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Political analysts and observers roundly mocked the Trump-aligned leader of CBS News on Monday night after a new report indicated that she could potentially be sidelined from the station's TV decisions.

Dylan Byers at Puck News reported that CBS bosses are considering removing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss from her role overseeing the network's TV programming. The move came after CBS News was sharply criticized for its interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and as ratings continue to slide for the network's signature show, "CBS Evening News."

Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion.

Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is putting together to pay the president's allies who claim they were unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration. The fund is being created as part of a settlement agreement to a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS for allegedly leaking his tax returns to harm his reputation.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president.

Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with a major policy announcement that moved markets. For instance, Maddow flagged a January trade in which Trump bought stock in a major microchip manufacturer about a week before he relaxed regulations allowing the company to do business in China.

Ever since conservative-leaning commentator Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News, the network has seen anemic ratings and a lurching series of controversies — and now the higher-ups at Paramount-Skydance are talking about sidelining her.

This comes in spite of the company's head, David Ellison, being notoriously Trump-friendly.

A national security journalist spotted a glaring inconsistency in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey that she said gives away how political the case appears to be.

Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel laid out a side-by-side comparison Monday of four threat cases charged by Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina in recent weeks, and concluded Comey's looks oddly different than the others.

CNN's Anderson Cooper was amazed on Monday after he realized a pardoned rioter who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection may have predicted that he would eventually get a payoff from the Trump administration.

Cooper recounted the case against Edward Kelly, who was one of the first rioters to breach the Capitol that day, and another rioter named Andrew Paul Johnson. Kelly was convicted in 2024 for plotting to kill the FBI agents who investigated him after Jan. 6, and is serving a life sentence for those crimes.

President Donald Trump privately demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

According to NOTUS, "President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill, two sources familiar with the request told NOTUS." However, Thune is adamantly refusing to get rid of MacDonough, who was first appointed as the Senate rules referee in 2012 and has often frustrated majorities in both parties.

Megyn Kelly isn't buying what the Trump administration is selling on Cuba — and she's mincing no words.

The conservative host used her Monday podcast to torch the administration over a weekend Axios report claiming Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and discussed attacking Guantanamo Bay, US naval vessels, and Key West.

A legal expert ripped the Supreme Court for "beclowning itself" after some of the justices entertained MAGA rage-bait during a recent oral argument session.

Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, said during the most recent episode of "The Court of History" podcast on the Legal AF Network that some of the court's justices seemed to be more focused on policy issues than interpreting the statutory question at hand in a case called Watson v. R.N.C. The case is about whether federal election law permits mail-in ballots from being counted after election day, and the Supreme Court's decision could have a major impact on the upcoming midterm elections.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell fired back Monday after the New York Times filed its second lawsuit against the Defense Department in five months, claiming the paper simply wants to get its hands on classified information — and reporters who cover the building immediately returned fire.

Parnell posted on X that the Times' lawsuit, which challenges a requirement that journalists be escorted at all times while inside the Pentagon, was "nothing more than an attempt to remove the barriers to them getting their hands on classified information," adding that reporters want "to roam the halls of the Pentagon freely and without an escort — a privilege that they do not have in any other federal building."

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria was met with a screaming heckler before he could start talking at Monday evening's press conference on the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center, which is currently being investigated as a hate crime.

"This is a [expletive] direct result of your leadership!" shouted the heckler. "Our Muslim brothers and sisters have been talking to you for how long? You haven't [expletive] listened to them, Todd. Just like you did with ICE."

President Donald Trump's "Rededicate 250" event on Sunday was the latest example of how the administration is willingly crossing a bright red line as it takes an ax to a central American value, according to one expert.

Robert Jones, who has been studying and writing about political extremism for more than two decades, argued in a new essay for his Substack, "Redeeming Democracy," that the prayer event was a "deflating" example of how the Trump administration is working to undo the separation between church and state, which is one of America's foundational ideals. He described the event as being packed with "theocratic distortions" designed to blend the extremist religious views of the speakers with the iconography of the U.S. Capitol.

President Donald Trump's hometown of New York City is reminding the public of just how closely tied he is to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new stunt.

According to The Daily Beast, an art gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan "was transformed into the 'Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,' where every document the federal government has released related to Epstein — arguably the country’s most infamous pedophile — can be found. The free installation will close on May 20, but not without a theatrical farewell."