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President Donald Trump has made America less safe by punching a hole in the nation's ability to defend against a certain kind of attack from Iran, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow warned on Monday, and they're already taking advantage.

Maddow opened by mentioning the devastating wildfires in Spokane, Washington, and a surprising way that Trump allowed Iran to sabotage efforts to fight them.

A legal expert was aghast on Monday night while reacting to an excuse Jeanine Pirro concocted to explain her signature case falling apart.

Over the weekend, reporting indicated that Pirro told President Donald Trump that it was a career staffer in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. who dropped the vandalism prosecution against Olympic canoeist David Hearn, and not her. Eli Honig, a CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, reacted to the news during a panel on CNN's "The Source."

A former federal prosecutor on Monday pumped the brakes on the perception that Jeanine Pirro acted graciously when she ended the prosecution of David Hearn in a surprise move last week.

Reports indicated that President Donald Trump was furious with Pirro after she dropped the prosecution of Hearn, an Olympic canoeist who was arrested and charged with felony vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro dropped the prosecution after a report from the Department of the Interior found that the damage to the surface of the reflecting pool was likely caused by shoddy work from the contractor, and not Hearn reaching into the pool and ripping the surface, as the administration alleged.

President Donald Trump appalled one political analyst on Monday with a "quintessential" Trumpian move to protect one of his legacy projects.

Trump has engaged in multiple renovation projects across Washington, D.C., from multiple updates at the White House to pushing forward an idea to build the Trump Arch, modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. As part of those projects, the Trump administration has erected a large fence around Lafayette Square, which journalist Dan Rather noted in a new Substack essay is the only place in D.C. to get a clear view of the White House these days.

President Donald Trump stunned a CNN analyst on Monday by taking a "victory lap" about a golf tournament he allegedly won over the weekend.

On Sunday, Trump, 80, posted on Truth Social that he won the Bedminster Senior Club Championship at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with a final round score of 70, which would be two under par for the course. The post stunned CNN political commentator Jamal Simmons, who laughed at it when asked during a segment on "OutFront" with host Brianna Keilar.

A prominent Trump watcher flagged a "major question mark" that Democrats face as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared certain to be confirmed for the attorney general role.

Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter and author, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" that the deal brokered between the Trump administration and Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) to end their holdout on supporting Blanche's confirmation created a perilous situation. She noted that it could put the Department of Justice squarely at odds with Congress after the November midterms if Democrats regain power, as some polling suggests they might.

Allies of President Donald Trump are urging him to push embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) out of his reelection race over domestic abuse allegations — even asTrump tells reporters he'll just "let the families figure that out."

On Monday, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) became the latest Trump ally to call on Miller to forfeit his seat. Republicans ranging from Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) to several GOP strategists who have worked for Trump have also called on Miller to resign.

A MAGA firebrand in Florida has been accused of defrauding a high school debate champion over scholarship money his company promised her, according to a new report.

James Fishback, who is running for governor in Florida, has been accused of defrauding Briana Whatley, a current sophomore at Florida State University and a high school debate champion, out of $8,000 of an $11,000 scholarship she won after competing in a debate competition hosted by Incubate Foundation Inc., a company controlled by Fishback. The lawsuit claims that Fishback acknowledged that he "dropped the ball" in paying Whatley, and noted that he previously asked for her bank information and sent her $3,000 via Zelle, according to a report from The Guardian.

A video shared by attorneys shows a California ICE detainee holding up a water bottle crawling with "worm-like creatures" just weeks after a judge ordered the facility to fix its water problems.

The footage, filmed last week and shared with The Guardian by attorney Margaret Hellerstein, shows Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles man detained for months at the Adelanto ICE facility, displaying a plastic bottle filled with water containing what appeared to be small swimming pests. Parias, known online as TikTok creator Richard LA, said he poured the water into the bottle himself to preserve it as evidence after staff distributed it to detainees from communal jugs.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice slammed the door shut on some January 6 rioters who had sued the government, according to a new court filing.

DOJ prosecutors in Florida argued in a new filing that a class of 35 rioters who sued the Capitol Police alleging "excessive force" were "forever barred" from bringing their claim because the statute of limitations had run out. The filing was published at a time when Trump is personally lobbying for Congress to establish the so-called "anti-weaponization" fund through legislation, a $1.776 billion fund that could pay people who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government.

The deal Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears to have brokered with some Senate GOP holdouts in his confirmation battle may contain a few surprises.

On Monday, reports indicated that Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) were willing to end their holdout and vote to confirm Blanche for the attorney general role after Blanche signed a document attesting that the Justice Department's so-called "anti-weaponization" fund is dead. The $1.776 billion fund sought to pay people who claimed they were wrongfully convicted by the government, and President Donald Trump has said the fund has a lot of support from "big" Trump supporters.

President Donald Trump's D.C. federal prosecutor is hanging by a thread as the president is reportedly considering firing her.

His rage at Jeanine Pirro, a longtime Fox News firebrand personality who was appointed to oversee the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, stems from her blowing up his long-running claim that vandals wrecked the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool, CNN reported on Monday.