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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.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon argued that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports as a "5-D chess" move that would prepare them to police polling places in the 2026 midterm elections. For his part, Trump has said the ICE agents are there to "help" Transportation Security Administration officers during the partial government shutdown.

"The ICE agents at the airports to help out, and remember they said they're not going to work the x-rays, it's too complicated, they're not trained for it, but they're trained to — wait for it — check IDs," Bannon said on the Monday edition of War Room. "That's why it's perfect training for the fall of 2026. This is why it's such a brilliant, this is another 5-D chess move for President Trump."

President Donald Trump blamed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for pushing him into the war in Iran.

During an event in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, Trump bragged about past gains in the stock market, which have recently taken a hit because of Operation Epic Fury.

MS NOW host Ana Cabrera was quick to issue a disclaimer on Monday morning after ex-Capitol cop Michael Fanone made unfounded allegations that Donald Trump has been accused of sexually assaulting children live on air.

Fanone, who became the face of the police officers who were assaulted by Trump’s supporters on Jan 6, which led to his early retirement, was invited on the network to discuss the upcoming “No Kings” protests scheduled for Saturday.

President Donald Trump floated the idea of deploying the National Guard on Monday in an effort to address the mounting chaos at airports nationwide amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Airports have been plagued with increasingly long lines due to the partial government shutdown, which began last month after Democratic lawmakers refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security without reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump moved ICE agents into airports on Monday, and later on the same day he floated sending in the National Guard as well.

A reporter from MS NOW, as well as a traveler interviewed in Newark’s Liberty International Airport, both expressed doubt about what purpose ICE agents are fulfilling as they watched them Monday after their deployment to help currently unpaid TSA agents.

Reporting from the airport, MS NOW’s Will McDuffy shared footage of unmasked and armed agents unhurriedly strolling the concourse and chatting while they rode escalators, with McDuffy telling host Anna Cabrera, “We're here at Newark, and what we've been able to see is, we've seen a handful of ICE agents. They've been going around in groups, in small groups. They do seem like they're armed, but we haven't seen them doing a whole lot of stuff.”

CNN's Harry Enten presented new polling data Monday that Republican candidates might not want to see.

President Donald Trump was re-elected to a second term by promising to reduce the cost of living on day one — but polling has consistently shown that Americans have soured on his economic policies. Data expert Enten told "CNN News Central" the numbers are now gouging a deep wedge into GOP support.

President Donald Trump told a historically inaccurate anecdote about paperclips to justify his decision to replace airport security personnel with immigration agents.

The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Monday morning before boarding Air Force One to travel from Palm Beach, Florida, to Memphis, Tennessee, and he claimed credit for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into airports during the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

Fox News cut off President Donald Trump's remarks early after he ranted about the dead wife of former intelligence official Joe Kent, who quit over a disagreement about the war in Iran.

During a Monday press gaggle, Trump was asked if he knew that Kent was being investigated for leaking. Kent had told Tucker Carlson that he did not believe Iran posed an imminent threat.