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Democrats are on track for a blowout win in the fall, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told MS NOW's Chris Murphy ahead of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address of his second term — and they plan to use it to get justice and accountability.

"You know, we were saying earlier that the sort of context here is so different from a year ago because of the political situation the president finds himself in, which is way, way, way weaker than it was a year ago," said anchor Chris Hayes. "And I'm curious, as you look at the trajectory of the last year, how you understand the deterioration of his political standing in sort of three different lanes of decisions."

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board ripped President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration leader in a new editorial on Tuesday.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said Monday that his office is pursuing a new way to provide more flexible reviews of drugs used to treat rare diseases. However, the Journal's editors argued that the idea seems to fly in the face of the FDA's mission.

The internet erupted Tuesday after an anonymous post on X contained a baseless claim that it obtained a "leaked draft" of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address just before the president was set to speak directly to the nation — casting serious skepticism among people who read it.

The X account Rogue WH Snr Advisor shared an image of the purported "leaked" draft that included claims that Trump had planned to create a new system to rate people for their "loyalty."

President Donald Trump has alarmed banks after floating his latest executive order idea, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration is considering issuing an executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship information from customers. It is part of the administration's broader push to crack down on illegal immigration and would require banks to verify customers' passports and other legal documents to maintain their accounts.

President Donald Trump has long been posturing toward military action in Iran — but one of his top generals pumped the brakes on the whole thing, enraging him, Slate reported on Tuesday.

"The military warning — first reported in the Washington Post, then confirmed in the New York Times — must be particularly rankling," wrote Fred Kaplan. "According to the reports, in a recent White House meeting with many top officials present, Gen. Dan Caine — whom Trump selected, and has since highly lauded, as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — said that a shortage of munitions and the absence of any allies would make a prolonged war with Iran very difficult."

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday after a popular right-wing podcaster debuted a trailer for her new investigative series.

Candace Owens published a trailer of her latest series, "Bride of Charlie," on Tuesday, which is billed as an investigation into the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika. The teaser features clips of Erika Kirk speaking about her late husband's death at multiple events, and also makes references to "Zionists" and Israel, whom Owens has baselessly accused of killing Kirk.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reported a journalist who visited her campaign office to the Capitol Police for trespassing last month, Semafor reported on Tuesday.

Crockett, often hailed as a rising star in the Democratic Party due to her ability to tear down Republicans in committee hearings, is running in a closely-watched Democratic Senate primary against state Rep. James Talarico, a progressive Christian minister known for his bipartisan legislative record.

A Virginia federal judge delivered a sharp rebuke to the Justice Department on Tuesday, refusing to let prosecutors search through a Washington Post reporter's seized electronics and taking control of the operation himself.

Magistrate Judge William Porter didn't mince words over the handing over of devices to government investigators.

Two Republicans in the House of Representatives are planning acts of defiance during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a new report revealed.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) plan to join Democrats in silently protesting the president and his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Axios reported. Massie plans to sit with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and the Democratic side of the aisle in a rare show of bipartisanship. The two lawmakers led the charge to pass a bill requiring the Trump administration to release all Epstein files in its possession.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is facing mounting calls from within his own party to resign as details trickle out about his alleged sexual misconduct against a House staffer who died in a gruesome suicide last year. But one of his Texas colleagues is pushing back on that whole effort: Rep. Troy Nehls.

Gonzales, who represents a sprawling district stretching from the San Antonio suburbs to the border near El Paso, allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with the staffer, Uvalde regional director Regina Santos-Aviles, and asked her over text to send him "sexy pics," which caused her to express discomfort.