Rep. Michael McCaul said Pres­id­ent Biden’s speech call­ing out the MAGA sup­port­ers of former Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump was a “slap in the face” to Repub­lic­ans.

“I think that if this was a speech to unify the Amer­ican people, it had just the oppos­ite effect. It basic­ally con­demned all Repub­lic­ans who sup­por­ted Don­ald Trump in the last elec­tion. That’s over 70 mil­lion people,” McCaul said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

“And, you know, say­ing that Repub­lic­ans are a threat to demo­cracy is really a slap in the face.”

McCaul, a Texas Repub­lican, said three net­works decided against air­ing Biden’s prime-time speech Thursday in front of Inde­pend­ence Hall in Phil­adelphia.

“It was a cam­paign speech before the midterm elec­tions, and that’s basic­ally how I see it,” McCaul told host Martha Rad­datz.

Biden, in what was billed as a speech about the “soul of the nation,” said Trump Repub­lic­ans rep­res­en­ted a threat to “the repub­lic.”

“Too much of what’s hap­pen­ing in our coun­try today is not nor­mal. Don­ald Trump and the MAGA Repub­lic­ans rep­res­ent an extrem­ism that threatens the very found­a­tions of our repub­lic,” Biden said.

Rad­datz asked McCaul if Trump should also be blamed for con­trib­ut­ing to the polit­ical divi­sions in the coun­try.

“We know the rhet­oric on both sides has been heightened. I don’t think people in main­stream Amer­ica par­tic­u­larly like the divis­ive rhet­oric,” he said.

Trump’s ‘set of rules’

On Fri­day, Biden tried to walk back his fiery speech, telling report­ers, “I don’t con­sider any Trump sup­porter to be a threat to the coun­try.”

Turn­ing to the trove of clas­si­fied doc­u­ments found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Flor­ida resort, McCaul said the former pres­id­ent “has a dif­fer­ent set of rules that apply to him.”

“I have lived in the clas­si­fied world most of my pro­fes­sional career, I per­son­ally wouldn’t do that. But I’m not the pres­id­ent of the United States,” McCaul, the rank­ing Repub­lican on the House For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee, said.

WASHINGTON — Don­ald Trump isn’t the first to face cri­ti­cism for flout­ing rules and tra­di­tions around the safe­guard­ing of sens­it­ive gov­ern­ment records, but national secur­ity experts say recent rev­el­a­tions point to an unpre­ced­en­ted dis­reg­ard of post-pres­id­ency norms estab­lished after the Water­gate era.

Doc­u­ment dra­mas have cropped up from time to time over the years.

Demo­crat Lyn­don B. John­son’s national secur­ity adviser held onto explos­ive records for years before turn­ing them over to the John­son pres­id­en­tial lib­rary. The records showed that the cam­paign of his suc­cessor, Richard Nixon, was secretly com­mu­nic­at­ing in the final days of the 1968 pres­id­en­tial race with the South Viet­namese gov­ern­ment in an effort to delay the open­ing of peace talks to end the Viet­nam War.

A sec­ret­ary in Ron­ald Reagan’s admin­is­tra­tion, Fawn Hall, test­i­fied that she altered and helped shred doc­u­ments related to the Iran-Con­tra affair to pro­tect Oliver North, her boss at the White House National Secur­ity Coun­cil.

Barack Obama’s CIA dir­ector, David Pet­raeus, was forced to resign and pleaded guilty to a fed­eral mis­de­meanor for shar­ing clas­si­fied mater­ial with a bio­grapher with whom he was hav­ing an affair. Hil­lary Clin­ton, while Obama’s sec­ret­ary of state, faced FBI scru­tiny that exten­ded into her 2016 pres­id­en­tial cam­paign against Trump for her hand­ling of highly clas­si­fied mater­ial in a private email account. The FBI dir­ector recom­men­ded no crim­inal charges but cri­ti­cized Clin­ton for her “extremely care­less” beha­vior.

As more details emerge from last month’s FBI search of Trump’s Flor­ida home, the Justice Depart­ment has painted a por­trait of an indif­fer­ence for the rules on a scale that some thought incon­ceiv­able after estab­lish­ment of the Pres­id­en­tial Records Act in 1978.

“I can­not think of a his­tor­ical pre­ced­ent in which there was even the sus­pi­cion that a pres­id­ent or even a high-rank­ing officer in the admin­is­tra­tion, with the excep­tion of the Nixon admin­is­tra­tion, pur­posely and con­sciously or even acci­dent­ally remov­ing such a siz­able volume of papers,” said Richard Immer­man, who served as assist­ant deputy dir­ector of national intel­li­gence from 2007 to 2009.

It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when San Fran­cisco greeted a Rus­sian leader as if he were a rock star. Mikhail Gorbachev vis­ited San Fran­cisco for the first time in the spring of 1990, rid­ing in a big black Zil lim­ousine the size of an armored car, fly­ing the red ham­mer and sickle flag of the old Soviet Union. Gorbachev came to San Fran­cisco at the height of his power, talk­ing here and at Stan­ford Uni­versity of open­ness and the end of the Cold War. We thought he would change the world.

Instead, when Gorbachev died at a great old age last week, he was nearly the for­got­ten man. “All of Gorbachev’s reforms are now in ashes, in smoke,” Rus­sian journ­al­ist Alexei Vene­diktov was quoted as say­ing the month before Gorbachev died. Gorbachev had out­lived his time.

On that beau­ti­ful spring day in San Fran­cisco, Gorbachev was the man of the hour. Crowds lined the streets as his motor­cade drove slowly by. His lim­ousine didn’t have those tin­ted win­dows you see now. Gorbachev was clearly vis­ible inside, wav­ing and smil­ing. A lady I know remem­bers wav­ing at Gorbachev as he rode up 19th Avenue on his way back from Stan­ford. She thinks he waved back.

At Cali­for­nia and Fill­more streets, Gorbachev ordered the limo stopped and he jumped out. “He walked toward the people on the street, and they surged toward him,” The Chron­icle repor­ted the next day. “Oth­ers ran out of Dino’s pizza par­lor, the corner liquor store and the neigh­bor­hood copy cen­ter.”

He stayed for only a few minutes, shak­ing hands, work­ing the crowd like a politi­cian run­ning for office. Then his motor­cade sped off.

Report­ers moved in to ask the cit­izens their impres­sion. Mark New­man, a former Mar­ine, said he’d shaken the Rus­sian’s hand. “What I did for 10 years in the Mar­ines was com­pletely oppos­ite to what that man stands for. But he’s open­ing the doors. He’s a very likable guy.”

CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dan­ger­ous fuel leak Sat­urday, for­cing launch con­trol­lers to call off their second attempt to send a crew cap­sule into lunar orbit with test dum­mies.

The first attempt earlier last week was also marred by escap­ing hydro­gen, but those leaks were else­where on the 322-foot rocket, the most power­ful ever built by NASA.

After Tues­day, a two-week launch black­out period begins, and NASA man­agers estim­ated repair work would take at least sev­eral weeks.

“We’ll go when it’s ready. We don’t go until then and espe­cially now on a test flight, because we’re going to stress this and test it ... and make sure it’s right before we put four humans up on the top of it,” said NASA Admin­is­trator Bill Nel­son.

NASA wants to send the crew cap­sule atop the rocket around the moon, push­ing it to the limit before astro­nauts get on the next flight. If the fiveweek demo with test dum­mies suc­ceeds, astro­nauts could fly around the moon in 2024 and land on it in 2025. People last walked on the moon 50 years ago.

Launch dir­ector Charlie Black­well-Thompson and her team had barely star­ted load­ing nearly 1 mil­lion gal­lons of fuel into the Space Launch Sys­tem rocket at day­break Sat­urday when the leak cropped up in the engine sec­tion. Ground con­trol­lers tried to plug it, but the leak per­sisted.

Black­well-Thompson finally hal­ted the count­down after three to four hours of futile effort.

Dur­ing last Monday’s launch attempt, hydro­gen fuel escaped from else­where in the rocket. Tech­ni­cians tightened up the fit­tings over the past week, but Black­well-Thompson cau­tioned that she wouldn’t know whether everything was tight until Sat­urday’s fuel­ing.

Three Cana­dian provinces were on alert Sunday as police sought two sus­pects on the loose after a stabbing spree left 10 people dead and 15 wounded across cent­ral Saskat­chewan.

The Royal Cana­dian Moun­ted Police in Saskat­chewan issued a “dan­ger­ous per­sons alert” for Damien and Myles Sander­son, who were believed to be driv­ing a black Nis­san Rogue.

The stabbings took place in James Smith Cree Nation and the vil­lage of Wel­don, police said. Dead and injured people were scattered across at least 13 crime scenes, Royal Cana­dian Moun­ted Police Saskat­chewan Assist­ant Com­mis­sioner Rhonda Black­more said.

“It is hor­rific what has occurred in our province today,” Black­more told the AP, urging the sus­pects to turn them­selves in.

Wel­don is about 30 miles south­east of Prince Albert and about 15 miles south­w­est of James Smith Cree Nation. The pair had been sighted in Regina, the province’s cap­ital, around lunch­time, and author­it­ies urged the city to be on alert.

“If in the Regina area, take pre­cau­tions and con­sider shel­ter­ing in place,” the Royal Cana­dian Moun­ted Police said. “Do not leave a secure loc­a­tion. Use cau­tion allow­ing oth­ers into your res­id­ence. DO NOT APPROACH sus­pi­cious per­sons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report sus­pi­cious per­sons, emer­gen­cies or info to 9-1-1. Do not dis­close police loc­a­tions.”

Damien Sander­son, 31, is 5-feet-7 and 155 pounds, and Myles Sander­son, 30, is 6-feet-1 and 200 pounds. They have black hair and brown eyes.

The attacks appeared to be ran­dom, police said, though author­it­ies were still gath­er­ing inform­a­tion, and some of them may have been tar­geted, Black­more said. The motive was unknown.

“There are mul­tiple vic­tims, mul­tiple loc­a­tions, includ­ing James Smith Cree Nation and Wel­don,” the Royal Cana­dian Moun­ted Police said. “Early indic­a­tions may be that vic­tims are attacked ran­domly. This is a rap­idly unfold­ing situ­ation. We urge the pub­lic to take appro­pri­ate pre­cau­tions.”

The Saskat­chewan Health Author­ity was treat­ing mul­tiple patients at sev­eral sites and had called in addi­tional staff, author­ity spokes­wo­man Anne Line­mann told the AP.

 Due volte fermo in pista. Il com­por­ta­mento di Yuki

Tsu­noda tra il 42° e il 44° è stato tal­mente curioso da susci­tare il sospetto di un aiu­tino a Max Ver­stap­pen in quel momento brac­cato dalle Mer­ce­des. Ripar­tito dai box dopo la sosta, il giap­po­nese si è fer­mato a bordo pista, pen­sando che una gomma non fosse fis­sata bene. Una volta che al box hanno veri­fi­cato che tutto fosse ok, è rien­trato per fis­sare le cin­ture che nel frat­tempo il pilota aveva allen­tato. Rimesso in gara si è di nuovo fer­mato per un guaio, facendo scat­tare la safety car che ha senz’altro aiu­tato Max. E pena­liz­zato ad esem­pio Leclerc. «Lo ave­vamo richia­mato - ha spie­gato Binotto- quando “Tsu­nami” (l’ha chia­mato così sor­ri­dendo, n.d.r.) si è fer­mato ai box. Pen­sa­vamo che il peri­colo Safety fosse scam­pato, invece...»

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine and Europe were beset with energy prob­lems as much of the Rus­sia-con­trolled region that’s home to a crippled nuc­lear power plant suffered a black­out for part of Sunday.

Only one of six react­ors at the Zapor­izhzhia facil­ity was con­nec­ted to the elec­tri­city grid, and Rus­sia’s main pipeline car­ry­ing nat­ural gas to Ger­many remained shut down.

The fight­ing in Ukraine and related dis­putes over pipelines lie behind the elec­tri­city and nat­ural gas short­falls that have worsened as Rus­sia’s war in Ukraine, which began Feb. 24, grinds on for a sev­enth month.

Both issues will take cen­ter stage this week. U.N. nuc­lear agency inspect­ors are sched­uled to brief the Secur­ity Coun­cil on Tues­day about their inspec­tion and safe­guard visit to the Zapor­izhzhia power plant. European Union energy min­is­ters were slated to hold an emer­gency meet­ing Fri­day in Brus­sels to dis­cuss the bloc’s elec­tri­city mar­ket, which European Com­mis­sion Pres­id­ent Ursula von der Leyen has said “is no longer oper­at­ing.”

Much of the Zapor­izhzhia region, includ­ing the key city of Mel­ito­pol, lost power Sunday.

But it was later restored, said Vladi­mir Rogov, an offi­cial in the Rus­sia-installed admin­is­tra­tion in Ener­hodar, the city where the nuc­lear power plant is. To the south­w­est, power was also out in parts of the port city of Kher­son, accord­ing to Rus­sia’s Tass news agency.

Although Rogov said no new shelling of the area around the six-reactor Zapor­izhzhia plant was repor­ted Sunday, the effects of earlier strikes lingered.

The Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency said Sat­urday that the plant was dis­con­nec­ted from its last main external power line and one reactor was dis­con­nec­ted because of grid restric­tions. Another reactor was still oper­at­ing and pro­du­cing elec­tri­city for cool­ing and other essen­tial safety func­tions at the site, as well as extern­ally for house­holds and factor­ies through a reserve power line, the IAEA said.

Rus­sian forces have held the Zapor­izhzhia facil­ity, Europe’s largest nuc­lear plant, since early March, with its Ukrain­ian staff con­tinu­ing to oper­ate it.