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A legal expert was stunned on Monday by reports that one of President Donald Trump's loyalists had begun firing career intelligence officials.

Bill Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and serves as the acting director of national intelligence, reportedly showed up to work a day early to get a list of all of the employees under his purview and then promptly began firing them on Monday. Reports did not indicate how many people were affected, but one source told CNN that those being fired are considered part of the "deep state."

President Donald Trump's latest threat to sue a media company over its reporting was swiftly mocked by political analysts on Monday.

Trump posted on Truth Social that his administration is preparing a lawsuit against ABC News over its reporting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has faced significant criticism because of the project's shoddy work and ballooning costs. Initial estimates for the renovation came in at around $2 million, but the final bill was for roughly $16 million, according to reports. Meanwhile, the bottom of the pool has been peeling off, and the algae Trump promised to get rid of has returned in full force.

MS NOW host Chris Hayes couldn't contain his laughter Monday night as he relayed President Donald Trump's attempt to explain the spiraling saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, calling the president's insistence that vandals destroyed his $14 million renovation "insane" and "the most perfect encapsulation" of his administration's approach to governance.

The pool, painted "American flag blue" ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, turned green with an algae bloom within days of reopening, and the new paint began peeling and floating to the surface. Trump had earlier boasted the coating was so strong "you couldn't cut it," even with a knife.

President Donald Trump faces an unprecedented constitutional crisis as the Supreme Court, including justices he appointed, prepares to rule against him on multiple key priorities.

Legal expert Jeffrey Fisher told The Washington Post the conflict mirrors nothing seen in nearly a century, requiring comparison to the New Deal era.

President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he is going to sue ABC News over a report by the network about the renovation to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl reported on the souring conditions at the Reflecting Pool last week, including a shot of him lifting the peeling bottom of the pool. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the network "failed to report" on times when the Democrats renovated the pool, and he decided to sue them because of it.

A former FBI hostage negotiator flagged a dark detail in the new Nancy Guthrie ransom note that was delivered to the family on Monday.

In the note, Guthrie's abductors claimed that the 84-year-old mother of "Today!" co-host Savannah Guthrie had been "buried with nature now," according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to NewsNation reporter Brian Entin. Chip Massey, a former hostage negotiator, told CNN's Erin Burnett that the abductors also included details in the note that point to where the investigation may go next.

Retired Gen. Michael Flynn's conservative nonprofit America's Future is engulfed in chaos as a wave of prominent figures abruptly quit its anti-trafficking arm and offered only cryptic clues about what tore the group apart, according to reporting by The Bulwark's Will Sommer.

Flynn, who briefly served as Donald Trump's national security adviser before being pardoned for lying to the FBI, took over the storied group in 2021. As Sommer documents, Flynn stocked the organization with fringe activists. Its "Project Defend & Protect Our Children" advisory board included Pizzagate promoter Liz Crokin and conspiracy theorist Lara Logan, the former CBS News reporter. The group screened QAnon-themed films at Mar-a-Lago events.

One member of President Donald Trump's White House holds a "big chip of leverage" that could decide Trump's fate once he leaves office, according to a new analysis.

Mark Green, president of the New Democracy Project, argued in a new Substack essay that Vice President JD Vance holds the key to deciding Trump's fate in 2029, after his second administration ends. Green noted that Trump will likely want to pardon himself for any legal liability he faces after his term is up and will need Vance to play ball to make that happen.

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.