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President Donald Trump appears to have just blown up one of the reasons he gave for coordinating strikes against Iran with Israel over the weekend, according to one expert.

The Trump administration has offered shifting reasons for the strikes, ranging from protecting protesters from the brutal regime to overthrowing the regime itself. If regime change was a true aim, then the administration has a lot of explaining to do, argued David Rothkopf, former editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, on Monday's episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with Joanna Coles.

A MAGA lawmaker gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a low grade for his "troubling" answer about the Trump administration's strikes on Iran.

On Saturday, U.S. and Israeli troops coordinated strikes across Iran, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and multiple top political and military leaders. Since then, the White House has waffled on its justification for the strikes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that the administration believed Iran would attack the U.S. if it were attacked by another country like Israel.

Iran will almost certainly be out for blood now that U.S. and Israeli forces took out Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow said on Monday — but the very group of U.S. counterintelligence officials tasked with keeping Americans safe from their retribution is out of a job because of a longstanding Donald Trump grudge.

"They're really good at this," Maddow said of Iran. "They can reach all around the globe to kill people when they want to, and they have done it ... They've killed or tried to kill their own dissidents and whistleblowers and political opponents, not over not only just over, you know, all over the Middle East, but throughout Europe. They have killed people. They've even tried to kill people here in the United States before."

Vice President JD Vance caught heat on Monday night after defending the Trump administration's "objectives" in Iran following the strikes over the weekend.

Vance joined "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News to discuss the administration's decision to strike Iran on Saturday morning. Watters asked how Americans can be sure that the operation won't turn into another War on Terror, which dragged on for decades without a clear end in sight.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department backed down on Monday on a huge monthslong legal battle, no longer defending a series of executive orders that attacked prominent law firms that represented anti-Trump clients in the past.

It's a huge victory for the rule of law, voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace — but also a huge black eye for the law firms that made deals with Trump to avoid similar regulatory action against them.

President Donald Trump's invasion of Iran might actually do more damage to his electoral coalition than his mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, former Republican strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

Miller claimed the president has a "megalomaniacal belief in himself."

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Monday after seeing the video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deposition from last week.

Clinton was deposed by members of the House Oversight Committee for roughly six hours about her relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. During the deposition, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) shared a photo from inside the hearing room, which caused the interview to be temporarily suspended. Multiple other Republican lawmakers also asked Clinton about numerous conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, which caused some analysts to assume that they were "making a mockery" of the investigation into a convicted sex criminal.

A newly released video shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raging at Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) after a picture of Clinton was published by a MAGA influencer during her deposition last week.

Clinton answered questions for nearly six hours from lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee about her relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. During the deposition, which was closed to the public despite Clinton's insistence, Boebert shared photos of the former first lady with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, prompting the deposition to be temporarily suspended.

President Donald Trump's bombing of Iran was one of the biggest betrayals of his own voting base yet, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said on Monday — and she compared Trump's past words to his actions now in a devastating sequence of clips.

"Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven absolute failure," said Trump in one clip. "We have created the vacuums that allow terrorism to grow and thrive. These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood, and treasure chasing phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc they're creating right here at home."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her patience with a MAGA lawmaker during her nearly six-hour deposition last week, new video footage shows.

Clinton was asked by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) whether she reviewed any materials in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files that discussed the infamous Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which claimed Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a Washington, D.C.-based pizzeria. The question seemed to bother Clinton and her lawyers, one of whom characterized the theory as "wacky."