U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is ordering Trump administration senior adviser Kari Lake and two other Voice of America officials to sit for sworn depositions by Sept. 15.

Lamberth is probing whether the Trump administration violated an April order he issued requiring the restoration of News programming at Voice of America.

On July 30, he ordered the Trump administration to answer a series of questions to determine if they had complied with the court’s order. He determined their response “fails to provide the information ordered in the Court’s order to Show Cause – let alone explain how they are in compliance with the court’s preliminary injunction,” according to a filing issued earlier Monday.

He said the depositions are “one final opportunity, short of a contempt trial” for Trump officials to explain whether they defied the court’s order to restore programming.

The Trump administration has fired more than 1,000 employees at Voice of America, which once had a reach of more than 350 million across the globe weekly, after Trump signed an order in March dismantling the entity. The Trump administration has previously argued that the organization continues to provide the legally required services needed to comply with the judge's order.

The US Agency for Global Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump appeared at events today with what appeared to bruises on the back of his hand.

When asked about the bruising that was apparent to reporters, the White House referred ABC News to a July 17 memo from the president's physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, attributing the bruising on his hand to a combination of aspirin therapy and frequent handshaking.

-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump, at both his White House events on Monday, mused about renaming the Department of Defense.

"You know, we got the Department of Defense, but I -- between us, I think we're going to change the name," Trump said in the Oval Office as he met with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.

He said he thought there would be more information to come on the matter "soon."

"Everybody likes that. We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War," Trump said. "Then we changed it to Department of Defense. So that's a little thing, has nothing to do with your country, but it's something that I think you're going to be hearing about or seeing about over the next couple of weeks. Probably that change is going to be made over the next week or so."

The Department of War was created in 1789. It was later reorganized and renamed after World War II.

ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott pressed President Donald Trump on whether he would send troops to Republican-led states as he debates taking action against Chicago.

"Mr. President, on the National Guard, you've talked a lot about Democratic-run cities and states. Would you also consider sending the National Guard into red states and red cities that are also seeing high crime?" Scott asked.

"Sure," Trump responded. "But there aren't that many of them."

Trump contended Democrat-led areas experience more crime and continued to rail against cashless bail policies.Reports show cities with some of the country's highest homicide rates are blue cities in red states, including Jackson, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee.