New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump was “violating the fundamental rights of people in order to punish them.”
Partial transcript as follows:
STEPHANOPOULOS: You saw Jon Karl’s piece about the president’s retribution campaign, he promised to be the retribution during the campaign. We’re seeing these moves against universities. We’re seeing these moves against law firms. You took the Senate floor to protest. What should these law firms and universities do?

Democratic political consultant James Carville drew a controversial comparison on his “Politicon” podcast Friday, likening individuals and organizations aligning with President Donald Trump’s administration to those who sided with the Nazis during World War II.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the new tariffs announced by President Trump are not going anywhere as they will help “reset the power of the United States of America,” calling it a “national security issue.”
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Market expert and CNBC host Jim Cramer issued a dire warning that the U.S. could face a financial catastrophe akin to the infamous “Black Monday” crash of 1987 if President Trump moves forward with his proposed tariff strategy without reconsideration.
Cramer, referencing the devastating single-day plunge of 22.6% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that occurred in 1987, cautioned that a similar collapse could happen again. His comments came after Wall Street experienced a steep two-day decline triggered by Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs impacting nearly 90 countries.

Massive crowds poured into Washington, DC, today as part of a wave of “Hands Off!” demonstrations held nationwide. The protests were aimed at opposing spending reductions implemented by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Trump’s newly introduced “Liberation Day” tariffs. One fiery speaker urged demonstrators to strike fear into the hearts of both men.
Gathering near the Washington Monument, thousands of attendees held homemade signs—many with explicit language—criticizing Republicans, while similar protests took place in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.

The Canadian Parliament was forced into lockdown today after a man barricaded himself inside one of the buildings, triggering a tense security response and prompting authorities to tell people to “hide.”
Police in Ottawa, along with the Parliamentary Protective Services, responded swiftly to an incident at the East Block on Wellington Street — home to senators’ offices and their staff — shortly before 3 p.m., according to a post on X from Ottawa Police. The building was evacuated soon after.
As of this evening, the area remained under a shelter-in-place directive, with officers carrying heavy weaponry stationed throughout the grounds and surrounding streets.

In a 1996 speech on the House floor, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) strongly criticized a then-bipartisan initiative that would grant China Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status. She pointed out the imbalance in trade relations, emphasizing that while the United States imposed low tariffs on Chinese imports, China maintained high tariffs on American exports.
Pelosi stood firmly against the proposal to open up free trade with China, warning that the ballooning trade deficit was wreaking havoc on American workers and the national economy.

He’s been saying it for almost 40 years…
A clip of a 1980s Donald Trump talking to Oprah Winfrey went viral this week for its relevance to President Trump’s recent actions on tariffs.
In the clip, Trump tells the talk show host that he’d “make our allies pay their fair share” if he had any control over the matter.
“We’re a debtor nation. Something is going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can’t keep losing $200 billion, and yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets — it’s not free trade,” Trump said. “If you go to Japan right now and try to sell something, it’s impossible. They don’t have laws against it; they just make it impossible.”

A group of Columbia University students locked themselves to a campus gate in protest over the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a leading figure in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) movement, according to a report from Fox News Digital.
The demonstration took place Wednesday outside the university’s St. Paul’s Chapel. Those protesting demanded that Columbia disclose the identity of the individual who allegedly tipped off immigration authorities about Khalil.
The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Committee posted on X: “We will not leave until our demand is met.”

A viral 60 Minutes interview sparks outrage as journalist Lesley Stahl asks a freed Hamas hostage if he was starved or if terrorists simply had no food. The PBD Podcast crew reacts, questioning media bias, journalistic standards, and moral clarity.
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