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National security professionals inside the Trump administration are outraged after President Donald Trump made one of the worst appointments in his political tenure, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Monday that insiders he's spoken with were shocked when Trump appointed Bill Pulte, the administration's former mortgage chief, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Rothkopf said his sources were outraged by Pulte's willingness to do what Trump tells him and his lack of experience in the role, which is defined by federal law.

Ana Navarro, a senior political commentator on CNN, snapped at a former Trump campaign official on Monday night after the official defended the president's attacks against NBC News's Kristen Welker during an interview over the weekend.

Welker traveled to Wisconsin to interview President Donald Trump for her Sunday show, "Meet the Press." The interview became combative after Welker challenged Trump to provide evidence for his claim that the 2020 general election was stolen from him. Trump abruptly ended the interview after that, and made some disturbing comments about Welker as he stormed off set.

President Donald Trump's supporters are spreading a flurry of conspiracy theories about mail ballots after MAGA-aligned reality star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary race — but he never had a chance, election data analyst Harry Enten told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening.

"Harry, can you tell us what the numbers actually are and what we are looking at in places like L.A.?" asked Collins.

Rachel Maddow could hardly contain her glee Monday night as she walked viewers through the frosty reception President Donald Trump received outside Madison Square Garden, where he was loudly booed before Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.

"Do you want to see the warm, warm welcome the president of the United States got tonight when he decided to pretend to be a basketball fan?" Maddow asked before rolling footage of fans greeting Trump's arrival with jeers and raised middle fingers.

President Donald Trump was viciously booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden on Monday night during the National Anthem for Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.

ABC cameras caught Trump saluting in his suite while the anthem played, and it was the only time Trump was shown during the introduction. He attended the game with Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, as well as administration officials like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Lee Zeldin, who leads the Environmental Protection Agency.

Conservative columnist S.E. Cupp unloaded on President Donald Trump on Monday night after the president stormed out of an interview with NBC News's Kristen Welker over the weekend.

On Friday, Trump stormed out of an interview with Welker when she challenged his claim that the 2020 general election was rigged against him. The interview aired during Sunday's broadcast of "Meet the Press."

President Donald Trump's new comments on the timeline and exit strategy for the Iran war in his explosive interview with NBC's Kristen Welker are the exact last thing the soldiers fighting for America wanted to hear, retired Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Monday.

He weighed in during a discussion that also included Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), himself a retired Marine veteran.

CNN's Phil Mattingly chided Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday after Johnson offered a startling answer to a reporter asking about alleged election fraud in California.

Republicans have been up in arms since Sunday after Democrat Nithya Raman leapfrogged Republican Spencer Pratt, a reality TV personality, in the Los Angeles mayoral primary race. Raman built up her lead as a slew of mail-in ballots went her way, a trend that analysts at the Los Angeles Times expect to continue through the deadline to receive ballots on Tuesday.

A former New Mexico attorney general is speaking out about how federal prosecutors shut down his state investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling New Mexico ranch — a property where survivors allege rape, sex trafficking, forced births, and possibly worse.

Hector Balderas, a Democrat who served as New Mexico's attorney general from 2015 to 2023, told Scripps News he was deep into building a state case against Epstein in 2019 — and had just returned from interviewing a survivor — when the Southern District of New York called.

President Donald Trump might have just stumbled into a "perfect storm" that could lead to a federal court smackdown against his planned UFC cage match on the White House South Lawn, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MS NOW's Alex Witt on Monday.

This comes as a lawsuit filed by two local activists, including a Vietnam veteran, details the appearance of corruption surrounding the event, as well as its defacement of public property and violation of multiple regulations and the constitutional separation of powers.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is echoing President Donald Trump's allegations of fraud in the Los Angeles mayoral race — but admitted Monday he has no evidence to back them up, telling CNN's Manu Raju the claims are "impossible to prove."

Trump fired off a Truth Social post Sunday declaring the L.A. results fraudulent. "Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had," Trump wrote. "3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections!"