Sparks flew on CNN’s “NewNight” on Monday as a panel discussion about Vice President JD Vance and growing fractures within the MAGA movement devolved into a heated on-air clash between conservative strategist Tim Parrish and progressive commentator Adam Mockler.

The confrontation erupted after host Abby Phillip pressed Parrish on recent infighting that developed at the Turning Point USA convention in Phoenix, where disputes over antisemitism and extremism exposed deep divisions inside the conservative movement. Phillip cited remarks from conservative figures that compared diversity initiatives to extremist ideology and asked whether that kind of rhetoric reflected the leadership Vance is offering as a standard-bearer for the MAGA movement.

“Don’t give me this idea that the vice president doesn’t believe we should have a country where everybody’s welcome,” Parrish, a Republican strategist, said in a forceful defense of Vance. But the segment took a sharp – and personal turn – when Parrish accused Democrats of hypocrisy, citing past inflammatory comments from a Virginia political figure that he said went largely unchallenged by the left.

“You talked about how we weren’t applying this properly across the board, when it was dead silent – you dead silent,” Parrish told Mockler, while pointing at him.

“Me?! What are you talking about, dude? You don’t’ know me!” Mockler, a Gen Z podcast host, quickly shot back, as the two spoke over one another during the tense back-and-forth.

Parrish continued: “So don’t talk to me now, don’t try to lecture us and lecture the American people about equality and what’s fair and who should be allowed in the party after your party sat silent after those words. It’s actually sickening, and it’s angering.”

Mockler argued that Vance has avoided directly confronting extremist elements within the movement.

"JD Vance has played fast and loose with this movement the entire time because he doesn’t want to alienate the movement,” Mockler said, before ripping into CNN conservative Scott Jennings.

Phillip ultimately stepped in to regain control.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to force the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, arguing that the move violated federal law and the Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed in D.C. federal court, names Trump and several loyalists he appointed to the Kennedy Center’s board as defendants. Beatty contends that the board’s vote last week to rename the Washington, D.C., cultural institution was illegal because only Congress has the authority to change the center’s name.

Norman Eisen, Beatty’s attorney and a former White House ethics counsel under former President Barack Obama, said the name change “violates the Constitution and the rule of law because Congress said this is the name.”

“The President and his sycophants have no lawful authority to rename the Kennedy Center,” Eisen added in a statement.

Trump, whose board installed him as its chair, sparked the lawsuit after his name was added to the exterior of the building Friday morning. The storied institution’s website and social media accounts soon followed and began referring to it as the “Trump Kennedy Center,” according to reports. A senior White House official previously told The New York Times that the administration rejects the argument that congressional approval is required and does not expect lawmakers to intervene.

Beatty, who brought the lawsuit in her capacity as an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center’s board, said she attempted to object during the meeting when the name change was approved – but was unable to do so.

“Everything was cut off,” Beatty said of the call, according to the Times. “And then they immediately said, ‘Well, it’s unanimous. Everybody is for it.’”

In a statement Monday, Beatty called the episode a “complete disgrace.”

“Only Congress has the authority to rename the Kennedy Center,” the lawmaker said. “President Trump and his cronies must not be allowed to trample federal law and bypass Congress to feed his ego. This entire process has been a complete disgrace to this cherished institution and the people it serves. These unlawful actions must be blocked before any further damage is done.”

The Washington Post's editorial board on Monday bashed what it called President Donald Trump's "biggest broadside yet" against wind power.

On Monday, the Interior Department announced it halted all leases for offshore wind projects. The announcement followed months of attacks by Trump against wind energy. The move was condemned by environmental groups and even some of the president's allies in Congress.

WaPo's editorial board argued that the move will set the U.S. back as it seeks to create enough energy to "meet the demands of the AI boom."

"The decision injects a fresh dose of turmoil into five projects along the Eastern Seaboard, which together are projected to power more than 2.5 million homes," the editorial reads in part.

"Beyond the construction that has been stopped, at least for now, this is a blow to important efforts on Capitol Hill," the editorial continued. "Momentum has been building to address one of the most stubborn problems in the U.S. economy: the federal web of bureaucracy that has long ensnared American infrastructure projects."

"A truly technology-neutral permitting reform bill — that is, one which treats traditional carbon-based energy the same as renewable sources — might be able to pass the Senate, thereby unleashing the electricity needed to bring down energy costs," it added.

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