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Legal and national security experts including former prosecutors are calling for the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the U.S. Senate to conduct investigations into the Alexander Smirnov scandal to determine how a trusted FBI informant was able to allegedly plant false Kremlin propaganda attacking Joe Biden and Hunter Biden into the Republican House of Representatives in an effort to take down the President of the United States.

Other legal experts are warning House Republicans if they continue to assert what Special Counsel David Weiss stated in a court document are false claims, including that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each took $5 million bribes, they could be subject to conspiracy charges.

House Oversight Chair James Comer's seeming lack of embarrassment after his key witness in the drive to impeach President Joe Biden turned out to be a now-accused liar who the Department of Justice claims was a pipeline for Russian disinformation suggests he knew what he was doing, an analyst wrote Thursday.

With Kentucky Republican Comer joining Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in an attempt to blow off concerns that they had been duped — and argue they still have a strong case against Biden — fellow lawmaker Rep Dan Goldman (D-NY) suggested the two are more than willing to use Russian propaganda as a political tool in their war with Democrats.

Donald Trump and his senior staff are pointing fingers after a leak from his camp wound up on the front page of the New York Times.

The newspaper revealed that Trump had privately told allies he supports a 16-week national abortion plan, with some exceptions. The former president's campaign reportedly greeted the story with anger, frustration and paranoia that's left them scrambling to clean up the political fallout.

Efforts by House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden ran into a brick wall when informant Alexander Smirnov was arrested for allegedly lying to the FBI.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) touted Smirnov as the "star witness" who would show that Biden and his son Hunter Biden committed corrupt or illegal acts in Ukraine. But Smirnov's arrest, according to Democrats, seriously hurts both Comer's and Jordan's credibility in the matter.

Donald Trump's remarks during Wednesday night's Fox News town hall in Greenville, South Carolina drew concern from several experts who are wondering if he once again revealed U.S. government classified information or was merely attempting to scare Americans into voting for him.

The 34-second exchange moved quickly from talk of religion and prayer to possible nuclear annihilation.

Using a Joe Scarborough rant about Donald Trump lying about the state of the economy and the US military's readiness as a leaping-off point, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) snapped at the press — and the New York Times in particular — for their laziness in not calling out the Trump falsehoods.

During Thursday's "Morning Joe," Scarborough complained about Republicans, led by the disgraced former president, bashing the country in an attempt to undermine President Joe Biden.

When the Alabama State Supreme Court last week declared frozen embryos to be children, it immediately jeopardized the use of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure in the state.

In fact, Alabama's largest hospital stopped IVF treatments just one day after the ruling for fear of being sued for disposing of unused frozen embryos.

On Thursday morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts dropped the hammer on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for bowing to Donald Trump and withdrawing his support for a Ukraine aid package because the disgraced former president told him to.

Noting that Graham has made a career out of being a hawk when it comes to foreign aggression, he has now "flip-flopped" by voting against an aid package for the country that is being subjected to an unprovoked invasion by President Vladimir Putin."

The unmasking of the Republicans' star witness as a potential conduit for Russian disinformation raises questions for the FBI and William Barr's Justice Department.

House impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov was arrested for lying to FBI agents and then admitted to working with officials associated with Russian intelligence, and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said federal investigators should explain why they relied on him as a confidential informant for a decade.

Joe Biden's brother was questioned in Congress Wednesday by Republican lawmakers leading an impeachment inquiry against the US president, who they say benefitted from illicit business.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have accused Biden of engaging in corrupt business dealings during his time as vice president with his younger brother James and son Hunter -- who is also embroiled in his own, separate legal troubles.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire revealed a nugget of reporting on the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden that shows "Republicans know it's falling apart."

Lemire, the host of "Way Too Early" and White House bureau chief for Politico, spoke to a White House staffer who told him about subpoena letters sent before – and then after – the GOP's star witness Alexander Smirnov told investigators he had been working with Russian spies to smear Hunter Biden.

Special Counsel David Weiss' allegation that a former FBI informant was fed anti-Biden propaganda from the Kremlin and laundered it to congressional Republicans who then used it to launch an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden is a "scandal of historic proportions" says former Republican political strategist Tim Miller.

Reminding MSNBC viewers that the bombshell news is really a story about election interference, Alicia Menendez on Wednesday's "Deadline: White House" turned to Miller.