World News: This week in OnPolitics: Baby, you're a firework

with Jessica Estepa

This week in OnPolitics: Baby, you're a firework

Today marks the end of June and it's the Friday before a long holiday weekend*, OP friends. So let's not wax philosophical about it and just get to the big news of the week.

President Donald Trump meets with President of South

*Programming note: OP is going on holiday! We'll be out on Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4 to celebrate America. Happy almost Independence Day! Your regularly scheduled newslettering will return on Wednesday, July 5.

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

It was supposedly Energy Week at the White House (just ask Rick Perry), but that was far overshadowed by other stories. Possibly the biggest one that we didn't see coming: President Trump's attacks on the hosts of 'Morning Joe' , Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. His insults of Brzezinski were particularly personal; he said that back in December, her face was "bleeding" from a facelift. That led to outrage from media and politicians from both sides of the aisle.

Scarborough also revealed that White House staffers had told him President Trump could arrange to "spike" a negative story about him in the National Enquirer if Scarborough would just say he was sorry about his negative coverage of Trump. Trump called it "fake news"... but in doing so, seemed to confirm that yes, he did indeed know about a National Enquirer story.

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

We learned this week that the Senate's proposed health care revamp would result in 22 million more people becoming uninsured by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office. With passage of the plan up in the air, as more Republicans continued to either openly oppose or at least voice concern about the legislation, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to postpone a vote until after the July Fourth recess.

One positive for Republicans that may come out of this: President Trump, seeming to recognize that pushing through this bill may be impossible, appeared to be open to the idea of repealing Obamacare now and figuring out a replacement later.

Do you ever feel already buried deep

The Supreme Court handed a victory over to the Trump administration on Monday - sort of. The court reversed the actions of lower federal courts, allowing the temporary travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries to go into effect . But there's a catch: the ban "may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States." Per State Department data, most of the more than 100,000 people from the banned countries who came into the country last year would still be able to enter under this criteria

Trump touted victory anyway. The ban went into effect Thursday. And the lawsuits have already begun.

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