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Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend " on Saturday morning, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had some advice for President Joe Biden as he heads into his debate with disgraced ex-president Donald Trump and then she hinted the former president has additional issues of his own that go beyond questions about his mental competence.

Speaking with co-host Alicia Menendez, McCaskill stated Biden needs to go for the jugular when he confronts what is expected to be a combative Trump.

"I mean, they've [Trumps' camp] gone way out of their way to make this man [Biden] look incompetent," she pointed out. "When Joe Biden shows up — and not only will — he doesn't respect Donald Trump. I don't think he's going to be afraid to say 'Hey shut up man, again,' or even maybe more like 'Do you ever quit lying?'"

"I mean, he's got to do that, he's got to leave the presidential dignified Joe Biden at the door and he's got to appear as scrappy Joe from Scranton who's willing to take on big guys that are not there for the little guy," she continued. "And if he does that — you know, Donald Trump has his own cognitive issues and frankly he's got things that are more serious. But the point is that Joe Biden has an opportunity here, he has an opportunity to clear the air about whether or not he's strong enough to be commander-in-chief for another four years."

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Reacting to a clip of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) labeling President Joe Biden a "felon," former RNC chair and current MSNBC host Michael Steele laid into the South Carolina Republican for debasing himself even more in the service of Donald Trump.

As Steele put it Republicans are ramping up their attacks on Biden as Trump starts to slip in the polls, with Graham taking the new level up on that, " and the MSNBC host setting up the clip with, "Let's take a listen to what he has to say about Joe Biden as the real felon. "

Speaking with Fox personality Jesse Watters, a furious Graham sneered, "Next time you hear the word 'felon' in this election, I think the felon in this election is Joe Biden. What he's doing to the country is criminal."

"It is just mindnumbingly stupid what he just said," Steele commented as the clip concluded.

"Because, what you're saying ... I have a difference with his policies that's somehow criminal and therefore he's a felon," he continued. "Donald Trump was convicted by 12 of his peers in a New York courtroom 34 times. Help us narratively explain to folks why they should take the fog out of their eyes and understand the difference between these two when they are looking at assessing which of these two men, not is a felon, but who should be president of the United States."

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The president of the far-right Heritage Foundation was embarrassed on MSNBC on Saturday morning after he insisted the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, only to have MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend pop his balloon by citing his organization's own research on voter fraud.

During his appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Kevin Roberts first battled with former RNC president Michael Steele about the Project 2025 plan to dismantle the government and remake it into an authoritarian regime presided over by newly re-elected Donald Trump.

That led to a question over whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election if Donald Trump lost again.

Using a stock hedge used by Republicans, Roberts said he would if there was no "massive fraud" like in 2020.

"There was no massive fraud," Sanders-Townsend shot back.

"There was election fraud, it has been documented over the years," the Heritage head claimed. "By the way, the Heritage Foundation is concerned about election fairness for decades and has been documenting this problem for a very long time."

Holding and reading from documents, the MSNBC host replied, "I believe, according to the Heritage Foundation, sir, by your count, the Heritage Foundation has done an investigation and according to your count, there have been 1513 proven instances of voter fraud across the United States since 1982."

"Yeah it is very hard to document," he replied as she emphasized "1500," and off-screen "Weekend " host Alicia Menendez could be heard giggling.

"The Democrat (sic) party is very good at fraud," he continued.

Persisting, he added, "The key thing here, which I think we would both agree on, is that we had aspire at the Heritage Foundation to seeing a poll after this election where every American believes their vote was counted. I care as deeply about someone on the political left with whom I disagree saying they have confidence in the outcome of the election instead of you. turning this into a partisan discussion, which you have done a good job of."

"It's not partisan to ask if you will accept the results of the election," the MSNBC host shot back.

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An interview with the man called the "architect" of the far-right Project 2025 plan to dismantle the federal government and remake it into a Donald Trump-friendly authoritarian nightmare quickly turned ugly on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

Early in the segment on MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host and former RNC chair Michael Steele got in the face of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts who said he saw no problem firing a government employee who donated to a Democratic candidate.

What followed was the two talking over each other with Roberts claiming more than 50,000 federal employees would be summarily fired after complaining that 95 percent of government employees "give political contributions to the liberal Democratic party."

"You're going to fire someone because they gave a check to a Democratic candidate?" an incredulous Steele asked.

"No, we're going to fire someone — and the number needs to be more than 50,000, considering there are 2 million federal employees," Roberts shot back. "Because over the last century, the radical left has seen the administrative state as the fourth branch of government. They're unelected bureaucrats — nothing against your dad, a human being, you know that. obviously. But ultimately, we have to devolve power from the imperial state --."

"But you would fire my dad because he wrote a check to a Democratic candidate without any appreciation or understanding where his political allegiance actually lies," Steele interrupted. "You take away their job, why does that matter?"

"If they are doing their job about a mission that is misaligned," Roberts shot back. "For example, the U.S. Department of Education. Thankfully, president Trump deserves credit for saying he wants to end the Department of Education. That means employees in that agency, even if they have been serving a mission with great competence will have to look for another job."

"The folks you are identifying who are Trump-aligned are the ones who are going to be coming in, " Steele parried.

"You are positive those people are incompetent," Roberts complained.

"I'm not, Steele protested. "As much as you are thinking I am positing these people are incompetent, you are positing they [existing employees] are somehow executing a nefarious agenda."

"Some of them are," the Heritage head claimed.

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern pointed the finger at Justice Samuel Alito as the culprit for why the Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on whether Donald Trump should be afforded blanket criminal immunity.

Speaking with the hosts, Stern was asked why the court is dragging its feet on a case that could have a major impact on the 2024 presidential election.

"I think the problem here is that the Supreme Court's conservatives are, if not corrupt, then wrapped up in this fantasy of a presidency that has safeguards, that has guard rails against abuse and corruption and they don't think what Donald Trump did at the end of the day, was all that bad," the legal analysts stated.

"This came out loud and clear in the conservatives' decision on the ballot removal case where the court refused to grapple with this question on whether Trump engaged in insurrection, refused to address the true gravity of January 6, and issued a very formalistic non-originalist opinion that allows Trump to appear on the ballot, despite the 14th's Amendment clear bar against insurrectionists holding federal office," he continued.

"We could see that same dynamic play out on this decision," he continued. "Maybe that is the reason for the delay behind the scenes but I also think it is possible that Justice Sam Alito is simply dragging out the opinion writing process to run as much interference for Trump as possible — to run out the clock and ensure his guy doesn't have to see meaningful legal progress in this case beyond November and beyond."

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