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Former FBI official warns of right-wing violence akin to 'violent Islamic jihad'

In a discussion about political violence, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace brought up the Republicans who either spread lies or mocked Paul Pelosi when he was hit in the head with a hammer by a right-wing activist who allegedly sought to kill his wife.

For months, the right generated conspiracy theories about Mr. Pelosi being in some kind of gay relationship with the attacker and other bizarre comments that were ultimately discounted by the San Francisco Police after Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted them. When the body camera videos were revealed, Republicans that previously mocked the incident were silent.

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Trump isn’t in a position where he can lie about his hush money: Michael Cohen

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen went to prison for making the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, but National Enquirer chief David Pecker never had any consequences for his hush-money payments to other affairs Trump was trying to cover up.

The New York Times revealed today that the New York grand jury is beginning to navigate Trump's personal expenditures and his role in sketchy business practices that resulted in more than a dozen guilty verdicts against his companies. Cohen explained that he's been working with the Manhattan DA recently on the case, meeting with Alvin Bragg specifically. Until the guilty convictions, Bragg was ignoring many of the things that Cohen had been telling his office about Trump's potentially illegal behavior.

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Florida pastor clashes with DeSantis over Black history courses and vows to host them in his church

A Florida pastor vows to teach Black history at his church in defiance of the limits Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to place on classroom instruction.

The Republican governor sparked backlash by rejecting an Advanced Placement course on African American studies as part of his high-profile campaign against teaching so-called "critical race theory" and forbidding teachers from discussing LGBTQ issues, and Pastor Andy Allen told CNN he would offer those courses at Allendale Methodist Church.

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'Like a domestic violence situation': Former lawmaker concerned about Lindsey Graham's Trump relationship

In a discussion about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin suggested that he might be stuck in some kind of hostage situation for Donald Trump world.

"I don't know if it's just me, but does Graham look like he's being held hostage there?" the host asked after rolling footage of one of the recent Trump events. "Should we say, hey, Lindsey, blink twice if you need help? This is the same Lindsey Graham who repeatedly disavowed Trump both before he was elected, and after the Jan. 6th insurrection."

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Fringe-right doubles down on Pelosi lies even after videos prove their conspiracy theories wrong

For months after the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, the far right has promoted conspiracy theories that Paul Pelosi was engaged in a gay lover's quarrel and that he knew the attacker. It's a fact that even the attacker denies. Another came from an image that circulated on Facebook before the video dropped showing a man in a thong looking out of a hotel window. It claimed that this was a teaser of the video. It wasn't.

This week, the video was released by police, and instead of admitting that they were wrong, conspiracy theorists either doubled down or questioned a further conspiracy about why it took so long to release the video.

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Kevin McCarthy is going to have a hard time having any credibility in House investigations: former Republican

Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) thinks that newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is going to have a difficult time trying to hold the kind of hearings that Republicans want.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, Kinzinger asked about McCarthy defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee last year, and how that will work out for him in the GOP Congress.

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Revealed: 'Explosive' meeting that led DOJ official to quit Durham probe in protest

A New York Times reporter revealed new details about an explosive meeting between Department of Justice investigators tasked with probing the origins of the Donald Trump-Russia case.

DOJ official Nora Dannehy blew up at lead investigator John Durham in September 2020 when she discovered that he'd acquiesced to attorney general William Barr's demand to produce an interim report about their work before it was completed -- and less than two months before the presidential election, and reporter Charlie Savage told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about the confrontation.

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Republican Party chair's failures on full display as she runs for reelection: MSNBC panel

Republican Party chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is running for another term as the head of the party after being effectively installed by Donald Trump in 2017. This time around, however, there are questions about whether her leadership has been that helpful in getting more Republicans elected.

Pillow hawker Mike Lindell is running as well, despite his failure to deliver on conspiracy theories he's promised to reveal for the past two years. He's alleged that the current RNC is corrupt and is guilty of a money laundering scheme, but hasn't provided any evidence of that either.

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'Sociopath party': Morning Joe panel horrified by chance of Trump-Greene 'crackpot' ticket

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly angling to become Donald Trump's running mate -- or possibly even president herself -- and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" are worried.

The second-term Georgia Republican has tried to rebrand herself as a liaison between the Republican Party's establishment and its right-wing fringes, but the show's co-host Mika Brzezinski said Greene couldn't escape her controversial reputation so quickly.

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George Conway sounds alarm on Trump's return to Facebook: 'He's lost touch with reality and getting worse'

Facebook has agreed to reinstate Donald Trump to its platform, and George Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what risks that possibly poses to American politics.

Social media giant Meta, the parent company for both Facebook and Instagram, reinstated the former president's accounts just over two years after he was suspended for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, which the House select committee found had been largely organized on the platform.

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There is no internal GOP fight β€” 'Marjorie Taylor Greene is the establishment now’: Ex-GOP operative

WASHINGTON β€” The political rumor mill has suggested that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is dreaming of becoming Donald Trump's vice president as he runs in 2024.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) didn't seem like he wanted to talk about it.

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'If you see Mike Pence β€” hang him!' Morning Joe mocks Trump's defense of ex-veep

Donald Trump issued a defense of Mike Pence after classified documents were found at his Indiana home, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed it off.

An attorney for the former vice president searched Pence's private residence after searches turned up several batches of classified materials at President Joe Biden's home and former office, and then alerted the Department of Justice and Congress, which will each conduct investigations, and Trump rushed to his defense.

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Pence documents scandal is going to cause a quandary for Merrick Garland: former FBI official

After it was announced that former Vice President Mike Pence had documents at his home in Indiana, questions began about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland would appoint a special counsel to navigate this case as well.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace began her Tuesday show by saying that someone should probably search the homes of Former Secretary Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley for classified documents.

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