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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy for fighting back against the Trump administration was subjected to a thorough grilling from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who didn’t hide his feelings on the Democratic leader's performance so far.

The exchange unfolded Thursday night on Hayes’ eponymous show, “All In With Chris Hayes,” just as the New York lawmaker announced that he would not seek to block a GOP-led continuing resolution to restore government funding. The move will likely help House Republicans advance their funding bill and avoid a government shutdown Saturday.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow devoured with glee the latest legal blow to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal workforce on Thursday, before following the judge’s lead and delivering a tongue-lashing of her own.

Maddow devoted the opening minutes of her primetime show to the courtroom spectacle that unfolded Thursday, when U.S. District Judge William Alsup eviscerated Trump administration attorneys who attempted to justify the mass firings of employees in their probationary period.

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) became the latest in a long string of GOP representatives this year to face angry questions about Trump from constituents at a town hall on Thursday — and one constituent in particular demanded he answer for the president's controversial foreign policy moves.

"Do you support the annexation of Canada and/or Greenland?" asked the constituent. "And this is a yes or no question. I don't want you to wander off into the woods, I don't want to hear about your latest week in your office ... so I'm trying to get your opinion on this as a yes or no. Do you support Trump on annexing Canada or Greenland, and do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him 'governor'? Is that the way you'd do as a diplomat? Is that, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors?"

One conservative commentator is arguing that President Donald Trump's administration is making a major error by attempting to deport an activist who has yet to be charged with any crimes.

In a recent op-ed for the far-right Daily Caller, author John Loftus tore into Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its prosecution of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Khalil played a prominent role in the 2024 protests on the Ivy League school's New York City campus. Those protests became a national story amid Israel's military campaign in Gaza following Hamas' October 7 attack.

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on urging Democrats to reject the House GOP's stopgap funding bill, calling it a "bad idea" and a "mistake" if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) votes for cloture.

Ocasio-Cortez opposes cloture on the Republican spending bill for several reasons, including that voting for cloture is equivalent to voting for the bill itself, as it would end debate and allow the bill to move forward for a final vote.

Conservative former Judge J. Michael Luttig spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday about the attacks on judges and law firms by President Donald Trump's administration.

Trump issued an executive order targeting the prominent law firm Perkins Coie, which represented former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. It was swiftly blocked Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., who will preside over the case.

Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano pushed back after the Trump administration claimed to have a right to deport pro-Palestinian organizer Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who holds a U.S. green card.

During a Thursday segment on Newsmax, Napolitano explained that the Trump administration had detained Khalil without alleging a crime.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) argued Thursday that Democrats would be "capitulating" to President Donald Trump if they allowed the continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives this week to sail through the Senate.

In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Booker said letting the government shut down was preferable to allowing Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk continue to shut down entire federal agencies without any oversight or authorization from the legislative branch.

President Donald Trump admitted that parts of Ukraine "would be lost" to Russia under a ceasefire deal that he is proposing.

During a Thursday Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump was asked about special envoy Steve Witkoff's negotiations in Moscow.

Longtime journalist Kara Swisher appeared on "The View" Thursday, discussing her decades-long relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Among her comments was that Musk was upset when President Joe Biden's White House excluded him from a gathering of electric car manufacturers. This incident created his attraction to Trump from the beginning.

Demonstrators occupied Trump Tower in New York City to demand the release of pro-Palestinian organizer Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and graduate student at Columbia University.

The Jewish Voice for Peace group was said to have flooded the lobby of Trump Tower. Videos posted to social media showed throngs of protesters in the golden-colored building.