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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has broken his silence on his ex-wife's abrupt exit from a high-profile Trump administration post.

Speaking with CBS News' Jared Ochacher on Saturday while campaigning for Democrats in New Hampshire, Newsom called the situation surrounding the Trump administration's removal of Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece "unfortunate." He said he had not talked to Guilfoyle in some time and wished her the best.

"I don't know enough about it. I haven't talked to her in a while," Newsom said. "I just wish her the best, and I don't have much, honestly, much more to say on it. It's unfortunate."...

An encounter between Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and an unidentified man “quickly” went “off the rails,” according to the progressive media organization MeidasTouch, which shared a video of the incident.

Ramaswamy came under scrutiny this week after one of his campaign ads featured a video of the Republican candidate shaking hands with a male registered sex offender and complimenting his patriotic attire. According to The Bulwark, the ad featured Vernon Edwards, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to two counts of gross sexual imposition involving a girl under 13.

Ramaswamy’s campaign has since reworked the ad to remove Edwards and claimed to be unaware of Edwards’ criminal history....

A legal expert who worked opposite a future Trump judge in the Senate says he's been angling for a Supreme Court seat.

Lisa Graves, former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Saturday's episode of "Unprecedented" with Michael Popok that Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho is gunning for Justice Samuel Alito's seat with "absurd" rulings that cater to President Donald Trump.

"James Ho was [Sen. John] Cornyn's counsel when I was the chief counsel for nominations on the Judiciary Committee," Graves said. "He was gunning for his future Supreme Court position way back then, trying to ingratiate himself with Democrats so that he could, in my view, use them to say, 'Oh, he seems like a reasonable guy.'"...

A Trump-backed Senate candidate got caught on a leaked recording laying out his Election Day plan for a deeply Democratic city.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who is running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, can be heard in audio posted by the Michigan Democratic Party on Saturday pitching the idea of stationing police officers as Republican poll watchers in Detroit.

"Let's put retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit," Rogers says in the clip. "Go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's rant last month about his policies is still sending MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace into a fit of laughter.

She kicked off her show Friday by playing a clip of Hegseth giving his State of the Force address from the end of last month.

"The War Department, as you know, is colorblind, gender-neutral, and merit-based," said Hegseth. "Or as the president likes to say to me, Pete, central casting, I want central casting. The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone testing on top."...

A CNN pundit who once made President Donald Trump's shortlist for a high-profile job squirmed when an anchor asked if he still wanted it.

Republican strategist Scott Jennings was pressed Friday on CNN's "The Source" about the White House press secretary job, hours after Trump pushed out Katie Zacharia just five days into the role. Jim Sciutto, filling in for host Kaitlan Collins, twice asked Jennings whether he was angling for it.

Jennings had been laying out what Trump should look for in a replacement, arguing the president needs "the most qualified person you can get with the most experience, somebody who can stand behind that podium with credibility and not just carry your message, but also handle the incoming that is sure to come if the Republicans don't do well in the midterms."...

In a bid to navigate the “biggest single mistake” of President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the president has sparked a new “complete catastrophe,” a panel of journalists argued Monday on MS NOW.

“This war with Iran is going to prove to be the biggest single mistake of Donald Trump's two terms in office,” said David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter. “The Saudi Arabian government could fall there — it's a disaster for this country and it's extraordinary what's happening, just the stakes here every day.”

A cascade of attacks has erupted across the Middle East in recent days amid Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, a conflict that has kept U.S. fuel prices elevated. However, Trump has increasingly blamed the Russo-Ukrainian war for elevated fuel prices....

President Donald Trump delivered his rally speech in Tennessee Saturday to entire sections of empty seats at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, new video and photos of the rally revealed.

“President Trump’s crowd on a Saturday afternoon in Clarksville, Tennessee, near the Kentucky border, deep in the heart of Trump country,” wrote New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh in a social media post on X, alongside a video showing entire seating sections devoid of attendees.

Reuters photographer Seth Herald also captured a photo featuring “a section of empty seats” at the arena while Trump delivered his rally speech, which was disrupted within minutes by a heckler....

President Donald Trump is already displaying signs that he's a depressed old man, and one author predicted that those signs could be magnified if the November midterms go the way the polls currently suggest.

Kurt Anderson, founder of Spy Magazine, told Joanna Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent statements about his devoted aide, Natalie Harp, suggest he's "manifestly miserable." Trump told reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in an interview for their book "Regime Change" that "All of you will go off and make money ... she'll never leave me," referring to Harp.

Anderson predicted that if Republicans get trounced in the midterms, as polls suggest they might, then Trump's depression might begin to spiral. ...