If it's Thursday, an appeals court just paused a ruling that would have required the White House to end most of its sweeping tariffs in 10 days after the Trump administration raged against the courts for ruling the tariffs are unconstitutional.

Plus, Harvard secures a legal win for now in its fight against the Trump administration.

As a federal judge

extends her order blocking the White House from revoking the university's ability to enroll

or keep international students. And Elon Musk officially exits the Trump administration,

ending a turbulent tenure marked by controversies and cuts to the government that fell well below his own

expectations.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington with breaking news and new developments in the White House's legal fight over its sweeping tariff agenda.

Moments ago, a federal appeals court gave the administration the emergency relief it was looking for, temporarily pausing a ruling that was handed down last night by a federal trade court, which said that most of the president's

tariffs on U.S. trading partners were unconstitutional and giving the White House just 10 days to

unwind them all. The ruling this afternoon from the appeals court effectively reinstates those

tariffs for now. Here was White House trade advisor Peter Navarro just moments after that appeals court decision.

The terrorists remain in place. The court told us, they didn't all but tell us, they told us,

go do it another way. So you can assume that even if we lose, we will do it another way.

And I can assure you, American people, that the Trump tariff agenda is alive, well, healthy, and will be implemented to protect you to save your jobs and your factories and to stop shipping

foreign wealth, our wealth into foreign hands.

You are working on a plan B right now.

Of course.

There's no plan B. It's plan A.

Now it comes after the White House earlier today lashed out at the judicial branch over a

series of rulings against its tariff authority, with press secretary Caroline Leavitt

maligning the courts and trying to undermine their legitimacy as a check on the president's power.

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