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Former GOP Rep: Lauren Boebert's bigotry 'doesn't seem to matter to Kevin McCarthy and leading Republicans'

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin Monday about Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) story that she told to her voters last week in which she said she feared riding on an elevator with her because she could be a suicide bomber.

Omar responded to Boebert with a tweet of her own saying that the story was a lie. She then tweeted that every time she encounters Boebert in the Capitol that the Colorado representative refuses to even look her in the eye.

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'This is not going well for Bannon': MSNBC legal analyst says Trump ally on track for stinging defeat

Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained that Trump ally Steve Bannon is going to be highly unsuccessful in his efforts to beat criminal contempt charges.

In a Sunday filing by the Justice Department, prosecutors said Bannon's attorney, Evan Corcoran, refused their attempts to negotiate on some kind of agreement. According to the 10-page filing, the prosecutors alleged Bannon's lawyers were using their filing as a press release instead of a legal filing.

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Morning Joe: ‘Desperate’ Kevin McCarthy ‘begging on hands and knees’ for support from GOP’s worst bigots

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for letting "Republican extremists" to take over the party in his "desperate" bid to hold onto his authority.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) issued an apology for publicly suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has ties to terrorism, and McCarthy asked House majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) to help broker a meeting between the pair, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) inserted herself into the drama by doubling down on attacking her Democratic colleagues as the "Jihad squad."

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Republican caught denouncing vaccines to Fox News then supporting them to CNN just hours later

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was caught trying to pretend she's both for and against vaccines. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Mace told Jason Chaffetz she believed in "natural immunity." But just hours later, she had another story for CNN.

"One of the things that the CDC has not done and no policy at the federal level has done is taken into account what natural immunity does, and that may be what we're seeing in Florida today," Mace complained. "In some studies that I've read, natural immunity gives you 27 times more protection against future COVID than a vaccination."

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'Hasn't the Trump family had enough riots?' Acosta lambasts Donald Jr. for his hope of an uprising

Donald Trump Jr. demanded a "riot" because of COVID-19 in the United States, referencing the protests in other countries where, like in the United States, people are buying into conspiracy theories.

According to Trump, "they" don't want people to hear about the protests because it might give people ideas. It assumes Americans haven't already been protesting for the past year over everything from CRT to masks and Trump's 2020 election loss.

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Matthew McConaughey says he won't run for Texas governor following Beto O'Rourke announcement

Notorious Texan Matthew McConaughey will not be running for governor, he said in a video released to his Twitter account Sunday.

The message comes after Democrat Beto O'Rourke announced, that he would seek the seat. McConaughey holds his political party close to his chest, and never revealed which party he would run in were he to run. However, he made it clear that he didn't support mandating vaccines for children.

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'Dollar Tree is a favorite': Millionaire Lara Trump complains about dollar store price increase to $1.25

Fox News' Lara Trump lamented that the Dollar Tree has raised its prices on items from $1 to $1.25 given the inflation and supply chain issues. She then implied that she shopped there, which is an unusual claim given her husband's net worth of $300 million.

The host noted that any parent knows that the best place to go for decorations for a kid's birthday is the Dollar Tree. Lara and her husband Eric Trump have two children, both of whom are under five years old.

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Acosta and medical doc say 'former doctor' Ronny Jackson has 'become an embarrassment'

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) was denounced after tweeting that the new COVID variant was nothing more than an election ploy. Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, said that he doesn't even consider Jackson to be a doctor anymore. He's a "former doctor."

Dr. Reiner, who serves as a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, explained that misinformation coming from Jackson is the key reason 50 million Americans continue to refuse to get vaccinated.

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Custody battle turns deadly when Texas man brings rifle into heated dispute caught on video

Two videos have been released showing the fatal shooting of a Texas man during a heated argument over child custody.

Chad Read was shot and killed during the Nov. 5 argument with his ex-wife's new partner, and his widow released one video she recorded of the confrontation and an attorney for his ex-wife released another video recorded inside the shooter's home, reported the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and KMAC-TV.

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Mike Lindell’s ‘Thanks-A-Thon’ expert admits voting machines aren’t actually connected to the internet

According to Mike Lindell, Thanksgiving was supposed to be the day that former President Donald Trump was brought back into the White House. The Supreme Court was supposed to usher Trump in based on the lawsuit that Lindell filed. It was going to be the most explosive revelation ever. It hasn't worked out that way.

Lindell revealed his lawsuit this week ahead of the holiday but didn't even name a plaintiff to sue the states he took issue with. He claimed that no attorneys general in the United States wanted to work with him. The Supreme Court snubbed him, he claimed, but the reality is he didn't even file the lawsuit.

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Ex-House counsel obliterates Trump's complaint that denying him privilege would 'damage' the presidency

On CNN Thursday, former House impeachment counsel Norm Eisen tore into former President Donald Trump and his legal team for his executive privilege claims to block information from the House committee investigating the Capitol riot would pose a threat to the executive branch as a whole.

"Let's talk about President Trump's legal team," said anchor Jessica Dean. "They're making the case the January 6th Committee could permanently damage the presidency. Do you see any legal merit to that claim?"

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'There's not going to be some smoking gun': Legal analyst explains latest development in Trump fraud case

Prosecutors in Manhattan have notified Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari that they don't intend to charge him with any crimes for now, and CNN's Elie Hoenig explained what that might mean for former president Donald Trump.

The district attorney's office had been investigating Calamari, the chief operating officer of the Trump Organization, for off-the-books compensation he received, such as an apartment and car, but Hoenig said there doesn't appear to be strong enough evidence to charge him or the twice-impeached one-term president in a tax avoidance scheme.

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Expert: 'It's going to be very hard to unravel' right-wing militant groups' links to Trump

The House select committee issued another round of subpoenas to right-wing militant groups and their leaders, and an NBC News reporter who covers extremism explained what that means for the Jan. 6 investigation.

The bipartisan panel demanded information from groups involved in violence before and during the U.S. Capitol riot, including the Oath Keepers and their leader Stewart Rhodes and the Proud Boys and their one-time leader Enrique Tarrio, and journalist Ben Collins analyzed the subpoenas on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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