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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) lamented that she felt misled by Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, but Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough expressed doubt.

Kavanaugh and other justices assured senators during their confirmation that they believed Roe v. Wade was a settled matter, but then signed on with the majority in last week's ruling that struck down the landmark abortion rights ruling, and Klobuchar said she was outraged.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was astonished by the "violence" implied by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned abortion rights.

The majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito took a confrontational tone in striking down Roe v. Wade, and the "Morning Joe" host said he and his fellow lawyer friends noticed the delight he seemed to take in the "radical" move.

MSNBC's John Heilemann was shocked to see the House Select Committee take direct aim at their fellow Congress members in their investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The latest hearing on Thursday revealed that multiple Republican lawmakers asked for pardons related to their role in helping former President's Donald Trump's effort to overturn his election loss, and the "Morning Joe" analyst explained why that was a major development.

Republicans cannot possibly support former President Donald Trump or any of his allies who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election after the public revelations from the latest House select committee hearing, according to conservative commentator Charlie Sykes.

Some of Trump's top Justice Department officials testified that the former president pressured them to declare the election corrupt, so he could try to hold onto power, and other witnesses revealed that GOP lawmakers who assisted his attempted coup -- including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene -- had asked for pardons before he left office.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the latest hearing of the House Select Committee exposed the "sheer idiocy and sheer terror" that characterized Donald Trump's presidency.

Two of his former top Justice Department officials testified Thursday before the panel investigating Jan. 6 and told lawmakers that Trump pressured them to chase down baseless conspiracy theories and, when that failed, told them to simply call the election results suspect.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough trashed Arizona House speaker Rusty Bowers for revealing damning evidence of Donald Trump crimes but admitting that he'd still probably vote for him.

The Arizona Republican told the House select committee that Trump asked him to violate his constitutional oath and the former president's supporters menaced his family, but he also said he would back him in the 2024 election if he won the GOP nomination.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward noted a striking parallel between Watergate and Donald Trump's effort to overturn his election loss.

The Washington Post reporter whose work helped bring down Richard Nixon told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was struck by testimony from Georgia election worker Shaye Moss, who said Trump supporters burst into her grandmother's home and threatened both her and her mother over the former president's lies about them.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and conservative attorney George Conway aren't buying Sen. Ron Johnson's excuses about his participation in a conspiracy to deliver fake electors to vice president Mike Pence.

The Wisconsin Republican was implicated in Donald Trump's scheme to overturn his election loss during Tuesday's hearing of the House select committee, and Johnson responded to reporters afterward by pretending to be on his phone and then blaming his involvement on staffers.

George Conway said testimony from Arizona's deeply conservative House speaker Rusty Bowers exposed the "inherent tension" in Donald Trump's MAGA movement.

The conservative attorney, whose wife served in Trump's administration until almost the very end, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was moved by Bowers' testimony about the former president's effort to overturn his election loss, but he said it also gave some insight into the true believers and crooks that make up the MAGA coalition.

The House Select Committee is hoping to avoid mistakes made by previous investigations of Donald Trump's corruption.

Congressional investigators have the benefit of hindsight over special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and two impeachment inquiries, and Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" how they plan to overcome the mistakes made in past attempts to hold Trump accountable.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough drew a straight line between the Jan. 6 insurrection and a Missouri Republican's menacing campaign ad -- and he called it "fascism."

The "Morning Joe" host denounced the attention-grabbing ad from U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens, who invited voters to join the "MAGA crew" and go "RINO hunting" as heavily armed men in tactical gear busted down the door to a home and invaded.

A Florida prosecutor expressed doubts that Ginni Thomas would willingly testify before the House Select Committee because, he said, she faces criminal liability for her role in trying to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

The wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas exchanged texts about those efforts with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and discussed other schemes to swap out lawful electors for Joe Biden with a bogus slate of Trump electors, and she insisted she would happily testify before congressional electors.