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"The View" began talking about the retirement of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — and the audience broke into cheers and applause.

"The other big news out of D.C. yesterday was that the longest serving party leader in Senate history, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced it's time for him to go," Whoopi Goldberg said.

U.S. lawmakers were set to vote Thursday on a stopgap measure to avert a damaging election-year government shutdown, with funding due to expire for several key federal agencies if they do not act by the weekend.

Five months into the fiscal year, Congress still has not approved the 12 annual spending bills that make up the federal budget, and is facing deadlines of midnight on Friday night and March 8 to keep the lights on.

Journalist Anne Applebaum, who writes about American foreign policy for The Atlantic, brings word that American allies around the world are astonished that former President Donald Trump is using his influence within the Republican Party to block security assistance to Ukraine.

In her latest column, Applebaum writes that there is a sense of disbelief that a presidential candidate would not only work to undermine his own country's global stature but also to drag the leadership of his political party along for the ride.

Republicans seemed to be caught off guard by Hunter Biden's preparation and discipline during a grueling, closed-door deposition.

President Joe Biden's son appeared Wednesday before the Oversight and Judiciary committees to discuss his foreign business dealings, which have become the focus of an impeachment inquiry, but Washington Post reporter Jackie Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Republicans failed to rattle him, as they perhaps intended.

A boast by Donald Trump last week that he is making inroads with Black voters due to his legal problems is getting side-eye from pollsters who claim there is little to no evidence at all of his claim.

During his speech before a South Carolina gathering of Black conservatives the multi-indicted Trump told the crowd, "...a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against," he claimed, before adding, "I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," he added later in the speech. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Donald Trump's broad claim of presidential immunity, and that decision put his federal election subversion case "on life support" – even if the justices ultimately rule against him.

The court will hear arguments April 22, with a ruling expected in late June, and that timeline could forestall his trials in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial in Florida and the Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C., although MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told "Morning Joe" he doesn't believe Trump will win his appeal but he doesn't think that will ultimately matter.