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Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman was roasted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday for running interference for Donald Trump during an appearance on CNBC's "Squawkbox" earlier in the week.

A discussion with CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin on Donald Trump's standing with Wall Street executives quickly turned to the controversial Ackman who has become notorious for his extended diatribes on social media aimed at his critics who have called out his attempts to rationalize Trump's actions.

During his recent appearance on CNBC, the billionaire investor dismissed Trump's reported admiration for Adolf Hitler while also blaming Russia's invasion of neighboring Georgia during President George W. Bush's administration on President Joe Biden.

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Addressing Ackman saying he didn't believe Gen. John Kelly's accusations leveled at Trump, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski exclaimed, "I just want to understand how he, as successful as he is and intelligent seemingly as he is, could say that Donald Trump didn't say those things, and if he did, he didn't mean them, that Trump apologist route," before later adding, "How dare he?"

With co-host Joe Scarborough accusing Ackman of knowingly "spreading disinformation," Ross Sorkin admitted, "What, to me, is so concerning about this –– and I've said this to Bill before –– is that he has made his name as an activist investor trying to get at truth. He is often calling out CEOs for lying, that is part of his business. He has gone after companies for lying to the public; that is part and parcel of his franchise."

"So here we are with somebody in the context of former president Trump who lies with such regularity and it's not clear to me that any of these investors would be hiring –– would you go hire a CEO who lies?" he asked.

"You know the answer to that, nobody would hire this guy, "Scarborough interrupted. "Bill Ackman wouldn't hire this guy, you know that."

Ross Sorkin offered, "What I think is happening is I think someone like Bill Ackman on issues like Israel and other things believes, genuinely believes, that Vice President Harris is not as competent. I think this is the argument –– I'm not saying that's the case –– I'm saying they believe this."

"They don't believe that. They just cannot believe that, they can't be that ignorant," Scarborough shot back.

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He was on the shortlist for a vice presidential spot, but in the end, it was Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). Still, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has become Kamala Harris' "secret weapon," said Politico.

The governor has become one of the biggest advocates, traveling through Pennsylvania, the Midwest, and the South.

Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry invoked a deep analogy on the stage of Vice President Kamala Harris' jam-packed stadium rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, comparing Harris and former President Donald Trump's visions of America to a "quilt" versus a "sheet."

It's the latest in a long series of celebrity appearances at the star-studded rally, which also featured former President Barack Obama and rock star Bruce Springsteen playing "Land of Hope and Dreams."

A New York Times columnist argued Thursday night that the 2024 election is "happening too soon" — and he was "expecting too much" from a "smug, self-satisfied, 'I am right' nation."

David Brooks lamented that he no longer believes this year's election would be a "moment of renewal," with Democrats defeating what he called MAGA populism and thrusting the nation down a better path.

A new Wall Street Journal poll showing Kamala Harris’ favorability numbers dropping from August – and dipping below Donald Trump’s – is one of many polls being thrown “out the window” by the vice president’s campaign, CNN contributor Bakari Sellers said Thursday.

“I’ve talked to people on the Kamala Harris campaign and one of the things that we've done is hopped off the poller-coaster a long time ago, we've kind of thrown these polls…out the window,” Sellers said on CNN’s “OutFront” with anchor Erin Burnett.

A Fox News pundit's attempt to dismiss reports that former President Donald Trump wished his generals were more like high-ranking Nazis failed to convince a swath of his viewers.

Howard Alan Kurtz on Thursday tried to diminish the significance of former White House chief of staff John Kelly's on-the-record statement that Trump had positive things to say about Nazi generals, arguing he may have been "letting off steam."

Tucker Carlson's decision to cast former President Donald Trump as an angry "daddy" who spanks the bad girls when he gets home spurred a dire directive Thursday from a Democratic strategist: "Call 911."

Maria Cardona appeared on CNN Thursday afternoon to unpack Carlson's riff on Trump as the violent father to a nation of young women deserving of punishment.

A classicist said she saw "all kinds of ironies" after an NBC News profile on Usha Vance, the successful lawyer married to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), observed a literary opus she was reading about "male rage."

Vanity Fair spoke with classicist Emily Wilson, who did a new translation of Homer's Iliad, published in 2023. The profile talks about Vance as a member of a "slow pace" book club and that she began reading it when her 7-year-old son became interested in mythology.

Former President Donald Trump has one key factor to thank for remaining a viable presidential candidate, Steven Greenhouse wrote for Slate — a large chunk of the billionaire class has decided to back him.

"There’s no denying that billionaires are trying to bend society to their will," wrote Greenhouse. "America’s 800-plus billionaires hold over $6 trillion in wealth, more wealth than the bottom half of U.S. households" — indeed, they own a larger percent of America's wealth than in the Gilded Age. "And they will do whatever they have to do to keep things that way."