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Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann slammed President Donald Trump for the proposal that the Justice Department give him $230 million to make up for the investigations into the 2016 Russia matter, the classified documents case, and the investigation into Trump's role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday after the story broke from the New York Times, Weissmann said, "essentially the president of the United States is now the extortionist in chief. We saw it with ABC. We saw it with CBS. We saw it with the law firms. And now, he might as well just go ahead and rob Fort Knox and take the gold out."

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted President Donald Trump's most recent AI-generated meme that depicts him flying a fighter jet and defecating on people participating in the "No Kings" protest last weekend.

Trump posted the meme on Truth Social ahead of the protest, which about 7 million Americans attended, according to estimates. In the meme, Trump was depicted wearing a crown, and the jet he flew was named "King Trump."

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump will not attend a meeting in Hungary with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Speaking about the report on MSNBC, international affairs reporter Elise Labott is hopeful that this will influence Trump's decision about sending more weapons to Ukraine. It hasn't in the past, however.

Eleven House Republicans signed onto a letter Tuesday calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to make a deal on the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, saying that their districts will suffer without them.

Reporting on the letter, MSNBC's Kevin Fry explained, "Quite frankly, they seem to see the writing on the wall, which Democrats are really hitting Republicans on for quite some time, that if these premiums start to skyrocket, which is what we're expecting them to do in the next couple of weeks, people get those notices in the mail."

A Republican strategist reminded President Donald Trump that many of the people who voted for him in 2024 aren't hardcore MAGA loyalists — and won't be there for the next election.

New Jersey and Virginia elections are coming up in a few weeks, and GOP strategist Annalyse Keller called the "No Kings" protests perfectly timed for those states.

President Donald Trump admitted that he became "extremely angry" after hearing that he was not a better president than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

At a Tuesday event with Republican senators in the White House Rose Garden, Trump told the tale as he described a "Presidential Walk of Fame" he's created outside the West Wing.

The co-hosts of "The View" added their names to the long list of angry Americans who watched President Donald Trump demolish part of the East Wing of the White House that he pledged he wouldn't touch as he built his massive ballroom.

Photos of the heavy machinery tearing down the wall of the White House spread online Monday afternoon, prompting a huge backlash that led federal workers to be told not to take photos of the destruction, according to reports.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter's threat to kill the House Democratic leader by saying that violence was "triggered" by the recent No Kings protests opposing President Donald Trump.

At a Tuesday press conference, a reporter noted that the man accused of threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had been pardoned by Trump for crimes committed on Jan. 6.

A key finding in a new Ipsos/Reuters poll, which delivered bad news to Republicans, led MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to burst out laughing on Tuesday morning.

Speaking with “Morning Joe” regular Molly Jong-Fast, Scarborough cited the poll that shows 50 percent of voters blame Republicans for the government shutdown, with 43 percent blaming Democrats.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest criticism of newly elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) earned him a beatdown on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, with the co-hosts of “Morning Joe” repeatedly calling his claims “stupid."

The Louisiana Republican spent much of Monday once again blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown and, when pressed on why he refuses to swear in Grijalva, launched a broadside at her.

Reacting to a report that newly-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan took it upon herself to randomly text a reporter about the prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which has been limited to grand jury proceedings, the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” was both shocked and amused on Tuesday morning.

Late Monday, journalist Anna Bower published a text chain Halligan began about the James prosecution, confirming some details about grand jury testimony about mortgage fraud — then testily demanded afterward that what she had written was “off the record.”