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President Donald Trump responded to former special counsel Jack Smith's first public testimony by sharing a video of aide Stephen Miller shouting about "the Russiagate hoax."

As cable news stations fixated on Smith, Trump responded with a post on Truth Social.

Former special counsel Jack Smith wasted no time declaring that President Donald Trump "broke the law" at a congressional hearing Thursday.

Speaking before the House Judiciary Committee, Smith insisted that he loved his country and "deeply" believed in the rule of law.

During a discussion of the growing menace of unrestrained ICE agents on MS NOW early Thursday morning, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted she came across a “use of force” internal memo that she was amazed someone thought was appropriate to write down.

After discussing a different bombshell memo that allows armed agents to enter homes with just an administrative warrant, Rubin told the panel of “Morning Joe” what one of her own investigations turned up.

At the same time that Donald Trump was making a big show of signing the initial charter of his so-called “Board of Peace” at Davos, Bulwark editor Sam Stein was quick to observe that the smattering of government leaders who joined him on the dais was lacking in star power.

The much-maligned new organization that the president has been hyping has attracted a collection of countries agreeing to sign up — none of them even remotely close to being considered a world power capable of doing much internationally.

President Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday was such a "fiasco" that one columnist thinks Americans will look back on it as a "bright red line in history."

Trump spoke in Davos in meandering terms about how he was skeptical that NATO would come to the U.S.'s rescue if needed, even though the alliance did just that after 9/11. He also called into question Denmark's right to own Greenland and made several misleading or false statements about his domestic accomplishments.

A pair of media personalities clashed on Wednesday night over President Donald Trump's immigration raids.

Chris Cuomo, a NewsNation host and former CNN anchor, posted a video responding to a clip of conservative analyst Scott Jennings trading barbs with a younger panelist on CNN over how people who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Jennings lashed out at the younger panelist for asking him not to refer to the people as "illegals" because U.S. citizens have also been caught up in the raids.

President Donald Trump is undermining his own agenda with his obsession to have the U.S. acquire Greenland, MS NOW's Chris Hayes argued on Wednesday night — something that he never actually campaigned on, and that is overwhelmingly opposed by Americans.

That stands in stark contrast to the extreme immigration raids, Hayes said, which, although they have become broadly unpopular, were at least something a number of voters had in mind when they went to the polls in 2024.

Mockery abounded on Wednesday after a former NFL sideline reporter who is running for U.S. Senate released her first campaign ad.

Michele Tafoya, who reported from NFL sidelines on NBC's "Sunday Night Football" until 2022, announced this week that she is running for Senate as a Republican in Minnesota, a state that has come under increased scrutiny over social services fraud. Tafoya is running to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), and is expected to face a hotly contested primary.

An organizer of the anti-immigration protest in a Minnesota church over the weekend spoke out on Wednesday evening to correct falsehoods that have spread about the event.

Last week, a protest erupted in Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where one of the pastors is allegedly a leader in the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office. The protest sparked outrage within the MAGA movement, and officials in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice have said they plan to prosecute the protesters.

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Wednesday after a video circulating online showed a postal worker yelling and flipping the bird at immigration agents.

The video was posted by Collin Rugg, co-owner of the conservative news site Trending Politics. In it, a postal worker drives past agents who appear to be conducting a stop. The video captures the driver yelling, "Go home, you f------ losers." As he drives away, the driver sticks his hand out of the window and reveals his middle finger.

After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their citizenship, Trump on Wednesday told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that “sometimes you need a dictator.”

The offhanded comment came in the middle of a rambling speech at the reception dinner for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, in which Trump congratulated himself on a different rambling speech he’d given earlier that day at the summit.

A major decision in the legal fight over President Donald Trump's responsibility to release the Jeffrey Epstein files may have given lawmakers a way to take down the president, according to one legal expert.

Last year, Congress passed a law requiring the Department of Justice to release all Epstein files in its possession by Dec.19, 2025. The administration has said in court filings that it has released just 1% of the files so far, and will need "several weeks" to review millions more documents that it allegedly discovered. Some of the files have painted Trump's relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal in an unsavory light.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper had no patience for President Donald Trump's rambling speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos during the opening segment of his show on Wednesday.

Trump traveled to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the world's economic elite, where he gave a speech that critics derided as "raving" and "mad." The New York Times fact-checked 12 false or misleading claims Trump made about international affairs, including the Kingdom of Denmark's relationship with Greenland, and about Trump's domestic accomplishments.