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A Thursday decision by the Supreme Court to take up President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship in the United States was described as “huge” by CNN’s Paula Reid.

“We've seen this tension between the White House and the judiciary building, and nothing vexes President Trump more than the fact that lower court judges can – a single judge – can block his policy for the entire country,” Reid, the network’s chief legal affairs correspondent, said.

Retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe applauded his institution for standing firm in the face of President Donald Trump's efforts to shake it down on Thursday — and said Trump will lose this fight badly in court.

Trump demanded that Harvard University crack down on student protesters, in much the same way he forced an agreement from Columbia University. When the school refused, Trump froze billions of dollars in scientific grants and tens of millions in government contracts, and is now threatening to strong-arm the IRS into revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status.

A Florida State University student told CNN that students like him need action on protecting their communities from guns — and for politicians who ignore the issue to take notice.

"I mean, prayers to you know, all my peers, the professors, the staff, the community. I mean, really, the country," he said. "You know, I'm going to call on, like, you know, Governor Ron DeSantis, the president, Donald Trump, for — you know, this stuff keeps going on, right? But we're, you know, praying every day."

Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, suggested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio might be the Republican pick for the next president instead of Vice President JD Vance.

"Obviously, many people believe that JD Vance will succeed Donald Trump as president," Stone told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday. "There's a great tradition in our party of hegemony."

President Donald Trump attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in an Oval Office press question time on Thursday as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat beside him.

A reporter inquired about a post Trump made on Truth Social on Thursday morning, in which he blasted Powell and called for interest rate cuts. The reporter noted that Powell has said he won't leave his post, even if Trump asks him to.

Following reports from financial analyst Steve Rattner on Elon Musk's Tesla stock problems and then the failure of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to make any meaningful cuts in government spending, "Morning Joe" regular Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) couldn't let a new report about the billionaire in Wall Street Journal go unmentioned.

According to the Journal, the tech billionaire has been working behind the scenes with multiple women to give birth to as many of his children (a "legion") as possible with the report labeling it as his "baby-making project."

As co-host Mika Brzezinski wrapped up speaking with political pundit John Heilemann on Musk's business woes, McCaskill interjected, "Can we talk about his legions of children in the Wall Street Journal exposé? Please, oh please."

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"Oh god," Brzezinski sighed.

"These women on Twitter are saying, 'Have my baby' and then giving them his sperm," McCaskill continued.

"Oh!" the MSNBC host gasped.

"And then he told one of the women, this killed me, he told one of the women that he expected her to have a C-section rather than a vaginal birth, because that would impact the size of this child's brain," the former senator elaborated. "Now, this is a guy that, not only is destroying his company, but more importantly he is a weirdo. He's a weirdo and the party of family values and moral majority... and he's got a harem and he wants to call his children a legion. We don't even know how many kids he has now."

Co-panelist and new "Morning Joe" regular Pablo Torre jumped in with, "My favorite part is that the reporting can't even bracket the reasonable range of how many how many progeny he has and with who."

"It's important that we point out this is reporting from the Wall Street Journal," Brzezinski reminded him..

"It's such an important detail, Mika, that when we reference these stories it's not just the people at this desk," Torre replied. " It is data, empirics, conservative leaning traditionally editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. Outlets that really are just saying this, declares point, is just profoundly weird."

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A group of anti-abortion Republicans temporarily derailed business on the Texas House floor in an attempt to block a resolution honoring late Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

For 16 minutes on Thursday, the Republicans repeatedly implored House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) to remove the resolution from the calendar.

A conservative commentator got an immediate fact check by a CNN host on the impact of president Donald Trump's tariffs on the economy.

The president lashed out at Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell on Thursday morning, saying his "termination cannot come fast enough," but a former White House spokesman for George W. Bush downplayed the gloomy economic forecast that drew Trump's ire.

CNN's Elie Honig casts doubt on the Trump administration's ability to successfully appeal a judge's order on deportation flights.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt for violating his orders to stop deportation flights to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, and Honig said they had little defense for an appeal.

Moments after pointing out that stock in Elon Musk's Tesla is tanking, MSNBC contributor and financial analyst Steve Rattner laid waste to the efforts of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE.

Pointing to reporting from the New York Times that claims made by DOGE don't add up, Rattner had the MSNBC producers put up a graph with a heading reading, "Budget savings are tiny."

Nothing the differences between DOGE "promises vs realities," Rattner explained to the "Morning Joe" panel, "There's been an enormous amount of commotion. You've had a bunch of people lose their jobs. You've had confusion all over the place. What do we have to show for it? Well, back during the campaign, [Donald ] Trump claimed that he was going to cut $2 trillion from our annual budget. And, by the way, our annual budget is 7 trillion, so you're talking he would have been talking, obviously, about a massive, massive cut."

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Using his charts, he continued, "They quickly realized that was not successful. In January, they said, we'll cut a trillion out of the budget and, by the way, the government's fiscal year is now more than half over anyway. But then on April 10th, they lowered it to $150 billion."

Laughing he added, "So $2 trillion, $1 trillion, 150 –– but even the $150 billion, the New York Times did a very thorough investigation of this. $90 and $92 billion of it is unspecified. Nobody knows where that's coming from."

"So for all the commotion, all the layoffs, all the unhappy people, there's very little to show for it. And you can see that most clearly over here because this tracks federal spending month by month since the beginning of each year, back from 2022. And as you would expect, it went up a little bit in 23, a little bit in 24, but it's actually gone up a good bit in 25. So there's still no impact whatsoever on government spending from all of, as I said, the commotion that Musk has created in Washington."

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Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) argued that a wrongly deported Maryland man should not be returned to the United States from El Salvador because he was a "potential terrorist."

During a Thursday interview on Fox Business, Meuser defended the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia despite the Supreme Court's ruling that he should be returned and the Trump administration's admission that he was mistakenly deported.

CNN's Natasha Bertrand on Thursday brought word that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had failed to greet French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu after he arrived in the United States to discuss the war in Ukraine.

While talking with host John Berman, Bertrand revealed that "we are just learning that [Hegseth] failed to greet the French defense minister outside the Pentagon early this morning during an honor cordon."