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Former fitness influencer turned podcast host Jillian Michaels battled with CNN host Abby Phillip –– and the entire "Table for Five" panel, for that matter –– on Saturday morning as she defended Donald Trump's controversial immigrant round-ups.

She began with, "The key word, though, is a legal pathway to citizenship. I believe that people don't want to see illegal immigration because it doesn't behoove anyone, including the people that come in illegally."

"They have no upward mobility, they have no job protections. they are not able to start businesses and the list goes on and on," she continued before adding, "It creates resentment amongst citizens that are here –– obviously born here –– and people that did it legally. It doesn't behoove anyone, but I absolutely believe that both parties should stop the finger-pointing and work towards radical immigration reform. I think most people feel that way."

Co-panelist Boomani Jones offered, "The problem is that calling it radical immigration reform is far too broad, because what I see on TV looks pretty damn radical, right? Like, I think people are saying it's an application of radical reform that is a little bit terrifying on one level. I think the other part of it is when you're talking about these deportations or rounding people up, in theory, those aren't actual people. We see all these stories that come out, they're like, hey, man, you just, we love that woman, she waits our tables at this diner. She's our favorite person and you just rounded her up."

Host Phillip then moved the conversation to the so-called controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" established under Trump which led Michaels to try and point the finger at President Barack Obama.

"I want to give you the other side here," she attempted. "First of all, obviously Alligator Alley (sic) and what's going on there is disturbing, but here's the counterargument. You're pointing fingers and where was everybody pointing fingers with Obama's cages, but let's go a step further ––."

"I will say people did complain about Obama. I remember --," Phillip interjected with Michaels continuing, "... and not really knowing about this because no one talked about it."

"People did complain, especially immigration advocates. I mean, with Obama," Phillip parried.

"Okay, let's say that's true," the CNN guest replied dismissively. "I remember Obama being a hero of the left, he was a hero of mine. I didn't know about these cages until we saw Trump put people in them."

"Now, now with that said, let's look at what just happened: the glass farm, a glass-house marijuana farm," she continued. "Here's what people don't want to see on the other side. They don't want to see people throwing rocks into the cars of federal agents. They don't want to hear that someone supposedly opened fire on them. They also don't want to learn that there are a bunch of kids there that are undocumented or unaccompanied, and they think this is crazy talk, and we should be focusing on that. And I, for one thing, how did those kids get there?"

"I just want to add one thing," The CNN host replied. "We do have to go, but the UFW, the United Farm Workers put out a statement about this. They said, the UFW can confirm, farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, California. Others, including U.S. citizens, remain totally unaccounted for. Many workers, including U.S. citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for eight hours or more. U.S. citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. They also added that farmwork work is exempted from child labor laws."

"You're telling me undocumented?" Michaels exclaimed.

"I'm not saying undocumented. I'm not talking ––," the CNN host attempted which led Michaels to interrupt again with, "They work at a marijuana farm?"

"I'm not talking about the undocumented part but, according to this statement, in this country, not just at farm, not at marijuana farms at all," Phillip stated as Michaels snapped at her with, "Don't use semantics! Look at the reality of what we're talking about. How did an unaccompanied, undocumented 14-year-old ––."

"Hey, Jillian, Jillian, I believe that, and many people might believe children should be subject to child labor laws, but it's true in this country that when it comes to agricultural work, they're not," Phillip patiently explained.

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During a pre-scheduled appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was alerted that Donald Trump had just issued new threats aimed at the EU and Mexico and was asked to respond.

What started out as a discussion on the war at the Department of Justice between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino took a turn when 'The Weekend" host Jonathan Capehart alerted the Maryland Democrat that Trump had just posted on Truth Social.

"I want to get your reaction to some breaking news that is happening right now on the president's social media platform, where he announced 30 percent tariff rate for the European Union starting on August 1st," Capehart noted before adding Mexico also faces a 30 percent tariff.

"Well, maybe I should stop talking because it sounds like he's completely out of it, sounds like he's completely out of control," Raskin replied. "Look, the International Court of Trade, the American court system has been uniform and emphatic about this, right? Congress, under Article 1 of the Constitution, has the power to regulate commerce among the states and with foreign nations."

"Congress has always been the one to control tariffs, and in limited cases has delegated power to the president," he added. "Now we've got a president who claims he's got the power to impose tariffs on the entire world, except for Russia, of course."

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Donald Trump once again revived his war with Rosie O'Donnell with a threat to revoke her citizenship in a Saturday morning rant.

The comedian/actress recently injured Trump's MAGA follower for pinning blame on the president for the flash flood deaths in Texas, saying on TikTok: "When the president guts all of the early warning systems and the weather forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we're going to start to see on a daily basis because he's put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law."

It took days, but Trump returned fire Saturday morning on Truth Social, writing, "Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

O'Donnell, it should be noted ,was born in Commack, New York.

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On Saturday morning, the editorial board of the New York Times published a selection of highly critical comments and writings from judges who have been put in the position of having to deal with the more than 400 lawsuits involving Donald Trump.

As the editors noted, "Dozens of judges appointed by both Democraticand Republican presidents have ruled against the administration. And they have often used tough, blunt language."

According to the editors, federal judges have gone where Republican lawmakers, conservative pundits and corporate leaders have refused to tread, calling out the Trump administration for, among other outrages, "vengeful attempts to destroy law firms, forestalled some of his budget cuts and kept him from deporting additional immigrants."

According to Adam Bonica of Stanford University, "Judges from across the ideological spectrum are ruling against administration policies at remarkable rates,” and the selection pulled together from 48 judges by the Times appears to bear that out.

Case in point, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia pointed out, "This is a terrible, terrible affidavit. If this were before me in a criminal case and you were asking to get a warrant issued on this, I’d throw you out of my chambers.”

“In an egregious case of cherry-picking, defendants selectively quote only a fragment of the court’s response here to mischaracterize its position," accused Judge James E. Boasberg, District of Columbia District when it came to deportations of immigrants.

President George W. Bush appointee, Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the District of Minnesota, opined, "The court cannot imagine how the public interest might be served by permitting federal officials to flaunt the very laws that they have sworn to enforce.”

In the matter of dealing with refugees, Judge Jamal N. Whitehead of the Western District of Washington offered, "The government’s interpretation is, to put it mildly, ‘interpretive jiggery-pokery’ of the highest order. ... It requires not just reading between the lines, but hallucinating new text that simply is not there.”

Trump appointee, Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher, District of Maryland, explained, "Defendants have provided no evidence, or even any specific allegations, as to how Cristian, or any other class member, poses a threat to public safety. ... This is a court of evidence.”

Ruling on the Trump administration's battle with New York over congestion pricing, Trump appointee Lewis J. Liman bluntly stated, "That argument is nonsensical.”

Another Trump appointee, Mary S. McElroy, District of Rhode Island, tersely wrote, “In short, the government asks the court ‘to overlook the simplest, most logical explanation’ for what happened. The court declines.”

You can read more scathing remarks here.

The growing war between Attorney General Pam Bondi and top FBI officials Kash Patel and Dan Bongino over the transparency of the Jeffrey Epstein files led one former top DOJ official to rip into the entire crew.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-acting United States Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord expressed outrage at the internal battle at the DOJ that has led the FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to reportedly call for Bondi's firing.

Speaking with the hosts, McCord expressed genuine alarm that the war between the officials is putting the country at risk.

"How serious a rift is this and what do you make of the deputy FBI director, according to sources ,demanding that the attorney general be fired and he didn't show up to work yesterday?" host Jonathan Capehart asked.

"He's not a serious person," McCord shot back." He came into this job with a serious mission, he has no relevant experience to be the FBI deputy director and I think that's now showing. "

"You know, there are certainly times in my long tenure at the Department of Justice when there are differences between leadership of the Department of Justice and leadership of the FBI," she added. "We have disagreed on various things, but you don't do this; you don't go out in public and demand resignations. You don't have public spats like this. You you deal with those things like adults who are doing serious work, which is law enforcement and protecting national security in this country."

"The conspiracies about it and the reason that this is so annoying to the MAGA base is all just such a sideshow. and then to have that boil over into this very public spat, I mean, I think it just shows us all how dangerous this crew that is leading the Department of Justice and the FBI," she charged.

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