How far will President Trump push this strongman approach?

Until something breaks, the lead starts right now.

Pushing the limits of the office from ramping up controversial deportations, arguably without any due process,

to yanking funding from an Ivy League school, how President

Trump is setting up a showdown with the courts.

Are there any Republicans willing to challenge what is playing out in any serious way?

Speaking of, breaking news, an intense hearing just moments ago for that Maryland man mistakenly,

by the Trump administration's own admission,

mistakenly deported to that notorious prison in El Salvador.

What the judge is now telling the Justice Department to not do in her courtroom,

also ahead the president's new threat against Harvard, after that school said it would not comply with the administration's

demands.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news and brand new

developments in the case of that Maryland man, whom the Trump administration, by its own

admission, mistakenly deported to that notorious president, whom the Trump administration, by its own admission,

mistakenly deported to that notorious president in El Salvador right now. An intense hearing just rap, the judge showing some frustration with the Trump Justice Department. A federal judge

had previously granted a Rego Garcia a legal right to be in the United States. So remember

how a Justice Department lawyer in court

admitted that Garcia's deportation was an administrative error? Well, that lawyer was just

fired. The Justice Department accused the lawyer of sabotaging its legal case, according to a source.

Still, notably, the Justice Department has not changed that characterization of the error that sent

Garcia to a prison in El Salvador.

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