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Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor predicted Wednesday that former employees of the White House likely want to do whatever they can to ensure they'll still have a career in politics. Thus, he told MSNBC, he doesn't anticipate they're going to be willing to give up their careers for Donald Trump.

Mike Pence was told Tuesday that he must testify before special counsel Jack Smith's grand jury dealing with the Jan. 6 attack and the classified documents scandal. He's not the only Trump associate being forced to come forward, however.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell ridiculed former Vice President Mike Pence for appearing on a "network you probably don't watch and haven't heard of" and claiming that he won his lawsuit trying not to appear before the grand jury.

The station was Newsmax, and Pence spoke to former Fox host Greta van Susteren, saying, "So, I — I can tell you — I'm pleased that the court accepted our argument and recognized that the Constitution's provision about speech and debate does apply to the vice president. But the way they sorted that out and the requirements of my testimony going forward are a subject of our review right now. And I'll have more to say about that in the days ahead."

Donald Trump's lawyers motioned for a summary judgment in the E. Jean Carroll case. If approved, it would mean that the judge would look at nothing more than the evidence presented and the statements given and make a ruling based on that.

In a new filing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump's motion.

Jeff Sharlet is a prominent expert on far-right extremism in the United States. His investigations have exposed the beliefs of the group that owned the so-called National Prayer Breakfast, the C Street group and "The Family."

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Sharlet revealed his latest project: exploring the increase in right-wing violence in the U.S.

The citizens of Baton Rouge might have a bad taste in their mouths after learning that city official Michael Mastin was contaminating their drinking water, the Ascension Parish Sheriff's inmate database states.

Inside Edition is sounding the alarm about a 57-year-old Louisiana man caught urinating in the city's clean water supply at least twice.

"Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em," MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said showing clips of former President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity this week.

Court documents in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox, Hannity was revealed to have been among those who tried to fire a fact-checker.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said, in passing, that when he was trying cases in Washington, D.C., involving the mafia, he witnessed less security at the courthouse than he did in Fulton County, Georgia and in New York.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace argued that the actions in New York are coming as a result of former Attorney General Bill Barr using Michael Cohen as the scapegoat for Donald Trump. In Georgia, however, she argued, it is something that Attorney General Merrick Garland should have addressed years ago.

Despite his best efforts, former Vice President Mike Pence lost his bid to avoid the grand jury exploring those responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. It prompted a discussion on MSNBC about some of the evidence revealed by the House Select Committee during their 2022 probe.

Host Nicolle Wallace focused on information from the Jan. 6 committee and shared in Pence's autobiography in which he refused to get into a limousine once rushed to a safe location. Pence told his Secret Service lead that he didn't know who was driving the car, implying he didn't trust them.

The New York grand jury will not vote on an indictment this week, according to WNBC's Jonathan Dienst. The group isn't meeting on Wednesday, and when they gather on Thursday, they'll be working on other matters unrelated to former President Donald Trump.

The news made a former New York assistant district attorney speculate that the pause before a Trump indictment could be due to an ongoing concern about violence.

Gothamist reported Sunday that the New York Police Department was called when a man was having a mental health crisis. After just 28 seconds on the scene, they shot and killed him.

It's part of a long list of incidents in which police have been called into situations with a mentally ill person, and it ended in death.

Former Trump Org. executive Barbara Res told CNN on Sunday that she thinks that, to some extent, Donald Trump is actually enjoying all of the legal battles that he's experiencing.

Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Res conceded that Trump is likely feeling the pressure from the investigations, "but not the kind of pressure that a normal person would feel. I don't think he's fearing jail or anything like that. He knows that there's a lot going on, and what he's trying to do is make the most of it with his, you know, incitement of violence and is carrying on about the Russian state and things like that. Trying to feed his base and get and get some mileage out of it."

Fringe conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has continued with his shows despite owing over a billion dollars to the families of Sandy Hook victims after he lost several defamation cases. On Sunday, he issued a violent prophecy while discussing former President Donald Trump's recent rally in Waco, Texas.

"When Trump came out against nuclear war, I still had issues with him," Jones told his audience on Sunday. "But I said he was better than DeSantis. He just went way ahead of DeSantis, and we'll open the phones up. I know a lot of you are pissed at Trump. I've been pissed as well and — but with Trump, it's not a lesser of two evils. You know what you've got, he's got problems, but the deep state really hates him. He did a lot of good stuff. Do we just sit here and let them install somebody else or falsely put Trump in prison? He's really fighting the deep state and they see him as a threat to their power. They see him as a rival."