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On tonight's episode of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, Democratic strategist Fernandi Amandi noted that as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) decides to run for president, he's facing off against his own kind of Oedipus complex.

"He is absolutely setting the stage for a presidential run, but there's a little bit of an Oedipus Rex DeSantis complex going on here because Donald Trump is the political father of Ron DeSantis," said Fernandi.

Saddleback Church pastor and founder Rick Warren is in a battle with the Southern Baptist Convention after advocating for women, something the Baptists ban from the pulpit.

Warren has retired from his position as the head of the church, telling people that he was eager to retire and read as many books as he could get his hands on about "the Great Commission and on church history."

The end of the week panel on Joy Reid's Friday MSNBC show discussed the Republican Party's move further right.

The chat began with the group trashing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for not being ready for primetime as he prepares for a potential presidential run. DeSantis recently had supporters of Donald Trump's thrown out of an event, which isn't likely to grow his audience. DeSantis is also at war with Disney, claiming that people are "sexualizing children."

The revelations from the New York Times report about possible criminal charges coming down the pike for former President Donald Trump sent legal analysts searching for more specifics to conclude what's happening at the New York District Attorney's Office.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained that Trump could claim "witch hunt" all he wants, but he's never been indicted on criminal charges.

Many political analysts and armchair pundits on Twitter thought that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was going to be the first to drop charges against Donald Trump. That was when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said: Hold my beer.

The New York Times reported on Thursday afternoon that the DA was close to making criminal charges against Trump that would include both state and federal charges.

Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA) admitted that his party's budget is going to be late, but that it's really all President Joe Biden's fault.

“We were gonna do the budget in April. But unfortunately, the President's so late with his budget, it delays our budget," McCarthy explained, according to CNN's Melanie Zanona.

In a broad conversation about the national security implications of lies told by Fox News on the United States, former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi connected the dots between the conservative network and violence in the country.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor and former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice Mary McCord both agreed with Figliuzzi that the broad implications of what has been found in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox.

In a House hearing on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) claimed that Donald Trump saved the American economy after the COVID-19 crisis.

"President Trump's pro-growth and pro-worker, er, uh, pro-worker economy created by the tax cuts and job act and investing in American manufacturing combined with the unparalleled response to the pandemic created the fastest — fastest economic recovery in history," she told the committee.

Near the end of the House "weaponization" hearing on Thursday, newly-elected Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) called out Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for claiming the hearings are about the First Amendment when he's refusing to talk about Republicans around the country working to ban books.

"You said this committee is all about protecting the First Amendment," Goldman said.

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) debunked claims made by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) during a House Oversight hearing on Thursday.

The debate between Boebert and Porter began after the former claimed that 20 to 30 percent of federal workers didn't log into work "on any given day" between March and Dec. of 2020, citing a leaked memo. Boebert went on to claim that federal workers no longer have to report their vacations as time off and that all they have to do is claim to be working from home "while at a swim-up bar in Cabo."

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) took to Twitter on Wednesday to tell Republicans that if they want to relitigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that she's more than happy to make that a top issue.

"Bring it on," she tweeted.

New filings from Dominion Voting Systems were released on Wednesday, responding to Fox News' request for summary judgment from the lawsuit.

In their response, Dominion begins, "Finally, Fox has conceded what it knew all along. The charges Fox broadcast against Dominion are false. Fox does not spend a word of its brief arguing the truth of any accused statement. Fox has produced no evidence—none, zero—supporting those lies."