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MSNBC's Chuck Rosenberg believes the House Select Committee has come close to proving former President Donald Trump led a seditious conspiracy.

The "Morning Joe" legal analyst explained that Thursday's public hearing showed compelling evidence that the former president and his legal advisers, including attorney John Eastman, attempted to obstruct the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's election win, and that they were aware the scheme was unlawful.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the latest hearing of the House Select Committee showed "clear intent" by Donald Trump's supporters to murder the vice president, speaker of the House and other top government officials.

The mob chanted "hang Mike Pence" as they ransacked the U.S. Capitol looking for the vice president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers, and the "Morning Joe" host said the evidence clearly showed they intended to murder anyone standing in the way of Trump becoming a dictator.

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol focused on threats to Mike Pence as Donald Trump sought to overturn the 2020 election during Thursday's public hearings.

"Hours after President Donald J. Trump announced a “wild” rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, his supporters began discussing building a gallows in front of the Capitol," The New York Times reported. "Days later, a second user posted a diagram describing the cuts of lumber and rope that would be needed to erect a gallows and fashion a noose. A lengthy planning discussion ensued. A third posted a manual on how to tie a hangman’s knot."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and conservative attorney George Conway condemned Ginni Thomas for exchanging emails with a right-wing lawyer who was plotting to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

Newly revealed emails show attorney John Eastman claimed to have insight into a "heated fight" among Supreme Court justices about hearing cases related to Trump's election challenges, and pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro said he believed the court would be more inclined to act if there were "'wild' chaos" in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, in an apparent reference to a tweet sent out by the former president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough doesn't believe the excuses offered by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) about a tour of the U.S. Capitol complex he gave to some constituents who turned up the next day at the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The House Select Committee released video evidence of the Jan. 5, 2021, tour showing a man taking photos and recording video of security checkpoints, tunnels and stairways in the Capitol complex a day before the riot, and that same man was also shown making threats against individual Democratic lawmakers.

An investigative reporter who recently spent time with a Justice Department official said he was "optimistic" that former President Donald Trump and his allies will be held accountable for their attack on democracy.

David Rohde, the online news director for The New Yorker, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the House select committee hearings were producing important evidence that could deliver a political and legal blow to the former president.

MSNBC's Michael Steele said Donald Trump's election lies were "choking the life" out of the Republican Party.

A new poll shows 70 percent of Republican voters don't believe the former president was responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection, and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said they were driving GOP leadership away from holding the former president accountable for his attempt to overturn the election results.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough trashed his fellow conservatives for their willful ignorance about Donald Trump's dictatorial ambitions.

The twice-impeached former president has consistently attacked the media, which Republicans have done for decades, but the "Morning Joe" host said that has allowed Trump to gather authoritarian power as conservatives instead focus their outrage on trivial issues.

Jared Kushner testified that he dismissed White House counsel Pat Cipollone's concerns over Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss, and a former prosecutor explained why that was a bad move.

The former president's son-in-law told the House select committee that he considered Cipollone's threats to resign to be "whining," and law enforcement veteran Chuck Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was astonished by Kushner's attitude toward the situation.

George Conway said the first public hearing by the House Select Committee shows there's already enough evidence to prosecute former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the panel's ranking Republican, laid out evidence that Trump had a seven-part plan to overturn his election loss that culminated in the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters, and Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the Department of Justice should have enough to charge the former president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped apart Republican arguments against restricting access to the most powerful firearms.

Survivors and families from Uvalde, Texas, testified before the House Oversight Committee to support new gun safety legislation, but Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused Democrats of trying to destroy the Second Amendment and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) pointed out that airplanes were not banned in response to 9/11.

Donell Harvin, the former chief of Homeland Security for Washington, D.C., revealed that there continues to be "chatter" monitored by United States intelligence agencies that international terrorist groups are considering using loose gun laws to commit acts of terror in the country.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Harvin called it a "serious concern."