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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is miffed. While visiting a convenience store, he found that things were less than convenient.

Taking to Twitter, Santos grumbled that his Gatorade was behind a locked door, and thus, he had to ask an attendant for help.

After an animated interview with Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, a biographer, who wrote Trump Nation, warned that the lawyer and his client don't know what witnesses have said and revealed to the grand jury.

MSNBC's Joy Reid, began the episode with a clip of Tacopina telling George Stephanopoulos that it was all about keeping something out of the news that would embarrass his family.

MSNBC host Ari Melber spoke to Donald Trump's lawyer on his Tuesday episode of "The Beat." The two debated whether or not Trump lied about the affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and that Trump paid the hush money payments just like a loan to his campaign.

"Sounds like you're saying one, not a campaign finance crime," Melber said, following up on that piece of the interview. "The misdemeanor, sure, maybe, but you don't want to deal with the misdemeanor. You're kind of admitting part of the misdemeanor."

MSNBC host Ari Melber hammered Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina on Tuesday about the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Melber showed a video of Trump being asked about the payments and if he knew about them. Trump answered, "no." Yet, his lawyer argued that it wasn't a lie because it wasn't under oath.

Former President Donald Trump could soon be facing a criminal indictment over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump insisted this week that the ordeal was an "extortion plot" and nothing more than "sick, fake news."

The claim that he was being extorted by Daniels is an admission of guilt, said former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann on Twitter on Tuesday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Russia's war with Ukraine is a "territorial dispute" that the U.S. should not get itself further embroiled in – and one retired American general says the Republican knows exactly the message that's sending to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

DeSantis made his comment the day before a Russian jet collided with a U.S. drone in international waters over the Black Sea. It's a radical shift from DeSantis' previous claims that America wasn't being tough enough against Russia after the country annexed Crimea.

Convicted killer Alex Fields Jr. has amassed a "significant" sum of money, according to prosecutors. Now, some of the money is being sucked out of his prison account.

CBS News reported Tuesday that a Virginia judge ruled that the money that Fields recently came into can be seized to pay for the approximately $80,000 that he owes for fines and restitution in his criminal case.

Former President Donald Trump could technically be indicted as early as Wednesday. That doesn't necessarily mean that he will be. But according to former Justice Department prosecutor and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, it is possible.

Legal analysts think that Michael Cohen is among the last witnesses for the grand jury to pull together all of the details to which others have already testified. While he's already spent most of Monday before the grand jury, he'll be back on Wednesday to do it again.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow explained that over the last several years, there has been a rise of extremism in the U.S., and added that it isn't just about the far-right and their cozy relationship with conservatives.

In one case, author Jodi Picoult had one of her best-selling books banned from a Florida library because a parent objected to the telling of a story involving the Holocaust.

In a discussion about the New York grand jury and the possible charges that Donald Trump could face, one of the Trump biographers, Tim O'Brien, explained on an MSNBC panel that he doesn't anticipate the former president will end up in prison.

O'Brien was asked if he thought the New York charges, even if there is a conviction, would stop Trump from running for president.

Host Stephanie Ruhle, who previously anchored Bloomberg News shows and has a degree in business, was brought onto an MSNBC panel tonight to discuss the recent bank failures.

She explained that the average American sees the news and wants to put their money into the big banks because it seems safer.

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump's CFO who is currently behind bars at Rikers Island Prison, could ultimately become part of the New York grand jury probe into the Stormy Daniel hush money payments. While former lawyer Michael Cohen took the fall for the payment, he testified to Congress in 2019 that Weisselberg was involved in the plot. In fact, Cohen claims he has a recording of Trump telling the two men to work out the plan.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Monday, Trump biographer David Cay Johnston said he expects Weisselberg is going to be hauled into this case and that his problems aren't over yet. Reid asked if this was going to be nothing more than a misdemeanor campaign finance piece. It's something that former FBI counsel Andrew Weissmann explained can be a felony if this is shown to have been a plot used more than once.

Republicans are taking the next step in their war on women. The latest proposal in South Carolina was to give the death penalty to women who have abortions. It didn't pass, but there were 21 Republicans who supported it.

Writing about the vote, Rolling Stone, Tessa Stuart explained that the "South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023" would redefine a "person" as a fertilized egg at any point of conception. Essentially meaning that even a zygote would have the same rights as a child and thus would equate homicide if aborted.