Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday cornered Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) with specific examples of how President Donald Trump’s policies are hurting his home state — and appeared to stump the Republican senator on several occasions. Asked about the ongoing partial government shutdown, Sheehy gave a lengthy reply about the appropriations process before tearing into the “stupid [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer shutdown.” Collins told Sheehy that Trump’s approach to this shutdown — chiefly, “cutting programs and laying off federal workers — “[has] literally never happened before in the last 14” government shutdowns, and pressed the senator on the president’s “unprecedented step.” The CNN host specifically called out Trump’s cut to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, a fund Sheehy himself had “signed a letter in support of earlier this year.” “The president says they're only cutting programs and Democrat stuff,” Collins said. “Is that a Democrat fund that you supported?” Sheehy insisted Trump will use “every tool in his toolbox” and argued “there have to be consequences for bad behavior” before launching into another monologue about the "Schumer shutdown." Later in the segment, Collins pushed back on Sheehy’s claim that the Democrats want to fund "healthcare for non citizens, illegal immigrants”— and called out the Republican senator for “getting off [the] topic” of Trump’s cancelled programs. “[Healthcare] is not for people who are here illegally,” Collins said. “It's people who have different legal status, people who are seeking asylum, refugees … But I ask on the program's part because—“ “Yeah, but saying non citizens is accurate, though,” Sheehy insisted. “You said people who are here illegally,” Collins explained. “But those are different things. I mean, maybe you don't like Temporary Protected Status, but you're an immigrant with legal status.” Sheehy tried to stop Collins from moving on, arguing “you can't just pave over that because a lot of people come under asylum, claim asylum, which are not actually asylum seekers." “That's a legal process,” Collins replied. “You can change the law if you don't like it.” As Sheehy continued to complain that people falsely claim asylum status, Collins told him he’s “getting off topic.” “I think it's very much the topic,” Sheehy shot back. Collins then got to her main point: The Department of Energy’s decision to cancel a $1 billion project that Montana’s own governor said would have created good paying Montana jobs and boost American-made energy. “They just yanked $1 billion from that,” Collins noted. “So is that taking away good paying jobs in Montana?” "Of course it is, we want the government to be open,” Sheehy said. Collins asked Sheehy to clarify if he thought the Trump administration’s decision to pull funding “is hurting [his] state.” As Sheehy argued the shutdown as a whole is hurting his state, Collins noted “the Trump administration didn't have to make” the decision to pull “billion dollars from your state.” "Well, I think the reality is we wouldn't be here if the government was still open,” Sheehy said. “And now we're going on week three of a pretty unnecessary shutdown." Collins noted the U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright "actually" told her “they would have [shut down the project] even if the government wasn't shut down.” “That was months in the making, even before the government shut down,” Collins said Wright told her. “Well, that's unfortunate we're still shut down,” Sheehy replied. “We shouldn't be.”

As silver prices hit all-time high, an expert has said it is even “outlasting gold.” During an appearance on CNN Tuesday, the network’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said that in addition to doing better than gold, silver is also "doing so much better than the. U.S. dollar is doing. And I think that's what's so important to keep in mind here.” He continued: “One of the things to keep in mind of one of the reasons why silver is surging is because the U.S. dollar is down on the year compared to other currencies, down 9 percent." "Really, relatively, it's horrific," CNN host Erin Burnett said. "It’s terrible,"Enten agreed. "You know, it's a gauge," Enten said of the silver surge. "It's a guard against hyperinflation. And so the fact that the dollar is doing so bad, oftentimes when gold rises, silver rises as well. We saw that, you know, with the late 1970s rise in both of them.” He agreed with Burnett, who noted the widespread belief is that the U.S. dollar “isn’t worth what it used to be.”

President Donald Trump's $20 billion "rescue package" to Argentinian President Javier Milei has sparked backlash. Earlier this month, the president approved a $20 billion U.S. financial rescue for Argentina, primarily a currency swap and peso purchase to stabilize its economy. It was initiated by Trump to support Milei's reforms amid a currency crisis. During a segment Tuesday, CNN host Erin Burnett noted Trump did not give a lot of details about the aid. “And he did not mention the personal aspect to this,” she said. Burnett continued: "Trump has said Millei is his biggest fan, and Millei's office says that Trump called him his favorite president after Trump was reelected.” She added: “In fact, Milei was one of only a few world leaders on stage with Trump for his inauguration." Burnett added that Millei also supports some of Trump’s “most core beliefs,” adding that “slashing government spending is one of those things.” “He has also slammed what Milei calls the ‘mental virus of woke ideology.’ Well, that is music to Trump's ears. And all of that together has paid off now to the tune of $20 billion, which is a great return on investment for Milei,” Burnett said. Criticizing the president’s move, she said, “But what about the United States? Because it is a very basic and a very simple question.” She noted that Trump said the package is “not going to make a big difference for our country.” “Well, now, to say it's not going to make a big difference for our country. $20 billion, right? When they were going for DOGE looking for $100,000 here and there, that really just doesn't add up. That's very important to point out. And $20 billion is a lot of money in that context,” she said. Burnett argued that explaining why the package is important is key, “especially because of this government shutdown.” “But also because this bailout will make a big difference for American farmers,” she added. The anchor also referenced a recent exchange between two Trump officials over the matter. Last month, a camera captured Agriculture Secretary Rollins’ text message to Treasury Secretary Bessent during the UN session, warning that the US bailout of Argentina could hurt domestic soybean prices. The leaked exchange showed Rollins criticizing the bailout for giving China more leverage over US agricultural exports. The text appeared to reference Argentina’s decision to drop export tariffs on grains shortly after receiving US financial support. The image, taken by an Associated Press photographer, quickly circulated online and drew attention to tensions inside the administration over trade and farm policy.

President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday.

Trump posthumously honored conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom about a month after he was fatally shot at a campus event.

Pope Leo lays waste to “clickbait,” an Israel-backed group makes big plans to target Christians online and more — all in this week’s Tuesday Tech Drop.

Eric Trump’s controversial remarks — declaring that his father is guided by God and praising what he describes as a divinely orchestrated series of events leading America to this moment — are being blasted by a group of hundreds of national security experts. “I can’t tell you how many things are lining up,” the President’s son told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. “I mean, think about the fact that this book came out on Charlie Kirk’s birthday, on the same day as we have peace in the Middle East,” he said, of his new book. “You know, I mean, so many different factors are all coming together at once in the most unthinkable, unbelievable journey.” “Look how much better humanity and our world is,” under Trump, he claimed. “You know, we’re saving Christianity. We’re saving God, we’re saving the family unit. We’re saving this nation. I mean, you know, DEI is out the window, Benny. You know, I mean, you no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem,” Trump continued. “You no longer have Budweiser going, woke as h–, all of this is dead.” Trump claimed a resurgence in church attendance, and “a return to people, you know, valuing their children, and valuing society, and believing in the white picket fence, and what the American dream represents, and what the American dream stands for, and American exceptionalism, and peace around the world, and that people can coexist with one another without having to, you know, pick up arms and destroy each other for no reason whatsoever, other than, you know, incompetent, and, you know, and egotistical governments.” “It’s a beautiful time, and he will go to heaven for all of that,’ he said of his father. “God absolutely guided this journey.” The Steady State, a group of over 330 former national security officials, slammed the Trump scion’s remarks. “Eric Trump is not talking politics,” they wrote. “Instead, he’s declaring a new moral order.” “Framing Trump as God-guided and destined for heaven, he claims America has been ‘saved’ from DEI, protest, and pluralism. This is prophetic, authoritarian language,” they warned. “Dissent becomes evil, and their victory becomes divine destiny.” Former Obama head speechwriter turned political commentator Jon Favreau remarked, “We’ve moved rather quickly from ‘God saved Trump’ to ‘Trump is saving God,’ which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?” Author Jennifer Erin Valent, winner of a Christian writers’ award commented, “No one ‘saves’ God. Every Christian should know that and be repulsed by the very assertion.” — (@)

President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.

Former special counsel Jack Smith has, for the first time, publicly defended the investigation he led into President Donald Trump, calling it “ludicrous” to suggest the work was politically motivated. He also criticized the current Department of Justice's actions. “I worked in the department for years — Republican, Democrat, Republican. I was the acting U.S. attorney in the first Trump administration in Tennessee. Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on. This case in New York City, where the case against [NY Mayor Eric Adams] was dismissed in the hopes that he would support the president’s political agenda. I mean, just so you know, nothing like it has ever happened that I’ve ever heard of,” he said. Smith made these remarks on October 8 during a panel discussion at University College London. They gained renewed attention Tuesday after being highlighted on MSNBC. Meanwhile, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee asked Smith Tuesday to sit for a hearing as part of a broader GOP push against Trump’s perceived opponents. In a Tuesday letter, Rep. Jim Jordan (R‑OH) accused Smith’s Trump prosecutions of being “partisan and politically motivated.” His scrutiny deepened after reports that Smith’s team requested FBI analysis of the phone records of several Republican lawmakers during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Smith, serving as special counsel, had indicted Trump on two fronts in 2023: one alleging efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and another accusing improper retention of classified documents at Mar‑a‑Lago.

The panel’s Republican chairman, Representative Jim Jordan, accused the former special counsel of “prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses.”

Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances the group would.

Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.