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The weaponization of the FBI under the Trump administration and Director Kash Patel is entering territory America has never seen before, MS NOW justice correspondent Ken Dilanian told anchor Katy Tur on Wednesday.

This comes after bombshell allegations from Patel's acting predecessor, Brian Driscoll, that Patel is "padding" FBI statistics to make his leadership look more effective than it actually is.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) announced a special legislative session to redraw congressional maps ahead of the 2028 elections — a move that could deliver Republicans a stranglehold on the state's congressional delegation and put a crosshairs on one of the last rural Black-majority congressional districts in the South.

The announcement comes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Louisiana case that handed Republican-controlled Southern legislatures a green light to revisit their congressional maps. GOP governors across the region have been racing to take advantage of the decision ever since.

FBI Director Kash Patel strutted into a Senate hearing Tuesday, brandishing a large black placard of statistics and daring his critics to dispute them. But current and former law enforcement officials say those numbers are a sham.

"They are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrests they would not have claimed [previously]," one current FBI official told MS NOW. "So comparing 2025 to 2024 is not apples to apples."

Republican chances of holding on to their House majority have gotten a major boost this month with a pair of court rulings, but an analyst warned that might set the stage for new problems down the road.

Two weeks ago, the outlook was dim for GOP chances for keeping the House and not much better for the Senate, with President Donald Trump's poll numbers sinking to new depths and fractures appearing in his MAGA coalition, but that forecast improved since the start of May, wrote MS NOW columnist Hayes Brown.

CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil traveled halfway around the world to broadcast from China, but a logistical blunder is keeping him from completing his journey.

The embattled news network suffered another public embarrassment after failing to secure a visa to China for Dokoupil, who will instead broadcast from Taiwan this week as President Donald Trump and U.S. business leaders for a highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, reported Semafor.

Vice President JD Vance suggested he felt like a child without a parent after President Donald Trump decided not to take him to China this week.

"Good afternoon, everybody. How we doing?" Vance said on Wednesday at an event to promote his anti-fraud task force. "So as you know, the president just landed in China a few hours ago. I always, you may know that because of Secret Service protocols that I don't travel outside of the country, with the President of the United States."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (R), the former governor of North Dakota, insisted that the "data is lying" after being told that energy prices in his state were lower because of renewable energy.

During a Wednesday hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) pointed out that President Donald Trump had claimed windmills cause cancer, among other false statements about renewable energy.

President Donald Trump landed in China on Wednesday ahead of his high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, reportedly hoping for help with his deeply unpopular war against Iran – but Beijing residents interviewed by CNN were quick to pour cold water on the idea.

“I don't have a good impression of President Donald Trump at all,” one Beijing resident, identified as Mr. Liu, told CNN. “The U.S.-Iran conflict was stirred up by him, too. Look at the trade and economic war before, wasn't that him too?”