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60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused the show's parent company, Paramount, of interfering with their editorial process in a blistering on-air attack Sunday evening.

“Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” Pelley said in ‘The Last Minute’ segment of the show.

President Donald Trump highlighted findings by a Republican pollster to attack media organizations that found his approval rating was lagging.

A survey conducted by ABCNews and the Washington Post found just 39 percent of Americans approve of his performance as president while 55 percent disapprove, while a New York Times poll found 44 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval. But Trump pointed to claims by GOP pollster John McLaughlin that the polls were rigged against him.

Leaked texts from a group chat for ultra-wealthy and powerful people has revealed that Donald Trump is losing support even among those tech leaders who voted for him in 2024.

Ben Smith, the former media columnist of the New York Times and co-founder of Semafor, wrote for Semafor on Sunday a deep-dive about "Chatham House," described as "a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right."

Donald Trump is bleeding support among independents and swing voters, and one Republican pollster says he is concerned.

GOP pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz appeared on CNN on Sunday, where he was asked about the outlet's polling showing Trump's falling numbers.

Sawyer County, WI Judge Monica Isham on Saturday announced she’ll “refuse to hold court” following the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan “if there is no guidance for … and no support for” judges in the state.

Isham sent the letter Saturday to her fellow Wisconsin judges, insisting she has “no intention of allowing anyone be taken out of [her] courtroom by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process.”

The judge’s announcement comes after Dugan, first elected to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 2016, was arrested on Friday by the FBI for “allegedly obstructing federal authorities who were seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant,” NBC News reports.

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Dugan was described by NBC News as “a longtime social justice advocate before she took the bench.”

Isham, in her letter to fellow judges, argued Dugan “stood on her Oath” and “was arrested and charged with felonies for it.”

“I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration,” Isham wrote.

Isham also described multiple instances of “racial attacks in [her] court” since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, writing she’s been “called an ‘immigrant,’” was told she has “no jurisdiction over while people in [her] county” and “had a juror loudly proclaim” they would not follow orders “from a brown or black person.”

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As Isham noted, she was “elected as the first woman, first Native American, first minority all together to serve as circuit court judge” in her county.

"If this costs me my job or gets me arrested then at least I know I did the right thing," Isham wrote.

Isham’s colleague “Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding on Friday after evidence came to light that she had shielded the migrant from ICE agents, according to a criminal complaint,” Fox News reports. “She was also charged with concealing an individual to prevent discovery and arrest.”

Donald Trump on Sunday encouraged GOP lawmakers to not "treat troublemakers nicely" at town hall events.

Trump over the weekend took to Truth Social to complain about the widely reported protests at GOP discussions.

President Donald Trump spent a mere “14 hours in Rome,” as his “whirlwind trip to Italy” came against the backdrop of “global discord,” the New York Times reports.

The reason for his quick turnaround?

“He wanted to make it back to his golf resort in New Jersey before the end of the day,” Trump told aides, according to the Times.

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As reporters David Sanger and Motoko Rich report, Trump “flew briefly this weekend into a European continent he has thrown into chaos in recent months, paying respects to Pope Francis at his funeral, but also meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a critical moment that may decide both the country’s boundaries and its fate.”

“Trump was on the ground in Rome for about 14 hours, and left immediately after the services for the pope,” the reporters note, describing it as a “startlingly fast turnaround for the first overseas trip of a new president.”

The trip “left no time for discussion of his tariffs on the European Union, his turn toward normalizing relations with Russia or his insistence that Europeans must take far larger responsibility for their own defense,” the reporters add.

According to the report, Trump’s “speedy departure came despite a suggestion from a Ukrainian spokesman that more talks would take place in Rome on Saturday.”

Looking far ahead at how the 2028 presidential nominations will line up, former Republican party campaign consultant Matthew Dowd predicted Donald Trump will, in all likelihood, put his party in an awful bind.

Reacting to accusations that the president is attempting to "freeze" the field as he flirts with running for a third term despite constitutional prohibitions, Dowd suggested Trump would wait to the last minute to pick his successor, thereby leaving the GOP leadership stuck with whomever he anoints.

Speaking with host Alex Witt on MSNBC, Dowd followed up comments that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) couldn't beat Trump but matched up well with Vice President J.D. Vance.

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"It's primarily about the grift," he began. "That's the first point of it. But he is freezing the field, one, by virtue of his enormous personality and sway in getting media attention. But he does make other Republicans sort of stop and not do anything in the course of this."

"And I think that's part of his plan because Donald Trump doesn't want to be viewed as sort of the lame duck," he elaborated. "'We're going to to move on, we're going to have another leader emerge.' And I think he's going to try to push that as long as possible."

"I don't think there's any way in anybody's mind that he can constitutionally run, it's specifically forbidden in the Constitution," he claimed. " I think secretaries of states in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, any number of states won't allow him on the ballot and will be supported by the courts in that. But i think it does put the Republicans in an awful position because they can't come up with their next leader."

He added. "And I think what allows Donald Trump to do is lay his hands on the last, on the last minute, on somebody, and then it puts them in an awful position of them having to rally around a one person that he lays his hands on in the final minute of this, and that's problematic."

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