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The U.S. Dept. of Justice unsealed an indictment against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez late Friday morning, accusing the New Jersey Democratic lawmaker of bribery as prosecutors showed photos of gold bars and nearly half-a-million dollars in cash stuffed into a jacket that bears his name and the seal of the U.S. Senate.

Many on the left immediately demanded Senator Menendez resign, a demand he is refusing. He will step down as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, which Senate Democrats require when a chair is criminally charged.

Megan Rapinoe, who championed social justice and fought for women's equal pay in a 17-year international career, will play her final match for the United States on Sunday against South Africa.

The 38-year-old striker has scored 63 goals in 202 appearances for the national team entering her farewell match at Chicago, having helped the US win titles at the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cups and the 2012 London Olympics.

With the Republican-controlled House off for the weekend despite the impending government shutdown due to infighting among GOP caucus members battling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), one party member tried to pin the blame on President Joe Biden – and CNN host Kate Bolduan abruptly cut him off.

Appearing on the network Friday, Rep. Mark Molinaro (R-NY), who represents a district that went for Biden in 2020, tried to allay worries about a possible devastating government shutdown as he also tried to shift some of the blame to Democrats.

While discussing the battle between Speaker McCarthy and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over the budget deal, Molinaro offered, "This isn't a head fake, this is an earnest effort to show to the American people and to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, two things, we have a bipartisan government by design or default and we have to find common ground between the Senate."

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When he added, "Instead of the president sitting on the sideline laughing about the fact that we have yet to move those appropriation bills, perhaps providing a decent amount of leadership to focus our attention on the fact that this government spends money it doesn't have, taxes...," the CNN host abruptly cut him off.

"Do you think President Biden getting involved would make it -- would make it any easier for Republicans to come together? Because this is a Republican problem at this moment," she lectured.

"Listen, it's an American problem," the New York Republican backtracked before changing the subject and complaining, "We have allowed this White House to allow thousands of undocumented individuals into the country, it's crushing the city of New York."

Getting back on track after being chastized, he continued, "But my point is that what we do need an earnest effort on both sides of the political aisle."

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted with his wife on Friday – and legal analysts can't help but notice that Republicans haven't said anything about the weaponization of government.

When Donald Trump was indicted, Republicans argued that President Joe Biden was using the power of his office to go after his political opponents. Since then, Biden's son has been indicted – and now a Democratic senator.

Former President Donald Trump denied any role in right-wing billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch stepping down from his empire in a new rant posted to his Truth Social platform on Friday — and suggested that if he wants to be rid of anyone else next, it should be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

"Many people are saying that, 'You forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement!'" wrote Trump. "I do not believe this is so, but while we’re at it, how about getting rid of 'Democrat' Mitch McConnell, who gives the Radical Left Lunatics, together with his small band of automatic 'yes' votes, EVERYTHING they want."

On Friday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough rushed to Vice President Kamala Harris' defense over hand-wringing in some Democratic quarters that President Joe Biden should boot her as his running mate in On Friday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough launched into a full-throated defense of Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that she should absolutely remain President Joe Biden's running mate in 2024.

According Scarborough, a former Republican who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the panic in some Democratic quarters over Harris is "total nonsense."

"Well, there is this undercurrent, like she's black and a woman, and that's why people don't like her because she's a vice president. 'What are we going to do? We need to change her!" the aggravated "Morning Joe" host began. "I just go, where were you when Dan Quayle was vice president? Where were you? Nobody remembers this."

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"Every vice president, we hear this all the time: 'Change your vice presidents,'" he continued. "I'm here to say, it's total nonsense. Nobody has ever voted against any presidential candidate because of who their vice president was."

"If you look at Kamala's numbers, they're not that far off from where every other mocked and ridiculed and loathed vice president has been," he concluded.

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Amid the chaos of what top Democrats are calling the GOP House's "civil war," infighting that threatens to shut down the federal government in nine days, Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer has been obtaining some of then-Vice President Joe Biden's emails from the National Archives.

Politico reveals Chairman Comer has been able to obtain several unreacted emails, including one which relayed a tidbit of hearsay, or, "private musings," from 2009, after an overseas trip Biden took: "multiple" women said they found the Vice President "sexy."