Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an army “that’s going to be policing American streets.”

Schiff said, “We wanted to go through DHS contracting records and document just how much they’re spending to militarize this new, you know, effectively new police forces, palace guard of the presidents that is wreaking such havoc in our cities. And we found dramatic increases in spending on weapons, as you said, ICE agents will be equipped with now 3 to 4 times the amount of weapons as the previous year. Customs and Border Protection doubling their expenditure on the same.”

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump “has no role constitutionally” in administering midterm elections.

Raskin said, “Everything we’re hearing about today is an echo of what took place in 2020. Write me a memo. Explain how we can steal the election. Why? Because their policies are tremendously unpopular. They’re plummeting in the polls. So they don’t have a program of policies for the country. They’re just going to try to shrink and reduce the electorate and somehow rig the electoral result.”

The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population.

On Thursday’s “Spectrum News One,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said all of our Democratic and Republican presidents have been patriots, except for President Donald Trump.

Discussing the House possibly flipping control in the midterm elections, Pelosi said, “We only need a handful, but I would rather have at least 30 now. But it doesn’t matter if I want to win more than we need, because I think the Republicans will try to play a stunt and challenge if it’s just a few seats. So it’s good to have the insurance of having many more. That’s the way I like it.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) argued that there is a DHS shutdown “because this administration is insisting on a false choice to the American public.” And said that Democrats are “not going to back down on this.”

Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that she had no idea about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

In her opening statement, which she later posted on X, Clinton said she had no idea of Epstein’s criminal activities.

The United States has positioned its first dedicated “one-way” kamikaze drone unit for potential use against Iran, as the latest round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva wrapped without a deal and Tehran reportedly rejected Washington’s core demands.

A 25-year-old Texas man is accused of drugging a pregnant woman with abortion pills and causing her to have a miscarriage.

Jon Demeter was arrested and is facing a charge for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, although legal experts told local news outlet KHOU he could end up being charged with capital murder depending on how the district attorney’s office approaches the case.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Timothy Kennedy (D-NY) responded to a question on if the DHS shutdown is doing anything about ICE given that ICE has a ton of money already by blaming Republicans and stating that “The American people have demanded accountability within the Department of Homeland Security, and we must continue to drive that message forward to create that accountability and create trust, once again, in our government, where this administration has failed our country.”

White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung slammed Jimmy Kimmel’s response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, calling the left-wing TV host “a sad, angry, and insufferable idiot,” before reminding the public that Kimmel has previously dressed in blackface.

Pop singer Pink says she is not separated from her husband, former pro motocross racer Carey Hart, despite reports suggesting otherwise.

People was first to report the story based on an unnamed source Thursday, under the headline, “Pink Separates from Carey Hart for Second Time After 20 Years of Marriage: Source (Exclusive).”

A pro-abortion University of Notre Dame professor has turned down a prestigious leadership appointment after facing major backlash from the pro-life movement and more than a dozen U.S. bishops.

Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, Mary Gallagher, wrote in a Thursday email that Professor Susan Ostermann “has decided not to move forward as director” of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, EWTN News reported.