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A top federal prosecutor asked a judge this week for two more weeks to respond to a lawsuit over FBI Director Kash Patel's alleged 'drinking,' citing a crush of emergency cases.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose office covers the District of Columbia, is the defendant in a public records lawsuit filed by the watchdog group Democracy Forward Foundation, which sued the FBI and the Justice Department after the agencies, according to the complaint, ignored or rejected its records requests about Patel's alleged drinking and unexplained absences.

FBI Director Kash Patel is starting to face real danger signs that his career is in jeopardy, MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian told anchor Katy Tur — and it's the fact that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is now getting involved in investigating the reports of his personal use of private planes and ordering of fancy cars with public money.

Tur noted that in April, Grassley defended Patel strongly, saying, "I've never had an FBI director cooperate with me as much as Kash Patel has cooperated with me on my request for information, my request for documents." And it's likely that Grassley never intended his letter demanding answers from Patel to go public.

New court documents allege that pro-MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon was a secret operative helping President Donald Trump and the White House extort nearly $1 billion from the nation's top law firms.

Trump's personal lawyer, Boris Epshteyn, is also named alongside Bannon.

President Donald Trump's political advisers know exactly how much his Iran war has cost him with the MAGA base and Republican voters, but Trump himself is another matter, New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman said Thursday.

Appearing on MS NOW's "The Moment with Katy Tur," Haberman was asked whether the White House grasps the war's political fallout.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have justified the killing of 52-year-old Houston man Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by claiming he rammed their vehicle with his own and attempted to run down an agent. But new footage casts serious doubt on their version of events.

Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, lived peacefully with no criminal issues in Texas for 35 years before the incident.

MS NOW anchor Katy Tur could hardly keep a straight face this week as she walked viewers through the strange fate of one of President Donald Trump's most loyal foreign allies, who is now on track to campaign against a man wearing a trash can on his head.

The ally is Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom's hard-right Reform party, who resigned his seat in Parliament this week amid an investigation into millions of pounds in undisclosed gifts from wealthy backers. Farage, who has denied any wrongdoing, quit to trigger a special election he can re-contest. Tur and much of the British political class read the move as a thinly veiled attempt to sidestep the scrutiny and paint himself as a victim of the liberal establishment.

On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to publicly praise SpaceX's President Gwynne Shotwell and her husband for their contribution to Trump Accounts, the tax-advantaged savings account funded with $1,000 from the Treasury for every American child born between 2025 and 2028.

"Thank you to the brilliant and highly respected Gwynne Shotwell, and her husband, Robert, for their extreme Generosity in helping children to attain the ever magnificent American Dream!" the president wrote.

President Donald Trump may call himself the master of making a deal, but four Wall Street Journal writers think he stinks at writing them.

The Journal on Thursday published a stern rebuke of Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran, arguing a single "poorly worded clause" resulted in the battle for the Strait of Hormuz.