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A former aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) bashed his decision to fly to vacation for a family vacation in Cancún.

Rick Tyler told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the entire episode was inexcusable -- from the initial decision to travel to Mexico while Texas endured a historic winter storm to each phase of his reaction to widespread condemnation.

Beto O'Rourke laid into Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as their fellow Texans shiver in a historic winter emergency.

The Democratic former congressman unsuccessfully challenged Cruz in the 2018 election, but he called on the Texas Republican to be held accountable for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection -- and questioned his character and leadership.

On MSNBC Wednesday, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi offered a theory as to why the Capitol Police have not spoken out about their experience of the pro-Trump riot in January.

"We heard the House impeachment managers tell the most detailed version of their story that day, but we still have not heard from Capitol Police," said anchor Nicolle Wallace.

A solid majority of Republicans want former president Donald Trump to play a prominent role in the party's future, but MSNBC's Donny Deutsch says one of the GOP's most powerful players understands why that's a bad idea.

Although three-quarters of Republicans want Trump to remain a major force in the party, 60 percent of Americans disagree and 55 percent of say the twice-impeached former president shouldn't even be allowed to run for office again.

MSNBC's Kasie Hunt revealed that Republicans would very much like to rid themselves of former president Donald Trump, but they're afraid of his supporters.

The Capitol Hill reporter told "Morning Joe" that House impeachment managers were trying to appeal to GOP senators by arguing that if they vote to convict Trump, which requires 17 Republicans, they won't have to vote to bar the former president from elected office because that requires only a majority, which Democrats hold in the Senate.

MSNBC's Michael Steele called out Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for melodramatically ignoring evidence from the U.S. Capitol insurrection he helped incite.

The former chairman of the Republican National Committee harshly criticized the Missouri Republican and other GOP senators who helped inflame Donald Trump's supporters ahead of the Jan. 6 riot and then flagrantly ignored or disputed video and other evidence that showed the mob intended to kill members of Congress to stop the certification of the presidential election.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough compared the U.S. Capitol insurrection to Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy German infrastructure out of spite at the end of World War II.

The "Morning Joe" host has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump and the Nazi autocrat, but those usually center on Hitler's rise to power, but he said Thursday the former president's actions after losing the Nov. 3 election reminded him of the end stages of other mad rulers.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blamed the U.S. Capitol insurrection on white grievance, and said that fear of changing racial dynamics has remained largely unchanged since the 1950s.

The "Morning Joe" host said former president Donald Trump's supporters tried to overturn his election loss because they're not willing to share democratic power with the Black voters who backed President Joe Biden.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed at the top of her show Tuesday that in the middle of the second impeachment trial, that former President Donald Trump was still adding lawyers to his legal team. One of those attorneys, however, has some controversial things to say about his new client.

"Even as the trial is now underway. Yesterday, we learned that he had made a last-minute addition of a new lawyer named van der Veen, Michael van der Veen. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today that Mr. van der Veen recently sued President Trump, really recently, in the lead-up to the 2020 election, he sued Trump, arguing Trump and his campaign were trying to suppress the vote in Democratic-leaning areas of Pennsylvania," said Maddow. "He also defended a college student who was prosecuted for trying to hack into an IRS database to obtain Trump's tax records. That student saying Mr. van der Veen described Trump to him as a quote, 'f---ing crook,' but he didn't just say 'F', apparently, he said it for real. And now, that man represents Donald Trump in his impeachment trial."

President Donald Trump's lawyers didn't impress many in the Senate on Tuesday, even among those who will cast their ballots for the former president regardless of the arguments. But one Democrat described it using a unique analogy.

"These two guys -- this was the Four Seasons Landscaping of the legal profession," said Sen. Chris Coons (R-DE), joking about the former president's past lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who meant to hold a press conference at the Four Seasons hotel and booked a landscaping company's parking lot instead.

The panel of MSNBC commentators and hosts couldn't help but laugh at the irony of former President Donald Trump's lawyers claiming that Congress is attempting to disenfranchise his 74.2 million voters after trying to disenfranchise 81.2 million voters who cast ballots against him.

Speaking after the vote on whether to proceed, host Brian Williams began the discussion by quoting a tweet from former Clinton White House adviser Paul Begala, "Trump is apparently being represented by the law firm of Meandering & Furious."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough unloaded on his former party for embracing Donald Trump and "tyrannical thinking."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said last week that Trump still owned control of the GOP because he'd won a record number of Republican votes, but the "Morning Joe" host agreed with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) that the party should not be embracing the former president.