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An MSNBC host claimed Friday that the Trump administration's failure to admit concern over including The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat where plans for an attack on Yemen were detailed is handing Democrats a major weapon.

Joe Scarborough said polling on the scandal shows a substantial amount of Republicans have major concerns — and that shrugging it off is not a good tactic.

Politico's Ankush Khardori this week spoke with several right-wing legal scholars about the prospects of President Donald Trump defying court orders and he came away with the conclusion that doing so "will backfire badly" on the president and his allies.

While Vice President J.D. Vance and other Trump allies have made noises about defying the courts, Khardori believes that doing so would undermine a decades-long conservative project to remake the judicial branch as a bulwark of right-wing legal thought.

Vice president J.D. Vance is expected to launch an attack on a U.S. ally during an unsolicited visit to Greenland with his wife.

Second lady Usha Vance had been scheduled to visit the autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark with one of the couple's young sons, but her husband decided to join her on a drastically scaled-back trip after watching outrage over her trip grow amid Donald Trump's threats to take control of the world's largest island, reported CNN.

Donald Trump's decision to pull the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to be his next ambassador to the United Nations, coming as it is at the same time he is fending off a firestorm over the security breach known as "Signalgate," is a sign that his administration is reeling.

That is the opinion of MSNBC's contributor and longtime Beltway insider Chris Matthews who claimed the president is coming close to following the same path as disgraced President Richard Nixon.

With "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough pointing to Trump's admission that Stefanik needs to remain in the House due to the GOP's thin margin, he made the point that Trump's claims of a mandate are falling apart.

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"The Republican agenda is extremely unpopular, they are crashing the economy in real-time and House Republicans are running scared. What happened to their so-called mandate? Well, Chris Matthews, they didn't have a mandate –– they won by like one and a half percentage points," the MSNBC host prompted his guest.

"You know, he's got a couple signs of weakness," Matthews replied. "Stefanik going back to the House is a big sign of weakness. He's worried about points, a couple seats in New York, especially where there's going to be some back and forth."

"But I also look at his performance," he continued. "Last night, Peter Alexander had one hell of a report last night, he pointed out in the evening news that Trump is very angry at [national security adviser] Mike Waltz, about Signal. And he has got to be angry. And the president has to be angry right now that somebody screwed up the worst week he's had."

"And why did that person do it?" he proposed. "l'd want to know who did it and why they did it. –– are they on somebody else's team? I wouldn't understand why he'd come up with a name, Jeffrey Goldberg, right in the middle of these other guys, right? Why would you do it?"

CNN's Audie Cornish redirected a conservative blogger after he justified vice president J.D. Vance's visit to Greenland.

The vice president will join his wife Usha Vance in a drastically scaled-back unsolicited visit as Greenland officials and citizens make clear they're not welcome amid president Donald Trump's threats to take control of the autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, but Vance tried to put a happy spin on the backlash.

Despite protestations from high-ranking Donald Trump officials that the Signal chat scandal that has engulfed the administration is much ado about nothing, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted new polling that the president is facing a growing revolt over it among GOP voters.

Yesterday Attorney General Pam Bondi blew off questions about the security breach which has cast a dark cloud over the immediate futures of national security advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and instead deflected to attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

On Friday's "Morning Joe," Lemire shared the clip of Bondi's press conference and followed it by commenting, "That's not great."

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He then explained why.

"Despite her bravado there, new polling shows Americans see the incident more concerning than her emails, i.e. the Clinton email server," he began. "A new YouGov poll finds that three out of four Americans believe the Signal chat about strikes in Yemen is a serious problem. That includes 53 percent who called it very serious, and another 21 percent who said it was somewhat serious."

"When broken down by party, 89 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents and, look at this: 60 percent of Republicans believe the situation is a serious problem," he added. "And of note, a higher share of adults said the Signal chat was indeed more serious than Hillary Clinton's personal email use. A YouGov poll from September 2022 found that about three out of five Americans viewed that controversy as a serious problem. and, Joe [Scarborough], the White House is aware of this. "

"Our new reporting out last night is President Trump privately still very angry about this, but what a distraction it's become," Lemire told the panel. "He can't talk about what he wants to talk about: tariffs, immigration the like at the moment. Signals from the White House are no heads will roll, but there's a lot of scrutiny on both the secretary of defense and especially the national security adviser about how they handled this. And this is a story that is simply not going away, and that, poll suggests, has really permeated both sides of the aisle."

"Not great," co-host Scarborough repeated while he and the rest of the panel laughed.

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Republicans are concerned that a pair of closer-than-expected elections Tuesday in deep-red districts will fuel a narrative that voters are rejecting Donald Trump's presidency.

Florida's chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, is running to replace former congressman Matt Gaetz and state Sen. Randy Fine is looking to replace former Rep. Mike Waltz, who is now Trump's scandal-plagued national security adviser, and the president has been actively involved in propping up their support in two districts he won easily in November, reported NBC News.

Donald Trump's transactional nature has carried over into his second presidency, leading CEOs and world leaders to whisper behind his back, according to a report.

Axios reported early Friday morning that, "If you're a foreign leader or a CEO about to meet with President Trump — or if you want to avoid his vengeance — come bearing gifts."

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow concluded her opening monologue Thursday night by answering her own question, "How does the American population feel about how things are turning out with Donald Trump being back in the White House?"

"New polling from Gallup just out today shows that there's no issue in which the American people like what Donald Trump is doing," she concluded, noting his "disapproval ratings higher than his approval ratings on everything."

President Donald Trump appearing to be clueless when asked if he's been briefed on the four missing soldiers in Lithuania set a CNN panel discussion on fire after a longtime Republican strategist instead flipped the argument to center around former President Joe Biden.

The feisty exchange unfolded Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight” as Neera Tanden, a Biden administration domestic policy adviser, flagged “a serious problem” with the MAGA leader.

President Donald Trump's administration said Thursday it will investigate admissions practices at some of California's top universities, broadening a campaign against elite educational institutions.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had ordered probes into how students are admitted to the private Stanford University, as well as to three of the most prestigious campuses of the University of California system -- Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to remove "improper ideology" from the famed Smithsonian Museums -- and the National Zoo -- expanding his conservative clampdown on cultural institutions.

Trump, who has sought to root out what he called "woke" culture since returning to power in January, accused the Smithsonian of trying to rewrite American history on issues of race and gender.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delivered an on-air takedown of the Trump administration’s startling arrest on Wednesday of a Turkish national by masked Department of Homeland Security agents, who surrounded and “snatched” her from the street.

The sudden detainment of Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was captured on a doorbell video and sparked protests demanding her release “spontaneously and basically instantly,” Maddow told viewers Thursday.