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Donald Trump sparked outrage and mockery after delivering the first major economic speech of his second presidency.

The newly inaugurated president spoke Thursday morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he demanded defense spending from NATO allies, threatened steep tariffs, decried wars in the Middle East, and championed the rise of artificial intelligence.

The day before the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on the appointment of scandal-plagued Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump's secretary of defense there is reportedly some growing hesitation about him amongst some GOP lawmakers.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, NBC's Julie Tsirkin highlighted a damning FBI file on the former Fox News personality who has been accused of public drunkenness, sexual assault and now menacing a former wife.

After sharing clips of several GOP lawmakers expressing concerns, host Cabrera prompted, "Julie, we showed some clips of your interviews with these different senators, including Senator [Susan] Collins, Senator [Thom] Tillis, both Republicans who don't seem so certain where their vote is going to land. Has this new information changed any senators' minds that you know of?"

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"I will tell you that the senators who were already in the yes column probably aren't going to get swayed by this, especially because they have Samantha Hegseth's denial of those physical abuse allegations, and also, of course, that she signed, along with Pete Hegseth, a document when they got divorced, a child custody document that said that neither parent was a victim of domestic abuse," Tsirkin replied.

"But I will tell you that there are a handful of Republican senators, including Thom Tillis, including Susan Collins, and some others who are definitely concerned by this process," she continued. "Now, they don't sit on the Armed Services Committee, so they're a little bit late to this. But also because of these allegations, they've heard from other whistleblowers."

"In the case of Tillis, he also told me yesterday that some of these details are similar to the interesting accounts he said he's been hearing, and he wants to see if he can corroborate them," she added. "All that said, though, in a couple of hours they're going to take the next vote procedurally to move forward on confirmation and unless four Republicans vote with Democrats to block him, if all Democrats vote against him, he's going to go through tomorrow on it."

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A former Donald Trump official drew head-shaking laughter from another CNN panelist with his claims about the newly inaugurated president's cabinet nominees.

Matt Mowers, who served as senior White House adviser for Trump's State Department, defended the president's executive order shutting down federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying they were unnecessary, but both CNN host Sara Sidner and Puck correspondent Tara Pamieri challenged his arguments.

Reacting to billionaire Elon Musk once again making himself the center of attention after Donald Trump announced an AI initiative with great fanfare, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough suggested the president's patience with his new friend may be coming to an end.

Noting that the billionaire tech mogul big-footed Trump's announcement on AI funding by disparaging the other billionaires involved, the "Morning Joe" host pointed out that the squabble became the bigger story -- something sure to get under Trump's skin.

Speaking with his panel, he first admitted, "There's no evidence that Elon Musk is being pushed aside now or any time in the near future, but the question is, how many distractions will Donald Trump put up with before he says enough?"

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Noting Musk getting involved in a dispute involving Vivek Ramaswamy and H-1B visas that roiled not on the Trump transition but also MAGA fans, Scarborough stated, "Let's remember in that battle, I won't repeat what Elon Musk called working Americans but he was just very denigrating to working Americans and the MAGA base. And so you had that battle between the oligarch and the MAGA base –– the people who elected Donald Trump."

"And then you have this scene the other night that the New York Times is reporting on, and we're seeing the impact on Reddit and, and other places again –– is that is that going to move poll numbers? No, probably not," he added.

He continued, "But again, at some point, people that know Donald Trump, reporters that have been reporting on him for a decade will say there are few things he hates more than than distractions brought about by bad press clips from people around him. And I'm just curious how many bad press clips, how many insults to his projects, how many distracting actions coming from an oligarch is he going to put up with before he goes, 'You know what? I'm going to substitute that oligarch for three other oligarchs who aren't constantly looking to make headlines through shock and awe tactics.'"

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Donald Trump has downplayed the national security threat posed by the social media app TikTok, and an analyst said the issue could be the first significant split between the president and congressional Republicans.

The newly inaugurated president has directed the Justice Department to pause enforcement of a ban passed by Congress of the Chinese-owned platform, questioning whether China would be "spying ... on young kids watching crazy videos," but a CNN commentator argued that few lawmakers agreed with his position.

A Supreme Court Justice dubbed by the New York Times as Donald Trump's "judicial hero" once rejected a plan similar to the one put forth by Trump on immigration, an ex-prosecutor said.

It began with the Justice Department’s new management issuing a legal memorandum "directing prosecutors to investigate, and even prosecute, what they perceive as state or local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement," according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.

The Wall Street Journal raced to the defense of the world's richest man on Wednesday evening to ward off what it claimed was "disinformation" peddled by Democrats, who soundly rebuked Elon Musk over his salute that drew comparisons to a Hitler salute.

Musk put his hand on his chest and then raised it in a salute during a speech to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally earlier this week.

Fox News has released the text of the letter that President Joe Biden left on Monday in the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office for the first time.

Each president leaves a letter for the president that follows. President Donald Trump told the press that the letter was "nice."

President Donald Trump may have signaled that he's growing tired of his so-called co-president Elon Musk, according to MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.

The president on Tuesday announced a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure related to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, but the CEO of one of those companies is the archenemy to Musk, who poured at least $277 million of his own money into Trump's re-election campaign and has been at his side as a key adviser since the election.

If January 6th defendant Daniel Ball believed his legal woes were over after his case got dismissed in the wake of President Donald Trump's mass pardon, he would have been mistaken.

Politico's Kyle Cheney reports on BlueSky that Ball was arrested on Wednesday for pending federal gun charges, which Cheney notes is "the first arrest initiated by the Trump-led Washington Field Office."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday made a major announcement about big plans to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States -- only to have it almost immediately undercut by X owner and Trump Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk.

As Politico reports, Musk reacted negatively after Trump and other tech leaders such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the Stargate Project, which describes itself as "a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States."