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Acknowledging he is "cynical " enough to believe the conservative-majority Supreme Court will side with Donald Trump on a bevy of DOJ lawsuits appeals headed their way, former DOJ official Andrew Weissmann suggested there are a few the president might want to might want to nip in the bud to avoid a humiliating loss.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," he was asked about the president's growing legal problems as his policies are challenged in federal court.

Referring to the Supreme Court being the final stop, Weissmann was asked, "What should we expect there?"

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"I think some of them will definitely end up there," he began. "One thing to note about the judges, in spite of the administration saying these are activist judges, the judges who are ruling against the administration are from, you know, Democratic appointees, Republican appointees, you have Trump appointees. You have a unanimous Supreme Court decision saying that these people in El Salvador were entitled to due process and have to be given due process."

Pointing out that Trump has seen "judges who have just had it," with his flood of appeals, he singled out attempts to force law firms into submission.

"I think the orders where all judges have said the law firm orders, they are four executive orders that have all been struck down by the courts, left and right, so to speak. I don't think if the administration is smart, they're going to take that to the Supreme Court because that will end this," he predicted. "I mean, I think they will los and right now they're doing pretty well on just the sort of fear factor and the terrorizing effect of the executive orders, even though they keep on getting struck down unanimously."

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Republican pundit Ben Domenech yelled at Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall after she suggested that the Latino community did not agree with President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz noted that Trump was besieged with poor approval ratings as his administration hit 100 days.

The father-in-law of Donald Trump's lesser-known daughter is finding out the hard way that his appointment as an adviser to the president is less important than he apparently believed it would be.

According to a report from Politico, businessman Massad Boulos, father of Michael Boulos who married Tiffany Trump in 2022, was taken into the fold and given a job as senior adviser on the Middle East and Africa policy during the 2024 presidential transition and things have not panned out as expected.

President Donald Trump said he could extend the deadline for a deal to spin off TikTok's U.S. assets because he has a "warm spot" in his heart for the social media platform.

"I have a little sweet spot in my heart because, as you know, I won young people by 36 points," Trump claimed after NBC host Kristen Welker asked him about TikTok. "No Republican ever won young people, and I won it by 36 points."

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. military could be used to take over Greenland.

During an interview broadcast by NBC on Sunday, Trump refused to back off his call for Canada and Greenland to join the United States.

President Donald Trump revealed that he was unsure if he needed to "uphold the Constitution" as president of the United States.

During a Sunday interview, NBC host Kristen Welker asked Trump if he had the power to have El Salvador return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was deported without due process.

A former official in Donald Trump's first administration who served as both national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations shot down the spin from Vice President J.D. Vance that Mike Waltz was getting a "promotion" after being ousted from his advisory position.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," John Bolton said there is no legitimate comparison between the two jobs.

Co-host Jonathan Capehart pressed his guest, "Let's talk about your other the other job you had that at least talked about in the intro. You were the United States ambassador, permanent representative to the United Nations. Vice President Vance is trying to is trying to spin Mike Waltz's nomination to be in the job you had as a promotion. I mean, on paper, it might it seems like a promotion from national security advisor. But you tell me, as someone who has been in both jobs."

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"Look, I loved being U.N. ambassador, it's a great job, there's no question about it," Bolton replied. "But in terms of being able to influence policy, it's not even a close question."

"National security advisors is far more likely to be influential," he elaborated. "The office is only a couple of yards down the hall from the Oval Office, and the fact is the U.N. ambassador actually has a job to do, too, in addition to, to what? to what the what the level of the title may show."

"So I think if you took a survey and asked any, any number of national security-related people in Washington or around the country, they would overwhelmingly say that national security advisor was the more important job. I don't even think that's a close question," he added.

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President Donald Trump complained that NBC host Kristen Welker was conducting a "dishonest interview" after she informed him prices were going up in the wake of his tariffs.

During an interview aired on Sunday, Welker noted that Trump recently admitted that the cost of toys could increase.

The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to extend a recent pause in rate cuts this week as it waits to see how President Donald Trump's stop-start tariff rollout affects the health of the world's largest economy.

Trump has imposed steep levies on China, and lower "baseline" levies of 10 percent on goods from most other countries, along with 25 percent duties on specific items like steel, automobiles and aluminum.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Saturday that she had rejected an offer from US President Donald Trump to send American troops to Mexico to help combat drug trafficking.

"I told him, 'No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,'" she said at a public event, referring to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal that described a tense exchange between the leaders.

Following a debate on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on whether former Vice President Mike Pence deserves to be the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his actions on Jan. 6th, co-host Jonathan Capehart stated he was more interested in how Donald Trump will react.

Pence will receive the award for “putting his life and career on the line” when he oversaw the certification of the 2020 presidential election results despite threats and pressure from Trump combined with an assault on the Capitol that forced lawmakers from both parties to flee.

Noting the award will be presented at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Sunday night in Boston, co-host Elise Jordan defended Pence, explaining, "I think the award is a good move just because it shows grace for anything –– what happened in the past, I'm not going to say I agreed with everything Mike Pence did as vice president certainly –– but the human capacity for change and how it is powerful when people step up and they do their job, which sometimes it is simply doing their job and not taking orders, and he could have taken orders and it could have been disastrous."

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"Come on, Elise Oprah," co-host Eugene Daniels protested before laughing.

That was when Capehart jumped in, "You know, but you know the best –– come on –– I'm just going to speak for myself. But the thing I'm most looking forward to is the reaction of ––."

"Of who?" Daniels interrupted.

"President Trump! Because it's totally going to be..." Capehart responded as he mimed Trump's head exploding.

"True Social is going to be lighting up," Jordan interjected.

"Lit, as the kids would say," Capehart agreed.

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Following the death of 88-year-old Pope Francis, the Vatican is considering its possibilities for a successor. President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, April 29, joked that his "number one choice" for the Catholic Church's next pope is himself.

Later that day on X, formerly Twitter, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) humorously posted, "I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope. This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility!"