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Marco Rubio hit with devastating clip on MS NOW as he fails fuming MAGA's own test

MS NOW's Ari Melber on Thursday exposed what he framed as a glaring act of MAGA hypocrisy — playing a side-by-side clip of right-wingers melting down over Bad Bunny's Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime show while Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an entire address in Spanish.

"Nobody understood a thing!" Fox News host Jesse Watters bemoaned to viewers about the half-time show.

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James Carville flags 'justifiably harsh' battle Democrats must win to escape their slump

Democrats remain stuck with weak favorability numbers despite winning a series of special elections and being poised in most polls to win the midterm elections in November, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday.

But there's a simple reason for that, and an equally simple way they can fix the problem, he added.

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MS NOW host reveals one thing Pam Bondi's 'legally sick' DOJ couldn't destroy

The story of Attorney General Pam Bondi's rise, fall, and firing is the story of the Trump administration failing to bend the federal courts to their will, said MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday — and taking it out on the woman given that impossible task.

"Washington is still absorbing Trump's firing of Attorney General Bondi yesterday after a brief 14 months on the job, and she was often overshadowed in terms of what her general duties required by her key failures on Epstein," said Melber. "As part of Trump's steady drip of frustrations with her, the journal reports, Bondi stoked expectations about releasing an Epstein client list. She raised the bar on herself and then later, basically all but conceded she was lying, just as she lied to MAGA influencers by handing them binders claiming to contain Epstein files, which did not a kind of fraud against your own base, daring them to speak out."

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Trump is 'scraping the bottom' for votes — and is in for a rude awakening: James Carville

Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday that President Donald Trump is reaching all-time lows with the public — and upcoming elections give Democrats a chance to twist the knife.

Carville and Melber focused in particular on a moment at Trump's latest press event when he walked out on a question about gas prices spiking.

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Trump just made a telling reveal in GOP's looming 2028 war: renowned strategist

Legendary veteran Democratic strategist James Carville had a lot of thoughts about President Donald Trump's chaotic press conference promising a swift end to the Iran war he just started — but one of the things he flagged was that Trump just sent a clear signal which camp of MAGA he backs to carry the torch in the 2028 election.

Specifically, he argued on MS NOW's "The Beat" Monday, Trump is throwing his support to the isolationist wing that was against him going into Iran in the first place.

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Trump Cabinet warned open season impeachment looms — but there's a catch

Longtime political strategist Chai Komanduri told MS NOW's Ari Melber that Democrats will have a valid reason to impeach several members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet should they retake the House in November, as many polls suggest is likely — but they should temper their expectations of just how much of a political boon it will be.

"When you look at the blatant admitted targeting of political opponents, which is unconstitutional, the allegations around grift and crypto — I asked Ty Cobb about this, who represented the Trump White House, and he said, in [Attorney General Pam] Bondi's case, of course, there's a substantive case to impeach her if they win the midterms," said Melber, who then played the clip of Cobb saying such.

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'Where were the lawyers in the room?' Ex-prosecutor ridicules Trump's Supreme Court case

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments about President Donald Trump's executive order to rewrite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and abolish birthright citizenship, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann broke down the absurdity of the government's position on MS NOW — and predicted it would be smacked down resoundingly.

"I hate to go out on a limb and predict what's going to happen, but let's just say widely, widely within the legal community, the question is how close to 9-0 will this decision be against the administration?" Weissmann told anchor Ari Melber, himself an attorney.

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'Who are they for?' Ex-Trump lawyer appalled at buildup of MAGA prison network

Former Trump administration White House lawyer Ty Cobb delivered a dire warning Wednesday on MS NOW about the growing network of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities that are planned and funded — and suggested that Trump having that much detention power and resources at his disposal is horrifying.

Cobb's warning came in the middle of a discussion with anchor Ari Melber, about the possibility ICE might try to engage in election interference by stationing agents at polling places.

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