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Two political strategists sparred Friday on CNN during a discussion over what former President Donald Trump said following a violent rally in Charlottesville that saw white supremacists clash with counter-protesters.

The heated discussion unfolded on "The Situation Room" with host Wolf Blitzer, who hosted former Hillary Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney and David Urban, former senior advisor to Donald Trump.

Blitzer first asked the panel why Black voters strongly support President Joe Biden in the race, "more than a lot of other groups." ...

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and CNN's Erin Burnett locked horns over the contention that President Biden's Justice Department was pulling the legal strings in Donald Trump's New York State criminal conviction.

"Look at what happened this week, what President Biden and his team have been able to do: to distract America with this trial and we're not talking about the open Border," she told the host. "The fact that President Biden is violating federal law by allowing this [sic] —."

Burnett cut her off, then made clear the case wasn't prosecuted by the feds. ...

CNN's Kaitlan Collins' yes or no question to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) triggered a lively back-and-forth.

Cruz sat opposite Collins to chat about a variety of items including his stance on IVF (he's for it), past grievances with former President Donald Trump churning a lie that his father may have been involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Cruz forgave him).

But when it came to whether or not he would embrace the results of the upcoming 2024 election, Cruz stayed vague. ...

Former President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Jim Trusty attempted to defend his former client's actions in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case on CNN Thursday — a discussion that came shortly after Trump's latest bid to dismiss that case was denied — but was swiftly backed into a corner as anchor Brianna Keilar dismantled his arguments.

"[Special counsel] Jack Smith says this theory [that he could keep the documents] came out, not from the lawyer, but from the head of Judicial Watch, which is a right-wing activist group," said Keilar. "If it was something that Trump really believed or that his legal team really believed — because one of his employees said to Judicial Watch, they did not believe that this was correct analysis —why wouldn't Trump have put it out there?"

"See, I don't accept the paradigm, I guess is the problem," said Trusty. "What Jack Smith wants this court to believe is that if you're a former president, you have to announce for all time to everyone on the day you leave office, these are the documents that I possess. I'm deeming these ones personal and these other ones I'll talk to Archives about turning over as presidential. That's just a false narrative. The false models, classified documents, you do actually have to do that though well, not under the Presidential Records Act to executive order that's accepted and it's—"...

CNN anchor Erin Burnett had to talk over a loud group of "Occupy Las Vegas" protesters while she was broadcasting her show live outside the CNN Western Republican debate on Tuesday night.

Far from being the folksy outsider candidate, Republican businessman and newly minted "frontrunner" Herman Cain has held a longstanding relationship with an organization funded by the American left's favorite Republican billionaires: the Koch brothers. So it shouldn't be surprising that, when confronted about his ties to the activist billionaires who once employed him, he only partially owned up to it.