Marjorie Taylor Greene

Shortly after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump's insurrection and Mar-a-Lago documents, the former president went to Fox News Digital to call for Republicans to "fight" the investigation.

"I have been going through this for six years — for six years I have been going through this, and I am not going to go through it anymore," Trump said. "And I hope the Republicans have the courage to fight this."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is hoping to appeal to Republican lawmakers to take pity on Capitol rioters facing charges for their involvement in the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

According to HuffPost, Greene's remarks came when she asked top-ranking Republican lawmaker Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) if he would support a possible probe into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership of the House Select Committee designated to investigate the Capitol riots.

On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a special counsel to oversee the investigations into Donald Trump's storing of classified information at Mar-a-Lago and the events surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The announcement comes on the heels of Trump announcing that he's running for president in 2024.

Jack Smith, who is the former chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague where he investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, will oversee the investigations.

On Friday, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced that he would never support Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for Speaker of the House — and that he does not believe he can "ever" get the votes to get the gavel.

"I've seen enough," wrote Biggs on Twitter. "I cannot vote for Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. I do not believe he will ever get to 218 votes, and I refuse to assist him in his effort to get those votes."

In a closing segment on Friday's "Morning Joe," a sarcastic Mika Brzezinski began by saying she would "speak slowly" when addressing the Republican Party leadership about how they are getting off on the wrong foot after the midterm elections that took place not two weeks ago.

Leaning forward and admitting that it was like speaking to a child, she admonished the GOP leaders -- particularly possible new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) -- for allowing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to set the post-midterm agenda after they ran on inflation and claims of high crime rates.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, co-host Mika Brzezinski harshly criticized current House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for his treatment of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday as she gave a major speech announcing she would be stepping down from the House Democratic leadership.

The GOP leader was noticeably missing -- as were the majority of the House Republicans -- when Pelosi gave her emotional speech, with many of them holding their own mini-press conferences to announce their own plans to investigate President Joe Biden's administration.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) "willingly ignorant" comparison of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to immigration across the southern border of the U.S.

The Georgia Republican called for an audit of U.S. funding to Ukraine in its battle against Russian aggression, which she compared to the surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under President Joe Biden.

Reflecting on the events of Thursday when various members of the House Republican caucus ran to microphones to announce how they will spend the next two years launching investigations and promoting new conspiracy theories, George Conway claimed that current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) now has his hands full.

Sitting in on an MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel, Conway looked on as co-host Mika Brzezinski shared clips from the speeches.

Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 2022 midterms, but the infighting that has occurred as GOP leaders respond to the results has exposed unconventional divides in the party.

"The first skirmishes of the civil war to define the future of the Republican Party were fought this week across the sprawling corridors of the Capitol," Ben Jacobs reported for New York magazine. "With Donald Trump’s verbose announcement speech serving as an intermission, the leadership contest among House Republicans on Tuesday and Senate Republicans on Wednesday marked some of the initial cleavages within the party in the aftermath of a disappointing midterm election."

In North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, Rep. Madison Cawthorn became a lame duck earlier this year when he lost a U.S. House primary to fellow Republican Chuck Edwards (who went on to defeat Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in the general election). Cawthorn, a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist, will not be part of the U.S. House of Representatives’ new GOP-controlled majority when it is seated on January 3, 2023. And according to Asheville Citizen Times reporter Joel Burgess, Cawthorn is now missing in action.

Cawthorn, Burgess reports in an article published on November 16, “has apparently vacated his Washington and district offices nearly two months before the end of his term.”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to Herschel Walker's bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a campaign speech.

The football legend-turned-Republican Senate candidate is facing off Dec. 6 in a runoff election against Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-GA), and he spoke for more than two minutes about a late-night movie he had recently watched, which prompted him to compare the relative strengths of the folkloric creatures.

Former President Donald Trump has been written off before, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said this time feels different.

The former president announced his 2024 campaign this week, but several GOP megadonors have already said they would not support his White House bid, and several rivals are emerging as challengers for the Republican nomination.

Republicans now have a narrow majority in the House of Representatives -- and the party's hardliners are now reportedly intent on collecting their pound of flesh in exchange for their cooperation.

The New York Times reports that a group of Republicans including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) this week "extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."