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'Hold my gun': Tina Fey's Kristi Noem opens up SNL with 'Old Yeller' shutdown joke

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened SNL as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, respectively, and they poked fun at the current drama over the shutdown.

"What if she is, though?" SNL's Noem asks as she enters into the scene of a hearing after someone said Noem was not present. "Hold my gun!"

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'Did not appear to be routine': Experts question White House over Trump's hospital visit

Medical experts have questions about Donald Trump's recent hospital visit, which the White House has claimed was routine.

The White House raised some analysts' eyebrows when it announced Trump would be going to Walter Reed for an "annual" visit, despite the fact that Trump had an annual visit in April. The White House declared Trump to be in excellent health, but didn't release all the details.

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'Where are the doctors?!' 'Nuts' Trump post raises fresh concerns that 'his brain is mush'

"Where are the doctors?!" yelled an exasperated MSNBC host after Donald Trump made a confusing and false claim on social media.

Conservative George Conway appeared Sunday on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart, who read a midnight post in which the president bizarrely claimed it was Biden's FBI who had agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6, despite the fact that Trump himself was the president at that time. California Governor Gavin Newsom flagged the post on social media, writing that Trump's "mental issues are very bad."

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'Does not remember': Newsom says new Trump quote proves 'his mental issues are very bad'

Governor of California Gavin Newsom says U.S. President Donald Trump just revealed the extent of his mental health issues.

Newsom was referring to the president's decision to make a midnight post in which he bizarrely claimed that it was the Biden administration who placed FBI agents in the crowd on Jan. 6, despite the fact that Trump himself was the president at that time.

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'Do something!': Trump makes bizarre claim about Biden and Jan. 6 in midnight rant

Donald Trump at just after midnight on Sunday morning released onto Truth Social a screed in which he claimed the "Biden FBI" placed "274" agents in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump himself was still president.

The president took his social media site in the dead of night to write, "THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6," at a time when it would have been Trump's FBI as the then-president was contesting valid election results.

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'What is coming': Former prosecutor previews Trump's plan to obtain 'limitless power'

A Donald Trump aide recently hinted at the president's plan to obtain "limitless power," according to a former prosecutor this weekend.

Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on Saturday called "When they Bukele the Courts," in which she talks about Trump following on the path of Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador. Bukele previously said, "If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.”

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'New star witness': Legal expert says Trump's weapon will be turned against him in court

A "surprise star witness" from Donald Trump's own first administration is set to undermine the DOJ's prosecution of former FBI director James Comey, according to a former prosecutor.

Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu weighed in via a video over the weekend. It is called "Trump DOJ SHOCKED by SURPRISE STAR WITNESS in Comey CASE," Wu explains that, "There is a new star witness" in the James Comey case.

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Admin insiders 'privately worrying' Stephen Miller is turning voters against Trump: report

Trump administration officials are worried that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is turning voters against the president, according to a new report.

CNN on Saturday published a report all about the role Miller is playing in the Trump administration's advancements into liberal cities. Miller is known for his hardline immigration policies.

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'Oops': Trump health official admits half of 'sweeping' layoffs at CDC were a mistake

Donald Trump's administration is walking back about half of a reported 1,000 health agency cuts.

MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny was on air on Saturday when she broke the news, saying she had received a call from an official from HHS "literally five minutes" prior to going on. The cuts were previously reported.

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'Why are they so scared?' Lawmaker accuses Mike Johnson of 'massive Epstein cover-up'

Mike Johnson is a "liar" and Republican citizens are pushing for Jeffrey Epstein transparency amid Mike Johnson's "massive Epstein cover-up," according to a Democratic lawmaker.

Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he talked about what he is hearing from everyday voters.

After saying he sees citizens pushing Republicans to negotiate on healthcare in connection with the shutdown, Garcia said, "The second thing that they're all very clear about is that this Epstein files that Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are now involved in with a massive coverup, are clearly on the minds of Republicans."

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GOP lawmaker praises university for standing up to Trump: 'Congrats to my alma mater'

Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently became the first university to reject and condemn Trump's dubious deal to nine universities, causing one GOP lawmaker to celebrate.

Raw Story reported on the MIT's initial statement saying it cannot support the Trump admin's plan.

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'Truly sick': Conservative blasts Fox News for snubbing 'veteran imprisoned by government'

Conservative strategist Tim Miller called out Fox News on Saturday for purportedly ignoring "a story about a US military veteran getting imprisoned for 3 days by the government."

Miller on Friday published a video conversation with the individual, writing on X, "I interviewed George Retes, the US citizen who ICE detained for 3 days - and threw in solitary for 2 - and his story absolutely shook me."

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'Hurting farmers': Trump admin just made an 'unusual acknowledgement' about its policies

Donald Trump's administration just made an "unusual acknowledgement" about its immigration policies, according to a new report Saturday.

In a weekend article called "Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices," the Washington Post reported, "In an unusual acknowledgement, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply."

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