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President Donald Trump's decision to gloatingly cheer the death of former special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into his campaign's ties to the Russian government following the 2016 election, was ripped to shreds by MS NOW's "The Weeknight" anchors Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele.

Sanders Townsend pointed out the double standard of how aggressively Trump and his allies policed any discussion of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk following his murder last year.

Democrats are hoping to flip a rural North Carolina county, and voters put Republicans on notice this week on CNN.

John King, anchor and chief national correspondent, joined Erin Burnett on Monday on her show, "OutFront," to discuss what he's hearing from voters in rural Madison County. Democrats in the state hope to flip the 11th Congressional District, which covers Marshall, and the battleground state also features one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough grew impatient with Senator Chuck Schumer Monday morning during an interview about Trump's Iran war strategy, snapping "you don't understand me," and "you're not listening to me."

Scarborough pressed Schumer on whether degrading Iran's military infrastructure is beneficial, while Schumer repeatedly deflected to discuss broader economic consequences, including Strait of Hormuz closure and surging gas prices.

Texas Republicans have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power — at least for the time being.

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "On Monday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced which senators would fill committee vacancies, following recent membership shakeups ... Newly sworn in Sen. Taylor Rehmet wasn’t among the senators named on the lieutenant governor’s latest list of committee appointees."

President Donald Trump threw his full political weight behind a Florida state house candidate in his own backyard — but the Republican he's backing has faced swirling questions about whether he even lives in the district he wants to represent.

Trump posted a full-throated Truth Social endorsement Monday of Jon Maples, declaring he has his "complete and total endorsement" for Tuesday's special election in Florida House District 87, a coastal Palm Beach County seat covering some of the wealthiest ZIP codes in the state, including Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Singer Island and Palm Beach itself.

President Donald Trump thought he was landing a blow when he declared California Gov. Gavin Newsom unfit for the presidency because of his dyslexia, but in doing so, he exposed a fatal flaw.

That's the argument from New York Times contributing Opinion writer Molly Jong-Fast, who has dyslexia herself — and was expelled from private school as a child because of it. In a blistering op-ed on Monday, she dismantled Trump's attack while exposing what she described as his fundamental flaw.

Senator Lindsey Graham faced bipartisan criticism Sunday after suggesting on Fox News that the U.S. should capture Iran's Kharg Island, comparing the operation to the World War II invasion of Iwo Jima.

When pressed about potential ground troops, Graham stated "We took Iwo Jima. We can take Kharg Island," drawing outrage from analysts and lawmakers.

President Donald Trump seems to have broad polling support among Republicans for the escalating war against Iran, despite the vocal outcry of some prominent MAGA figures against the war. But that support may be a lot more fragile than it seems, former GOP strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

"I think it is interesting ... that the people who are calling out the absurdity, the recklessness of what they're doing, are people ... who in many other ways [are] in lockstep with this administration," said Menendez, bringing up as examples Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC). "I wonder what you make as a sort of student of the MAGA movement and who chooses when to be in alignment and when about the specific fractures, we are seeing in this moment."

Senate Republicans are abdicating their basic oversight powers over President Donald Trump's war in Iran, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) fumed Monday on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House."

The segment was part of a broader discussion about how even multiple GOP senators, including Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), have sounded the alarm about the administration's war plans in a new Washington Post article.

A democracy that rests on a single Supreme Court vote is "living on borrowed time" and Monday's oral arguments suggest that time may be running out, Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern warned Monday.

Stern watched four conservative Supreme Court justices signal their willingness to gut mail ballot grace period laws in 30 states, potentially invalidating the votes of 750,000 Americans, with fewer than 150 days until the midterms.

President Donald Trump sparked tension among immigration enforcement Monday by posting on Truth Social that ICE agents deployed to airports should not wear masks while performing duties normally handled by TSA agents.

Trump's recommendation contradicts the Department of Homeland Security's policy allowing heavily-armed agents to conceal their identities through masks, citing safety concerns about agents being doxxed and harassed while detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.

President Donald Trump's winning cross-section of voters that got him back into office is already falling apart, according to a new poll released by Morning Consult on Monday, with several voting groups essential to his victory turning on him at a rapid pace.

This comes amid widespread public outrage over the war in Iran, abuses of power by federal immigration agents, and a swiftly weakening economy that is seeing a massive jobs slowdown at the same time as inflation is beginning to accelerate again.