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The panel on CNN's "Table for Five" laughed off Donald Trump's habit of making bold –– and distracting –– proposals when things are not going well for him and noted they all seem to be designed to raise his profile among all presidents.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip, longtime D.C. insider Chuck Todd noted that the president was doing all he could earlier in the week after he created a firestorm by telling an NBC host he wasn't sure if he was supposed to follow the Constitution.

That, in turn, led the embattled president to propose re-opening the Alcatraz prison despite the fact that is has been falling into disrepair for decades.

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Pointing out that the NBC interview with host Kirsten Welker "didn't go well," Todd added, "Suddenly, instead of that being the thing, 'Oh, let me throw up this Alcatraz thing.'"

"I do think sometimes –– I’m with you guys –– it’s just, what do they call it, flak? You know, to distract the fighter jets, what are you shooting at? We cannot take the bait and I completely agree. But he’s obsessed with being in history. He wants, maybe he really is afraid that he is not going to be more than one page in the history book."

He then pointed out, "And I promise you, guess what buddy? You probably maybe will be two because you’re impeached twice," before adding, "No president ever lives as long in the history books as they think they will."

"You’re so right about that, because maybe it’s all these things at once, right? Trump wants to be a historical figure. And in his mind, it’s acquiring territory. It’s renaming things," host Phillip contributed. "He really would love to be on the Mount Rushmore. I think he’s maybe realized that that’s like a little bit tough of a sell. But this is important to him."

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On Saturday morning's edition of MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Jonathan Capehart expressed both dismay and surprise that Donald Trump selected Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro to serve as Washington, D.C.'s interim U.S. attorney considering her history.

Speaking with his co-hosts, he claimed it doesn't take much effort to dig up Pirro's sketchy background when it comes to law enforcement and offered some tips to viewers.

"Talk about failing upward!" he exclaimed before continuing, "She's not qualified."

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Point out the longtime friendship between Pirro and Trump, Capehart continued, "They are such good friends that at the end of his first term as president, didn't he, yeah, he gave her former husband, tax cheat ex-husband Al a pardon."

"And folks, do yourself a favor just Google 'Jeanine Pirro,' 'husband,' 'FBI,' 'Bernie Kerik,'" he advised.

"See, there's a whole thing, a scandal from 20 years ago where she is caught on tape talking to the former New York police commissioner about bugging her husband's boat for reasons you can read in that story if you Google it," he continued.

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A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked what at coalition of labor unions, local governments, and nonprofits argued was "the unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government by the president of the United States on a scale unprecedented in this country’s history and in clear excess of his authority."

Since returning to office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump—aided by his Department of Government Efficiency and its de facto leader, billionaire Elon Musk—has worked to quickly overhaul the bureaucracy, even though "the president does not possess authority to reorganize, downsize, or otherwise transform the agencies of the federal government, unless and until Congress authorizes such action," as the coalition's complaint notes.

During an appearance on CNN Saturday morning where she was tasked with defending the questionable arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka by a mob of armed ICE agents outside of an DHS facility, a spokesperson for the agency stated there are plans to arrest more lawmakers in the coming days.

Speaking with host Victor Blackwell, Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at DHS and former advisor to failed GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, kept insisting that Mayor Baraka was arrested for "storming" the facility despite video showing him being taken into custody outside the chain-link gate.

After she grimly recited that the mayor and members of Congress who were also in attendance "put law enforcement at risk, this actually put the detainees, as well, at risk," she added more arrests would be forthcoming.

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"Victor, I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more arrests coming," McLaughlin claimed. " We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer. So we will be showing that to viewers very shortly."

'You say a video of members of Congress body slamming ICE officials?" a skeptical Blackwell asked.

"That's correct sir, it's disgusting," she replied.

"Okay, and so, if you have that video, are you suggesting that members of Congress will be arrested who were there yesterday?" the CNN host pressed.

"This is an ongoing investigation and that is definitely on the table," she shot back.

"Who has the video?" Blackwell asked.

"ICE does and we will be releasing that shortly," she replied before later adding, "We're not playing."

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During an MSNBC panel on recent proclamations from Donald Trump that have left observers baffled, "The Weekend" co-host Jonathan Capehart expressed dismay that there is not more attention being paid to the president's state of mind.

With former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) commenting on Trump's nonsensical tariff claims, Capehart couldn't contain himself and exclaimed, "I wrote down this note immediately: why are we not talking about his mental acuity? How?"

Co-host and former GOP speechwriter Elise Jordan offered, "The last interview he did with [NBC's] Kristen Welker, he did not look as sharp and he looked, at least at a minimum, tired. At worst case, he is not as sharp as he used to be."

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Comstock then jumped in with, "I mean he's talking about how it's great that those, right the [container] ships coming over are empty, that means we're saving money, it is literally economically illiterate."

"His own people –– look at Steve Moore, Heritage Foundation, a guy who opposes tariffs has been saying to people behind the scenes, actually, he's been saying it on Fox News, this is insane," she added. "

"You can tell –– Ken Griffin who gave money, huge money to Republicans last year, including Trump, has said this has made us 20 percent poorer in a month done permanent damage to the American brand and this isn't going to be something we can turn around from now. You know, and what he [Trump] does is he burns down the house and then he comes in and says, 'Oh, the market went up.' Well, no."

Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has attended just 12 briefings from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief, Politico reported Friday.

During his first term, Trump attended these briefings with intel officials twice a week. The daily brief presidents receive give an overview from the intelligence community’s summary of the key national security challenges.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump has recently taken to complaining to dinner companions at his Mar-a-Lago resort that things are not going as well as he thought they would in his return to the presidency.

Now that he is over 100 days into his second term, the president in recent weeks has expressed growing dissatisfaction that he hasn't been able to deliver on his promise to end the war in Ukraine and has even taken to wondering if Russian President Vladimir Putin has been stringing him along.

US President Donald Trump heads for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Monday, eyeing big business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will be harder to seal.

While Israel's war in Gaza and Iran's nuclear program will loom large over Trump's first major foreign trip of his second term, the White House said he looked forward to a "historic return" to the region.

A new op-ed published Friday suggested that the election of Pope Leo XIV – the first American pope – could pose challenges for U.S. politicians like Vice President JD Vance, who have aligned themselves with Catholic ideology.

That’s according to Commonweal editor-at-large Mollie Wilson O’Reilly, who argued Friday that Pope Leo’s American roots and fluency in English remove longtime language barriers between the Vatican and American elected officials. Unlike his predecessors, she told readers, the new pope is expected to speak directly to American Catholics.

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, didn’t waste any time defending himself after his arrest outside an ICE facility sparked a chaotic scene that included protesters and several members of Congress who were on site.

“It was really humiliating and painful,” Baraka, who said he's now facing a federal trespassing charge, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) finally settled weeks of speculation by taking her name out of consideration for Senate, in a lengthy post that railed against Republican lawmakers and insisted she could win the race but wouldn't be able to accomplish anything because her GOP colleagues would just roll over for Democrats anyway.

The announcement, which followed Gov. Brian Kemp also declining to run, was met with widespread mockery on social media, as observers said they knew for all her bravado, there was no way she could actually win.

Retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin didn’t hold back Friday as she tore into White House adviser Stephen Miller’s suggestion that the Trump administration could unilaterally suspend migrants’ rights to challenge their detention in court.

Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper hours after Miller made the eyebrow-raising comments, Scheindlin said flatly the suggestion is “ridiculous.”