Outside of whatever President Trump says during his speech tonight, another major storyline is how news networks plan to cover the remarks.

Some have opted to carry the speech live, while others plan to only show clips or after-the-fact news reports.

Fox News is in the yes column.

It will run the president’s speech live, according to Bret Baier, Fox’s chief political anchor.

Others may be shying away from covering the speech for legal concerns.

Baier’s network had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to settle an election-related defamation case over claims about the 2020 election.

Prominent Republicans are angry some TV news networks are choosing not to broadcast President Trump’s upcoming elections speech live on air, instead opting to show clips or after-the-fact news reports about Trump’s address.

“Cowards,” White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X. “NBC and ABC don’t want you to hear the truth. All they want to do is hide the facts from YOU.”

First term Trump administration press secretary Sean Spicer called on the White House to punish the networks, some of which will air the full speech on their streaming or radio channels.

“Networks broadcasting on public airways apparently don’t think it’s in the public interest to hear from their president,” Spicer wrote on X. “So [Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt] should stop calling on them in briefings and yank them from the press pool.”

Here’s what we know about the speech so far.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has branded his new military initiative the “High-T Department of War” – but medical experts warn the plan to test thousands of active-duty service members for low testosterone is flatly ignoring standard clinical science.

The directive, which will add mandatory testosterone screenings to annual health assessments for troops 30 and older, has drawn sharp criticism from experts who warn the policy lacks scientific backing, defies established clinical guidelines and could introduce unnecessary health risks, particularly for female service members.

“This is a surprising advent because they’re targeting recruits or military personnel over the age of 30, both males and females, and just doing a screening test, devoid of whether you have symptoms or not,” Dr. Hugh Cassiere, a physician in critical care at Northwell Health, told The Independent. “That really goes against guidelines.”

Jasmine Fernández has the full story.

Several Republicans have publicly shared their reservations about President Trump’s upcoming elections speech, arguing continuing to focus on the 2020 contest could pull focus from key issues ahead of the 2026 midterms.

“I don’t know what he’s going to say,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski told CNN on Thursday. “There’s a lot of speculation that he’s going to take it back to 2020. I’m one who’s always looking forward instead of in the rearview mirror with suspicion and conspiracy theories. So I don’t know that that’s going to be constructive.”

“We want to encourage voters to believe in our process,” she added.

Of course, Republicans have long sought that Trump stays on message and focuses on core issues such as affordability and taxes, though he rarely sticks to the script.

We’ll see whether the GOP pleas for discipline have an effect this time around once Trump hits the airwaves.

“I expect that meeting to occur before I’m willing to vote out of this committee and I’m trying to get to ‘yes,’ but this is a very important part of getting to ‘yes,’” Tillis said during the second day of Blanche’s Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Politico reported.

Blanche, who’s been serving as acting attorney general since President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi in April, wasn’t present, according to Politico.

On Wednesday, outgoing Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pressed Blanche to meet with 10 Epstein survivors who attended the first day of the hearing, but Blanche said he was “prohibited from meeting directly with them.”

“I have met with counsel for survivors, as have many people in the Department of Justice. But if they are represented by counsel, we will work with their counsel,” he said.

A trio of Republicans are openly airing their doubts about President Trump’s planned speech regarding the 2020 election, where he is expected to unveil claims about foreign interference.

“I am more interested in looking about four months ahead to the 2026 elections, rather than looking six years back to the 2020 election,” Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota told The Hill. “So I think our focus has got to be on winning in 2026, both the House and the Senate.”

“I think we should talk about 2026 and not 2020,” outgoing Sen. John Cornyn of Texas added in an interview with the outlet.

“I don’t think it’s a winning issue for him,” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said in a third interview with The Hill.

President Trump’s media company reportedly plans to offer sped-up access to top posts on Truth Social — including his own — for paying customers in the financial sector.

Trump Media & Technology Group’s “Truth API” will deliver subscribers posts from the top 10 accounts on Truth Social at a much faster pace than to the general public, a company spokesperson told NBC News.

The move could raise ethics flags on a number of levels, given that the president’s company is selling privileged access to information that could have a major impact on financial markets.

Unlike other presidents, Trump often makes announcements at all hours of the day on social media about major policy issues.

The announcement comes amid a different trading scandal tied to the White House. Ariana Baio has more on that.

The U.S. Navy will not discipline a member of the elite Blue Angels flight team who carried out a low-altitude pass over a crowded Florida beach on Wednesday.

“Flight debrief complete,” Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao wrote on X today. “No reprimands. No firings. No problem. That’s the sound of Freedom!”

The administration has reached similar decisions in recent months when pilots from other services were involved similar stunts.

Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House briefing room podium Thursday after eight weeks of maternity leave. Having moved seamlessly from looking after a screaming baby who thinks the world revolves around them to raising a newborn, she’s now back in the room and available to make excuses for the worst impulses of Donald J. Trump.

While Leavitt was away, the Trump administration continued its usual hobby of generating enough headlines to keep several constitutional law professors, political reporters and therapists in full-time employment. On Wednesday, Trump’s former personal lawyer appeared at a confirmation hearing for attorney general and seemed like he wasn’t sure if he actually was still the president’s counsel anymore. On Thursday morning, everyone’s favorite ICE-siccing border czar, Tom Homan, promised more “bloodshed” if Democrats don’t “shut their mouths.”

So, you know, the usual stuff in MAGAville, and hardly a gentle transition back to work for Leavitt.

By the time Leavitt made her return to the podium Thursday afternoon, enough had leaked out about Trump’s planned primetime speech potentially involving the Justice Department, past elections and claims of interference from foreign governments in the one Trump lost, for reporters to be peppering her for specifics. Surely the president wasn’t going to lay the groundwork for dismissing the midterm results in November?!

Well, if what she said about the speech — and what it implies about the upcoming midterms — is anything to go by, Leavitt is going to have a rough ride to November; maybe all the way up to 2028 if she stays on.

Read Holly Baxter’s full piece.

The Trump-led Board of Peace overseeing the post-war reconstruction of Gaza is reportedly faltering.

The group aimed to restore basic utilities to the war-battered territory within 100 days and get moving on a Dubai-like makeover of the Gazan seaside, but little has been done on the ground to achieve this, according to reports.

Aid coming into Gaza continues to face restrictions.

Many of the billions of dollars the Trump administration touted for reconstruction has not materialized, and negotiations to get Hamas to fully disarm have reportedly hit a stalemate.

Officials are now discussing a far more modest humanitarian “pilot” camp for tens of thousands of people instead of the grand rebuilding plan once discussed by the BoP for the 2 million Palestinians displaced by the war.

Israel, meanwhile, reportedly has not approved the proposed international security force and Palestinian police outfit that will guard the camp.

Little progress is reportedly expected until after parliamentary elections in October.