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00:00Is the honeymoon over so soon? It was barely three days ago when President Trump met with

00:06New York Mayor-elect Zoram Mamdani in the Oval Office, and the two adversaries were

00:11anything but adversarial. This odd couple was yucking it up for the camera. The memes

00:18after the meeting were fire. Which brings us to Sunday's Meet the Press, where Mamdani seems to

00:24have had a change of heart. In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter

00:29asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you've used

00:34in the past. You were about to answer, then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said,

00:39quote, that's okay, you can just say yes, it's easier than explaining it. So, Mr. Mayor-elect,

00:45just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?

00:50And after President Trump said that, I said yes.

00:52So you do?

00:53And that's something that I've said in the past, I say it today.

00:55He also went on to agree that he believes President Trump is a threat to democracy.

01:00But that doesn't mean he thinks his meeting with the president was a waste of time.

01:05Mamdani says they discussed what is perhaps the biggest issue for voters and something they

01:09kind of sort of agree on, affordability. I swear you will be so tired of that word by next November,

01:15but it is a big deal. The two spoke about the difficulties of building housing in the

01:20country's most populous city. And Mamdani said that while he stands by his plan to tax the rich

01:25to pay for those plans, he's open to other sources, ones that the president could potentially

01:30help make a reality. Someone not crying over Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking

01:37resignation announcement, liberal firebrand Jasmine Crockett. On Friday, Greene announced that

01:42she would resign her post, not at the end of her term next year, but in just a matter of months,

01:47when Congress returns in January. Now, this is coming after her very public falling out with

01:52the president, who renamed her Marjorie Trader Greene. Well, none of her resignation plans

01:57sat well with Greene's congressional nemesis, progressive Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett,

02:02who, to nobody's surprise, had something to say about it yesterday on CNN.

02:06I was like, you've got to be kidding me. You're on the other side of the president for one week,

02:10and you can't take the heat. Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes,

02:14to not only be on the opposite side of him, but to have people like her who are constantly fanning

02:20the flames of hate. To be fair, it was just last week that Greene went on CNN and apologized broadly

02:27for her role in the hate-filled politics that Crockett is claiming to rail against. Marjorie

02:32Taylor Greene's resignation also spells trouble for Republicans in the House more broadly.

02:36The Constitution doesn't allow for temporary members of the House. Representatives must be duly

02:42elected. And the thinking is, the earliest that can happen is March, which means the GOP's

02:48razor-thin margin in the House will be that much thinner for a few months.

02:53Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to shoot and kill President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania

02:58last year, could have and should have been stopped by the feds. So says Chris Swecker,

03:04a retired assistant FBI director who spoke exclusively to The Post.

03:07He says that the Bureau had multiple, quote, missed opportunities to stop Crooks from his

03:13attempted assassination of the then-presidential nominee. Now, Swecker also claims that former

03:18director Christopher Wray was desperate to define Crooks as a far-right lone gunman. Now,

03:24I told you last week about the extremist social media post believed to have come from Crooks. Well,

03:29Swecker says that if even half of those posts turn out to be real, Crooks should have been on the FBI's

03:34radar. The 24-year veteran of the Bureau told The Post, quote, that constitutes a miss on the part

03:40of the FBI, before giving his former colleagues a grade of C- for the investigation. Now, he went on

03:46to accuse the FBI of having a bias toward right-wing extremists, basically saying that if they were

03:52believed to have been behind a crime, it surfaced fast. But if it was a left-wing ideologue, it got glossed

03:58over. For more on this story and everything else you could possibly want to know, check out the

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