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Conservative political scientist Norman Ornstein condemned the Trump administration Saturday for its “outrageous” policies he says will “damage lives,” while at the same time he handed Democrats a roadmap as to how they could make a serious dent in President Donald Trump’s plans to consolidate power.

Speaking on MSNBC, Ornstein first painted a picture for why he thought Democrats have struggled to adequately oppose the Trump administration, a characterization supported by the party’s tanking poll numbers.

The former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease raised a “red flag” on Saturday morning, accusing Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoting eugenics.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest over the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, hammered at RFK Jr’s purge of scientists at the CDC, which has plunged the department into chaos.

Media personality Van Jones pushed back on GOP strategist Pete Seat Saturday over accusations that Democrats don’t “talk about” crime, during a CNN panel discussing the ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

“I don't like crime, I'm not a part of some pro-crime lobby, but there's a smart way and a dumb way to do anything,” Jones said, speaking to President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal officers and National Guard members to the streets of the nation’s capital.

Reacting to the purge of high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who are refusing to bend to the will and demands of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., conservative attorney George Conway accused the Donald Trump administration of attempting to plunge the U.S. back into the “dark ages.”

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Conway brought up Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he disagreed with the job numbers coming out of the department, which he claims were made-up without any presenting evidence.

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst's decision not to seek re-election was met with a triumphant reaction on MSNBC Friday evening by one of her main opposition hopefuls, Democratic state Sen. Zach Wahls.

"Let me ask you first," said anchor Jen Psaki. "I mean, when you saw the news today that Ernst is planning to drop out of the race, what was your first reaction?"

Democracy defenders on Friday blasted elected Texas Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, after he signed a new congressional map gerrymandered for the GOP at the request of President Donald Trump—and Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, for launching a copycat effort.

"Gov. Abbott would rather do Trump's dirty work than help the people of Texas," said Brett Edkins, managing director of policy and political affairs at the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, in a statement.

An incident occurred on the Washington, D.C. Metro on Friday, when a passenger on a train tried to take the weapon of a National Guard soldier deployed as part of President Donald Trump's seizure of the city, CNN's Brian Todd reported.

Trump's D.C. deployment, ostensibly to combat crime even as the crime rate has dropped dramatically in the capital in recent years, has provoked rising tensions with residents.

Terry Moran, a broadcast journalist who was fired from ABC News in June after posting a message on X referring to top White House adviser Stephen Miller as a "world-class hater," blasted his old employer this week for "failing the American people."

Moran posted to social media, "The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not the brains. It's the bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater."

CNN's Boris Sanchez clashed with former Trump administration attorney Jonathan Fahey over the reported plans for a massive immigration crackdown in Chicago, which has drawn heavy opposition from Illinois leaders and is widely speculated to be Trump's excuse to enact military law enforcement similar to how he did in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Sanchez opened the discussion by outlining the scale of the proposed operation.

A CNN reporter said experts are stunned by an "unprecedented" Trump administration move to take steps to send hundreds of Guatemalan children back to their home country after they arrived in the United States alone.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez joined "News Central" and told co-host Brianna Keilar that it's an "unprecedented move."

Rick Wilson, political strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, suggested Friday that President Donald Trump’s “tough guy” persona, one fed into by many of his most loyal supporters, is in many ways a cover for something far more dire.

“This idea that a lot of folks have in their head, that Donald Trump is ill, appears to be correct,” Wilson said, speaking on an episode of the Lincoln Project’s “Elephant in the Room” podcast in an episode titled “Sending Clots and Prayers.”