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Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance defended Donald Trump's threat to use the U.S. military against the "enemy from within," saying the former president "speaks from the heart."

During a Monday interview on Fox News, host Bill Hemmer asked Vance why Trump kept talking about his threat to use the military in U.S. elections to fight "radical left lunatics" and the "enemy from within."

CNN's Nick Valencia on Monday shot down conspiracy theories being peddled by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other MAGA Republicans about Dominion voting machines switching votes from former President Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris.

While speaking with host Kate Bolduan, Valencia was asked about the fraud allegations lobbed by Greene over the weekend, which the Georgia Secretary of State's office was quick to debunk as false.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten highlighted some surprising recent polling results that could help Vice President Kamala Harris offset potential losses among Black men in the 2024 presidential election.

Specifically, Enten pointed to polling showing that Trump's support among white voters without a college degree has been slipping over the last eight years.

The day after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to the Sunday cable shows to defend Donald Trump over his "enemies within" smears aimed at lawmakers and military leaders who have been critical of him, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) gave both of her former colleagues a dressing down.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill noted Graham lashing out at military leaders, specifically retired Gen. Mark Milley, on "Meet the Press" where he raged, "What are you doing? You're trying to convince me that Donald Trump's rhetoric is the danger to this country? The danger to this country is the policies of Biden and Harris."

Also noting Johnson's combative defense of the former president on CNN's "State of the Union," the former senator said both men should be ashamed of themselves.

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'Let's take a trip down reality lane" she suggested to hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. "All you have to do — thank goodness we have a way to check this — all you have to do is ask his [Trump's] chief of staff the first time he was in the White House. Ask his counsel, attorney general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military leadership in our country."

"All you have to do is ask those five people what he tried to do in his first administration," she continued. "And Lindsey Graham knows this. Mike Johnson knows this. He tried to get all of them to do what he is now promising to do; they all said no."

"Here's what's different: he will not put people like that in the Oval Office next time around, he's proudly said he won't," she added. "He's proudly said that they were, you know, picking the best people, and all of these people were terrible. Well, they were terrible because they told him he couldn't do these kinds of things in the United States of America."

"Shame on Mike Johnson. I mean, that was really embarrassing for him. Shame on the Wall Street Journal and really shame on poor Lindsey Graham, who stood up the day after January 6th, and said he was done with it," she concluded.

CNN's Sara Sidner clashed with May Mailman, the director of the Independent Women's Law Center and a former legal adviser to former President Donald Trump, over tech billionaire Elon Musk's controversial scheme to pay registered voters who sign his "constitutional petition" $1 million per day until the election.

Some election observers have argued is meant to be a ploy to buy votes for Trump ahead of the election — and smacks of illegality.

CNN legal reporter Marshall Cohen on Monday explained why X CEO Elon Musk's scheme to award $1 million every day to registered voters in battleground states could be illegal.

In an interview with CNN's Sara Sidner, Cohen cautioned that he doesn't know for certain whether Musk's $1 million giveaway is illegal, but he said that many election law experts made compelling cases for why it might be.

After sharing a clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) battling with Jake Tapper over Donald Trump's desire for prosecute his political enemies if he is re-elected, the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" lambasted the Republican leader.

Pressed on Trump calling his critics the "enemy within,": Johnson claimed that the CNN host was blowing the ex-president's words out of proportion, which led to a tense exchange with the exasperated Tapper.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough lashed out at Wall Street Journal Monday after the editorial board published a piece blowing off concerns about Donald Trump's growing fascism.

The editorial, entitled "The 'Fascist' Meme Returns," attempted to make the case that not only is the former president not exhibiting authoritarian tendencies when he calls his political opponents "the enemy within," but that it is Democrats who are the real threat in America.