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President Donald Trump's history of "playing with fire" when it comes to conspiracy theories appears to be "coming back to bite" after MAGA began questioning one of the president's signature narratives, according to one analyst.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania. The event produced images of Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents on stage with a bloodied ear, raising his fist, which have been recycled throughout Trump's second administration. MAGA has since begun to question that as Trump continues to erode trust with his base of supporters.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off her weekly show with a political obituary for Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the scandal-plagued Secretary of Labor for the Trump administration, who announced her resignation on Monday following months of explosive scandals.

"Today, another one down," said Maddow, after recounting other Trump administration officials who had to leave in disgrace, like Greg Bovino and Pam Bondi. "And where do you want to start with this one? In January, the New York Post was first to report on a complaint about Trump's Labor Secretary that had been made to the Department's inspector general. And I got to tell you, the New York Post has since done a ton of groundbreaking reporting on this scandal at Trump's Labor Department."

President Donald Trump's "counterproductive" policies regarding immigration and global trade have turbocharged resistance against his administration in rural America, according to a new analysis.

Bob Davis, co-author of a book on Trump's trade policies with China, argued in a new guest essay for The New York Times that Trump's push to deport illegal immigrants and upend trade relations with China has caused severe economic harm to rural cities like Hickory, North Carolina. In turn, local advocates say there is growing resistance to the Trump administration among youth, a demographic that Trump did well with in the 2024 election.

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) had a simple answer when a constituent confronted him about a broken campaign promise at a public forum this month — he ran.

Sullivan was wrapping up a Zoom session at ComFish, Alaska's commercial fishing conference, when someone on the call put him on the spot.

A lawyer was stunned on Monday while discussing a new civil rights investigation the Trump DOJ is undertaking.

In a new episode, Shant Karnikian, a lawyer and co-host of the "Civil Action" podcast, discussed the Trump DOJ's civil rights probe into Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump administration staffer who testified against the president during the inquiry into the Jan. 6 insurrection. On April 7, the New York Times reported that the DOJ is investigating whether Hutchinson lied to Congress.

A Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee lobbed an ominous threat at FBI Director Kash Patel during a CNN interview on Monday.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) joined CNN's Erin Burnett on "Erin Burnett OutFront," where they discussed a recent report by The Atlantic detailing Patel's excessive drinking and on-the-job absenteeism. It also included details about an instance where the SWAT team was called to wake up Patel because he was not answering his phone after a night out drinking.

CNN's Kristen Holmes was floored on Monday after President Donald Trump's latest move to make life harder for his administration officials.

Holmes reported during CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" that Trump administration officials have been conducting a "flurry" of back-door diplomacy over the last week to prepare for an upcoming meeting in Pakistan to end the war in Iran. However, Trump has made several public statements, both on social media and during press conferences, that have made negotiations much tougher for those officials, Holmes said.

A longtime GOP analyst said on Monday that he's alarmed by the acts of one of Trump's "irresponsible and reckless" leaders, as evidenced in a new report.

Bill Kristol, editor-at-large of The Bulwark, said during a new episode of "The Bulwark Podcast" with host Tim Miller that the recent report by The Atlantic about FBI Director Kash Patel's excessive drinking while on the job was "alarming." Not only is Patel's behavior concerning on its face, but Kristol added that it also showed how little pushback Patel is receiving internally, which may be a sign of a larger issue.

A lawyer revealed on Monday that FBI Director Kash Patel's latest "terrible" decision just put President Donald Trump's Department of Justice in a bad spot.

Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of the podcast "The Intersection with Michael Popok," said during a new episode on Monday that Patel's decision to sue The Atlantic for $250 million in a defamation suit over a report about his excessive drinking while on duty has just opened up Trump's DOJ to being deposed in the lawsuit. Popok said that would give The Atlantic more information about other instances they've reported on, but may not have had the full picture.

President Donald Trump's brag that he can sign his name on an executive order better than other presidents left one analyst aghast on Monday.

On Saturday, Trump signed an executive order legalizing some natural medicines to treat veterans with serious mental health challenges. Trump bragged to the audience, which included administration officials and podcaster Joe Rogan, about the quality of his signature during the ceremony. David Pakman, host of the liberal "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a new reaction video that Trump's brag was as terrifying as it was revealing.

President Donald Trump got a big, flashing warning sign when he arranged to receive a DoorDash McDonald's order from an elderly woman this month, analyst Molly Jong-Fast argued on an MS NOW panel on Monday — and it shows his handling of the economy has gotten so bad it's stripping away his ability to control the political narrative like he once could.

"A lot of these [congressional] races are purple races," said anchor Katy Tur. "And if you're sending Donald Trump out to purple districts like a Mike Lawler district, for instance, with his approval numbers this bad, broadly speaking, I know MAGA voters are, you know, in the tank for him, by and large. But when you're looking at these overall approvals and the independent, the swing voter issue, if you're sending him to a purple district, is that a good idea, Molly?"

President Donald Trump was handed a world-class economy, and has thrown it all down the drain over his war in Iran, Veda Partners economic analyst Henrietta Treyz told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Monday afternoon.

This comes as Trump lashes out at the news media for what he perceives as unfair news coverage over how the war is going — even as analysts warn it's not in fact going well.

The Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Charlie Kirk Show host Andrew Kolvet pushed for the federal government to "take" part of northern Virginia "to get rid of Virginia as a blue state forever."

During a Charlie Kirk Show segment on a Democratic effort to redistrict Virginia, co-host Blake Neff argued that Virginia didn't "need a real economy" because many federal workers lived there.