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A former state and federal prosecutor Eric Lisann thinks that a special counsel report indicates that Mark Meadows likely won't face trial for his involvement in the Donald Trump 2020 election trial because he seems to have been given an immunity deal.

ABC News broke the story several weeks ago that Meadows had been working with prosecutors, but it wasn't fully confirmed that he was being given immunity by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman warned that the transparency of upcoming Donald Trump trials would be considerably lacking — and he suggested a solution.

Writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, the legal eagle explained that judges in the federal trials are likely to nix cameras in the courtroom, but that doesn't mean that the transcripts can't be released.

The attorney for a pitchfork-wielding Jan. 6 rioter hopes to win his client a lighter sentence with the same argument social media uses to explain former MAGA's infatuation with President Donald Trump — it’s a cult.

Months after Christopher Brian Roe, 39, pleaded guilty to felony assault, attorney Stephen Moss filed a sentencing memo Monday asking the court to consider two papers: “Cult Members and the Insanity Plea” and “Seeking Evidence of The MAGA Cult and Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

"The View" began its show Tuesday talking about Jon Stewart's return to "The Daily Show" — and his first big segment pointing to the advanced ages of both presidential candidates.

While Stewart talked about the recent special counsel report claiming Joe Biden had memory issues because he answered questions with "I don't recall," the host showed clips of Donald Trump and his adult children similarly answering questions.

Voters on Long Island headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for the replacement of Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was expelled from the House after an ethics investigation into his campaign finances and a series of reports revealing he lied about many of his personal facts.

Democratic candidate and former Congressman Tom Suozzi is well-known in the district and has a track record of constituent services there. But Nassau County Republican county legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip has struggled to gain traction in recent polls — with criticism about her struggles to answer some basic questions about her positions on issues like choice, which turned into a contentious conversation in the only debate.

Jon Stewart returned to "The Daily Show" on Monday, kicking off a new show since host Trevor Noah left.

"Now, where was I?" Stewart asked at the top of the show. "Why am I back? I have committed a lot of crimes, and from what I understand, talk show hosts are given immunity."

A second Donald Trump term would mean a NATO obituary and possibly even a war.

Former President Donald Trump's one-time National Security Advisor John Bolton made the prognostication on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins.

Actor and comedian John Fugelsang shot down ex-Fox host Megyn Kelly's attack against the Super Bowl LVIII's performance of "The Black National Anthem."

"Megyn Kelly says that Jesus is white and black face is alright," he said while speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid. "I don't take it all that seriously. I mean this is somebody who said the pepper spray was a food and pizza was of vegetable and Fox was news."

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow began her Monday show by connecting the dots between Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his hatred of NATO, including his claim that perhaps Poland deserved what happened when Adolf Hitler invaded them, starting World War II.

Trump has spent the better part of the last eight years incorrectly identifying how NATO is funded. It's unknown if he doesn't understand it or doesn't remember when his foreign policy advisers explained it to him.

Special counsel Robert Hur's report on President Joe Biden declined to press any charges, but controversially veered into a number of personal attacks on the president, at one point even suggesting he was unable to recall crucial life information and that he was unchargeable because would put on the act of an enfeebled old man for any jury.

That's not at all accurate to how the interview really went, said Biden's personal lawyer Bob Bauer in an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, herself a veteran of the Biden administration.

When former President Donald Trump filed a request for the Supreme Court to stay the D.C. Circuit's ruling against his immunity claim from the federal election conspiracy case, he suggested that even the Supreme Court itself should wait if they can get the D.C. Circuit to rehear the case en banc, or by the entirety of the judicial body on the circuit.

But Trump should be astonished if he gets the appellate court to do that, former federal judge Nancy Gertner told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday.

The Supreme Court has the whole nation watching it, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN's Anderson Cooper — and they need to make the right decision and not drag out former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for election conspiracy any further than they need to.

Additionally, she added, Justice Clarence Thomas — whose wife was heavily involved in the effort to overturn the election — needs to bow out of this altogether.

Former President Donald Trump is "desperate" to get a stay at the Supreme Court because he doesn't want people who once worked for him to tell their stories to the American people, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) wrote on X Monday.

The former president filed his motion asking the justices to block the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that he is not immune from prosecution in the federal election interference case, just ahead of the deadline to do so.