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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) drew widespread criticism for visiting Mar-a-Lago three weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said his excuse for making the trip was "pathetic."

According to Liz Cheney's new book, "Oath and Honor," the recently ousted House speaker told her that he trekked to Trump's private residence on Jan. 28, 2021, because his aides were worried that he was depressed and had purportedly stopped eating.

Donald Trump and his lawyers are trying to delay his criminal trials until after the 2024 election when he could theoretically pardon himself as president, but one of those cases seems to be virtually pardon proof.

Right-wing attorney John Eastman, one of the former president's co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case, wants to speed up the schedule for reaching a plea agreement, which MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance told "Morning Joe" is intended to delay Trump's trial and give his attorneys a preview of the evidence.

After regular "Morning Joe" panelist Jonathan Lemire interrupted a discussion about Joe Biden's accomplishments as president to report that Donald Trump was defensively posting about accusations he is in mental decline, co-host Mika Brezinski smirked — and then shot it down.

In a rambling post early Monday morning, the former president claimed that when he mistook Barack Obama for Joe Biden, he was being sarcastic, writing, "No, I know both names very well, never mix them up, and know that they are destroying our Country. Also, and as reported, I just took a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it. Also ACED (a perfect score!) one taken while in the White House."

Donald Trump has been letting loose with "vicious" rhetoric against his political opponents as his allies craft plans to consolidate power around a second term in office, and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" said voters deserved to know the stakes in next year's election.

Democrats are again shining the spotlight on the twice-impeached former president, where they had been content to ignore him since he left office under a cloud in 2021, to highlight his authoritarian aspirations.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump was explicitly running for president on the campaign promise to end American democracy.

The "Morning Joe" host went through a checklist of all the ways Trump meets the definition of a fascist, and he said the former president had learned what protected democracy from his worst impulses during his first term and intended to rip out those guardrails if he returns to the White House.

Donald Trump has sent every possible warning that he intends to rule as a fascist autocrat, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said it's long past time to cover his presidential campaign around that startling fact.

The New York Times published an article highlighting Trump's fascist tendencies, and the "Morning Joe" host went through a checklist of the defining characteristics of fascism.

President Joe Biden's approval rating has dropped to the lowest levels yet amid serious concerns about his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, but panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" aren't ready to count him out.

Biden fell behind Donald Trump for the first time in a hypothetical election rematch, but host Joe Scarborough said it's far too early to worry.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rebuked House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republicans who seem to "hate" American values.

Video has surfaced of the Louisiana Republican taking part in a prayer call early last month with far-right Pastor Jim Garlow with the World Prayer Network, and the "Morning Joe" host was troubled that Johnson suggested the nation deserved God's wrath for its "dark and depraved" culture.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough busted Republican lawmakers for putting national security at risk to draw attention and scare up donations.

Senate Democrats are moving ahead with a resolution that would allow hundreds of military nominees to be quickly confirmed to get around a blockade by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), but the "Morning Joe" host said the problem goes deeper than one individual GOP senator.

A veteran congressional reporter despaired at the "hurricane of stupid" he witnessed Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Among the documented atrocities: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) apparently shoved Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), who had voted to oust him as House speaker; Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) threatened to fight Teamsters president Sean O’Brien in the middle of a hearing; and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) called Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) a "liar" and a "smurf" after he questioned his family business dealings.

A reporter reacted to a physical altercation she witnessed between Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a Republican congressman who voted to oust him as House speaker.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) claims the California Republican elbowed him in the kidneys as he walked past him Tuesday in a Capitol Hill hallway, and NPR's Claudia Grisales told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that she saw it happen.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's increasingly "extreme" rhetoric as a desperate ploy for attention, but he said that language will ultimately doom him in next year's election.

The former president in the past week called his political opponents "vermin," in a clear echo of language used by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and threatened to lock up law enforcement officials in mental institutions as punishment for investigating him, and the "Morning Joe" host called that talk a sign of desperation.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called for Donald Trump's election subversion trial to be televised, but a legal expert said there are obstacles to putting cameras inside a federal courtroom.

Special counsel Jack Smith's office filed a motion rejecting an argument by Trump's attorneys to televise the trial, which had been requested by a consortium of media organizations, and a "Morning Joe" panel debated how and why the courtroom proceedings could be broadcast.