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President Donald Trump casually suggested that Spain should be thrown out of the NATO alliance while speaking with the President of Finland at the White House on Thursday.

The remark came while Trump was boasting about how he made most other NATO member states commit to paying 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, with Spain being an exception.

Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman was animated, speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about Republican members of the U.S. House being missing in action during the government shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has argued that there's no reason for the House to be on hand to negotiate on healthcare subsidies because the House already passed its portion of the measure that would continue to fund the government.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested that Muslims did not have the right to pray outdoors in the United States.

During a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Tuberville expressed outrage at Muslims expressing their faith.

Observers ripped The Washington Post's editorial board on Wednesday for publishing an editorial that they said tried to recast key parts of Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In the editorial, the outlet's editors argued that Jack Smith was playing "hardball" with Senators by requesting their phone records. They also claimed that Smith "should not have used" the tactic to surveil the communications of Senators, some of whom were ensnarled by his sprawling investigation.

President Donald Trump's team of prosecutors in the case against former FBI Director James Comey is so slapdash that the line attorneys hastily recruited from another district don't even understand the details of it yet, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" hosts on Wednesday evening.

Comey, a longtime target of Trump's wrath, is being charged with false statements and obstruction of justice, based on testimony he gave to the Senate years ago that the indictment doesn't even quote correctly. The case, which required Trump to force out the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia and install one of his former defense lawyers in his place, has come under widespread criticism from experts for a variety of defects, and some speculate that Comey could have the whole thing thrown out before it even gets to trial.

Fox News co-host Harold Ford Jr. implored President Donald Trump to drop his prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, saying that the president should instead seek to "unite the country."

Ford made the comments during the Fox News show "The Five" on Wednesday. The comments were made at a time when reports indicate Trump has remade the Justice Department into his personal law enforcement agency.

A newly-revealed voice clip of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, currently running for governor, appears to depict her delivering a dark message to supporters of abortion rights.

The clip, posted to X on Wednesday by the liberal network Meidas Touch, came from a 2022 interview between Earle-Sears and John Reid, then a talk radio host. Reid is now himself the GOP's candidate for lieutenant governor, whose own campaign spent much of the summer in turmoil.