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Michael Smerconish covers politics, social issues, and other news stories with commentary and interviews, from his unique, independent & non-ideological perspective. SATURDAYS 9-10 am EST on CNN.

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An overview of Dodgers Stadium is seen in Los Angeles, California on June 19, 2025. Federal immigration agents were barred from entering Dodger Stadium on June 19 after requesting access to the Major League Baseball team's grounds, the team confirmed. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived at the stadium and "requested permission to access the parking lots," the Dodgers said in a statement. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Video Smerconish: Should the L.A. Dodgers have denied access to federal agents? 6:48
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Video Iran’s nuclear weapon facility buried out of reach for most weapons 6:03
Smoke billows from an explosion in southwest Tehran on June 16, 2025.
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Video Adm. James Stavridis: Israel wants U.S. involvement in the Middle East 7:00
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Video Smerconish: Where’s the evidence on Iran’s nuclear weapons? 9:28
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Video 6 secrets to surviving a plane crash 6:57
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Video CNN Michael Smerconish and Rep. Byron Donalds debate Trump’s ICE raids 4:59
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Video Smerconish: Give hard-working, productive immigrants a pathway to citizenship 10:57
People gather on a hill to watch smoke rising in the distance from an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, Iran, on June 14, 2025. Iran's foreign minister said the country would respond "decisively and proportionally" to a wave of attacks that Israel launched beginning in the early hours of June 13. The attacks targeted multiple military, scientific and residential locations, as well as senior government officials.
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Video Israel, Iran trade attacks after Israel targets nuclear sites 7:16
U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 30.
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Video Trump: I won’t be speaking to Elon ‘for awhile’ 5:45
People walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachussetts, on April 15, 2025.
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Video Is it time to reduce foreign students enrolled in U.S. Colleges? 5:32
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Video Trump-Musk feud threatens Musk’s business empire 7:53
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Video Democrats set out to study male voters with ‘Sam Project’ 11:13
A traffic light is red outside the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building after it was reported the IRS will lay off about 6,700 employees, a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, in Washington, D.C., February 20, 2025.
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Video IRS faces massive cuts as audit rates plunge 5:29
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - APRIL 22: A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard has fallen under criticism after saying it would keep the $8.6 million in stimulus funding the university received from the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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Video NYT: Trump official sent letter to Harvard by mistake 5:57
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Video Elie Honig: Supreme Court signals distrust in Trump administration 5:56
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation in the Oval Office at the White House on April 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. The proclamation expands fishing rights in the Pacific Islands to an area he described as three times the size of California.
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Video Smerconish: Trump is picking fights he relishes 10:57
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Video Should we be bringing back extinct animals? 5:45
A steelworker bands hot rolled steel as it comes off of the hot-strip mill in U.S. Steel’s Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, Pa., on March 19, 2025. (Photo by Justin Merriman/for The Washington Post)
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Video U.S. steel mills are playing a central role in Trump’s agenda 7:07
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Video Lost Boys: new podcast addresses why young men are failing 10:29
In the former Bethlehem Steel site, Alex Bambino, an employee of JWF Industries, works on a weld on March 4, 2025 in Johnstown, Pa. (Photo by Justin Merriman/for The Washington Post)
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