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Last Updated: August 31, 2025, 2:39 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked the Secret Service detail for former Vice President Kamala Harris that was previously extended by former President Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, fallout continues from the White House's attempt to remove Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez.

Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill has been tapped as the interim director of the CDC, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.

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Aug 25, 2025, 12:51 PM EDT

Trump says he'll meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un 'at some point'

President Donald Trump said on Monday he will meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un "at some point."

"I look forward to it, actually," Trump said.

Trump said he "got along great" with the North Korean leader. They met several times during his first presidency, and Trump was the first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea.

"I know him better than you do. I know him better than anybody, almost, other than his sister," Trump said of Kim.

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 25, 2025, in Washington.
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Aug 25, 2025, 12:28 PM EDT

Trump says he's spoken to Putin since last Monday's talks

President Donald nTrump said he's spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since his call with the Russian leader last Monday while hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House.

"Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation," Trump said. "And then, unfortunately, a bomb is loaded up into Kyiv or someplace, and then I get very angry about it. I think we're going to get the war done. It's tough."

"The fact that he went to Alaska, our country, I think, was a big statement that he wants to get it done," Trump added.

Despite Trump's rapid-fire diplomacy in Alaska and Washington, the Kremlin's only poured cold water on Trump's push for a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy. When asked why he thinks Putin is reluctant to meet with Zelenskyy, Trump responded: "Because he doesn't like him.

President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 25, 2025, in Washington.
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Aug 25, 2025, 12:02 PM EDT

Trump: DOJ planning to file lawsuit against California redistricting effort

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the federal government plans to get involved to try to stop California's redistricting effort.

"I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon and I think we're going to be very successful in it," Trump said. "We're going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That's going to happen."

Last week, California's state legislature passed bills that comprise the state's plan to put new congressional bills on the ballot in a November special election, in retaliation for a congressional redistricting plan moving forward in Texas. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said the state was "standing up" to Trump and the GOP.

President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, August 25, 2025.
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Aug 25, 2025, 11:53 AM EDT

Trump slams Pritzker, debates sending troops to Chicago

President Donald Trump on Monday slammed Illinois and Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker amid reports that planning is underway at the Pentagon for the potential use of National Guard forces in Chicago.

"When I have some slob like Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there -- I made the statement that next should be Chicago because, as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now and they don't acknowledge it," Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday.

“A lot of people are saying: 'Maybe we like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person," Trump added.

Trump went back and forth over whether the government should send National Guard troops to other cities or wait to be asked.

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 25, 2025, in Washington.
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"We may wait. We may or may not. We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do," Trump said. "The problem is, it's not nice when you go in and do it and somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, 'Well, we don't want the military.'"

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