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MS NOW's Jen Psaki ruthlessly mocked Department of Homeland Security official Corey Lewandowski's efforts to pressure department officials to let him carry a government service gun with him, despite him not in any way meeting the criteria to be armed on duty.

This comes after extensive reporting about the friction caused behind the scenes by Secretary Kristi Noem's alleged romantic affair with Lewandowski, whom she has effectively let run massive parts of department policy. Among other things, Noem is said to have fired a pilot over a missing blanket and to have made extensive use of a luxury plane with a private cabin in the back for herself and Lewandowski to travel in.

Former Donald Trump attorney Ty Cobb expressed his astonishment on MS NOW's "The Beat" Friday evening about how badly the Trump administration's Justice Department is bungling the legal cases against the president's political enemies and critics.

"I'll put those faces right back up here, Mr. Cobb, because between the last time you and I spoke and now about a week, we've got those six new lawmakers, most of whom are veterans or intelligence veterans of some kind, and they tried to charge them this week. They just failed," said anchor Ari Melber. "How do you look at that in concert with [former CNN journalist Don] Lemon as a defendant and these other individuals?"

President Donald Trump won't get rid of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over his lies about his relationship with deceased financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein any time soon, because Trump fears he would end up going down with him.

That's according to legal expert Lisa Rubin, who spoke Friday with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace.

Conservative historian Robert Kagan had some dire words for CNN's Christine Amanpour on Friday, warning that President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to cancel free and fair elections as polling increasingly shows his party headed for a wipeout.

"I think we are one big step into dictatorship," said Kagan. "It's not clear to me that any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald Trump. It seems the only people willing to stand up to Donald Trump are average American citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and God bless them for that, but the U.S. Congress, both parties, are unwilling to really fight Trump. The Republicans have become the party of dictatorship."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly shut down a news conference Friday after being pressed about reports that Border Patrol officials may have mistakenly targeted party balloons with a high-energy laser, triggering a brief airspace shutdown over El Paso, Texas.

The moment came during a press conference in Phoenix, where a reporter asked Noem to clarify why the Federal Aviation Administration had abruptly closed the airspace over El Paso earlier this week – a decision that was reversed just eight hours later with little explanation.

President Donald Trump vowed to bomb "the dust" remaining at Iran's nuclear sites if he attacks the country again.

During a Friday gaggle, one reporter pointed out that Trump had previously claimed the nuclear sites had been "obliterated" before threatening another strike.

President Donald Trump's administration continues to deceive courts, Harvard academic James Sample warned MS NOW's Katy Tur — and they're using it to bypass the rights of political enemies they want to put behind bars.

This comes as the Justice Department files highly controversial charges against former CNN journalist Don Lemon for allegedly intimidating churchgoers during an anti-ICE protest at a congregation where a pastor was doing work for federal immigration officials. Lemon, who has denied any wrongdoing and said he was there to cover the event, pleaded not guilty on Friday.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted that two agents made "untruthful" statements following the shooting of Julio Sosa Celis in Minnesota.

Earlier this week, prosecutors asked a federal judge to dismiss charges against Sosa and Alfredo Aljorna. An FBI agent had claimed to the court that the men took part in an attack on ICE officers with a shovel and a broom handle before Sosa was shot.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) asserted that former President Barack Obama was "created" and not an "organic" person.

During an interview with Burchett on Friday, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson suggested that Obama was implicated in covering up the crimes of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) faced backlash after suggesting people did not care "who owns Greenland."

"So here's what I tell my European friends," Graham told Politico on Friday. "Greenland is behind us, but the goal is to get outcomes. Who gives a s--- who owns Greenland? I don't."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared that President Donald Trump's anti-immigration crackdown in Minnesota was a "resounding success" despite the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

During a Friday interview on Fox News, Leavitt slammed Democrats for a partial government shutdown after the administration refused to meet demands to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics.