The US Navy is currently investigating a report from a female marine who said she found a hidden “recording device” in the women’s bathroom of the USS Arlington. The marine found the device, reportedly a hidden camera, in March NBC News reports.

Speaking with Stars and Stripes, Commander Kyle Raines said the Navy takes reports of sexual harassment seriously.

“The command has taken, and will continue to take, all necessary actions to ensure the safety and privacy of the victim,” Raines said.

This isn’t the first time military personnel have raised the issue of hidden cameras aboard a US Navy ship in recent years.

Back in 2015, the Navy Times reported on an elaborate “illicit filming” operation on the USS Wyoming in which male sailors would allegedly keep watch for superiors as their confederates secretly filmed female colleagues in places like shower changing rooms. The male sailors reportedly used banned devices such as cell phones to carry out the filming. Recording went on for 10 months before the sailors were discovered. Eight of the involved sailors were court-martialed.

A 2018 RAND report found problems of sexual harassment to be a problem for the Navy. The report looked at sexual harassment and assault in all four branches of the US military, and found sailors to be at the greatest risk of sexual misconduct.

Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) is currently investigating the camera found on the Arlington, which is currently docked in Greece. NCIS officials have said they cannot comment on ongoing investigations.

The FBI arrested the leader of a private militia group that detains migrants on the US-Mexico border Saturday for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. The group operates in New Mexico.

Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who also goes by Johnny Horton Jr. according to the FBI, is a member of the United Constitutional Patriots in New Mexico. The group posted images and video of its operations on its Facebook page; some of the videos show immigrants being detained by armed members.

A recent video the group posted caught the eye of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which called on New Mexico’s governor and attorney general to both condemn the militia and end its operations.

In response to the arrest, New Mexico’s attorney general, Hector Balderas, released a statement that said in part, “This is a dangerous felon who should not have weapons around children and families.”

Balderas added, “The arrest by the FBI indicates clearly that the rule of law should be in the hand of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes.”

Mexico also chimed in on the actions of private militias on the border. Hours before news of the arrest broke, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Relations released a statement warning private militias operating on the US-Mexico border could lead to potential human rights abuses for those traveling through Mexico to request asylum from the United States.

Over a year ago, immigrant caravans traveling through Mexico captured the attention of President Donald Trump, who claimed the immigrants, many of whom hoped to request asylum, posed a danger to the United States. A number of militia groups on the border took notice as well.

A spokesperson for United Constitutional Patriots said the group has detained 5,600 immigrants in the last two months, and said the group does nothing more than “to support the Border Patrol.”

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has asked private citizens not to try to help it do its job. Instead, it suggests concerned citizens witnessing illegal border crossings call immigration and border officials rather than trying to apprehend immigrants themselves.

Top members of the Democratic Party appeared on television Sunday and were united in their messaging about the Mueller report. Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee; Rep. Jerry Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee, all argued Mueller’s work paints a clear picture of obstruction and each suggested Democrats could move to impeach the president in the months to come.

On ABC’s This Week Sunday, Schiff said there’s “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight,” and called the Mueller report’s findings “more significant than Watergate.”

“The obstruction of justice in this case is far worse than anything Richard Nixon did,” Schiff said. Later in his appearance, Schiff added, “I do believe that [Trump] obstructed justice and did so in many ways.”

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Nadler told Chuck Todd there is “plenty of evidence of obstruction,” in the Mueller report. He added there is evidence in the report that could constitute grounds for impeachment.

“Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable,” Nadler said. “We’re going to see where the facts lead us.”

Schiff went a bit further than Nadler, saying, “The level of evidence in the Mueller report is serious and damning and in normal circumstances would be without question within the realm of impeachable offenses.”

However, the representative said he believes “an impeachment is likely to be unsuccessful” because of the support President Donald Trump enjoys in Congress. Schiff specifically mentioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as Republicans who would stand in the way of impeachment proceedings.

Despite this, Schiff said “it may be that we undertake an impeachment nonetheless,” and that Democrats will gather in the coming days to decide “what is the best thing for the country.” The Congress member argued not starting impeachment proceedings could send a message that the behaviors outlined in the Mueller report are “compatible with office,” and so Democrats might decide to work to impeach Trump knowing they will likely fail.

This argument was echoed by Cummings on CBS’s Face the Nation, who said that while he isn’t ready to advocate for impeachment, he believes if the House tries to impeach Trump and fails due to the Republican controlled Senate, “history would smile upon us for standing up for the Constitution.”

Cummings also said Congress has a duty to send a message to the president that certain behavior will not be tolerated.

“If we do nothing here, the president is going to be emboldened,” Cummings said. “His aiders and abettors will say, ‘He is pretty strong,’ and they will continue to go along with him.”

Cummings also criticized Attorney General William Barr, who told reporters at a press conference held hours before the Mueller report was released last week the report exonerated Trump.

“He is acting as the defense counsel for the president of the United States, when really, he’s supposed to be our lawyer — the people’s lawyer,” Cummings argued.

Schiff said Barr “should have never been confirmed,” but would not make a public call for his resignation: “I’m not ready to speculate about whether he should resign or not, given that that’s not going to happen, anyway.”

And Nadler said Barr “deliberately misled the American people.”

The trio have targeted Barr and Trump as a unit before. Just weeks ago, they released a joint statement after Barr released his summary of the Mueller report.

“It is unacceptable that, after special counsel Mueller spent 22 months meticulously uncovering this evidence, Attorney General Barr made a decision not to charge the President in under 48 hours. The Attorney General did so without even interviewing the President,” they wrote in late March.

The public will likely be hearing from all three men quite a bit in the weeks to come, particularly Nadler, who revealed on Meet the Press he plans to call former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before his committee. The Congress member also requested special counsel Robert Mueller himself appear before the Judiciary Committee no later than May 23.

“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday morning.

The remark came after Tapper asked Giuliani to comment on a statement from Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who responded to the findings of the Mueller report by saying he was “appalled” members of the Trump campaign “welcomed help from Russia.”

“Stop the bull. Stop the pious act,” Giuliani said of Romney, alleging the Utah senator accepted “dirt” on people while running against President Barack Obama in 2012. 

Tapper pressed the lawyer, asking him if there was a difference between taking opposition research from Americans and taking it from American adversaries.

“What a hypocrite. Any candidate in the world — in America — would take information,” Giuliani said before concluding, “Who says it’s even illegal?”

The former New York City mayor also appeared on Meet the Press Sunday morning, and told Chuck Todd he agrees Russian interference in the 2016 election was designed to help the president and his election efforts.

Todd asked Giuliani whether there was anything wrong with a campaign using information stolen by foreign adversaries. Giuliani said, “Depends on the stolen material,” and attempted to rebuke the media for providing coverage using stolen information.

As Vox’s Aaron Rupar reported, Trump pivoted on his messaging about the Mueller report fairly quickly. Ahead of the report’s release, the president said it was proof of “total exoneration.” Friday he tweeted Mueller’s work was “total bullshit.” Late Friday and through the weekend, Trump tweeted claims that the report proved there was “no collusion, no obstruction!”

Tapper asked Giuliani about this contradiction.

The former mayor laughed and said in the report, “Some things are false, a lot of things are questionable.”

Giuliani went on to claim the report is biased against the president, and argued it leans too heavily on the testimony of Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. According to Giuliani, “Cohen’s incapable of telling the truth.” He told Tapper Cohen lied to Mueller about the offer of a presidential pardon.

In March, Cohen’s legal team admitted he had asked for a pardon, presumably for remaining fiercely loyal to the president for months after a raid in 2018. As Vox’s Andrew Prokop noted then: “What’s not yet entirely clear is whether this was mainly a case of Cohen seeking a pardon to no avail or whether he received an encouraging response from Trump’s team on the topic.” Cohen has suggested it was the latter; Giuliani suggests it was the former.

Before the Mueller report was released, Giuliani announced a “counter report” prepared by the president’s lawyers would be made public. This report would presumably counter many of the allegations outlined in the Mueller report. It has yet to materialize, but Giuliani said it could still see the light of day, just “not tomorrow.” Also, “not the day after.”

Pressed on when this elusive report would be released, the president’s lawyer said he believes it will come out after Attorney General William Barr and special counsel Robert Mueller testify before Congress.