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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed House Republicans for risking their newly won majority to run interference for Donald Trump.

The GOP majority is planning to launch investigations into Department of Justice probes involving their own members caught up in the Jan. 6 insurrection, along with various inquiries into the former president -- and the "Morning Joe" host said they've signaled their corrupt intentions by equating a classified documents case involving President Joe Biden with Trump's stash of top-secret materials at Mar-a-Lago.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough thumped Republican "crackpots" who are trying to meddle into Department of Justice investigations.

The newly seated GOP House majority has announced plans to investigate DOJ investigations of the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters that may involve some of their own members and former president Donald Trump, and the "Morning Joe" host blasted the move as corrupt in the "extreme."

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen spoke to Nicolle Wallace about the Trump Org. CFO, Allen Weisselberg, being sent to Rikers Island Prison on Tuesday and wondered what the Trump employee was scoring for taking the fall.

Cohen began by saying that he anticipates he'll be speaking to District Attorney Alvin Bragg in short order, despite spending the last several years offering Bragg's office a wealth of information about Trump and any possible financial information he knew about while working for Trump.

Georgia prosecutors have ended one phase of their investigation into Donald Trump, and it's looking increasingly likely that he might face consequences for his attempt to overturn his election loss there.

A special grand jury convened in Fulton County has been investigating whether Trump and his allies broke the law in their efforts and issued a final report, which a judge will decide Jan. 24 whether to release to the public, and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the former president will have a hard time escaping legal consequences.

Electing a House speaker is typically a drama-free formality, but conservative Charlie Sykes said last week's chaotic rollout of the incoming Republican majority showed freshly minted speaker Kevin McCarthy won't be able to ensure the most basic duties are performed.

McCarthy finally won the position on the 15th ballot, after giving up major concessions to the right-wing Freedom Caucus, and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the "chaos and dysfunction" seen during the speaker vote was already baked into the House under his leadership.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the newly seated Republican House majority was already charting a course toward 2024 election losses.

Kevin McCarthy finally emerged as speaker of the House after 15 rounds of voting, and the "Morning Joe" host said the concessions he was forced to give up to the right-wing Freedom Caucus would come back to haunt him -- and the entire Republican Party.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough compared Kevin McCarthy's hardline opponents to terrorists, and called on Republicans to block their attempt to capture control of the House.

A small group of right-wing GOP lawmakers are demanding concessions from McCarthy that would elevate their own power while greatly weakening whoever emerges from the vote as speaker of the House, and the "Morning Joe" host warned that Republicans should not negotiate with those would-be hijackers.

Many of the Republican commentators on MSNBC have been talking about the 20 Republicans that are against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) becoming the Speaker of the House by calling them "rebels." But host Nicolle Wallace refused to allow that word to be the one used for many of the far right.

"Let's be a little more blunt than that," Wallace began. "They're not rebels. I'm not going to use that word. They're coup plotters, 19 House Republicans were in the Roosevelt Room, which is four steps away from the Oval Office helping Donald Trump plan overturn the results of the 2016 election, which sent all of them back! Their names were on all the ballots there were trying to destroy and denigrate and smear, and call into question."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called on Republicans to get their own house in order hours before they retake majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kevin McCarthy remains short of the 218 votes he needs from his own conference to become House speaker, and the "Morning Joe" host agreed with Newt Gingrich's assessment that some right-wing Republicans were running a "kamikaze" attack on party moderates.

A New York Times reporter who profiled Rep. Elise Stefanik's political rise compared her to the titular character in "The Great Gatsby."

The formerly moderate GOP lawmaker reinvented herself as a Donald Trump acolyte, which reporter Nick Confessore told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" resembled the transformation of Jay Gatz into Jay Gatsby described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his classic novel.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed Ginni Thomas for trying to help Donald Trump overturn his election loss based on flimsy claims of fraud.

Transcripts of her testimony were released Friday by the House select committee, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled by her willingness to toss away the votes of millions of Americans to keep the defeated former president in offie.

Donald Trump is losing his grip on the Republican Party because voters are getting tired of his act, according to one conservative.

The twice-impeached former president has been unable to recapture the magic in his recently launched 2024 campaign, and Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what was missing from Trump's latest efforts.

A new batch of transcripts released by the House select committee could give the Department of Justice a reason to turn their focus on Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The legislative panel released transcripts of the couple's interviews that showed them refusing to answer questions about their possible contacts with "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the DOJ had the authority to dig deeper.