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Unearthed video exposes El-Sayed’s opinion on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants

2026-08-03T20:00:46-04:00 / Fox News

The Michigan Senate candidate said in 2018 that denying licenses based on documentation status was discriminatory

By Leo Briceno Fox News

Published August 3, 2026 8:00pm EDT | Updated August 3, 2026 8:45pm EDT

Progressive Michigan Senate hopeful calls for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants in resurfaced 2018 campaign interview

Abdul El-Sayed said that withholding licenses from immigrants who have entered US illegally amounts to ‘discrimination.’ (Credit: Youtube/ Detroit PBS – July 19, 2018)

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Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, once proposed allowing undocumented immigrants to secure driver’s licenses, making the case that not doing so would be discriminatory.

“We’ve got to make sure that in this state we are not discriminating against documentation status. Right now, if you’re undocumented, you don’t get access to a driver’s license. You’re stuck,” El-Sayed said in a 2018 campaign interview.

At the time, El-Sayed was running for governor.

Eight years later, as he looks to join the U.S. Senate, the resurfaced clip sheds light on El-Sayed’s past thinking about how local governments should interact with illegal aliens and raises questions about whether granting them state identification would in some ways legitimize their presence in the U.S.

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Michigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.(Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Hans von Spakovsky, an elections expert for Advancing American Freedom, explained that a license can act as a doorway to a range of government benefits.

“Because America does not have a national ID card like the Europeans and other nations, state driver’s licenses are a stand-in for that ID card. Issuing driver’s licenses to aliens will help them in all the instances where a license is needed, from opening bank accounts to all types of other transactions,” Spakovsky said.

Spakovsky noted that I-9 forms, paperwork for employment eligibility, regularly require little else than a license.

“The key to getting aliens to self-deport would be to ensure that they cannot rent apartments, open bank accounts and take all of the other steps necessary to live and work in the U.S.,” Spakovsky said.

“Providing them driver’s licenses is a huge step in allowing them to easily live and work in the United States,” he added.

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Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed poses for a portrait in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.(Evan Cobb for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In the 2018 clip, El-Sayed seemed concerned that illegal aliens would be ineligible for some of those advantages.

“You don’t get access to a lot of the basic things that the state offers everybody else, and I think that’s ridiculous and so we’ve got to stop discriminating that way,” El-Sayed said.

Although El-Sayed has rejected labels like “progressive” or “far-left,” he has advocated for a more government-first approach in many key areas like affordability, infrastructure and public services.

He’s advocated for Medicare for all, opposes corporate tax carve-outs, and he supports tuition-free access to higher education. When asked about promises to increase government provisions by candidates like Zohran Mamdani, El-Sayed said he believes that Democrats will trend in that direction.

“You’re seeing that kind of resonance here in Michigan for sure. And I’m not surprised that you’re seeing that in New York, too. Government ought to be available to set an equal playing field for everybody and to offer those basic things that everybody needs and deserves,” El-Sayed told Fox News Digital in an interview.

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Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan on August 2, 2026()

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El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how far government should go in providing some of those same services to non-residents. His campaign also did not address whether providing licenses for undocumented immigrants would be a tacit approval of their presence in the country.

El-Sayed faces off against Rep. Haley Stevens on Tuesday evening in the state’s primaries. Whoever secures the party’s nomination will advance to the Nov. 3 general election.

Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.

More Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool charges dropped by Pirro’s office

August 3, 2026 / 9:21 PM EDT / CBS News

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Amid the Trump administration infighting over a decision to move to dismiss a felony criminal charge against a former Olympian who was accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prosecutors in Washington moved to drop charges against three other defendants who were similarly accused of damaging the pool, court filings reviewed by CBS News in D.C. Superior Court show.

In recent days, federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office moved to dismiss three misdemeanor cases following a Friday court filing that moved to dismiss vandalism charges against former Olympian David Hearn.

In addition to Hearn, prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges against three others accused of similar damage: Justin Carreno, Sophie Dennison-Gibby and Cameron Thiers, according to court filings. The three were accused of destroying property of value less than $1,000.

CBS News has reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Hearn, a Maryland resident, said he stopped by the pool on June 19 while on a bike ride, and authorities arrested him after he reached down to touch it. He was accused of ripping a piece of sealant from the pool resulting in damage greater than $1,000. He denied any wrongdoing.

Despite accusations from Pirro that Hearn had “damaged the pool,” prosecutors on Friday said they dropped the case after new information came to light that the damage was caused by a “botched installation” by a contractor in the rush to finish the project ahead of the America 250 events in Washington. Pirro’s office said the Department of the Interior had recently obtained internal documents that show the pool had frequent setbacks due to poor weather and damage occurring to the pool while sealant was being applied.

Attorneys for Hearn said in a statement Friday that the case “should never have been brought” and that the government “owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”

Pirro’s decision to drop the charges caught the ire of President Trump, who said she “choked” and “made a mistake,” while he insisted that “vandals” damaged the pool.

“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday, adding, “I don’t know what the hell happened.”

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum echoed the White House, saying in a post on X Saturday that the “evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool.”

“Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool,” Burgum said, without providing specific evidence.

Pirro was later spotted visiting the White House hours after Mr. Trump’s comments.

Allen Dale, an attorney representing Thiers, said in a phone interview Monday that his client was “happy now that this case has been dismissed,” but that the last six weeks since he was charged have been a “nightmare.”

“He’s glad it’s over and wants to put it behind him,” Dale told CBS News.

Dale said he found out the Justice Department chose not to prosecute Thiers by email overnight Sunday.

In a statement to CBS News, Jamison Koehler, an attorney representing Dennison-Gibbey, said his client “was arrested for a crime any rational person knows she did not commit.”

David Benowitz, a partner at Price Benowitz LLP who represents Carreno, said his client was a government contractor who was fired days after he was arrested, resulting in Carreno moving from his home due to being unable to afford rent during the “tragedy” his client faced.

“We were all at the pool, there’s no slashes,” Benowitz said in a phone interview with CBS News. As part of a visit to the pool to investigate the damage, Benowitz said he and other lawyers saw the “flawed seams” in the pool and where the liner “bubbled up.”

Instead, the government “literally fabricated a crime,” Benowitz said, adding that his client is considering all legal options against the government after the dismissal.

“This was the epitome of the politicization of the criminal justice system,” Benowitz said. “It’s just the sort of the gut-wrenching reality of it. The guy just goes down to the Reflecting Pool and walks out with a misdemeanor and is fired from his job.”

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25 states sue Trump administration over latest round of tariffs

August 3, 2026 / 5:55 PM EDT / CBS News

A coalition of 25 states on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that it exceeded its authority in imposing a new round of sweeping tariffs last month.

The import duties, enacted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, target 60 economies with rates ranging from 10% to 12.5%.

“This is President Trump’s third attempt to illegally impose tariffs that would make life more expensive for American families and small businesses, and this is the third time we’re taking the administration to court over this misuse of power,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

Section 301 authorizes a U.S. president to impose tariffs and other sanctions on countries found to engage in unfair trade practices. U.S. trading partners haven’t done enough to crack down on imports produced with forced labor, the Trump administration said in announcing the new levies.

A White House spokesman on Monday defended the president’s tariff policies.

“The United States is using its lawful authority to obtain the elimination of unreasonable acts, policies and practices that burden U.S. commerce,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to CBS News. “A foreign country’s failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor is unreasonable and burdens U.S. commerce, including American workers, and must be addressed. Section 301 tariffs have proven to be a legally durable tool since the president’s first term, and they remain so now.”

“Tariffs are taxes”

The states’ lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, alleges that the tariffs are not designed to address forced labor, but rather are an effort by the White House to replace levies that the Supreme Court struck down in February. The states also argue that an investigation led by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to set the stepped-up tariffs was rushed and overly broad in hiking the levies.

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“Tariffs are taxes, and the American people cannot and should not shoulder the extra costs that come from the president’s failed and illegal economic policy — no matter how much the President wants them to,” Bonta said.

Joining California in the suit were Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.

Although U.S. tariff rates have fallen this year, the levies remain an important part of the White House’s trade policies. Mr. Trump has said tariffs are necessary to revive U.S. manufacturing, reduce the nation’s trade deficit and generate federal revenue.

The U.S. effective tariff rate has fallen this year to 7.4%, from 9.4%, after the Trump administration replaced temporary Section 122 duties with Section 301 tariffs on imports from 60 economies, according to Fitch Ratings.

Edited by Alain Sherter

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

US House panel seeks briefing on OpenAI’s AI agent security breach

August 3, 2026 9:29 PM UTC / Updated 2 hours ago / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – The ​U.S. House ‌of Representatives’ cybersecurity ​committee ​asked OpenAI CEO ⁠Sam ​Altman for ​a briefing on the ​company’s ​rogue AI agent ‌that ⁠attacked AI platform Hugging ​Face, ​according ⁠to a ​letter ​from ⁠the committee.

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Trump slams Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, says she “choked”

August 3, 2026 / 6:54 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — President Trump on Monday publicly rebuked Jeanine Pirro, his handpicked U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, for dropping the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, but ignored questions about whether he intends to fire her.

The Justice Department submitted a court filing Friday moving to dismiss vandalism charges against 67-year-old former Olympian David Hearn, saying the Interior Department incorrectly attributed damage in the pool’s lining to vandalism and that evidence showed “contractor error” and a “botched installation” were to blame.

That move did not rest well with Mr. Trump, who said Pirro “choked” and “made a mistake.”

“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella.”

“Frankly, I think she choked,” he said. “…I guess she choked. I don’t know what the hell happened.”

According to court filings reviewed by CBS News in D.C. Superior Court, since Friday, Pirro’s office also moved to dismiss or said it would drop its prosecutions against three more people who were charged with vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. Two had been facing misdemeanor charges and one was charged with a felony.

The president snapped at one reporter who asked if he’s reconsidering Pirro’s role as U.S. attorney and ignored another question from a reporter about whether he’ll fire Pirro.

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The president had previously voiced his displeasure on Truth Social, writing Saturday, “I disagree 100%” with Pirro’s decision on the Reflecting Pool case. But Monday’s comments in the Oval Office went further.

Asked if the president is considering removing Pirro from her post, the White House referred CBS News to the president’s comments in the Oval Office.

Hearn, who lives in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, said he stopped by the pool on June 19 while on a 64-mile bike ride, and authorities arrested him after he reached down to touch it. He was accused of ripping a piece of sealant from the pool, but he denied any wrongdoing.

Attorneys for Hearn said in a statement Friday that the case “should never have been brought” and that the government “owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”

Moving to drop the charges was an about-face for Pirro. She held a news conference when the case against Hearn was first announced, saying: “One of the most offensive images that I hold in my mind are the images of national monuments that are being debased, roped, torn down, graffitied, and damaged by individuals. This unchecked vandalism and civil disorder turns into criminal behavior, and that’s why we are here today.”

Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.

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US State Department to close consulates in Canada, Japan and Indonesia, sources say

2026-08-03T22:35:03.364Z / Reuters

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• State Dept planning to close consulates in Japan, Indonesia and elsewhere
• Expected closures represent a rare moment of Washington shrinking its global footprint
• Trump administration last year weighed shutdown of nearly dozen consulates worldwide

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing of America’s global diplomatic footprint, according to people familiar with the notice.

In the notice sent to some congressional committees late last week, the State Department said it planned to close its posts in St. George’s, Grenada; Nagoya, Japan; Medan, Indonesia; Douala, Cameroon; and Winnipeg, Canada. The people familiar with the notice spoke on the condition of anonymity because the notice was not public.

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The expected closures, which have not been previously reported, represent a rare example of the U.S. closing multiple foreign missions in a downsizing that is not tied to a particular geopolitical event.

Early last year, during the opening months of the Trump administration, the State Department began preparations to shut down nearly a dozen foreign missions, Reuters and other media outlets reported at the time, as part of a broader push by the Republican president to transform the U.S. bureaucracy so that it is fully aligned with his “America First” agenda.

The White House Office of Management and Budget had advocated for an even more ambitious closure program, targeting up to 30 foreign missions. Some administration officials have privately argued that some smaller foreign missions are inessential and not cost effective.

Democrats and some former foreign policy and national security officials argue that cuts to the U.S. diplomatic footprint – coupled with the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provided billions of dollars worth of aid globally – risks undermining American leadership, while leaving a dangerous vacuum for adversaries like China and Russia to fill.

While the State Department did undergo a broad bureaucratic overhaul last year – cutting dozens of bureaus and hundreds of staff – no foreign missions were shuttered.

Asked for comment on Sunday, the State Department issued a statement that did not confirm the closures but said it was focused on ensuring that the nation’s diplomatic footprint was efficient and effective. The department added that it was committed to following congressional notification procedures.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has portrayed cost-cutting measures as necessary to right-size an organization many conservatives see as bloated and overly bureaucratic.

The U.S. mission in St. George’s, Grenada, is an embassy. The posts in Medan, Winnipeg and Nagoya are consulates, while the post in Douala is an “embassy branch office.” Consulates and branch offices typically represent U.S. interests in regions outside a foreign country’s capital city, where the U.S. embassy is typically located.

During the administration of former President Joe Biden, the U.S. government opened several foreign missions, all of them in the Pacific region, where the U.S. is competing for influence with China.

While China does not have a functioning foreign mission in Douala or Winnipeg, it does have a diplomatic presence in St. George’s, Nagoya and Medan.

Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery; Editing by Stephen Coates

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Trump says oil companies should cut gas prices after making “too much money”

August 3, 2026 / 5:12 PM EDT / CBS News
By Aimee Picchi

President Trump on Monday urged U.S. oil companies to take action to ease gasoline prices, saying that the energy giants “made too much money” from high oil prices due to the Iran war.

Mr. Trump’s remarks come as Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell more than 4% on Monday to about $84 a barrel amid hopes for diplomatic progress in ending the conflict. Yet oil prices remain considerably higher than their pre-war levels, and U.S. gasoline prices are above $4 a gallon, up from about $3 a gallon before the war.

In a recent CBS News poll, about half of Americans said elevated fuel costs are causing them financial difficulties. About eight in 10 of those polled said the Trump administration isn’t focusing enough on lowering consumer prices.

On Monday, Mr. Trump predicted that oil prices would “drop through the floor” when the Iran conflict is over. He also specifically criticized Chevron and ExxonMobil for profiting from higher oil prices, which have surged as the war largely halted the flow of crude transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

“But they made too much money, too much money. Chevron, too much money. Exxon Mobil, too much. Too much money,” Mr. Trump said Monday at the Oval Office during an executive order signing.

“I’m not happy about it”

The president pressed oil companies to do more to help consumers.

“When you look at one company, where they made 12 times what they made the year before, they’re going to give some of that back to the public, and they better cut the retail price, the consumer price,” Mr. Trump said Monday. “I’ll say it loud and clear: I’m not happy about it.”

ExxonMobil declined to comment. Chevron didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Former President Joe Biden, Mr. Trump’s predecessor in the White House, also attacked oil companies for their profits as inflation spiked during his tenure.

Earlier on Monday, Mr. Trump directly criticized Chevron CEO Mike Wirth in a Sunday interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. In a social media post, Mr. Trump also said Wirth had failed to praise the Trump administration for helping the energy industry.

“The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD!,” Mr. Trump posted.

Trump also said Chevron is benefiting from operating in Venezuela. Executives from the company have said that increased crude imports from Venezuela are helping curb U.S. gas prices.

Oil companies don’t set fuel prices in the U.S. According to the Energy Information Administration, crude oil accounts for 51% of the cost of a gallon of gas, making it the biggest factor in determining prices at the pump.

Marketing and distribution, which include the cost of transporting fuel to gas stations across the U.S. and retailers’ operating costs, make up another 11% of the total cost of gas. Refining — the process of breaking down crude oil into different components — accounts for 20% of fuel prices.

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Blanche rescinds anti-weaponization fund but loopholes remain

2026-08-03T23:00:33.072Z / CNN Politics

By Jake Tapper, CNN

Published 7:00 PM EDT, Mon August 3, 2026

Blanche rescinds anti-weaponization fund but loopholes remain

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