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Trump’s 'surprise admission' on Iran handed their negotiators a gift: MS NOW

Donald Trump's reported desperation to end the Iran war is allowing Tehran's leaders to take a harder negotiating line — and a candid admission the president made on Fox News this week handed Iranian negotiators a significant strategic gift.

According to MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem, during an interview with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Thursday, Trump revealed his evolving priorities regarding Iran's estimated 970-pound stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

When asked whether the U.S. was considering seizing Iran's uranium, Trump first claimed it would take "a week and a half" to extract using a ground operation. But then he made a stunning admission that undercut his entire negotiating position.

"I don't think it's necessary [to get the uranium], except from a public relations standpoint," Trump said. "I think it's important for the fake news that we get it."

He added: "I'm the one that said we're going to get it, and we're going to get it. We have our eye on it."

In those few words — "I don't think it's necessary" — Trump appeared to abandon a position that has been central to his entire premise for the war. He instantly undermined his insistence on uranium removal as a key term of any peace deal with Iran, Aleem wrote.

Trump's characterization of uranium seizure as merely a "public relations" maneuver suggests he is repackaging a key plank of his negotiation position as window dressing — essentially admitting it's not actually necessary to end the conflict.


According to the report, Iranian negotiators will almost certainly exploit this revelation. If Tehran believes Trump is ambivalent about — or could eventually become indifferent to — removal of Iran's uranium stockpile, Iran has far more incentive to refuse to budge on that element or demand compromises more favorable to Tehran.

Aleem observed that Trump has a documented tendency to grow bored with or abandon protracted international conflicts, and the Iran war appears to be no exception and that each public statement weakens his negotiating leverage.

CBS News insiders fear 'something monumental' coming as Bari Weiss targets top program

A cloud of dread has descended upon CBS News as controversial editor-in-chief Bari Weiss prepares to overhaul "60 Minutes" when the show returns next season — with network insiders warning changes are coming that will upend the venerable Sunday night institution.

According to the Guardian, the current season concludes on Sunday, after which the iconoclastic Weiss is expected to impose her ideological imprint on a program that has operated with editorial autonomy for decades.

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Outrage breaks out as analysts get first look at Trump’s financial disclosures: ‘impeach!’

On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a “flurry” of financial transactions he’d made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics.

The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies” during the first three months of 2026, Bloomberg previously reported. On Saturday, Wingrove provided additional details on the president’s financial disclosures.

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GOP civil war growing as party 'splinters' over Israel ties: report

A significant schism is emerging within the Republican Party over the extent to which the United States should support Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with a substantial number of MAGA voters showing unwavering loyalty while non-MAGA conservatives increasingly question America's commitment to the longtime ally.

According to Politico, new polling from The POLITICO Poll reveals stark divides among Republican voters on Israel policy, with the party's traditional unity on Middle East issues fracturing amid Trump's unpopular Iran war and growing skepticism about U.S. interventionism.

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Republican gets more than he bargained for from angry callers on C-SPAN

Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) had to directly answer frustrated voters during a live C-SPAN broadcast on Friday.

A caller named Roger, an independent voter from Lawrenceville, Georgia, pressed the Republican lawmaker to explain why Republicans were continuing to repeat President Donald Trump's continued messages, including Trump's comments around inflation and gas prices.

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‘Kathy, call me’: Trump lashes out at NY governor with bizarre backhanded offer

President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday after she criticized the Trump administration for its labor policies, while also issuing the Democratic governor a backhanded offer to help.

The feud between Trump and Hochul was sparked by the closure of the Long Island Rail Road after workers went on strike early Saturday morning. Hochul said the strike was sparked, in part, by the Trump administration’s “reckless actions to cut mediation short.” Trump pushed back on Hochul’s criticisms, claiming he wasn’t even aware of the labor dispute until Saturday morning.

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Trump policies spark warnings of impending disaster: ‘Going to be fewer farmers’

President Donald Trump's war against Iran has already hit Americans at the gas pump, but farmers told Axios that a potentially more devastating impact is still coming – and soon.

“There's going to be fewer farmers next year than this year,” said Mark Mueller, an Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, speaking with Axios for its report published on Saturday.

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CO secretary of state unloads on Dem governor for freeing felon MAGA election denier

Appearing on MS NOW early Saturday morning, the frustrated secretary of state of Colorado bashed her fellow Democrat, Gov. Jared Polis for deciding to commute the sentence of former election official Tina Peters, one of the nation’s most notorious MAGA-aligned election deniers.

Speaking with the hosts of “The Weekend,“ Jena Griswold, who oversees elections in her state, claimed Polis has undermined the national election integrity by freeing Peters, a convicted felon sentenced to nine years for tampering with election equipment.

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Journalist uncovers astonishing detail in Trump’s plan to get even with Biden admin

The Trump administration’s Justice Department (DOJ) is “finalizing a deal” to secure a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ABC News reported on Saturday, but a new detail flagged by ABC News’ Katherine Faulders has left some onlookers stunned.

The deal stems from a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS in response to his tax returns being leaked in 2019. Trump has reportedly agreed to drop the suit in exchange for a $1.7 billion settlement, directed toward a fund dedicated to “settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s ‘weaponization’ of the legal system,” ABC News previously reported.

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FBI's Patel baffles closed-door meeting attendees by letting girlfriend participate

FBI Director Kash Patel has once again blurred the lines between personal and professional conduct, bringing his country singer girlfriend to a closed-door meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss combating fentanyl trafficking — raising eyebrows about his judgment and priorities.

According to the New York Times, in early April, Republican Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania invited Patel and other top law enforcement officials to Allentown for a confidential meeting on fentanyl trafficking strategies. The synthetic opioid has killed tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

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Trump appears ‘resigned to losing’ midterms after insiders reveal private comments: report

House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already “resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night.

“At times, the president has seemed resigned to losing, pointing out that the party in control almost always suffers in the midterms,” The Journal’s report reads. “Privately, Trump has occasionally told aides that he doesn’t care about the outcome, according to people familiar with the comments.”

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Travel company raised red flag about legality of Sean Duffy's reality show pitch: report

A travel company declined to sponsor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's family road trip after determining that sponsoring the venture amounted to buying access to a sitting cabinet secretary — raising fresh ethical concerns about the "reality-TV-tinged" odyssey.

According to POLITICO, at least one would-be sponsor balked at the ethical implications of appearing to purchase access to President Trump's transportation secretary. The company declined after being approached by Great American Road Trip Inc., the Delaware-registered nonprofit that has funded the Duffy family's gas, car rentals, lodging, and activities during eight months of on-and-off filming.

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Trump revenge plot derailed as unexpected GOP challenger throws wrench in Louisiana plan

President Donald Trump's revenge campaign against Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has hit a significant snag.

The 79-year-old president has backed Rep. Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy — one of only three Senate Republicans who voted to convict him over Jan. 6 — but state treasurer John Fleming's self-funded campaign is forcing a likely runoff and testing Trump's political dominance over the Republican base, reported CNN.

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