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A congressional hearing ended in "mayhem" as Republicans began the process of holding Hunter Biden in contempt for not complying with a subpoena to sit for a closed-door deposition.

President Joe Biden's son had agreed to testify in a public hearing last month, which Republicans rejected, and Hunter Biden briefly appeared Wednesday morning at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee before abruptly departing as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed her allotted time.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) accused the Democrats of pulling a fast one on the House Oversight and Reform Committee Republicans Wednesday when Hunter Biden appeared unexpectedly at a meeting discussing charging him with contempt of Congress.

"A remarkable day on Capitol Hill," he told MSNBC after the incident unfolded.

Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing began on Wednesday, finally bringing Hunter Biden to appear before the members. The expectation is that Comer plans to file a contempt resolution against him.

As the committee hearing began, the chair swore in the witness but neglected to have the Pledge of Allegiance, which is typical at the start of the day.

George Conway confidently predicted Donald Trump would quickly lose his immunity battle and stand trial as scheduled in his Washington, D.C., election subversion case.

The former president's attorney argued Tuesday that he should be broadly immune from criminal prosecution because he had not been convicted in his impeachment trial by the Senate following the Jan. 6 insurrection, but Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the three-judge appeals court panel might already have decided to deny that claim.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough burst into laughter at Donald Trump's claim that he would deliver his own closing argument in his New York fraud trial.

The former president vowed to speak up for himself in the $370 million civil fraud trial later this week, days after his attorneys argued before a Washington, D.C., appeals court that he should be broadly immune from criminal prosecution, and the "Morning Joe" host could barely deliver that news without laughing.

Donald Trump's lawyers "painted themselves into a corner" by staking an absolute position on presidential immunity, according to a legal expert.

The former president's attorney, John Sauer, argued Tuesday before a seemingly skeptical three-judge appeals court panel that the Constitution does not allow for criminal prosecutions of chief executives unless they have been both impeached and convicted by Congress, but legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why that was a mistake.

Donald Trump's presidential immunity hearing was a downright "face-plant" for his lawyers, one ex-Republican lawmaker said Tuesday.

"This is a very humiliating day," former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. "Not just for Donald Trump, but for Trump's team."

A former Watergate prosecutor watched as President Richard Nixon suggested four of the Supreme Court justices he nominated would remember what he did for them — and repay.

It failed for him — and it will fail for Donald Trump too, he said.

Donald Trump's attorneys argued his immunity claim before an appeals court panel — and a CNN legal analyst predicted certain defeat.

The former president's attorney Dean John Sauer claimed in court Tuesday that former chief executives could be criminally prosecuted only if they had been impeached and convicted by Congress, but CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said the three-judge panel appeared deeply skeptical of that argument.

Donald Trump filed three new motions seeking to wriggle out of criminal prosecution in Georgia, but a legal expert called his arguments "laughable" and predicted they would "quickly" fail.

The former president's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the charges because, they argued, he was acting within the scope of his official duties when he pressured state officials to overturn his 2020 election loss, and they also argued that Trump didn't know he was breaking the law, and the third motion cites double jeopardy based on his second impeachment.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on Donald Trump for wishing out loud that the U.S. economy would crash in the next 12 months to help his re-election campaign.

The former president credited his own administration for the job market's strength but also claimed the economy was "fragile," saying that a "crash" was inevitable but hoping that it happened before he might potentially be re-elected so he would escape blame, and the "Morning Joe" host added that to the pile of evidence that should disqualify Trump from holding elected office.

Donald Trump will appear in court on Tuesday and watch as his lawyers make the case that he has a kind of special presidential immunity that protects him against prosecutions for purportedly official acts he took as president.

Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor to Robert Mueller, explained that the Justice Department would be arguing that there is no doctrine of presidential immunity for presidents when it comes to a criminal case, regardless of what is happening in a civil capacity.

Will the real Republican Party in Michigan please stand up!

"You tell me," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow teased on Monday night. "Is there a Republican Party in swing state Michigan? Is there one? Are there two? How do you tell the difference?"