Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, the FBI charges a sitting judge with obstruction for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. World leaders converge on the Vatican for the funeral of the late Pope Francis as the faithful continue to pay their respects.

And the head of the World Food Program speaks out about the challenges the agency faces as Israel blocks aid to Gaza.

People are starving and they're going, many more are going to starve as a result of this.

We need to be able to not only have a

ceasefire, but be able to get in at scale. Welcome to the News Hour. Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle with the judiciary and local authorities over the president's deportation agenda.

FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstructing immigration agents.

When officers attempted to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a Mexican citizen, Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstructing immigration agents.

When officers attempted to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a Mexican citizen last week,

the FBI alleges in a criminal complaint that Judge Dugan, quote,

escorted Flores Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the jury door, which leads to a non-public area of the courthouse.

Earlier today, Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed both Judge Dugan's arrest

and another recent arrest of a former New Mexico judge charged with hiding an alleged

Trendi Aragua gang member.

I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law, and they are not.

And we're sending a very strong message today.

If you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, joins me now here for the latest.

Laura, an extraordinary move, as we say, a sort of escalation in the ongoing showdown between the

Trump administration and judges who they say are undermining their agenda. Break this down for us.

So much of the public first found out about this when FBI director Cash Patel posted on X that the

arrest had occurred accusing the judge of, quote, intentionally misdirecting federal agents away from Ruiz in her courtroom,

although that's not what the official criminal complaint alleges.

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