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President Donald Trump is likely to try to derail the electoral process this year — but just as likely to hit hard opposition every step of the way, Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

This follows reporting that Trump just received a 17-page memo from his allies outlining how he could declare a state of emergency to seize election equipment.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) appeared to lose her defiant tone about sharing photos from inside a closed-door deposition with a MAGA influencer on Thursday.

Reporters caught up with Boebert near the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in New York, where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared for a closed-door deposition related to her husband's contacts with the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier in the day, Boebert shared images from inside the deposition with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, which caused the hearing to be temporarily paused.

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson gave President Donald Trump and his supporters a blunt reality check on MS NOW Thursday: Waging a fight about voter ID is not going to save you in the midterms.

The president has made passing an extremely restrictive election bill, the SAVE America Act, a top priority, partly because he believes — based on dubious logic — that it would boost his party in relative turnout, and partly because polls show it's an issue the public broadly agrees with the GOP on. But that isn't a magic bullet to solving the Republican Party's growing problem with voters ahead of the midterm elections, said Wilson — and Democrats shouldn't be so quick to compromise on it.

Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump's former deputy director of the FBI, admitted there was a "good chance" that Republicans would lose both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections.

The former government official made the prediction during his Thursday podcast.

Brandon Herrera, the Second Amendment advocate running against a GOP lawmaker facing affair allegations, called to "bring back smoking on airplanes."

During a Thursday interview, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson noted that Herrera could find himself with a seat on the Oversight Committee if he defeats Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) amid the affair scandal. The interview came as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying to the Oversight Committee about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A former Donald Trump appointee to the State Department expressed frustration over the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee forcing Hillary Clinton to give a deposition on her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that could end up backfiring on the president.

Sitting on panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ Republican Matthew Bartlett became animated when co-host Jonathan Lemire asked, “So talk to us about how you see today going and indeed weigh in on that notion here, that the Republicans may be inadvertently setting a trap in some ways for President Trump.”

The Department of Justice failed to take down more than a dozen problematic images released from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including nude photos and identifying details from passports and drivers licenses.

CNN worked with Israeli software firm Visual Layer to analyze tens of thousands of photos released by the DOJ and found more than 100 explicit photos that show what appears to be naked teenagers and other images that should have been redacted, and some of those lingered online for weeks.