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Former FBI Director James Comey is likely to come out of the gates swinging with a scorched-earth strategy to get the charges President Donald Trump's Justice Department brought against him dismissed, a former federal prosecutor told CBS News on Tuesday.

Comey, against whom Trump has held a vendetta ever since he refused to shut down the Russia investigation for him in his first year in office, is being charged with false statements and obstruction of justice, based on testimony to the Senate that Trump's prosecutors couldn't even quote correctly.

President Donald Trump's administration and Republicans caught heat from political observers on Tuesday after reports indicated that a major airport would "go dark" for five hours because it didn't have enough air traffic controllers.

CNN aviation and transportation correspondent Pete Muntean reported on Tuesday that Nashville's airport would go dark tonight because of staffing shortages. The airport is the second such facility to shut down in as many days due to staffing issues, Muntean reported.

Department of Homeland Security officers who are enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda are taking an increasingly violent posture against protesters — and American Immigration Council fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is fearful of where it's all heading.

The incident exemplifying many of his fears was posted to X on Tuesday by Chicago Tribune journalist Laura N. Rodríguez Presa, who showed an image of a masked federal agent in camouflage, pointing a rifle at a woman recording him from out of the window of a vehicle during an incident in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. It's part of a growing resistance movement in the suburbs as people band together to protest mass arrests by immigration agents.

A former Republican National Committee spokesman ripped the Trump administration on Tuesday on MSNBC for twisting a song about giving people a "second chance" into one about "chaining people and vengeance."

Tim Miller of The Bulwark joined "Deadline: White House" with host Nicolle Wallace to discuss a new song from country superstar Zach Bryan, in which he rips Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.

A memo released this week reveals the Trump administration is considering denying retroactive pay for up to 750,000 federal workers furloughed as part of the federal shutdown. But it turns out this doesn't just violate federal law, it contradicts prior guidelines the Trump administration itself laid out in an earlier memo.

According to MSNBC analyst Sam Stein, "The [Office of Management and Budget] memo ... saying furloughed workers aren't necessarily allowed backpay seems to be in direct contradiction to the [Office of Personnel Management] shutdown guidance the administration issued LAST MONTH."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made Republicans' effort to silence Democrats' demands in the federal shutdown much more difficult, Aaron Blake wrote for CNN on Tuesday.

On paper, it shouldn't be so. Greene is notoriously one of the most hard-right, pro-Trump lawmakers in Congress, and she has gone so far as to urge Senate Republicans to bypass the filibuster to ram through funding for the government and go over Democrats' heads.

A top Republican in Congress pushed back on claims made by President Donald Trump about the government shutdown and a potential pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) joined CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing government shutdown and a few of Trump's latest threats. Earlier in the day, Trump threatened to withhold pay from furloughed government workers. The president has also not yet denied whether he will pardon Maxwell or not, a topic that was revisited during a Monday news conference when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the pardon.

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks spoke with political psychiatrist, Dr. Karin Tamerius, on her "Just the Facts" podcast on Tuesday, and the discussion walked through how one woman broke through far-right propaganda to have a conversation with a MAGA loyalist.

"So, I reached out to my angry uncle. Someone who listened to Rush Limbaugh, watched Fox News. Who was kind of living in a parallel universe from mine," said Dr. Tamerius.

Evan Perez, CNN's senior justice correspondent, was visibly taken aback by Senate Democrats on Tuesday, who he said appeared "unprepared" for the performance Attorney General Pam Bondi gave before the Judiciary Committee.

Bondi was grilled by Democratic senators during a hearing on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's efforts to release the Epstein files and the administration's deployment of federal troops to Democratic-run states and cities. Bondi appeared combative and frequently yelled at Senators who asked questions that she found disrespectful.

A former Republican strategist and staunch critic of President Donald Trump shredded Attorney General Pam Bondi's "venomous" appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a new essay.

Rick Wilson, who co-founded The Lincoln Project, argued in a new Substack essay that Bondi displayed "performative outrage" during the hearing. She vociferously attacked Democratic Senators who asked questions about President Donald Trump's efforts to hide the Jeffrey Epstein files and deploy federal troops to Democratic-run states and cities.

A group of plaintiffs in Chicago, including reporters, press associations, nonprofits, and unions, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that federal agents have used "extreme brutality" trying to silence journalists and protesters in the city, reported Politico on Tuesday.

"The organizations — who were also joined in the suit by individual protesters — allege in the 52-page suit that federal agents acted to 'intimidate and silence' civilians and members of the media who did not pose an imminent threat to law enforcement at protests outside a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility — posing a violation to protesters’ and journalists’ First Amendment rights," the report continued.