Governor Mike Kehoe has called a special session to gerrymander Missouri’s congressional maps before the 2026 midterms. The redrawing was requested by Trump in an attempt to save Republican House seats.
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Governor Mike Kehoe has called a special session to gerrymander Missouri’s congressional maps before the 2026 midterms. The redrawing was requested by Trump in an attempt to save Republican House seats.
The Trump administration has cut funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, which operates clinical trials for children with brain cancer. The Consortium has been forced to stop enrolling new patients and will soon be phased out.
Resigned CDC official: I was really optimistic that we could continue to improve public health infrastructure across our nation. But with losing 30% of my staff, not able to execute contracts, not be able to hire new individuals, it became apparent I wasn't going to be effective in my role
Fox correspondent: Kilmar Abrego Garcia ought to be thankful he is in a country that even affords due process. (He was illegally deported to El Salvador in March without due process)
Host: Some really important changes to the COVID vaccine because of RFK Jr. For healthy children or adults under 65, you have to get a prescription. Insurance may not cover it. Doctor's offices may not stock it, pharmacists may not provide it. Healthy children under 5 may have no access to it all
Republican Congressman Barry Moore leaves out of the back door to avoid his constituents as they chant "shame" at him during a town hall
The Trump administration plans to hire private companies to use AI to determine whether Medicare will cover patients for certain treatments.
Host: ICE agents are now arresting two people battling a wildfire in Washington. Witnesses say agents lined up the crew, checked their IDs, then hauled off two of the firefighters. They said they'd never seen anything like it, and that the two men arrested are beloved crew members
Doctor: They are not trying to run an agency, they are trying to get the agency to do what RFK Jr wants. They pulled data off their website. They are issuing guidelines about vaccination that don't comport with the science. We are well into the play here of dismantling the CDC as we know it
Joni Ernst reacts to a constituent's Medicaid cut concerns during a May town hall: "Well, we all are going to die"
Joni Ernst reacts to a constituent's Medicaid cut concerns during a May town hall: "Well, we all are going to die"
Republican Senator Joni Ernst has told advisors she is not planning to run for re-election.
Host: The US has pulled the plug on a long standing global tariff exemption. Imports worth $800 or less will no longer be duty free, causing lots of online orders to be suspended or outright canceled. Foreign postal services are cutting off shipments to the US as they try and figure out this rule
Host: RFK Jr. has cancelled billions in research, done mass layoffs, purged vaccine panels, re-litigated long debunked claims on vaccines, undermined scientists, and accused doctors of corruption because they question his new guidance. Is there any precedent to this? Reporter: No. He broke the CDC
Gov. Newsom: I don't think Trump wants another election. Were you there January 6th? He tried to light democracy on fire. Now he's doing it in plain sight, and people say, 'Oh, just Trump being Trump.' You think he's joking about 2028? Wake up. You will lose your country.
Host: Ghislaine Maxwell told the Deputy AG, 'I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age.' How much weight do you put in the comments of Maxwell? Speaker Johnson: Not much at all. She has no credibility. She's been convicted for sex trafficking
Speaker Johnson claims it's "not necessary" for Congress to pass a resolution to release the Epstein files because "the administration is already doing this."
Host: Fox polling asked about specific provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Boost Medicare requirements, underwater. Increase detention center spending, underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits, underwater. Speaker Johnson: I'm not buying that. Polls can can be, you know, manipulated
Q: Do you think you can get a bill to pass that would provide more funding to continue the National Guard presence in DC? Speaker Johnson: I'm all for it. I told Trump yesterday morning, we'll give you the resources and authority necessary to complete this job because it is wildly popular
Host: It's 2 weeks since Trump met with Putin. He said the big achievement was setting up a 1-on-1 between Zelenskyy and Putin. That hasn't happened. Russia launched the second-largest aerial assault on Ukraine. Are you satisfied with this? Speaker Johnson: Well, I'm satisfied with Trump's efforts
New analysis finds Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC costs an estimated $1 million per day.
Trump has revoked Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection.
Republican Congressman Barry Moore's constituents chant, "Who pays the tariffs?" at a town hall.
Missouri voter: Just this week Trump said, 'Maybe people want a dictator.' Do we want a dictator? Crowd: NO!
Vance addresses the crowd in La Crosse: "You guys have to clap and cheer at everything that I say"
Sen. Smith: The number one cause of fatalities for young people in this country between 1 and 19 are firearms. This is a choice that we are making in our country. No one thing is going to solve this, but we can't just sit back and say there's nothing we can do
Host: Democratic Congresswoman Luz Rivas is introducing a bill that would require ICE to notify family members if a detainee is being moved within 24 hours. She made the move after ICE snatched a high school senior while walking his dog and moved him out of state without his parents' knowledge
Republican Congressman Mark Alford is booed by his constituents after saying "Trump has the best interest of Americans."
Q: Who will replace the CDC Director and what specifically did she do wrong? Leavitt: She was not aligned with Trump's mission to Make America Healthy Again, and the Secretary asked her to resign. She said she would and then she said she wouldn't, so Trump fired her
Republican Congressman Mark Alford responds to angry constituents at his town hall: "If you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?"
Reporter: They told people they would only leave the CDC if they felt they were being forced to do things that would actively harm the American population. The fact they are leaving now suggest they've determined that the steps they are being asked to take will create active harm
Sen. Smith: We have more guns than we have people in the US. Violence is so too often playing out in schools, which should be the place where our little kiddos should be safest. We have to all ask ourselves, are we going to continue to go down this road or are we going to take a step back?
Republican Congressman Warren Davidson is booed by his constituents while trying to defend Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC.
Director of the Vaccine Education Center: We've had the largest measles epidemic in the last 33 years. What has RFK Jr done about that? He's said, falsely, the measles vaccine kills people. With him as the head of HHS, children in this country are in the most dangerous position they ever have been
Sen. Klobuchar: I'm so tired of some of my colleagues who won't stand up and vote for some stricter national gun standards. Better background checks, triggers if a number of guns are purchased at once, triggers on assault weapons. Why don't these people have the courage to stand up and vote for it?
Sen. Klobuchar: These kids, praying in a church, packed into the pews, joyful about their first week in school, and then getting shot through church windows. If that isn't enough to move people that we have to make some changes in this country, I don't know what is
CNN lays out Trump's scheme to gain control of the Federal Reserve: "There is a path for Trump to get a dramatic makeover of the Fed and it does start with Lisa Cook... This would be unprecedented"
Folgers and Cafe Bustelo plan to raise coffee prices due to Trump's tariffs.
Fox host: Dr. Monarez says she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. She resigned. Is this something that caught you by surprise? RFK Jr: It has not caught us by surprise. The agency is in trouble. We are fixing it and it may be some people should not be working there anymore
Reporter: The ouster of CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez followed clashes that she had with RFK Jr. around vaccine policies. Dr. Monarez has said she has been following the science when it comes to policies. We then saw other top CDC officials saying that they are leaving the agency in solidarity
Peter Navarro calls Fed Gov. Lisa Cook a "DEI hire" and an "animal"
The Fulton County Commission in Georgia will be fined $10,000 a day for refusing to appoint two Republicans associated with voter fraud conspiracies to the county’s election board.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook has sued Donald Trump over his decision to fire her from the Federal Reserve, a move that jeopardizes the Fed's independence and puts Americans' savings at risk.
Q: Jobs report coming out next week. You gonna believe the numbers? Top Trump econ advisor: Ha ha ha. You know there's a lot of work that needs to be done to make it so that the numbers are more reliable. Something that we need a new team to have a look at
Reporter: A Social Security Administration whistleblower says DOGE employees created a copy of the records of more than 300 million Americans and put that data on a vulnerable server. The data includes people's names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, even their parents' names
Catelin Drey has won the Iowa State Senate special election, breaking the GOP supermajority.
Trump's Department of Transportation is planning to take over management of Union Station in Washington, D.C.
Noem: We need to go from city to city across this country and pressure these politicians to get on board. The story here in Washington can happen in Chicago, can happen in Boston, can happen in San Francisco
Reporter: Consumer confidence has dipped. That's because people are worried about continuing inflation, which remains elevated. We know there's a slowdown because of tariffs
Yale Budget Lab President: You look at a world without central bank independence. Decisions about the interest rates are now about political whims of a particular administration. We are in uncharted and dangerous waters. Those economic consequences are going to reverberate for the American people
Kirk Minihane on Trump's EO banning flag burning: "My taxpaying money's gonna pay for some guy in jail for a year who burnt his fucking flag?"
Trump: The stupid CHIPS Act didn't do anything. They're giving billions of dollars to everybody. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen
Trump: You know Zelenskyy isn't exactly innocent either. It takes two people to tango
Trump's Agriculture Secretary: I do believe we're in a revolution. 1776 was the first. 1863 with Abraham Lincoln was the second. This is the third, with Donald Trump leading the way
Trump's Labor Secretary: I invite you to see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker
Trump: The autism is such a tremendous horror show, how are you doing on that? RFK Jr: We are doing very well. We will have announcements as promised in September. We are finding interventions now that are almost certainly causing autism
Trump: We've only been here for a few months. You know, takes you a little while to fix up the Oval Office and do those things to prepare for the battle, right?
Trump on the One Big Beautiful Bill: "Some guy sends out a word and everybody uses it, including the fake news. They use the word death. No, it's actually life. It's almost like a newborn life"
Trump: North Carolina, the most talented woodworkers that you've ever seen. I'd be there and I'd watch them. I'd say, 'I'd like to have a rail on that chair. Maybe—can you fancy it up a little bit?' How about this, sir? Ding ding ding. And they'd hand me a thing. It was like they were artists
Trump: I'm trying to have people learn about wind real fast. And I think I've done a good job but not good enough because some countries are still trying and they're destroying themselves. I hope they get back to fossil fuel
Trump claims the average American worker is "already seeing a $500 wage increase" and there is "no inflation"
Reporter: In a new letter to Congress, FEMA employees warned that the Trump administration is undoing two decades of progress since Hurricane Katrina. There's a lot of concern about what's been undone, not just the legislation that was put in place, but also the amount of workers that have left
Reporter: Firing Fed Gov. Cook would mean much higher inflation. When you have a Fed that's making decisions on interest rates to try to make the cost of government debt much lower, inflation goes up. Companies have to then start putting people out of jobs. It would put this economy into a recession
Analyst: We are at risk now of the Fed losing its independence. There's a paper that shows that when this political interference begins, it pushes the price level up by as much as 8%, and it may last for some time. If people hated inflation before, they will hate it a lot more down the road
Reporter: The Fed is designed to be independent for a good reason. If the market believes the Fed is no longer independent, that can actually drive up long term interest rates. Just look at what happened after Turkey installed a loyalist to lead the central bank. They had inflation north of 80%
Host: Why shouldn't the US government say, 'We use Palantir services. We would like a piece of Palantir.' There are a lot of businesses that benefit by doing business with the US government. Lutnick: There's a monstrous discussion about defense. These guys are on it and they're thinking about it
Trump has moved to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook. This unprecedented move erodes the Fed's independence, interfering with its ability to fight inflation.
Rep. Raskin: The government admitted that Abrego Garcia was erroneously sent to a prison in El Salvador. So now they're just acting out of spite and malice to try to find some other way to go after the guy, but that's not how the rule of law works. We've got due process in America
Gov. Pritzker: Trump, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties. Most alarming, you seem to lack any concern for the members of the military that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your alarming grabs for power
Gov. Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about Trump searching for ways to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections
Trump on changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War: "Defense is too defensive."
Mother: In North Carolina, our Republican-held legislature is voluntarily reducing our Medicaid budget by $319 million because state programs operate on a matching basis. The real reduction there is around $1 billion. Families like mine are scared. How are we gonna be able to care for our children?
Host: On the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville riot, the man who helped organize that march tweeted this. 'Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protest being replaced by immigrants... now it is official White House policy. Never give up.'
Trump: We take care of our vets. Nobody loves our vets more than me, and we take great care of our vets (Thousands of essential VA staff members have been fired or forced out)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer: We asked the ICE officer what the reason for his detention was. He didn't answer. We asked which detention center he would be taken to. The ICE officer said they weren't able to say. We asked for a copy of any paperwork. The ICE officer wouldn't give us that paperwork
Reporter: Higher prices. The overall inflation rate as of July at 2.7%. That's well above what the Fed was targeting. When you look at just furniture prices for living room, dining room, and kitchen, almost 8%. This is before these furniture tariffs even kick in
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer: They've chosen to take him into detention to punish him for exercising his constitutional rights. His constitutional right to fight back against being illegally deported. His constitutional right to a jury trial. His constitutional right to come home to his family
Guest: There are a whole host of other cities primarily in Republican-led states that have higher crime rates, but that's not the focus for Trump. There is a playbook here that he is using, and it's driven by his politics
Trump: I think Kim Jong Un has a country of great potential, tremendous potential
Trump: I have a great relationship with Kim Jong Un. I understand him. I spent a lot of free time with him talking about things that we probably aren't supposed to talk about
Trump appears to confuse Kristi Noem and Gretchen Whitmer: "You know, I did a favor for Kristi, uhhh for Kristi Whitman — uhh Whitmer, a good.. a good favor, I think"
Trump: They say, 'he's a dictator.' A lot of people are saying, 'maybe we like a dictator'
Trump covers his bruised hand, briefly takes his hand away and then quickly covers it again
RFK Jr. has started following Russia Today, the Russian state-controlled news network known for paying MAGA influencers to spread pro-Russian content.
Gov. Moore: The deployment of the National Guard is not sustainable, particularly when it's costing over a million dollars a day. It's unconstitutional. And it's deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard to ask them to do a job that they're not trained for
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained by ICE during a required check in. He now faces deportation to Uganda. This comes three days after a federal judge released him from custody.
Former FBI Deputy Director: Is it a coincidence that the testimony she delivered is exactly what the White House was looking for? Immediately after the interview, her status in the system is reclassified. Sex offenders are not allowed traditionally to go to minimum security facilities
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Guest: The vagueness of the answers suggests that the questions were vague. 'Did you ever see Trump do anything inappropriate?' Who is going to take Ghislaine Maxwell's judgment on what is appropriate? Trump's personal lawyer is the Deputy AG. I don't think this guy asked very specific questions
Fox reporter: She is a convicted felon. How much do you rely on the testimony she is providing? That tidbit where she said, 'I never saw any of these bad behavior with any of these men,' that starts to flag a credibility issue because we are told from victims she was aware of what was going on
Q: Do you have recollection of you ever recruiting a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago spa to give to go give a private massage to Mr. Epstein? Maxwell: I've never recruited a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago as far as I remember (Virginia Giuffre has testified that she was recruited from Mar-a-Lago by Maxwell)
Ghislaine Maxwell claims there is no Epstein client list
Fox: The question is whether Maxwell is gaming the system. You have to assume she is. She is in a very desperate situation and wants to offer something up. The critics will come forward and say, 'she knew the only shot she has is presidential commutation, and that will only come if she clears Trump'
Peter Thiel, the Palantir cofounder with close ties to JD Vance, will hold a four part lecture series on the Antichrist.
Former Trump official: The last thing that the Trump administration wants to be talking about is Epstein files. And I think it's particularly interesting that Kash Patel tweeted today that no one is above the law, except for it seems like Trump and anyone else potentially on the Epstein list
A feeble looking Trump appears to have trouble finishing his sentence: "And he said... I would... consider that..."
Q: The Justice Department is sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you are you in support of releasing them? Trump: You've got a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don't deserve to be. I don't know anything about that
Trump says he's inviting Putin to the FIFA World Cup because "he's been very respectful of me and of our country, but not so respectful of others"
Q: Will you have a part to play in the FIFA draw? Trump: I may play. I'm a very good athlete. I may put on shorts, I look extremely good in shorts
The president of FIFA takes trophy back after Trump asks to keep it