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'Not likely to fly': Legal expert explains how Judge Chutkan will shut Trump down

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to map out how Donald Trump's election interference case will play out before a new president is sworn in early next year, but a legal expert doesn't think she'll pause proceedings until then.

Chutkan will preside over a hearing Thursday in the District of Columbia in which she will likely offer new details of how she will apply the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling to Trump's indictment, but MSNBC's Lisa Rubin said the former president's attorneys will likely be disappointed by her timeline.

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Pastor sees 'cracks' in GOP stronghold on Evangelical Christian voters

Pastor Doug Pagitt of Vote Common Good spoke with MSNBC Wednesday morning about the shift he is seeing in the Republican Party's stronghold on Evangelical Christians.

Pagitt is on a bus tour through swing states ahead of the election and speaking to people of faith who have, in the past, associated their religion with their politics.

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'You should be worried': MSNBC's Morning Joe warns that 'capitalism loses' if Trump wins

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned business elites that a second Donald Trump presidency would endanger their profit margins.

The "Morning Joe" host waxed poetic about American capitalism, saying it had lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in history, but he said the former president had made clear he wanted to gather autocratic powers to reward loyalists and punish his enemies.

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'Numbed by the hate speech': Morning Joe shames media coverage of 'deranged' Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped his colleagues in the mainstream media for downplaying Donald Trump's negative characteristics.

The former president won the Republican nomination despite attempting to undo his 2020 election loss, for which he's been indicted in federal and state courts, and he's been criminally charged in two other cases – one of which resulted in his conviction on 34 felony counts – and the "Morning Joe" host said that many fellow journalists and pundits have normalized those facts and, as panelist Mike Barnicle put it, his "deranged" statements.

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MSNBC's Morning Joe laughs at story of Trump being fact-checked over his Hitler admiration

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed out loud at the recollection of Donald Trump getting a forceful fact-check of his admiration for Adolf Hitler.

New York Times reporter Peter Baker appeared Tuesday on "Morning Joe" to discuss Army 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, the son of the late Sen. John McCain, denouncing the Republican nominee's campaign visit to Arlington National Cemetery and endorsing Kamala Harris for president, and he recalled an infamous example of Trump's misunderstanding of the military.

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'Your kids may not like it': Kaitlan Collins greenlights guest to drop profanity

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins gave a panelist the OK to drop a profanity on her show Tuesday night and he took the host up on her offer.

On Collins' show "The Source," CNN panelists laughed at a clip of Donald Trump's appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, in which the host tells the MAGA leader he prefers when Trump refrains from attacks and stays on message. Rather than agree, Trump doubles down and says he has to attack.

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'Running out of time': New Hampshire Republicans privately agree Trump could be cooked

A Republican strategist added fuel to the fire Tuesday night as former President Donald Trump scrambles to contain the damage after a key volunteer said the Trump campaign no longer views New Hampshire as "a battleground state."

The campaign has vehemently denied any plans to abandon the Granite State to Democrats and kicked the volunteer out of the organization.

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'Callous': Dem shreds Vance over Fox News interview blasting Harris' 'ridiculous division'

A former Democratic Senate candidate hit back at Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance following his Tuesday night appearance on Fox News, in which Vance rebuked Vice President Kamala Harris over her leadership and accused her of sowing division.

Vance appeared on the "Ingraham Angle," where host Laura Ingraham asked him if the country is "not getting ourselves into the position, under this type of woke leadership, of our needing a military draft because of their policies and their handling of military affairs in general in our country?"

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Kamala Harris needs to 'jiu-jitsu' Donald Trump at debate: Dem strategist

A Democratic strategist pushed back against those who've opined that Vice President Kamala Harris would be better served at the upcoming debate if she deployed a 2020 tactic she used against then Vice President Mike Pence, at the time telling Pence "I'm speaking" when he interrupted her.

Erin Burnett spoke with Democrat David Axelrod and GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on CNN's "OutFront" and asked if Harris' 2020 strategy with Pence would "play well" if she deployed the same against former President Donald Trump next week.

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MAGA disciple flips over Kamala Harris going by her first name: 'She's not a soccer star!'

Former President Donald Trump's former trade adviser Peter Navarro has a simple demand for Trump supporters: stop referring to Vice President Kamala Harris by her first name.

He ranted about the vice president's name during an episode of Steve Bannon's "War Room," where he is filling in as Bannon serves out his prison sentence for contempt of Congress — an offense for which Navarro was recently released from prison.

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Ex-FBI official shares what's likely — and 'unlikely' — to come in Trump's D.C. case

A former FBI official outlined what he expects will — and won't — come now after former President Donald Trump entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday in his trimmed-down Washington D.C. election subversion case.

Last month, Smith tweaked the charges to remove references that Trump tried to order the Justice Department to carry out corrupt acts to obstruct the election. The references couldn't be proven under the Supreme Court's ruling because they rely on evidence that is immune from review.

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'Not just DOJ': J6 investigator walks through ways Trump used government to target foes

A former House investigator of the Jan. 6 attacks warned Tuesday that Trump looks at federal agencies as "tools of his own exertion of power" — and warned it's not just the Justice Department.

Tim Heaphy served as a senior investigator to the House Select Committee that probed the 2020 election overthrow attempts and Jan. 6 attacks.

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'Never seen anything like this': Senator slams Trump after Arlington cemetery incident

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) laid into former President Donald Trump on CNN on Tuesday afternoon over his move to try to manufacture a political campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery, where his staff reportedly got in a fight with an Army caretaker who told them it was against the rules.

"Several gold star families of service members killed in the terrorist attack during the Afghanistan withdrawal have now defended the Trump campaign in taking pictures and cell phone video from his visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week, and they — these families criticized Harris, Vice President Harris, for calling it a political stunt," said anchor Jake Tapper. "Some of them are blaming the Biden administration for their loved ones' deaths, that horrible day in 2021. One of them said, 'You've never spoken to me, never reached out to me. You failed in your duty as vice president."

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