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A lawmaker Saturday called for accountability for Defense Department head Pete Hegseth's purported failures in connection with a national security chat that inadvertently included a reporter.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, and was asked about his calls for Hegseth to resign from his position over the security lapse and associated scandal.

Donald Trump's Justice Department lawyers are reportedly facing potential contempt charges, at the same time as they are offering a "contemptuous response" to a judge.

The Supreme Court recently issued a tepid ruling in a case involving a wrongly deported man, and Trump's Department of Justice has been using the language in that order to justify its failure to so far return the removed individual.

Republican lawmakers who have continued to give in to Donald Trump's demands could be making preparations for a potential rebellion.

Republicans like Chip Roy and Thomas Massie have challenged the President, but things have ultimately gone his way, according to a Washington Post report Saturday.

Donald Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani says he can't get a call back from the White House after he started criticizing the President's top Cabinet officials.

Giuliani "made a dramatic U-turn over President Donald Trump's 'crooked' choices after years of working as his fixer," according to the Daily Mail. It cites Giuliani's recent interview with conservative pundit Eric Bolling.

Donald Trump just offered another "sign of tactical retreat" from his biggest trade plans, according to a FOX Biz senior correspondent Saturday.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino earned the ire of MAGA when he recently reported that conservatives were wrong to suggest Trump outsmarted the world with tariffs. Instead, according to Gasparino's reporting, Trump and his closest aides became terrified about impacts on the long-term bond market, which is seen as more stable than stocks.

There is a growing firestorm in Florida over how $10 million that was given to a non-profit headed by the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ended up being used to defeat a ballot initiative he opposed.

According to a report from Politico's Arek Sarkissian and Gary Fineout, Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, who reportedly has political aspirations of her own, received the $10 million in dispute and then flipped it within days from her Hope Florida non-profit to two groups who backed her husband's attempt to derail a pot amendment.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle appeared with her old hosting partner Ali Velshi on Saturday morning to weigh in on a major announcement from Donald Trump's administration on Chinese imports.

In a bulletin posted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late Friday, the administration announced smartphones, computers, and assorted electronics would be exempt from the ruinous 145% percent tariffs imposed on other Chinese products.

Following a week in which Donald Trump has made contradictory remarks about the wide-ranging tariffs he wants to impose, only to adjust them and then back off others, CNN's Abby Phillip noted there are growing concerns about his recent behavior.

Speaking with her panel on "Table ofr Five" on Saturday, Phillip's commentary followed a GOP strategist and member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition stating this is not the Trump he voted for three times.

During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five," Black Americans for Trump Coalition member Melik Abdul came clean and admitted he had no answers or excuses for the president's "chaotic week."

Speaking with the panel, he singled out mixed messages from the Trump White House as the tariffs rolled out, that caused the stock market to "tank," before expressing his dismay.

During his long monologue, he professed, "It is what I can only describe as a very chaotic week. Because you're right, a lot of the things that you pointed out, Donald Trump, they were full-throated in this, and this is the thing: it was the certainty that this is going to work."

"And as the market got that little bump and they say, 'See, this is what deal-making is, this is art of the deal.' and then we see a different story," he continued. "And it is the messaging where you have Donald Trump saying one thing. You may have [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt saying another thing, you may have [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnick saying another thing, you may have [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent saying another thing."

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Reacting to news that failed senate and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is being shuffled to the State Department for an unspecified job after not being installed as director of Voice of America (VOA), the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" rolled their eyes over the conservative now about to be "inflicted" on the world and not just the voters in Arizona.

Earlier in the week, it was reported that Lake, a former local news personality, was being shifted to Marco Rubio's State Department after Elon Musk's made noise about shutting down VOA, with no mention of exactly what she will do in her new job.