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A CNN panel discussing Gov. Ron DeSantis' flailing campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination noted that Donald Trump remains relentless in his attacks on the Florida governor.

Speaking with "Inside Politics" host Dana Bash, CNN political analyst Kristen Holmes suggested that the former president seems to want to damage DeSantis' political future irretrievably.

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon called for a purging of people who are not Christian nationalists if Donald Trump wins a second term as president.

On his Monday War Room broadcast, Bannon celebrated author Tim Alberta's warnings about Christian nationalism on MSNBC.

Former President Donald Trump will cause chaos if elected to a second term, said The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum on CNN Monday morning — and not just in the U.S. government, where he has plans to reshape the entire federal government into a loyalty cult, but to the entire international order around the globe.

This comes following a dire warning from the same publication about what another Trump presidency could mean.

On Monday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed their outrage at comments made by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday where she downplayed the rape of Jewish women by Hamas terrorists after they invaded Israel on Oct. 7.

During the interview, the Democrat from Washington was asked by CNN host Dana Bash, "With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas," to which Jayapal replied, "...we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children."

"And it’s horrible," Bash replied before pointing out, "But you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women."

"I don’t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions," Jayapal dismissively shot back.

After watching the clip, a clearly stunned and fuming "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski stated, "My lord, was she equivocating?"

Co-host Joe Scarborough, added, "I think what's remarkable is that you have many people, international organizations on the left, that just can't condemn Hamas raping and abusing and raping to the point of death and then parading them."

"She kind of sort of did," Brzezinski interjected.

"But it was never, like, we can condemn Hamas," Scarborough continued. "It always has to be— there's always moral equivocation. There's always moral equivocation. You can never say that what Hamas did to Jewish women was absolutely savage and beyond the pale. It always has to be, 'yeah, but Israel.'"

Morning Joe contributor Elise Jordan tersely chimed in, "I mean, you would think there is a huge outcry anytime rape is being used as a weapon of war. Period, that's wrong. It's a crime against humanity. It is a war crime. End of discussion. You don't have to do the other side here."

After showing the clip a second time, Scarborough added, "We have to remember, she's asked about rape and goes, 'But we have to remember.' She's asked about Jewish women being savaged and she goes, 'It happens, it happens in wartime.' She's asked again about it, and goes, 'Yes, it's terrible, it's bad, I'm against it ... however,' acting as if nobody has talked about the civilian death toll in Gaza."

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"She can't just condemn Jewish women being brutalized and it being videotaped and people seeing it, she just can't," he continued. "It's always a "But, we have to remember, it happens in war.'"

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg promoted a special edition of the Atlantic where analysts predicted the dangers of a second Donald Trump term, with the editor issuing his own alarm that there will be no "adults" to keep the former president from destroying the U.S. government as it is currently known.

Speaking with the hosts, Goldberg also noted that controversial former Trump advisor Stephen Miller — notable for his racist and authoritarian leanings —could return in a role that would make him one of the most powerful members in a second Trump administration.

"Look, as president of the United States, you are the de facto chief law enforcement officer of the United States, right?" the editor told the hosts. "You appoint the attorney general and the idea of Donald Trump, who is under 91 felony counts right now at this moment, returning to a role as chief law enforcement officer is absurd obviously, but here we are."

Addressing what a second Trump administration might look like, he added, "So the number one goal, the first goal, before immigration, before everything else, right? The first goal is to make sure the mechanisms of government can't be used to prosecute Trump or his allies, right? It is going to be a direct frontal assault on the independence of the Justice Department and, by extension, the independence of the entire judicial process. "

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"This is not going to be a situation where, as in the first round, he brought in people like Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly —adults. No more adults, right?" he elaborated. "Stephen Miller could be the chief of staff of the White House, we don't know. So the point is, they have been working for years to plot their revenge."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised alarms about Donald Trump's health and behavior as he seeks a second term as president.

The "Morning Joe" host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg discussed Trump's autocratic plans for another term in the White House, and they agreed that threat to democracy had not been covered properly.

During a discussion on MSNBC on timing Donald Trump's multiple trials around his presidential campaign schedule, a former U.S. attorney suggested a Trump lawyer may have pushed his luck by suggesting the former president's upcoming racketeering trial might have to be rescheduled until 2029.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, ex-prosecutor Barbara McQuade pointed out that any average American facing charges like Trump currently is facing would not be granted the same consideration the embattled Trump appears to be receiving.

This past week Trump's Georgia attorney Steve Sadow asserted that taking his client to trial within the next year would constitute "election interference" in his eyes. That, in turn led Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to ask if Trump's trial could proceed in 2025, with Sadow replying, "The answer to that is I believe that under the supremacy clause and his duties as president of the United States this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term in office.”

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According to McQuade, that would mean a court date sometime in 2029 which she claimed might lead Judge McAfee to speed the timeline.

Recalling for the host, "The lawyer said, well, because a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, he also can't sit trial for a crime where he's a sitting president, therefore, that case would not be tried until 2029," McQuade added, "I think that aspect might cause the judge to reconsider, and make sure that this trial gets done before the election, because by 2029, I think the public has lost its right to a fair trial."

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Fox News host Arthel Neville interrupted a speech by former President Donald Trump to point out his "many untruths" about the 2020 election.

As Trump gave a campaign speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, Neville cut the former president off mid-sentence.

Rudy Giuliani expressed fear on Sunday that he could go to prison for the rest of his life after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) suggested that data from Hunter Biden's laptop had been "manipulated" by the former New York mayor.

On his Sunday radio program, Giuliani said he deserved praise for exposing the contents of a laptop belonging to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Republican Party strategist Brad Todd got an earful from both liberal and conservatives sitting on the panel with him when he attempted to defend plans by the GOP-controlled House to impeach President Joe Biden.

Talking about the impeachment inquiry which got the go-ahead from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Todd was lectured that it was "dead on arrival" because multiple Republican House members in swing districts don't want it hanging over their heads as they run for re-election.

"The reality is it is dead on arrival," former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin explained. "There is a slim House Republican majority... If you're [Republican Rep.] Mike Lawler in New York, you're talking about losing seats in D+2 districts."

When Todd tried to compare the inquiry to the impeachments of Donald Trump, and said it would not impact the 2024 election, former Biden White House communications official Kate Bedingfield smirked and pounced.

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"That in and of itself is a hyperpartisan, hyperpolarized argument," she argued. "Just because we impeached Donald Trump for demonstrable crimes against the Constitution doesn't mean that Republicans will in turn impeach Joe Biden. This not just about scoring points."

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Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he is ready to throw his support behind Donald Trump for president even if he is convicted of any of the 91 felony charges he is facing.

During a Sunday panel discussion, ABC host George Stephanopoulos seemed surprised at Priebus' willingness to support Trump despite his criminal problems.

During a CNN panel discussion on "State of the Union" the topic of Gov. Ron DeSantis' faltering bid to become the GOP's 2024 presidential campaign came up and GOP strategist Brad Todd dropped the hammer on the Florida lawmakers for allowing the chaos among his own staffers overshadow his campaign.

Speaking with host Dana Bash, Todd raged at the candidate and his staff by pointing out his collapse in the polls as his staffers battled with a super PAC designed to get him into the White House.

According to a clearly disgusted Todd, DeSantis and his closest aides have run a terrible campaign.

"His campaign is — well, his numbers are falling," host Bash prompted. "But the Super PAC that his campaign has relied really heavily on to do a lot of the leg work and a lot of the tough work, it's in turmoil: another leader in the Super PAC has left."

"This is a classic case of ... a good example of his campaign in general," Todd complained. "They have a big news day for the Iowa caucus, complete every county thing, and then the staff becomes the story."

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"This it is a rule in professional campaigning: never become the story when you're the staff," he lectured. "But in Ron DeSantis' world, from the very beginning of his campaign for governor for the first time, the staff always ends up being a story."

Elaborating, he added, "Because when things don't go well, Ron DeSantis blames his staff and his staff is always infighting. This is his campaign in a microcosm. He was ahead by 11 points last February, he's behind by a cab ride right now. It has been a terribly run campaign. They still have time to get it together, but execution wise, there's been very little done right."

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) worried on Sunday that one or two moderate Republicans could derail his entire effort to impeach President Joe Biden.

During an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Comer if Republicans could pass an authorization for an impeachment inquiry after losing former Rep. George Santos (R-NY).