Weekend Report: What's happening?

Sen. Katie Britt hideously lied about a rape and sex-trafficking in her weird rebuttal. Biden slams Trump for hosting, praising Hungary's Orban. Why did Trump flip-flop, now opposing a ban on TikTok?

Her bizarro kitchen table rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address was eyebrow-raising enough. But now we’re learning that GOP Senator Katie Britt of Alabama lied about rape and sex trafficking in her rant about President Biden and the border. She claimed a woman was repeatedly raped in the United States by gangs of Mexicans, implying it was recent. But it turns out the rapes took place 20 years ago—long before Biden was president—and they were deep inside Mexico, not the U.S.

President Biden took his riveting speech lambasting Donald Trump and the GOP on the road to the battleground states, where he slammed Trump over something a lot of the media seems to have ignored: Trump’s meeting in Florida on Friday with Hungary’s authoritarian leader Victor Orban, where he saluted the Putin-loving autocrat from the stage at Mar-a-Lago, calling him “fantastic.”

And Trump is suddenly walking back his long-held belief that TikTok must be banned by Congress to combat China—something his far-right supporters in the Senate, like Josh Hawley, made into a cause to supposedly protect America’s children while bowing to Trump, backing a bill that could soon be passed by Congress. Trump appears to be doing what he did with the border deal—suddenly trying to torpedo the bill, and giving bogus reasons. What’s motivating him this time?