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Biden 'frustrated' by aides who packed the classified documents and brought the ongoing fallout: NBC

NBC News' Monica Alba reported Sunday evening that President Joe Biden is "irritated" and "frustrated" over those who packed up the office and included classified documents among the items packed.

The National Archives didn't have any knowledge about the documents that were in his possession for the past six years. In the case of Donald Trump, there were over 13,000 documents taken that included many, many boxes of information that he then refused to turn over.

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Secret company zoom calls show just how ignorant George Santos was about the Ponzi scheme he was selling

Newly elected Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has a history of scandalous information that continues to drip out like a relentless stalactite, adding more and more substance to the piercing point hanging over his political career.

In the latest reports about Santos' short-lived career with Harbor City Capitol, the Washington Post revealed that they obtained the Zoom meetings that Santos had with the company's founder and others that are now part of the ongoing investigation into what's being characterized as a Ponzi scheme.

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Pipe-wielding Tesla driver captured on video carrying out multiple road rage attacks in California

A road rage incident involving a pipe-wielding man in California was captured on video, and it wasn't the first time the man has attacked other cars, KTLA reports.

The video shows a man exiting his Tesla to strike the truck behind him with a metal pipe. After hitting the truck several times, he gets back in his Tesla and drives away.

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'I don’t see the appointment as necessary’: Legal expert casts doubt on Biden special counsel

MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg praised the federal prosecutor tapped to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified materials, but he cast doubt on the need for a special counsel to lead the probe.

Attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur, who served as assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland during Donald Trump's administration, to investigate classified materials found at Biden's private residence, and Rosenberg questioned the Department of Justice's decision.

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John Kelly manipulated Trump to become friends with Kim Jong Un to prevent all-out war: book

New York Times correspondent Michael Schmidt is publishing a paper back copy of his book, Donald Trump v. The United States, that will feature a 12,000-word addition that includes new information he discovered after publication about the relationship the former president had with Gen. John Kelly.

Kelly, who served as Trump's second chief of staff, became increasingly concerned about the rhetoric that Trump was using publicly and in private to taunt North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Coming into the position, Kelly was shocked to learn that Trump was completely unmoved by the chance of thousands of people dying if Kim decided to bomb something.

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Nicolle Wallace urges the DOJ not to throw whatever meat they can at the swamp: 'The alligator always eats them'

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace revealed that sources she's spoken to over the course of the past few days have indicated that the Justice Department is terrified because it is concerned Americans can't understand the difference between Donald Trump's deliberate stealing of thousands of government documents and Joe Biden accidentally sweeping up a few documents.

"Therein lies the problem," Wallace said. "The DOJ is not supposed to be driven by sound bites and politics, and it would appear very much from the outside and from the informed folks close to that I've spoken to over the last 24 hours, it is also the impression on the inside that they are running scared about what this subcommittee holds for them. And they are just trying to throw everything -- you know, the alligator is in the swamp and the boat is gone and so they're trying to feed things to the alligator to keep it from eating them. The alligator always eats them! The alligator will chew up the chair and come for them anyway. What is your make on what is driving this?"

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Here's how a ruling in the Proud Boys trial could pull Trump into a seditious conspiracy case

A judge allowed prosecutors to use Donald Trump's infamous comments about the Proud Boys to be used at their seditious conspiracy trial, and a legal expert explained how that might come back to haunt the former president.

The ex-president was asked during a 2020 debate to condemn the right-wing militant group, but instead, he urged them to "stand back and stand by," which District Court Judge Timothy Kelly found could be "an additional motive" for the Proud Boys to engage in a conspiracy to keep him in power -- and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade said that could be used as evidence against Trump himself.

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'Trump far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy' than staffers knew before they worked for him: report

John Kelly didn't have high expectations about Donald Trump when he joined the White House as chief of staff, but he was still shocked by what he found after joining the administration.

The retired U.S. Marine Corps general joined the White House halfway through Trump's first year, and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what Kelly learned about the former president and his abilities.

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Trump ruled out Nikki Haley for top positions for shockingly 'shallow' reason: report

Donald Trump considered Nikki Haley for a number of high-ranking positions in his administration but ultimately rejected her for a "shocking" and shallow reason.

New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt appeared Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the upcoming paperback edition of his book, Donald Trump V. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, which includes new revelations from John Kelly, and hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussed their own conversations with the former president.

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GOP seeks to condemn attacks against pro-lifers — but their resolution has a big problem

Republicans are trying to claim that the anti-abortion pregnancy centers and religious institutions are being attacked and deserve additional protection.

But Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) pointed out Wednesday that their resolution cites violence that was committed by an anti-abortion protester.

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Watch: Trump unleashes wild new rant about the 'Twitter files' — alleges an FBI conspiracy to overthrow him

Former President Donald Trump posted a new video to his personal social media site on Tuesday to proclaim he's been framed by the FBI and Twitter CEO Elon Musk somehow has the proof.

Flanked by flags and covered in darker bronzer than usual, Trump said that the FBI has been orchestrating a "censorship campaign against the American people, and frankly, against me."

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'Done': DC insider thinks Trump's time is up and Ron DeSantis can't fill the void

Speaking to Republican Bill Kristol, Democratic strategist James Carville made it clear that Donald Trump's time has come and gone. But when it comes to the alternative, he thinks that the pundit class is overestimating Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

The two men joined for an hour-long video podcast where they discussed the 2022 midterm numbers and predicted what they think will unfold in 2024.

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Morning Joe mocks Republicans for falling into line every time Trump ‘clicks his ruby slippers’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed House Republicans for risking their newly won majority to run interference for Donald Trump.

The GOP majority is planning to launch investigations into Department of Justice probes involving their own members caught up in the Jan. 6 insurrection, along with various inquiries into the former president -- and the "Morning Joe" host said they've signaled their corrupt intentions by equating a classified documents case involving President Joe Biden with Trump's stash of top-secret materials at Mar-a-Lago.

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