The View" and pinpointing a key moment when one co-host tore a hole in his lies.

"Here's Vance explaining that you don't understand the Epstein files," said Schmidt. In Vance's reckoning, he said, "it was Donald, like a latter-day Magnum P.I. dropping the dime, narcing on [Epstein], as JD Vance says, communicating to the police the crimes of Epstein. You see, it was Trump that brought Epstein to justice like the Lone Ranger."

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