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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) slammed Republicans for pushing a bill that he said would allow retired law enforcement officers to buy used firearms and hand grenades without a background check.

During a House floor speech on the Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act, Raskin noted that Democrats supported the bill until Republicans stripped out safety measures that would have prevented retired officers with criminal offenses from purchasing weapons.

President Donald Trump's administration appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday for oral arguments about the birthright citizenship executive order.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an order that would bar citizenship to anyone born to a mother who was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

Frank McIntosh, Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Air Traffic Organization at the Federal Aviation Administration, declined to say how many air traffic controllers had left their jobs during President Donald Trump's second term in office.

During a Thursday House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) grilled McIntosh about whether air traffic controllers had received a buyout offer from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed that he tries to defeat the security protocols implemented by his own agency.

During a Thursday Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) complained to Duffy about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) facial recognition policy.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) cited a C-SPAN caller's conspiracy theory on "Chinese birth houses" as she called to end birthright citizenship granted by the U.S. Constitution.

In a Thursday post on X, Greene pointed to an independent caller on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program.

According to MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did himself no favors on Wednesday when he was grilled by members of Congress in televised hearings on his department's budget.

At the conclusion of a segment MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that began with co-host Mike Brzezinski laughing until she cried at Kennedy's decision to take a dip in polluted waters, Joe Scarborough showed clips of Kennedy refusing to offer an opinion about vaccines, saying American's shouldn't consider his opinions on the matter, which has stunned onlookers.

That led the MSNBC host to ask Lemire, "What's his standing in the administration because it is interesting, the MAGA base at times in the past has been skeptical of him because he is left-wing on a lot of issues? What is his standing in the administration? What is his standing with President Trump?"

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"We're about to find out, because this is sort of this first moment in the spotlight; the measles outbreak and now these hearings," Lemire replied. "He was, President Trump, deeply pleased with Kennedy, with the endorsement and the support down the stretch of the campaign, that he'd tell people that he had a Kennedy with him."

"That was something that really meant a lot to him in his campaign and he loves the idea of having a Kennedy work for him as part of the cabinet," he added before noting, "You know, to this point, Kennedy has been largely relatively low-profile in the first couple of months –– that's now changing, we're going to have to see how this goes."

Regarding Kennedy's appearance before lawmakers, he continued. "I mean, this obviously was an absurd performance yesterday, as those as congressmen pointed out, as Kennedy said, 'Well, I don't want to give advice.' That's exactly your job! You are the Health and Human Services secretary, the CDC. You give advice, you give health recommendations. Kennedy trying to walk a fine line. We will see how that plays with the administration in the months ahead."

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CNN's Kate Bolduan was moved to a double-wow reaction to a veteran national security official's explanation of the risks posed by President Donald Trump accepting a luxury jet from a foreign nation.

The president is facing bipartisan backlash for accepting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 "flying palace" from the Qatar royal family, and Brett McGurk, who served as a diplomat and national security official for multiple presidents, said the gift was undercutting Trump's overseas trip to the Middle East.

According to financial analyst Steve Rattner, Donald Trump's executive order demanding prescription drug prices must go down was a nothing-burger that is not worth the paper it was written on.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rattner pointed to the signing by Trump, who called it one of the most "consequential" moves of his presidency, as another "surreal, parallel universe Trump moment."

"He was going to lower prescription prescription drug prices by 30 to 80 percent, the executive order actually does nothing," he told the MSNBC hosts. "He doesn't have the authority to do any of those things."

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"But then he said just recently, I heard it on [MSNBC's] 'Way Too Early' this morning out in the Middle East, wherever he is, that a lot of Democrats are going to vote for this tax bill, going through Ways and Means because it was going to lower drug prices," he added before bluntly stating, "There's nothing in the tax bill that would lower drug prices."

"So the president is off on one universe and the world is on a different universe, and he is talking about a world that does exist," he pointed out.

"Why do you have Americans actually traveling around to other countries to buy drugs?" co-host Joe Scarborough asked.

"That's a great question, Joe," Rattner replied. "And there are really two reasons for it. One reason for it is because most other countries, take Britain for example which has national health insurance, they negotiate with the drug companies for the whole country at one time. And they basically say 'Here's what we're willing to pay.' The drug companies don't have as much leverage, so they lower their prices. "

"Whereas our system where, of course you have Medicare or Medicaid, you have private insurance. You have people paying for it on their own. We have a very fragmented system. So there's no equally large force operating against the drug companies," he elaborated.

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Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) got a real-time fact check on president Donald Trump's economy during a live interview on CNN.

The Kentucky Republican appeared Thursday morning on "CNN News Central" to discuss the tax bill Republicans are trying to pass, and host John Berman corrected his assertion on the cost of living.

Vladimir Putin won't be attending the Ukraine peace talks that he suggested, and CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported that White House officials are privately relieved.

Neither the Russian president nor U.S. president Donald Trump appear likely to attend peace talks Thursday in Turkey, in which Putin said earlier this week he would personally take part with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskky, and Zeleny reported that the discussions were dramatically scaled back from what had been expected.

A discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appearance before members of Congress on Wednesday was preceded by mention of the secretary of Health and Human Services swimming with his family in a creek notable for overflowing with feces and other forms of sewage.

That, in turn, led co-host Mika Brzezinski to laugh uncontrollably through the beginning of the segment to the point where she was forced to use a tissue to clean up her tears.

A clash broke out on CNN after a Republican strategist compared a luxurious gift offered by Qatar's royal family to president Donald Trump to foreign aid provided by the U.S. to other countries.

U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi signed off on the $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, for whom she had previously worked as a lobbyist, but Atlantic staff writer Jerusalem Demsas told "CNN This Morning" on Thursday that the gift looks improper from a number of angles.