If it's Friday, President Trump ramps up attacks on the judicial branch and claims sweeping

and unchecked powers to round up and deport people.

As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells meet the press, the U.S. is facing a constitutional

crisis.

Plus, Elon Musk visits the Pentagon for a briefing that President Trump and defense chief

Pete Hegseth insist was focused on Doge, denying reports that the tech billionaire was set

to receive information on top secret war plans.

And counterterrorism police are investigating the massive fire that forced one of the world's

busiest airports to completely shut down,

causing major travel disruptions for hundreds of thousands of passengers all around the world.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker on a very busy Friday as President Trump escalates his attacks on the judiciary with his lawyers back in court this afternoon

defending his sweeping use of wartime powers just hours after the president in the Oval Office claimed

he has virtually unchecked power to round up people in this country and deport them without due

process. Mr. Trump's comments are the latest salvo in an escalating battle with a federal judge

over the president's authority to invoke a rarely used wartime act to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to a notorious superprison in El Salvador

without having to provide any hard evidence to a court about their activities.

Now, late yesterday, the judge who's trying to determine if the administration violated his order about those deportation flights,

called the government's answers to his questions, quote, woefully insufficient.

In the Oval Office today, Mr. Trump told reporters that he, not a judge, has the ultimate

authority over deportation matters.

We can't let a judge say that he wants him.

He didn't run for president. He didn't get much more

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