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'Mind-blowing': Alina Habba snaps at Justice Sotomayor for dissent in Trump immunity case

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, said she found Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opposition to a presidential immunity ruling "mind-blowing."

In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that presidents have immunity for official acts. The ruling sent special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump back to a lower court, where it faces an uphill battle.

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'Disaster': Legal analyst cites 'big deal' buried on page 18 of Roberts' pro-Trump ruling

Digging deeper into the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' majority ruling that handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin claimed the devil was in the details and the ruling is even worse than was initially reported.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katy Tur, Rubin held up a copy of the ruling and bluntly stated, "I want to put my voice in with Andrew's [Rosenberg's] choir here and say this is much more of a disaster than it might seem based on the rules that are being carved out here."

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Ex-FBI counsel rips immunity ruling as 'terrible decision made up of whole cloth'

Concluding a complex discussion of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that handed Donald Trump limited immunity from being prosecuted, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out the court's conservative justices for making up the law as they go along.

Appearing on MSNBC along with legal analyst Lisa Rubin and former counselor to the U.S. attorney general, Chuck Rosenberg, Weissmann tried to sum up what had just occurred as all three of them poured over the ruling and attached dissents.

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'Trump lost!' Protests shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene's presser outside Bannon's prison

A press conference with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was derailed Monday after protesters made it difficult to continue.

Greene spoke outside a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, just hours before Steve Bannon was expected to begin serving his sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress.

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'Really sick': Marjorie Taylor Greene erupts as Republicans bail on Bannon jail surrender

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained Monday that her fellow Republican lawmakers failed to show up to support convicted criminal Steve Bannon as he surrendered for his four-month prison sentence.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, host Terrance Bates asked Greene why no other lawmakers were with her outside the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

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Steve Bannon's prison stall tactics have done serious damage to Trump: prosecutor

Reacting to Steve Bannon being scheduled to turn himself into prison Monday, State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg claimed the former Donald Trump advisor has "only himself to blame" for not being able to use his podcast for the next four months to rally the former president's troops in the lead up to the election.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the prosecutor smirked while describing Bannon's failing efforts to stay out of jail.

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'Should be on a psychiatrist couch': Trump VP contender mocked on MSNBC over Jan. 6 claim

The panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" dissolved in laughter on Monday after watching a clip of Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) claiming on Sunday that there was a "smooth" transition between the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations in 2020.

As the panelists laughed, "Morning Joe" regular John Heilemann suggested the North Dakota Republican should seek mental health care.

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'We need to stop whining': Rev. Al Sharpton snaps at Democrats for doing Trump's work

Reacting to Democratic lawmakers who, behind the scenes, are trashing President Joe Biden to reporters after his poor debate performance, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton claimed they are lending a hand to Donald Trump's attempts to destroy his rival.

The visibly fuming Sharpton hammered liberals' kneejerk response to Biden's admittedly bad showing before the dust had settled — and said everyone needs to stop whining.

"He had a bad night, he had a terrible night, but do we not say, 'Wait a minute, he helped to preserve and maintain affordable care, he fought for police reform giving the executive order on George Floyd, brought unemployment numbers down after a catastrophe that Donald Trump handed us,'" he told the MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel.

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'Hold on!' CNN host confronts GOP insider with poll suggesting Trump should drop out

Republican operative Scott Jennings was using a recent poll to push Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, but CNN host and journalist Alisyn Camerota showed him that the same poll suggests Donald Trump should drop out, too.

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona and Jennings appeared on CNN Sunday, where they debated the importance and impact of Biden's dismal debate performance on Thursday. They were also asked about reports that Biden is isolated from some White House aides.

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Jack Smith has 'one more card to play' in D.C. election subversion case: former prosecutor

Jack Smith has had a tough time prosecuting Donald Trump, especially considering his D.C. election subversion prosecution has been frozen pending Supreme Court action, but a former prosecutor said on Sunday that the special counsel has one more trick up his sleeve.

Trump faces charges in that case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as related efforts to allegedly undermine the presidential election in 2020 when Joe Biden beat the former president. With the case tied up, however, analysts have suggested that it won't reach trial before the election.

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Dana bashed: CNN host called to 'resign' after letting Lindsey Graham steamroll her on air

CNN host Dana Bash came under fire over the weekend after an interview in which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went on an angry rant and stated he was looking forward to going after President Joe Biden and members of his administration if Donald Trump wins re-election in November.

Graham appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," where he ranted about Biden, accusing the president of being "compromised" as Bash sat there and failed to fact-check him in much the same manner as she also failed to fact-check Trump when she was co-moderator on the CNN-hosted debate on Thursday evening.

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'It has been recorded': Fox News host nails GOP senator denying 'Trump's lies'

Fox News host Arthel Neville grilled Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) about former President Donald Trump's "lies" at last week's debate with President Joe Biden.

"Now, Biden is widely criticized for his debate performance," Neville told Hoeven on Sunday. "Trump is widely criticized for lying in the debate."

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'I've lost track': CBS host cuts off J.D. Vance after he makes excuses for Trump's lies

CBS News host Margaret Brennan rebuked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for suggesting that the media was to blame for former President Donald Trump's false statements at a recent debate with President Joe Biden.

"Fewer voters thought the former president was truthful compared with President Biden," Brennan explained on Sunday. "Mr. Trump falsely claimed states are passing legislation to execute babies. I think you know that killing people is illegal in every state.

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