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The Trump administration is having an extremely rough morning in the Congress, in the courts and in the war. In the Congress, the SAVE act is dead, dead on arrival. Majority Leader John Thune of the Republican Party confirmed that the SAVE act will not pass in its current form by December, by November's midterm elections, and that nuking the filibuster as Trump is demanding, is not an option in the courts. Donald Trump missed a key deadline, a key filing deadline to essentially have the Supreme Court review its Birthright Citizenship Executive Order. The Birthright Citizenship Order from the Supreme Court invalidating Trump's executive order stands. And James Comey's prosecution has major trouble. And in the war, the administration faced a surprise attack from Iran, one that it was not expecting, despite Trump repeatedly claiming that the Iranians want to negotiate. And the administration is facing ridicule for using AI to, quote, generate a war. To say it's a busy morning is an understatement. And I'm going to be on Capitol Hill with Epstein survivor shortly as we bring files, millions of them, directly to members of Congress. We're on the road to a million subscribers. If you can hit that subscribe button, get the word out, like, comment, share and support independent journalism that will not cave and will not waver. See this morning, the Congress is a trouble for Trump. Right now. The Save America act is completely stalled and will not pass before the November midterm elections. Senator Mitch McConnell's months long absence for the United States Senate with no set return date is severely complicating Trump's push for the SAVE act since Mitch McConnell chairs the rules Committee that would draft the reconciliation ready version of the bill. That uncertainty, compounded by the death of Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, has left Senator Ron Johnson expecting to draft the bill's language, though he says the process is still in early, unsettled stages. Majority Leader John Thune instead is prioritizing a bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown and has signaled that he could hold up the House's budget framework until that's resolved. He's acknowledged that Republicans lack the vote for the SAVE act or a budget resolution. Thune says that the bill would likely still need 60 votes, even under reconciliation, unless narrowly restructured to just talk about state, state grant initiatives. But Trump is demanding that the Republican Party pass its own budget resolution before Labor Day to fund defense and agriculture and advance as much as the SAVE act as possible, though that is not possible. In the new statement, Leader Thune says, as I said earlier, we could stay here until Christmas and We're not flipping 10 Democrats to vote for the SAVE Act. It's just a fact. And we're not going to nuke the filibuster. There isn't 62 to do it right now. Despite Trump's demands, Republicans in Congress are not going to go along with them. They're not going to pass the SAVE Act. They're not going to nuke the filibuster. Now there is this talk about reconciliation. Reconciliation, you only need 50 votes to pass a bill. But two important things right now, Republicans don't have 50 votes to pass the SAVE Act. They don't even have 50. That's number one. And number two, and I think more importantly is that the SAVE act will not pass muster. Reconciliation is specifically, specifically set for budgetary items. The SAVE act is not a budgetary item. But the Congress isn't the only problem for Trump. He also has problems right now in the courts and specifically in front of the United States Supreme Court. The 25 day deadline for the Trump administration to seek a rehearing of the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling passed last night without any filing, despite Trump vowing on Truth Social to appeal immediately. The court, as you know, struck down Trump's executive order in a 6, 3 decision last month, with Trump appointees Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberal justices. While only Thomas Gorsuch and Alito dissented, Roberts wrote the majority opinion affirming that the 14th Amendment citizenship guarantee extends to every freeborn person in this land. A rehearing petition now would have been a long shot. It would require at least one justice to reverse course and a majority to agree. And the court hasn't reheard an REU case in over 50 years. The issue the decision will remain as is. Trump is also urgently separately asking the Supreme Court to to overturn an $83.3 million defamation verdict awarded to E. Jean Carroll. The Supreme Court will now consider whether or not the Department of Justice could have been allowed to substitute the US Government as a defendant in that case, which the Westfall act would have shielded Trump from the claim and ultimately led to dismissal. And in addition, James Comey's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss his indictment over the C. Shell 8647 post and I want to point to a couple moments that everyone needs to know. The first, according to the motion, In May of 2026, an FBI agent and the first assistant U.S. attorney interviewed Salvatore Gravano, a former member of the Gambino crime family and key government cooperator in the Gambino trial to discuss 86 and whether he spoke about 86 with Mr. Comey. But that's not all. In addition, Comey writes that essentially the post fails the Supreme Court's true threat standard and that behind the scenes, the Secret Service was closely coordinating with the Department of Justice and the President of the United States himself. The Secret Service sent frequent updates to Air Force One in response to direct requests from President Trump. A Secret Service supervisor who was asked that night about conducting electronic surveillance of Comey on his drive back to Washington the next day made clear that it was legally a bad idea because there was no belief in of imminent danger to life to justify the warrantless surveillance. And when we talk about the war, the Trump administration faced a surprise attack from Iran. In the war, Iran launched ballistic missiles at a US Base in Jordan in what CENTCOM called an attempted surprise attack. All missiles were intercepted and no casualties resulted. The strike came a day after Trump claimed the US Paused bombing Iran because the regime wanted to talk, a claim Iran's Foreign Ministry has denied. Pressed on Fox News about the contradiction, Trump insisted Iran was negotiating and said that their nuclear program would never be allowed to advance. And by the way, this morning, Trump says, we're going to, quote, beat the effing shit out of them, will be beating them hard after the surprise attack. But it's not just a surprise attack that has the administration on its back foot. It's also AI So yesterday, late last night, the administration posted this, posted this. This is a military adoption. Promoting military adoption included a photo showing a laptop with the Google Gemini prompt that appeared to begin, I need help building an agent to create a war. See, if you zoom in on the bottom left image, you can see one service member says, I need help creating an agent to build a war. What they're doing and whether or not they're trolling the the public or whether they're asking AI Gemini to create a war, well, that remains to be seen. I'll be on Capitol Hill shortly. Make sure to subscribe, support my work, and I'll see you soon.