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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed Donald Trump's fans for crudely mocking their opponents' feelings while insisting everyone to tread lightly around their own emotions.

The "Morning Joe" host highlighted sharply critical comments Mike Pence made about the anti-democratic direction the Republican Party had been steered toward by Donald Trump, although he didn't actually mention him by name, and Scarborough pointed out that was just a coping mechanism for the GOP's inability to field candidates who voters like.

Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell lost their attempts to have their cases severed in Fulton County Georgia on Wednesday – and that is going to hurt one defendant more than the other, legal analysts said.

In a racketeering (RICO) case, everything is connected together, argued the district attorney's office. That means all of the evidence involving individual defendants can be used against the group.

The "head of the snake" may be cut off, but the co-hosts of "The View" are warning that militia groups like the Proud Boys are growing strong in communities around the country.

Former Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio was given a 22-year sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 attack Tuesday, but that hasn't stopped his allies from targeting people of color or LGBTQ+ people in the states, the hosts said.

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys militant group, was just given the longest sentence yet for the Jan. 6 riots, and MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg explained how that might impact Donald Trump's prosecutions.

The former president has been charged by special counsel Jack Smith's office for his own role in the insurrection, and Rosenberg told "Morning Joe" that Tarrio's conviction and sentence was instructive because, like Trump, he wasn't present at the U.S. Capitol during the attack but his leadership role was factored into his trial and penalty.

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, issued a warning for those ensnared in legal battles with the former president that he isn't likely to help with legal bills.

On Tuesday, CNN's Abby Phillip asked Cohen about the expenses that can mount after working with Trump personally, given his own legal battles.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) continues to blockade the confirmation of hundreds of military appointments and promotions, in an ongoing attempt to try to force the Pentagon to rescind a policy that pays for personnel to take leave to states where abortion is legal.

But the former football coach doesn't seem to understand the policy he is blocking, said former Mike Pence aide and White House press secretary Alyssa Farah Griffin on CNN Tuesday.

Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor for Robert Mueller's special counsel team, warned that if Proud Boys and Oath Keeper leaders are getting 15 to 22 years in prison, then the head of the conspiracy is likely to get that much too.

Speaking after former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison, Weissmann agreed the sentence is long, but explained it's for a former leader of the militia group. Not being present on Jan. 6 wasn't a barrier to a conviction in Tarrio's case, he explained.

Former President Donald Trump will continue to ramp up his attacks on judges and prosecutors as he "tests the limits" of what he can get away with in his criminal trials, said New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, also known as the "Trump whisperer."

This comes as former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy for the January 6 attack, based partly on domestic terrorism considerations — which, Haberman argues, is not going to influence Trump's calculus in his own defense.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday dialed up pressure on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) to initiate impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden.

In a social media post, the far-right lawmaker referenced concessions he extracted from McCarthy in Jan. 2023, during his grueling effort to win the speakership.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has a clean bill of health to continue to work after a Capitol physician failed to find any evidence of stroke or seizure following two incidents in which the 81-year-old senator froze up and seemed confused during press conferences. The senator's office, for its part, attributes the incidents to "lightheadedness."

But that explanation doesn't hold water, said CNN medical expert Dr. Jonathan Reiner.

Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann predicted that the suit against Donald Trump's candidacy will likely end up in the Supreme Court.

The issue is something that conservative former Judge Michael Luttig and Harvard Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe wrote for The Atlantic last month that the 14th Amendment should bar the former president from office.

Longtime Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the seditious conspiracy to stop the electoral count — the longest sentence handed down yet for any of the January 6 defendants. But that's not enough, argued former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on MSNBC Tuesday.

Tarrio already received a harsher sentence than even U.S. defector to the "Taliban American" John Walker Lindh — however, argued McCabe, he was essentially a domestic terrorist leader, and so should have been sentenced as such.