Former personal attorney for President Donald J. Trump and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked this morning during an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, about the removal of several documents from the Epstein Files since Friday that contained images of or references to Trump.

Blanche: “You can see in that photo there are photographs of women. We learned after releasing that photograph that there were concerns about those women and the fact that we had put that photo up, so we pulled that photo down.”

Welker: “Are you saying that one or more of those women in one of the photos, or several of the photos, is a victim or a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein?”

Blanche: “No, that's not what I'm saying.”

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie announces that he and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna are drafting inherent contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the Epstein Files.

20 F-35A/B Lightning lls can now be seen on the tarmac at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Eastern Puerto Rico, following yesterday’s arrival of F-35As with the Vermont Air National Guard’s 134th Fighter Squadron to supplement F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 225 (VMFA-225).

Photo credit: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo

Ukraine has launched a major drone attack against Russian-occupied Crimea and Southwestern Russia.

“The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela’s illegal sanctions evasion. It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order,” a U.S. official told Fox News, regarding reports that another vessel had been boarded and seized this morning in the Southern Caribbean.

Iran has resumed development of its long-range ballistic missile program, a U.S. official has told Al-Arabiya, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is using “every possible means” to transfer arms via both land and sea, to its proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, viewing support for these groups as a top strategic priority of the Islamic Republic.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian Envoy Rustem Umerov making the exact same post less than a minute apart, following this weekend’s peace negotiations in Miami, Florida.

The Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T Bella 1, has refused to be boarded and is actively fleeing the U.S. Coast Guard in the Southern Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, according to three U.S. officials who spoke to the New York Times.

James Finley Ransone III, known for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka on The Wire and Marine Cpl. Josh Ray Person in Generation Kill, was found dead at his home on Friday as the result of an apparent suicide, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Ransone was a husband and father of two, he was 46.

Israel warned the Trump Administration over the weekend that an ongoing missile exercise and other unusual movements by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) could be preparations for an attack against Israel, three Israeli and U.S. sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), visited Israel on Sunday, meeting with Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other senior military leaders to discuss concerns surrounding ongoing long-range ballistic missile exercises and unusual movements in Iran, with officials worried that such exercises may in fact be a cover for a “surprise attack” on Israel, several sources have told Axios.