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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) scolded Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for holding a hearing on government "weaponization" by arguing that former President Donald Trump was the "ultimate" violator.

Speaking Wednesday to the House Judiciary Committee, Goldman accused Jordan of holding "another hearing about the same topic."

Residents near a toxic chemical leak from a railcar in a small town in southwestern Ohio remained under evacuation orders on Wednesday even after the leak had been contained.

A leak of styrene, a chemical used in plastic and rubber production, was discovered Tuesday afternoon in Whitewater Township, Ohio, about 16 miles west of Cincinnati. Video showed the chemical spewing from the top of a railcar reportedly owned by Genesee & Wyoming, a U.S.-based multinational.

President Joe Biden spoke to the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday where co-host Whoopi Goldberg described Donald Trump as nothing more than an annoying bug.

The conversation turned to Biden stepping off the ticket and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin asked whether he held any animosity to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for being among the Democratic leaders who pushed Biden off the ticket.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, the New York Times' Jeremy Peters claimed that, despite recent polls showing the race between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stabilizing, the former president is running into new trouble.

During his sit-down with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Peters was asked about the current polling that shows a close race.

"The polling had Biden's number right in 2020, did not have Trump's," he began. "You're still hearing a lot of concern among pollsters and strategists in the campaigns, not in the campaigns, who say that these polls can undercount Trump support. It is just a fact that Trump voters are less likely to pick up the phone, less likely to answer a survey and there is this phenomenon where they are less likely to cop to their support for Trump because they are somewhat ashamed by it."

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"They're not sure that this is the kind of guy they want people knowing that they vote for, these are not the people who put the MAGA signs and the MAGA flags in their front yard," he elaborated. "That said, we have seen kind of a remarkable amount of stability in the race since the debate; things have moved by maybe a point or two here and there."

"You know, the polling in states like Arizona that could be critical is still really unclear, North Carolina is interesting because it has tightened, because there you have a MAGA problem —that is probably the biggest threat to Trump at this moment," he told the host.

"As one Republican strategist put it to me during one of the midterm elections, when things go haywire, when there are big national news stories of, like, mass shootings, crisis, upheaval, people are reminded of the chaos of Trump," Peters continued. "He's the president of chaos and they don't like that and, even though they may not like the direction of the country right now and that's bad for Biden and Harris, Trump gets tainted with that and I think people just really don't want to relive all that."

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Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) dropped the hammer on GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for their continuing attacks on Haitian immigrants in his state on "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning.

Speaking with the hosts, the fuming Ryan labeled the two Republican standard bearers "two scared little boys" who are trying to scare Americans into voting for them.

After the hosts pointed out Trump once again slurred the Ohio Haitian community in a speech on Tuesday, Ryan pounced.

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"I come from outside of Youngstown, Ohio, old industrial town," he began. "Springfield has had hard times. They're trying to repopulate, they're trying to rebuild, the business owners want these workers. There is no problems."

"They're trying to assimilate? Yes," he pointed out. "Do they need help with health care and housing? Yes, there are some issues but a net positive and the people love the Haitian immigrants who came. I think this is an indicator, Willie [Geist], of just how crass Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are. They don't give a damn about who they use, which bodies they step over in the process to gain power. And I think it's sickening that they would use these immigrants."

"All they want to do is scare people. They want to scare us about immigrants, they want to scare everybody about the liberals trying to get you, the transgender people are coming to get you, World War III is going to happen. The economy is going to collapse, it's so fear-based," he accused. "I think they're two scared little boys that want everybody else to be scared with them. and what they're doing is — how hard is it going to be. I spent 20 years in Congress. Joe, you remember this: so much of your job is economic development."

"Can you imagine a sitting senator in your state actually destroying the well-being of a community for your own political purposes," he asked. "Your job is to represent these people. Your job is to stick up for these communities and you're destroying them and it's sickening to watch this happen."

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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is under fire this week for suggesting that critics of federal judges, including justices on the nation's top court, should be thrown in jail.

During a Monday night campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the former president continued his trend of bragging about appointing three of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who ended nationwide abortion rights by overturning Roe v. Wade. He also praised the "brilliant" right-wingers for having the "courage" to issue the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.

CNN's Kate Bedingfield was creeped out by Donald Trump's obtrusive attempt to win over skeptical women voters, and the former White House communications director questioned who the message was actually intended to reach.

The former president told women at a Pennsylvania event that he was "your protector" and promised to make them "safe" from illegal immigrants, crime and "foreign enemies," and he promised that they would no longer need to worry about many of the issues that define this year's election.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance suggested special counsel Jack Smith's 180-page filing earlier this week likely contains "juicy tidbits" related Donald Trump's attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election that won't be revealed until the case goes to trial.

Speaking with host Willie Geist and MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle, Vance was asked about the massive submission to Judge Tanya Chutkan that required special permission from the judge, which the former prosecutor claimed will end up with huge redactions when first made available to the public.

"I think what will happen here, what Jack Smith has indicated to the court in his motion to exceed the page limit last week, is that he'll try to keep the sensitive information in this brief under seal," Vance began. "And that should be one occasion, in this case, where Donald Trump doesn't fight the special counsel."

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"Everyone will want that protective order to stay in place," she predicted. "So, what we'll see, this will take us back to the [Robert] Mueller era where we saw large filings with large blocks of big black stripes on the pages concealing the pages what you most wanted to read. I think that is what we'll see here — there may be some information that's deemed nonsensitive."

"But in terms of what's coming out in the public's eye that will certainly happen at trial. It may happen earlier as there's briefing about issues," she continued. "Trump may move to dismiss the charges against him. But we can expect, at least for the moment, that most of the juicy tidbits, for instance whether Jack Smith has picked up any cooperating witnesses, will likely remain under seal."

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Longtime conservative and staunch Donald Trump critic, Charlie Sykes, on Tuesday predicted that one of the promises the former president has failed to keep, is one Sykes believes the MAGA hopeful will keep if he wins in November.

"Could we just freeze the moment and look at what Donald Trump is saying that he's going to do? What he is explicitly running on, the lies he's willing to tell," Sykes said, speaking with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.