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President Donald Trump's repeated, desperate demands for various state legislatures in Republican-controlled states to roll back voting rights and rig congressional maps are a clear sign he knows his coalition is falling apart ahead of November, former Democratic New York state Sen. Daniel Squadron told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."

This comes after Trump was ruthlessly booed as he attended the Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on Monday — an event that led ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who has flirted with the idea of a political career, to slam Trump for disrupting local New York businesses, demanding to know "How much money did they make? We know you've made a lot of money."

House Republicans launched damage control Tuesday after President Donald Trump made two damaging public statements, saying he doesn't care about midterm elections and Americans' economic hardships are of no concern to him.

National Republican Congressional Committee, or NRCC, Chairman Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) attempted to reframe the comments, claiming Trump cares deeply and his remarks were contextual to Iran policy, reported Axios.

A federal prosecutor in Chicago wanted six ICE protesters indicted. One grand jury told her no. So she went looking for a panel that would say yes — and when a juror on that second panel called her case garbage, she told him to leave the room.

That's the picture painted by grand jury transcripts the court made public Tuesday, an extraordinary window into secret proceedings that almost never see the light of day. U.S. District Judge April Perry ordered the release of records from three days of hearings — Oct. 9, Oct. 16, and Oct. 23, 2025 — that ultimately sank one of the highest-profile prosecutions of the Trump administration's Chicago immigration crackdown.

The Trump Department of Justice seems to be engaged in a game of "chicken" with some federal judges, and one former federal prosecutor argued on Tuesday that it would blow up in the department's face.

Last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the Trump administration's $1.776 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund is not moving forward. But the administration seems to be suggesting to federal judges that they could still implement the fund, which was created as part of a settlement between President Donald Trump and the IRS over a 2019 case involving his leaked tax returns.

In yet another blow to House Republican leadership, nine GOP lawmakers broke ranks to advance debate on a discharge petition for a labor rights resolution.

The proposal, noted independent congressional reporter Jamie Dupree on X, "sets strict timelines for businesses and newly-certified labor unions working on a first contract."

A key aide to deceased financier and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed she helped put him in touch with President Donald Trump, Politico reported on Tuesday — though she denied this happened while he was actually president.

The aide, former secretary Lesley Groff, "is on Capitol Hill to speak to the Oversight committee as part of its ongoing Epstein investigation," said the report. Although Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and claimed to have severed ties with him years ago when he got wind of his abuse of children, "Democrats have repeatedly questioned whether the administration has worked to cover up evidence of a continued relationship" — a claim the timeline provides some evidence for.

The private company that operates the sole immigration detention center in Colorado sued state officials Monday over a new law that requires frequent health and safety inspections at the site.

The GEO Group, which operates the 1,530-bed federal detention center in Aurora, filed the lawsuit in Denver-based federal court on Monday against Attorney General Phil Weiser, two officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Kerry Weidenback, the executive director of the Adams County Health Department. The company claims that the new law, House Bill 26-1276, “imposes direct burdens and requirements on facilities used in immigration operations” and runs against federal authority.

While two U.S. Army soldiers were fighting to survive after their Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman, President Donald Trump chose to board Marine One — headed to the NBA Finals.

According to U.S. Central Command, two crew members from a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache were rescued at 7:33 p.m. ET on June 8 — "within approximately two hours" of the helicopter going down, placing the crash around 5:33 p.m. ET. White House communications staffer Margo Martin posted video of Trump boarding Marine One in Bedminster, New Jersey, at 6:57 p.m. — meaning he departed before that, while the rescue was actively underway.

An angry letter from a retiring Republican senator has kicked off a new round of handwringing inside the Senate Republican caucus.

According to Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who has grown increasingly alienated from his own party in recent years, fired off an angry 15-page letter to the caucus, in response to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) going scorched earth on the members of his party who aren't trying to blow up Senate rules to pass President Donald Trump's voter restriction bill, the SAVE America Act.