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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted that he was surprised after learning that President Donald Trump had pardoned him for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"When I woke up this morning and someone told me I was pardoned, I said, 'For what?'" Giuliani explained on his Monday night Lindell TV program. "I thought I insulted somebody last night."

President Donald Trump has appointed 27 judges to federal courts so far in his second term, and in addition to their right-wing interpretation of the law, an analysis of the judges’ comments to senators during the confirmation process reveals a key commonality between the president’s appointees: All were willing to evade direct questions about whether Trump lost the 2020 election and whether the US Capitol was attacked by a violent pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

Demand Justice examined the Questions for the Record (QFRs) that were submitted by the Senate to the 27 judicial nominees regarding the election and Jan. 6, and found that their answers to those two specific questions were nearly uniform in many cases—repeating certain phrases verbatim and “overall, using unusual and evasive language that’s almost entirely outside the normal, historical, and common lexicon used to describe such events.”

CNN's Brianna Keilar got into a heated exchange with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is one of the few Republicans in Congress who has said he is open to a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, but just as a temporary measure to allow time for Congress to create longer-term reform for health insurance.

When pressed, however, Lawler dodged what those longer-term reforms might look like, asserting the employer health insurance sector should be strengthened, and repeating a number of longtime GOP talking points like selling insurance "across state lines" — which has already been tried and failed.

Republicans may have won the battle over the government shutdown after a handful of Democrats and one independent caved because they thought they couldn’t outlast Donald Trump, but they now face losing the war over the Affordable Care Act.

That is the opinion of GOP political strategist Susen Del Percio, who told an MSNBC host that the Republican Party is now trapped by its promise to hold a vote on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, which has the potential to be a loser for them no matter how the vote turns out.

A new report from Demand Justice revealed Tuesday that dozens of President Donald Trump-nominated judges had used "nearly identical” language in an attempt to dodge questions on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and the results of the 2020 election, with the group's president labeling the findings as a “political loyalty test.”

In the exclusive report, Demand Justice analyzed the responses of 27 of Trump’s nominees to questions from lawmaker that are frequently submitted to nominees after their hearings. All 27 were asked bluntly if Trump lost the 2020 election, as well as whether they would describe the Jan. 6 riot as an attack by a “violent mob.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) delivered a brutal putdown to President Donald Trump on Tuesday in response to the president’s attack on her the day before.

In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingram that aired Monday, Trump aimed an onslaught at Omar and her country of birth, Somalia.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shrugged off a bizarre attack from President Donald Trump Tuesday after the president launched a confusing rant mocking Buttigieg’s name and leadership over the Transportation Department under the Biden administration.

Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump was asked if he expected air travel to “go back to normal” once the government re-opens, as the Senate prepared to pass a spending bill that is now set to be voted on in the House.

A Democratic analyst revealed signs that President Donald Trump may not be running the White House during a podcast episode that aired on Monday.

Symone Sanders Townsend, a political strategist and host of MSNBC's "The Weeknight," joined Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast on the outlet's self-titled podcast, where the two discussed a recent press conference where Trump reportedly fell asleep for 20 minutes. Sanders said that the incident, among others, has made her question who is actually running the White House.

A former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice said during a podcast interview on Monday that she is stunned by President Donald Trump's use of the presidential pardon power.

Liz Oyer, the first former public defender to become a DOJ pardon attorney, discussed Trump's recent pardons on a new episode of "Bulwark Takes" with Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bulwark. She argued that Trump seems to be using the pardon power in ways that are "unprecedented" and "damaging to the rule of law."

A Republican senator claimed on Monday that the GOP will release a "comprehensive" health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in early December, right around the time they are expected to vote on extending the program's subsidies.

Republicans have claimed to be working on a comprehensive health care plan to replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, for over a decade. However, the plans that have been introduced have failed to pass because of Obamacare's continued popularity.