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During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan took no responsibility for the death of an immigrant who was being pursued by ICE agents this past week.

Near the end of a long interview with Homan, CNN host Dana Bash brought up the death of Jaime Alanis Garcia who was a victim in the raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California and plunged 30 feet off of a building incurring injuries that led to his death.

"What's your reaction to that? Somebody losing their life, running from ICE," the CNN host prompted her guest.

"It's sad, it's unfortunate, he wasn't in ICE custody and ICE did not have hands on this person," he replied. "But it's always unfortunate when there's deaths."

"I mean, no one wants to see people die and, you know, it's– they were doing the job they were serving criminal arrest warrants," he continued. "I mean, the criminal search warrants. And I see the media saying, well, it was an ICE raid. No, they were serving criminal search warrants as part of a criminal investigation involved with child trafficking, child labor. I think it was total of 11 children that were found in that farm, and now they're being interviewed, for interviews, to find out, you know, are they victims of trafficking? If so, who is the subject of that trafficking and let's hold some people accountable. So it's unfortunate when anybody dies."

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On Sunday morning, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart singled out a new line of defense Donald Trump attempted on Saturday to put distance between himself and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and claimed it just created new questions.

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," the panel took up the evolving story over whether the Epstein files contain damning evidence or were a big nothing that had been hyped up by Trump and his allies before the election in his efforts to return to the Oval Office.

At a time when the Department of Justice is spiraling into a war between Attorney General Pam Bondi and top FBI officials over Epstein file transparency, the president stepped in it on Saturday with a Truth Social post to put out the fire which only made things worse.

At issue, Capehart explained, was the president spinning a fresh conspiracy theory that could inadvertently open up a new line of inquiry.

The MSNBC host noted Trump complained, "For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 'Intelligence' Agents, 'THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,' and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “'riends' are playing right into their hands. Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?"

That led Capehart to tell the panel, "The shifting stances: February 21st, Bondi says the client list is on her desk. July 7th, the DOJ memo says there ain't no client list, but check out July 12th, which was yesterday. Trump: there are Epstein files, but they were written by Obama, Clinton and Biden."

"This to me is the biggest tell," he pointed out. "Why is Trump injecting himself in this and hurling –– and going to his tried and true distraction method, which is saying it's Obama's fault. It's Biden's fault. It's Clinton's fault. It's everyone else's fault but mine. Which makes me think, and I would love to hear from [Ex-DOJ official] Anthony [Coley], because you've got that look on your face. Why shouldn't I think, and why shouldn't the American people think that there is a there there, given what the president just said?"

"So listen, the fact that he's throwing out these names of Clinton and Obama, it is the classic tale," Coley replied. "The fact of the matter is that when you look at the investigation of this, it was done, comprehensive investigation, by the nonpartisan DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz."

"Now, what's so interesting about Michael Horowitz?" he elaborated. "And he, you know, this is that –– do you remember maybe four months ago, there was this mass firing of inspectors general across the country? Yeah, Donald Trump kept Michael Horowitz as the inspector general of the Justice Department. And so if he was so upset about the investigation that Michael Horowitz did, why didn't he fire Michael Horowitz?"

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Former fitness influencer turned podcast host Jillian Michaels battled with CNN host Abby Phillip –– and the entire "Table for Five" panel, for that matter –– on Saturday morning as she defended Donald Trump's controversial immigrant round-ups.

She began with, "The key word, though, is a legal pathway to citizenship. I believe that people don't want to see illegal immigration because it doesn't behoove anyone, including the people that come in illegally."

"They have no upward mobility, they have no job protections. they are not able to start businesses and the list goes on and on," she continued before adding, "It creates resentment amongst citizens that are here –– obviously born here –– and people that did it legally. It doesn't behoove anyone, but I absolutely believe that both parties should stop the finger-pointing and work towards radical immigration reform. I think most people feel that way."

Co-panelist Boomani Jones offered, "The problem is that calling it radical immigration reform is far too broad, because what I see on TV looks pretty damn radical, right? Like, I think people are saying it's an application of radical reform that is a little bit terrifying on one level. I think the other part of it is when you're talking about these deportations or rounding people up, in theory, those aren't actual people. We see all these stories that come out, they're like, hey, man, you just, we love that woman, she waits our tables at this diner. She's our favorite person and you just rounded her up."

Host Phillip then moved the conversation to the so-called controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" established under Trump which led Michaels to try and point the finger at President Barack Obama.

"I want to give you the other side here," she attempted. "First of all, obviously Alligator Alley (sic) and what's going on there is disturbing, but here's the counterargument. You're pointing fingers and where was everybody pointing fingers with Obama's cages, but let's go a step further ––."

"I will say people did complain about Obama. I remember --," Phillip interjected with Michaels continuing, "... and not really knowing about this because no one talked about it."

"People did complain, especially immigration advocates. I mean, with Obama," Phillip parried.

"Okay, let's say that's true," the CNN guest replied dismissively. "I remember Obama being a hero of the left, he was a hero of mine. I didn't know about these cages until we saw Trump put people in them."

"Now, now with that said, let's look at what just happened: the glass farm, a glass-house marijuana farm," she continued. "Here's what people don't want to see on the other side. They don't want to see people throwing rocks into the cars of federal agents. They don't want to hear that someone supposedly opened fire on them. They also don't want to learn that there are a bunch of kids there that are undocumented or unaccompanied, and they think this is crazy talk, and we should be focusing on that. And I, for one thing, how did those kids get there?"

"I just want to add one thing," The CNN host replied. "We do have to go, but the UFW, the United Farm Workers put out a statement about this. They said, the UFW can confirm, farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, California. Others, including U.S. citizens, remain totally unaccounted for. Many workers, including U.S. citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for eight hours or more. U.S. citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. They also added that farmwork work is exempted from child labor laws."

"You're telling me undocumented?" Michaels exclaimed.

"I'm not saying undocumented. I'm not talking ––," the CNN host attempted which led Michaels to interrupt again with, "They work at a marijuana farm?"

"I'm not talking about the undocumented part but, according to this statement, in this country, not just at farm, not at marijuana farms at all," Phillip stated as Michaels snapped at her with, "Don't use semantics! Look at the reality of what we're talking about. How did an unaccompanied, undocumented 14-year-old ––."

"Hey, Jillian, Jillian, I believe that, and many people might believe children should be subject to child labor laws, but it's true in this country that when it comes to agricultural work, they're not," Phillip patiently explained.

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During a pre-scheduled appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was alerted that Donald Trump had just issued new threats aimed at the EU and Mexico and was asked to respond.

What started out as a discussion on the war at the Department of Justice between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino took a turn when 'The Weekend" host Jonathan Capehart alerted the Maryland Democrat that Trump had just posted on Truth Social.

"I want to get your reaction to some breaking news that is happening right now on the president's social media platform, where he announced 30 percent tariff rate for the European Union starting on August 1st," Capehart noted before adding Mexico also faces a 30 percent tariff.

"Well, maybe I should stop talking because it sounds like he's completely out of it, sounds like he's completely out of control," Raskin replied. "Look, the International Court of Trade, the American court system has been uniform and emphatic about this, right? Congress, under Article 1 of the Constitution, has the power to regulate commerce among the states and with foreign nations."

"Congress has always been the one to control tariffs, and in limited cases has delegated power to the president," he added. "Now we've got a president who claims he's got the power to impose tariffs on the entire world, except for Russia, of course."

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The growing war between Attorney General Pam Bondi and top FBI officials Kash Patel and Dan Bongino over the transparency of the Jeffrey Epstein files led one former top DOJ official to rip into the entire crew.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-acting United States Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord expressed outrage at the internal battle at the DOJ that has led the FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to reportedly call for Bondi's firing.

Speaking with the hosts, McCord expressed genuine alarm that the war between the officials is putting the country at risk.

"How serious a rift is this and what do you make of the deputy FBI director, according to sources ,demanding that the attorney general be fired and he didn't show up to work yesterday?" host Jonathan Capehart asked.

"He's not a serious person," McCord shot back." He came into this job with a serious mission, he has no relevant experience to be the FBI deputy director and I think that's now showing. "

"You know, there are certainly times in my long tenure at the Department of Justice when there are differences between leadership of the Department of Justice and leadership of the FBI," she added. "We have disagreed on various things, but you don't do this; you don't go out in public and demand resignations. You don't have public spats like this. You you deal with those things like adults who are doing serious work, which is law enforcement and protecting national security in this country."

"The conspiracies about it and the reason that this is so annoying to the MAGA base is all just such a sideshow. and then to have that boil over into this very public spat, I mean, I think it just shows us all how dangerous this crew that is leading the Department of Justice and the FBI," she charged.

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