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Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas told the House Oversight and Reform Committee impeachment hearing into President Joe Biden Wednesday that Donald Trump directly 'encouraged" Giuliani to find dirt.

Parnas began by recalling a 2023 letter he sent to committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) that said he observed Giuliani's interference extensively in Ukraine politics.

Whoopi Goldberg began a Wednesday segment of "The View" pretending to shed tears for Donald Trump after his lawyers told a New York court he didn't actually have the money to pay his bills.

"I'm so sorry," she said, pretending to be emotional. "So, as it turns out, you-know-who says he cannot come up with the cash to cover his $400 million-plus bond in his New York fraud case."

As the latest House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing unfolded on Wednesday, MSNBC host Ana Cabrera quipped that it seemed like lawmakers were trying to create drama to score media attention.

Capitol Hill reporter Ryan Nobles pointed to Florida Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who showed up in a Vladimir Putin mask. It's a reference to one of the Republican witnesses, Alexander Smirnov, who is accused of getting "dirt" on Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, after a meeting with Russian intelligence.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee began another Joe Biden impeachment hearing Wednesday, and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) opened with a takedown of the Republican Party's inquiry so far.

It has become clear to many Republicans that they don't have the votes for impeaching Biden as the attempt at collecting incriminating evidence has largely fallen flat.

Donald Trump is reportedly considering convicted felon Paul Manafort for a role in his 2024 campaign, despite his fraud convictions and questionable foreign entanglements.

The former president has discussed a fundraising role for Manafort, whom he pardoned in his final weeks in office along with Roger Stone and Jared Kushner's father, and former White House director of communications Jen Palmieri told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the timing of his return was highly suspicious.

President Joe Biden has faced small but persistent opposition in Democratic primaries so far, with about one in 10 Democratic voters choosing "uncommitted" in states where that's an option, but MSNBC's Claire McCaskill tried to soothe concerns about his strength heading into the general election.

The average Biden protest vote, whether voters are choosing "uncommitted" or picking long-shot candidates, has been about 13 percent so far, but the former Missouri senator told "Morning Joe" that incumbent presidents often face opposition from fatigued voters in primaries who turn out for them in November.

Donald Trump is moving closer to having his properties seized if he's unable to pay a $464 million fraud judgment or secure the same amount for a bond required to appeal, according to a legal expert.

The former president says he approached 30 insurers but found none of them willing to post the bond, and some of his friendly right-wing media commentators have noticed that no wealthy Republicans have stepped forward to offer their assistance either, and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told "Morning Joe" that seems to be a sign that Trump's business empire was more "fragile" than it appears.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday asked both parties in Donald Trump's classified documents case to weigh in on jury instructions — a move that was roundly criticized as "legally insane" and "utterly nuts."

Cannon asked lawyers to file jury instructions on two topics — having jurors review a record kept by Trump and decide if "it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act," and if jurors believe the former president can rightfully consider the documents his personal property.

Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake confessed to "mistakes" when a reporter asked if she should have attacked so many Arizona conservatives after her loss.

But she tried to pass her fights off as being part of the "rough and tumble game" of politics — and added she hadn't intended to cause harm.

A Nebraska Republican legislator horrified colleagues by substituting in some of their names into a graphic account of a rape from a novel.

State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings) read an excerpt from the novel "Lucky," by Alice Seabold, during a debate over an obscenity bill but apparently tried to make a point by substituting in the name of state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) to graphic scenes of sexual violence, reported the Nebraska Examiner.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault, was willing to come forward publicly and tell her story in 2018 during an explosive Senate confirmation hearing.

She was then plagued with threats of violence against herself and her family and was forced to live in an undisclosed location for months as a result.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was gobsmacked by federal judge Aileen Cannon's latest order in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The U.S. District Court judge ordered Donald Trump's attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith's team to submit jury instructions ahead of a trial, but the "Morning Joe" host agreed with legal experts who say the two-page order compels them to engage in an irrelevant application of the Presidential Records Act instead of the Espionage Act, which is the law he's charged with breaking.

Donald Trump's rhetoric is growing increasingly violent, says one former lawmaker, and it might be due to the psychological impact the four trials are having on him.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, explained that it has been evident that Trump "is a deeply insecure man," and it doesn't take a "psychologist or psychiatrist" to see it. Having to admit, as he did Monday, that he doesn't have cash on hand to pay the $464 million bond owed after his New York fraud trial might make him feel another public humiliation, she said.