Weekend Report: What's happening?

Mother of Hegseth, Trump's DOD secy nominee, says he's an abuser of women. Trump fills admin with Project 2025 creators. Did Supreme Court screw RFK Jr. and his dangerous agenda?

Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, facing a sexual assault allegation and an alarming police report, is now exposed as an abuser of women by the person who would know him best: His own mother, who made the scathing allegation in an email to Hegseth himself…

None of us believed Trump when he said he knew nothing about Project 2025, but the corporate media too often allowed him to get away with it. So it’s not a shocker that we now see his administration stacked with Project 2025 creators and participants, and we should expect them to try and enact its agenda…

But will RFK Jr. (and, for that matter, others in Trump’s Cabinet) be able to put in place the anti-science, anti-vaccine program that is very much a part of Project 2025—and is Kennedy’s entire worldview? The Supreme Court, earlier this year, overturned 40 years of precedent—killing what was known as the Chevron deference—taking away power from government agencies, and may have actually put a dagger in the heart of Kennedy’s plans. It could affect other agencies too….