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Morning Joe pounces after Ron DeSantis stumbles into discussion of Trump crimes

Ron DeSantis seemingly walked into a question on Donald Trump's mishandling of classified documents during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

The Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate made a rare appearance outside of conservative media Tuesday, speaking to host Joe Scarborough during a brief interview that focused primarily on the Hamas attack on Israel.

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Jim Jordan's 'hallucinatory' shutdown threat would cost billions and is illegal: column

As a price of averting a government shutdown, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is making a demand of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress that is both expensive and legally unworkable, wrote Greg Sargent for The Washington Post on Tuesday.

"Jordan ... is threatening to derail the next round of talks about keeping the government open — unless Democrats agree to restrictions on asylum-seeking that are not just wildly extreme, but would be entirely unworkable even if Democrats were inclined to accept them," wrote Sargent.

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Jamie Raskin: ‘We’re still in a political and constitutional emergency’

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th) said his passion to remain as a member of the House of Representatives comes from defending the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.

The congressman from Montgomery County said in an interview Monday that the idea to seek the Democratic nomination to replace longtime Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) “was very attractive to me.”

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North Carolina’s new 'secret police force' is a 'recipe for government abuse': expert

In North Carolina — a swing state that President Joe Biden narrowly lost to Donald Trump in 2020 — Republicans have voted to create a new investigative government body called the Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations or "Gov Ops."

Democrats have been attacking it as a recipe for civil liberties abuses, and centrist Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper refused to sign it into law. But because Republicans in the North Carolina State Legislature have a veto-proof majority, Gov Ops is now the law.

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'Dishonest': Critics slam Fox News over 'attack-Biden-at-all-costs garbage'

A top Fox News reporter is being criticized for his “dishonest” and “mindless attack” suggesting President Joe Biden wasn’t working much on Monday as world leaders are speaking to each other and with their national security teams about the war in Israel.

“With war raging in Israel, the @WhiteHouse called a lid for @JoeBiden at 11:46am,” Fox News anchor John Roberts, a former White House correspondent under three administrations, said on social media Monday.

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Trump spews falsehoods about classified docs case after Biden speaks to investigators

Donald Trump lobbed a dishonest attack on Tuesday against President Joe Biden over their respective handling of classified materials.

The White House confirmed the president had been voluntarily interviewed by special counsel Robert Hur's team over the weekend about classified materials found at his former Washington, DC, office and his Wilmington, Delaware, home, and the ex-president claimed the allegations against Biden were much worse than his own conduct, which resulted in 40 criminal charges.

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Schumer notes 'serious engagement' with China's Xi during Beijing visit

By Antoni Slodkowski and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday there had been "serious engagement" during a meeting between a visiting U.S. bipartisan congressional delegation and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit aims to advance U.S. economic and national security interests ahead of a potential summit between Xi and U.S. President Joe Biden next month. The United States and China are at odds over issues from Taiwan to trade, fentanyl and human rights. Biden has taken steps to restrict China's access to sensitive U.S. technology while a...

Morning Joe shreds 'lazy and stupid' GOP attempts to blame Biden for Israel onslaught

Donald Trump and other Republicans have suggested that President Joe Biden was complicit in the Hamas attack on Israel, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough knocked down their smears as false.

Republicans have linked the surprise attack to the complicated agreement Biden approved in August that allowed five detained Americans to leave Iran in exchange for $6 billion in Iranian funds that had been frozen in South Korea, but the "Morning Joe" host said that money had not been spent at all.

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‘Dishonest’: Critics slam Fox News for ‘attack-Biden-at-all-costs garbage’

A top Fox News reporter is being criticized for his "dishonest" and "mindless attack" suggesting President Joe Biden wasn't working much on Monday as world leaders are speaking to each other and with their national security teams about the war in Israel.

"With war raging in Israel, the @WhiteHouse called a lid for @JoeBiden at 11:46am," Fox News anchor John Roberts, a former White House correspondent under three administrations, said on social media Monday.

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'Disruptive' Mike Flynn got himself banned from MAGA lawyer Lin Wood's bed-and-breakfast

In addition to becoming infamous for spreading false conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, MAGA lawyer Lin Wood apparently has a side gig as the owner of a bed-and-breakfast.

The New Yorker reports that Wood is the owner of an establishment called the Inn at Cotton Hall, which is located on a 1,000-acre plantation in South Carolina that he bought earlier this decade for $8 million.

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'Sounds like a grift': Conservative casts doubt on MAGA-loving Charlie Kirk's new scheme

Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk is pitching donors on raising a whopping $108 million for a get-out-the-vote effort in key swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia next year.

But veteran conservative activist Erick Erickson tells the Associated Press that he's skeptical all of that money will really go toward getting conservatives out to the polls next year.

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Colbert dresses up like Mike Lindell to smother MyPillow to death

Stephen Colbert whipped out his mustache and pillows to imitate Mike Lindell as he put down MyPillow.

Lindel revealed last week that he's out of money and he can't pay his lawyers anymore. Despite telling his supporters that his lawyers "have families too," Lindell confessed that he has to save his company.

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'Ridiculous': Ex-Israeli ambassador shreds GOP claims Biden caused Hamas attack

Republican claims that President Joe Biden is to blame for the devastating Hamas attack on civilians in Israel are "ridiculous," said former U.S. ambassador to Israel Tom Nides on CNN Monday evening.

This comes as GOP lawmakers try to connect the planned $6 billion unfreezing of Iranian assets to the attack, as Iran is a known sponsor of Hamas — even though there's no evidence as of now that Iran even was involved in the attack.

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