Jim Sciutto

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special. 11:38 AM • Nov 29, 2025 © Everybody can reply

Mr. Miller told officials that if the United States and Venezuela were at war, the Trump administration could again invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law, to expedite deportations of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans the administration stripped of temporary protected status. He and Mr. Rubio had used it earlier in the year to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, only to be stopped by court rulings.

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RIGHT: new NYT report

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“In my opinion, they should stop the war immediately. You go by the battle line, wherever it is. Otherwise, it’s too complicated. You’ll never be able to figure it out. You stop at the battle line,” Trump told reporters upon landing in West Palm Beach, Florida

Trump is now pressuring Ukraine to give up twenty percent of its sovereign territory taken by Russia by force in two separate invasions with no apparent concessions by Russia - this has been Kyiv’s nightmare scenario.

Here’s what he said tonight:

After his call with Putin, Trump says the U.S. needs the Tomahawk missiles he had previously said he might send to Ukraine *and* that “it may not be perfect timing” for the Russia sanctions bill the senate is preparing to move on. What concrete concession did Putin make or suggest in return, if any?

Breaking: A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of National Guard troops in the state of Illinois for 14 days.

Breaking: The Israeli government has approved the ceasefire resolution, which includes the release of all hostages held in Gaza, the prime minister’s office says.
The government met late on Thursday evening to vote on the proposal.

“The #InsurrectionAct requires a violent rebellion trying to take over the government that does not exist, doesn't exist in Portland, DC, Chicago, L.A., anywhere. But they like the power that these emergency, laws provide to them…And so they lie about the factual circumstances” - CA AG Bonta to me

Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

Yes, it’s significant that the president is repeatedly discussing invoking the #InsurrectionAct

Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says | CNN Politics Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “...

New: Suspected Chinese govt operatives used ChatGPT for tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “extremist speech,” @OpenAI found in new threat intel report. I spoke with their head of investigations.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

Live updates: National Guard deployments and Trump administration lawsuits | CNN The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. Follow here for the latest.

Pay attention: So what, if not the courts, would be the remaining check on presidential power?

New: Trump says he could use Insurrection Act to bypass court rulings blocking use of troops in US cities

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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Some of us saw this coming:

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted | CNN Politics Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies.

Breaking: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies. www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

Breaking down the takeaways from #unga on #ukraine #palestinianstatehood and Trump’s #maga pitch to the world.

Breaking: “Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to air on ABC on Tuesday night, the network announced in a statement. -@CNN reporting

Failing to reference the broad bipartisan assessment TikTok is a national security threat, Trump expresses his interest: “I like TikTok. TikTok helped get me elected.”

US Sen. Van Hollen defends Gaza report accusing Netanyahu of ‘ethnic cleansing’ | CNN After visiting the region, Democratic US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley issued a report, saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “implementing a plan to ethnically c...

New: Sen Chris Van Hollen accuses Israel of “a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza” with two consecutive US admins complicit, adding that Israelis who served in Gaza told him “how one of their jobs was to blow up houses so that nobody would have a house to come back to.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/w...

Sen. Mark Warner to call out Tulsi Gabbard in floor speech for ‘going to war’ with intelligence community | CNN Politics Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is escalating his criticism of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, accusing her and the Trump administration of “going to war” with intelligence professionals...

New: On Senate floor today, Sen. Mark Warner to accuse DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the Trump admin of “going to war” with intelligence professionals and sacrificing the integrity of US intelligence “on the altar of partisan convenience.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

What a Russian drone strike on Ukraine looks and sounds like from the ground - this one in Kharkiv. Frightening.

New conditions for US allies, no new conditions for Moscow, and so another delay in Trump’s long-threatened Russia sanctions.

These Charts Show How Putin Is Defying Trump by Escalating Airstrikes on Ukraine Russia has significantly stepped up its drone and missile strikes this year.

Trump keeps saying Putin would not have invaded if he were president but… “Russia has significantly escalated strikes on Ukraine since President Trump took office, data show, defying his call for peace by increasing the range of buildings hit, including civilian ones.” www.wsj.com/world/these-...

—>> “A Palestinian state will not be established. This entire place is ours. We will preserve it – for our heritage, for our land, and for our security,” said Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as he signed a ceremonial West Bank settlement expansion plan.

New: First-time applications for unemployment benefits surged to a level not seen in nearly four years. There were an estimated 263,000 initial filings for unemployment 
insurance made during the week ended September 6, according to Department of Labor data.

Polish and NATO jets scrambled, Warsaw airport shut after Ukrainian reports of Russian drones over Poland | CNN Polish authorities have closed Warsaw International Airport and Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.

Breaking: Polish and NATO jets scrambled, Warsaw airport shut after Ukrainian reports of Russian drones over Poland www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...

Breaking: US job growth through March was significantly weaker than previously thought, according to a preliminary report released today. The US economy added about 911,000 fewer jobs than initially estimated for the year ending in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics report suggests.

Russia strikes Ukrainian government building for first time, in largest air attack of war | CNN Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a Kyiv government building for the first time.

23 days since the Alaska summit, 24 days since Trump vowed “severe consequences” if Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire. www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/e...

In addition, the report included a downward revision to June, bringing that month’s already weak tally from a 14,000 net gain to a 13,000 net loss, marking the end of what was the second longest-ever period of employment expansion for the US on record.