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CNN anchor Abby Phillip clashed with MAGA pundit and podcast host Ben Ferguson on Thursday night after the conservative defended the Trump administration's indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Comey on two counts of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. The former FBI leader said in an Instagram post that he is innocent.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Vice President JD Vance on Thursday about the Trump administration's efforts to get late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show cancelled.

Ingraham interviewed Vance on her nightly show, "The Ingraham Angle." She asked the vice president why the government got involved in trying to take "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air after the comedian's remarks about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Fox News' Howard Kurtz stopped for a moment on Thursday evening to acknowledge the hard reality for the generally Donald Trump-supportive network: the president's personally-influenced Justice Department indictment of former FBI Director James Comey flies in the face of all standards of how federal prosecutors are supposed to operate, or in fact would have been tolerated in any prior administration.

Comey, who was initially fired near the beginning of Trump's first term in office for refusing to intervene to shut down the Russia investigation, was indicted earlier in the day in Virginia, following Trump's demands for it to happen. The charges, of false statements and obstruction, appear to be based on a discrepancy between his and his deputy's accounts in Senate questioning several years ago, which was already investigated by the inspector general and determined likely not to have been a lie.

Former FBI Director James Comey responded to President Donald Trump's DOJ returning an indictment against him from a grand jury in an Instagram post on Thursday.

"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way," Comey said. "We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either."

The conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board raked President Donald Trump over the coals for his new "mistake" — charging companies $100,000 for every H-1B visa, the work authorization program heavily used by tech companies and other industries that need highly-skilled foreign labor.

"The $100,000 fee is a de facto tax on hiring skilled foreign workers in the U.S., and the transparent goal is to price them out of the market," wrote the board, which has grown increasingly exasperated with Trump's economic policies. "Companies hire foreigners because there aren’t enough Americans graduating from U.S. colleges with the right technical skills. International students account for 71% of the full-time graduate students in computer and information sciences."

Internet critics groaned Thursday night as President Donald Trump announced a new slate of tariffs, set to take effect next week.

Trump announced on his Truth Social app that the new tariffs target several categories. He slapped a 100% tariff on imported branded or patented pharmaceuticals unless their makers are building manufacturing plants in the United States, as well as a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities and a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture.