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A former federal prosecutor built the case Thursday that Donald Trump stands to benefit from the Supreme Court’s rejection of his emergency request to bail him out of his sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

CNN’s Elie Honig made the comments while delivering his reaction to the news that hit on the eve of the president-elect’s unprecedented sentencing on his conviction for 34 felonies related to falsifying business records to facilitate payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Chief Justice John Roberts was decisive in the Supreme Court's refusal to delay or block sentencing in President-elect Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal hush money conviction, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday.

The decision, which comes after the right-wing bloc of justices issued several other rulings favorable to Trump, including preventing states from disqualifying him from the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment and granting him a presumption of criminal immunity for official acts, clears the way for Trump to be sentenced on Friday morning — although Judge Juan Merchan is expected not to issue jail time and may simply offer Trump conditional discharge.

Steve Bannon lashed out at former President George W. Bush on Thursday afternoon because he didn't shake President-elect Donald Trump's hand at the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.

During his Thursday "War Room" podcast, Bannon complained that all presidents snubbed Trump.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump's repeated fantasies about acquiring Canada as a U.S. state are never happening.

Trudeau, who this month stepped down as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada amid electoral struggles, suggested that Trump's real motive is to take the spotlight off his controversial plans to levy massive new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which economists have warned could be catastrophic for consumers.

While the left criticized Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) for announcing he plans to visit with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the lawmaker — who is up for election in 2028 — is cracking jokes.

CBS News confirmed on Thursday that Fetterman was heading to Florida to meet with the president-elect.

MSNBC's Katy Tur showed viewers the fire-ravaged devastation in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles from her position on the ground — including the remains of the elementary school she once attended.

Tur grew up in the area, and has grown visibly emotional as she had to cover the disaster.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) demanded that Justice Samuel Alito recuse himself from a case involving Donald Trump after a "startling ex parte private phone call" with the president-elect.

Just hours before Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his sentencing, the president-elect spoke with Alito about a former law clerk seeking a job in the new administration.

In a racist and bigoted tirade on Thursday, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk blamed the California wildfires on lesbians and a lack of "white men" firefighters.

"California has been the petri dish," Kirk bellowed on his Thursday podcast. "It has been the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the woke mind virus."

A group of arsonists were seen setting fires in non-burning areas of Los Angeles as wildfires ravaged nearby regions.

Neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew D. Huberman shared a video on Thursday of men allegedly setting fires in urban areas.

The 2-million-member-strong Service Employees International Union announced Wednesday that it is joining the AFL-CIO, bolstering the ranks of the largest labor federation in the United States as unions prepare to fight the incoming Trump administration.

"CEOs and billionaires want nothing more than to see workers divided, but we're standing here today with greater solidarity than ever to reach the 60 million Americans who say they'd join a union tomorrow if the laws allowed and to unrig our labor laws to guarantee every worker in America the basic right to organize on the job," AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement.

Former President George W. Bush declined to shake the hand of President-elect Donald Trump at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

As the former presidents were seated at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, a CBS panel noted that Bush snubbed the president-elect.

CNN panelists faced off over Donald Trump's political attacks on California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the wildfires devastating the Los Angeles area.

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings justified the attack, saying that Democrats' leadership in the state was at least partially to blame for the destruction.

Republicans and Democrats alike have scrambled to come up with ever-fancier theories of why Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency, but the real answer is staring everyone in the face, a senior fellow with the left-leaning Center for American Progress said on MSNBC's "The Beat" on Wednesday evening.

"The basic idea here, which I've been pinging around, is like what happened in this election basically, was it Trump's message or Trump himself had some kind of unique political appeal, or was he there with his own ability at the time of this essentially anti-incumbent frustration?" asked anchor Chris Hayes. "And you make a pretty convincing case it really is that one."