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Fox News' liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov teed off on President Donald Trump's speech on affordability during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Five."

Trump traveled to Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to give a speech about the rising cost of living and what his administration is doing to help average Americans. During the speech, Trump weaved through multiple other topics ranging from immigration to how well his Cabinet secretaries are performing.

A Hollywood star refused Wednesday to apologize for calling the late Charlie Kirk "hateful" in a defiant and profane new interview.

Following the Sept. 10 shooting at a Utah university campus, the star of "The Housemaid" drew criticism after characterizing the slain conservative activist as "hateful" in an Instagram comment, according to Variety. A week later, the actress posted on Instagram to distance herself from the backlash, expressing her opposition to violence in a statement that simultaneously took issue with the Turning Point USA founder's political positions.

Political analysts dragged President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Wednesday after it moved to drop a corruption case against a former Fox executive who was convicted of bribery and money laundering charges.

The DOJ moved to drop its conviction of Hernán López, a former Fox executive who oversaw the network's Latin American sports broadcasting business, who had been convicted of multiple crimes related to the FIFA corruption investigation that began in 2010. López was involved in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars to the heads of the international soccer organization in exchange for the rights to broadcast the World Cup and multiple high-profile tournaments in South America. He was convicted alongside a marketing company he worked with, Full Play Sports, in 2023, The New York Times reported.

Longtime Republican pollster turned anti-Trump analyst Sarah Longwell had a blunt message for President Donald Trump on MS NOW Wednesday: your denials of the affordability crisis, such as your speech in Pennsylvania this week, are not landing with voters.

"When he just, you know, politically wet the bed and said you don't need any dolls or pencils — I mean, what do you, I guess we just hope that [White House Chief of Staff] Susie Wiles is right and Donald Trump is out there on the ballot in the midterms," said anchor Nicolle Wallace.

The MAGA movement appeared to split on Wednesday night after the House of Representatives voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, a more than $900 billion military spending package.

The NDAA is one of the largest single-spending bills Congress passes each session. The latest version of the bill includes a provision that allocates around $800 million to Ukraine's war against Russia and language that could force the Department of Defense to release the video of a hotly-contested strike against an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2.

President Donald Trump's administration received a rare rebuke on Wednesday from an air safety official over a provision tucked away in the annual defense spending bill.

Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, spoke at a press conference on Wednesday about Section 373 of the National Defense Authorization Act, a more than $900 billion spending package that recently passed the House of Representatives.

Former GOP strategist Mike Murphy slammed Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally as “low-energy” and a clear sign the president is “fading.” Speaking on his Hacks on Tap podcast, Murphy noted that Trump’s meandering remarks and apparent confusion highlighted declining cognitive sharpness, reinforcing concerns about his health. What was meant to showcase economic leadership instead underscored a president struggling to maintain his once-commanding presence, he said.

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President Donald Trump's cognitive decline was on full display this week, longtime Beltway reporter John Heilemann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" — and it's obvious when you compare his demeanor to a few years ago.

"You know, look, they asked him the other day on the airplane, on Air Force One, why he took an MRI, and he said he didn't know," said Heilemann. "If getting the camera-person-TV thing right is acing it, not knowing why you took an MRI is flunking it. I'm not sure what to make of any of those things, but it's totally clear and has been for some time."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has apparently come up with a new pet name for the relationship between the United States and China, and its name is raising the eyebrows of at least one Democrat, according to a new report.

The Hill reported on Wednesday that Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) had sent a letter to Hegseth regarding his use of "G2" to describe U.S.-China relations. Krishnamoorthi argued that the nickname for the relationship “carries deeply problematic connotations of depicting the United States and [China] as co-equal and primarily cooperate powers responsible for deciding global issues while sidelining U.S. democratic allies and partners," according to the report.

Vice President JD Vance joked about banning the numbers “six” and “seven” on X, poking fun at a viral meme that has swept schools and social media. The meme, inspired by the 2025 song Doot Doot (6 7) and popularized through clips of basketball star LeMelo Ball, had Vance’s own five-year-old repeating the numbers obsessively during church, he said. Vance called for a “narrow exception to the First Amendment,” while lamenting the bewildering nature of modern viral trends.

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