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President Donald Trump on Friday delivered a seemingly contradictory message about the state of the war with Ukraine.

Shortly after Trump said he'd consider sanctioning Russia given that it is launching massive bombing campaigns in Ukraine, a reporter in the Oval Office asked him if he still believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make "peace" with the country he invaded more than three years ago.

A former chairman of the White House's economic advisors argued that President Donald Trump is entirely responsible for high economic uncertainty.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Jason Furman, who served on the White House counsel under President Barack Obama, said that the enormous swings of decisions on tariffs and pauses on tariffs are leading to economic chaos.

Elon Musk berated a pair of Donald Trump's cabinet members in a tense White House meeting that ended with the president assuring the public that his next phase for cutting the federal workforce would be more methodically carried out.

The meeting Thursday was hastily scheduled the night before and suggests Trump has heard the growing complaints about Musk's hasty and seemingly careless cuts, and the New York Times reported details from inside the Cabinet Room.

They may have been animated, but the co-hosts of "The View" agreed on one thing: Democrats are failing in the fight against the GOP.

The discussion began by talking about Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who was censured by the Republican-led Congress and ten Democratic lawmakers who joined with them. Green shouted back at President Donald Trump, disagreeing that he had a "mandate" after his election.

Residents in Madison Heights, Michigan are expressing displeasure with one of their neighbors who has erected a sign on her property that calls President Donald Trump a "d---less rapist."

Fox 2 Detroit reports that the Madison Heights woman in question, who does not wish to be identified for fears of physical retribution, isn't backing down from displaying her obscene anti-Trump sign despite objections from the neighborhood.

A laid-off worker at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to pass on returning to her dream job after receiving a "sketchy" email inviting her to come back.

Cancer outreach worker Bri McNulty was among 750 employees abruptly terminated from the CDC last month by email, and the 23-year-old had already moved on and accepted another job when she received another email offering her old job back, reported NPR.

Reacting to Donald Trump's daily press availabilities where he sits at his desk and makes outrageous claims with no pushback from reporters, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to undermine the president.

Speaking with longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, the "Morning Joe" host grew louder and louder as he complained about Democrats falling down on the job.

Harkening back to when he was a Republican serving the House during President Bill Clinton's administration, the MSNBC host asserted it is not that difficult to perform a rapid response to lies made by the opposing party.

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"So Donald Trump stands up and says things that just aren't true," he began. "You know, he talks about 300, we had $350 billion to him [Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky], repeats it over and over and over again. 160 year-old people are getting Social Security. Right, that's not happening! But he says it, right? And here's the thing: if you don't know how to respond to a lie, that's the biggest audience any politician is going to get."

"So Americans, what are they to think? 'Okay, well, I guess 160-year olds are getting...' -- I'm sorry I know it. Well, no, I don't. It's not harder than it looks because I've been in Congress and I can tell you it's not harder than it looks," he elaborated before adding, "Where are the Democrats when he starts saying this nonsense?"

"Why don't they get one person out there who can communicate extraordinarily well?" he asked. "Make it a meritocracy, why can't somebody go up there like Barack Obama would have done, or like Bill Clinton would have done, and just sit there and laugh and go, he says there -- we used to do this all the time in Congress!"

Scarborough then mimed holding up a piece of paper and pointed in multiple spots as he exclaimed, "Yeah, Bill Clinton says this and you hold up a sheet. No, that's a lie! That's a lie! That's a lie!"

"Why can't Democrats do this?" he asked again. "Why are they –– why are there now millions of Americans who believe that, quote, 160-year-olds are getting Social Security checks? Well, millions of Americans believe it, I guess, because Trump said it."

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Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Friday pushed back on President Donald Trump's erratic decision making when it comes to slapping tariffs on foreign goods.

During an interview, Bartiromo pointed out to Trump that he was essentially ripping up a trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he negotiated during his first term, and she argued that this was adding unnecessary uncertainty to the markets.

The February jobs report is showing the impact of the beginning of President Donald Trump's economy, and many aren't surprised to see the turn.

Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long pointed out that people should remember that the report only shows the numbers through Feb. 15, and most of the federal government firings began after that date. According to the current report, only 10,000 federal employees had been laid off by the 15th, and that number has grown exponentially since then.

According to one Democratic lawmaker, Donald Trump seems to be under the illusion that if he can force a peace agreement on Ukraine that will end the war precipitated by Russia's illegal invasion, that will put him in line for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with co-host Jonathan Lemire, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said the devil is in the details and Trump only siding with the aggressor in the war is going to leave him empty handed when Nobels are announced.

After addressing drastic cutbacks planned for the Veterans Administration, the ranking minority member of the House Armed Forces Committee turned to the Ukraine war and Trump's bullying tactics aimed at President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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"Trump is not doing this because he wants both sides to a peace agreement," he told the host. "He's put no pressure on Russia ––he's taken it off. He's doing it because he's sympathetic to Putin and Russia and not sympathetic to Zelensky and I'll leave it to therapists to figure out exactly why that is, but it is absolutely true."

A crypto reporter struggled to make sense of Donald Trump's moves to create a strategic reserve of the digital currency.

The president signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government ahead of a meeting with crypto founders and investors at the White House, and Axios correspondent Brady Dale set about explaining the situation.

President Donald Trump is finally talking tough against Russia.

In a post on his Truth Social page, the president floated the possibility of hitting Russia with even more economic sanctions given that Moscow so far has shown little willingness to make any concessions to end its three-year war with neighboring Ukraine.