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A former federal prosecutor blasted president Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney for acting as a "hatchet man" at the Department of Justice.

Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, accused the FBI's acting director Brian Driscoll of refusing his order to release the names of investigators who worked on Jan. 6 cases as part of a department-wide purge of individuals deemed disloyal to the president, and he then moved to dismiss a corruption case against New York City mayor Eric Adams – who has emerged as a Trump ally.

Maryland flower farmer Laura Beth Resnick spoke out on CNN Tuesday morning after President Donald Trump's across-the-board freeze on federal spending blocked a grant to help her upgrade her farm to clean energy — which would put her on the hook for over $36,000 the federal government had promised to pay, and jeopardize the economic viability of her business.

"We signed our contract with the government about a year ago to put solar panels on our barn, and about a year later the project was complete and we were supposed to get our funding the week that the funding freeze was announced," Resnick told anchor Sara Sidner. "We still haven't seen the money. And when we asked the government representative where it was and what we should do, they informed us that our funding request had been rejected due to the funding freeze."

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams on Tuesday expressed shock after the Trump Department of Justice interfered to get corruption charges dropped against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

In reacting to prosecutors' decision to drop the case, Williams argued that this went far beyond any of the controversial pardons that Trump has made in the past.

The Justice Department directive to end the corruption case against New York City mayor has roiled the legal community — and sets up a situation where he's personally beholden to the president, an expert said Tuesday.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who had previously served as defense attorney for Donald Trump, ordered federal prosecutors to drop bribery and corruption charges against the mayor, a Democrat who had increasingly aligned himself with the president in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign.

Former Biden Press Secretary Kendra Barkoff predicted that backlash would swiftly come for X owner Elon Musk once Americans start to personally feel the impacts of his Department of Government Efficiency.

During a CNN roundtable discussion, Barkoff said there would be no way that Musk would be able to lie about the impacts of the massive cuts he's making to key government agencies and services.

A Republican strategist got an earful from a CNN anchor Monday night during a heated discussion over Vice President J.D. Vance's eyebrow-raising statement that judges can't "control the executive's legitimate power."

Vance wrote Sunday morning on the platform X: "If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) came out swinging against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his chair of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, for gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – a watchdog agency that she helped create more than a decade ago.

Warren, who was instrumental in establishing the bureau during the Obama administration, launched a fierce pushback Monday on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow of the new administration’s decision to bring it down less than a month after Trump's return to the White House.

New York Times reporter and podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro clashed with GOP strategist Lance Trover on CNN as he tried to defend President Donald Trump's move to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

By executive fiat, Trump terminated the primary agency responsible, since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, for protecting working people from fraud and misconduct by banks and other financial institutions.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took to the floor of Congress on Monday afternoon to accuse Republicans of a "bait and switch" after spending the 2024 election promising lower grocery prices.

"The Republican bait and switch has three elements," Jeffries began. "Part one: talk about lowering the high cost of living, but do nothing about it."

Political officials and analysts are raising concerns about a potential constitutional crisis: what if President Donald Trump refuses to comply with a court ruling? However, one legal expert believes this scenario is unlikely.

"Federal judges have, let's just say, a lot invested into the notion that politicians obey their orders and obey the law. I'll use the MOST extreme federal judge out there because he makes this point clear: Matthew Kacsmaryk," wrote litigator Dilan Esper from the Washington, D.C. firm Harder Stonerock.

Former Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks that the reelected president is hurting himself by welcoming racist staff into the administration.

Speaking on "The View" Monday, the panel of co-hosts attacked a 25-year-old Elon Musk staffer who admitted in past social media posts that he was racist. However, another person who was fired during the previous Trump administration for attending a white nationalist event — Darren Beattie — was brought back to be acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, she pointed out.

MAGA activist Steve Bannon pressed President Donald Trump to have the so-called J6 Choir of formerly imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters perform at the Kennedy Center after the commander-in-chief installed himself as chairman of the performing arts institution.

"That's the high church of the administrative state deep state," Bannon opined during his Monday War Room broadcast. "He's appointed himself chairman. The J6 Choir should come and have it. We should have a special program there."

Former ethics czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen is working with a group of attorneys fighting back against President Donald Trump over what they're calling his unlawful actions.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Eisen said that they have been successful in court so far — and they believe they will continue to be.