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GOP senator blames 'what the CDC did during COVID' for shooting at agency's headquarters

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) suggested that a shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) happened because of what the agency "did during COVID."

During a Sunday interview with Marshall, CBS host Margaret Brennan advised the senator to be "very careful in this very heated environment."

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'Deeply alarmed': Trump-appointed surgeon general declares war on 'dangerous' RFK Jr.

Donald Trump's former surgeon general sounded the alarm on Sunday about Robert F. Kennedy's role in the administration.

Former United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the president during his first term in office, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to talk about Kennedy's recent purge at the CDC.

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'They will be prosecuted, too': Trump border czar targets those funding protests

White House border czar Tom Homan warned that people funding First Amendment protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "would be prosecuted."

During a Sunday morning interview on Fox News, Homan told host Jason Chaffetz that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a "historic number of prosecutions" against protesters for "impediment, assault, interference."

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Thomas Massie busts Mike Johnson on Epstein: 'Why was Trump an informant to a hoax?'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wondered why President Donald Trump had called the Jeffrey Epstein case a "hoax" even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) seemed to claim that the commander-in-chief had once been an FBI "informant" against the sex offender.

"Congressman Massie, let me begin with you and get your response to Speaker Johnson," ABC host George Stephanopoulos told the Republican in a Sunday interview. "He says you've been misled. He also suggested at one point this week seemed to suggest that Donald Trump, President Trump, was an informant to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein."

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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates.

"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

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'Trump lost it': Ex-insider flags evidence president prepping to 'stay in power forever'

Just as Donald Trump once looked to Ukraine in an attempt to dig up dirt on the Bidens and stay in power, he's now concocting a scheme to keep that power forever, according to a former administration insider.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration, was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden. Parnas was later convicted of campaign finance violations, and today reports on Trump from outside the administration.

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'Cowards': Internet pounces after broadcasters warned to censor booing of Trump at US Open

" Trump is about to face the loudest boos of his life," according to one conservative group responding to the latest censorship news involving the president.

Onlookers were stunned this weekend as they discovered that the US Open had warned its broadcasters to censor any potential boos of Donald Trump's appearance.

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Trump is making 'back up plans' to circumvent the Supreme Court on key policy: NBC

Donald Trump is pursuing legal and logistical workarounds to use in case the Supreme Court rules against him, according to NBC's reporting.

After reporting that, "After losing in lower courts, President Donald Trump plans to take his case for the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs to the Supreme Court and the public square," the outlet notes, "His aides have also explored alternative methods for imposing import taxes on foreign goods, according to a senior White House official and two people familiar with the internal discussions."

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Trump is returning to where he was epically booed — this time 'disruptions' are censored

Donald Trump made headlines when he was booed at Arthur Ashe Stadium back in 2015, and now he's set to return to the stadium for the US Open men's final on Sunday, but broadcasters have been warned not to air any "disruptions" this time around.

In 2015, CNN reported that "Trump found himself the target of audible boos... as he entered the U.S. Open quarterfinals in New York." Now, Trump is heading back, but you aren't likely to see a repeat of the 2015 booing, at least not on television, according to the Guardian's reporting.

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GOP senator comes out swinging against JD Vance over 'despicable and thoughtless' comments

Republicans have been more united than ever, but on Saturday a Republican senator came out swinging against the vice president.

It started with a comment from JD Vance, who wrote over the weekend, "Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military." This led Brian Krassenstein to respond, "Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime."

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Trump's new spin of negative numbers just 'hit a brick wall': report

CNN analyst David Goldman writes that President Donald Trump and his administration spent the last month trying to sell his July bad jobs numbers as a big lie planted by Biden sympathizers to undermine his administration.

The president called the July jobs report “rigged,” and fired Erika McEntarfer from her role as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner for serving them up. Afterward, officials bent themselves into pretzels trying to explain why Trump was justified in removing McEntarfer for allegedly sabotaging his administration — despite offering no proof of McEntarfer’s claimed villainy.

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'Bizarre': Model drops bombshell claim about Epstein making her dress as a nurse for Trump

New allegations came out on Saturday about Donald Trump and his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

Model Cleo Glyde spoke to The Daily Beast about Epstein, who was reportedly her friend in the 1990s, and Trump. This would make Glyde one of several women who have made allegations related to Trump and Epstein, and Trump himself has been found liable for sex abuse in the past.

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'Backfire': Strategist says Trump just gave Dems the 'uniting factor' they needed to win

Donald Trump's latest move will not only backfire, but it could also help Dems win, according to a strategist on Saturday

Antjuan Seawright, the founder and CEO of Blueprint Strategy, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss a number of topics. At one point, the discussion shifted toward reports that Trump's administration was trying to interfere in the New York City mayoral election.

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