Two Republicans on a CNN panel – including "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O’Leary – found themselves at the opposite end of a stinging reality check delivered by the network’s global economic analyst.

The moment unfolded Wednesday during an exchange about the economic uncertainties spawned by President Donald Trump’s controversial tariff plan – which inevitably devolved into a full-blown debate about the state of the economy under former President Joe Biden, versus the current occupant of the White House.

“I think the president is right to attempt a reset as it pertains to our trade,” Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton said.

But business expert Rana Foroohar, an associate editor at the Financial Times, quickly jumped in when Singleton hurled blamed at “liberal outlets” for what he claimed has been a flip-flop over the last decade or so with them “talking about the disaster free trade has had on middle class America,” and now reporting “it’s in decay.”

“It’s a little more nuanced,” Foroohar told viewers.

If the country wanted to change the global trading relationship, she said, “You need to have your allies with you, and that’s what Biden did.”

She then brushed off Singleton's claim that the economy under Biden’s four years in office “was a disaster.”

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“Oh, please,” she fired back, referencing the resurgence of semiconductors during the Biden administration – “that’s no small thing.”

She next expressed doubt that Trump could achieve an “end game of rebuilding the industry.”

But Foroohar’s biggest frustration came when O’Leary proclaimed the CHIPs and Science Act a “total waste of money.”

“I, as a private investor, would never give Intel a dime – it’s being sold for car parts," the Shark Tank investor said.

Foroohar wasn’t buying the argument.

“Absolutely not,” she said as she shook her head. “That’s ludicrous.”

“Horrible bill!” O’Leary declared as he, Foroohar and now CNN host Abby Phillip all chimed in. “Horrible bill and I hope it gets shut down," O'Leary repeated.

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Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, went after President Donald Trump’s executive order declassifying files on the 1963 assassination of the former president.

“JFK conspiracy theories,” Schlossberg wrote in a social post to his X account hours after Trump signed the order in the Oval Office Thursday.

“The truth is alot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme. Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back.”

Trump, the subject of two of his own assassination attempts last year, had vowed on the campaign trail to release all documents on the Dallas incident that has long been the subject of fascination – both for historians and conspiracy theorists.

He told reporters as he signed the order Thursday: "A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,” before adding "Everything will be revealed."

Trump’s order also includes declassifying all remaining files related to Robert F. Kennedy, the former president's brother, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Schlossberg, a Democrat, threw his support to President Joe Biden in the 2024 election after criticizing his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known conspiracy theorist himself who is now Trump's nomineeto lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Legal observers are on the lookout for what new legal tactics President-elect Donald Trump and his team of lawyers might attempt in the hours before Jack Smith’s looming report involving the 2020 election hits.

But the law isn’t on Trump’s side, according to CNN’s Elie Honig, who poured cold water on the incoming president’s desire to have the decision by Judge Aileen Cannon overturned in a higher court.

“First of all, Donald Trump and his co-defendants have zero – zero legal basis – to block this report from coming out,” Honig, a former federal prosecutor, said Monday.

He added that the report, which could shed new light on Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, could technically be released publicly as soon as Tuesday’s early morning hours.

“What we're watching for in the next five and change hours is will Donald Trump's team take that last Hail Mary?” Honig said Monday in an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. “Will they ask the court of appeals to block this? Will they ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block this?”

Trump has so far “failed at every turn” to prevent the report’s release, Honig noted. The CNN senior legal analyst said the special counsel is required by law to produce the report, and that the Justice Department has already indicated its intention to sign off on its release.

“And the ruling that we got earlier today from Judge Cannon in Florida, who's generally been very favorable to Donald Trump, said he has no basis to block this – especially because he's no longer a criminal defendant,” Honig told Blitzer. He added that because Trump has been dismissed from the case, he can no longer raise “constitutional concerns” involving a potential jury pool.

“So the arguments we've been seeing, Wolf, are really Hail Marys,” Honig said. “We’ll see if they try again between now and midnight, but legally they've got nothing.”

Honig concluded that even if Trump achieves a delay in the Supreme Court it would be “very, very brief.”

“So, I do think we'll see this soon,” Honig said of the report. “I do not think Donald Trump's team is going to be able to run out the clock until he's president next week.”

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Donald Trump’s ambitious demand that the United States regain control of the Panama Canal would be “a mess” for the country, according to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which added that it is just the latest example of the incoming president’s “bully tactic diplomacy.”

Trump’s “America First” agenda was on full display during a disjointed news conference Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, where he turned heads for again repeating his desire for the U.S. to acquire Canada, Panama and Greenland.

But the trick to deciphering Trump’s remarks “is figuring out when Mr. Trump is trolling and when he means it,” the Journal’s conservative editorial board wrote Wednesday.

“A Greenland deal has potential if he’s artful. Panama would be a mess, and his Canada trolling could hurt the Conservatives,” according to the board. “Mr. Trump often prefers to talk tough, but using the bully pulpit to bully America’s friends is no help against the real bad guys.”

Trump told reporters Tuesday that “the Panama Canal is vital to our country,” adding that it was “a big mistake” for the U.S. to sign over the canal in a treaty under former President Jimmy Carter. But his tough talk on Panama seemed to be a bridge too far for the board, which noted that the president-elect refused to take using military force off the table.

“If he means that, he’s asking for trouble,” the board wrote in their op-ed. “It would turn an ally in the Western Hemisphere into an adversary. Does he want a forever guerrilla war?”

The Journal’s editorial board suggested that Trump’s threats may be aimed at a deal on canal fees “or maybe the Panamanian ports managed by a Hong Kong entity.”

“But he’s simply making it up that Chinese soldiers are running the canal,” the board wrote in a fact check of Trump’s claims the canal is being operated by Chinese soldiers.

They concluded that Trump – who famously penned “The Art of the Deal” with ghostwriter Tony Schwartz – would benefit from a piece of his advice.

“One possible option might be a defense free association compact with Greenland, similar to U.S. arrangements with Pacific island states,” the board wrote. “The subtle art of persuasion would be required.”

A Republican’s vigorous defense of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol four years ago turned an on-air CNN discussion into a full-on debate about who was peacefully protesting, who was trespassing, and who should’ve been prosecuted.

The moment came Monday evening on CNN’s “The Source” when GOP strategist David Urban said that not only was the issue of Jan. 6 litigated in the courts, but also in the last election – “and the American people dismissed it as well.”

“I agree the beating of police officers – Donald Trump said it himself – violence is never acceptable,” Urban said Monday. “Those people that beat the police officers, that injured a police officer, should go to jail. There's no ifs, ands or buts.”

However, Urban added, “there’s a completely different story” on the Supreme Court side of the Capitol, where he said people “were allowed in” and officers “didn't seem frightened or outnumbered.”

He also told the panel that “to be factual” Ashli Babbitt “was the only person who died” on that day.

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But the longtime Republican’s separation of the violence didn’t sit well with CNN’s Kate Bedingfield or Sarah Matthews, Trump’s former deputy press secretary who resigned on Jan. 6, 2021, over the Capitol riot.

“That is beyond splitting hairs,” Bedingfield said referencing the Capitol police officer who died the day after the attack. “Come on."

“She wouldn't have been there that day if Donald Trump didn't spread conspiracy theories about an election that he knew was not stolen,” Matthews told Urban. “And he told those people to go to the Capitol. And so, she was there as a result of him telling her. She would not have died if it weren't for Donald Trump refusing to accept the results of the election, and you know that.”

Urban concluded the dust-up by adding that he doesn't believe that Trump should pardon Jan. 6 defendants on day one.

“I think there are lots of things the American people care about much more so than January 6," he said.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s long-held promise to pardon his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is drawing fresh scrutiny from a government ethics group.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, issued a terse statement Monday calling out Trump and his repeated signals that he is willing to grant clemency to those who breached the Capitol as Congress worked to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

“Some things are fights worth having,” CREW wrote in a social media post on X. “Not allowing Donald Trump to pardon January 6th insurrectionists is one of those things. Two-thirds of the country is with us on this.”

The warning shot comes just weeks before Trump is set to return to the White House. The incoming president has said he will “most likely” pardon at least some Jan. 6 rioters on the first day he takes office, according to media reports.

A HuffPost analysis this week found that the potential presidential Jan. 6 pardons would put hundreds of violent criminals back onto the streets.

Recent reporting that President Joe Biden’s health was far more diminished than the administration led on was proclaimed to be “the biggest scandal in America” by longtime GOP insider Scott Jennings – a declaration a Democratic strategist only minorly pushed back on.

Responding to a Wall Street Journal article out Thursday that reported signs of Biden’s decline came within months of his taking office, Jennings eagerly cast doubt on Biden’s entire presidency.

“It's a scandal of epic proportions,” Jennings said on CNN’s “NewsNight.” “And the level and volume of people who dedicated themselves to lying to everyone at home about this man's condition for four straight years – up through this summer – is breathtaking.”

He then added his skepticism about who’s actually “been running the country” during Biden’s term.

“If you're worried about Donald Trump's advisers having influence for the last four years, apparently this president, duly elected, but this president was not capable of fulfilling the duties of the office and his staff and the White House lied about it and kept it from the American people," the Republican said. "It’s an absolute scandal."

Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky first noted that she believes Biden had a “successful tenure,” before laying into the administration – and the recent reporting of the president’s health – as an example of "a bigger problem" for Democrats.

“I think you have a lot of Democrats now, me included, who are pretty sick of the institution and trusting people in the institution,” Roginsky told the CNN panel. “And this is just one example, the most recent example, I think of people institutionally lying to the American people."

She predicted a “Tea Party version rise up” would come next for the Democratic Party, similar to how Republicans felt in the aftermath of former President George W. Bush leaving the White House in 2009.

“Based on the fact that this is yet another marker of people just not trusting our leaders anymore,” she said. “And I'm sorry to say that, but I think we brought this on ourselves.”

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Social media users came out swinging against a conservative New York Times columnist who this week declared he was “done with never Trump,” and suggested the movement defeated itself.

The online backlash came in response to a Tuesday opinion piece by Bret Stephens, who said he believes Trump’s second term could be “as bad as his most fervent critics fear,” but still urged readers to send warm wishes to the new administration and give his cabinetselections “the benefit of the doubt.”

“It is incredibly craven to pretend to take a principled stand against Trump only to rescind it when it becomes clear that Trump isn't actually going away and there is nothing to be personally gained from the ostentatious display of ‘principle,’" University of Texas at Austin professor Mike Boyla-Kolchin wrote on Bluesky.

“Peak bedbug. He bends his knee. #BrokenTimes #BrokenBret," Former CUNY professor and "This Week in Google" podcast host Jeff Jarvis posted on social media.

George Washington University professor David Karpf reacted to the column in a series of posts on Bluesky where he blasted the columnist: “What an extraordinary dim bulb.”

“Stephens was a semi-early Never Trump conservative because Trump himself was uncouth,” Karpf told his followers. “It has always been the style, not the substance, that Bret found appalling. And he assumed that the social order would, thus, reject Trumpism. And he said as much, in his own stilted manner.”

He added now that “Trumpism has been vindicated,” Stephens took away “one possible lesson” that “the problem can no longer be Trump; it must be his critics.”

Author and former New York Times reporter Diana B. Henriques wroteto her Bluesky followers that Stephens’ piece delivered a “jaw-dropping argument.”

“If a tiny majority of ‘ordinary people’ decide Jan6 and The Big Election Lie were fundamentally less important to the nation than the price of eggs and border control, it is so,” she wrote. “No, it isn't.”

A CNN panel discussion on vaccine mandates took an abrupt turn Monday when the host paused the conversation to immediately push back on a Republican guest’s assertions about vaccine safety.

The moment came during CNN’s “NewsNight” when host Abby Phillip took issue with GOP mega-donor Hal Lambert making connections between vaccines and autism while defending Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views on the subject.

“We keep saying science and data,” Lambert said. “There’s autism up over the last 25 years. All of these things, our kids are less healthy, but we have a lot more vaccines. And so, I think his point is both on the food side — which is obviously a problem on the obesity side — on the vaccine side is, are we more healthy than we were 25 years ago or 30 years ago when we had far fewer vaccines that were going around for kids that were mandated?”

Lambert said he agreed with Kennedy and believed he was "arguing that we should go look for that."

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That’s when Phillip jumped in.

“I mean, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,” Phillip said. “I’m going to stop right now because like, you're doing exactly the thing that doesn't actually — when we talk about following the science, what you're doing is saying — ‘well, people are getting more vaccines and all these other things are happening, so those things are related.’ That's not how this works. Vaccines don't cause autism."

But the host wasn’t done dressing Lambert down on the subject. She asked Lambert what proof he based his conclusion on that vaccines cause obesity and make people unhealthy.

“Well…what Robert Kennedy said was that cancer rates are higher...specific cancer rates are higher. That’s what he's talking about,” Lambert responded.

Phillip noted that Kennedy “has no proof of that," before adding: “Well, before you decide to tell people that cancer is related to vaccines, don't you think you should have evidence of that first?”

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said the time has arrived for the Transportation Security Administration to be grounded – and he has at least one Republican in the lower chamber on board.

Lee made the comments on Monday in a string of social media remarks where he also called for an end to the Affordable Care Act when lawmakers return next month with a Republican trifecta.

“Congress should abolish TSA,” Lee told his social media followers on X. “If Congress somehow can’t abolish it, Congress should at least (1) privatize it, and then (2) require what remains of TSA to truly compete with private security contractors.”

The Utah senator’s announcement caught the attention of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who reposted Lee’s comment with her own remark: “Hear, hear!” she wrote.

The proposal to do away with the TSA – created weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks – would upend safety measures for the country’s mass transportation. But the agency has landed on the radar of conservatives who have criticized it for overstepping its authority and violating peoples’ rights.

Congressional Republicans have promised to gut several federal agencies when Donald Trump reemerges in the White House next month, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Education.

Lee in March also proposed axing the TSA.

But political scientist Rachel Bitecofer pushed back on the suggestion being floated by Lee and other conservatives with a stinging two-word rebuke: "OK moron," she wrote in an X reply above a photo of a second plane preparing to slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The reaction by executives across the nation following the brutal cold-blooded killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson last week didn’t sit right with "Shark Tank" star investor Kevin O’Leary.

Instead of making efforts to fortify security around them, executives should “read the room” — and realize the public is turning against them, the investor and chairman of O'Leary Ventures said Wednesday.

“This is quite a backlash,” O’Leary said. “This is the power of social media.”

O'Leary made the remarks during an appearance on CNN, where he pointed out the dynamics at play in a case that stirred simmering frustrations surrounding health care in America against the backdrop of calculated assassination.

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"If anything good is going to come of this, it's going to be policy change because you've basically got people lighting up their torches, just like in the Frankenstein story and going to the castle, and they're going to burn it down," O’Leary told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “And you got to hear that, so if you're an executive saying, 'get me more security guards,' wrong answer. That’s just wrong.”

Hostile public outcry following Thompson’s killing, which included the arrest of suspected assassin Luigi Mangione on Monday, played out because of frustrations with the health insurance appeals process. O’Leary went out to advise executives in the health care industry to work to relate to their customers because "everybody is affected by health care."

"They should be coming out now saying, 'Look, we get it, we have families too, we're people, we have children, we care about what you think about, and we're going to automate this process and make it better,'" O’Leary said. "But putting a fence around headquarters, hiring more security guards, that's all bad imagery, Wolf. It’s all bad. And it's not the right answer."

O'Leary acknowledged in response to a question from Blitzer that there are valid reasons to deny an insurance claim, but added, "It doesn't matter at this point."

"Social media is now the jury, and it doesn't like what it sees," he said.

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If recent political history is any indication, examinations into Republican electoral defeats up and down the ballot may not be far off, according to a political columnist.

In fact, they could be one presidential election cycle away.

Take for example the elections in 2008, 2016 and 2020, when voters gave the prevailing party governing trifectas, MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen wrote.

Of course, the GOP was handed the coveted political situation this year, but four years ago it was Democrats who were handed back control of Congress and the White House after Republicans wrestled it away in 2016, the same way Democrats turned the tables in 2008, Cohen noted.

“Quite simply, it might not be long before the election postmortems are being written about the GOP,” Cohen told readers in an opinion piece published Monday for MSNBC.

While Cohen is not doubting the scope of the “bad outcome” the 2024 elections produced for the Democratic Party, he says the data shows some bright spots for the party, including that “Democrats outperformed the presidential ticket in several key Senate races.”

“The Democrats’ defeat has led to a host of postmortems and renting on what went wrong and what the party needs to do differently going forward,” he wrote. “But a deep dive inside the numbers suggests that while the election results were bad for Democrats, they aren’t quite as awful as they seem.”

He continued to establish his argument by reminding readers that Democrats were facing “an uphill battle” this year in the face of anti-incumbent sentiment worldwide and that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was not the landslide win that MAGA world wanted to portray.

“His margin of victory, 1.6 points, was the fifth-smallest in the last 100 years,” Cohen noted.

The columnist concluded by writing that even as Democrats “lost four Senate seats and control of the chamber, considering the 6-point shift in national voting and Trump’s victory, they did better than expected.”

“Going forward, the ubiquity of the occasional Trump voter should concern Republicans,” according to Cohen, a senior fellow and co-director of the Afghanistan Assumptions Project at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. “Can they hold the White House — and their advantages in the House and Senate — if Trump is not on the ticket (and constitutionally, he cannot run for president again)?”

A top New York Times reporter who has covered President-elect Donald Trump extensively for years said Monday night that Eric Trump gave a “warning shot" to GOP legal strategist Boris Epshteyn.

The assessment from Maggie Haberman on "The Source" came after the incoming president’s son reacted to Fox News earlier Monday when asked about reports that Epshteyn, a longtime Trump aide, profited by selling access to Trump’s inner circle.

“I’ve known Boris for years, and I’ve never known him to be anything but a good human being,” the younger Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “That said, I will tell you, my father has been incredibly clear – you do not — you do not do that under any circumstance. I certainly hope the reporting is false, and I can also tell you if it's true, you know, the person will probably no longer be around.”

Haberman and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins both had the same reaction.

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“Well, that's actually not very, that's not subtle,” Haberman said after watching the Fox News clip.

“Right? That was my reaction,” Collins said.

Haberman went on to express a starker view of Eric Trump’s remarks.

“It was gentle about Boris Epshteyn, but it’s a warning – I interpret that as a warning shot,” she said.

“Yeah, that's a red line,” added Ellie Honig. He noted that Trump’s former “fixer” and attorney Michael Cohen had a falling out with his ex-boss over money issues.

“Donald Trump didn't want him profiting, and Michael Cohen ended up stealing from Donald Trump, that came out in the trial,” Honig said.

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“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart opened his show Monday by taking Democrats through the wringer in a stinging takedown of their election night defeat last week, joking with his audience, "It turns out the election was stolen by more people voting for Donald Trump.”

“It’s quite the capper,” Stewart said to laughter. He opened his show Monday by demanding a close-up camera view before taking on a serious tone and declaring: “Welcome to the resistance," he said, pausing as the audience applauded. "I’m actually being facetious.”

He continued his opening segment by dissecting the Democrats’ election night loss with a smattering of humor and defeat, and then offered his own assessment of what the Democratic Party – and the political analysts – got wrong.

“I’m glad to say Democrats did protect democracy, just for the other side,” he said. “But it’s a delight to hear about why it happened from so many people who were so wrong about what was going to happen,” Stewart said.

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“Everybody’s talking about this ‘wokeness’ theory,” he continued. But, he noted that the Democrats “didn’t talk about pronouns, they didn’t say ‘Latinx,’ it was the opposite. They didn’t do the woke thing…they acted like Republicans for the last four months. They wore camo hats and went to Cheney family reunions.”

He said instead, Democrats were mostly running “against an identity that was defined for them based on a couple of months of post-George Floyd defund the police ‘Me Too’ Instagram posts from four years ago."

He continued his post-election assessment by telling viewers that the general mood in the country that the Democrats discovered on election night was that “government wasn’t working for them.”

“And then Democrats in particular were taking their hard-earned money and giving it to people who didn’t deserve it as much as them. So the Democrats got shellacked," he said.

“But, I just want to assure people that this isn’t forever,” Stewart told his audience, before discussing the 1984 election results when Democrats won just a single state.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen in four years, at all.”

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Donald Trump’s next secretary of state would no doubt be “a hawkish choice” as the president-elect continues to build out his incoming administration, according to Axios co-founder Mike Allen, who adds the pick also sends a reassuring signal.

“This is to be reassuring to people around the world, to Republicans, to Democrats in Washington, of the choices that president-elect Trump had,” Allen told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins during an interview Monday near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Marco Rubio is a very traditional Republican.”

Allen, who described Rubio as “a great American story,” noted that the Florida senator is the son of two Cuban immigrants, and would be the nation’s first Latino secretary of state. Rubio, who Trump famously mocked as “little Marco” during the 2016 campaign, is also somebody who can carry Trump’s message, a trait the former president “really values.”

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“The world is so different than when President Trump was in office before, now president-elect Trump is coming into wars,” he said. “This is a hawkish choice. He’s been hawkish over the years on China, on Iran, on Cuba, but, as the reporting suggested earlier, he's moved toward Trump, including on the issue of a negotiated settlement for Ukraine, one of the biggest things on his plate, no question.”

Allen added that he views the administration picks that Trump has announced so far as “confirmable.”

“All very, like, responsible, reassuring to Republicans who were sort of hoping for the best Trump. These picks so far are very much in the Republican main lane,” he said.

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A longtime GOP insider’s on-air plea for “a couple years of peace” for President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party stirred up a CNN panel Wednesday evening and left an anti-Trump Republican infuriated.

The moment unfolded during the network’s continued post-election analysis when Republican strategist and CNN commentator Scott Jennings made an impassioned appeal to Trump’s political opponents.

“The American people want this president and his administration and his party to make progress on the things they promised to do,” Jennings told the panel, which included anti-Trump Republican strategist Ana Navarro. “This is exactly what happened last time. They were plotting to impeach him before he ever took office back in 2016 – let us not have a replay of this. Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do because the American people clearly are asking for it.”

Navarro immediately pounced on the brazen statement given the MAGA leader mounted a violent insurrection attempt and encouraged supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol after refusing to concede the 2020 election.

“Scott I have to tell you that's really rich though from a party and from Trump who for four years never even acknowledged that Joe Biden had won the election,” Navarro said.

CNN’s Erin Burnett added: “He still hasn't, except for when he said to Joe Rogan by accident.”

That’s when former Obama White House senior policy adviser Ashley Allison went after Jennings, telling the former Mitch McConnel strategist that the Senate minority leader not only blocked former President Barack Obama “from doing anything to allow him to get another term or make any progress,” but he also refused to allow the 44th president to move through his Supreme Court nominee through the Senate.

“It is so duplicitous I feel like. I respect you Scott, and you are my friend, but please do not sit here and say that Republicans when Democrats are elected just roll over…”

Jennings concluded the exchange by offering a piece of advice to Democrats.

“My advice is if you go down this road and try to stop this government, which just won a mandate, you will pay the price in election after election. The American people are asking for progress. Do not tie this man up. Give this person a chance to lead,” he said.

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Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to block a Pennsylvania ruling that allowed voters whose mail ballots were rejected due to a technicality to cast provisional ballots on Election Day.

The request filed Monday by the Republican National Committee and Pennsylvania GOP for the high court to step in came after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 opinion that the critical battleground state must allow voters “who make mistakes when returning their ballots – errors that would require the votes to be thrown out” – to cast provisional ballots on Nov. 5, Politico reported.

The American Civil Liberties Union said at the time that the Oct. 23 ruling was “a win for voting rights.”

"Provisional ballots provide a failsafe to ensure that eligible voters are not disenfranchised for unforeseen circumstances at the ballot box," the organization posted on X after the ruling.

The Republicans say in their stay application Monday that the “sharply divided” ruling “departed from the plain terms of the Election Code to dramatically change the rules governing mail voting,” and did so in the middle of the ongoing election, according to the filing.

They are asking the Supreme Court to block the state court’s ruling “for this election or, in the alternative, order any such provisional ballots be set aside so litigation over their validity can proceed after the election, if necessary,” according to Politico.

“The majority’s interpretation of the Election Code is not remotely plausible and cannot stand,” the Republicans said in the filing. “The court below ignored unambiguous statutory language.”

The number of provisional ballots at stake in the case is unclear, but Politico reported that Democrats would likely benefit if the state court ruling were to remain in place because Democrats in Pennsylvania, the publication noted, “tend to vote by mail at much higher rates than Republicans.”

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement fit “the definition of fascism,” according to retired U.S. Army Majority General Randy Manner who warned that if the former president were to return to office — especially in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling — “everything changes.”

“If he was to be the commander in chief again, everything changes," Manner said during an interview Monday night with CNN anchor Laura Coates. “The Supreme Court has given him immunity and the threshold for turning the National Guard into his personal police force is quite low."

Manner noted that as long as Trump remains out of office, “he cannot do anything to harm Americans directly," but then added a stark warning.

“Most Americans don’t know how easy it would be for an unhinged president to use the military against our own citizens," he said.

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“President Trump is not like any sane leader,” Manner said.

He went on to recite a dictionary definition of fascism after Coates read a statement from retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley to journalist Bob Woodward, in which he called Trump “a total fascist.”

“Let’s back up a second, if you go to Webster online, you will find that it’s usually nationalistic, it’s far-right — ok, let’s see, so that’s definitely the Trump campaign,” Manner said as he as he went on to read other aspects of fascism that he says lines up with Trump.

“Check, check…that is actually the definition of fascism,” Manner said. “If he as the chairman of the joint chiefs is calling the president a fascist, I am so proud of him for breaking that barrier to say — to speak to the truth — that he is.

He added at the conclusion of the interview that “the very far-right, the hard-core — they don’t understand what fascism is. The reality is they are in fact fascist themselves by the definition.”

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Calling the moment “an emergency” and making clear that he views Donald Trump as unfit to return to the presidency, prominent conservative and staunch Trump critic Charlie Sykes said he will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris – and encouraged other conservatives to follow suit.

“This is the theme echoed by essentially all of the conservatives who have broken ranks: We may disagree on policy, but this is an emergency,” Sykes wrote in a column Monday for MSNBC. “And in every genuine crisis, people of goodwill put aside their differences. When the emergency passes, we can go back to arguing about other things; but right now, the moment demands that we make common cause, and put country over party. Even, and especially, if that means voting for Kamala Harris.”

Sykes said that he refused to be a conservative who "reject[s] Trump but cannot bring themselves to vote for the one candidate who could stop him.” He lists as part of that group anti-Trump Republicans like former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), former Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former President George W. Bush and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.

“Many of these officials and pundits recognize the dangers that Trump poses, but want to preserve their ‘relevance’ in the party; others clearly hope for Trump’s defeat, but want to keep their hands clean by staying above the fray and casting a write-in vote,” according to Sykes.

He said he joined the “newly minted pro-Harris conservatives” in making public that he intended to vote for the Democratic nominee. He added the names of other “lifelong conservatives who have defied partisan loyalty” to endorse Harris. He named former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY); former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and former Sens. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS).

Sykes added in his piece that the significance of the GOP defections should not be underestimated and referenced a line in an article he wrote for The Atlantic where he said: “Before Trump, the ideological divide between Harris and conservative Republicans might have been too large to bridge. But this is not a normal campaign.”

“But the newly minted pro-Harris conservatives recognize that this election isn’t about those things at all,” he wrote in his column Monday. “They recognize that a second Trump term will transcend typical ideological/political differences.”

Suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris “isn’t competent to run a bingo game at the community center,” Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller laid into a top Harris spokesperson Monday night for suggesting that Donald Trump backed out of a "60 Minutes" sit-down interview because the former president is “avoiding the media.”

The social media feud between Miller and Harris-Walz senior national spokesperson Ian Sams ensued shortly after the airing of the traditional “60 Minutes” candidate interview, which Trump was notably absent from despite originally agreeing to.

“Scott Pelley opens ‘60 Minutes’ outlining in great detail how Donald Trump agreed to sit for an interview, including quoting Steven Cheung phone calls and text messages, before canceling,” Sams wrote on X. “Yikes. Why is Trump avoiding the media? Why won't he answer questions from real outlets?”

“Hey liar, Trump has done dozens of hours long press conferences with adversarial media,” Miller wrote in a reply to Sams. “Kamala has never done one adversarial interview in any setting anywhere and never done one single solitary press conference. Kamala isn’t competent to run a bingo game at the community center.”

Sams left his position as a Biden administration spokesman for oversight and investigations in August to join the Harris-Walz campaign as a top spokesperson, the Washington Post reported. He previously served as national press secretary on Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, according to the publication.

Miller is a longtime Trump adviser and architect of the Trumpadministration's “zero tolerance” family separation policy.