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MSNBC staffers are lashing out at “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski after they shocked their liberal viewers by revealing their recent Mar-a-Lago meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. “Cowardice,” one MSNBC employee reacted to Fox News Digital. “Doing exactly what [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder warns on our air not to do: obey in advance. It’s disgusting but frankly unsurprising.”The source said MSNBC’s rank and file are now “largely disdainful” of the network’s morning stars, saying it “feels like they are just opportunistic.”‘MORNING JOE’ CO-HOSTS HOLD FACE-TO-FACE MEETING WITH TRUMP FOR FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS’Others have taken to social media to voice their objections. MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin called it “disgusting” on Bluesky, the X-like social media site growing in popularity with progressives. MSNBC host Katie Phang offered an indirect swipe, posting on X, “Normalizing Trump is a bad idea. Period.””Katie Phang is right. It’s normalization (and it’s access bulls—),” the MSNBC employee told Fox News Digital. “Journalists don’t need access to their subjects to hold them to account. None of it is believable. The obvious answer is believable: they are opportunists.”The insider expressed concerns that MSNBC will face significant blowback as a result of the Mar-a-Lago, meeting with left-wing viewers already lashing out. Some already calling for a boycott of the network. “This feels serious,” they said. “I can’t imagine [parent company] Comcast minds this development. But the MSNBC people do.”  MSNBC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.Another network insider defended the meeting and its goals to Fox News Digital, saying they found the criticism “curious” given the hosts challenged Trump at the meeting on his rhetoric and positions.”Not sure when going in to voice concerns about threats against journalists and politicians was a bad thing,” they added.Scarborough appeared to anticipate backlash to the meeting on Monday morning.”We’re not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump,” he told viewers. “We’re here to report on him and to hopefully provide you insights that are going to better equip all of us in understanding these deeply unsettling times.”LIBERALS RAGE AGAINST ‘MORNING JOE’ ‘BETRAYAL’ AFTER CO-HOSTS MEET WITH TRUMP: ‘WE WILL NOT FORGIVE’Scarborough and Brzezinski have emerged as two of Trump’s fiercest critics ever since he took office, a complete reversal of the relationship they had with him during the GOP primary in 2016. Friday’s meeting was the first time they had seen Trump in seven years, Brzezinski said, and Scarborough added that they didn’t see “eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.” Scarborough said they went over such topics as abortion, mass deportation, and threats of retribution against political opponents and media outlets. The meeting, according to the hosts, was about an agreement to “restart communications.”CNN, MSNBC COULD RETURN TO RESISTANCE TV AFTER BEING RELIABLE ANTI-TRUMP NETWORKS DURING FIRST TERM”For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back – why wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski said. “Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate. “But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”Trump spoke with Fox News Digital on Monday about the “extremely cordial” meeting he had with the MSNBC hosts.”I received a call from Joe Scarborough requesting a meeting for him and Mika, and I agreed that it would be a good thing if such a meeting took place,” Trump said in an interview. “Many things were discussed, and I very much appreciated the fact that they wanted to have open communication … In many ways, it’s too bad that it wasn’t done long ago.”The meeting ended in a very positive manner, and we agreed to speak in the future,” he added.Fox News’ David Rutz and Brooke Singman contributed to this report. 



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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is likely to make a decision on who will fill Sen. Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat by early January, emphasizing that the governor’s office has already begun vetting several possible candidates President-elect Donald Trump officially announced last week that he would nominate Rubio, the three-term senator from Florida and a senior Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, to serve as secretary of state in his incoming administration.”Senator Marco Rubio is expected to resign from the Senate to assume duties as Secretary of State when the Trump administration takes power on January 20th, creating a vacancy roughly two months from today,” DeSantis wrote in a statement Monday morning.CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON THE TRUMP TRANSITIONThe governor highlighted that “we have already received strong interest from several possible candidates, and we continue to gather names of additional candidates and conduct preliminary vetting. More extensive vetting and candidate interviews will be conducted over the next few weeks, with a selection likely made by the beginning of January.”LOYALTY MATTERS: TRUMP GOES FULL MAGA AS NE NAMES AMERICA FIRST SUPPORTERS TO HIS CABINETThe statement from Florida’s two-term conservative Republican governor comes as some key Trump allies have recommended that Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair and the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, be named by DeSantis to fill Rubio’s seat for the next two years.Among those who have touted Lara Trump over the past couple of days include Florida’s other GOP member of the U.S. Senate – Sen. Rick Scott – Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Katie Britt of Alabama, as well as Rep. Anna Paulina Lune of Florida.DeSantis, a one-time Trump ally who clashed with the former president last year and early this year during a very contentious 2024 GOP presidential nomination race, mended relations a bit with the former president after the primary season, as he endorsed Trump and helped raise money for the Republican nominee’s general election campaign.”Florida deserves a Senator who will help President Trump deliver on his election mandate, be strong on immigration and border security, take on the entrenched bureaucracy and administrative state, reverse the nation’s fiscal decline, be animated by conservative principles, and has a proven record of results,” DeSantis said in his statement.Amid the calls for Lara Trump to be named to fill Rubio’s seat, the statement by DeSantis can be seen as a signal that he would not be rushed into making any hasty decision.A source in DeSantis’ political orbit simply said that “the statement speaks for itself.”The governor, according to Florida law, has the power to temporarily appoint someone to fill the vacant Senate seat until the next regularly scheduled general election, which will be held in 2026.Other names floated to replace Rubio include DeSantis’s chief of staff James Uthmeier, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez and state Attorney General Ashley Moody, outgoing Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and former state House Speaker Jose Oliva.



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South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune on Sunday threatened to slap the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if it did not drop its application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Thune – who was selected Wednesday to be the next Senate Majority Leader once the GOP takes the upper chamber come January 2025 – warned that if the current Democratic leader does not take on the international court, he will.”If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis,” Thune wrote on X. “If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress.”BIDEN REVERSES TRUMP, LIFTS SANCTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTIn May, the ICC issued applications for arrest warrants against Netanyahu, as well as then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas terrorists for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity following the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. All three Hamas leaders are believed to since have been killed.Thune’s threats were made in coordination with a bill introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in June – which closely aligned with a bill that passed in the House with bipartisan support just days prior – that called for sanctions against prosecutors who have gone after “U.S., Israeli, or any other allied citizen wrongfully targeted by the ICC.”The U.S. does not officially recognize the ICC’s authority, but it is not the first time Washington has looked to halt the court’s actions.In 2020, the Trump administration opposed attempts by the ICC to investigate U.S. soldiers and the CIA involved in alleged war crimes between 2003-2004 “in secret detention facilities in Afghanistan,” and issued sanctions against ICC prosecutors. However, the sanctions did more than target individuals through asset freezing and international travel bans and were deemed, at the time, to have the potential for “wide-reaching consequences.”TOP TRUMP ALLIES MEET WITH NETANYAHU IN ISRAEL AS ICC SEEKS ARREST WARRANTS”Service providers to the ICC – from banks to vending machine companies – may reassess whether continuing to work with the institution is prudent given the risk of inadvertently violating U.S. sanctions,” Human Rights Watch explained. “[It] created apprehension and uncertainty for nongovernmental organizations, consultants, and lawyers who work with the ICC in investigative and adjudicative capacities,” the organization added. Richard Goldberg, who served on the White House National Security Council during the Trump administration and who is now a senior adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital the 2020 sanctions were also “effective in shaking up the organization since it was coming up on an election for a new chief prosecutor.””Many believed that the presence of U.S. sanctions led Karim Khan to put investigations of Israel and the U.S. in a drawer once he was elected,” Goldberg explained in reference to the ICC’s chief prosecutor who filed the applications for warrants of arrest against Netanyahu and Gallant.Goldberg argued that sanctions against prosecutors may not be enough to dissuade Khan from pursuing the case against Netanyahu and warned the ICC chief might view them as “a badge of honor.”Goldberg said he thinks lawmakers should consider going after the ICC as a whole rather than individual prosecutors this time around. “It’s one thing to threaten sanctions against individuals involved in illegitimate schemes to indict American or Israeli soldiers, it’s another thing to use sanctions as a tool to cut off the ICC’s access to funds,” he told Fox News Digital.”I think countries like Japan and Germany will put enormous pressure on the ICC to back down if they think their own banks may be subject to sanctions for wiring money to the ICC,” he added. Decisions by the court on arrest warrants are generally made within three months, according to Reuters, though it remains unclear when the panel will reach a decision.The last time the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC was asked to make a decision over issuing a warrant for the arrest of a government leader was when an application was filed against Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2023. The panel reached a decision within one month of the application having been filed. 



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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s planned mass deportation campaign, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, D-Calif., declared during remarks on Friday.The congresswoman – who chairs the group composed entirely of Democrats – claimed that mass deportations would “have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.”During a Saturday appearance on “Fox News Live,” Tom Homan, who Trump tapped to serve as “border czar,” responded to the lawmaker’s remarks.”Game on,” he declared, later adding, “shame on her.” EX-ACTING ICE DIRECTOR SAYS MASS DEPORTATION POSSIBLE WITHOUT FAMILY SEPARATION IF THEY’RE ‘DEPORTED TOGETHER’Homan, who previously served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the lawmaker should resign from Congress, noting that ICE enforces laws enacted by the nation’s legislature.Prior to winning the 2024 presidential election, Trump pledged to initiate the biggest mass deportation in the nation’s history.TRUMP SAYS MASS DEPORTATIONS ‘NOT A QUESTION OF A PRICE TAG’In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump indicated that he is prepared to declare a national emergency and leverage military assets to execute the deportation effort.”GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a post on Truth Social earlier this month.”TRUE!!!” Trump declared on Monday in response to Fitton’s post.‘TRUE!!’: TRUMP CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR MAJOR STEP IN MASS DEPORTATION PUSH TO ‘REVERSE THE BIDEN INVASION’A Fox News Poll conducted in October found that 67% of registered voters favored a policy of deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries. 



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LPGA Tour star Charley Hull became a viral sensation earlier this year when she was seen with a cigarette hanging from her mouth as she signed autographs for fans at a tournament.The sensational streak continued this weekend, when she appeared to perform President-elect Donald Trump’s dance move during The Annika.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMHull finished tied for second place in the tournament with Im Jin Hee. The two golfers finished 11-under par for the tournament. Nelly Korda won the event, shooting 14-under par.She was the latest professional athlete seen doing the dance move. Several NFL players and UFC stars showed their support for the president-elect over the weekend. Brock Powers, Calvin Ridley, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, Za’Darius Smith and Malcolm Rodriguez all pulled it off.At UFC 309, Trump was seated cageside as Jon Jones and Bo Nickal both showed support for him. Jones did the dance move after he knocked out Stipe Miocic. He handed the heavyweight belt to Trump afterward. Nickal talked with Trump about golfing after his victory.TRUMP SUPPORT DOMINATES WEEKEND IN SPORTS AS ATHLETES PERFORM PRESIDENT-ELECT’S DANCE MOVESHull did not appear to be outwardly supportive of Trump, but she did express interest in the Women’s Open Championship returning to Trump Turnberry in Scotland in the future.The Trump Organization bought the golf course in 2014, but outgoing Royal & Ancient (R&A) Chief Executive Martin Slumbers has made it clear that the tournament will not be played there again so long as the company owns it. The R&A’s decision came after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.She agreed in August “100%” that the policy should be changed.”I thought it was a great golf course, great fun,” she said while preparing for the Scottish Open, via The Telegraph. “I love being out there, and the views are brilliant.””Like honestly, it’s one of the best golf courses in the world. It would be a shame to not be on there,” she added.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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