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'Sham': Ted Cruz torched for blocking Jack Smith at 2020 election hearing

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Sen. Ted Cruz of holding a "sham" hearing on an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 election crimes because he blocked the testimony of the primary investigator, special counsel Jack Smith.

At a judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Durbin recalled Trump's plot to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election, followed by the former president taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago home.

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'Stop being snarky!' Republican Marsha Blackburn snaps at ex-FBI special agent

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) snapped at former FBI special agent Christopher O'Leary after he testified that Director Kash Patel had damaged the bureau with political purges.

During a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, senators spoke to three witnesses about the DOJ's Arctic Frost investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged election crimes and the mishandling of classified documents.

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Trump blurts out 'striking admission' on Iran — and signals big problem: report

Donald Trump's improvised comments about Iran while boarding Air Force One on Monday demonstrated his chaotic approach to military strategy — and his apparent blindness to critical consequences unfolding around him, according to a report.

The president made a comment revealing that Iran's regional retaliation caught planners of the military action against the country off guard.

"Look at the way Iran attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. That was not supposed to-- nobody was even thinking about it," the president conceded before reasserting without substantiation, "But they wanted to take over the Middle East."

The remarks prompted analysis from New Republic correspondent Greg Sargent and Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy.

Sargent highlighted the troubling implications on his podcast. "He said no one anticipated that Iran would attack other countries in an effort to widen the war," he commented. "But in saying that, Trump revealed that he didn't anticipate it — which is a striking admission about his own lack of foresight."

He continued, "We think this captures something broader. On one front after another, Trump plainly didn't prepare for eventualities that most experts fully did anticipate. So how directly responsible are these failings for what we're seeing right now — that by most indications, the war is getting worse for Trump and the U.S. on many fronts?"

Duss responded, "Well, we know that this is going much worse than Donald Trump himself thought it would. We know that Donald Trump does not do the reading. We know that Donald Trump has the attention span of a fly. We know that he just makes stuff up all the time. Trump made this threat over the weekend to bomb power plants — which is clearly a war crime, to attack plants that produce power for civilians. And then I think he woke up and saw that the stock market is in trouble, oil prices are continuing to go higher."

Duss dismissed Trump's characterization that the attacks blindsided everyone as fundamentally dishonest.

"Everyone anticipated this," he stated flatly. "Every one of these countries that Iran has attacked — we should have expected it, whether it's Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, obviously Israel. This is part of Iran's defensive strategy. This is part of how they believe they were creating deterrence."

He went on, "So Iran is following through — they have to follow through, in a sense, if they want to make sure that this doesn't happen again in the future. So yes, to answer your question, of course, people knew Iran was going to do this. Again, Donald Trump does not bother to do the reading."

Melania Trump calls global education summit — and only bothers to stay for 7 minutes

First Lady Melania Trump convened an education summit as part of her "Be Best" initiative, but could only stay for seven minutes.

On Tuesday, the First Lady's office announced a roundtable event titled "Melania Trump's Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit at the U.S. State Department."

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Iran left 'emboldened' as it survives Pentagon's best shot: Ex-Trump Defense head

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.

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'Outright sin': MAGA host has religious meltdown as Republican dares criticize Trump

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.

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'No way on God's green earth' can GOP majority survive Trump's cratering polls: data guru

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.

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Reeling Republican leaders privately denounce Trump's ICE move as 'disaster': MS NOW host

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.

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Trump's 'freaking mess' at airports backfires as it's now being blamed on him: MS NOW host

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.

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Rachel Maddow reveals ugly details of how 5-year-old in bunny hat ended up in a Trump jail

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.

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Ex-RNC chair in disbelief as Trump drags US to 'disgusting' new low: 'You embarrass us!'

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.

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'Things are worse!' GOP gets shot across the bow from rural battleground state voters

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.

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