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MS NOW's Rachel Maddow previewed one of the side curiosities about President Donald Trump's State of the Union Address: the designated survivor, or the sole member of the Cabinet who is hidden in a safe room during the speech, to be sworn in as president in case there is an attack that takes out the Capitol building.

It's normally a fairly mundane Cabinet official, Maddow noted — but the problem for Trump is, even his most mundane Cabinet officials are steeped in scandal this year.

A plot to suspend the popular TSA PreCheck that angered travelers was hatched by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski, and had to be stopped with a White House intervention, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

The Saturday announcement that PreCheck would halt at 6 a.m. Sunday sparked immediate outrage from Democrats and air travel groups. By Sunday morning, passengers discovered the program was running normally anyway, leaving everyone scrambling to figure out what was actually happening.

The Justice Department's chaotic rollout of millions of Epstein files has exposed sensitive information about vulnerable victims, including the name of a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child, according to reporting from investigative journalist Roger Sollenberger.

The woman's identity appeared in at least one document that has since been redacted, Sollenberger reported on his Substack. However, he said another identifying detail remains unredacted in the database. She's uniquely marked "PROTECT SOURCE" in case files, a designation given to no other victim or witness in the Epstein files.

President Donald Trump's insistence on raising taxes because the Supreme Court told him not to is going to wreck his party, former Trump administration DHS staffer Miles Taylor told MS NOW's "The Weeknight" on Monday.

Trump has already signaled his intent to use other statutes to restore his voided global tariffs — even though analysts are skeptical he has sufficient legal footing.

Republicans in vulnerable congressional districts are increasingly worried President Donald Trump has set a trap for his own party that is set to blow up in all their faces just before the midterms, Politico reported on Monday.

Specifically, after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's power to unilaterally issue tariffs under emergency powers law, Trump has scrambled to re-implement and double down on his import taxes — and Democrats have already moved for a devastating offensive with voters over the issue.

A MAGA media figure is about to cause "a whole lot more drama" for President Donald Trump, according to one analyst.

Last week, Tucker Carlson released an interview with Trump's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, where he accused a former Israeli Prime Minister of visiting the infamous Epstein Island and other remarks that left pro-Israel Republicans steamed, Will Sommer at The Bulwark reported on Monday. For instance, pro-Israel voices like Laura Loomer and Dave Rubin spoke out against Carlson's interview.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) told MS NOW's "The Weeknight" on Monday that "life after Donald Trump" is finally in sight for America — and everyone from our institutions to the voting public to Republican lawmakers are starting to shift as a result.

Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley in Congress, has become well known as the co-author of bipartisan legislation that forced public disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — an affair that is continuing to damage the president week after week.

A CNN host was taken aback on Monday night after new details about Nancy Guthrie's abductor were revealed.

New video footage obtained by law enforcement shows that Guthrie's abductor visited the home a few days before she disappeared in early February. The alleged abductor can be seen in the video without his gun or the backpack that investigators have focused on in an attempt to identify the person.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's sensational story about a self-cannibalistic immigrant on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight never happened, according to a new report.

Noem spun the lurid yarn over the summer while standing beside President Donald Trump at a news conference and later told Fox News' Jesse Watters that federal agents had "detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home."

Fox News host Jesse Watters was buried in mockery on Monday after he claimed that he doesn't like having a president who "struggles to read."

Watters, who co-hosts "The Five," was responding to comments California Gov. Gavin Newsom made during a public appearance alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, both of whom are Democrats. Newsom said he is "just like" the people in the audience because he got a 960 on his SAT test in high school. Some MAGA commentators used the clip to attack Newsom.

A Florida Republican shut down rumors Monday that he was joining numerous House colleagues in fleeing for the exits amid President Donald Trump's dismal poll numbers.

Rep. Neal Dunn slammed the brakes on resignation speculation, declaring he's staying put in Congress through the end of his term, Politico reported.

President Donald Trump almost immediately vowed to re-implement his global tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his authority to implement them under emergency powers law — but inside the administration, his officials are scrambling to try to find a way to make it work.

This comes after Trump ran with the dissenting opinion of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who suggested a number of other statutes would be workable for imposing more or less the same policies the court just struck down.

A lawyer warned on Monday that President Donald Trump appears to have cooked up a "bad faith" scheme to meddle in the midterm elections.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration dispatched FBI agents and the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to the Fulton County, Georgia, election office to retrieve data about the 2020 general election. The raid was predicated on an affidavit from an FBI agent who claimed there was evidence that the election was unfairly conducted. In response, Trump administration officials collected more than 700 boxes of data, including the election ballots and the county's voter rolls, which courts had denied them access to.