President Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes are gearing up to try to provoke a "race war" over his Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday evening.

And the key moment he's going to try to do it, Carville argued, is during the "convention" Republicans are arranging in Minneapolis this summer, an unusual move outside of a presidential year that Trump is hoping can juice his flagging numbers ahead of the midterms.

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.

After weeks of mounting tensions, protests, and a brutal Department of Homeland Security crackdown on Minneapolis that has left multiple people dead, President Donald Trump's controversial Border Patrol enforcer Greg Bovino is reportedly being ousted from his job.

But don't expect personnel changes to send a meaningful message to Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they should stop using their current heavy-handed tactics, former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday.

President Donald Trump's designs on Greenland seem almost perfectly calculated to be a boon to Russia and Vladimir Putin, New York University professor and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday evening.

"Ruth, what do you see as the validity of this move?" asked Melber. "On a scale of 0 to 10, we're seeing a lot of folks say zero. It has — it's not a risk/reward, it has no particular validity. What do you rate it? And then what do you think is really going on with Trump and this plan?"

President Donald Trump's Agriculture Secretary's advice to Americans on how to eat affordably is clueless and insulting, MS NOW's Ari Melber said on Thursday night's "The Beat" — even comparing it to the almost certainly apocryphal tale of French monarch Marie Antoinette suggesting to the starving peasantry, "let them eat cake" if they had no bread.

Secretary Brooke Rollins, who last year suggested people upset with high egg prices raise chickens in their backyard, sparked fresh outrage this week when she said on Fox Business that her department has done "1,000 simulations" and determined that Americans can easily make a $3 meal with "a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing."

President Donald Trump's heavy-handed tactics in Minneapolis as people gather to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and defend their communities, are only going to make things worse for him and turn people further against his agenda, MS NOW analyst Chai Komanduri told "The Beat" anchor Ari Melber on Friday evening.

Melber played a number of clips of recent altercations between protesters and federal agents, showing officers screaming at nonviolent protesters, accusing them of obstructing enforcement, physically assaulting them, and deploying chemical spray.

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.

President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid director, former talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz, faced an intense grilling by MSNBC's Ari Melber over the House GOP's new plan to cut hundreds of millions from Medicaid funding, and particularly the imposition of work requirements that could throw millions of people off insurance.

Republicans tried the idea during the first Trump administration, which failed to improve either the Medicaid system or recipients' employment.