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- Top MS NOW Journo Details Latest Kash Patel Scoop: ‘Sending a Real Chill Throu...
MS NOW senior investigative reporter Carol Leonnig joined host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday to discuss her latest scoop on FBI Director Kash Patel. “We have that brand-new reporting breaking moments ago from our colleagues Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian. It’s about the turmoil inside the FBI right now after a string of deeply embarrassing and rather alarming stories about Kash Patel and his tenure as the head of the country’s top law enforcement agency,” Wallace began, adding: From that new reporting, quote: “Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team.” That is according to two people briefed on the development. Kash Patel has walled himself off from some senior bureau leaders this week in the wake of multiple media reports that raised red flags about his leadership. What’s more, Patel reportedly avoided meeting with operational leaders at the FBI this week, raising fears that Patel is out of the loop on important investigations and threats. A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment about the polygraph test, but he denied that Kash Patel was walled off from senior staff at the FBI. I want to bring in senior investigative reporter Carol Leonnig, who’s bylined on that. Mark and Melissa are still here. Um, Carol Leonnig, it doesn’t sound like someone who’s been defamed, does it? “Well, I’m not a lawyer. I just play one on TV. But as a reporter, Nicolle, you know, this is a person hunting for leakers pretty actively. And I think you’ve raised this point before, which is a smart one: how do you claim you’re defamed but also hunt for people who released information that you believe may be as sensitive or is somehow protected?” replied Leonnig — a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. She added: You know, as we reported at MS NOW a couple—I can’t remember if it was two days ago or a day ago, but it was basically a finding that Patel had ordered this investigation into the leaks or the sources to an Atlantic magazine piece that described how FBI agents were super, super worried about the leadership of the bureau because of Patel allegedly engaging in drinking to excess on a pretty regular basis and having… [TheTopNews] Read More.40 mins ago - ‘I’m Sure’: Trump Border Czar Says ICE Agents Certainly Detain U.S. Citize...Trump border czar Tom Homan admitted on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have most likely detained U.S. citizens while sweeping for undocumented migrants. During a gaggle outside the White House, a reporter asked how Homan makes sure that U.S. citizens and legal immigrants are protected from deportation operations. “We do our job,” Homan answered. “If you’re a U.S. citizen, you’ve got nothing to fear. We deport people that are going to be deportable. We arrest people that will be deportable based on suspicion. Have U.S. citizens ever been shortly detained based on suspicion? I’m sure. I’m sure,” he repeated. “You know, if you have reasonable suspicion on aliens, and once you do that, you’ve got reasonable suspicion for a short detention. And once it is determined, Okay, you’re not the guy we’re looking for, you are released. But we don’t deport U.S. citizens.” Earlier during the gaggle, Homan raged against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for declaring she wanted no part of ICE in her state. “Governor Hochul has said — pull up her clips from the last year — ‘ICE should be concentrating on criminals.’ I support that,” Homan said. “Well, how do you square that by locking us out of the jail?” he asked. “And it’s all based on a bunch of lies. Lies from the left that says ICE is arresting people in churches, schools, and hospitals. And I challenge… any of you to give an example where ICE has arrested someone in a church. One example where we arrested anyone in a hospital or elementary school. The only people who violate the sanctity of a church is Don Lemon and that group. We have not.” On Wednesday night’s Ingraham Angle on Fox News, Homan issued a warning to Hochul that he would “flood the zone” with ICE officers since she said she had no plans to invite federal agents into her state. “Well, Governor Hochul, I’m not asking either. I said it. We’re going to do it,” he told host Laura Ingraham. Homan added, “This is what we have to do because she forces this position. And we’re going to do it. They’re not going to stop us. They can put all the roadblocks they want, but we’re [going to] do this job.” Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.The post ‘I’m Sure’: Trump Border Czar Says ICE Agents Certainly Detain U.S. Citizens… [TheTopNews] Read More.41 mins ago
- JUST IN: Trump’s New Global Tariffs Shot Down By Trade Court
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson A trade court shut down President Donald Trump’s 10 percent global tariffs on most U.S. imports Thursday afternoon. In the 2-1 ruling, a panel of judges ultimately blocked the Trump administration from imposing the 10 percent tariffs on the basis that they were not justified under a 1974 trade law. The judges ruled Trump had wrongly invoked the law when he implemented the tariffs on February 20. The White House used Section 122 in the Trade Act of 1974 to try to revive the tariffs after the Supreme Court shut them down, which the administration claimed would allow the White House to apply tariffs of up to 15 percent for a maximum of 150 days to account for “balance-of-payments deficits.” The Supreme Court had declared that the president’s 2025 global tariffs were not authorized under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Thursday’s decision is in favor of the small businesses that have accused Trump of circumventing that ruling. Approximately $166 billion from that first round of tariffs is set to be refunded. A final ruling outside of Trump’s favor on the matter would likely require him to refund any tariffs accrued since February. Trump railed against the Supreme Court’s decision in an April post to Truth Social: They said I can charge tariffs, but I have to do it a different way. And because of what they did, we have to pay back $160 billion. All they had to do is add one sentence, just one sentence. And that’s — you don’t have to pay anything taken in thus far back. But because they didn’t add — and by the way, it was a close call too. There were justices that were powerful that I was right on the tariffs. But because we lost by just two votes, you know, just little vote, two votes, we have to pay back $165 billion. They could have, with a little one sentence — you don’t have to paid back tariffs that have already been received, you start from this point, and you do it a different way. So we’re doing it a different, we’re going to end up with the same. –The post JUST IN: Trump’s New Global Tariffs Shot Down By Trade Court first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.53 mins ago - White House Reporter Quits Job and Announces Engagement to Marjorie Taylor Green...Brian Glenn, the White House correspondent for the pro-MAGA Real America’s Voice network, announced on Thursday that he is stepping down. His announcement came a week after President Donald Trump dinged him for dating former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), with whom Glenn revealed he is engaged. Glenn announced his departure – and his engagement to Greene – on Thursday’s edition of Bolling! “This has been really the only life I’ve known, you know, chasing the news, being in front of the camera, a lot of times behind the camera, and especially in the last seven, eight years, following President Trump, being kind of the MAGA mouthpiece, if you will, for the Trump America First agenda,” Glenn told Eric Bolling. “But this past Sunday, sitting at home in Georgia, I decided that it’s time to – and I’ll use an MMA reference – it’s time to leave the gloves in the ring and walk away from what I really consider has been a great career. It’s been a great time with Real America’s Voice. It’s fantastic working with you.” Last Thursday, Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. While answering one of Glenn’s questions, the president referred to Glenn’s relationship with Greene, stating, “You know, you act so good. I love this guy. He’s a great guy, even though I don’t love his girlfriend too much.” Bolling asked Glenn what he plans to do next. “I have no plans to go jump into a competitor,” he said. “That’s not what I’m going to do. I’m gonna take some time off. I’m going to kind of relax, get my health back to where it needs to be, reconnect with some of these relationships with my family that I have neglected over the last seven, eight years, and really kind of enjoy life a little bit. And of course, Marjorie and I, planning a wedding likely before the end of the year. That’s a little bit of breaking news on here as well. Focus on that, but really focus on each other. And I think that this campaign can be grueling. It can really kind of drain the life out of a lot of people. And I’m 56 years old. I’m not a young kid anymore.” Greene, who was an ardent supporter of Trump, has had a falling out with the president. The former congresswoman was highly critical of Trump’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.55 mins ago
- Fox’s Thiessen Warns On Fox News: Iran Sees ‘Weakness’ In Trump Negotiatio...Fox News contributor Mark Thiessen joined anchor John Roberts on Thursday to discuss the latest developments in President Donald Trump’s negotiations to end the conflict in Iran, which Thiessen warned risked putting the U.S. in a weaker position. Roberts introduced Thiessen and noted, “He’s got a new column out today in the Washington Post titled ‘Trump Risks Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory.’” Roberts continued: You’re offering the president some advice here, including on X, where you said: “Here’s what Iran sees after being warned not to. They hit UAE and fired on a U.S. ship, and we didn’t respond. Instead, we suspended the Strait of Hormuz mission. They take that as weakness. They don’t think Trump is willing to bomb them again. They think they have leverage. He needs to prove them wrong.” What would you tell him if you had the honor? “Exactly right. So look, first of all, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump’s decision to do this operation is one of the most courageous things an American president has done in my lifetime,” Thiessen replied. Notably, the U.S. did bomb Iran shortly after the segment aired on Fox. Thiessen continued: No other president—four presidents said Iran can’t have a bomb—Donald Trump is the only one who did anything about it. But how you start a war and how you finish a war is as important as how you started it. And right now the Iranians are not seeing that Donald Trump has all the cards. They think they have the cards. He started Project Freedom. Said if you fire on a U.S. ship or fire on U.S. allies, I’m gonna blow you off the face of the earth. And they did exactly that—they fired at a U.S. destroyer. They fired at our allies in the UAE. And we didn’t do anything. And then Marco Rubio announced that we’re ending Operation Epic Fury, and we’re now into Project Freedom. And then the next day we suspended Project Freedom. So what the Iranians see, if you’re looking at that from an Iranian perspective, you see weakness. You see that the president seems to not want to enforce this blockade. That you’ve got this threat of attacking Gulf oil that is stopping him, not only from restarting the war, but also from opening the Strait of Hormuz. And you think that you’ve got all the cards. Now,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- House Judiciary Dems Troll ‘J. Edgar Boozer’ Kash Patel Over Atlantic Report...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee used recent reports from The Atlantic to troll FBI Director Kash Patel over his alleged alcohol use in a series of social media posts Thursday. Last month, The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick published an article that reported how Patel “has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences,” citing two dozen anonymous sources who said he had been publicly drunk “to the point of obvious intoxication” on multiple occasions, the FBI has had to reschedule meetings “as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights,” and that once he was so intoxicated his security detail “had difficulty waking” him and had make a “request for ‘breaching equipment’—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings…because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.” Patel vociferously denied the claims in the report and filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic and Fitzpatrick. The typo-riddled complaint faces substantial challenges to make it to trial, especially the discovery requests Patel would have to answer. On Wednesday, MS NOW reported that the FBI had launched a criminal investigation into the alleged leaks to Fitzpatrick; an FBI spokesperson denied that report as well. Fitzpatrick followed up her initial bombshell report with new reporting on Wednesday about Patel’s penchant for handing out as gifts his “personalized bourbon stash,” bottles of Woodford Reserve bourbon with his name and an FBI logo engraved on the side. These reports — plus Patel’s much-publicized beer-chugging moment at the Olympics — have raised eyebrows as being a sharp departure from the temperament expected at the traditionalist FBI, and Fitzpatrick’s article quoted numerous critics who bashed Patel’s boozy gifts as “unheard-of” for a top FBI official, as well as “weird and uncomfortable” and “demoralizing.” The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), are among Patel’s critics, sending the FBI director a letter in the wake of Fitzpatrick’s April report demanding that he answer questions under oath “to determine for ourselves whether your continued leadership of the FBI in fact constitutes a severe ‘national security vulnerability'”: For the sake of our own security, we need to know, for example, “how many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking,” “how often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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