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MS NOW panel goes off the rails as MAGA Republican defends Trump's 'war' with Iran

A panel discussion on MS NOW's "The Weekend: Primetime" went off the rails on Sunday night after a MAGA Republican defended President Donald Trump's latest "war."

Early Saturday morning, Trump posted a nearly eight-minute video on Truth Social where he announced the U.S. and Israel would conduct coordinated strikes against several sites in Iran, an operation known as "Epic Fury" that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the brutal dictator who had ruled the country since 1989. In the video, Trump referred to the operation as a "war" even though Congress has not passed an official declaration of war.

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WSJ editors warn Trump about his potential 'biggest mistake' in Iran: 'Keep going'

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board issued a surprising warning to President Donald Trump about the "biggest mistake" he could make after striking Iran.

Early on Saturday morning, U.S. and Israeli forces conducted coordinated strikes against multiple sites in Iran, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the dictator who had ruled the country since 1989, multiple government officials, and damaged the country's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities. Trump has said the strikes will continue until the U.S. achieves its objectives, of which few details have been released.

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Trump's 'signature crisis' has become a defining moment for the US: columnist

President Donald Trump's "signature crisis" has become a defining moment for the U.S., according to one columnist.

David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that the way the Trump administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files is one of the "signatures of our time" because it connects to many other issues the U.S. faces, from political corruption to wealth inequality and everything in between.

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Netflix boss makes stunning prediction after Warner Bros. deal crumbles: 'Hope I'm wrong'

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made a stunning prediction after the company dropped its bid to acquire Warner Bros. in a new interview with Bloomberg on Sunday.

Netflix and Paramount Skydance, a media conglomerate run by the Trump-supporting Ellison family, were in a heated battle to acquire Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max until late February, when Netflix pulled out of the running. That move paved the way for Paramount to acquire Warner Bros. in a multi-billion-dollar deal, financed primarily through debt.

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Expert floored by Trump's 'messy' offer to Iranian regime guards: 'Going to get worse'

President Donald Trump floored one expert on Sunday when he made his latest offer to the remaining Iranian Revolutionary Guard and police officers in the country.

In a six-minute video posted on Truth Social, Trump said "thousands" of Iranian regime guards and police have called him and asked for immunity. Trump added that he would give them "full immunity" if they surrendered.

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'Always about the money': Trump bashed for 'unserious' response to Iran strikes

Political analysts and observers bashed President Donald Trump on Sunday for his "unserious" response to the strikes in Iran.

On Saturday, the U.S. and Israel coordinated strikes on several sites across Iran. Israel struck sites where the country's political and military leadership were located, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the dictator who had ruled the country since 1989. The U.S. struck sites where Iran was keeping its ballistic and nuclear missiles, according to reports.

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Trump shares stark message after 3 US troops die in Iran: 'Could happen again'

President Donald Trump shared a stark message on Sunday after three U.S. military troops were confirmed dead in the wake of the coordinated strikes on Iran.

Trump gave a series of one-on-one interviews with news outlets following the U.S. and Israeli strikes against several sites in Iran on early Saturday morning. The strikes killed Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several of the country's political leaders, according to reports.

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US troops racing against the clock before running out of ammo: report

U.S. troops in the Middle East are staring down a difficult situation in the wake of strikes that killed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that U.S. troops in the region are racing to destroy Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities before they run out of interceptors to defend from Iranian retaliatory strikes. The exact size of the military's ammunition base is classified, but analysts and former officials who spoke to The Journal said the stockpile has been diminished after repeated conflicts in the region.

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Trump official's 'tone deaf' response to US war dead in Iran blows up in his face

Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations stepped in it on Sunday morning with a glib and unsympathetic response to news that three US service members have died while taking part in the ongoing attack on Iran known as "Operation Epic Fury."

Former Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who was first tabbed by Trump to be his national security adviser, only to be booted from the job and shuffled off to the UN after he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth embroiled the entire Trump administration in the Signalgate scandal, used his X account to pass along a post about the three war dead.

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Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives

President Donald Trump responded to the death of three U.S. service members by bragging he got a "great deal" in the war that ended their lives.

On Sunday, U.S. Central Command confirmed that three members of the armed forces had been killed in action during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

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Bannon's War Room turns on Trump over Iran: 'Looks like an open betrayal of the base'

A segment on MAGA influencer Steve Bannon's War Room accused President Donald Trump of "an open betrayal" of his base following the weekend strikes on Iran.

As the U.S. military was continuing to pound Iranian targets, Curt Mills, Executive Director of The American Conservative, told Bannon that Trump had received poor guidance before launching the strikes.

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'Never voting in a national election again': Charlie Kirk fans are flipping out on Trump

Donald Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran without congressional approval, and then follow up with a continuing bombardment of the country, is alienating an important portion of his base that helped him regain the Oval Office after his loss in 2020 to President Joe Biden.

The attack, after promises that he would not engage in military adventurism, led to a resurfacing of an old post by Charlie Kirk, where the late founder of TPUSA broke with the president after an attack on Iran last year.

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Trump bizarrely boasts that Iran's Navy will be 'floating at the bottom of the sea'

President Donald Trump vowed that Iran's naval fleet would soon be "floating at the bottom of the sea."

In a Sunday post to Truth Social, the U.S. president gave an update on the progress in the fight against the Iranian Navy.

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