A federal judge grilled DOJ attorneys today over Trump's ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico but declined to issue an immediate ruling — even as Trump himself publicly called the judge "totally disloyal" ahead of the hearing. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping lands in Washington tonight for a three-day state visit, the first Chinese state visit to the capital in over a decade, with Iran, Taiwan, and trade all on the table. Crude oil just fell for a sixth straight session even as diesel margins hit an all-time high, and Talarico's own church minister just admitted on camera they're "not a belief-based church."

President Trump laid out a stark choice for Iran at the UN today — "potential greatness" through a deal, or "obliteration" — confirming his envoys just spent three hours with the Iranian delegation and calling it "very good." Minutes later, the Cuban delegation stormed out of the same chamber after Trump called their regime an "absolutely failed state" that "will fall." Back home, brand new polling shows both parties bleeding support heading into the midterms, and a ProPublica hit piece on Susan Collins landed with such a thud that even Biden's own DOJ passed on it years ago.

A House Judiciary Committee report reveals sanctuary jurisdictions have declined more than 41,000 ICE detainers since October 2022, releasing criminal aliens back onto American streets. Meanwhile, Trump's media ban just backfired spectacularly — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are suing, the entire TV press pool suspended coverage in solidarity, and the president's own helipad speech today went out completely inaudible because no press pool was there to mic him up. Trump held off on striking the Houthis this weekend, and pollsters themselves admit the same raw midterm data can be spun anywhere from D+7 to D+9 depending on how you weight it.

President Trump just banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House "effective immediately," accusing them of "FICTION and LIES" and warning more outlets could follow — a move virtually every legal expert says won't survive a First Amendment challenge. Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco just told European refiners they'll get zero crude oil under long-term contracts next month, sending diesel to a record $6.30 a gallon. Daily Wire producer Dallas Sonnier joins us LIVE to talk the Daily Wire's new film "Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels."

LA Mayor Karen Bass quietly resigned from the LAHSA governing board and dodged a congressional hearing days before HUD announced $75 million in laundered homeless funding — and the timeline writes itself. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is genuinely running out of missile interceptors as the Houthi war grinds on, and Democrats up and down the ballot are stepping on rakes: Nebraska's "independent" Dan Osborn got caught mocking rural Trump voters as people whose "lives probably suck," and Texas's James Talarico has a fresh video resurfacing him claiming Islam and Christianity are "equal pathways to truth."

A new House Judiciary report just dropped internal ActBlue Slack messages and training materials showing staff were directed to "look for reasons to accept contributions" rather than screen them — despite ActBlue having flagged at least 22 fraud campaigns, including from foreign sources. In Texas, an undercover video catches a Talarico-aligned Super PAC operative admitting his own $25-per-vote scheme is "shady as f***" and "a roundabout way of paying people for their votes." Meanwhile the DOJ dropped fresh fraud arrests today, the Fed just raised interest rates for the first time in three years, and Congress is scrambling — with zero consensus — on what to do about AI.

The Houthis just knocked Saudi Arabia's critical East-West pipeline offline for weeks, sending gas to a record $4.32 a gallon and diesel to an all-time high of $6.23. As Iran's own parliament grapples with a collapsing economy under the U.S. blockade, FBI Director Kash Patel is getting grilled in a genuinely explosive Senate Judiciary hearing today, and Rep. Thomas Massie just blindsided GOP leadership with a surprise impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war.

Democratic state parties just launched the "New Battlefield Project" — a plan to recruit 10,000 volunteers to physically guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up in November. Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson joins us LIVE ahead of his next round of hearings on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and victims' families, China's Foreign Ministry just sided with Trump against Bernie Sanders' push for an AI development pause, and a new whistleblower report accuses DHS of directing officers to break state voter-privacy laws — allegations DHS hasn't yet responded to.

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, anti-Israel activist Anas Shuaib was filmed shouting "Allahu Akbar" near the 9/11 memorial in New York City — with footage capturing AOC and Mayor Zohran Mamdani laughing nearby. Meanwhile, CBS's Gayle King froze on live television after learning the lone holdout juror who refused to let Lindsay Clancy walk free was a Black man. A suspected Houthi strike just hit Saudi Arabia's critical East-West pipeline, sending oil past $107 a barrel. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker joins us LIVE.

Bernie Sanders is convening a bipartisan Senate briefing on "extraordinary AI dangers" — built almost entirely around a viral resignation from a researcher who, it turns out, worked at Anthropic for about six weeks and has documented ties to a British far-left "hacking democracy" NGO. Meanwhile, night one of the GOP's first-ever midterm convention delivered a genuine earthquake: Democrat Sen. John Fetterman appeared on video praising his Republican Pennsylvania colleague, sending his own party into a fury, while Trump's promised $5,000-per-adult dividend drew skepticism from Fox News and even some Republicans. And in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis are now in what analysts are calling their most serious open war since 2022.

Iran's regional war just went nuclear on two fronts — literal explosions near Kharg Island as oil prices flirt with $100 a barrel, and a genuine civil war reigniting in Yemen where the Houthis are now fighting the Yemeni government AND al-Shabaab simultaneously. President Trump says gas prices come down after the midterms — not before. Meanwhile, the first-ever Republican midterm convention kicks off tonight in Dallas, and the 2026 election machinery is a genuine mess from Missouri's map fight to a federal judge blocking USPS's mail-ballot rule for the second time this week.

The tanker war in the Gulf keeps escalating — the U.S. Navy destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island this week after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an American carrier and destroyer, and Tehran is now threatening a "more painful" response. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is neck-deep in two separate midterm fights — one over Missouri's congressional map, one over Trump's mail-ballot rule — as New Hampshire votes today and the Senate battlefield keeps expanding into states nobody expected.

We're tracking reports of anti-air activity over Tehran and a ballistic missile fired from Isfahan today as the Iran war grinds into its seventh month — and Axios reports the Trump team is already drafting a post-war containment strategy as the regime shows real cracks. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just handed the GOP a fresh cash advantage heading into the midterms, and the Lindsay Clancy jury may be headed for a mistrial after a full week of deadlock.

A constitutional crisis is now emerging in Missouri as their Supreme Court changes the rules after a primary for the first time in U.S. history. The midterm war over AI regulation heats up and lawmakers continue sounding alarms over Chinese state-sponsored AI hacking. Meanwhile, Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon and Democrats nationwide are once again reaching for racism as their go-to defense after a MAGA influencer's ugly personal attack. And CAIR just fired back at its growing list of state terror designations by branding two major Jewish organizations "anti-Muslim extremists."

A shooting in Minneapolis including two police officers injured, the Trump administration goes ALL-IN on South America moves, Spain protests migrants amid teargassing, Democrats fight each other over socialism and polling.

U.S. forces are hitting Iran again tonight after Tehran fired on American bases in Jordan, and President Pezeshkian is openly admitting the country is facing "many problems" under crushing sanctions. Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson is forcing House Democrats to go on record over court-packing, a House Judiciary hearing is digging into sanctuary-policy deaths today, and both Texas nominee James Talarico and Michigan nominee Abdul El-Sayed are scrambling after resurfaced comments blow up their campaigns on the same day.

DHS is launching a voter fraud investigation surge across nine states starting today, deploying agents typically used for human trafficking and drug smuggling cases to hunt down illegal registrations ahead of the midterms. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just handed Trump a win on his White House ballroom, federal officials shut down over 270 fraudulent CDL schools tied to hundreds of trucking deaths, and Trump is threatening to hit Iran "hard" after the first real exchange of fire in a month. LA County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge joins us LIVE.

AG Todd Blanche just charged 81 members of a violent Puerto Rico gang responsible for $50 million in fentanyl trafficking and multiple murders, while a former DIA IT specialist pled guilty to trying to hand classified secrets to a foreign government over a dead drop. Meanwhile, Iran's regime is quietly bracing for another uprising as fuel panic spreads and state media pushes contradictory claims about how much oil is actually still flowing through Hormuz. And President Trump picked today, of all days, to formally rename Lake Ontario "Lake America."

The State Department just paused visa interviews worldwide after a Biden-appointed judge struck down Rubio's 75-country immigrant visa freeze — rather than fight country-by-country, the administration is retraining every consular officer on earth. Meanwhile, the DOJ and FBI disrupted a massive Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation that breached the DOJ, NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Senate itself, and the State Department dropped a bombshell tying Portland's Rose City Antifa directly to Hamas, the IRGC, and Hezbollah through a shared tech network.

Iran's economy is in freefall as the U.S. naval blockade chokes off fuel imports, and cracks are showing at the top — Mayors and foreign ministers are fist-fighting as riots continue in more cities by the day. Meanwhile in Minnesota, state officials are literally suing two rival Somali gangs just to keep them away from the State Fair after they promoted a violent showdown on social media. The Trump administration is preparing the single largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history.

The Supreme Court just handed Trump a 6-3 win on his mail-ballot executive order, lifting the injunction that had blocked USPS from enforcing it — exactly the outcome we told you was coming. Meanwhile, Iran's economy is buckling under the U.S. naval blockade, with fuel shortages sparking lines at gas pumps and fresh protests as the regime's misery index spikes into triple digits in some provinces. And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed's attempt to distance himself from Hasan Piker keeps failing to stick the landing.

The Supreme Court just handed President Trump a win, temporarily allowing construction on his White House ballroom to continue despite two lower courts ruling it illegal without congressional approval. Meanwhile, Trump is opening the floodgates on beef imports to fight grocery prices — and some Republicans and ranchers aren't happy about it. Add in a wave of online fighting over data centers and postpartum mental health, plus brand new midterm polling, and it's a packed show tonight.

The FBI just announced it disrupted an ISIS-inspired plot to bomb the New York State Capitol while lawmakers were inside. Meanwhile, federal agents seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell's phone and laptop and raided his D.C. home as part of a sexual assault investigation — and he's not the only House Democrat facing fresh scrutiny tonight. And after months of investigators warning it was coming, an ActBlue co-founder finally pled the Fifth before Congress.

LA Mayor Karen Bass is bragging that every $5 donated to her reelection campaign gets turned into $35 — courtesy of Los Angeles taxpayers, through a city program that matches donations 6-to-1... all through ActBlue. Meanwhile, the UK Home Office is handing migrants a literal instruction pamphlet explaining that child abuse and assault are illegal in Britain — yes, that's a real government document in 2026. And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed is facing brutal new scrutiny after comparing himself to Jesus, just as new reporting reveals his mother worked for a U.S.-designated terror-financing organization.

Florida holds its primary today — governor, Senate, and House races all on the ballot in the last major primary batch before November. Meanwhile Chuck Schumer just quietly told the Washington Post Democrats can win the Senate even without Michigan, an extraordinary admission about Abdul El-Sayed's chances there. And Iran just fired two ballistic missiles at the UAE, prompting Abu Dhabi to cut off all trade and financial ties with Tehran on the same day Trump posted a graphic labeling the Strait of Hormuz "new U.S. territory."