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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will essentially act as Speaker of the House if Kevin McCarthy gets the job, according to former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele.

Donald Trump still controls the party, and is likely to win the GOP nomination for president in 2024, but Steele told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the party was fully in the thrall of an increasingly extreme base personified by Greene, was just re-elected to her second term in Congress.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough isn't seeing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a threat to former President Donald Trump that many do.

Trump himself sees DeSantis as his strongest challenger for the 2024 Republican nomination, although the governor hasn't officially entered the race, and the "Morning Joe" host debated their relative strengths with The Atlantic correspondent Mark Leibovich.

The convictions of two Oath Keepers leaders on seditious conspiracy charges puts new pressure on the Department of Justice to indict Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to veteran journalist Bob Woodward.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and his lieutenant Kelly Meggs were found guilty this week for their roles in the U.S. Capitol assault, and other militia members were convicted on other charges, and Woodward told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" those cases would weigh on attorney general Merrick Garland and newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Republicans for being so committed to upsetting their political enemies that they'll fumble away congressional seats.

Officials in deep-red Cochise County, Arizona, are refusing to certify election results that include GOP losses in the gubernatorial and Senate races, but a Republican win by Juan Ciscomani in the competitive 6th congressional district, and the "Morning Joe" host was amazed they might hand the seat to a Democrat out of spite.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped Republicans for propping up Herschel Walker despite his obvious lack of qualifications.

GOP senators are continuing to rally around the former football star, whose own family has questioned his capabilities, in his Dec. 6 runoff election against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), even though Democrats have already locked up a Senate majority in this month's midterm elections.

Another court struck down former President Donald Trump's election lies with the conviction of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes on seditious conspiracy charges, according to a legal expert.

Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, another member of the right-wing militia, were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their roles in planning the Jan. 6 insurrection, although three other members of the group were acquitted on that charge but convicted on other counts, and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what those convictions mean.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski disagreed over how much credit Mike Pence deserved for forcefully condemning Donald Trump for associating with anti-Semites and white nationalists.

The former vice president called on Trump to apologize for dining with anti-Semitic rapper Kanye West and neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes and denounce their "hateful rhetoric," and the "Morning Joe" hosts were surprised by how forcefully Pence came out against the ex-president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered the Republican Party for its failure to condemn Donald Trump for palling around with a neo-Nazi provocateur.

The former president dined with anti-Semitic rapper Kanye West and white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort, but the "Morning Joe" host said the GOP had not forcefully rebuked Trump.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for "overselling" his threats to investigate various members of President Joe Biden's administration.

The California Republican has vowed to open a string of investigations of Biden and his family, as well as Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- whose resignation he demanded over a surge in undocumented migrants across the southern border -- and the "Morning Joe" host and his panelists ripped his flailing efforts to draw support from the GOP's right flank to become House speaker.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gloated over Donald Trump's latest legal flop in front of a conservative appeals court.

The three-judge 11th District Court panel repeatedly expressed skepticism toward Trump attorney Jim Trusty's arguments and signaled an openness to voiding the appointment of a special master to oversee evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago, and the "Morning Joe" host said the former president had badly overplayed his hand.

Fox News went right back to stoking hatred and fear of the LGBTQ community barely a day after a gunman massacred five people at a Colorado Springs gay bar, and NBC News reporter Ben Collins drew parallels between that rhetoric and the early days of the Nazi regime.

Collins covers the darkest online corners of the internet to expose the hateful speech that incites real-world violence, but he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Fox News host Tucker Carlson and other mainstream conservative media figures spread the same rhetoric to their audience of millions.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough connected the dots between Republican rhetoric and violent threats against their political enemies.

Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo called the head of the national teachers union "the most dangerous person in the world," and the "Morning Joe" host slammed him for directing hate and violence toward educators, just as Republicans have done toward federal agents, elections officials and Democratic lawmakers and their families.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Mike Pompeo for attacking educators as he dips his toes into the 2024 presidential campaign.

The former secretary of state claimed Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, was the "most dangerous person in the world" for supposedly spreading "filth" and "crap" in American schools, and the "Morning Joe" host called him out as a "clown."