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CNN legal analyst Paula Reid reacted with shock Tuesday after a hearing in a New York court to determine if former President Donald Trump violated a gag order.

Following the hearing in Justice Juan Merchan's courtroom, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Reid how bad the morning had gone for Trump.

From inside the courtroom on Tuesday, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin revealed that Judge Juan Merchan was "losing his patience" with Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche.

In a testy morning hearing into whether Trump has violated a gag order put in place to stop him attacking members of the jury and witnesses, the judge reamed off examples of attacks — with likely witnesses in his targets including Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, among others.

Former President Donald Trump has blatantly violated the gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial, and the judge is likely to take action against him, said former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Tuesday morning.

Trump, who has already been fined multiple times for violating gag orders in his civil trials, faces a hearing later today on his conduct, where Judge Juan Merchan will decide whether to hold him in contempt of court, including fines or even possibly temporary confinement to jail.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) expressed concern on Tuesday that Judge Aileen Cannon is once again throwing sand in the gears of justice in an effort to delay former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill was asked by host Joe Scarborough about Cannon putting out "one bizarre ruling after another" and "is doing her best, it seems, to slow" the trial in which Trump is accused of illegally retaining top-secret government documents and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them.

Donald Trump's lawyers tried to present the former president as a "family man" to defend him from allegations in his hush money trial involving an adult film star, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill guffawed at the claim as preposterous.

Lawyers delivered opening statements Monday in the trial, and while prosecutors laid out their case showing that Trump allegedly conspired to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels to ensure her silence and then falsified business records to hide the payments, the former president's attorneys insisted he'd done nothing wrong.

Conservative Jonah Goldberg dumped all over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) crusade to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a Monday appearance on CNN.

Goldberg began by predicting that Johnson would easily survive Greene's motion to vacate his chair, as it would be hard to find other Republicans willing to go on the "Mount Rushmore of Weirdness" alongside Greene and fellow hardliner Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Melania Trump returned to the political scene with a low-key solo appearance for Log Cabin Republicans at Mar-a-Lago.

The former first lady had previously joined her husband earlier this month at a high-dollar fundraiser in Palm Beach, but she stepped out without him Saturday at the headliner for the LGBTQ conservative group and was greeted with polite but subdued applause, reported The Daily Beast.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake is promoting a conspiracy theory suggesting Hillary Clinton wants to assassinate her. Her remarks came just one day before she lost her attempt to have the Supreme Court review what some have called her conspiracy-theory fueled lawsuit about electronic voting machines.

"Lake, who filed the lawsuit during her failed campaign for governor in 2022, challenged whether the state’s electronic voting machines assured 'a fair and accurate vote.' Two lower courts dismissed the suit, finding that Lake and former Republican state lawmaker Mark Finchem had not been harmed in a way that allowed them to sue," CNN reported Monday.

Did Jon Stewart just call "Fake News?"

Stewart made his weekly appearance on the Daily Show the same day of opening statements in Trump's criminal hush money trial, but it was the media's coverage of minute detail that the comedian took to task.

Former President Donald Trump's recent comments about his hush money trial jury may have violated his gag order, according to a former judge.

Trump made the questionable comments about his panel of New York City jurors in an interview with John Fredericks on Real America's Voice Monday night.

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Chris Kise claimed Monday his client really just wants the evidence in his Mar-a-Lago case to be "open" — despite the fact that much of that evidence is classified information.

Kise appeared on Fox News to attack special counsel Jack Smith over his handling of the federal classified documents case unfolding in Florida's federal court.