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President Donald Trump has been making it increasingly clear that he would like to start deporting American citizens to foreign prisons, but experts agree there's no legal basis that would allow him to do that.

The president reportedly thinks it's an "80-20" issue, meaning that he believes a vast majority of Americans agree that citizens who have committed certain violent crimes should be shipped off to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, but former Justice Department appointee Elliot Williams told "CNN This Morning" the law wouldn't permit it.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was forced to speak over border czar Tom Homan on Friday morning as he lectured the Donald Trump appointee over the treatment of immigrants.

During the interview with the official tasked with handling Trump's mass deportations, the "Morning Joe" host asked Homan if he believed his people are treating detainees "humanely" at which point the two proceeded to butt heads.

Scarborough kicked off the squabble by asking about the Trump administration's hope that immigrants will "self deport," by asking, "If they if they go to the app or they go to ICE officials are you guaranteeing that if they want to self-deport and do it the right way, as you say, that they will be treated humanely and be allowed to go back to their homeland in a humane manner?"

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"We treat all people humanely," Homan pushed back with Scarborough interjecting, "A lot of people would disagree."

"I know there's a lot of bad stories out," the Trump official plowed ahead. "I think it's fake news. But look, I've been doing this, I've been well, I've been doing this since 1984; we do things humanely. We're the most giving nation in the world, we welcome more people to this country, refugees, than any other nation in the world. This is a very giving nation, and I've been in this business since 1984, and we do everything humanely."

"Well. I think, Mr. Homan, I've always said America's fed and freed more people across the world than than any country that's ever existed. We are city like [Ronald] Reagan said, that shines brightly on the hill for all the world to see," Scarborough agreed before countering, "I think, though, people are saying some of the situations, especially with what's happened with people being pulled off the streets and sent down to a maximum security prison in El Salvador without any due process ––."

"But you know, but you know, Joe, what people look and people are," Homan interrupted.

"If you let me finish and then I'll, sir," the MSNBC hoist admonished his guest. "I'll let you finish. That strikes a lot of Americans as being un-American and that even people like myself that's been talking about the need for strong borders for 30 years."

"You know, I think a lot of conservatives, and I could read you quotes from a lot of conservatives here who say they want gang members out, they want violent members out, but there's a right way to do it, and there's a wrong way to do it," he lectured. "And a lot of people believe that what we've seen over the past three months is the wrong way to do it."

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio threatened to "move on" from efforts to end the war in Ukraine if meaningful progress can't be made in the next few days, and CNN panelists tried to make sense of his remarks.

Rubio warned the U.S. would abandon talks "in a matter of days" if a deal cannot be reached, and Axios media correspondent Sara Fischer noted how dramatically the secretary of state had apparently changed his position on the conflict.

A former Republican congressional candidate was admonished on CNN for hurling accusations at a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) finally made face-to-face contact with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a married father who was sent by the Trump administration to the infamous CECOT mega prison, but the White House pushed back on the senator's efforts in El Salvador by inviting the mother of a Maryland woman who was slain by an undocumented migrant from that country.

The refusal of Donald Trump's administration to accept that the courts have ruled that it must bring back to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego García from a maximum security El Salvador prison where he was mistakenly sent left the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" grasping for reasons to explain their refusal to accept the loss, have him returned and put out the firestorm.

Citing a brutal appeals court ruling that Trump and his Department of Justice are brazenly flouting rulings from a unanimous Supreme Court on down, co-host Joe Scarbrough was incredulous the president and his advisers have failed to read the room when even conservative Trump allies have also taken the side of the Maryland father of three.

After pointing out that Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote the case “should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear,” Scarborough piled on.

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"It's pretty unambiguous," he exclaimed. "I mean in 2019 a judge ruled he [Abrego Garcia] couldn't be taken out of the country. The Trump administration then obviously agreed –– they didn't appeal it. The Trump administration this time said we made a mistake and, again, it's just like the Signalgate thing : know when to say, 'Hey, we made a mistake, we're going to bring you back and move on.'"

Donald Trump’s overall approval rating is continuing to see a rapid downward decline, according to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who revealed that even the president’s signature issue is beginning to see cracks of disapproval.

Maddow on Thursday walked viewers through a new CNBC/Hart Research poll, which placed Trump underwater by seven points, with 44% of those surveyed approving of his overall performance as president – versus 51% who disapproved.

A Republican strategist found himself on the wrong end of pushback on CNN late Thursday as he tried to insist universities are screening out viewpoints that "don't adhere to your anti-Western civilization world views."

Scott Jennings, a frequent commentator on CNN's "NewsNight and other programs, briefly sparred with host Abby Phillip and guest panelist Jamele Hill, a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Rachel Maddow unleashed a verbal takedown of the Trump administration over the growing number of immigration-related arrests and deportations that have unfolded nationwide, which the MSNBC host said is also having an unintended effect on the president.

“This doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” Maddow said Thursday during her show’s opening monologue as she walked viewers through a review of protests opposing President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.

President Donald Trump's "border czar" insisted late Thursday that the administration has done nothing wrong despite multiple rebukes from judges blasting the president's Justice Department.

Tom Homan repeatedly insisted on "The Source" with anchor Kaitlan Collins that officials followed the judge’s written orders and that no one in the administration did anything wrong.

Former Pentagon special counsel and federal prosecutor Ryan Goodman delivered a blunt interpretation of an appeals court ruling on Thursday that blasted the Trump administration’s handling of deportations.

“It’s just damning,” Goodman, an NYU School of Law professor said on CNN.

The violent attempt to firebomb the mansion of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) sent shockwaves rippling through the political sphere, particularly as it has become clear the suspect, Cody Balmer, has a deep-seated antisemitic hatred for the Jewish governor. But as far as the Pennsylvania GOP chair is concerned, Shapiro himself ought to be condemning his own party as responsible for the attack.

"My heart goes out to Governor Shapiro and his family, and we thank God that he's fine and they're fine," said Greg Rothman on Newsmax. "But he needs to, as a member of the Democratic Party, call out this violence. Just last month, the Republican state headquarters in New Mexico was firebombed, and you know what's going on in the Tesla dealerships."

A former federal prosecutor gushed over a judge's rebuke of the Trump administration, calling it a "beautiful exercise in writing" and declaring, "put that on a monument."

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit issued a strongly worded, unanimous opinion earlier Thursday rejecting the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. The appeals court’s decision allowed the district court judge to continue trying to require the administration to facilitate Garcia’s return and review what steps have been taken to comply with previous orders.

A CNN reporter delivered a blunt assessment as he pushed back on President Donald Trump's claim his administration has been in active negotiations with China to strike a deal amid a trade war that sent tariffs to 145%.

A reporter asked Trump on Thursday, "They've reached out since the 145% tariffs?"