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One of Donald Trump's top political appointees directed the Department of Homeland Security to investigate voter fraud in the 2020 election -- more than six months before the votes were counted.

Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who served as deputy secretary of the DHS, asked a senior official in April 2020 to have analysts in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis look for evidence of mail-in voting fraud, which the former president fixated on before and after his re-election loss, reported Politico.

MSNBC's Ali Velshi drew a straight line between Donald Trump's extortion scheme against Ukraine and Russia's invasion.

The former president was impeached for the first time for trying to pressure the country's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into investigating Joe Biden by withholding military aid as Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened Ukraine, and Velshi said the scheme was directly related to the bloody 2022 war.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's defenders who say he would have handled Russia's invasion of Ukraine better than President Joe Biden.

The former president's one-time national security adviser John Bolton, who voiced his objections to the White House pressure campaign against Ukraine in 2019, strongly criticized Trump during an appearance Tuesday on Newsmax, and the "Morning Joe" host said that invalidated much of the Biden disapproval.

A former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine doesn't buy Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats, but instead sees them as the sign of how badly Russia's invasion has gone.

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that a third World War would likely involve nuclear weapons, ratcheting up previous threats from Putin, but former ambassador Bill Taylor told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that those comments are just posturing.

An international economic expert said Russia's oligarchs were screwed under the harsh sanctions imposed over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former chief economist for the Department of State, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the punishing sanctions were already putting pressure on Putin and his inner circle.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said it's only taken a week to significantly roll back Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's attacks on liberal democracy.

The U.S. and other NATO allies have presented a united front against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after Trump spent his four years in the White House undermining the organization and threatening to withdraw, which would have delivered Putin one of his most cherished goals.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Donald Trump for continuing to defend Vladimir Putin despite his invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian economy has been hobbled by punishing sanctions, and Ukraine has held strong for five days, but the former U.S. president had nothing but praise for Putin's intelligence.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough praised President Joe Biden for cleaning up the foreign policy mess left by his predecessor.

Donald Trump openly threatened to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, but the "Morning Joe" host credited Biden for rebuilding that alliance to stand against Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Far-right podcaster Steve Bannon took off after MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, who previously served in George W. Bush's White House. According to Bannon, the ex-White House communications chief is a "war criminal."

Bannon is troubled by the support Ukraine is getting from the United States and cable news. According to Bannon, it's larger support for Ukraine than Fox News gave for the Iraq war. Fox frequently said that if people didn't support the Iraq war, they were anti-American, and peace protesters stood with the terrorists. Wallace no longer identifies as a Republican and has denounced her former party.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) ripped politicians and pundits who have bashed President Joe Biden's support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.

The Nebraska Republican appeared Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss the Russian invasion and what steps the administration could take to punish Vladimir Putin for the unprovoked attack, and Sasse smacked the "clickbait isolationists" who have used the situation as a political cudgel.