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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) revealed some "troubling" reasons why House Republicans are unwilling to allow an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) backed out of an agreement that Thompson had negotiated with Rep. John Katko (R-NY), and the Mississippi Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he thinks his GOP colleagues are worried about what an investigation might turn up about about their own roles in the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol intended to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has grown impatient, to put it mildly, with leaks from investigators promising comeuppance for one character or another -- but he said the New York attorney general's revelations about the Trump Organization are something different.

New York attorney general Letitia James' office announced the investigation of Donald Trump's family business now had a criminal component, in addition to an ongoing civil investigation, and the "Morning Joe" host explained why this felt different.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski shamed House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers for blocking an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection that endangered their own lives.

Democrats are pushing for a bipartisan commission to examine the events that got former president Donald Trump impeached for a second time, after he incited supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his election loss, but Republicans want to muddy the waters with unrelated topics -- if they want to probe the violent assault at all.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) this week came out against the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th MAGA riots -- and there's speculation that he's particularly opposed to it because he doesn't want to be called as a witness.

CNN legal analyst Jennifer Rodgers on Wednesday gave tips to investigators for getting a reluctant witness such as McCarthy to admit under oath what former President Donald Trump told him during the riots.

Speaking to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday, former senior prosecutor for Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, explained that the Martin Act is typically used in the New York AG's office to investigate commodities fraud, but also extends to real estate fraud.

"It also has a provision that covers fraud or deceit in the sales of real estate in New York state," Weissmann explained. "Where we don't know what's being looked at. If you narrow it down to what is the attorney general has criminal jurisdiction over is the Martin Act. If you look at the provision of the Martin Act, it is security and commodities and real estate. So, if you connect the dots, that's what the New York attorney general has now in her sight in connection with the Trump investigation."

Legal experts and politicos flocked to Twitter upon the news that the New York attorney general is joining the criminal complaint against former President Donald Trump's New York company.

In a statement from Attorney General Letitia James' spokesperson, it was revealed that the Trump Organization was informed that they're now part of a New York criminal probe along with the financial probe from the district attorney.

CNN's Chris Cuomo reported Tuesday evening that New York Attorney General Letitia James will join the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the Trump Organization.

The news came from the AG's office noting that D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr.'s investigation into the Trump business

On CNN Tuesday, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig tore into Rudy Giuliani's defense for why he told the "Save America" rally attendees on Jan. 6 to have "trial by combat" — mere minutes before the storming of the U.S. Capitol began.

"Giuliani was central to former President Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. And now he says in a court filing that those words were 'hyperbolic,'" said anchor Erin Burnett. "Does that stand up in court?"

On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "The ReidOut," Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who has called out election conspiracy theories surrounding the Arizona results, acknowledged that when it comes to election issues, his party has a near-monopoly on "insanity."

"Are you worried this becomes the standard way that your party behaves when they lose elections?" asked anchor Joy Reid.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is never going to be the Speaker, former Republican Rep. David Jolly (FL) explained on MSNBC Tuesday.

According to Jolly, the reason that McCarthy and other Republicans want to block any Jan. 6 Commission is that it might expose their involvement or coordination.

Andrew Weissmann, the former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, wants to know the facts that the Justice Department gave to the grand jury to convince them to issue a subpoena to a Twitter account that regularly mocks Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA).

Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Weissmann explained that included in the Twitter documents/papers, the account was unmasked because of "threatening communications."

Some users on the TikTok social media app seem to think they'll be left with the world to themselves after vaccinated people die off.

The videos, hashtagged with "#unvaccinated" and other high-interest terms designed to appear on users' "For You" recommendations, have been viewed thousands and thousands of times, and are just a fraction of the misinformation spread on the platform, reported Vice.

Georgia's lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan says he received disturbing threats from fellow Republicans for refusing to endorse Donald Trump's election lies.

The twice-impeached one-term president pressured Georgia's GOP governor, Brian Kemp, and secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to overturn his loss in that typically Republican state, and Duncan told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he paid a personal price for refusing to go along with the scheme.