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Mark Halperin, the first journalist to report that President Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 race, believes that President Donald Trump has given Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "one more chance" before firing him.

During a report on Thursday, Halperin revealed that U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other members of his team were on the chopping block, with firings expected to come before next week.

Mark Halperin reported Thursday morning that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, is about to leave his job along with his deputy, Alex Wong, and others on the national security team.

Posting on X, Halperin, who founded the interactive media platform 2WAY, reported that there is "unhappiness throughout the national security establishment" as well as the White House, State Department, Treasury Department and elsewhere.

CNN’s Harry Enten's latest data has one message for Democrats, “They have to start thinking about what their message is going forward.”

CNN’s latest poll asked voters who would be doing a better job as President right now, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?

CNN's John Berman put a Republican lawmaker on the spot over president Donald Trump's comments about his tariffs leading to toy shortages for children.

The president appeared to acknowledge Wednesday that his trade wars could disrupt supply chains, saying "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more," and Berman pressed Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) to justify the tariff policy.

Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, singled out his first moments speaking with Donald Trump for an interview that appeared in the magazine this week that he found notable for explaining the president's state of mind.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Goldberg –– who is at the center of the "Signalgate" scandal that has rocked the White House and put Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under further scrutiny –– claimed the current president seemed overly eager to talk about his predecessor in the Oval Office, Joe Biden.

Senate Republicans are catching heat for dismissing the economic hardship being faced by many Americans, according to a Washington Post column.

“I don’t see any signs of a recession,” Senator John Neely Kennedy (R-LA) said.

Democrats are frustrated with party leadership for their response to Donald Trump's disruptive second presidency, but some elected officials are pushing back harder as his approval ratings continue to fall.

Congressional Democrats have largely followed the grassroots opposition, rather than leading it, as Trump upends foreign and domestic policy, threatens open defiance of the courts, shreds the federal government and seeks retribution against his political enemies, and many believe there hasn't been nearly enough pushback, reported the New York Times.

If Donald Trump tuned into MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Thursday he likely was not happy that financial expert Steve Rattner had nothing good to say about the Trump economy based on the latest economic news –– and then predicted things are about to get a lot worse.

Standing before an array of charts, the "Morning Joe" regular pointed to indicators that consumer confidence is in collapse and Wall Street is in turmoil because of the president's tariff trade war.

After noting Trump was not the president for the entire 90 days of the recently concluded quarter, Rattner told co-host Joe Scarborough, "When you strip it all apart, it does appear that the economy grew by a couple percent in the first quarter; that I would put on Biden when Biden was the president for a month of that, plus, it was his economy that Trump inherited."

"So I'd give Biden credit for what was actually not a bad GDP number," he added. "We got to look ahead, there was a jobs number yesterday from ADP, we're going to get another jobs number this Friday, but the ADP number that came out yesterday showed roughly half as many jobs being created last month as the month before so you may start to see some effects of Trump."

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"But, but, I –– but looking ahead it's all bad, there's nothing but gloom out there in the business and the investor community," he admitted.

Host Scarborough then contributed the "next 100 days would be telling."

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President Donald Trump is not sending the message he should be on tariffs, according to Former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin. Her comments came on CNN News Central Thursday morning in an interview with John Berman.

“I can picture the White House press shop gasping when they heard that line," Farah Griffin said, referring to Trump saying "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30."

There are two major court cases which could not only stop President Donald Trump’s ability to tariff every county in the world, but also stop the administration’s fight to prevent judges from blocking his policies across the country, according to a new POLITICO analysis.

The first case is a motion to stop the tariffs. It was filed by the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing five small businesses that say that the tariffs could decimate their companies.

Tariffs have emerged as Americans' top economic concern, and CNN's Allison Morrow said president Donald Trump's trade wars may have already tipped the U.S. economy into a recession.

The Commerce Department issued a report Wednesday showing the gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter, the first drop since 2022, and consumer confidence has fallen for five straight months, all of which has sparked fears of a recession.