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President Donald Trump's new plan for the Endangered Species Act could effectively dismantle the program's protections for vulnerable wildlife, CNN environmental reporter Bill Weir warned Thursday.

"The Trump administration is moving to strip protections for endangered species and their habitats," said anchor Sara Sidner. "The White House says the Biden-era measures are too restrictive and hurt the economy ... this is quite a list of beloved animals in places like Florida."

During a discussion of the James Comey indictment that it threatened with dismissal for multiple errors, missteps and misrepresentations, MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin battered Department of Justice officials for making matters for embattled prosecutor Lindsey Halligan even worse.

Describing the turn of events on Wednesday, when Halligan was forced to admit to U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff that a second indictment filed against James Comey was never shown to the entire grand jury after a first one was rejected, Rubin singled out DOJ officials for partial blame.

A ruling by a Donald Trump-appointed judge to toss a Texas redistricting plan designed to help the GOP hold onto the House led an MS NOW host to call out Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ for providing shoddy advice.

In ruling against the GOP-led initiative, U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

In the face of plummeting approval numbers for the Republican Party, Donald Trump is being urged to reassert his dominance over a GOP that has grown increasingly panicky as the 2026 midterms loom.

This week, a Fox News poll showed Republicans facing a possible wipe-out in the next election, a collapse that MS NOW host Joe Scarborough called “staggering” on Thursday morning.

Reports of Donald Trump’s base growing increasingly unhappy with his performance are being borne out by new polling from Fox News showing the president and the Republican Party's approval numbers on a wide array of policies are in free fall.

On Thursday morning, MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough noted that he had never seen such a dramatic collapse in such a short time.

A former Trump White House insider revealed during a podcast interview on Wednesday that the "surface-level" cracks that have emerged within the MAGA movement lately have become "foundational cracks" as President Donald Trump "races" toward lame-duck status.

Anthony Scaramucci, who served as Trump's communications director for 11 days during the first administration, discussed the impact the Jeffrey Epstein files and the approaching 2026 midterm election is having on Trump and his MAGA base during an interview on The Daily Beast's podcast.

A conservative political analyst on Wednesday gave a behind-the-scenes look at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) feud with President Donald Trump during a podcast interview.

SE Cupp joined Jamal Simmons on the "Politicon" podcast on Wednesday, where the two discussed Greene's recent breaks from Trump and the MAGA movement. For instance, Greene criticized the president's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and has called out the president for supporting tariff policies that she says are harming everyday Americans.

CNN legal expert Elie Honig flagged what he described as a "huge loophole" in the bill President Donald Trump just signed to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump announced late Wednesday night that he signed the Epstein Transparency Act, a bill that was sent to his desk with support from a veto-proof majority of lawmakers. The bill requires the government to release the records within 30 days, but Honig noted there is some language tucked into the legislation that could allow the administration to continue to stall.