“There’s an element of personal responsibility..." “I really don’t like this business of ‘responsibility’!” ConservativeHome Editor Giles Dilnot and Labour peer Baroness Kennedy clash over the two-child benefit cap. #Newsnight

"Are we really saying that only people in the top 5% should be able to have families?" Paddy O'Connell speaks to mum of three Thea Jaffe who has been petitioning against the two-child benefit cap. #Newsnight

"Defunding cancer research is a terrible way to fight antisemitism" Author and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Steven Pinker responds to Donald Trump's freezing of $2.65bn of funding to his university. #Newsnight

"Just looking at a checklist anyone would say that this is a malignant narcissist. That's not a professional opinion that's something anyone reading the papers could say" Psychologist and best-selling author Prof Steven Pinker gives his verdict on President Trump. #Newsnight

"Americans are really concerned about free speech around the world... especially when it comes to Britain!" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn warns of the American perception that "the UK is not a liberal country anymore", but adds "thank goodness we are". #Newsnight

"It's a gift to China" Psychologist and best-selling author Professor Steven Pinker Steven Pinker says Donald Trump's attempts to ban foreign students from attending Harvard would cause a "brain drain from the United States" and would be a "colossal blunder". #Newsnight

"That woman was inciting violence. She is free to think her horrible, horrible, racist thoughts. That is fine. What she isn't allowed to do is go and incite violence." Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika on the Lucy Connolly case. #Newsnight

"Calling for, specifically, the burning down of a hotel...that could potentially be a little bit more of a direct call for violence." US conservative political commentator Dave Rubin concedes that, even from an American perspective, Lucy Connolly "would be in trouble".

"You do not have all of the rights guaranteed to you by the United States, if you are not a United States citizen. Simple as that." On Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest, Dave Rubin tells Nicholas Watt that freedom of speech does not apply to everybody in America. #Newsnight

“This attack on the universities has been a long time coming...” Journalist and podcaster Gabriel Gatehouse discusses the historical context behind President Trump’s fight with Harvard. #Newsnight

“Is this a case of Donald Trump taking the US to a brave new economic frontier, or lining his pockets?” Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse looks at why the Trump family and US President are investing in cryptocurrencies. #Newsnight

“This turmoil is creating great global uncertainty, which is bad for global security?” “There is no question that there is uncertainty, apprehension…” Ex-CIA director General David Petraeus on President Trump’s tariffs. #Newsnight

“It is pretty clear to me that he is playing us about…” General David Petraeus, Ex-CIA director, says that President Putin retains “maximalist objectives” in Ukraine. #Newsnight

"In prioritising that showmanship...he has cost himself and he has expended significant political capital" The News Agents' Lewis Goodall responds to today's courtroom drama over the US President's tariffs, nearly two months after what Trump called 'liberation day'. #Newsnight

“Tariffs are so fundamental to the whole economic vision this administration has, that if they’re no longer in place… we have to think about where this Budget Bill goes”. The Times’ Mehreen Khan on President Trump’s tariffs policy upheld by an appeals court. #Newsnight

“There should be a fourth objective to provide a better future for the Palestinian people in Gaza without Hamas in their lives… the current strategy is not achieving [that].” Ex-CIA Director General David Petraeus on Israel’s approach operations in Gaza. #Newsnight

"Farage is discombobulating British politics. He's contorting it in lots of different directions" Lewis Goodall tells Newsnight that Nigel Farage is moving "in a very deliberate way from his old Thatcherite libertarian pedigree" and "that's confusing Labour" #Newsnight

“I thought it was a bit of smart politics…” “Day after day, he paints a pretty dark picture online…” Mehreen Khan from the Times and Lewis Goodall from the News Agents discuss Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick’s campaign to stop fare-dodging in London. #Newsnight

“I feel pity for the politicians trying to get their arms around tech power…” Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, whose latest film satirises the power of so-called ‘tech bros’, speaks to @mattchorley about the growing influence of AI on politics. #Newsnight | BBC Radio 5 Live

“I think that can be a trick of the light…” @mattchorley asks The Thick Of It writer Jesse Armstrong whether contemporary British politics appears “worse” than previous eras. #Newsnight | BBC Radio 5 Live