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Watch former Aussie prime minister lay into 'addicted to power' Rupert Murdoch

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull laid into right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Friday.

Turnbull, of the conservative Liberal Party, railed against Murdoch for empowering former President Donald Trump and radicalizing his supporters into storming the U.S. Capitol — and opened up about how Murdoch, who also runs right-wing outlets in his country, worked to remove him from power.

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Former DOJ official points to key questions special counsel might have about Trump's bogus fundraising after 2020 defeat

Special Counsel Jack Smith is bringing in more of those linked to Donald Trump's campaign and White House to give details about the actions around Jan. 6 and the attempt to overturn the election.

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, pointed to then-Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe and what he was briefing Donald Trump about during the events leading up to Jan. 6.

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'Particularly repugnant': Former prosecutor accuses Jim Jordan of obstruction of justice

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner walked through the recent battle between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

In response to a congressional subpoena, Bragg launched a lawsuit against Jordan for interfering with law enforcement, but Kirschner describes a much more serious issue with Jordan's actions

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Legal expert: Jack Smith could charge Donald Trump with espionage after latest revelations

A little over a week ago, The New York Times reported that among the things former President Donald Trump was doing with the documents he took from the White House was showing them off to people visiting him at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump was already in hot water for having the documents and spending a year refusing to give them back. What this adds to the piece of the story, reporter Michael Schmidt explained, is another piece of Trump's "intent."

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'They're on thin ice': NY Times reporter reveals Fox News' perilous position

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters has been in the courtroom watching the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News, and he said it's becoming clear the network's lawyers "are on thin ice."

In a debate with the other panelists, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace questioned why Fox News hasn't settled with Dominion.

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'Authoritarianism is ascendant' — and Tennessee is just a wake-up call: MSNBC host

The expulsion of two Tennessee House of Representatives last over a gun violence protest on the House floor last week showcased what most assumed to be part of America’s troubled past.

But far from being an outlier, the case that shocked the conscience of those who care about democracy around the world is part of a growing trend, according to a report that aired Tuesday night on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes.

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Legal expert doubts Trump's story: Court cops don't cry because 'the vast majority' of people charged are 'guilty'

Former President Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that when he went to the Manhattan courthouse last week, there were a lot of sobbing cops.

"Tears were pouring down," Trump said about the officers working at the Manhattan courthouse.

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'Stephen Miller might not just be a witness but a target': Conservative says of Trump's 'Rasputin'

Donald Trump's former top aide Stephen Miller appeared before the federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

Discussing the matter, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace explained that she has stacks of tapes of Miller appearing on Fox News and talking about the plot to overturn the election. In one Dec. 14, 2020 appearance, Wallace said that Miller was stressing Jan. 20 being the only thing written in stone. He claimed that there was more than enough time to certify Trump as the winner.

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Legal expert doesn't understand why Trump's lawyers are 'spinning things that are clearly false'

Donald Trump's new lawyer appeared on the Sunday morning political talk shows this weekend appearing to explain how Trump ended up with 15 boxes of federal documents — including classified ones — in his desk drawer.

James Trusty offered: "Yeah, I mean can you imagine — does anybody in their right mind really think that Donald Trump came down to Mar-a-Lago while still president, I guess, in January, and said hey, these are the boxes I packed, let's be careful with those. That goes in the dining room that goes in the closet."

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Jimmy Kimmel explains how Trump still fails up against Obama

Another holiday has come and gone in which Donald Trump failed to issue a professional message that conveys the right emotion for the moment, according to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

Taking to Twitter on Easter, former President Barack Obama posted a message saying, "I want to wish all who celebrate a happy and blessed Easter. With everything going on in the world right now, it's a chance to hug our loved ones tight and give thanks for new beginnings and the blessings we all enjoy."

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The modern NRA is designed to 'fortify for a race war' — and it's tearing the country apart: analyst

CNN reporter Bill Weir argued that the National Rifle Association's modern political agenda is inextricably tied to the concept of a race war.

This comes amid outrage over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's move to pardon Daniel Perry, a man convicted last week of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 — which, Weir argued, ties into this ideology as well.

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Louisville tragedy becomes 146th mass shooting in just 100 days this year – Dem governor says two of the victims were his friends

At least four people are dead and another eight people have been injured after a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, according to police. Monday morning's mass shooting is the 146th this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Monday is the 100th day of 2023.

"Of the at least eight people transported to a hospital, two are in critical condition," Louisville Metro Police Deputy Chief Col. Paul Humphrey said, CNN reports. "One of those two is a police officer who is currently in surgery, he said."

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John Oliver challenges 'definitely lying' Tennessee Republican who claimed he doesn't see race

Comedian John Oliver addressed the shocking actions in Tennessee last week, in which three lawmakers experienced expulsion votes because they spoke up to the gallery full of gun safety protesters that were demanding action after the mass shooting in the state.

He opened with a video of state Rep. William Lamberth, a Republican, who told a group of students to their faces that he didn't care about their desperate need not to be shot in school and instead asked them what gun they would be open to being shot with. Gun safety advocates have argued that the AR-15, the gun of choice of many mass shooters, generally doesn't leave many survivors because its bullets explode once they hit.

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