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CNN's Kaitlan Collins has shared intel on the White House scramble to back the embattled Pete Hegseth. The secretary of defense was the target of an impeachment push by lame-duck Republican Thomas Massie, who officially reintroduced his effort in the House on Monday.

But on Tuesday evening, the House voted 211-204 to send the articles of impeachment against Hegseth to committee, blocking an immediate impeachment vote. Hegseth likely dodged a bullet, as 11 Democrats didn't vote and the only Republican to vote with them was Massie.

In Tuesday's episode of The Source, Collins provided insider details about the White House chaos behind the scenes ahead of the impeachment vote.

"It certainly wasn't the outcome the White House was expecting tonight," she said, noting that Republicans in the House had "banded together and defeated that effort by one of their own."

"Sources say that both Republican leadership and White House officials were working furiously behind the scenes today to ensure that Congressman Thomas Massie's attempt to rebuke and potentially oust Secretary Pete Hegseth from the President's Cabinet wasn't successful," Collins added.

Her intel lines up with a report in The New York Times which said that Republican leadership was concerned that "attendance issues" among Republicans would "doom their chances to save Hegseth." However, the Pentagon chief was ultimately saved by absent Democrats.

President Donald Trump voiced his support for Hegseth on Truth Social and mocked the unsuccessful impeachment attempt, writing: "The Democrats' attempt to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has miserably FAILED! Every single Republican, except Thomas Massie, a major LOSER, voted in favor of Pete. Again, Victories in Venezuela and Iran, the Best Recruitment Numbers in the History of the Military (Long waiting lists to get in!), and Spirit like rarely seen before, led to the EXONERATION of a Great American Patriot. The Democrats continue to weaponize and abuse the United States of America. They must be stopped! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN."

Collins noted the president’s failure to mention the unexpected help the Democrats had provided him.

"It was actually the absence of these 11 Democrats, including Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who might have helped save Secretary Hegseth from facing that vote on impeachment. Even if they did so unintentionally by just not showing up," Collins noted.

She also claimed sources in the White House said that the new chief of staff, Stephen Miller, now in his second day on the job, reassured Hegseth "that they have his back" in the face of an impeachment attempt on Tuesday. Collins said Miller, the architect of the White House immigration agenda, is "personally close" to Hegseth.

Noting that President Trump has been in support of Hegseth this week, both on social media and in comments to the media, Collins said: "he does have a history of saying that only until he doesn't." This was the case with Susie Wiles, who was abruptly fired after the president publicly backed her.

Democrats could revive the impeachment effort when they take control in January, with more members to ensure it reaches the Senate floor.

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries said after the decision on Tuesday, "This is not the end of it. It's just the beginning."

Collins also reflected on Hegseth’s first major press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday since May.

"It was almost solely focused on this effort to potentially impeach him, and his reasoning of why it shouldn't happen," Collins said. "I should note he only took questions from a prepared list of what appeared to be only conservative media outlets."

The Trump administration is attempting to push back against incoming Democratic leaders, with Punchbowl News sharing a new letter from the president's top lawyer making a "taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance" against the party's new oversight plans.

In the wake of the party sweeping back into congressional power after last week's blue wave midterms, Democrats signalled plans for an aggressive oversight agenda once their new majorities are sworn in on January 3. Rep. Robert Garcia, the new incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, turned heads on election night when offered some blunt advice to the administration about the new investigations coming in 2027: "Lawyer up."

Now, the Trump White House is attempting to shut down these probes in advance, intimidating Democrats and threatening legal action against them for these investigations. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week suggested that elected Democrats might be arrested for their "vile rhetoric" and accused them of planning to go after people just for being Republicans, despite Garcia explicitly stating that Democrats will specifically investigate things like Trump's corruption, ICE abuses and the Epstein files.

On Wednesday morning, Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News shared a new letter sent to Garcia by White House Counsel Will Scharf, in which the top administration lawyer warned that the investigations could tip into the realm of "criminal behavior."

"The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior," Sherman explained in a post to X. "It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress."

He added further: "The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years. Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to 'harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.'"

Reacting to the news on BlueSky, veteran legal journalist Marcy Wheeler called Scharf's letter an act of "bullying," and warned that the White House is attempting to significantly expand Trump's presidential immunity, granted to him by the Supreme Court.

"This is bullying, but it is also obviously coordinated w/Todd Blanche's squawking," Wheeler posted. "Trump is going to make a play -- as Blanche is on the Article III side -- to expand Trump v. US to subsume the other two branches. Scharf had a key role in Trump v. US; don't dismiss this out of hand."

Politico's Kyle Cheney, meanwhile, said that the letter was actually helpful for Democrats.

"This plays right into Dems’ hands," Cheney posted on X. "Threatening criminal process for oversight gives them ammo to go straight to subpoenas and tell a court ‘what’s the point of lengthy negotiations [with] a White House trying to criminalize congressional scrutiny?’"

President Donald Trump went nuclear at The New York Times on Truth Social in a 2 am rampage, this time over a C-SPAN phone call and a sexual harassment scandal at his Bedminster golf club involving his former lawyer.

In a 1:25 a.m. post Wednesday, Trump disputed the Times’ account of his call to C-SPAN’s new primetime show.

“The New York Times incorrectly reported that ‘Mr. Trump called into the premier of a C-Span show, APPARENTLY WITHOUT NOTICE.’ This is WRONG,” Trump wrote. “It was a fully scheduled call, as a favor to C-Span, set up through White House Communications. It was done at C-Span’s request, not mine. The Times knew this, but lied, in order to demean - But this is the least of their lies!”

CNBC also described Monday’s eight-minute call to the debut of “Washington Journal Primetime” as unannounced, noting host Mimi Geerges told viewers, “It looks like we’ve got a call from the White House.” Therefore, Trump’s claims have not been independently confirmed.

Twenty-two minutes later, he turned his rage to the Bedminster scandal.

“The failing New York Times wrote about the ‘settling of a sexual harassment suit brought years ago by a waitress at President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J.’ What they fail to say is that it did not involve President Trump, a rather important omission. FAKE NEWS!!!” he posted.

On Tuesday, New Jersey’s Office of Attorney Ethics filed a 23-page disciplinary complaint against Alina Habba, who is Trump’s former personal lawyer and was also the interim and acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from March 2025 until December 8, 2025.

In 2021, Alice Bianco, who was then 21 years of age at the club, accused her supervisor of sexual harassment. Habba helped secure a $15,000 settlement that came with an NDA; she was also a dues-paying club member. The watchdog accused her of “divided loyalties” and says the deal included terms that violated New Jersey law.

State regulators have quietly been investigating Habba since early 2024. Trump was not named as a defendant in the Bianco suit, and NYT did not accuse him of wrongdoing in the report.

Present Trump’s rant is another in a series of late-night outbursts that have led many to question his mental stability. It comes after he garnered controversy for questioning the integrity of the election results after previously accepting the GOP defeat.

As the curtain opens to the second half of President Donald Trump’s term, Trump’s biographer expects Trump to do nothing useful or meaningful other than dance for cameras and struggle to remain relevant.

An ugly battle is underway in Trump’s head, said biographer Michael Wolff, speaking on the "Trump's Brain" podcast with Joanna Coles. A media-dependent psychopath, who had convinced himself that the world loves him without question is suddenly now having to deal with nationwide humiliation and unquestionable rejection. And things are getting ugly fast behind his eyes.

“Trump now has this thing that has happened, an existential moment in his presidency and in his political career: Broad repudiation from every almost every aspect of the country and from his own party,” said Wolff. “It’s a kind of national waking up and saying ‘this guy is incompetent and loathsome and doesn't deliver on anything.’ So now he's got two more years in office. How does he react to that?”

While Wolff said saner presidents resort to the “politically tried and true method” of compromise, by admitting their defeat and targeting the reasons for that defeat, that’s not going to happen here.

“Remember in a traditional presidency you really are looking for the things that you can now accomplish with the opposition in charge. Accomplishment, when you're the president, is usually measured in legislation that you can pass,” said Wolff. “But that's not something that Trump is interested in. That's not a measure that he acknowledges or accepts. So what is the measure? Well, the measure for Trump is the attention he receives and the persona he maintains.”

According to Wolff, Trump’s only goal all his life was to “always be a Donald Trump that is bigger and greater than ever before.” But, of course, this is a problem now in his newly diminished capacity with Democrats socking his policies and burying him in investigations over allegations of corruption and self-enrichment. That won’t stop him from trying to inflate himself, of course. Nothing ever does.

“I'm absolutely positive this not really a reversion, but an increase of this persona of ‘I am implacable. I give back always harder than I get. I am the UFC champion,” said Wolff.

Wolff said under these circumstances, with a president focused singularly upon himself to the cost of all else, the next American president can expect Trump's Iran mess to be waiting for him at his door step.

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President Donald Trump's mental health has long been the subject of intense scrutiny. Now that he suffered a devastating political blow with Republican losses in the 2026 midterm elections, Trump's behavior has become even more noticeably bizarre, especially as he causes "mayhem" because he fears "nobody's paying attention."

"Coping with loss looks different for everyone, and President Trump has processed the country’s nearly wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in his own way," reported The New York Times' Katie Rogers on Tuesday.

"The last week has seen the president renew false claims about rigged elections, float a mixed martial arts executive as his new press secretary, muse about the beams in the White House ballroom, oust his chief of staff and call unannounced into C-SPAN," Rogers added.

As one example, Rogers noted how Trump seemed to cheapen the losses of the Russia-Ukraine War by comparing them to rally sizes.

“I just think that Ukraine and Russia are tired of fighting," Trump said per Rogers at his Tuesday press conference. "They’re tired of seeing dead young soldiers, mostly soldiers. Most of the people are soldiers. Think of it. They’re losing 25,000 — Dana, can you imagine 25,000? That’s like a stadium, Madison Square Garden. You have your fights, 25,000. That’s what it holds, and they’re losing that every single month, dead, young beautiful people, and it’s — it’s got to stop.”

On another occasion Trump rambled during a call to C-SPAN.

“Frankly, a big problem we had is the mental institutions being dumped into our country," Trump said when asked about the recent midterm election results. "Some very dangerous people were released into our country, to put it mildly. So we have not put the same, uh, pressure, obviously, and, you know, the, uh, we call them the worst of the worst. We haven’t put the same pressure on waitresses and, and on farm workers, et cetera. Not even close.”

Rogers is not alone in reporting that Trump's mental state has deteriorated since his losses in the 2026 midterm elections.

"In the days since his defeat, he has sounded like a man in denial," The New York Times' Peter Baker wrote on Sunday. "With his party still picking through the wreckage of a political earthquake, a seemingly oblivious President Trump signed a steel beam for his new White House ballroom and flew to Florida to give a speech on the space program. He seems flat these days, maybe a little dazed."

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not hold back his contempt over President Donald Trump allegedly letting Chinese spies worm their way into his inner circle.

Trump talks big about the Importance of the U.S. standing up to China, so recent news of a close relationship between himself and a high-ranking AI executive alleged to be a Chinese spy was a bit of a surprise.

Trump has taken to denying knowledge of being compromised by a Chinese plant installed directly in his inner circle.

"I didn't hear about it then," Trump said when asked whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a Chinese spy, as indicated by reports. "But a lot of people have heard about it. And Jensen totally denies that. I spoke to him today, just to see if he's feeling all right, how you doing. And I asked him about that. I asked him, ‘Did you have any idea that she was a spy?’ He said, ‘I had no idea that she was a spy.’ And I really believe him."

But McCabe did not hide his anger.

“It is inconceivable to me that the president of the United States was briefed on this matter. Not one once, but twice, and took no action,” said McCabe, speaking with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper Tuesday night. “I mean, I cannot even — there are no words to describe how big a coup this is for the Chinese government to have an asset, a developed, recruited asset, to fall into an intimate relationship with the most significant tech leader in the world, the CEO of the company that produces the chips that are forbidden fruit to the government of China and Chinese technology industries. And then to have that person, that CEO, have a persistent, direct relationship with the president of the United States, during which time we know that he advocated strenuously for the reduction or removal of trade restrictions between the United States and China over Nvidia chips.”

“I mean, this is this is a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth,” barked McCabe. “This is unbelievable. Huang has been pushing for easing restrictions by the Trump administration on Nvidia selling chips to China. And he got them. He got them in return for the ability to sell Nvidia chips to China in return for giving the United States government 25 percent of that sale. That alone is off the charts.”

McCabe added that never in his entire career has he witnessed the United States government profiting from the sale of a “formerly restricted item to our to our existential adversary.”

CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller was equally flabbergasted by Trump’s indifference, calling the setup “an incredible coup by Chinese intelligence” to create an access agency agent by building the structure around her or by recruiting somebody on the way up in the tech world who could get next to the president of the United States.

“If this started in 2024 with investigations, we're in 2026. Why wasn't this somehow interrupted along the way?” said Miller, who added that the FBI’s counterintelligence program was “badly damaged at the beginning of the Trump administration.”

“So many people were pulled out, fired, transferred, and at least two of the assistant directors in charge of the Washington field office were sent packing, fired for investigating people who were close to Donald Trump,” said Miller. “… The FBI that is operating now is not the FBI I left, and it’s not the FBI that that that Mr. McCabe left.”

Prior to Election Day 2026, President Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he would rather meddle in the elections than allow them to go to the Democrats. Instead of contesting the results, however, Trump surprised much of the political world by almost immediately conceding the results.

Yet according to a new report, there is at least one Trump Republican loyalist who — though willing to admit that he lost — nevertheless insists on maintaining some of the pretense of being a congressman: Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

"Despite his defeat, Van Drew has no plans to disappear from public life," reported The New Jersey Globe's David Wildstein on Tuesday. "He said he intends to print new letterhead identifying himself as 'Congressman Emeritus' and will continue assisting constituents and local officials who seek his help."

Van Drew added to the Globe, “When people at the local level need advice and help, I’ll be there.”

Wildstein went on to explain that his defeat occurred in the context of Democrats pumping a lot of money into the traditionally conservative district. He also pointed out that Van Drew is following in a historic tradition of Republicans in that district being electorally penalized when the incumbent from their party is immersed in scandal.

"Van Drew is not the first South Jersey congressman to discover how quickly political fortunes can change," Wildstein wrote. "In 1974, four-term Republican Rep. Charles Sandman, a fierce defender of Richard Nixon who opposed his impeachment, lost his seat by 16 points to Democrat Bill Hughes in the Democratic wave that followed Watergate."

He continued, "Just two years earlier, Sandman had won re-election by 31 points — a staggering 47-point reversal in just two years."

In contrast to Van Drew, Trump has reportedly been in a somewhat subdued state since the midterm election defeats, an emotional situation that The New York Times compared to a state of denial.

"In the days since his defeat, he has sounded like a man in denial," reported The New York Times' Peter Baker on Sunday. "With his party still picking through the wreckage of a political earthquake, a seemingly oblivious President Trump signed a steel beam for his new White House ballroom and flew to Florida to give a speech on the space program. He seems flat these days, maybe a little dazed."

He went on, "Unlike other presidents who suffered midterm defeats, Mr. Trump has largely not acknowledged the setback. After Mr. Bush’s Republicans lost both houses in 2006, he admitted it was a 'thumping.' After President Barack Obama’s Democrats lost the House in 2010, he admitted it was a 'shellacking.' Mr. Trump, by contrast, has offered no expression of humility or much recognition of public discontent with him."

Daily Beast reports a GOP lawmaker who fussed at colleagues for leaking to a top congressional reporter “was left red-faced when his latest tirade was leaked to that very same reporter.”

Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) castigated his colleagues last week, threatening anyone daring to share information with Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman to not expect his backing for leadership positions.

“The slimiest member of the DC press corps who conspires with low integrity attention seekers to leak strategies being discussed in House Republican meetings is Jake Sherman,” wrote Baumgartner. “To be clear — If you want my vote for leadership you will commit to no on or off record interviews with Jake Sherman for as long as he leaks our confidential team meetings. If being in ‘Punchbowl’ is more important than keeping the confidentiality of your colleagues not only are you unfit for leadership, you shouldn’t call yourself a patriot.”

“Do not call me and ask for my vote unless you are willing to make that commitment,” he added.

But Baumgartner’s threats appeared to make little headway with his Republican comrades, considering his latest scheme against leaks during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting was itself leaked to none other than Jake Sherman.

“In the House Republican Conference meeting this morning, Washington State @RepBaumgartner exhorted his colleagues in the room not to leak what’s going on in the meeting to reporters,” Sherman posted publicly on X soon after word of the statements got to him. “He recommended they hold House Republican Conference meetings in a SCIF.”

Daily Beast added that “SCIF” is short for “sensitive compartmented information facility,” a Defense Department name for an “ultra-secure room specially constructed for government officials to view sensitive information.” There are no personal electronics allowed inside SCIFs.

“Given that Baumgartner’s own colleagues appear to be leaking his remarks to Sherman, however, it’s unclear whether moving the meetings to a SCIF would solve the problem,” Daily Beast added.

Critics quickly drowned Sherman’s post with quips on the irony.

“Got to love a leak about not leaking,” posted one X user.

“The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it," said another heckler, quoting writer PJ O’Rourke.

“Love that you tagged him,” posted fellow reporter Igor Bobic, of the Washington Sun.

A Trump lawyer who received a $50 million job after being pardoned by President Donald Trump is now in the hot seat — and her law license is at stake.

"Alina Habba Mildon, a suburban New Jersey lawyer who saw her career skyrocket by attaching herself to President Donald Trump through his most dire legal troubles, is now facing discipline by state judiciary ethics officials over a deal she brokered just before she became Trump’s go-to attorney," reported The Washington Sun's Jose Pagliery on Tuesday.

Pagliery added, "The complaint, filed by the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Ethics, stems from legal services Mildon provided to an employee of Trump National Golf Club Bedminster who had alleged being sexually harassed there — before being silenced with a nondisclosure agreement that is illegal under state law."

The Washington Sun obtained the document and found that it calls for punitive measurements against the former Trump lawyer, "a startling turn for a lawyer who for half of 2025 served as the Trump administration’s acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a position that several courts eventually deemed she held unlawfully."

Liberal commentator Terry H. Schwadron noted in a recent editorial for AlterNet that Habba's offense, as well as the offense of other disgraced Trump officials like former Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, is not that they engaged in unethical behavior. Rather it appears Trump is upset with them because they engaged in corrupt activities while not allowing him to personally wet his beak.

"Just as Donald Trump did when he heard stories of now former Ambassador Kimberly Gilfoyle seeking and taking big money for promised access to White House decision-making," Schwadron wrote. "Trump apparently privately blew up at hearing that his one-time lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, had signed a $50 million, no-show contract with a billionaire who wanted a pardon for his already reduced federal charges."

He continued, "Pretend outrage or not, what seems to have bothered Trump was that others in his circle were collecting big sums of money for influence with his government – but not kicking into his preferred coffers."

This is not Habba's only scandal since she became involved in Trump's orbit.

"Mildon has made headlines recently given her September wedding to Turkish investor Turhan Mildon — and subsequent revelations in The New York Times that Mildon was embroiled in a lucrative deal with Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan financier seeking a pardon from the Trump White House," The Washington Sun wrote. "The Times on Tuesday reported that Mildon was fired last week and lost her $50 million contract."

A top attorney at President Donald Trump's Justice Department is signalling the department's plan to overhaul the agency in the wake of historic Republican midterm losses, Bloomberg Law reports.

"Justice Department leaders plan to force out additional US attorneys while preparing those who remain for wartime footing after their party’s midterms losses, a top official warned the nation’s chief prosecutors Monday," reported Bloomberg Law's Ben Penn on Tuesday. "In the first meeting for DOJ’s field office leaders since since voters repudiated the Trump agenda at the polls, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh advised US attorneys and their first assistants to consider resigning if they’re not prepared for full-on battle and to obey the administration’s orders, said three people briefed on the call."

Penn added, "His message signaled that incoming Democratic congressional leaders preparing to aggressively investigate DOJ’s conduct won’t deter Attorney General Todd Blanche from pursuing the same top-down agenda over the next two years that has curbed US attorneys’ prior quasi-autonomy and moved their focus closer to the president’s political priorities."

After reviewing other senior department officials who are planning on departing, the Trump administration said it would prioritize prosecutions for fraud against taxpayers and violent crimes above all other issues, Penn reports. Crimes which do not fit into one of those two buckets will be deprioritized. Investigations open for longer than two years will be automatically closed, and two or three assistant US attorneys are being ordered in each of the 93 offices to go over to other districts for high-priority cases.

Upon taking office, Trump has politicized the Justice Department, purging it of officials who were perceived as insufficiently right-wing or inadequately loyal to the administration. Speaking in September, CNN analyst Elie Honig warned that it will take a very long time to rebuild the Justice Department.

“Ordinarily, the first order of business would be restoring DOJ's political independence and restoring DOJ's credibility in the courts, but it doesn't seem that Blanche is super interested in either of those,” Honig told CNN anchor Brianna Keilar. “Those are the two biggest issues facing the department right now — the fact that they have undertaken and are still in the midst of several prosecutions aimed at people, in large part or entirely, because they are political enemies of the president.”

He continued, “That's something we've never seen before. I don't expect [Attorney General Todd] Blanche to change that, because he's been one of the drivers of it.”

Since assuming office for his second term, President Donald Trump has directly assaulted the legacy of his famous and beloved predecessor, President John Kennedy. From trying to add his name to Kennedy's memorial, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to rolling back Kennedy's signature foreign and domestic policy programs, Trump has attempted to figuratively overshadow his illustrious forebear.

Yet now that Trump is trying to also literally overshadow him with a self-named arch, the Kennedy family believes it has grounds to stop him with the power of the law.

"The Kennedy family has filed for an injunction against President Trump's arch, saying it would destroy the solemn memorial to the Kennedy family at Arlington National Cemetery, disrupting sightlines and casting a shadow over JFK + RFK graves," reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Tuesday.

In their injunction, the Kennedy family made it clear that they are calling on their entire lineage in the hope of stopping the construction of the Trump Arch.

"President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines to the existing gravesites and memorials established in the Kennedy family’s honor at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes," the lawsuit said.

It added that, "Plaintiffs’ family was instrumental in the creation of the Kennedy Gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery, including the placement of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Memorial, next to his brothers’ burial sites, as well. Plaintiffs bring this action to protect the Kennedy family’s sacred Gravesites from Defendants’ unlawful construction project."

And it pointed out that, "Independence Arch in Memorial Circle in Washington, D.C. The Arch is planned to be at least 250 feet tall — more than double the size of the Lincoln Memorial and the equivalent of a twenty-five-story office building. Its location in Memorial Circle would situate the monument on an axis between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, obstructing a line of sight that was designed to represent the unification of the Nation following the Civil War and that has existed for nearly a century. The Arch will also obstruct the clear sightline of the Kennedy Gravesites and the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, in Arlington National Cemetery, from the Arlington Memorial Bridge, destroying an essential element of the Gravesites’ design; and, according to a forensic study, the Arch will permanently cast a shadow over the Kennedy Gravesites and the graves of servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country."