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CBS News Reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Wednesday that Rep. George Santos (R-NY) had been forced to ask his pre-trial court for travel freedoms since he's still serving in Congress.

The Santos defense lawyers asked the court to loosen the restriction on his movements, specifically allowing him to move through the 30-mile radius of Washington, D.C.

Speaking to the audience of a Fox town hall Tuesday, Donald Trump cried about how unfair it was that he received his target letter from the Justice Department on a Sunday. It was a detail that the co-hosts of "The View" found to be both strange and hilarious.

Acting overly dramatic with fake sadness, Whoopi Goldberg explained, "You know who went on Hannity last night and discussed how he feels about all of this?"

Former FBI assistant director for counter-intelligence Frank Figliuzzi revealed that the success rate in convictions in trials brought by the Justice Department is exceedingly high and there's a reason for it – they don't bring cases they can't win.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Figliuzzi also explained that in federal criminal cases, 90 percent of the time, a defendant pleads guilty.

It has been 23 years since legendary rapper Tupac Shakur was gunned down on a Las Vegas street corner, but the city's police announced a new development in the case Tuesday.

Police said that due to multiple tips and media reports, they executed a search warrant at a Henderson, Nevada home that may have something to do with the killing.

MSNBC host Katie Phang had a suggestion for former President Donald Trump as he laments he has too many legal woes to deal with.

The long-time legal analyst was asked about Trump's attorneys writing: "The defendants believe there should be simply no secret said nor any facts concealed from the public view relative to the prosecution of a leading presidential candidate by his political opponent. Our democracy demands no less than full transparency."

Former President Donald Trump was given a target letter from the Justice Department on Sunday after its investigation into actions around the 2020 election and the attack on the Capitol – and a Jan. 6 committee member thinks he shouldn't be alone.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who sat on the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 and the attempt to overthrow the election, listed off some of her observations to MSNBC host Peter Alexander, who asked who else deserves a target letter.

Legal analyst Danny Cevallos said that getting a target letter from the Justice Department and then taking part in a town hall on Fox probably isn't the best move for Donald Trump legally.

Trump announced that on Sunday night he was sent a target letter telling him he was the focus of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and incitements to attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Donald Trump's government shutdown from the end of 2018 into 2019 proved to be the longest in American history. Despite the finger-wagging from Democrats and Trump's poll numbers falling, it was Homeland Security that finally was able to get the ex-president to blink, according to Miles Taylor.

Writing in his new book "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump," the former DHS chief of staff and infamous "Anonymous" author describes Trump being convinced to end the shutdown.

A guide exists in the White House that is a kind of doomsday instruction manual and very few people have access to it. But according to former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor's new book, one of the biggest Trump ideologues was inches from having access to it.

In his new book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump," Taylor describes the moment that the OANN personality and Donald Trump election attorney almost ended up on the National Security Council.

Among the many presidential meltdowns included in Miles Taylor's new book "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump," is an incident in which Donald Trump told a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol leader to break the law.

The story begins when the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen was ordered to the U.S.-Mexico border by a shouting Trump, while she was in Europe working on international cyber security.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm about Vanderbilt University, which willingly turned over the private medical records of families whose children were getting gender-affirming care at the University's medical center. But on Monday, Maddow points out that it isn't about LGBTQ issues anymore.

"These records were seized without the consent of these patients," Maddow explained. "Without any way to opt-out. [The Tennessee attorney general] just took them. His office still has them. He's had them for months. Now, in Tennessee, like in every state where Republicans are in power, Republicans in that state have been going after trans people and the medical records...some of you watching me now are thinking, oh, that's what this is. This is one of those things about transgender-affirming care. That's too bad for trans people in Tennessee. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But we know that Republicans are really coming after those people, so that's bad for them, but it's not really a surprise."