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FBI Director Kash Patel claimed on Tuesday that his agency, in partnership with other law enforcement partners, foiled an apparent “explosive-drone plot targeting the White House” Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on Sunday.

“On June 10, FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event in Washington, D.C. involving individuals outside of the National Capital Region – and thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold,” Patel wrote in a statement published on social media.

MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” cut off live coverage of Donald Trump speaking in France after he heaped praise on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard leadership for agreeing to a temporary peace deal that remains a mystery to US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

According to co-host Joe Scarborough, Trump was humiliating himself and the US.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was booted from the role in 2023 by hardliners within the GOP House caucus after a historically short tenure, will be releasing a book next week that Punchbowl News described Tuesday as “a pretty juicy read” – and it’s already causing “much angst” among GOP leaders.

“It dives deep into former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s rise and ultimate fall from Congress,” Punchbowl News’ report reads. “It has some pretty good nuggets from the rooms [McCarthy’s senior congressional aide John] Leganski was in.”

President Donald Trump is taking a big risk by overselling what he describes as an agreement to end his war in Iran, according to a veteran of the State Department.

The 80-year-old president and Iran’s lead negotiator have signed an agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz, but the specific terms of the deal have not been publicized and Israel does not seems to be supportive, and former State Department official Joel Rubin told "CNN This Morning" that Trump may be setting the U.S. up for a major diplomatic failure.

President Donald Trump ran two brazen schemes during the "UFC Freedom 250" event at the White House over the weekend, leaving one political analyst aghast.

Trump hosted the "UFC Freedom 250" event at the White House as part of his 80th birthday celebration, which raised conflict-of-interest concerns. A lawsuit was filed by the Public Integrity Project in the District of Columbia federal court to try to stop the event because the two federal agencies that organized it did not get congressional approval before construction began. However, a federal judge allowed the event to continue.

Political analysts and observers were astounded on Monday night after Vice President JD Vance's interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News.

Vance appeared on Hannity's eponymous show, where he was asked about the ongoing negotiations between the Trump administration and the Iranian regime to end the nearly 17-week-old conflict that has roiled the global economy. Hannity asked Vance if the U.S. would be allowed to inspect Iran's nuclear program going forward, and Vance's answer had some onlookers taken aback.

Political experts raised concerns about President Donald Trump's health and stamina after observing him travel from Sunday's UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House directly to France for the G7 Summit to discuss Iran deal negotiations.

At age 80, Trump's appearance at Évian-les-Bains with French President Emmanuel Macron prompted critical commentary from observers.

Rachel Maddow kicked off her MS NOW segment on Monday with a deep dive into one of the most bizarre and sketchy side sagas of the Trump administration's second term: his refusal to allow the Gordie Howe Bridge between Canada and the United States to open.

"The big, beautiful new bridge that Trump is not allowing us to use is that bridge that crosses the Detroit River ... to Windsor, Ontario, Canada," said Maddow, showing pictures of the completed but empty bridge and noting it is "fully financed and paid for" and will be "the biggest U.S. border crossing [with] Canada" and "one of the most important routes for trade in the entire world."

A foreign policy expert argued on Monday that President Donald Trump's "sham" deal with the Iranian regime reveals the president is really looking to "turn the page" on a war he started without resolving all of the hard problems he's left behind.

Over the weekend, Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the U.S. and Iran had reached an "agreement" that could end their 106-day conflict. The agreement stipulated that the two sides would sign it on Friday, and that tougher discussion about Iran's nuclear weapons program and the Strait of Hormuz would be put off for another day.

President Donald Trump was flattered by Middle East leaders into agreeing to a framework to end the war with Iran in a simple and very egotistical way, MS NOW's Chris Hayes agreed in a conversation with Iranian political analyst Trita Parsi.

Specifically, Trump was persuaded into believing that he had persuaded Iran to take a deal better than the former Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the multilateral nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama — even though many aspects of the deal are considerably more conciliatory to Iran.

A legal expert was taken aback on Monday by reporting that revealed how Trump administration insiders pushed back on an extreme attempt to suspend habeas corpus.

Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor, argued in a new Substack essay that new reporting from Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times about an administration lawyer named Will Scharf who drafted a confidential memo outlining reasons why suspending habeas corpus would be problematic provides "detailed support for understanding this administration as a threat to democratic ideals."

Political analysts and observers swiftly fact-checked President Donald Trump on Monday after he made a false claim about the recent deal he struck with the Iranian regime that could lead to a future peace agreement.

Trump posted on Truth Social that reports of the U.S. "paying Iran 300 million Dollars is Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats!!!" That statement seemed to conflict with what Trump's vice president, JD Vance, said during an interview with Ed O’Keefe of CBS News on Monday morning that Iran "could have access" to a $300 billion reconstruction fund, if it meets the obligations of the Memorandum of Understanding that the two countries announced over the weekend.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed Monday that the Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into him and his wife, characterizing it as politically motivated retaliation.

According to The New York Times, multiple federal investigations are underway. These are said to be examining the governor and his wife's finances, initiated by California-based federal law enforcement officials rather than Trump appointees in Washington.