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A special election for a House seat representing a district that went for Donald Trump by 22 points in 2024 has Republicans worried it may be lost as the GOP nominee chooses to distance himself from the face of the party.

According to an analysis by MS NOW’s Michael A. Cohen, Republican Matt Van Epps’ bid to fill the seat held by retired Rep. Mark Green (R) should have been a walk in the park for the GOP in the party’s bid to maintain control of the House, but Democrat Aftyn Behn has been closing the gap in recent polls.

Conservative pundit Walter Curt argued that President Donald Trump should invade Venezuela after the country's president, Nicolás Maduro, sang John Lennon's "Imagine" as a call for peace.

"I believe that an attack on a drug cartel stronghold on the ground in Venezuela is imminent," Real America's Voice host Jake Novak told Curt on Monday before playing a clip of Maduro singing a line from "Imagine."

A conservative legal expert blew a hole in President Donald Trump's attempt to dodge responsibility for pardoning a notorious drug lord.

The president defended his pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year by an American jury of conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S., by suggesting the prosecution had been tainted by his predecessor, Joe Biden.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s glib attempt to dismiss growing accusations from both Republicans and Democrats that he is engaging in prosecutable war crimes set off a new firestorm after he made a Sunday post on X.

At about the same time that Trump distanced himself from Hegseth after his “kill them all” order that led to survivors of a reported drug boat attack by the U.S. military being blown out of the water as they clung to their damaged boat, the Pentagon chief reposted a meme of popular children’s book character Franklin, a turtle, firing on boats from a helicopter.

A federal court delivered President Donald Trump another blow Monday in his efforts to prosecute his political enemies after ruling that Alina Habba – appointed at the behest of Trump as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey – was unlawfully appointed and must vacate her position.

According to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, the three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affirmed Monday a previous ruling that disqualified Habba from the position. Habba was appointed in an interim capacity starting in March, though Trump sought to keep her in the job after she filed multiple criminal charges against Democratic officials.

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented declaration over the weekend that Venezuela's air space was “closed” had a major impact on air travel in and around the country, leaving some experts dumbfounded.

“Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30 [million] people with world's largest oil reserves,” wrote journalist and author Matt Kennard Monday in a social media post on X.

Not content with warning Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem that she is putting herself in peril after admitting she defied a court order from Supreme Court-connected Judge James Boasberg, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough made fun of her delivery when she appeared on “Meet the Press” over the weekend.

Pressed by host Kristin Welker over reports that she ignored the judge's order to halt immigrant deportations, the Donald Trump appointee shot back, “The decisions that are made on deportations, where flights go, and when they go are my decision at the Department of Homeland Security, and we will continue to do the right thing and ensure that dangerous criminals are removed.”

President Donald Trump spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend trying to boost Republican turnout in a surprisingly close special election in Tennessee, and a White House reporter marveled at his attacks on the Democratic contender.

The president hyped GOP candidate Matt Van Epps in Tennessee's seventh congressional district race, where Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn is polling much closer than expected in a district Trump won convincingly in each of his three campaigns. USA Today correspondent Francesca Chambers highlighted one of his Truth Social posts.

Using the accusations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has committed war crimes and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem admitted she defied a court order from a well-regarded conservative judge, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough claimed the Supreme Court now has good reason to rein in the White House.

On Monday, the panel on “Morning Joe” piled on both Hegseth and Noem for weekend boasting that they can do whatever they please, which led Scarborough to build upon comments made by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about White House lawlessness.