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Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers on Tuesday shredded President Donald Trump's moves to purge the United States Department of Justice of lawyers who once worked for former special counsel Jack Smith.

Appearing on CNN, Rodgers said that Trump's efforts to fire or sideline multiple career DOJ officials sends a "terrible message" to the rest of the department.

Two former federal prosecutors took to CNN on Monday to call into question President Donald Trump's latest controversial move: purging more than a dozen inspectors general, tasked with acting as a watchdog for the federal government.

Trump fired at least 17 independent watchdogs late Friday at multiple federal agencies — a move even some allies have opposed. The move will allow him to insert his own choices for the roles, CNN reported.

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States deport not only undocumented immigrants but U.S.-born citizens who commit crimes.

Trump made the eyebrow-raising comment while speaking during a House Republican members conference meeting at Trump National Doral resort, in Miami, Florida.

President Donald Trump is once again flirting with the unconstitutional idea that he could pursue a third term in office.

The comments came Monday during a speech at his Trump National Doral Miami golf club for the Congressional Institute’s annual retreat for House Republicans as he read from a teleprompter in what appeared to be prepared remarks.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested Republicans might condition wildfire aid funds on voter ID requirements in California, calling the idea "commonsense."

At a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju asked about the possibility of conditions in exchange for wildfire relief funding. President Donald Trump has long accused California of massive voter fraud because the state does not have a strict voter ID law. However, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any state.

An elected official in Pennsylvania got bounced out of office for posting her own version of Elon Musk's salute.

Towamencin Township supervisor Laura Smith resigned Saturday after posting a TikTok video of herself mimicking the arm gesture that many say resembled a Nazi salute, which Musk made last week during president Donald Trump's inauguration celebration, and community outrage against her spread quickly, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) threw cold water on President Donald Trump's call to pass "one big beautiful bill" to fund the government and mass deportations at the same time.

During a Monday interview on Steve Bannon's War Room, Crane sounded the alarm on funding for border czar Tom Homan, tasked with carrying out Trump's mass deportation scheme.

MAGA TV host David Brody, who was raised Jewish but became an evangelical Christian, criticized billionaire DOGE Chair Elon Musk for a series of Nazi jokes.

During a Monday segment on Real America's Voice, Brody noted that many people had condemned Musk for appearing to give a Nazi salute during President Donald Trump's Inaugural Parade.

A suddenly popular Chinese artificial intelligence model sent U.S. stocks plunging Monday morning, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged president Donald Trump to proceed with caution.

The year-old startup DeepSeek presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1 that shows similar abilities to popular models developed by OpenAI, Google and Meta, but at a fraction of the cost to develop and train, and the the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged by 3.6 percent after the markets opened.

In his first week in office, President Donald Trump pardoned violent criminals and fired independent government watchdogs, but did little to lower the price of groceries.

Democratic strategist Christine Quinn warned on CNN that this could be a big problem for Trump, as voters have regularly said that lowering grocery prices should be his top priority.

Donald Trump revoked the government-funded security details from some of his former administration officials turned critics, but panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed surprise about one of the individuals who was targeted.

The president ended Secret Service protection for former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, as well as former National Security Adviser John Bolton – all of whom had been targeted by Iran for assassination – and canceled the federal protection provided to his former Covid-19 adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, said on Sunday that his choice to stand up to President Donald Trump "face to face" had to happen.

When Trump held an event in California to address the catastrophic wildfires that destroyed historic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Sherman called him out over his party's repeated threats to withhold or condition disaster relief.

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher mocked former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) about reports that he paid young women for sex.

During a discussion on the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, the HBO host sparred with Gaetz over President Donald Trump's plan to acquire Greenland.