Abby Phillip delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day's biggest stories.
A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making stops and arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause and ordered the department to stop detaining individuals based solely on race, spoken language or occupation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship is stopped nationwide as ICE's show of force gets even stronger. Also, a California mayor issues a warning to residents to remain calm, stay indoors if possible, and to know your rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The FBI is investigating former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey for possible false statements to Congress following a referral from the current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, according to a person briefed on the matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump sends more supplies to Ukraine and privately fumes at aides who try to stop it. Plus, MAGA backlash after the latest DOJ memo on Jeffrey Epstein. Also, souped-up immigration enforcement prompts fury in Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With devastation and despair in Texas, the search for answers begins. Plus, in the latest Trump-Musk clash, Elon takes his money and starts his own political party. Also, Google has a choice to either win in court or make a donation to Trump's presidential library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump praised GOP congressional leaders today after the House approved his massive package of tax and federal spending cuts, delivering the president the first big legislative win of his second term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A megabill is in the balance as the House is voting to advance President Trump's agenda with Republican hardliners threatening to hold out over its price tag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Republicans in the Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump's domestic agenda bill after a dramatic scramble to win over key holdouts. The vote was 50-50, and Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As Republicans race to pass Trump's agenda, the more Americans look under the hood the more they're pumping the breaks. Plus, Obama and Bush are faulting Trump's gutting of USAID as a colossal mistake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Supreme Court delivered a major win to President Donald Trump on Friday in his ongoing war with the federal judiciary, limiting the power of courts to step in and block policies on a nationwide basis in the short term while judges review their legality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth alleges that several media outlets, including CNN, are misrepresenting the Iran nuclear program in their coverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With skies on alert and smoke settling in Iran, America's credibility is on the line over the truth. Plus, is American politics being overtaken by its extremes? Will a socialist become a norm beyond Gotham? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump is at odds with his own Pentagon intelligence when it comes to the impacts of American strikes against Iran. Trump has been adamant that Iran's nuclear program has been totally obliterated while at least one early intelligence assessment says otherwise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump claims Iran-Israel ceasefire, sources say both agreed. Trump contradicts officials by floating Iran regime change. Plus, sirens sounding in Israel ahead of reported Isreal-Iran ceasefire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The violence between Israel and Iran is showing now signs of slowing down as both sides exchange new waves of attacks. But, as the missiles rained down, the clock is ticking on Trump's window for diplomacy as he weighs in on whether the United States will join Israel in striking Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump's decision to open a two-week negotiating window before deciding on striking Iran sets off an urgent effort to restart talks that had been deadlocked when Israel began its bombing campaign last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israel's strikes on Iran — including using bunker-busting bombs to target nuclear facilities deep underground — a discussion is underway among his top officials over how the US can strike those targets without becoming embroiled in a full-scale war, sources familiar with the matter said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Two US officials told CNN that Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump is leaving the G7 summit early after suggesting that he could soon strike a deal with Iran to end the current conflict. Trump has proposed a ceasefire deal, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. But Trump also warned Iranians to evacuate Tehran, underscoring the danger to its 10 million residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There have been more explosions tonight in Tehran and Tel Aviv as the conflict between the Middle East foes escalates following Israel's unprecedented attack early Friday on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which killed some of the country's most senior leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California's National Guard and must return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled. The ruling is a significant win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this week after the president called the troops into federal service in the wake of protests in the Los Angeles area over Trump's hardline immigration policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A curfew will soon begin for a second night in parts of downtown Los Angeles as the city is reeling from a sixth straight day of clashes over President Trump's ICE raids. Moments ago, the LAPD declared an unlawful protest outside of city hall. We are seeing similar protests across the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As Los Angeles enters its fifth day of unrest, a curfew has been declared from 8pm to 6am local time and will cover one square mile of the entire Los Angeles area. President Trump has mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the city to quell the demonstrations against his immigration raids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A fourth night of protests is unfolding right now in Los Angeles as President Trump deploys the United States military on American soil. It is an extraordinary show of his executive power, triggered by days of unrest over his administration's immigration raids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, where he was mistakenly deported in mid-March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
An intense public feud erupted on Thursday between President Donald Trump and his one-time ally, billionaire Elon Musk, with an argument about Trump's massive tax and domestic policy bill raging across social media and in the Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Travel ban 2.0. The President goes bigger in the sequel and bans travelers from twelve countries after an antisemitic attack. Plus, which side will Republicans choose in Elon Musk's war against Trump's spending agenda? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mr. Mars goes scorched earth. The man who Trump considers a genius calls the “big, beautiful bill” disgusting. Plus, at the start of Pride Month, Pete Hegseth erases a gay rights icon from a ship and considers throwing more of history's heroes overboard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A 45-year-old Egyptian national left an iPhone with messages to his wife and five children in his house, drove to downtown Boulder with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails and attacked demonstrators at a peaceful Jewish event to support hostages in Gaza, according to federal hate crime charging documents. Plus, policing in secret. A look at the growing trend of masking up when cracking down. Also, if big brands are supporting Pride Month, it's somewhere over, under, and around the rainbow due to the right's ridicule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As Elon Musk bids adieu to his DOGE rollercoaster, an explosive new report suggests he's been on a ride of his own. Plus, a fiery GOP senator confronts a fiery town hall and may have inadvertently cut a new ad for Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Questions emerge of justice or judicial tyranny as a lot of what Donald Trump does gets undone. Plus, do foreigners have a right to free speech in America? A move in the administration gives Cold War flashbacks. Also, FBI rookies get on the wrong side of MAGA as they find government jobs aren't that easy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A federal court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have raised the cost of imports for everyone from giant businesses to everyday Americans. But the administration immediately appealed the decision on Wednesday night, leaving the situation uncertain for consumers and companies and potentially prolonging the battle over whether Trump's import duties will stand – and possibly reshape the global economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why the butterfly effect of Donald Trump's war on colleges may bring America backwards. Plus, as the White House insists power is not for sale, the President pardons a tax cheat after his mother attends a million dollar dinner. Also, lost liberals are spending big bucks to figure out a culture dominated by dudes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union, citing a lack of progress in current trade negotiations. Trump's comments came after another trade-related post on Truth Social that threatened a 25% tariff on Apple if it continues to make the iPhone overseas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The most transparent president in history goes behind closed doors to line his pockets. Plus, the most pro free speech president in history is now banning all international students at Harvard in an unprecedented escalation. Also, the most fiscally responsible president in history unleashes a bill that many Republicans liken to an iceberg of bankruptcy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump met his South African counterpart in the Oval Office on Wednesday where he ordered the lights dimmed and launched into what amounted to an ambush of his visitor, screening a video he claimed was evidence for his false suggestion that White South Africans are being subjected to persecution and “genocide.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The big squeeze. Donald Trump hits the Hill, drops the f-bomb, and threatens Republicans who don't think his big bill is all that beautiful. Plus, Elon Musk is now considering spending less money in politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A humbling cancer diagnosis becomes a political football. Plus, Donald Trump makes an admission about his tariffs while threatening companies that dare tell the truth. Also, she lost her life storming the Capitol on January 6th, now the Trump administration is paying her family millions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Joe Biden's decline on tape. We are now hearing the recordings of the infamous interview with Robert Hur who called Biden an elderly man with a poor memory. Plus, is the outrage over James Comey's instagram post warranted or is it just theatre? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The good news: Donald Trump's tariff drunk economy may be defying gravity. The bad news: what goes up doesn't always come down. Plus, the Supreme Court hears MAGA's case for erasing the 14th amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A victory at the border or a crisis? The White House tries to have it both ways. Plus, bipartisan backlash to MAGA's red pen to Medicaid. Also, when it comes to foreign money in politics, Trump 2025 meet Trump 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former President Joe Biden did not recognize George Clooney when he arrived for a record-breaking June 2024 fundraiser the movie star was co-hosting, according to a forthcoming book from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As Donald Trump scores a string of wins, a debate emerges over whether the rollercoaster ride is just ending up where it began. Plus, gift or grift. A foreign nation donates a new Air Force One but even MAGA says it flies in the face of swamp-draining. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Donald Trump has been personally involved in discussions inside the administration over potentially suspending habeas corpus, a legal procedure that allows people to challenge their detention in court, two people familiar with the consideration told CNN. One of Trump's top aides, Stephen Miller, confirmed publicly Friday that the administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, adding that it “depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The first American pope inherits a world skeptical of America and a legacy skeptical of MAGA. Plus, liberals have been chanting to tax the rich for years and now Donald Trump may agree. Also, after a US attorney nominee fails, the President heads to the Fox News greenroom again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Trump's evolving view of the economy begs the question--is he a socialist? Plus, the world map becomes a deportation dart board. Also, Scranton Joe returns to the office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the clock ticks, proof emerges there is more wheeling than dealing in the spin factory. Also, neighbors United States and Canada sit down for trade talks. Plus, the Supreme Court gives Trump the green light to ban transgender troops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The backbone of American democracy takes a chill up the spine. Plus, another tariff, another topic, another target. Also, days of delays at one of America's busiest airports begs the question—who is at the controls? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The White House unveiled a budget blueprint Friday that would pump more money into defense and homeland security, while taking an ax to programs the Trump administration has already targeted, including education, foreign aid, environment, health and public assistance programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump drops Mike Waltz from the national security team but is this just the beginning? Also, a Texas judge tells the man who appointed him your deportation plan goes too far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The economy gets bad news and Trump says it is not his doing. Plus, did Trump blow the DOJ's argument on the man deported to El Salvador? Also, the FBI dives into the archives in its war on woke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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