Laura Coates Live

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their first big battle against President Donald Trump — and instead have been left fuming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump imposed sweeping 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imported into the United States Wednesday, a policy aimed at leveling the playing field for US manufacturing but a move that threatens to drive up prices on a broad range of consumer and industrial goods for Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All three major indexes dropped after President Donald Trump doubled down early Tuesday on his threat to levy a new round of hefty tariffs on Canada. Yet by the afternoon, markets had pared some losses as officials from both the US and Canada said they would meet this week to deescalate tensions and renegotiate trade policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump says his administration is making “very big” moves and has acknowledged there’s likely a “period of transition” or “disturbance” that could result. When asked during an interview that aired this weekend on Fox News about the likelihood of a recession being one of those outcomes, Trump said: “I hate to predict things like that.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look inside the meeting that caused Trump to knock Musk down a notch. Also, a medical examiner clears up all the mysteries surrounding Gene Hackman’s final days. Plus, the debate surrounding a confrontation between LeBron James and Stephen A. Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed executive actions that delay for nearly one month tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada that are covered by the USMCA free trade treaty, a significant walkback of the administration’s signature economic plan that has rattled markets, businesses, and consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republicans pushed Elon Musk on Wednesday in a pair of private meetings to move his efforts to slash federal spending and the federal workforce through Congress, as lawmakers vie for a seat at the table in the sweeping effort to overhaul government. It’s a sign that Republicans are looking to reassert their power of the purse in the months ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN. The halt in aid, which came after Trump held a series of meetings with top national security officials at the White House, could have dire effect on Ukraine’s war-fighting abilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Western leaders scrambled to back Ukraine after Friday’s acrimonious meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky deepened the already yawning fault lines between Washington and many of its key allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Initial findings from preliminary autopsies performed on Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, show there was “no external trauma to either individual,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said. The couple was found dead in their New Mexico home on Wednesday along with their dog, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office told CNN. He was 95. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most of the Senate-confirmed, top-ranking agency heads sat around a table mostly silent during the more than an hourlong Cabinet meeting, even though some of them had come prepared to make brief remarks. Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with reforming the government, is now without question Trump’s most powerful adviser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official told CNN on Tuesday. The announcement, after weeks of questions about Elon Musk’s official role and authority over DOGE, reveals the technical leader of the Musk-driven initiative tasked with reconfiguring the federal government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal workers spent Monday trying to figure out how – or even whether – to respond to Elon Musk’s weekend email blast telling them to explain their work last week or risk losing their job. A day of confusing and often contradictory guidance left many federal workers still unclear ultimately how to handle Musk’s request. Some were told to comply, others were advised not to, and still others were awaiting instructions from their agency’s leaders until late in the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump makes an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon as he carries out a promise from Pete Hegseth before he even became the Secretary of Defense. In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During an appearance at CPAC, Elon Musk used a chainsaw as a prop to tout his efforts to shrink the federal workforce in the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump falsely called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Trump’s accusation, posted on Truth Social, came just hours after Zelensky accused him of repeating Russian disinformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump is revealing more about Elon Musk than ever before and why he sees him as critically important to his administration. Trump says Musk is not officially running the agency taking a sledgehammer to the government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stiff winds blew over Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport Monday afternoon as a slim aircraft, cleared by air traffic controllers to land, and its 80 passengers and crew moved to land on the tarmac as snow whipped in the air. But within moments, the plane crashed into the runway, sending fire crews scrambling to extinguish the rising flames around the overturned jet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department’s public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from the Trump administration to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices