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President Donald Trump told Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Tuesday that he is considering establishing a fund to compensate the January 6 rioters he pardoned for storming the Capitol in 2021.

"I took care of them," said Trump. "I said I was going to, and I did."

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) laughed away National Security Adviser Michael Waltz’s new conspiracy theory as he spent Tuesday blaming journalist Jeffrey Goldberg for the stunning national security failure involving the now infamous leak of the Signal group chat.

“Unbelievable,” Klobuchar told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I think this is an unbelievable assertion to make.”

CNN's primetime anchor Anderson Cooper had a stern message for President Donald Trump's national security advisor, who expressed bewilderment late Tuesday that a journalist "somehow" found himself in a group chat with other top Cabinet officials during a discussion over secret war plans.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat containing 18 senior Trump administration officials, Goldberg wrote in a piece for his publication. The group chat discussed imminent plans for military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

A top national security adviser for President Donald Trump took to Fox News on Tuesday to float a baseless conspiracy theory that a reporter inadvertently invited into a Signal group chat where officials mulled over war plans may have used nefarious means to smear the president.

President Donald Trump defended Mike Waltz as a "very good man" earlier Tuesday and said he does not need to apologize for the incident. Trump acknowledged his top officials made a mistake by using Signal to discuss war plans but downplayed its significance and insisted the information shared was not classified. He also suggested that Waltz would likely avoid using such platforms in the future.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon made clear what path he thinks Trump administration officials caught up in the Signal group chat controversy should take as he vilified Democratic lawmakers for trying to get to the bottom of the colossal national security error.

“They want a scalp,” Bannon proclaimed of Democrats. “This is the deep state rising up and coming after President Trump publicly, with the fangs bared.”

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was completely unimpressed by the Trump administration's answers on the growing scandal surrounding a highly classified war plan being leaked by top administration officials in an unsecured group Signal chat to a reporter — and he expressed ongoing anger over the issue to CNN's Kasie Hunt on Tuesday.

This followed a heated intelligence hearing in the Senate, where top officials on the chat were pressed by lawmakers on the details of how this happened and what the policies in place are — and got no consistent or meaningful answers on who would take responsibility for the incident.

Right-wing firebrand Laura Loomer is going all in on allegations that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) “physically attacked and assaulted” a reporter working for her as he shouted questions at the lawmaker inside the Capitol.

“Do NOT put your hands on my staff,” Loomer said Tuesday after she told her social media followers that a police report had been filed against Crockett. “We are pressing charges against her.”

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) clashed with Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday over a bombshell report that top Donald Trump administration officials used a Signal group chat to discuss war plans in the presence of a reporter.

The explosive report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified information in a Signal chat that included the outlet's editor-in-chief among its membership. The Signal chat included top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet who discussed classified military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

Republican state lawmakers are introducing legislation based on a bizarre conspiracy theory about something that isn't even happening, CNN climate reporter Bill Weir explained on Tuesday.

"It's an unsubstantiated claim that's being promoted by right-wing influencers that could ... have some real-world consequences," said anchor Boris Sanchez. "Bill, you know, I've gotten a lot of emails over the years about 'chemtrails.' What are they? What is the story here?"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened to "pound" and "beat" Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in a presidential race over protests against Elon Musk, the billionaire administrator of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

During a Tuesday interview with Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling, Greene insisted that Crockett owed Musk an apology for participating in protests against his Tesla automobile company.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) on Tuesday did not hold back when it came to showing contempt for his Republican colleagues pushing what he described as frivolous legislation during a time of economic uncertainty.

While taking to the floor of the House of Representatives, Neguse slammed the GOP for ignoring news about billionaire Elon Musk hindering key functions of the Social Security Administration to instead focus on bills regulating walk-in freezers.

Vice President J.D. Vance announced that he would join his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on her trip to Greenland after officials from the Danish territory called it "aggressive."

"Hey guys, it's J.D. Vance, the Vice President, and you know there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn't want her to have all that fun by herself, and so I'm going to join her," Vance said in a video posted to the X social media platform.

President Donald Trump abruptly cut off CNN's Kaitlan Collins during a news briefing on Tuesday as she asked a question about the exploding classified security breach scandal.

"Mr. President, you said that your National Security Advisor learned a lesson after a reporter—" Collins began.