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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) enthusiastically endorsed far-right conspiracy theorist Dan Bongino to run the Secret Service during an interview on The Benny Show on Friday.

"I think Dan would be great," Jordan told right-wing host Benny Johnson. "Dan Bongino at Secret Service would be with us on the change that needs to take place to focus on the mission of that critical agency."

A national security lawyer with a reputation for defending political whistleblowers appeared unfazed by legal threats flung by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI.

In a legal letter on Friday, Mark Zaid sneered at demands Kash Patel made for Olivia Troye, a former counterterrorism aide to Mike Pence, to “publicly retract defamatory statements” of the MAGA loyalist. Zaid answered Patel’s lawyer Jesse Binnall, a veteran Trump attorney, by first noting that Troye’s statements have been previously stated “by a wide swath of the knowledgeable population.”

President-elect Donald Trump is likely to enlist the help of citizen militias and county sheriffs to carry out his mass deportation schemes, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi warned on MSNBC Friday evening — in response to reports that some militias are already gearing up for such a project.

"I think, historically, the bulwark against that has been the rule of law, and I wonder how, in light of the last conversation, these groups maybe hear something different and don't feel there is resistance to what they seek to do?" asked anchor Nicolle Wallace.

National security experts have growing concerns about the safety of Americans in the new world of Donald Trump's presidency and what he intends to do to top law enforcement agencies.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Frank Figliuzzi, who served as the served as assistant director for counterintelligence for the FBI, sounded the alarm at how MAGA views federal law enforcement.

A failed Republican Senate candidate with a history of controversial statements – including once blaming gun violence on “Black people, frankly” – is reportedly being mulled by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF.

On Thursday, Trump loyalist Blake Masters sat down with the incoming president’s transition team and is said to be interested in becoming the country’s top gun regulator, Semafor reported Friday.

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth faces a rocky path to being confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense, amid a sexual assault allegation and accusations from former colleagues that he has a drinking problem.

But far-right Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) isn't concerned about any of these issues — as he made clear on air with right-wing student organization leader Charlie Kirk.

Political pundits have already called the flatline of Pete Hegseth's nomination to lead the Department of Defense, but he's still lingering around Washington.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for George W. Bush's presidential campaign, made it clear that Trump has strong opinions about alcoholism and those with drinking problems.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) argued in a column for the conservative Washington Examiner that Congress should let the federal government shut down for a month and just wait for President-elect Donald Trump to take office.

In particular, he blasted leadership for not passing a long-term budget and simply passing a string of "continuing resolutions" to kick the can down the road on maintaining government funding.

Bird flu has officially jumped from birds to infect two people in Arizona, AZFamily reported Friday.

It adds another state to the list where the disease has spread.

President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to jam through appointments for his next administration with as little resistance as possible entered a new, “extreme” phase, according to a legal expert.

The plan already being discussed among a group of House Republicans involves Trump dismissing the Senate “against its will,” which would allow him to stack the government with whomever he chooses in the resulting "recess," wrote Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional law professor at Yale University.

Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

"I write to you today to seek your support to serve as ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 119th Congress," the New York Democrat wrote in a letter to the Democratic caucus. "This is not a position I seek lightly. The responsibility of leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee during Donald Trump's second term in the White House is a profound and consequential one."

The judge presiding over the trial of accused New York subway vigilante Daniel Penny has granted prosecutors' request to dismiss the first and most serious charge of manslaughter, reported NBC News — leaving the jury to deliberate the less serious charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Prosecutors asked for the dismissal because the jury was intractably deadlocked over the more serious charge. Under the rules of New York criminal procedure, the jury couldn't even move on to deliberating on the second charge without making a decision one way or the other on the first. However, the jury was not told that prosecutors had made the request.

North Carolina Republicans are trying to strip powers from the incoming Democratic state officials that voters just elected, over outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper's veto. But while the GOP-backed state Senate overrode the veto, it's not guaranteed they will have the votes to do so in the House, freelance journalist Bryan Anderson reported Friday.

"The #SB382 override isn't a sure thing," Anderson posted to X. "With five days left until the vote, Reps. Clampitt and Pless tell me they're undecided (with Pless appearing to lean no on override). Rep. Gillespie hasn't responded. Kidwell also someone to watch."