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Former President Donald Trump was ruled by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. to not be immune from criminal prosecution in the federal election conspiracy case on Tuesday.

And the opinion is full of historical precedent that is fatal to the former president's case, said legal analyst Lisa Rubin on MSNBC.

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is under fire after mocking U.S. Border Patrol agents by baselessly suggesting the reason they support the Senate border bill is personal financial gain.

One day after the Senate released its massive border bill, which experts say includes many items House Republicans demanded, Johnson and much of his House GOP conference immediately rejected it, largely in response to Donald Trump's direction. The ex-president has made clear he wants to keep Congress from improving the situation at the border so he will have an issue to use against President Joe Biden in the November election.

One of the problems for Republican leaders as they vow to block the bipartisan border security deal in the Senate on former President Donald Trump's orders is that the Border Patrol Union, a famously conservative group that has fought for tighter border restrictions for years, has endorsed the deal and put them at odds with the Republican Party's current stance.

Fox News' Steve Doocy confronted House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on the issue on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning.

Former Donald Trump White House communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin tore into Republicans in Congress on CNN Tuesday for immediately lining up against the immigration and foreign aid deal they helped negotiate as Trump whipped opposition to it solely so that there could be an unsolved crisis he could run on in the election.

The deal, which now faces slim odds of passing, would create new requirements to shut down border crossings, tighten asylum requirements, and expedite removals of migrants, in return for lifting visa caps and giving legal counsel to unaccompanied child migrants.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned the U.S. Congress as worse than "do nothing," and said the current crop of lawmakers were actively doing harm to the country.

Republicans are about to kill a bipartisan border security bill while most likely impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the border, and the "Morning Joe" host called them out for following Donald Trump's orders to sow chaos and destruction.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson currently holds several conflicting positions on addressing the U.S. southern border, not to mention sending funds to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan – which he has insisted be linked together. He's now created an even more confusing quagmire exacerbated by a joint statement released Monday afternoon by his House Republican leadership team.

In their latest shot across the bow to the U.S. Senate, Speaker Johnson and his leadership team declared the just-released Senate immigration and border security funding bill, which includes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, "DEAD on arrival."

House Republicans are poised to impeach Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border security, but a congressional reporter said the move was clearly a "political stunt" to distract from their own legislative inaction.

GOP lawmakers say Mayorkas has “refused to comply” with immigration laws that resulted in a flood of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, and Washington Post reporter Jackie Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that they appear to have the votes to make him the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough predicted that Republicans would pay a political price for blocking a border security deal that gives them almost everything they've wanted.

The bipartisan bill appears on track to fail in the Senate, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declared it dead on arrival in the lower chamber, and the "Morning Joe" host called them out for following Donald Trump's orders to block the bill so he could run on border security as a campaign issue.

Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being "conspiracy theorists" in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday.

This comes as Smith is attempting to stave off a sweeping discovery request in that case that goes far beyond what an ordinary criminal defendant would, asking for huge troves of federal communications in search of evidence that the charges for stealing and hoarding national defense information were fabricated.

Rep. Nancy Mace received a brutal fact check Monday on Fox News after slamming a bipartisan border protection bill she admitted she hadn’t finished reading.

“This bill keeps the border wide open,” Mace said. “The measures that we feel are extremely undesirable, that keep our border open, that water down the asylum bill, it’s not good for the country.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) cleared up some misconceptions about border security during Donald Trump's presidency.

The Oklahoma Republican has been leading negotiations on a bipartisan Senate border agreement that House speaker Mike Johnson has promised to kill if it passes the upper chamber, and Lankford said President Joe Biden should be doing more to stop the flood of migrants crossing the border – but he said Trump's record wasn't much better.

Fox Business host Neil Cavuto on Monday pushed back on Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) after he trashed the bipartisan bill in the United States Senate aimed at curbing illegal border crossings.

During the interview, Cavuto acknowledged that the bill negotiated in the Senate didn't give Republicans everything they wanted, but he questioned whether passing it would be better than simply doing nothing.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called on Republicans to stop short of giving women the "death penalty" for abortions.

At a campaign stop in South Carolina on Monday, Haley was asked if she made a mistake by calling for a federal ban on abortions without specifics.