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GOP officials 'breaking their party in two' by stoking anti-vaccine 'chaos': MSNBC's Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough took aim at Republicans who are indulging anti-vaxxers as COVID-19's delta variant rips through the South and Midwest.

Vaccine hesitancy is strongly correlated with support for Donald Trump, and the virus is especially prevalent in areas that backed him in the last election, but the "Morning Joe" host pointed out that many Republicans have been vaccinated against the deadly virus, even as GOP elected officials and conservative media question its safety and effectiveness.

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DC insider hopes Afghanistan teaches US not to 'go off on some Wall Street Journal sponsored adventure' again

Democratic strategist James Carville explained that President Joe Biden isn't the one who clogged the toilet that is Afghanistan. He's merely the one flushing it.

In an earlier panel discussion former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) explained that this was always going to happen because there is no good or easy way to pull out of a country. Speaking to MSNBC's Brian Williams, James Carville echoed the sentiment saying that there's no "elegant way to lose a war."

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Why Trump’s threats to block Jan. 6 committee won't work: former FBI deputy

Former President Donald Trump was made aware of the subpoenas for documents requested of his former administration and he's threatening to invoke his power as the president. There's just one problem: he's not the president anymore.

After the statement from Trump was reported, legal experts explained that his attempts are likely to be difficult.

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The Capitol riot investigation is 'taking off' — and investigators seem to know exactly what they're after: Former FBI official

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said that looking at the requests from the Jan. 6 committee it appears they know what they're looking for.

Speaking to MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday, Figliuzzi explained that it isn't going to be a smoking gun for some email that Donald Trump fired off, because it isn't what he does.

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Ron DeSantis's COVID bungling has ‘changed the game in Florida’ and could hand Dems a win: expert

Gov. Ron DeSantis' leadership on COVID-19 has been so poor that political experts now believe the state is competitive for Democrats.

Speaking to MSNBC's Dr. Jason Johnson, standing in for Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi explained that there is nothing good happening in DeSantis' latest polling numbers.

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Proud Boy militant calls Newsmax to whine about jail: 'Let me go home'

A Proud Boys member accused of pepper-spraying U.S. Capitol police officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection appeared on right-wing media while jailed to announce he had no regrets.

Christopher Worrell remains in pretrial detention despite claims that he had not received proper treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and he told Newsmax host Greg Kelly in a phone call from jail that he was completely innocent.

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Liz Cheney shoots down Fox News claim that Trump would have handled Afghanistan withdrawal better

In a Fox News interview Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) blamed former President Donald Trump for causing many of the problems that are being seen in Afghanistan.

"He set this in motion," said Cheney, whose father was in the White House when the war first began. "The idea that you can sit at a table and negotiate with the Taliban, count on them to defend our security, is wrong."

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Ohio Republican schooled in hearing after falsely claiming COVID vaccine kills kids

An Ohio Republican falsely claimed that children are dying from the coronavirus vaccine, but he was quickly corrected by an expert witness during a hearing

State Rep. Tom Young (R-Washington Township) asked the director of public policy and advocacy for the Ohio Children's Hospital association whether she was concerned about possible vaccine risks to children as young as 12 years old., who are eligible to receive the shots made by three manufacturers

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Legal experts explain how probe into Jan. 6 phone records will work and what it could reveal

CNN reported Monday afternoon that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will be sending subpoenas to social media sites and cell phone companies to investigate who was engaging with the protesters on that day.

In a Monday CNN panel with legal experts Elie Honig and former Homeland Security Official Juliette Kayyem explained how exactly that would work. They also detailed what it could tell them about members if they were involved, and about contact they may have had with former President Donald Trump.

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Maddow mocks Mo Brooks getting booed by hometown crowd: 'Surprise – I thought Frankenstein would love his creation'

At the top of Rachel Maddow's show Monday, the host cited the recent report that the House committee investigating Jan. 6 would potentially be subpoenaing the phone records and social media records from certain members of Congress.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was among those who spoke at the rally ahead of the attack and encouraged the audience to "start taking down names and kicking ass." But when he spoke to an Alabama audience this weekend and encouraged them to give up on the 2020 election and start focusing on 2022 and 2024, it didn't go over well.

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Here's the bizarre reason why white supremacists don't think they need to get vaccinated: extremism expert

Right-wing extremism expert Jeff Sharlet appeared on MSNBC Monday to explain that the American anti-vaccine ideology has its roots in white supremacy.

While talking with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Sharlet said that one of the key tenets of the historical anti-vax movement in the United States was that white people have better natural immunity to diseases thanks to their superior genetics, and thus don't need vaccines to stay healthy.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Kamala Harris must be impeached for not personally helping evacuate Americans from Kabul

After appearing at a House Republican press conference on infrastructure on Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke to a reporter about the situation in Afghanistan -- and used it to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to Greene, Harris should be impeached for not going to Kabul during the evacuations.

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MSNBC's Morning Joe and Mika rip Trump for trying to stuff his anti-vaxx ‘monster’ back into the cage

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped former president Donald Trump for stoking vaccine skepticism for months -- and then trying to stuff his "monster" back into the cage with a tepid recommendation.

Vaccine hesitancy remains strongest among the twice-impeached one-term president's supporters, and some of them even booed Trump when he urged vaccination during his Alabama rally, but the "Morning Joe" co-hosts weren't willing to give him much credit.

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