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.@SenJohnKennedy slams former FBI Director James Comey after his "8647" Instagram post: "As Lyndon Johnson used to say, he can strut sitting down. He's got a chip on his shoulder. In fact, the chip on his shoulder has a chip on its shoulder."
"In over 300,000 years of human history, nobody's ever calmed down when they're told to calm down. So I'm not going to tell my House friends to calm down," @SenJohnKennedy tells @kasie of House Budget hardlines. "But I would tell them to, gently, number one, take their meds. And…
WATCH: WH National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett has a hard time containing his laughter when @kasie asks him if House Budget Committee hardliners are "grandstanders," as President Trump calls them.
.@RepRaskin tells @kasie that limiting judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions would be "enormously inefficient and really unmanageable" and that "it would be very difficult" for Trump to get around a SCOTUS ruling on the matter.
WATCH: @kasie's take on what we heard from the Supreme Court today on Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship ⬇️
.@jahimes on how gifts from foreign governments typically get reviewed: "I met with the Pakistani service, and they gave me a nice flower vase, not very big... It's spent about six months under scrutiny by security experts to make sure it didn't have listening devices or other…
.@kasie asks @jahimes whether President Trump should go to Turkey now that the Kremlin says Putin is not part of the delegation heading to the peace talks⬇️ "My advice would be to President Trump: no. And I don't think I need to give him that advice, because I don't think…
.@kasie: "The beard thing seems to be a trend, by the way." @ScottJenningsKY: "I'm the chihuahua of pundits, I don't grow a lot of facial hair." Our panel @XochitlHinojosa @ScottJenningsKY @KristenhCNN @jamiegangel discuss the two emerging camps among potential 2028 Democratic…
Quote of the day goes to Sen. Kennedy: "Trust in God, but tie up your camel." Watch @kasie's take on day 2 of President Trump's visit to the Middle East.
.@SenSchumer on his pledge to block DOJ nominees over Trump's acceptance of a Qatari jet: "It's a huge national security issue. It's an issue of bribery... not only is there no free lunch, there's no free Air Force One."
.@GovPritzker leaves the door open on a potential 2028 presidential bid: "The question is how can I best participate in the fight. And so, whether that’s being governor or not, whether that’s potentially in the future running for president, it’s just to me about we’ve got to win…
.@GovPritzker tells @kasie that President Biden should have remained the Democratic nominee or drop out before the primaries, adding that his late exit made it near "impossible for [Harris] to introduce herself."
"People try to blame like, the First Lady or the pundits," @PaulBegala says of former President Biden's decision to run again in 2024. @kasie: "So you blame Biden?" "Yes, yes, and it was a catastrophe," he says. W/ @KSoltisAnderson @JonahDispatch @chucktodd
.@chucktodd reacts to Sen. Chuck Schumer's response to @kasie about Biden's cognitive decline: "He is among the people that are responsible for this... I find everybody now talking to these authors-- get out of here. Go home... Now you tell us??" "I don't know, I thought Chuck…
.@SenSchumer on reports of former President Biden's cognitive decline while on the campaign trail: "We're looking forward." @kasie: "That's it?" Schumer: "That's it."
"Trump does not have many core political policy beliefs, except for tariffs. I think he feels unburdened by what has been, as some would say," @AlexThomp tells @kasie. W/ @ashleyrallison @elliotcwilliams @PatrickMcHenry
"I think it's very clear that it's President Trump who blinked... sometimes it's good to blink when you make a mistake... so I applaud the actions that were taken over the weekend," @LHSummers tells @kasie, adding that he now puts the odds of a recession "a little bit on the…
.@chucktodd: "Here is a dirty little secret about tax hikes on the rich: they're popular." "It's also more popular than cutting Medicaid," @KannoYoungs adds. W/ @kasie @KBeds @ErinMMaguire
.@kasie asks @JocelynBenson who she thinks is the leader of the Democratic Party. "I think governors are are the leaders... I look at Governor Whitmer, Governor Pritzker, Governor Mills, Governor Healey, Governor Shapiro, Governor Moore, Governor Walz and Governor Evers. These…
.@kasie: "We start this hour with something we don't get to say very often or really ever. The Republican President of the United States opening the door to --wait for it-- raising taxes."
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