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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warned Monday night that President Donald Trump's insistence on using physical force to try to "cow and hurt people" is about to backfire spectacularly.

Maddow began her show Monday night, pointing out that mass protests have erupted in Israel, with calls for a nationwide work stoppage.

One of President Donald Trump's fiercest advocates lashed out at the president on Monday.

Steve Bannon, who served in Trump's first administration, said on a new episode of his podcast, "The War Room," that Trump is focusing too much of his time on the Ukraine war. Instead, Bannon argued that he should continue expanding his power over local police forces.

President Donald Trump's law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., and the subsequent pile-on as Republican governors send hundreds of their own National Guard troops to assist, is becoming an authoritarian farce, former GOP strategist Amanda Carpenter argued on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" Monday evening.

"So, Amanda, it was interesting to me," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "You have the Republican governor from Vermont ... politely declining to send National Guard troops because he said, if you find an emergency, let me know, but this isn't an emergency. So my question to you is DeWine, McMaster, all these governors that are sending National Guard troops, are they now complicit in what Donald Trump is doing?"

President Donald Trump's latest election scheme has one lawyer on edge.

On Monday, Trump announced on social media that he is going to lead a "movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm election. He also accused Democrats of "cheating at levels never seen before" to win elections.

President Donald Trump got rolled by Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit, former CIA Director John Brennan told MSNBC's Eugene Daniels on Monday — but then the leaders of Europe sat him down and gave him what for.

That latter meeting, which was punctuated by some embarrassing moments for the president, saw a variety of U.S. allies reiterating their commitments to Ukraine's defense and pushing Trump to carry on with those made by his country.

President Donald Trump issued his vision of a peace plan for the war in Ukraine from his Truth Social account on Monday, a plan that one expert said could "go off the rails at any moment."

The plan was issued after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several leaders of European nations at the White House.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC News on Sunday that if the war continued between Russia and Ukraine, Americans wouldn't be impacted. However, Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence, called it false.

"Now, the President has traveled all the way to Alaska, all the way back, has dedicated months and months of work – him, our entire team – on this matter because we want to see an end to the war," Rubio told Kristen Welker.

President Donald Trump appeared to make an admission about his relationship with his Russian counterpart that caught the eyes of a CNN analyst on Monday.

Trump was caught on a hot mic saying Russian President Vladimir Putin may want to "make a deal" to end the Ukraine war for Trump's sake. The statement happened during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House.

President Donald Trump has evolved on his demand for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace thinks she knows why.

Wallace began with the Oval Office meeting on Monday between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The leaders of Europe ganged up on President Donald Trump to drill into his head how critically important it is to stand by Ukraine at Monday's meeting, CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier told anchor Brianna Keilar.

The meeting, which was marked by some embarrassing slip-ups for the president, comes a few days after Trump welcomed Russia's Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, which ended with no clear progress toward a peace deal and the president seemingly persuaded against some of the hawkishness he had shown toward Russia over the past few weeks.

At President Donald Trump's meeting with European leaders on Monday, he was caught by reporters on a hot microphone making a boldly optimistic claim about Russia's Vladimir Putin regarding the invasion of Ukraine.

The comment came as European leaders seek to gently nudge the president toward working in the interest of the NATO alliance and make stronger commitments on behalf of the Ukrainians, as the Russians continue to throw everything they can at forcing submission.

A CNN reporter appeared taken aback by President Donald Trump's eyebrow-raising remarks Monday afternoon during a summit with European leaders, in which he made remarks about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, then shifted to a peace agreement.

Trump met with a delegation of European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday to discuss ending Russia’s ongoing invasion. The summit comes after Trump’s recent face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, where discussions ended with no peace deal. European leaders included those from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, the European Commission, and NATO.

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in the White House on Monday, where the conversation was more subdued than their previous Oval Office encounter.

CNN's Kristen Holmes said that it appeared to her as if both leaders were trying to be "on their best behavior."