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State attorney explains how Judge Cannon could risk being taken off Trump case in upcoming hearing

Dave Aronberg, Florida state attorney for Palm Beach County, explained to CNN's Jim Acosta that Donald Trump is taking a considerable risk with his latest move to try and delay his trial until after the 2024 election. Special counsel Jack Smith hasn't been amenable to the request thus far.

Trump is set to appear in court this week with his co-defendant, valet Walt Nauta. Aronberg explained that it should be nothing more than a normal hearing, but the former president isn't known for doing things the normal way.

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Tucker Carlson's false claims about Ray Epps could cost Fox News millions: Epps lawyer

Speaking to MSNBC's Melissa Murray on Thursday, the lawyer for Ray Epps explained that the Jan. 6 attacker was not only not an FBI agent or a plant, but that the conservatives that implied it have destroyed his life.

But Epps has been targeted by Republican lawmakers like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Though it's unclear if such a lawsuit against lawmakers would be an option.

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Bombshell testimony links Jared Kushner to stop-the-steal fundraising cash: legal analyst

Donald Trump's top strategist and son-in law Jared Kushner told prosecutors that he believed the former president genuinely thought the 2020 election was stolen, the New York Times reported Thursday.

The report says that investigators from Special Counsel Jack Smith's office were trying to determine if Trump knew that he had lost before he began his allegations that the election had been stolen – "essentially that his efforts were knowingly based on a lie."

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Former Mueller prosecutor thinks more states should go after Trump for election fraud

A former senior prosecutor to special counsel Robert Mueller wants to see more states press charges over the fake electors' conspiracy.

Andrew Weissmann was speaking as a grand jury in Fulton County reconvened to consider if former President Donald Trump acted to overturn the result in Georgia after the 2020 general election, and as special counsel Jack Smith continues his federal probe into attempts to influence the result.

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Lawyer who turned down Trump says Cannon might delay his trial if her other cases are any indication

Jon Sale was among the assistant U.S. Attorneys who worked on the Watergate case, but more recently, he turned down working on Donald Trump's documents case in Florida.

Speaking to Katy Tur on Thursday, Sale said that Trump's latest court filing took guts, making both political arguments and legal ones he found somewhat legitimate.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for saying she hates drama: 'It’s her stock in trade'

MSNBC host Chris Jansing took a swipe at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Thursday for her recent removal from the House Freedom Caucus.

Speaking to both Capitol reporter Garrett Haake and former GOP Speaker aide Branden Buck, Jansing said that the feud hasn't yet made it to the celebrity gossip pages.

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'I would sue too!': Ex-host Geraldo Rivera tells The View Fox deserves defamation lawsuits

Longtime Fox host Geraldo Rivera told "The View" that he supports defamation lawsuits against the network, whether they are from Smartmatic or Ray Epps.

Rivera, who after working at the network for 22 years was fired from "The Five" and left, said he had disputes with another co-host who would frequently get into fights with him. Regardless of the debate, Fox would always take the side of his co-host, he said.

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Fox News 'better get the checkbook out' for latest 'not-hard-to-prove' defamation case: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Fox News was about to lose another defamation lawsuit related to its coverage of the 2020 election and its aftermath.

Donald Trump supporter Ray Epps has sued the conservative network for claims by Tucker Carlson and other broadcasters on air accusing him of being an agent provocateur and federal agent, which forced him and his wife to go into hiding to avoid death threats, and the "Morning Joe" host said Fox News was likely to be found liable.

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Ex-DOJ official says Republicans in Wray hearing sound like radical extremists

Former Justice Department acting assistant attorney general for national security, Mary McCord, explained that the Republicans' hearing attacking FBI Director Christopher Wray utilized the same kind of language that radical extremists also use.

Speaking to McCord on Wednesday, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said that to her that it appeared the GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee were "weakening, dismantling, smearing, destabilizing public opinion about the FBI."

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'Insane': Christopher Wray strikes back at Liz Cheney's replacement who alleges he hates conservatives

FBI Director Christopher Wray was faced with a number of hostile Republican lawmakers in the Judiciary Committee Wednesday who accused him of being a liberal who was going after conservatives.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), who took Liz Cheney's place in Congress when her membership of the party was revoked for serving on the Jan. 6 select committee, was among them.

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'Not FBI's fault Trump surrounded himself with criminals': Dem lawmaker exposes 'cesspool of corruption' around ex-president

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) methodically took apart Republican complaints about the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI during a contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

FBI director Christopher Wray appeared before the panel to address GOP complaints about investigations involving Donald Trump, and Lieu used his time to highlight a litany of the former president's allies, associates and advisers who had been convicted of crimes during his own administration.

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Ex-FBI official says GOP is telling agents: 'If you investigate our party, you are going to pay the price'

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi wasn't happy after watching Republicans grill FBI director Christopher Wray in the House Wednesday.

While Democrats questioned Wray for ignoring warnings about Jan. 6, Republicans sought answers to a slew of conspiracy theories and culture war grievances that go all the way back to mask requirements during the COVID crisis.

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'He hasn't backtracked at all!' Morning Joe blasts Tommy Tuberville for defense of white nationalists

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) finally and grudgingly admitted that white nationalists might be racist, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough wasn't impressed by his concession.

The Alabama Republican has repeatedly challenged the definition of white nationalism as a Democratic slur and questioned whether such views were inherently racist, but following intense criticism from colleagues on both sides of the aisle, he conceded that if someone believed whites were superior to other races and others determined that was a racist view, then he would agree.

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