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Donald Trump musing that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) should face "nine barrels" — and a Republican lawmaker's refusal to condemn the violent remark — shocked a CNN anchor Friday morning.

Host Jim Acosta battled it out with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) over Trump's comment and the Tennessee Republican's refusal to disavow violent rhetoric that Acosta argued was a clear reference to a firing squad.

Former Donald Trump aide Sarah Matthews thinks that Donald Trump's internal polling must be showing that he's losing in several major states because he's already claiming that there's cheating there.

Speaking as part of an MSNBC panel of former campaign staffers, Matthews was asked about Trump's recent interview with Tucker Carlson in which he deployed violent rhetoric about Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and attacked states he thought were cheating.

Donald Trump openly mused about Liz Cheney facing down the barrels of nine guns, which MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and other panelists on "Morning Joe" found more than disturbing.

The former president made the menacing comment during an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson while criticizing the former Republican congresswoman as a "war hawk," and Scarborough wondered what sort of message Trump was trying to send in the closing stretch of the presidential campaign.

Donald Trump has become a "liability" to his own campaign in the final days of the presidential race, according to Barack Obama's former campaign strategist.

The former president has made offensive and menacing remarks toward women in general, and Liz Cheney in particular, in the past several days, and his hate-drenched rally at Madison Square Garden continues to hang over his campaign, David Axelrod told CNN.

"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski brushed away tears Friday morning as a Georgia mother told how Donald Trump's actions as president pushed her to the brink of death upon the loss of a "very wanted" child.

Avery Davis Bell appeared on MSNBC Friday morning to urge voters to pick Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election in hopes of overturning restrictive abortion policies that are killing miscarriage victims such as herself.

In an escalation of his violent threats, Donald Trump has now suggested a top critic from his own party, Republican former U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney, faces a gun. Outrage from the left was swift, and Cheney herself has responded.

"I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb," said Trump, speaking about former U.S. Vice President and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, and his daughter, Liz Cheney.

NBC National Security Editor David Rohde claimed Friday there's a very real risk that a re-elected Donald Trump could make good on his threat to sic the Department of Justice on his political enemies.

He appeared on MSNBC to elaborate on a piece he wrote in which he said, "What Trump is proposing would shatter 50 years of post-Watergate norms dictating that federal prosecutors don’t take orders from the president regarding criminal investigations.

Donald Trump is still facing a possible term behind bars for 34 felony convictions in New York — and a former Manhattan prosecutor thinks winning the election is his last shot at avoiding it.

The former president has successfully delayed his sentencing, now scheduled for Nov. 26, for his convictions for falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election by covering up a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. A judge is scheduled to decide a week after Election Day how the Supreme Court's immunity ruling will impact the case, reported CNN.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has written a lengthy summation of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, which he says is marked by "relentless lying" whose only recent precedent has been the former president's own past campaigns for the White House.

In his latest piece, Dale outlined some of Trump's most egregious lies in the closing weeks of the campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken criticism from some Beltway insiders for not offering a sharp message to blunt voters' preference for former President Donald Trump on economic issues.

However, Semafor reporter David Weigel argues that these pundits have not been paying attention to the persistent advertising campaign that the Harris campaign and pro-Harris PACs have been running in swing states.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning, the editor-in-chief of the The Economist explained why the venerable institution couldn't bring itself to back Donald Trump and instead cast its lot with Vice President Kamala Harris with an endorsement that caught political observers by surprise.

Speaking with the panel, Zanny Minton Beddoes summed up the Economist's position on Trump by calling him an "unacceptable risk we think he poses to America and the world."

"The audience that we had in mind when we wrote this was our many readers who are Republicans," she explained to Morning Joe regular Katty Kay. "We have Republicans and Democrat readers and we didn't want this to be a grand statement for the history books. We wanted to try to lay out to those readers that we have, who are likely to vote for Donald Trump, why we think he poses a risk."

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After explaining point by point why Trump is now completely unacceptable, Minton Beddoes said of the ex-president, "We think he'd be much more unconstrained. There is a real risk that he threatens America's institutions."

According to "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire, there is good reason for panic within Donald Trump's inner circle that his re-election, which they recently felt so confident about just weeks ago, is falling apart.

On MSNBC on Friday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted his panel by observing that, "You have people like Charlie Kirk freaking out now, telling the truth. Saying the numbers are looking terrible in Pennsylvania, that right now, Trump is on his way to losing."

"The Trump campaign has two things happening: one, Donald Trump is starting –– you know things are going well in Pennsylvania for [Kamala] Harris because he is starting to claim, 'Oh, my gosh, they're stealing the vote from me,'" he continued. "That's one hand. On the other hand, Charlie Kirk and other people attached to the Trump campaign, are literally freaking out, saying publicly, we're going to lose if the voting patterns continue this way."

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"Yeah, you're seeing a false confidence being put forward by the Trump campaign," Lemire agreed. "In part, because they want to appease the candidate who doesn't like to hear bad news. Behind the scenes, there is growing worry. I've talked to people connected to the campaign in the last day or two and the Trump folks were feeling much better a couple weeks ago than they are today."

After pointing out that the Harris campaign has grown "increasingly confident" but still expect a close race, he added, "Joe mentioned his Truth Social post the other day, claiming fraud in Pennsylvania –– no evidence of that."

"I think we're seeing Trump's outbursts and violent rhetoric increase more and more. What does that usually show us?" he asked. "Behind the scenes, that means he is getting worried. The Truth Social is a window into his soul, what he really thinks and there is a growing anxiety at Mar-a-Lago that this might be slipping away from him."

"Were he to lose, suddenly, the criminal cases come back –– that's adding to the pressure, I'm told," he reported.

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Fox News' latest attempt to churn up negative stories about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz backfired immediately this week.

The Fox News story in question dealt with Walz's tenure as a high-school football coach and featured the headline, "Tim Walz allegedly told high school football player struggling with crime and alcohol to keep playing."