October 23, 2025: Trump May Seek $230M from DOJ, East Wing Completely Demolished, National Guard Troops Can Be Deployed in Portland After All, CA Voters Vote on Prop 50, and More.

Episode Format:

1. Appellate Court Says Trump CAN Deploy National Guard Troops to Portland (0:13)

2. Pardoned January 6th Defendant Charged After Allegedly Threatening to Kill Hakeem Jeffries (11:56)

3. Trump Says He Could Seek $230 Million from DOJ (16:36)

4. East Wing Completely Demolished Making Way for New Ballroom (25:05)

5. California Voters Begin Voting on Prop 50; Here's What You Need to Know About the Ballot Measure (34:37)

6. Quick Hitters: Trump Admin Agrees to Forgive Some Student Debt, Massive Illegal Gambling Indictment, Pentagon Releases Names of New Press Corps, Trump Pardons Binance Co-Founder, Mortgage Rates Hit Lowest Level in 2025 (41:17)

7. Rumor Has It: Did NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Post a Photo with a 9/11 Co-Conspirator? (44:28)

8. Critical Thinking Segment (46:54)

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Appellate Court Says Trump CAN Deploy National Guard Troops to Portland

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26190894/ninth-circuit-us-court-of-appeals-ruling-on-national-guard-deployment.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/us/trump-legal-victory-troops-portland-wwk-hnk

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/9th-circuit-court-rules-trumps-national-guard-deployment-portland

Pardoned January 6th Defendant Charged After Allegedly Threatening to Kill Hakeem Jeffries

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26192298-moynihan-complaint-jeffries/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/pardoned-capitol-rioter-arrested-hakeem-jeffries-threat

https://abcnews.go.com/US/hakeem-jeffries-death-threat-arrest/story?id=126723774

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-charged-with-plotting-jeffries-assassination

https://troopers.ny.gov/news/clinton-man-arrested-making-terroristic-threats-toward-member-congress

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/new-york-man-sentenced-felony-charge-actions-during-jan-6-capitol-breach

https://jeffries.house.gov/2025/10/21/leader-jeffries-statement-on-death-threat-and-rearrest-of-convicted-january-6th-offender/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.228958/gov.uscourts.dcd.228958.50.0_2.pdf

Trump Says He Could Seek $230 Million from DOJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_MXnHbHRN8

https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/trump-seeks-millions-from-justice-department-over-russia-investigation-mar-a-lago-raid/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-doj-pay-230-million-previous-investigations-sources/story?id=126731700

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/trump-justice-department-payment-investigations

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/justice-department-trump-compensenation

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html

https://san.com/cc/trump-seeks-230-million-doj-payout-over-past-investigation/

East Wing Completely Demolished Making Way for New Ballroom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/22/white-house-east-wing-ballroom-demolition/ 

https://apnews.com/article/white-house-trump-ballroom-ea5c645a45e8f8846ebc98d5b2976678

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/east-wing-white-house-demolition-trump.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/entirety-east-wing-modernized-build-trump-ballroom-white/story?id=126755761

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5567233-white-house-renovations-timeline/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/07/the-white-house-announces-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-begin/

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5565273-trump-white-house-ballroom-funding-plans/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/trump-white-house-ballroom-east-wing-demolition-youtube.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-it-will-submit-ballroom-plans-review-with-demolition-already-2025-10-22/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/white-house-demolition-sends-shock-waves-spurs-calls-for-pause-00618230

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/archeology/national-historic-preservation-act.htm 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_R_V23fVac 

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/theodore-roosevelts-white-house 

https://www.history.com/articles/white-house-renovations-history-photos  

https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/real-estate/inside-the-white-houses-renovations-over-the-years/

California Voters Begin Voting on Prop 50; Here's What You Need to Know About the Ballot Measure

https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2025/special/pdf/text-proposed-law.pdf

https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025 

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/29/texas-redistricting-congressional-map-lawsuit-injunction-hearing/ 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-22/voter-turnout-exceeds-expectations-in-proposition-50-special-election 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-california-prop-50-redistricting-trump/

https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/2025.10_oct_9_prop_50_pros_and_cons_final.pdf

Quick Hitters

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-administration-agrees-speed-up-student-loan-forgiveness-under-new-court-deal

https://6abc.com/post/trump-administration-pledges-speed-student-loan-forgiveness-lawsuit/18061403/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-nba-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-arrested-gambling-rcna239312

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46695228/sources-terry-rozier-arrested-part-gambling-inquiry

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-media-rules-new-press-corps-b14b8cef6ba63cdac17c8ffac375e615

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/binance-founder-trump-pardon

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/economy/us-mortgage-rates

Rumor Has It: Did NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Post a Photo with a 9/11 Co-Conspirator?

https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1979353018589237717 

https://www.investigativeproject.org/mosques/409/masjid-at-taqwa#_ftnref1 

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/world-trade-center-bombing-1993 

https://www.investigativeproject.org/case_docs/us-v-rahman-et-al/1664/siraj-wahhaj-testimony.pdf 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-siraj-wahhaj-zohran-mamdani-under-fire-for-posing-with-imam-linked-to-1993-world-trade-center-attack-101760940385113.html 

https://san.com/cc/mamdani-responds-to-criticism-over-association-with-controversial-imam/ 

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/diplomacy-and-international-relations/world-trade-center-bombing 

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/abdul-rahman-yasin 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nyc-canidate-mamdani-faces-backlash-193935241.html 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw70Bu4NLTY