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Chaos is mounting inside the Department of Homeland Security as rising tensions over Trump’s deportation agenda have sparked internal finger-pointing and threatened to derail top leadership, with officials even fearing their emails and messages are being monitored, according to a new NBC News exclusive.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, have reportedly pinned blame on subordinates for falling short of White House deportation goals. Acting ICE Director Todd Lloyd and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott have found themselves at the center of criticism, with Scott expressing concern to colleagues that Lewandowski may be monitoring his emails.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been threatened with contempt proceedings by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) over the duo's failure to appear to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, issued the sternly worded threat on Friday ahead of planned depositions scheduled for Wednesday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth proclaimed President Donald Trump to be the true heir of former President Ronald Reagan while speaking at the Reagan Library this week — but the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board begged to differ.

“Most who invoke Ronald Reagan’s name today, especially self-styled Republican hawks, are not much like Ronald Reagan,” said Hegseth, who is at the center of a firestorm of controversy for seemingly illegal "double-tap" strikes on shipwreck survivors. “Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan.”

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal on Friday after threatening political payback against Republicans who torpedoed a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.

“Political principle has been out of fashion, but it had a good day in Indiana on Thursday,” the Journal wrote in an editorial that praised Hoosier Republicans who rejected the proposal before criticizing Braun.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett tapped her pen on her desk and took a brief pause on her show before reading about the contents of a new photo dump from House Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files: an image of Donald Trump-themed condoms.

Burnett opened her show, "OutFront" on Friday, sharing that reporters received dozens of new photos from the Epstein estate as part of a larger trove of 95,000 images. Some of these photos served as the newest evidence of Trump's long relationship with Epstein, Burnett noted.

President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is issuing a new directive that will prohibit foreign nationals from self-submitting photographs for their legal paperwork, creating a new bureaucratic hurdle in an already difficult process.

The announcement came on Friday from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office.

President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter in the Oval Office on Friday after being pressed on what millions of Americans should expect as enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire – a change projected to raise premiums for roughly 24 million people.

During an event honoring the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team – the famed “Miracle on Ice” – a reporter asked Trump directly: “What’s your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up?"

President Donald Trump may have just suffered his "most significant blow yet," an analyst wrote Friday.

When Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature rebuffed his redistricting scheme despite intense pressure from MAGA allies, the implications extended well beyond electoral calculations. The 31-19 vote represented a coordinated challenge to the president's grip over his own party and his vision for consolidating power during his second term, The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait argued in his piece.