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CNN's Jessica Dean was shaken by video of an encounter between one of her colleagues and president Donald Trump's self-proclaimed "secretary of retribution."

Senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan has been investigating the surge of misinformation and extremism, and his reporting took him to the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Mike Lindell’s pillow factory, a QAnon church and a JFK conspiracy convention, and he previewed his new special, "MisinfoNation," on "CNN News Central" with a clip of his interaction with Trump ally Ivan Raiklin.

In an attempt to propel his agenda, President Donald Trump is attempting to remove the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to a Politico Report.

Current chair, Rochelle Garza, is a Democrat in the second year of her six-year term. She and other commission officials received an email last month claiming she was “de-designating” as the current chair.

The Trump administration is using a Biden-era policy to investigate protesters as potential terrorists, and intelligence sources are alarmed by the new strategy.

The effort is being led by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka, who has recently claimed president Donald Trump has “done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy," which has resulted in strikes on “high value targets” in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, and intelligence sources told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that some of those strategies will be deployed on the domestic front.

Asked for a reaction to the normally-divided Supreme Court coming down unanimously against the Donald Trump administration's decision to snatch immigrants off the street and deport them without due process, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted one justice issued a notable admonition.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Vance was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough about the 9-0 ruling that instructed the Department of Justice to effectuate the return of 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador after the DOJ admitted he was sent to a maximum security prison due to an "administrative error."

David Soucie, a former Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector, told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday that he was shocked seeing footage from earlier this week of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York City this week.

In an interview, Bolduan noted that the helicopter seemed to fall out of the sky "like a rock" and asked Soucie what his "key questions" about the crash were.

Donald Trump's decision to put his sweeping tariffs on "pause" is doing nothing to tamp down the worries of Wall Street executives who have been watching stocks take radical swings since the president made his much-hyped announcement last week.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," network host and former Wall Street exec Stephanie Ruhle claimed her phone lit up with panicky calls on Thursday night after the market took another dive and that there is a consensus that Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has to go.

Speaking with the host, Ruhle explained, "I was at my son's school play, and my phone was ringing off the hook with all of them saying one thing: 'Where's [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent? Is he in the room? Is he the one in charge?' Because that's what Wall Street is betting on."

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"The fact that they're, you know –– think about the stories in the last four days that the white house is pushing out –– Scott Bessent in charge. He's the one who's negotiating with Japan and one of the main reasons they're doing this is because that's what Wall Street wants," she elaborated. "Wall Street wants Peter Navarro and his hardline protectionist views miles and miles away from the president, because this idea that we're going to onshore all of our manufacturing and we're not going to need those international trading partners, it will take trillions of dollars and 20 years to recreate the global supply chain and bring it all home."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday pointed out that President Donald Trump's administration is testing the patience of all courts, including the conservatives who currently run the United States Supreme Court.

Scarborough noted that the Supreme Court unanimously instructed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

As Democrats look to midterms and beyond, President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that a new column from The Atlantic claims could alter the outcome of future elections.

The order, which was signed Wednesday, is asking the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to set a new standard for voting machines, requiring poll workers to ask for voter identification, and requires all mail-in ballots to be received by election day.

CNN's Harry Enten flagged some "shocking" poll data showing Democrats and Republicans are neck and neck in a key metric.

Democrats have long enjoyed an advantage when voters are asked which party cares about the needs of people like them, but Enten told "CNN News Central" that has seemingly evaporated even as president Donald Trump's trade war threatens to increase prices on everything from food to automobiles.

Vanderbilt University historian Nicole Hemmer believes that Fox News has hit a new low in its coverage of President Donald Trump's global trade war.

In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent, Hemmer marvels at the way Fox News spun Trump backing off his most extreme tariffs as a four-dimensional chess move rather than a panic move that came in reaction to turmoil in bond markets.

According to former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) the Supreme Court late Thursday left no doubt that won't give Donald Trump's administration a free pass to snatch people off the street and ship them out of the country without due process.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the blunt-speaking former lawmaker stated the court's rebuke, with regard to the arrest and shipping of 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, has put Trump's DOJ on notice.

Speaking with co-host Joe Scarborough, McCaskill explained, "I think [Chief Justice John] Roberts wanted a 9-0; I think he wanted everybody in the boat and so they kind of played games with the semantics of this, this 'effectuate' versus 'facilitate.'"

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"The bottom line is this Supreme Court has unanimously told Donald Trump, you can't race to the airport with a bunch of people and get them out of the country and then claim you can do nothing about it," she continued. "That no longer can happen, that game is over, and that's really the takeaway here."

She then added, "This and we had a Trump judge yesterday also basically citing the Supreme Court saying you've got to give notice, you've got to have a hearing and that's really what I think we need in this country is the court to unanimously, even if the language was a little hinky, and they're going to have to go back and figure out the difference."

"It's still is very strong that our Supreme Court unanimously said, 'No, Donald Trump. You can't do this, not in the United States of America,'" she concluded.

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared his nation was "not afraid" of the trade war president Donald Trump was waging and raised its tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 percent, and CNN's Marc Stewart said China's comments seemed to be "making fun" of the American leader.

Trump has raised tariffs on China to 145 percent, but China has indicated it won't go higher than 125 percent, saying it would be pointless to escalate any further, and the international correspondent told "CNN News Central" that Xi's first public remarks on the trade war stood out as particularly provocative.