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At the top of "The View," Monday, the co-hosts addressed the ongoing battle involving former President Donald Trump and his pants during a speech to the North Carolina Republican Party on Saturday. While Trump's zipper was clearly visible at points throughout the speech, it didn't stop Twitter from breaking into hysterics over the former leader's ill-fitting trousers.

Sunny Hostin noted that if Trump is a billionaire he should probably have a better tailor.

The mother of a Russian arms trafficker, who is serving a 25-year jail term in the US and inspired a Nicholas Cage film, has asked the US and Russian leaders to negotiate his release.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss a range of geopolitical and other issues, including potential prisoner swaps, when they meet in Geneva on June 16.

The United States will stand with its European allies against Russia, President Joe Biden has promised ahead of the first face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin of his administration.

Biden will head to Europe Wednesday, and is set to attend both the G-7 and NATO summits as well as holding a high-stakes meeting with the Russian leader in Geneva on June 16.

The US commerce secretary appealed Sunday for vigilance from the private sector in the face of increasingly serious cyberattacks, saying the threat is "here to stay" and may even worsen.

"I think the first thing we have to recognize is this is the reality, and we should assume -- and businesses should assume -- that these attacks are here to stay and if anything will intensify," Gina Raimondo said on ABC's "This Week."

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley literally called "baloney" on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for his excuse for supporting the filibuster.

Manchin has drawn criticism from his own party, civil rights leaders, and historians with knowledge of the last centuries of Senate function. Everyone, other than his Republican allies, has spoken out against Manchin's confused understanding of the process. Manchin, however, isn't the only Democrat parroting right-wing talking points on the filibuster crafted from historic lies. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has also bought into the fake history.

Sen. Joe Manchin published another editorial tearing down HR 4: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act that would protect Americans from GOP laws that would prevent them from voting. The Republicans have worked on such bills because they lost the presidency and they're fearful that they'll never be able to win a national election again on a platform of their far-right policies.

Manchin has also made it clear that he refuses to get rid of or change the filibuster, parroting false GOP talking points that it somehow stops bipartisanship. In reality, there hasn't been a filibuster in four years. What is being done is the threat of a filibuster that is stopping all legislative business. If Manchin actually supported the filibuster he would support a genuine filibuster. Instead, he's playing politics and being coy with language.

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama is now openly dodging a lawsuit over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, taunting the Democratic representative who originally filed the suit online over the fact that intermediaries could not locate Brooks to serve the court papers.

This article first appeared in Salon.

With Donald Trump and his Republican allies doing everything they can to smear Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Republican strategist Susan Del Percio made her fellow MSNBC panelists gasp and laugh by dropping the mic on Trump's losing battle with the revered immunologist.

Republicans have been taking target practice at Fauci since they haven't been able to lay a glove on popular President Joe Biden, and Trump took shots at the doctor in his widely-derided speech in North Carolina on Saturday night.

In a column for MSNBC, longtime conservative commentator Charlie Sykes hammered Donald Trump for promoting the improbable scenario that he will be "reinstated" as president in August, with Sykes saying Trump is continuing to trap the Republican Party in a "doom loop of craziness" that threatens the entire country.

According to Sykes, one of the founders of the conservative Bulwark, Trump reportedly believes he will displace President Joe Biden through some unspecified machinations and that the former president's actions are unconscionable and dangerous.

Donald Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden.

"The 2020 presidential election — that election, the 2020 presidential election — was by far the most corrupt election in the history of our country," Trump falsely claimed. "There's never been anything like this."