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On Saturday morning, former prosecutor Katie Phang and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel ridiculed Donald Trump's 27-year-old press secretary Karoline Leavitt for making bold pronouncement to the press about constitutional law that have no basis in fact.

During a recent press availability, Trump's spokesperson asserted the Trump administration is " ...fighting back by appealing, fighting back by using the full weight of the White House Counsel’s Office and our lawyers at the federal government who believe that this [fired federal workers] injunction is entirely unconstitutional."

"And it is, for anybody who has a basic understanding of the law," she claimed. "You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the president of the United States. That is completely absurd! And as the executive of the executive branch, the president has the ability to fire or hire. And you have these lower-level judges who are trying to block this president’s agenda. It’s very clear."

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After sharing the clip of Leavitt, MSNBC host and lawyer Phang mocked her as "apparently amateur constitutional lawyer Karoline Leavitt."

Later during the segment Nessel asked if she could address Leavitt, who has a BA degree in communications after attending Saint Anselm College on a Division II softball scholarship.

"Firstly, I don't know where she got her law degree," Nessel began as Phang smiled. "I suspect it was at Trump University Online. But she is clearly misstating what the role of the courts are, right?"

"These are three co-equal branches of government," she continued. "I understand that the, you know, one of the branches, the legislature, Congress has sort of abdicated seemingly their entire role in this process, but the courts are doing their job."

"And even, quote, low-level federal judges who are federal district court judges, you know, they have the ability to issue injunctive relief and the. executive branch must abide by it. So it's deeply concerning to me to hear the president's own press secretary indicating that they may decide to do otherwise."

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During an appearance on. MSNBC on Saturday morning, an admittedly "angry" Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) urged her Democratic colleagues in the Senate to reconsider if they want Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to remain in his leadership position.

Speaking with a sympathetic Katie Phang, the Vermont Democrat also spoke to New York Democrats and pointed out that the 74-year Schumer is not entitled in any way to keep his Senate seat after folding on the budget bill he allowed to come to the Senate floor –– much to Donald Trump's delight.

Joining a chorus of Democrats in the House who feel betrayed by the New Yorker, Balint told host Phang, "On the Democratic side we run the risk of coming across as arrogant and as not listening to what our voters and what Americans are telling us, which is they want us to stand up to this administration and fight for those programs and not let Elon Musk have access to our personal. private data, and to not have them go after programs that we have already funded, and getting rid of our authority as Congress, having the power of the purse."

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"When we back down, this sends the absolute wrong message that we are not willing to fight and that is why I was so furious," she added.

"We don't own our seats," she later added. "It's not Chuck Schumer's seat, it's not Becca Balint's seat. The seats belong to the voters and so the people of New York are going to have to decide, in this moment, was caving the right thing for him to do?"

"And members of the Senate need to do some deep soul-searching about how they want to show up for the American people right now," she continued. "And so I always say we have to continue to do better and not continue to play by playbooks from 20 years ago, and that's where the rage comes from Americans that the Trumpism, the MAGAism has broken the system and yet we continue to play as Democrats as if the system is intact."

"We have to throw punches, we have to be able to go toe to toe and not blink because, if we don't, where does it stop?" she added.

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Reacting to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seeming to care more what the U.S. military looks like than preparing them to fight in future wars, former lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard and ex-Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) got in his own shot at the former Fox News weekend host.

During a panel discussion on CNN's "Table for Five," host Abby Phillip noted new grooming standards the Donald Trump appointee wants to implement which led to showing a clip of Hegseth making his case in February.

"It starts with the basic stuff, right?" Hegseth told the crowd. "It's grooming standards and uniform standards and training standards, fitness standards, all of that matters."

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"It's almost like the broken windows theory of policing: when you ignore the small stuff from criminals, and I'm not I'm not saying if you violate grooming standards, you're a criminal, the analogy is incomplete, but if you violate the small stuff and you allow it to happen, the big stuff, it creates a culture where big stuff you're not held accountable for. I think the same thing exists inside our services," he insisted.

That led Kinzinger, the recipient of six Air Medals earned while flying missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, to roll his eyes.

"This is what every terrible commander says," he began as host Phillip and co-panelist and conservative S.E. Cupp burst into laughter.

"Honest to god, they're like, you know, we'd wear like little pin patches on our flight suit and people would go, ''You can't wear that, 'and they're like, 'Because if I can't trust you to wear your uniform, right, how can I trust you to fly a gajillion-dollar plane?'"

"Well, you trained me to," he added.

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Residents in the resort town of Myrtle Beach, located in deep red South Carolina, are worried their annual Can-Am Days, aimed at drawing Canadians to town during its 9-day run, are worried they will take a financial hit this year.

All because of Donald Trump.

Reacting to Donald Trump's accusatory and, at some times, rambling, speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, MSNBC host Michael Steele said the message sent by the president should send a chill down everyone's spines.

Speaking with his co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the former Republican National Committee chair said the re-elected Trump has an "army" of lawyers this go-around willing to do his bidding, no questions asked.

During his speech, Trump asserted his opponents are "scum," called judges "corrupt” and accused prosecutors who investigated him of being “deranged.”

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That led Steele to state, "And so folks, you're seeing in real-time, the side of Donald Trump that basically says he's now drunk with the power given to him by the Supreme Court to act with impunity, drunk with the power of an election that, you know, he won, obviously the majority of the vote."

"But the reality of it is the idea of governing and serving the American people is the farthest thing from his mind," he accused. "And he's getting his little army that he's going to send out around the, around the country to enforce his view of what America should look like."

Addressing the DOJ speech once again, he added, '"In that room this week he got the ultimate confirmation that they don't work for us –– they work for him."

"So ya'll better watch out, all of us better watch out, because the Department of Justice has now been ramped up and turned on the American people," he warned.

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The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" burst into laughter on Saturday morning after watching Dr. Mehmet Oz getting embarrassed by a Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) during a Senate hearing on his nomination to head up the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a key federal department.

In a clip shown Saturday morning, Hassan asked Oz, a failed Republican candidate for a Senate seat representing Pennsylvania in 2022 with Donald Trump's endorsement, if he would balk at following an illegal order from the president.

Specifically, she asked, "First question that I'm asking of every nominee for this administration: if directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's directive?"

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"The president would never do that," Oz replied which earned him a rebuke from the Democrat who shot back, "That's absurd and it's a disappointing answer."

Following that exchange, the entire panel burst into laughter with co-host Michale Steele sarcastically pointing out, "Yeah, the convicted felon would never do that."

As Streele added, "Damn!" co-host Symone Sanders Townsend briefly stopped laughing to contribute, "The man that asked, in the last he was president, asked his defense secretary, secretary why they couldn't just shoot protesters outside the White House. He would never break the law?"

"Come on, now," she added.

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Billionaire Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and X.com and leader of the Department of Government Accountability (DOGE), has become a very polarizing figure on both the left and the right.

Liberals and progressives are vehemently critical of the mass layoffs of federal government workers he is pushing via DOGE, and Never Trump conservatives deeply resent his influence on the Republican Party. Musk, anti-Trump conservatives and libertarians argue, is doing the GOP a major disservice by threatening to fund primary challenges against Republican lawmakers who offer even tepid criticism of President Donald Trump's policies.

In an interview with Politico, one of Donald Trump's co-campaign managers from his 2024 presidential bid had little sympathy for either Americans watching their 401k's value plummet or Wall Street investors seeing their portfolios ravaged by the president's trade war.

According to Christ LaCivita, Trump is doing what he promised and no one should be surprised about the onslaught of tariffs and executive orders that have been the hallmarks of the president's second term.

After just 50 days as Donald Trump's secretary of defense, former Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth is getting poor grades from a retired general who claims he sees no progress being made to improve the U.S. military's capabilities.

In an interview with the Guardian's Ben Makuch, retired Brigadier General Paul Eaton, accused Hegseth –– who he derisively referred to as a “Saturday showman on Fox News” –– still shows signs that he is "unfit" to run the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump’s controversial speech at the Department of Justice on Friday sparked a fiery CNN debate between two guests that sent accusations flying over a weaponized Justice Department, under Joe Biden and the current administration, and left the host struggling to keep order.

The tense exchange played out on CNN’s “NewsNight” as radio host and GOP political strategist Melik Abdul continued to insist that Biden’s administration "weaponized the Department of Justice.” That left Tara Setmayer, an ex-Republican and former senior advisor for the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, fuming.

Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the latest major power outage in the island country.

"At around 8:15 pm tonight, a breakdown... caused the significant loss of power in western Cuba and with it the fall of the national electricity system," the Ministry of Energy and Mines said.

UK premier Keir Starmer will prod fellow leaders Saturday to sign up to a coalition willing to protect any eventual ceasefire in Ukraine, having said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not serious about peace".

The British prime minister is expected to tell some 25 fellow leaders during a virtual summit that "now is the time for concrete commitments", as Putin mulls a US proposal of a 30-day pause to the conflict.