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A political analyst called out a striking contradiction that President Donald Trump's chief spokesperson made during an interview on Fox News.

David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a recent video that Karoline Leavitt "immediately imploded" during her appearance on Fox News's "Fox & Friends" on Monday. He noted that Leavitt had a hard time explaining how the ceasefire brokered between the U.S. and Iran is going, and offered a contradiction that left him taken aback.

Rachel Maddow kicked off her Monday night MS NOW program with a discussion of Star Wars — and specifically, how one track from the original trilogy just cost the Trump administration a big settlement payout for unlawful police conduct.

"The Empire Strikes Back is just as exciting as the first Star Wars movie, but it is darker, it is definitely darker, right?" said Maddow. "Our heroes aren't, you know, just plucky underdogs like they were in the first movie. It really, really feels like they are losing ... it's dark. The whole vibe of The Empire Strikes Back is this, you know, the dark dread of this tyrannical force having the upper hand, seeming like it's winning."

MS NOW host Luke Russert laid out on Monday's edition of "The Weeknight" how the newest grift by the Trump family dwarfs the corrupt deals that had Republicans enraged with the Biden family — by three orders of magnitude.

Specifically, they brokered a mining deal in Kazakhstan through the federal government, from which members of the Trump family could reap hundreds of millions of dollars due to personal stakes.

President Donald Trump had a decidedly mixed day at the Supreme Court, suffering some major losses — and former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb thinks another huge one is coming down tomorrow on the last day of the court's term.

Specifically, he told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes the court is about to deliver a "rebuke" of Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, and possibly a unanimous one.

CNN's Erin Burnett was taken aback on Monday by a new report about how President Donald Trump plans to navigate what he's describing as a "betrayal of his base."

Last week, Trump abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, an overwhelmingly popular bipartisan bill that would address housing costs ahead of the midterm elections. Republicans and Democrats alike were outraged at the decision, which Trump claimed to make in order to force lawmakers to pass his unpopular SAVE America Act, which would fundamentally rewrite how American elections are conducted.

Former CNN stalwart Jim Acosta ruthlessly trolled President Donald Trump on a sunny Monday afternoon, delivering a withering in-person review of the Great American State Fair, where Acosta could barely contain his glee at the near-empty spectacle and "shoddy" construction.

Videoing himself from the National Mall, Acosta pulled no punches.

A Republican lawmaker slammed the calamity the Trump administration has created by revoking Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants.

Last year, the Trump administration abruptly revoked TPS for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, a move that impacted approximately 356,000 people currently living in the U.S. The order was swiftly challenged, but the Supreme Court recently ruled that President Donald Trump has the authority to unilaterally revoke TPS, an opinion that stunned many legal analysts.

Beltway insider John Heilemann had a grim assessment of President Donald Trump's current mental state as his Great American State Fair flops for all to see, and yet he continues to insist everything's going great.

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace turned to him in a panel discussion on Monday to discuss how absurd she found Trump's latest ranting about the issue.

President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid administrator Dr. Oz took the stage at the Great American State Fair on Monday to brag about the crowd size — but a TMZ reporter was on scene to pan the camera and reveal that, in fact, almost no one was there on the National Mall to watch the speech.

"There are tons of people here, it's a huge space, and it's going to get more and more crowded as the week goes on," said Oz, standing on the stage with right-wing actor Dean Cain.

CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel didn't sugarcoat President Donald Trump's Supreme Court setback, tracing it straight back to his refusal to accept the 2020 election.

The court ruled 5-4 Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee that states may count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day even if they arrive afterward, rejecting an RNC challenge Trump's Justice Department had backed. Trump called it a "tremendous loss."

A Constitutional law expert slammed a GOP pundit's "absolutely ridiculous" analogy about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn more than nine decades of precedent on presidential power.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that President Donald Trump has the authority to fire members of the previously independent Federal Trade Commission. The decision overturned a precedent known as Humphrey's Executor, which had stood for more than 91 years, and prevented the president from firing employees of independent government agencies.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann fixed on a single word in Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion and said it left him deeply unsettled.

Reacting on air to Monday's 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned 91 years of precedent and lets the president fire members of independent agencies without cause, Weissmann said the decision extends the theory of expansive presidential power Roberts laid out in the Trump v. United States immunity case.