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A popular MSNBC pundit who was swiftly fired for making an anodyne observation that conservative Charlie Kirk was a “divisive” figure pushed back at his dismissal and accused the network of being manipulated.

On his Substack platform, Matthew Dowd noted that he has been in the political commentary business for years and that he appeared on MSNBC nearly 1,000 times, discussing a wide range of topics and that his comments on Kirk, who was killed on Utah college campus were deliberately misconstrued in an orchestrated assault.

President Donald Trump’s push to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is beginning to take shape, but the would-be replacements are already looking like duds in his eyes.

According to a report Saturday in Politico, “high-level Republican officials” are already recommending to Trump potential challengers for Massie, who drew the president’s ire after defying him on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as well as being the leading Republican voice in pushing for files on Jeffrey Epstein to be released.

An offhand comment made by Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade about using “involuntary lethal injection” on mentally ill homeless people set off a wave of outrage on Saturday morning.

Lost in the Wednesday shuffle after conservative Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday at a rally on a Utah college campus was a discussion on Fox & Friends where the hosts discussed media coverage of the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a mentally ill man who had been arrested multiple times.

New York University professor and historian Timothy Naftali scolded GOP strategist Lance Trover Saturday on CNN after being falsely accused of calling President Donald Trump a “fascist,” a debate centered around heated rhetoric in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.

“I think the Democrats and Republicans both have to stop using apocalyptic language; when you use apocalyptic language, you're basically saying if the other side wins, it's over,” Naftali said, speaking on CNN’s “Table for Five.” “In other words, you're saying the stakes are so high, you should contemplate the kind of actions that we don't want people to contemplate.”

Adding to Donald Trump’s problems that already include the Jeffrey Epstein files, his inability to end the Russia-Ukraine war after promising to do so immediately after taking office, he is now confronted with the same harsh economic news that dogged President Joe Biden.

According to a report from David Lynch of the Washington Post, the president has about 14 months to course-correct the economy or face the prospect that the Republican party will get blown out in the 2026 midterms if he doesn’t get prices down and employment up.

National security expert Juliette Kayyem slapped down GOP strategist Lance Trover Saturday after dismissing claims that only Democrats were engaged in the type of heated rhetoric that led to the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

Responding to a clip of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) urging “to take the temperature down” on heated rhetoric, Trover said it was still an open question as to whether Democrats would actually follow suit, claiming that such rhetoric was “only coming from one side.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller took to Fox News Friday night to reveal, for the first time, one of Charlie Kirk’s final messages before being shot and killed Wednesday, a message that he then used to justify launching a sweeping crackdown on “radical left organizations.”

“Let me tell you something I've not shared with anybody, the last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven,” Miller said, speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was on the receiving end of no small amount of ridicule on MSNBC on Saturday morning over her book tour that has done nothing to burnish her reputation and is instead having the opposite effect.

On MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern pounced on Barrett’s remarks about the court’s so-called “shadow docket,” which has allowed the conservative court to keep backing Donald Trump without showing their work.

Speaking on the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, former Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall issued a warning Saturday that similar instances of violence would continue so long as public figures continue to push “hate-fueled speech.”

“This murder is not about Charlie Kirk,” Hall said, speaking on CNN with anchor Victor Blackwell.

There is growing alarm within Donald Trump’s inner circle that his message on a booming economy is falling flat with voters who still see prices rising when they were promised the opposite would occur after he was re-elected.

According to a report from Politico’s Megan Messerly, one of the president’s longtime economic advisers conceded that growing angst that the president’s agenda could be waylaid by growing voter discontent because they feel things are not getting better as promised.

FBI Director Kash Patel’s parting words to slain right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, that he would see him “in Valhalla,” the utopian realm from Norse mythology, may end up jeopardizing the prosecution of Kirk’s suspected killer, one former prosecutor said Saturday.

“You have to be careful when you're running an investigation as a law enforcement officer,” said Robert James, former district attorney for DeKalb County in Georgia, speaking on CNN Saturday.

Republican lawmakers are starting to panic over a key issue that some say, if not addressed ahead of a looming deadline to approve a spending bill, could end up costing the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.

“If we don’t do something, some day soon, premiums are going to skyrocket, and not by a little bit,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), speaking with the Wall Street Journal in a report published Saturday. “I mean, we’re looking at massive increases. People will not be able to afford it.”

President Donald Trump fired off at NATO countries Saturday morning in a fiery social media post, demanding that American allies would have to do “as I say” to bring about the end to the Russo-Ukraine War.

“This is not TRUMP’S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s WAR,” Trump wrote Saturday in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social.