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White House Press Secretary called Steve Bannon's demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the military be deployed to polling locations a "silly hypothetical," but didn't deny that it could happen.

"Steve Bannon recently said, quote, 'we're going to have ICE around the polls come November,'" a reporter told Leavitt during Thursday's White House briefing. "Is that something that the president is considering?"

Republicans in Congress expressed frustration at President Donald Trump after he gave Democrats leverage over Department of Homeland Security funding.

Fox News reported that Republicans were "quietly grumbling" over Trump's deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to keep the government open by only funding DHS through Feb. 13.

Yale computer science professor David Gelernter defended recommending a young woman to Jeffrey Epstein because he was trying to satisfy the sex offender's "habits."

In newly released emails written in 2011, Gelernter told Epstein that he should consider hiring an unnamed alumna described as a "v small goodlooking blonde."

New York Times columnist David French recently outlined a strategy that could prevent President Donald Trump from undermining the midterm elections.

In recent columns, French has sounded the alarm about "all of Trump's threats against American elections."

Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump as "perceptive" because he complained that CNN's Kaitlan Collins did not smile more.

"I mean, like, there was a moment in the Oval Office. I wasn't even in there, but, you know, I was in the West Wing," Vance recalled to Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "[Trump] was talking to Kaitlin Collins, who's the CNN anchor... But the president, she's asking a question, the president says, 'Why don't you ever smile?'"

First lady Melania Trump faced questions after she seemed to promote her movie at an official White House event.

While speaking with freed Israeli hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel on Wednesday, Trump put in a plug for her movie.

MAGA influencers celebrated the idea that undocumented migrants could burn their hands trying to get into the country after the Trump administration painted a portion of the border wall black.

On Wednesday, NewsNation's Ali Bradley shared a video of the new black border wall in Nogales.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on President Donald Trump to "nationalize" elections by deploying the U.S. Army to voting locations.

During an angry Wednesday rant about Trump's decision to pull Homeland Security agents out of Minneapolis, Bannon argued that the administration should provide "zero" cooperation with cities in blue states.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon slammed the Trump administration's plan to withdraw 700 Department of Homeland Security officers from Minneapolis after Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents killed at least two U.S. citizens.

Bannon expressed concern on Wednesday after border czar Tom Homan said 700 agents would be removed from Minneapolis.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a Bible lesson on immigration after Pope Leo XIV advised policymakers to engage in "deep reflection" about the treatment of immigrants.

After the pope cited the book of Matthew to ensure that migrants' "spiritual rights" were respected, a reporter asked Johnson to provide his own interpretation of the Bible.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly spoke out in defense of former First Lady Jill Biden's ex-husband, Bill Stevenson, after he was charged with the murder of his wife.

According to KTVU-TV, 77-year-old Stevenson was charged with murder on Monday in the death of his wife, 64-year-old Linda Stevenson, who was found dead on her living room floor.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) suggested that Americans would be "justified in shooting" ICE agents if they mistook them for "masked hoodlums."

"What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets, the attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums," Nadler told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. "If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped."

Rudy Giuliani revealed that he had investigated President Donald Trump's history with Jeffrey Epstein but had no evidence that the police were called after a masseuse was allegedly assaulted by the sex offender at Mar-a-Lago.

"I'll tell you a little about Epstein, though, if you want," Giuliani volunteered to MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Monday. "I represented the president when the Epstein stuff was first going to come out. So myself and our team investigated it thoroughly. And we were ready for it."