Closing summary
This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day, but our colleagues are continuing to provide live updates on the US-backed diplomatic effort to end the fighting in Gaza. Here are the latest developments in Washignton:
Donald Trump announced that Hamas and Israel have agreed to a tentative deal to end the fighting in Gaza, and free Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
News of the Gaza agreement was praised by Republican lawmakers, who called on Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize this week, but greeted with more trepidation by Palestinian Americans.
During White House event, Trump appeared not to recognize the term ‘Habeas Corpus’ and deferred to Kristi Noem, his homeland security secretary. In May, Noem gave a wildly inaccurate definition of the core legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.
All of the witnesses who contributed testimony at the White House “antifa roundtable” hosted by the president on Wednesday were self-described independent journalists who might better be called partisan conservative social media influencers. The influencers cover leftwing protests in a highly political manner, more akin to opposition research than nonpartisan reporting.
Senate Republicans voted down a war powers resolution that would have checked Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against suspected drug smugglers after Democrats tried to counter the administration’s extraordinary use of the military to destroy boats in the Caribbean.
During the White House “antifa roundtable” on Wednesday, at least one wirness echoed Trump’s false claim that large numbers of people have been killed by left-wing radicals in Portland, Oregon. The correct number of killings by self-described “antifa” radicals in Portland is: one.
During White House event, Trump appeared not to recognize the term 'Habeas Corpus'
At one point during the White House roundtable on antifascism on Wednesday, a conservative journalist asked Donald Trump if he had thought of “possibly suspending habeas corpus, to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation, but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens.”
“Suspending who?” Trump asked.
“Habeas corpus,” the reporter replied.
“Oh,” Trump said.” I don’t know. I’d rather leave that to Kristi,” he said turning to his homeland security secretary. “What do you think?”
Noem, who gave a wildly inaccurate definition of the term habeas corpus in a Senate hearing in May, said: “No, sir, I haven’t been a part of any discussions on that.”
Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.
In May, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff in charge of mass deportations told reporters the administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus.
