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Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) revealed that he had established a "tip line" to report Democrats who broke quorum and prevented Republicans from wiping out five U.S. House seats held by the minority party.

On Monday, Burrows explained that he was again unable to establish a quorum because of the missing Democrats.

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) faced jeers and heckling at a town hall event over his support for President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill.

LaMalfa began the event on Monday by noting that one member of the audience had insulted President Donald Trump by calling him "the big orange man."

MSNBC's White House briefing room camera caught a reporter rolling his eyes after Donald Trump attempted to dismiss concerns about his upcoming negotiations with Vladimir Putin Monday.

Late in the long press conference where the president announced his intention to militarize the streets of Washington, D.C. to put down a non-existent crime wave, reporters started pressing the president about his meeting with the Russian president in Alaska — although Trump twice claimed he was going to Russia.

During one exchange, after Trump told reporters he saw no need to invite Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to participate in ending the war negotiations after Putin illegally invaded his country, the president declared, 'Well, we're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin. and at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made."

"How will you know that?" the reporter countered.

"Because that's what I do, I make deals," Trump replied, which earned him an eyeroll and a glance at the camera as other reporters smirked.

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MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk encouraged President Donald Trump to deploy tanks and Marines onto the streets of Washington, D.C.

After Trump announced that he was federalizing the D.C. police force and activating National Guard troops to address crime, Kirk applauded the move on his Monday podcast.

Following Attorney General Pam Bondi's contribution to Donald Trump's rambling press conference on Monday, MSNBC reporter Jonathan Allen — a lifelong resident of Washington D.C. — expressed dismay and disgust with comments she made about his hometown.

With host Anna Cabrera noting that Trump is calling in the National Guard to take over the streets now, despite refusing to do so during the Jan. 6 riot and insurrection, Allen had a few things about that and Bondi's supporting comments, calling their assertions "insane."

No sooner did Donald Trump begin addressing the nation about federalizing the D.C. Police Department and putting National Guard on the streets despite crime being down, MSNBC posted a bright red graphic next to him that showed he was making up his numbers.

Across the dial, CNN did exactly the same with a graph of the city's murder rate showing a plunging line.

While the president rambled about roving gangs of teens attacking locals and tourists alike, while comparing crime in D.C. to cities around the world, MSNBC's graphic showed overall violent crime down 4.5 percent in the U.S., with D.C. violent crime down 26 percent.

President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate "slums" as part of his takeover of Washington, D.C.

During a Monday press conference, Trump announced that he was placing the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under federal control and threatened to deploy troops,

Before Donald Trump even hit the stage in the White House briefing room to detail his plans to reportedly militarize the streets of Washington, D.C. due to a crime wave, MSNBC's Ken. Dilanian undercut the president.

With Trump late as usual, host Anna Cabrera asked Dilanian, "Talk about D.C.'s crime being down when you compare year to year? President Trump has made these outlandish claims, saying D.C. is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, not just in the US, but the world. That's clearly not accurate. Beyond D.C. comparing numbers to itself, can you set the record straight for us?"

"Yeah, that is totally false on it," he shot back. "You can Google this. Actually, there are lots of different ways to measure the most dangerous cities in the United States, but if you just look at per capita violent crime, the amounts of violence, the numbers of violent crime based on a percentage of the population, D.C. is not even in the top 25 __ it's not even close."

"And a lot of it's generally smaller and medium-sized cities that are the most dangerous," he added. "Now, look, some neighborhoods in D.C. If you stack them up as a city next to Memphis or some of these other very dangerous cities, the crime rates there are higher than in other parts. But generally, D.C. and other major American cities are not the most dangerous cities."

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Days before Donald Trump is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, there are more questions than answers as the American president floats multiple proposals — and his chief diplomat appears to be in over his head, experts said Monday.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," international relations experts David Ignatius and Richard Haas, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, were baffled by the conduct of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, whom former Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul accused of "deeply damaging incompetence" over the weekend.

Progressive podcast host Sam Seder mocked a MAGA darling on Sunday after she claimed Jewish students were choosing to attend schools in the Deep South over Ivy League schools in the northeast.

Tomi Lahren made the comments on the right-wing "PBD Podcast," hosted by Patrick Bet-David. Lahren claimed that Jewish students were starting to enroll at schools such as the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Mississippi. She claimed they were moving to these schools after campus protests erupted following the October 7 attack in Israel.

President Donald Trump has created a new requirement for people to become members of the Republican Party, and those expectations appear to have some staying power, according to one analyst.

Marc Elias, lawyer and founder of Democracy Docket, said in a YouTube video on Sunday that Trump and his MAGA party now require Republican Party members to be against voting rights. That includes a broad range of views, such as opposing the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits states from racially gerrymandering their election maps, to supporting the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

An MSNBC host was floored on Sunday by the GOP's lack of reaction to President Donald Trump's latest scandal.

Last week, Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred from a maximum security prison in Florida to a minimum security prison in a residential part of Texas. That's despite Maxwell serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking, a charge that is preventing her from participating in a rehabilitation program to train service animals.

A former Republican lawmaker expressed shock at some of President Donald Trump's efforts to control economic data in the United States.

Trump's move to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, after she published a jobs report showing almost no growth during Trump's first quarter as president, set off alarm bells for Former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL).