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Trump calls Dems who didn't clap during State of the Union 'treasonous' and 'un-American'

President Trump speaks on tax policy during a visit to Sheffer Corporation in Blue Ash, Ohio, on Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Trump said on Monday that Democrats who didn’t applaud during his State of the Union address — including Rep. Nancy Pelosi — were “treasonous” and “un-American.”

“They would rather see Trump do badly, OK, than Trump do well,” the president said during an event promoting tax reform in Blue Ash, Ohio, on Monday afternoon. “It’s very selfish. And it got to a point where I really didn’t want to look too much during the speech over to that side. Because honestly it was bad energy.”

Republicans in the House chamber applauded often during Trump’s Jan. 30 State of the Union, his first as president, while Democrats, led by Pelosi, resisted many of Trump’s applause lines.

“You’re up there, you’ve got half the room going totally crazy, wild, they loved everything, they want to do something great for our country,” Trump recalled, “and you’ve got the other side — even on positive news, really positive news — they were like death. And un-American. Un-American.”

Trump then pointed to the back of the room of the Cincinnati factory where he was speaking.

“Somebody said treasonous. Yeah I guess, why not?” the president said to laughter from the crowd. “Can we call that treason? Why not.”

Representatives for Pelosi and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee did not immediately return requests for comment.

Trump described a moment during his State of the Union speech when he touted the record-low African American unemployment rate — a figure he has taken credit for, although the drop during his first year in office continued a steep fall during President Obama’s second term.

“I said we have the lowest black unemployment in the history of our country,” Trump said. “It was like, it was a game, you know, they play games.

“They were told, don’t even make a facial movement. And I’m talking about, you have the lowest Hispanic unemployment in the history of our country — this isn’t me saying, this is the charts, the polls. Dead silence. Not a smile.“”

Trump said he noticed one man — “probably a reverend,” Trump said — clapping among the Democrats.

“He was probably severely reprimanded,” Trump mused.

Earlier, while urging Republican voters not to become complacent heading into upcoming midterm elections, Trump seized upon comments Pelosi made about the GOP tax cuts. The California congresswoman referred to the bonuses some companies are giving employees as a result of Trump’s tax cuts as “crumbs.”

“She’s a rich woman who lives in a big beautiful house in California, who wants to give all your money away,” Trump said. “And I’m supposed to make a deal with her?”

Trump compared the remark to Hillary Clinton calling his supporters “deplorable.”

Pelosi, Trump said, is our “secret weapon.”

“I just hope they don’t change her.”

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Zuckerberg says Facebook staffers have been interviewed by Mueller’s team

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that staffers at the social media giant have been interviewed by members of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s office investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

When asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy whether anyone at Facebook had been interviewed by Mueller’s team, Zuckerberg said, “Yes,” adding: “I have not.”

“I want to be careful here because our work with the special counsel is confidential,” Zuckerberg said. “And I want to make sure that in an open session I’m not revealing something that is confidential.”

The 33-year-old initially said the company had been served subpoenas by Mueller’s office before clarifying that he was not aware of whether it had been subpoenaed or was voluntarily cooperating with the probe.

“I actually am not aware of a subpoena — I believe that there may be,” Zuckerberg said. “But I know we are working with them.”

Earlier this year, Mueller’s charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies with interfering in the U.S. election process in a broad plot that involved the proliferation of so-called fake news and disinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

In January, Wired magazine reported that Mueller’s office interviewed at least one Facebook employee who was assigned to Trump’s presidential campaign to help shape his ad messaging on the platform.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat to testify before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Zuckerberg’s appearance before members of the Senate Judiciary & Commerce Committees comes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that left personal information from up to 87 million users exposed. Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm used by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was able to access user data on Facebook through a third-party quiz app.

A whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, said the company used the information to build psychological profiles in order to target voters with political ads on Facebook.

In written testimony released Monday, Zuckerberg apologized for the Cambridge Analytica breach and a host of other issues related to election interference.

“It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well,” Zuckerberg wrote. “That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”

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'It would be suicide' to fire Mueller, GOP senator warns Trump

Trump, Mueller and Grassley. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images, Joshua Roberts/Reuters, Andrew Kelly/Reuters, J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

President Trump renewed speculation surrounding the fate of the Russia investigation after the FBI raided the office of his personal attorney on Monday, saying, in response to a question about firing Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, “We’ll see.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, told Fox Business Tuesday that if he did, “it would be suicide.”

“I have confidence in Mueller. The president ought to have confidence in Mueller,” Grassley said. “I think the less the president says about this whole thing, the better off he would be.”

Trump sounded off on Mueller before a meeting of military officials at the White House early Monday evening after learning that the FBI raided the office and hotel of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The New York Times reported that federal agents were looking for information related to Cohen’s hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, as well as possible payments to other women by Cohen or The National Enquirer.

“So, I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, a good man, and it’s a disgraceful situation,” Trump began. “It’s a total witch hunt. I’ve been saying it for a long time.”

“It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for,” Trump continued, saying the raids represent “a whole new level of unfairness.”

On CNN, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., dismissed the idea that the special counsel is on a “witch hunt.”

“I don’t see any reason to fire Mr. Mueller,” Graham said. “I know the president’s frustrated. He’s told me over and over he did nothing to collude with the Russians. He thinks this thing is running, you know, outside the boundaries here. But at the end of the day Mueller needs to continue to do his job without political interference, and I think most members of Congress view it that way.”

But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., accused Mueller of abusing his authority with the raids on Cohen.

“Going after someone’s personal attorney is a great overstep, I think, in the authority of the prosecutor,” Paul said on Fox News. “The president’s right: It’s a witch hunt.”

Paul was asked if he felt the same when Ken Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel, investigated President Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the mid-1990s. “You know, I may not have been as consistent back then,” Paul replied.

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, a close friend of Trump, said on Monday night that Mueller “is now a man that has to be brought under control.

“I would fire the SOB in three seconds if it were me,” Dobbs said.

At the White House, Trump was asked by reporters why he doesn’t “just fire” Mueller.

“Well, I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens. But I think it’s really a sad situation when you look at what happened. And many people have said, ’You should fire him,’” Trump said. “So we’ll see what happens. I think it’s disgraceful, and so does a lot of other people. This is a pure and simple witch hunt.”

The president could take steps to remove the special counsel, but would need the cooperation of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. It’s believed that Rosenstein, who reportedly threatened to quit because of the way the Comey dismissal was handled, would not back such a move.

“The special counsel is not an unguided missile,” Rosenstein told USA Today last month. “I don’t believe there is any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel.”

On CNN Monday night, former Trump adviser Steve Cortes said Trump ought to clean house.

“The president needs to fire Jeff Sessions,” former Trump adviser Steve Cortes said on CNN Monday night. “He needs to fire Rosenstein. He needs to fire Mueller. This is a sham investigation. This is his own Justice Department trying to usurp the power of the presidency.”

Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., said that if Trump were to move in the direction of removing Mueller, “certainly we’d be looking at some sort of constitutional crisis.”

On Capitol Hill, Republican leaders have resisted calls from Democrats to enact legislation that would protect the special counsel, saying there is no need to do so.

“Our Republican colleagues say [the] President won’t fire Mueller,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., tweeted on Tuesday. “If they aren’t going to pass legislation to protect investigation, then they must tell us what they’re going to do if he does.”

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JFK’s family reflects on his 100th birthday

Caroline Kennedy says a day hasn’t gone by without her thinking about her father, late President John F. Kennedy.

“I’ve thought about him and miss him every day of my life,” Kennedy, 59, said in a video released on the eve of what would of been his 100th birthday. “But growing up without him was made easier thanks to all the people who kept him in their hearts, who told me that he inspired them to work and fight and believe in a better world, to give something back to this country that has given so much to so many.”

Caroline Kennedy, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan during President Barack Obama’s second term, is the only surviving child of President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. She was just 5 years old when her father was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.

“I remember hiding under my father’s Oval Office desk when he was little and sitting on his lap on the Honey Fitz,” she said, referring to the presidential yacht. “He would point out the white shark and the purple shark that always followed the boat, although I never could quite see them. He said they especially like to eat socks and would have his friends throw their socks overboard, which I loved.”

“President Kennedy inspired a generation that inspired America,” she continued. “They marched for justice, they served in the Peace Corps, in the inner cities, in outer space. His brothers carried on that work, fighting against poverty, violence and war, championing human rights, health care and immigration. As my father said in his inaugural address, this work will not be finished in our lifetime. It’s up to us to continue to pass these values on to our children and grandchildren.”

Caroline Kennedy’s three children also appear in the video, which was produced by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

“One of the defining relationships in my life is with someone I’ve never met: my grandfather, President John F. Kennedy,” Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg said. “It’s a little odd to be connected to someone you don’t know, especially when everyone else has access to much of the same information about him that you do.”

“President Kennedy was elected on a platform of challenges, not promises,” Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK’s only grandson, said. “Not for what he would offer the American people as president, but what he would ask of them. My favorite speech is the one President Kennedy gave at Rice University, where he makes the case for sending a man to the moon. He said that challenge was worthwhile not because it would be easy, but because it would be so hard.”

“My generation will inherit a complicated world with countless unsolved problems,” he continued. “Climate change is just one of them, but it’s the type of challenge I think my grandfather would have been energized about and eager to solve.”

“I’m inspired by my grandfather’s sense of equality, his courage in naming the injustices in American society and his call for action,” Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK’s other granddaughter, said. “His words and his ideals mean so much to me and to the world we live in today. But we are still faced with tremendous inequality and injustice — from voting rights to our criminal justice system and mass incarceration. My grandfather would be proud home far we’ve come as a nation since 1963, but he would have been the first to tell us that we have a long way to go.”

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Kasich: It should take 6 hours to fix DACA, not 6 months

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, is blasting President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protected hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation and give Congress six months to extend or replace it.

“It should take, like, six hours to get this done,” Kasich said on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday. “They ought to be able to stay here.”

On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Trump had ordered the DACA program phased out. Then-President Barack Obama implemented the program in 2012 to provide work permits to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as young children.

“Imagine if you were one of them, if you were one of these young people striving to be a part of America and make something of yourself and all of the sudden somebody tells you that one day you may be deported to a country they know nothing about,” Kasich said. “We want them in America.”

The Republican governor continued: “Think about this: This is the United States of America and we’re putting kids, young people who are contributors, in jeopardy. This is not the America we all love.”

Kasich, who lost his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, had a message for the so-called DREAMers potentially affected by Trump’s decision.

“Come to Ohio,” Kasich said. “We want all the immigrants to come to Ohio because we know how much they contribute to America. I wouldn’t be in America if it wasn’t for immigration.”

Kasich joins a chorus of mostly Democratic lawmakers who are speaking out against Trump’s approach.

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the decision “heartless” and said Democrats would “do everything we can to prevent President Trump’s terribly wrong order from becoming reality.”

In a statement, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who had said that Trump should not end DACA, said it is now his “hope” that Congress can come up with “a permanent legislative solution that includes ensuring that those who have done nothing wrong can still contribute as a valued part of this great country.”

Obama also released a lengthy statement rebutting the Trump administration’s rationale for rescinding the program.

“Let’s be clear: the action taken today isn’t required legally,” Obama said. “It’s a political decision, and a moral question. Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn’t threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us.”

— With Yahoo News Liz Goodwin contributing reporting.

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Kimmel takes a second shot at Cassidy over health care bill

For the second straight night, Jimmy Kimmel used the monologue of his ABC talk show on Wednesday to rail against Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., over the “horrible” new health care bill he and Sen. Lindsey Graham are co-sponsoring, firing back at Cassidy for claiming he “does not understand” the proposed law.

“Oh, I get it, I don’t understand because I’m a talk-show host,” Kimmel said. “Well, then help me out. Which part don’t I understand? Is it the part where you cut $243 billion from federal health-care assistance? Am I not understanding the part where states would be allowed to let insurance companies price you out of coverage for having preexisting conditions? Maybe I don’t understand the part of your bill in which federal funding disappears completely after 2026? Or maybe it was the part where the plans are no longer required to pay for essential health benefits like maternity care or pediatric visits?”

Kimmel wasn’t done.

“Or the part where the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Hospital Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, Lung Association, Arthritis Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, ALS, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the March of Dimes, among many others, all vehemently oppose your bill?” he asked. “Which part of that am I not understanding? Or could it be, Senator Cassidy, the problem is that I do understand and you got caught with your G-O-Penis out? Is that possible? Because it feels like it is.”

On Tuesday night, Kimmel tore into Cassidy, who appeared on his show earlier this year after the late-night host made an emotional plea to ensure all Americans have access to health care. He disclosed at the time that his newborn son needed life-saving heart surgery.

The Louisiana senator assured Kimmel that he would only support a health care bill that guaranteed children like Kimmel’s would receive the coverage they need no matter how much money their parents make, which Cassidy called the “Jimmy Kimmel test.”

“This guy, Bill Cassidy, lied right to my face,” Kimmel told viewers on Tuesday.

When asked about Kimmel’s rant in a CNN interview Wednesday morning, Cassidy told CNN he was sorry that Kimmel “does not understand” the legislation.

Related: Fact check: Sen. Bill Cassidy on his health care bill assertions

On Wednesday night, Kimmel also took aim at other critics, including “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade, who accused the comedian of “pushing [his] politics on the rest of the country.”

“I found this comment to be particularly annoying is because this is a guy, Brian Kilmeade, who whenever I see him, kisses my ass like a little boy meeting Batman,” Kimmel said. “Oh, he’s such a fan. He follows me on Twitter. He asks me to write a blurb for his book, which I did. He calls my agent, looking for projects. He’s dying to be a member of the Hollywood elite.”

Kimmel continued: “The reason I’m talking about this is because my son had an open heart surgery, then has to have two more, and because of that, I learned that there are kids with no insurance in the same situation. I don’t get anything out of this, Brian, you phony little creep. Oh, I’ll pound you when I see you. That is my blurb. That will be my blurb for your next book. ‘Brian Kilmeade is a phony little creep.’ That’s right.”

On “Fox & Friends,” Kilmeade took the high road in his response to Kimmel.

“I hope your son gets better,” Kilmeade said. “I hope your son gets all the care he needs. I’m glad you’re interested — you’re doing a great job bringing the dialogue out. But you should do what we’re doing: talk to the people that wrote it.”

President Trump has come out in support of the GOP’s latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, saying he will sign any such legislation that is put on his desk.

“He just wants to get rid of it because Obama’s name is on it,” Kimmel quipped. “The Democrats should just rename it ‘Ivankacare’ — guaranteed he gets on board.”

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Hillary Clinton: I'm not sure Trump knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens

Hillary Clinton says it’s “deeply troubling” that President Trump has decided to lash out at National Football League players as Puerto Rico reels from Hurricane Maria.

“I’m not sure he knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens,” Clinton said during a live Sirius XM town hall event in New York City on Monday.

At a rally in Huntsville, Ala., on Friday, Trump picked his fight with the NFL, suggested team owners should fire players who kneel during the anthem.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now,‘” Trump said.

The president then escalated the dispute, tweeting more than a dozen times about the protests.

If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017

…our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017

Roger Goodell of NFL just put out a statement trying to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country.Tell them to stand!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017

If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017

“At the same time that he was doing all of that, we had American citizens in Puerto Rico who are in a desperate condition,” Clinton said.

The Category 4 storm battered Puerto Rico last week, killing at least 16 people, leaving millions without power and virtually the entire island without cell phone communications.

“The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years,” Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in the U.S. Congress, said Sunday. “The destruction of properties, of flattened structures, of families without homes, of debris everywhere. The island’s greenery is gone.”

Hours after the storm made landfall, Trump tweeted a message of solidarity to Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló . But the president did not mention the storm-ravaged U.S. territory at all over the next four days, focusing instead on the protests.

On Monday, Trump insisted “the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race.”

“It is about respect for our Country, Flag and National Anthem,” he tweeted. “NFL must respect this!”

The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. It is about respect for our Country, Flag and National Anthem. NFL must respect this!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2017

On Tuesday, Trump called for the NFL to ban kneeling.

“The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations,” he tweeted. “The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can’t kneel during our National Anthem!”

The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can't kneel during our National Anthem!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017

“I think it’s deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully,” Clinton said. “Protest is a part of the American way of life, and it’s something that I’m very proud of – whether I agree or disagree. I think peaceful protest is part of what has helped us make progress, learn more, be a better country over time.

“I just couldn’t help thinking that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn’t really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanners, or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election,” she added added. “And I think it’s all part of his political calculation, and I really think that’s bad for the country. He wants to set people against each other. He wants to divide us.”

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White House adviser Ivanka Trump: ‘I try to stay out of politics’

Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, says she speaks up when she disagrees with her father on certain issues — but not when it comes to his tweeting.

“I try to stay out of politics,” Ivanka Trump told “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired on Monday morning. “His political instincts are phenomenal. He did something that no one could have imagined he’d be able to accomplish. There were very few who thought [he could win], early on. I feel blessed just being part of the ride from day one and before. But he did something pretty remarkable. But I don’t profess to be a political savant.”

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, played key roles in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the pair moved their family from New York to Washington, D.C., to take up official posts in the White House.

“I advise my father on a plethora of things,” Ivanka Trump said. “He trusts me to be very candid with my opinions.”

The first daughter said that it’s natural she and her dad sometimes disagree. She reportedly clashed with the president’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, but “Fox & Friends,” which has formed a close relationship with the Trump clan, did not press her those disagreements.

“We’re two different human beings,” she said. “I think it’s normal to not have 100 percent aligned viewpoints on every issue. I don’t think anyone operates like that with a parent, or within the context of an administration, and I think that all different viewpoints being at the table is a positive thing. And I think one of the things that, in this country we don’t have enough of, is dialogue.”

Still, when asked what grade she’s give her father on his presidency so far, Ivanka Trump didn’t hesitate.

“Oh an A, of course,” she said. “I’m slightly biased, but definitely an A.”

“I think he’s doing an unbelievable job,” Ivanka Trump explained. “And there are always naysayers — it’s much easier to criticize than it is to actually dive in and do and affect change and move the ball forward,” she added.

The “Fox & Friends” sit-down was the latest in a string of interviews the Trump family has granted to the Fox News morning show which President Trump has called his favorite on cable news.

Late last week, Trump gave an interview to Earnhardt during which the Fox host complimented the president on his suggestion there were secret tapes of his conversations with fired FBI director James Comey.

“It was a smart way to make sure he stayed honest in those hearings,” Earhardt told Trump a day after he announced no such tapes existed.

“Well, it wasn’t very stupid, I can tell you that,” the president replied.

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CNN’s Ana Navarro calls Trump ‘crazy, lunatic, 70-year-old man-baby’

CNN conservative pundit Ana Navarro did not mince words Thursday when Wolf Blitzer asked for her thoughts on President Trump’s tweets attacking MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski’s appearance.

“When I first saw the tweet this morning I was frankly disgusted. I thought to myself, ‘This dude has got such a fixation with women and blood. What is wrong with him?'” Navarro said. “And then you remember this dude, this disgusting dude, is the president of the United States. And you realize just how much he is diminishing the presidency of the United States.

“You realize what he is doing is not just acting for Donald Trump, he’s acting for all of us,” the frequent Trump critic continued. “He’s acting [as] our resident. And he is embarrassing. He is shameful. He is disgusting.”

Earlier Thursday, Trump lashed out at Brzezinski with an unusually harsh personal attack aimed at both her and Joe Scarborough.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

Several congressional Republicans condemned the tweets. But Navarro criticized some for not speaking out louder against Trump’s remarks. House Speaker Paul Ryan would only say the tweets weren’t “appropriate.”

“I’m really tired of hearing words like ‘disappointed,’ like ‘disturbed,’ like ‘I’m bothered,’ like ‘I wish he wouldn’t do it,’” Navarro said. “It’s time that somebody looks at the camera and looks at him and calls him up says, ‘Listen, you crazy lunatic 70-year-old man-baby, stop it. You are now the president of the United States. The commander in chief. And you need to stop acting like a mean girl. Because we just won’t take it. We won’t vote with you. We won’t work with you.'”

She added: “I can’t start talking about tax reform. I can’t start talking about health care reform because I can’t get past the fact that we have a president who lacks the sufficient character. We have a president who is mean. We have a president who is nasty. We have a president who is immature, who is unstable, and who just acts like a crazy person with anybody who attacks him because he has thin skin and he is never going to pivot.”

Navarro also ripped those in Trump’s inner circle, including the first lady, for “enabling” him.

“Anybody around him, whether it’s his daughter, his chief of staff, his wife — who I remind you, has said her signature issue was going to be fighting against online bullying — or any Republican on the Hill: Stop enabling him,” she said. “Confront this and confront this hard. Or it will never stop and it will embarrass all of us. It will take the presidency low, low, low.”

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Trey Gowdy blasts Trump team ‘amnesia’ for Russia meetings

Donald Trump Jr.’s shifting explanation of an undisclosed pre-election meeting with a Russian lawyer who he was told had incriminating information on Hillary Clinton until this week is rankling lawmakers already struggling to pass any part of President Trump’s agenda.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said on Fox News Tuesday night that he is “troubled by “the amnesia of people that are in the Trump orbit.”

“Here we are beginning another week, this one in July, with a new revelation about Russia,” Gowdy said. “Someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room and say: From the time you saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named Boris, you list every single one of those, and we are going to turn them over to the special counsel. Because this drip, drip, drip, it is undermining the credibility of this administration.”

Gowdy — who led a two-year congressional investigation into Clinton’s handling of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya — recently took over for outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

His comments come amid a growing firestorm over emails showing that Trump Jr. took the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with alleged ties to the Kremlin and its spy agency. Trump Jr., campaign chief Paul Manafort and top adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner also attended the meeting, which was brokered by Bob Goldstone, a music publicist who had previously helped ink a business deal between President Trump and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.

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In his initial email to Trump Jr., Goldstone claimed a “Russian government lawyer” had “very high level and sensitive information” that was part of the Russian government’s support for the elder Trump’s candidacy.

“Thanks Rob, I appreciate that,” Trump Jr. replied. “If it’s what you say I love it, especially later in the summer.”

Trump Jr. posted the emails on his Twitter feed Tuesday morning after the New York Times had informed him they were set to publish them.

In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, Trump Jr. said that in retrospect, he would have “probably done things a little differently” in setting up the sitdown with Veselnitskaya.

“Again this is before the Russia mania, this is before they were building this up in the press,” Trump Jr. told Hannity. “For me this was opposition research, they had something you know maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I’d been hearing about, probably under reported for years not just during the campaign so I think I wanted to hear it out. But really it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn’t what the meeting was about.”

Trump Jr. was asked if he ever had other undisclosed meetings with Russians.

“I’ve probably met with other people from Russia but certainly not in the context of actual formalized meetings or anything,” the president’s son replied, he was still willing to testify about his dealings with Russia under oath.

In a tweet Wednesday morning, President Trump said his son did “a good job” defending himself on Hannity’s show.

“He was open, transparent and innocent,” Trump tweeted. “This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!”

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