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MSNBC host and former George W. Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace is openly wondering what prompted SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly (a former primetime host on Fox News and then NBC) to transition from a successful mainstream journalist to a "really angry" right-wing pundit. The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Wallace joined journalist Kara Swisher's podcast and spoke about Kelly after the former Fox host attacked her earlier this month. Wallace was initially complimentary of Kelly, saying that she was "one of the best to ever do cable" and that her prediction about independent media like podcasts eventually rivaling mainstream media turned out to be correct. "I watched her every night at 9 o’clock," Wallace said. "I don’t watch her anymore, but I thought her observations about where the industry was heading were right." READ MORE: 'Still waiting': Trump gets brutally mocked for 'fake deadlines' after 'two w...

President Donald Trump has apparently approved attack plans against Iran though has so far stopped short of officially giving the order, according to the Wall Street Journal . And one columnist thinks whether the president of the United States gets the nation involved in another foreign war could be decided by Trump's self-esteem. In a recent op-ed for USA TODAY , columnist Rex Huppke posited that Trump's recent actions could be attributed to the world's most powerful man having a crisis of self-confidence. Huppke argued that the commander-in-chief's deployment of U.S. military personnel to the nation's second-most populous city ended in an anticlimactic fashion, and his sparsely attended military parade didn't move the needle either. According to the columnist, a new foreign war is just part of "the quest to quench this man’s insecurity," opining that even being among other foreign leaders at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies didn't do en...

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to answer questions about ongoing crises both in the U.S. and overseas. And he was particularly cagey with Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) when she asked him about whether he would obey an illegal order from President Donald Trump. In her questioning, Slotkin brought up Trump's deployment of military personnel to quell the ongoing protests of the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, California. And when she asked Hegseth whether he would issue an order to harm unarmed protesters — or convey such an order from Trump to military leadership — after citing a passage from former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's book in which Trump suggested shooting protesters in the legs, the Pentagon chief demurred. "Senator … be careful what you read in books, and believing it. Except for the Bible," Hegseth said. READ MORE: 'What i...

In a critical letter addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has accused the Trump administration of mounting “a dangerous attack” on the nation’s domestic counterterrorism mechanisms, NOTUS reported Wednesday. Raskin warned that this dismantling now threatens the country’s capacity to detect and stop deadly plots. The six-page letter comes amid bipartisan shock over politically motivated shootings in Minnesota last week that left former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark dead and another state lawmaker and spouse hospitalized. READ MORE: 'I don't appreciate the smirk': Senator scorches 'unserious' Hegseth in combative hearing The Maryland Democrat tied the murders directly to President Donald Trump's policy failures. He raised concern about the Justice Department’s reassignment of senior career attorneys from the National Security and Criminal Divisio...

Author E. Jean Carroll — who won two civil judgments against President Donald Trump in 2023 and 2024 — recently spoke in detail about her experience facing down Trump in court and emerging victorious. During a Tuesday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Carroll argued to host Nicolle Wallace that even though Trump is a second-term president unencumbered by financial concerns or term limits, he's still beatable if the American public has the willpower. The octogenarian writer who won a $5 million sexual abuse judgment and a separate $83.3 million defamation judgment against Trump said that while she still hasn't received any money due to the president appealing the judgments to the Supreme Court, the odds are stacked against him. "He will go to the Supreme Court. They probably won't hear it," Carroll said. "He keeps losing, Nicolle. And that is why he'll have to, in the end, give me the money and then I can give it to help bind ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz , Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is promoting President Donald Trump’s sweeping and highly controversial budget legislation by claiming it will guarantee access to the social safety net for the “right” people . He argues that, under the GOP plan, individuals will need to “earn” the right to use Medicaid—suggesting that many current recipients are capable of working but choose not to. Almost half (47.9%) of Medicaid users under 65 are children aged 0 to 18, according to KFF , the well-known nonpartisan health policy organization. Six in ten families accessing Medicaid have at least one family member who works full time. In a nationalistic plea, Dr. Oz, on Tuesday, standing with Senate Republicans, told people using the service to “demonstrate that you are trying your hardest to help this country be greater, by at least trying to fill some of the jobs that we have open.” READ MORE: ‘Unconditional Surrender’: Trump’s Iran Posts Trigger...