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Legal experts shocked by Alex Murdaugh's lack of reaction to guilty verdicts

After less than three hours, the jury in the murder trial for Alex Murdaugh found him guilty of both murder charges as well weapons charges. When reading the verdict, the defendant's face was emotionless, something that legal experts found shocking.

"I was struck by the lack of emotion from Alex Murdaugh. He just sort of nodded his head, stared straight face," said CNN's Dianne Gallagher. "I wrote it down. He was shaking straight face as he listened to that, he didn't look back at his family or Buster his son. That's something we saw him do this entire trial. He had moments where he's incredibly emotional, shaking, crying, making sounds throughout this entire trial, and there was nothing there from them as he was found guilty of killing Maggie and Paul."

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Former FBI counsel warns of hefty punitive damages for Fox and predicts their defense will fail

Court documents were revealed this week in Dominion Voting System's defamation case against Fox News that detailed some of the depositions and documents of high-level Fox executives that exposed the uphill climb the network has when defending itself.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann explained that based on what has been released, things don't seem to be going well for Fox.

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Lincoln Project brutally mocks Ron DeSantis for wimping out of fighting Trump at CPAC

The ex-Republican group Lincoln Project is up with a new video ridiculing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for pulling out of CPAC. The organization is facing a lot of backlash from Republicans after the chair of the group was accused of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's Senate campaign.

During the 2022 campaign, the Lincoln Project said that DeSantis ran an "SNL-worthy" commercial promoting his military service, saying he would never "back down from a fight." But that's exactly what's happening at CPAC this week.

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'This man loves retaliation': Ex-Trump staffer 'genuinely afraid' of possible second term

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin worked for Donald Trump, and she's "genuinely afraid" of him serving a second term as president.

Griffin served as White House director of strategic communications under the former president, and she told her co-hosts that Trump would likely spend his next term exacting revenge from all his enemies if he made it back into power.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'firehose of lies' shredded by Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) "firehose of falsehoods" as an intentional effort to destroy the truth as autocratic leaders have throughout history.

The Georgia Republican blamed President Joe Biden for the fatal overdoses of two Michigan men whose mother testified during a House hearing on fentanyl trafficking, but they both died in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump, and Greene's spokesman ripped off a profane tirade against a CNN fact checker who asked him about the discrepancy.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's obsession with culture wars reflects her 'insecurity' as a parent: former GOP congressman

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on MSNBC Wednesday, suggesting that her obsession with culture war issues around children is a sign of her own insecurity as a parent.

This comes as Greene, a far-right congresswoman known for embracing the QAnon conspiracy theory, continues to push her idea of a second secession crisis, or "national divorce," where Republican-controlled states could break off and create their own nation that, in her own words, would be a "safe space" from the Left.

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Trump has fought off criminal investigations by planting 'red lines' — but it may fail this time: Swalwell

Former President Donald Trump may have a propensity for skirting criminal investigations, but the former president’s luck may be running out.

That’s according to Democratic lawmaker and vocal Trump critic Eric Swalwell, who said Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland are poised to go where Robert Mueller, among others investigating the former president, weren’t.

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Former FBI official blames Trump 'bashing institutions' for why agents were scared to 'do the right thing' at Mar-a-Lago

The Washington Post reported Wednesday morning that there was a fight at the FBI among agents about whether they should enforce the search warrant issued for Mar-a-Lago for the stolen documents from the White House. There were FBI agents that felt they should do more to try and get the documents, which was a negotiation that had been underway for a year at that point.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace about the reporting was former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi, who was previously the deputy director of the FBI for counterintelligence, explained that there are debates between agents and prosecutors all the time.

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Republicans are 'emboldened' because there has been no accountability for J6: ex-White House lawyer

Lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6 attacks and the planning of the attack on the Capitol have never been held accountable for their involvement. It's something that former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal says has "emboldened" them.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace played a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) ranting to Gabriel Sterling, the COO of the Georgia Secretary of State, that the 2020 election was fake, Donald Trump won and that thousands of dead people voted. The facts have been proven over and over again. The special grand jury in Georgia went so far as to say that the fraud Greene claimed wasn't true. The new grand jury that will begin this month will have an opportunity to confirm the findings.

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National security expert mocks Blackburn for accidentally making the case all Jan. 6 participants should be arrested

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) attacked Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during the Senate Oversight Committee hearing regarding attacks on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers," which use false information to talk women out of having abortions.

Blackburn brought up a Nashville anti-abortion group that she said was "firebombed" and that the attackers' group name was spray painted on the wall. She asked why people hadn't been arrested. Local law enforcement must have evidence before they can make arrests and conduct prosecutions.

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Watch: Cory Booker goes line by line to dispel Republican conspiracies in Garland hearing

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke out in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about some of the questions that Republicans have posed throughout the hearing that parrot false conspiracy theories.

It began with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) addressing Attorney General Merrick Garland by falsely saying that the White House helped teachers' unions write a letter complaining about parents calling teachers Nazis or pedophiles. Insulting teachers was never an issue in the Justice Department, Garland explained. He issued a directive encouraging FBI field offices to track threats against schools and administrations.

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Furious Ted Cruz shouts at Merrick Garland as he erupts over Kavanaugh protests

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began shouting at Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during a Senate Oversight hearing. Among the things Cruz was angry about was that the Department of Justice was not in the process of prosecuting protesters who went to Brett Kavanaugh's home and posted information about the Supreme Court justice's location.

"As you know, those threats finally materialized with Nicholas Russki, a 26-year-old man from California who traveled across the country, was arrested outside the home of Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh, armed with a handgun, a knife, and burglary tools," said Cruz. "He said that he came there to kill Justice Kavanaugh because he was enraged by the leaked opinion. Now of course you are prosecuting that individual for attempted murder. But did you bring even a single case to enforce this law, or did the Department of Justice decided this law doesn't apply it if it is harassing justices' opinions that we don't like?"

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Former FBI general counsel says more lawsuits are probably coming for Fox News over election lies

In a conversation with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday, former FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, suggested that "more" charges might be coming "on the criminal side" for Fox News.

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, he focused more on the idea of legal consequences that Fox News could face as a company.

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