Trump and Vance are still backing embattled Hegseth: Live

Think tank behind Project 2025conservative plan related to the newly elected president Donald Trumpis launching an effort to shore up Trump’s embattled defense secretary pick in his latest attempt to influence the incoming republican administration.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators who don’t want to support it Pete Hegsethwhose nomination to lead the Pentagon has been called into question because of his views on women serving in combat and reports of his personal conduct. A number of Republican senators refused to endorse Hegseth or asked for more information about his drinking and his treatment of women.

“Now they’re going to send messages to their constituents about how out of line they are with Trump’s agenda,” Roberts said in an interview, arguing that criticism of Hegseth was “establishment-driven.”

Said GOP Sen CNN on Thursday that, in his opinion, it is up to the Democrats to vet the nominations, and that members of his party should be inclined to automatically confirm them.

“Who would say we’re a better producer and voter of people than Donald Trump?” Tuberville told CNN on Thursday.

Manning, 37, was among a group of trans protesters who staged a sit-in Thursday inside the women’s restroom across from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, according to 19.

The protest called on Democrats to fight Johnson’s new bathroom rule, which requires trans people in the Capitol building to use only facilities that match their gender.

Gustaf Kilander it has a story.

CBS has filed an additional argument asking why Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the network is over Kamala Harris 60 minutes episode was reported in Texas.

U second submissionthey argue that Trump’s attempt to claim that CBS violated state consumer protection laws is an attempt to “police editorial decisions made by news organizations with which one disagrees.”

“According to President Trump’s interpretation, [law] it would become a weapon for any candidate to challenge media coverage they don’t like,” the lawyers wrote.

Trump’s claims that he is 60 minutes the segment was deceptively edited and cost his campaign “several billion dollars is not only too speculative and inherently improbable to warrant status, but also irrelevant.”

He filed the lawsuit “in his personal capacity, not on behalf of his campaign,” the lawyers noted.

And even if he didn’t, his claims are meaningless, they said: He won the elections.

Here’s more from Alex Woodward on then-candidate Trump’s lawsuit against the network:

Less than a week later President Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his only surviving son – despite denying for months that he would do so – The White House it seems to leave him room to maneuver on another, similar issue. The question of whether Biden could grant unprecedented preemptive pardons to a number of public figures who could be in the crosshairs of the second administration of Donald Trump remains unanswered.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday, he repeatedly declined to say whether Biden was even considering such a test of the president’s pardon power, which could theoretically be invoked to prevent the next administration from investigating or indicting people known to be antagonists to the incoming president.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

Eric Garcia reports from Palm Beach, Florida:

On the Southern Boulevard bridge next to President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, there is a parked car festooned with Trump flags. Jestin Nevarez – who reprises Bruce Springsteen’s rap version of “Born in the USA” called “Trump Saved the USA” – is the owner.

“I come here and show support,” he said The Independent. “And now Mar-a-Lago is a tourist attraction. So when people come by, they see the flags, they hear the music, they stop by and they have a good time.”

People actually stop to take pictures of Nevarez’s car and take pictures of the estate of the former and future president.

Palm Beach has changed in the years since Trump first became president.

Before interviewing the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders on his latest Weekly Show In an episode of the podcast, the Comedy Central comedian, 62, opened the hour by acknowledging that America is currently in “a period of transition where we’re not sure if the ground we’re standing on is solid.”

But Parkels it has a story.

Pardons are usually granted to those accused of a specific crime and to those who have already been convicted. But the Biden White House is considering granting pardons to people who are not under investigation or charged with anything.

Gustaf Kilander explains.