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"These mass shootings keep happening and you do nothing except go on TV and say, 'We're not a law away.' And now you sit in front of a room of victims' parents and you talk about the wall. That's an issue," Chris Cuomo said.

"He tries to put together in the same speech these warm, kind things about humanitarianism and caring about children," Jones added. "At the same time he is demonizing people who are immigrants."

"The president's primary focus isn't on results in the polls, of which I think there are a number of them he's doing very well," Sanders said.

Following an apology for the photo, Northam denied that he was in the photo at all: "I was not in that costume, either as blackface or KKK," he said.

The former governor of Virginia has spoken to "over 400 people" about his potential bid for the White House.

"It's dumb crap like this that diminishes real sexism and makes people less likely to believe women when we say sexism is real," Cupp said.

The electronic caption showed the governor as a Republican, then quickly changed. But not before social media grabbed it and ran.

"Walls are placed strategically, along with what the speaker talked about, better technology at ports of entry, more border control agents, more detention beds, drones," said Senator John Kennedy.

"Looks like he's having a whole lot of 'executive time,'" Don Lemon said about the president, whose schedule has been noticeably light this week.

"He's pretty much exactly the same behind the scenes that he is out in public. And I think that resonates with some people," Cliff Sims told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

CNN hosts cast aspersions on president's understanding of climate.

They "almost seem to have like a sexual fetish for a cement wall …  a big beautiful erection of a wall," S.E. Cupp said, taking aim at Ann Coulter and others.

"We are witnessing the biggest abuse of power, scandal, in modern American history, it's playing out right before your eyes," Hannity claimed of the baseless CNN conspiracy.

"I'm not an attorney. I haven't read through that. Even if I had, I'm not going to be able to provide you some type of insight or legal analysis," White House press secretary said about the Roger Stone indictment.

News commentators have previously drawn backlash after praising Trump for adopting a measured tone.

"These kind of tactics smack of what the mob does," said Democrat Richard Blumenthal, commenting on Trump's remarks about ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who postponed an appearance before Congress because of "threats."

"The Treasury Department seems to be doing its damnedest to help a Russian oligarch by relieving sanctions, hiding the evidence and duping the Senate in the process," John Avlon said.

Host says Trump supporters need to ask "why does he ignore Steve King" but immediately defend MAGA hat-wearing students.

"Here we go again with the 'birther' crap. Same drummed-up charge used against Obama."

President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, continued his cable news onslaught against Michael Cohen, attacking the former Trump fixer's "criminal" father-in-law and accusing CNN's Jake Tapper of "hysteria."

People will think the media is "a bunch of leftist liars" he added.

"This is a man who thinks that he cannot win a straight-up competition," explained Michael D'Antonio.

The former mayor of New York City told Chris Cuomo: "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign."

"It seems to me like the president will not be happy until there is not one single female Republican voter in the country," said CNN's Joan Walsh.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also ripped Trump for not releasing his tax documents.

"This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the U.S. government saying, 'Oh, my God, the president's words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a witting, unwitting, or half-witting pawn," Carl Bernstein said.

"U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump's face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader [Vladimir Putin] at five locations over the past two years," the Washington Post reported this weekend.

"Yesterday, thousands of federal workers received paychecks for zero dollars, as a wave of anxiety washed over countless families, who wonder how they will pay the bills," S.E. Cupp pointed out.

KUSI claimed it had been contacted by CNN on Thursday but when it put forward a local reporter the offer was turned down.

President's son continues mocking CNN host over his video clip from border fence in Texas.