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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman thinks that Republicans are trying to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a perjury trap so they can arrest him for investigating President Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday morning, Akerman, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, said that it's clear Smith is refusing to speak with Congress unless the testimony is public.

President Donald Trump's controversial Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte got a polite smackdown from a reporter for complaining that they didn't print his entire politically and racially charged rant about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

The controversy stemmed from Punchbowl News printing a quote from Pulte firing back at Warren, who has stepped up her accusations in recent months that the Trump appointee is abusing his power to help the president target political foes. His particular complaint was that they only excerpted the part where he said Warren is "faking an understanding of mortgage finance" and left out his additional personal attacks on her.

President Donald Trump has approved millions of dollars in disaster aid to states he won in 2024 while denying funds to states that did not back him, but an analyst explained that he was hurting his own supporters in blue states.

The president signed off on aid for Nebraska, North Dakota, Missouri and Alaska, going out of his way to point out that he'd won those states when announcing the funds, but denied requests for relief from Maryland, Vermont and Illinois, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said Trump was making his intentions clear.

Newsmax legal analyst Andrew Napolitano suggested President Donald Trump was not telling the truth when he claimed that a billionaire's $130 million donation could be used to pay military troops during the government shutdown.

Speaking on Monday, Napolitano reacted to the $130 donation by Timothy Mellon, which Trump promised would "make sure that the military got paid."

President Donald Trump revealed Monday that he had undergone an MRI scan during a recent checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but has remained tight-lipped about what prompted the examination, leading to one medical expert raising serious questions as to the president’s health.

“It's not part of a routine screening examination,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst who’s certified in interventional cardiology and internal medicine, speaking on the network Monday.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, a Republican, has called the GOP-controlled legislature back to Indianapolis for an emergency session to redraw the congressional district lines for President Donald Trump.

Punchbowl News congressional reporter Laura Weiss shared Braun's press release, noting that a spokesperson for Senate President Pro Temp Rodric Bray (R) said that “the votes still aren't there for redistricting."

President Donald Trump’s plan to get the Department of Justice to reimburse him for legal costs and damages, to the tune of $230 million, because he feels he was criminally pursued as part of a bogus investigation could be derailed by one of his biggest supporters.

Last week, the president floated the idea that he should be reimbursed millions because he was investigated by the DOJ over both evidence that Russia helped him get elected in 2016 as well as the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort to reclaim stolen government documents.

Americans now favor Canada to President Donald Trump by a margin of nearly 60 percentage points according to a new poll, a revelation that CNN's Harry Enten promptly ridiculed the president over on Monday.

The poll comes amid Trump’s latest spat with Canada over an advertisement that criticized Trump’s tariff policy using the words of former President Ronald Reagan. Trump falsely accused the Canadian province that paid for the ad of manipulating the late president's words and immediately cut off trade talks with the nation, and then slapped it with higher tariff rates in retaliation.

President Donald Trump demanded on Monday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) prove her intelligence by taking the "IQ test" he recently passed, seemingly unaware that he was actually describing a cognitive test for dementia.

"AOC is low IQ," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard ... They're really aptitude tests, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..."

Prosecutors were aghast by a risky move made by special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The Department of Justice had been investigating Donald Trump's retention of classified materials after leaving office in January 2021, and even had a recording of him acknowledging that he no longer had the authority to declassify them, but many of Smith's deputies warned him not to charge the former president in Florida, according to excerpts from a new book published by the Washington Post.

Where once it was the price of eggs, now it is the high cost of beef that is bedeviling President Donald Trump's administration, which came into office boasting it would drive down food prices.

According to a report from Politico’s Myah Ward and Grace Yarrow, the White House is dealing with fallout not just from consumers, but also “farm-state Republicans and agriculture industry groups” who are objecting to Trump's marketplace meddling involving beef from Argentina.

President Donald Trump blamed his past feud with Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the billionaire having a “stupid moment in his life," calling it a “bad moment” for the Trump ally that had once poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his 2024 campaign.

The two engaged in a messy public spat that began with Musk’s criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in May, stepping down from his role as a special government employee just days later. The feud ramped up in July after Musk accused Trump of being in the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted child sex abuser who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

A senior U.S. official admitted that many of the sea vessels targeted by the Trump administration suspected of drug trafficking did not have the motor capacity or necessary gasoline to reach the United States, according to a report from Drop Site News.

The Trump administration has ramped up hostilities with Venezuela in recent weeks, deploying an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean last week, and destroying at least 10 suspected drug-carrying sea vessels since September, killing at least 43 people that the administration has labeled as “narco-terrorists.”