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What started out as a very non-contentious questioning by Sen. Jeffrey Merkley (D-OR) of Todd Blanche ended in acrimony after the acting attorney general took a shot at President Joe Biden as the five-minute questioning period concluded.

Earlier, as Merkley addressed Blanche as part of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Democrat offered to get the DOJ increased funding, long before the questioning took an ugly turn that led the Oregon Democrat to upbraid the witness.

CNN's Harry Enten analyzed the range of outcomes likely in November's midterm elections, and he found that massive gain were within reach for the Democratic Party.

The political landscape was convulsed by the mid-decade redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump in Texas, and last month's Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana's congressional map set off another mad dash of partisan gerrymandering, so Enten tried to determine the possible outcomes based on this new reality.

President Donald Trump stepped outside the White House on Tuesday to survey the sprawling construction site where his prized ballroom is rising from the rubble of the demolished East Wing — and delivered a lengthy, freewheeling tour that touched on drone warfare, Greek architecture, and his place in history.

"This is my gift to the United States of America," Trump told reporters as he gestured at the concrete skeleton taking shape on the White House grounds. "I'm going to be able to use it very little. When it's finished, we're talking about six or seven months. But it will be used for hopefully hundreds of years by other presidents."

During his testimony Tuesday before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made the startling admission that Jan. 6 Capitol rioters who had been convicted of assaulting police officers could be eligible for “multi-million dollar payouts” using taxpayer dollars.

The potential payouts would come from the new $1.776 billion fund setup in exchange for President Donald Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, a lawsuit he filed in response to his tax returns being leaked in 2019. The fund will be dedicated to “settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s ‘weaponization’ of the legal system,” per ABC News.

Attorney General Todd Blanche got an earful from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Tuesday after a Senate Appropriations hearing devolved into a heated confrontation over the Justice Department's controversial anti-weaponization fund — and whether a pardoned child molester could collect from it.

The fireworks started when Van Hollen pressed Blanche on a deeply troubling case: a Trump pardon recipient who allegedly molested two children after receiving clemency and then tried to buy their silence by promising them money he expected to receive from the DOJ fund.

Invited on MS NOW to promote the expanded direct-to-consumer TrumpRx platform, Donald Trump appointee Dr. Mehmet Oz was pressed to defend why there is a growing measles epidemic in the US.

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 51 new measles cases in a nationwide outbreak that has now reached 1,893 infections.

Political reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell issued a dire warning for President Donald Trump on Tuesday, predicting that if Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) manages to come out victorious in Tuesday night’s GOP primary race, the president may suffer among his most significant defeats seen yet.

Trump has poured enormous political capital into ousting Massie after he infamously bucked the president in leading the charge to force the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The president recruited retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to run against Massie, with voters set to make their decision Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump has tumbled through the floor of his approval rating, according to CNN's Harry Enten, and history provides some painful lessons for him and fellow Republicans.

The latest polling finds the 79-year-old president well below 40 percent, which Enten told "CNN News Central" was a perilous position for the Republican Party looking ahead to November's midterm elections.

At exactly 5:34 a.m. ET on Nov. 6, 2024, the Associated Press called the presidential election for Donald Trump – but according to Ashley St. Clair, a former MAGA figure who has since renounced much of her past rhetoric, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed to have learned the election results “hours” earlier with the help of a secretive satellite program that collects “real-time data.”

St. Clair first rose to prominence in 2025 after announcing that at age 26, she had given birth to a son fathered by Elon Musk, then 53. Musk has 14 known children, the majority of them conceived by means other than natural conception, and whom he has referred to as his “legion.”

President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now, according to one political expert.

David Rothkopf, who served in the Clinton administration, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent attacks against Republicans like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), even as his poll numbers continue to slide, offer a window into what Trump has really offered the Republican Party. He noted that Trump is underwater on several key issues heading into the midterms, ranging from the economy to immigration, yet still enjoys almost no criticism from Republicans.

Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion.

Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is putting together to pay the president's allies who claim they were unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration. The fund is being created as part of a settlement agreement to a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS for allegedly leaking his tax returns to harm his reputation.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president.

Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with a major policy announcement that moved markets. For instance, Maddow flagged a January trade in which Trump bought stock in a major microchip manufacturer about a week before he relaxed regulations allowing the company to do business in China.