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According to former Defense Secretary Mike Esper, who served in Donald Trump’s first administration, the leadership of Iran is feeling pretty confident about its position after three weeks of having war waged upon them by the president.

In a clip shared on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Esper admitted the Pentagon’s military objectives seem to have been met, but now the hard part begins — and Iran has some leverage to make demands.

MAGA host Gina Loudon accused former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) of going against the Bible by criticizing President Donald Trump.

In a Real America's Voice segment on Tuesday, Loudon reacted to Christie telling ABC that Trump was "playing checkers, not chess" with the war in Iran — and claiming that the former presidential candidate was jealous.

President Donald Trump's support among male voters is plummeting, and CNN's Harry Enten warned the Republican congressional majority it may not survive the fall.

The 79-year-old president rode a wave of support from that half of the electorate to the White House in 2024, but many of them have already turned on his second term, and that growing unpopularity could cut into his party's chances of maintaining control of the House and Senate.

Reeling Republican lawmakers dreading a midterm wipe-out are seeing their chances of holding both chambers of Congress further diminished by Donald Trump sending ICE agents into already troubled airports.

According to MS NOW’s Willie Geist, the nation’s focus has been on the travel chaos brought about by TSA agents skipping work because they are not being paid — for which he said Republicans are being blamed, despite them trying to make Democrats responsible.

The day after President Donald Trump deployed ICE agents to the nation’s airports to fill in the gaps as many unpaid TSA agents stay home, images of the heavily armed agents standing around and seemingly doing nothing are making the president look even worse than normal.

That was the opinion of the panel on MS NOW's “Morning Joe,” with co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly asking if any of her colleagues knows what the purpose of the ICE airport invasion is supposed to be.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow revealed chilling new details on Monday about just how Immigration and Customs Enforcement managed to whisk away Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis seen on camera in the protests, to the child detention facility in Dilley, Texas, so quickly.

In short, she explained, Delta Air Lines was complicit. To understand how this happened, Maddow turned to the work of an activist.

President Donald Trump spent Monday telling a law enforcement task force in Memphis that mail-in voting is "mail-in cheating" and vowing to do something about it.

But later Monday, The Washington Post reported Trump himself voted by mail.

President Donald Trump's decision to gloatingly cheer the death of former special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into his campaign's ties to the Russian government following the 2016 election, was ripped to shreds by MS NOW's "The Weeknight" anchors Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele.

Sanders Townsend pointed out the double standard of how aggressively Trump and his allies policed any discussion of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk following his murder last year.

Democrats are hoping to flip a rural North Carolina county, and voters put Republicans on notice this week on CNN.

John King, anchor and chief national correspondent, joined Erin Burnett on Monday on her show, "OutFront," to discuss what he's hearing from voters in rural Madison County. Democrats in the state hope to flip the 11th Congressional District, which covers Marshall, and the battleground state also features one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.

President Donald Trump seems to have broad polling support among Republicans for the escalating war against Iran, despite the vocal outcry of some prominent MAGA figures against the war. But that support may be a lot more fragile than it seems, former GOP strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

"I think it is interesting ... that the people who are calling out the absurdity, the recklessness of what they're doing, are people ... who in many other ways [are] in lockstep with this administration," said Menendez, bringing up as examples Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC). "I wonder what you make as a sort of student of the MAGA movement and who chooses when to be in alignment and when about the specific fractures, we are seeing in this moment."

Senate Republicans are abdicating their basic oversight powers over President Donald Trump's war in Iran, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) fumed Monday on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House."

The segment was part of a broader discussion about how even multiple GOP senators, including Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), have sounded the alarm about the administration's war plans in a new Washington Post article.

President Donald Trump suggested he was considering gold Social Security cards after finding out that Elvis Presley had one.

During a Monday visit to Memphis, Trump spent part of his valuable time touring Graceland, where he was shown the gold Social Security card in Pressley's Jungle Room.