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President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his claim that he doesn't pay attention to Americans' finances is an indication of how clueless and insulated he is from public opinion, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday's edition of "The Source" — and how unaware he is that he is handing Democrats powerful ammunition to beat him.

"You've covered the president his entire political career," said Collins. "He's typically known for having good political instincts when it comes to voters and their sensitivities. What did you make of him doubling down on that comment tonight?"

FBI Director Kash Patel exploded at one of his own officials who dared suggest that assigning a full-time SWAT team to protect his girlfriend might need an ethics review, according to a bombshell New York Times report.

The clash came after FBI officials recommended Patel seek a legal review and threat assessment to determine whether the lavish security detail for his country singer girlfriend Alexis Wilkins — who lives part-time in Nashville, a city away from Patel — was ethical or even necessary.

Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

On a Slate podcast bonus episode of "Amicus" released Friday, host Mark Joseph Stern and legal scholar Madiba Dennie, author of "The Originalism Trap," dissected the dissents from Alito and fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas after the Supreme Court preserved telehealth access to the abortion pill mifepristone in a 7-2 emergency order.

Donald Trump is attempting to pull off what MS NOW's Chris Hayes described on Friday night's edition of "All In" as "a slow-motion heist in broad daylight of billions of dollars."

Now a group of court-appointed legal experts is revealing how it "stinks to high heaven," he said.

President Donald Trump was offered the chance to back off a highly controversial statement he made earlier this week about Americans' financial situation — but not only didn't he take it, he doubled down further.

Trump was asked in an interview that aired Friday by Fox News' Bret Baier about his remark to Meidas Touch's Pablo Manríquez that "The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran – they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody."

President Donald Trump promised just months ago that any money he won from his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS would go to charity. Now, according to a new analysis by national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, the settlement that's taking shape looks nothing like that pledge.

In February, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he was "thinking about doing something for charity" with any proceeds from the lawsuit, which stems from a contractor's illegal leak of his tax returns during his first term.

Far-right White House deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, is increasingly being compelled to recuse himself from major political issues — due to the long list of side projects his wife, Katie Miller, has been involved in.

According to The Atlantic, one of the key issues has been the planned Paramount-Skydance merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, a controversial deal that could put CNN under the ownership of the same company whose new CBS News leadership has been viewed by some insiders as more sympathetic to Trump.