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NBC News' decision to hire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has drawn heated criticism from many people at the network, but The New Republic's Greg Sargent believes that there's a disturbing rationale behind it.

In his latest podcast, Sargent talked with New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen about the potential reasons behind McDaniel's hiring, and Rosen speculated that the network may have wanted some inside access to former President Donald Trump's orbit should he win the White House again this year.

Donald Trump and his lawyers annoyed the judge overseeing his hush money case involving Stormy Daniels, according to a legal expert who attended a pretrial hearing.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that the judge saw through their attempts to delay the trial and refused to budge on setting a new trial date for April 15, finding that the former president's legal team had been given more than enough time to review evidence recently provided by the Department of Justice to both prosecutors and the defense.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took aim at House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and threatened to strip his power, and a veteran Republican congressional staffer said the Georgia Republican lacked a coherent strategy and would only cause more chaos.

Greene made a motion to vacate Johnson last Friday, but she lacks much support from other Republicans and there's no obvious choice to replace him, and GOP political strategist Brendan Buck told MSNBC's "Way Too Early" that she may have bitten off more than she can chew.

A Minnesota Republican justified his opposition to new gun safety legislation this week by raising the specter of cows trampling unarmed Americans "into dust."

Heartland Signal reports that Republican Minnesota State Sen. Warren Limmer recently said that he could not in good conscience support a bill that would create statewide standards for the safe storage of firearms due to the impact it could have on farmers.

Donald Trump is having the same money troubles heading into the 2024 election that some of his allies believe cost him re-election four years ago.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire stunned "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough with a revelation about the depths of his fundraising issues, with that cash crunch forcing the cancellation of a campaign rally and keeping the former president holed up at Mar-a-Lago as president Joe Biden steps up his attacks.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig had some sharp words for Trump lawyer Alina Habba after she seemingly spiked the football to celebrate getting the bond her client will have to pay reduced.

Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Habba boasted that "we won" after an appeals court slashed the bond amount Trump must pay to appeal his civil fraud verdict from $464 million to just $175 million.

There are whispers in Trumpworld that if he goes on trial for the Stormy Daniels hush money case in Manhattan, he could squeak away with a "hung jury."

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said that former President Donald Trump's aides are banking on a happy ending in the the historic trial slated to begin April 15.

America's Mayor is moaning to Mar-a-Lago cohorts that he's stuck in a "nightmare world" after a defamation ruling forced him to declare bankruptcy, according to a new report.

Rudy Giuliani said he "wakes up every day and can't believe it's real," the New York Post's Page Six reported Monday.

Former President Donald Trump should be worried about the evidence stacked up against him, said his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen on MSNBC Monday — including the evidence Cohen himself plans to bring to bear.

Trump is facing down the first of his four criminal trials next month: the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. And Cohen, who has been described as a key witness in the case, told anchor Jen Psaki that case is strong.

Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters.

Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi scheme, and Sam Bankman-Fried, a cryptocurrency "wunderkind" who could be sentenced this week to up to 100 years in prison.

Donald Trump may be a stable genius, but Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is proving to be the stable hand who might be the former president's perfect foil.

That's according to to Miriam “Mimi” Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and current Westchester County District Attorney, who appeared Monday on CNN's "Out Front" to laud the New York City jurist overseeing Trump's criminal hush money case.