Trump says Texas is ‘entitled to five more seats' as DNC chair readies for ‘knife fight': Live updates
Speaking to CNBC, the president said: 'We have a really good governor, and we have good people in Texas, and I won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats.'
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin appeared in Illinois alongside a group of Texas House Democrats who fled the state as part of the dispute with Republicans over redistricting. Martin vowed to 'bring a knife to a knife fight' to block efforts to change maps to the benefit of the GOP.
In the same CNBC interview, Trump was asked about a potential future presidential run. He initially replied, 'probably not,' before later indicating that he 'would like to run.' Under the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, presidents are limited to two four-year terms, whether consecutive or not.
Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and several top former Justice Department officials for depositions regarding Jeffrey Epstein. The committee also subpoenaed the DOJ for the so-called 'Epstein Files.'
Report: Trump to sign order punishing banks that discriminate against conservatives
President Donald Trump is set to crack down on Wall Street banks accused of dropping customers over their conservative beliefs and shutting out cryptocurrency companies, a new report states.
Trump, the self-professed first ' crypto-president,' is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that threatens financial penalties in response to so-called politically motivated 'debanking,' sources told the Wall Street Journal.
James Liddell reports.
Trump to sign order punishing banks that discriminate against conservatives: report
Trump could sign the order as early as this week, reports say, in a bid to root out alleged politically motivated 'debanking'
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 18:40
Ghislaine Maxwell opposes unsealing grand jury transcripts
Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has said via her legal team that she is against the unsealing of the grand jury transcripts relating to her case, as requested by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.
Maxwell argues that because she hasn't seen them and is 'actively litigating her case,' it shouldn't be made public.
In her filing with the court, her team writes: 'Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not. Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain.'
Earlier, the Justice Department admitted that grand jury transcripts in the criminal cases of Epstein and Maxwell contain mostly publicly available information, as Kelly Rissman reported:
No new information in Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts, Pam Bondi says
'Much of the information provided during the course of the grand jury testimony... was made publicly available at trial,' the filing states
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 18:29
DNC chair: 'Ready to fight fire with fire'
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 18:25
Trump says he hired Fed chair Powell as a 'favor' after CNBC host presses him on labor bureau firing
President Donald Trump defended some of his more controversial recent decisions, such as firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while distancing himself from past choices he's grown unhappy with, such as hiring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, i n a lengthy interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning.
Phoning in to Squawk Box, Trump spoke at length about his economic record nearly seven months into his second term – maintaining that several members of his administration, whom Trump has expressed dissatisfaction with, were 'highly political.'
Ariana Baio reports.
Trump defended his recent decision to fire head of BLS while distancing himself from his past decision to hire Fed chair Jerome Powell
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 18:21
Democrats mock Trump's roof walkabout
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 18:08
Democrats rallying to make Texas redistricting fight national
National Democrats are closing ranks behind Texas state lawmakers who left the state to prevent Republicans from enacting a gerrymandered congressional map, fulfilling President Donald Trump's wishes for the 2026 midterms.
From Illinois, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin promised the party is 'bringing a knife to a knife fight.' He warned the GOP plan is 'a test case for the rest of the country' and a 'model for other red states to lie, cheat, and steal away to victory.'
California officials are considering their own efforts to further tilt their U.S. House delegation toward Democrats, in response to Texas.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said Donald Trump's push in Texas is 'not democracy — that's not America.' He mocked Texas leaders for doing Trump's bidding. 'When Donald Trump calls, they say, 'Yes, sir, right away,'' Pritzker said of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's running for the Senate in 2026.
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 17:50
Full story: Trump grabs birdseye view to survey $200M White House ballroom plans
Right smack dab in the middle of Washington, Donald Trump has found a place that's trouble-proof.
The 47th president on Tuesday climbed way up to the top of the stairs for an unannounced visit to the roof of the White House briefing room so he could survey the site of the massive ballroom addition, which he announced last week.
Andrew Feinberg was at the White House.
'Sir, why are you on the roof?' Trump surveys $200M White House ballroom plans
Trump has been overseeing numerous renovations and additions to the White House complex
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 17:43
Trump wonders if 'low IQ' foe Jasmine Crockett 'is any relationship to the late, great Davy'
President Donald Trump tore down the Democratic Party during an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning and targeted his frequent political foe, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, deriding her as an example of one of their 'low IQ ' members.
In a long-winded, and occasionally rambling, interview with Squawk Box, the president lashed out at the opposing political party for being 'lost' and 'self-destructing.'
Ariana Baio has the story.
Trump rips 'lost' Democrats and calls foe Jasmine Crockett 'low IQ'
The president blasted his near-constant sparring partner in a wide-ranging and often rambling interview on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 17:24
Trump on hispanic farm workers
Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with comments he made about farm laborers during a phone interview with CNBC. The President spoke on Tuesday, 5 August 2025, explaining his belief that deported immigrant farm employees are not easy to replace with native-born workers. Farmers have been left short of staff due to the Trump administration's ICE round-ups of undocumented migrants. Trump suggested people who live 'in the inner city' are 'not doing that [farm] work' but Hispanic migrants do it 'naturally'. He then launched into a story about a conversation he had once had with a farmer. Trump says he asked, "What happens if they get a bad back?" to which the farmer allegedly responded, "They don't get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die".
Oliver O'Connell5 August 2025 17:17
Democrats reach breaking point over Republican threats in political map arms race
Alex Woodward writes:
Democrats have spent years issuing warnings over Republican threats to redraw the political maps that could determine the balance of power for years to come. Now, they're prepared for 'war.'
After protracted legal battles to unwind Donald Trump's executive actions and unsuccessful attempts to derail the president's agenda in Congress, Democrats appear to have reached a breaking point and are ready to do some map-making of their own, reluctantly preparing to fight fire with fire.
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