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CNN's Tom Foreman reported on escalating absurdities surrounding President Donald Trump's troubled $14 million Reflecting Pool renovation.

The project, quickly plagued by algae blooms and deteriorating paint, has resulted in at least five arrests for removing damaged materials from the water. Among those arrested was David Hearn, a U.S. Olympic slalom canoe competitor and material scientist, who Foreman said merely touched loose material to examine it.

CNN's Erin Burnett was in disbelief on Monday after a new report threw President Donald Trump's previous attacks against former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face.

Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's KFile reviewed dozens of media appearances by Trump and other members of his cabinet in which they discussed Obama's Iran deal. Trump was sharply critical of the deal in many instances, as were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, even though the deal that the Trump administration brokered with the Iranian regime resembles that deal in many respects.

On June 2, in an unsigned 6-3 order buried in the Supreme Court's shadow docket, the conservative supermajority quietly did something it had never done before, declaring the Constitution "colorblind." In doing so, Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern warned that the court gave a permanent constitutional guarantee to those seeking to dismantle civil rights protections.

The unsigned order reinstated an Alabama congressional map that federal courts had repeatedly struck down for intentionally discriminating against Black voters, handing white voters greater control over the state's congressional map by eliminating a district held by a Black representative.

President Donald Trump's recent excuse that vandals were at fault for the peeling paint at the bottom of the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool raised red flags for his niece.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump denied that the contractors who undertook the roughly $15 million renovation project were responsible for the poor conditions and algae that spread throughout the pool. Instead, Trump claimed people were vandalizing the pool and threatened to imprison anyone caught vandalizing it for up to 10 years.

Photographs smuggled out from behind tarp-covered scaffolding at the Kennedy Center reveal what President Donald Trump has spent nine days trying to hide.

His name is gone.

President Donald Trump's administration is conditioning nearly $1 billion in public safety grants on local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, a move critics argue is designed to exclude Democratic-led cities.

Approximately $700 million flows through the existing COPS grant program. NPR reports this new $300 million Model Cities Initiative will go to just two to four cities, bypassing standard competitive peer-review processes, explained Amy Solomon, senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and former head of the DOJ's Office of Justice Programs.

President Donald Trump's base of supporters is furious with the administration over the deal it is negotiating with the Iranian regime, as illustrated by a devastating supercut that aired on MS NOW's "The Beat" on Monday.

Last weekend, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime agreed to a deal that would immediately open the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that has choked the global economy, and promised to eliminate sanctions on Iranian oil. That deal appeared to fall apart on Saturday and Sunday as Vice President JD Vance suffered what some described as a "humiliation" during peace talks with the Iranians after the country's foreign minister refused to shake Vance's hand.

New data from The Washington Post is painting a dire electoral picture for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday that Democrats aren't just riding a wave; they're building one.

The Post's analysis of more than 990 House primary races across 25 states found that 12.6 million ballots were cast in Democratic primaries so far this year, compared to just 8.6 million in Republican contests. In 2022, when Republicans flipped the House, the enthusiasm advantage ran the other way.

A second ransom note in the months-long investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie claims the 84-year-old died and was "buried with nature now," according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to NewsNation reporter Brian Entin on Monday.

The note indicated her death was not intentional but offered no direct apology, the source said.

Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.

That's according to Atlantic staff writer and national security scholar Tom Nichols, who joined MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Monday. Wallace argued that Trump is operating inside an "artificial reality" constructed by aides who feed him selectively curated social media posts to shield him from negative information about the economy and the war. The arrangement, Wallace said, explains moments like Trump's repeated insistence that the country is "hot."

Several intelligence professionals were reassigned on Monday, in what CNN reporter Kristen Holmes described as a "pretty stunning" start to the reign of Bill Pulte, the new acting intelligence chief.

Holmes reported, citing sources who spoke to CNN, that Pulte had begun firing intelligence professionals on Monday, one of his first acts as acting director of national intelligence, a job he inherited from the agency's former director, Tulsi Gabbard. Holmes said she did not have information about how many people were let go or from which departments within the agency, but said that a source familiar with the firings said the "deep state firings had begun."

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg mocked President Donald Trump's threat of 10-year prison sentences for those responsible for damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump claimed vandals illegally placed chemicals in the water and created a 300-foot gash, subsequently arresting five people.