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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) demanded that Chairman Jim Jordan's (R-OH) House Judiciary Committee hearing be ended, calling it "beyond stupidity."

At Thursday's proceeding, House Republicans sought to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for declining to turn over audio tapes of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur that did not result in criminal charges.

Donald Trump's legal problems are starving state Republican parties of much-needed campaign cash.

A growing number of state GOP operations are nearly broke — or are already bust — and the former president's takeover of the Republican National Committee requires the party to run its donations through his Save America PAC, which spent more than $50 million on Trump's legal fees last year, wrote Democratic strategist Max Burns for MSNBC.

Manhattan Criminal Court — Former President Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche heard crickets in the courtroom when he took a jab at members of Congress in front of members of Congress.

Blanche Thursday became testy as he cross-examined former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, the star witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal hush money case whom the defense attorney sought to discredit.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is among the latest batch of Republican lawmakers who made a pilgrimage to New York City to sit in on former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan.

But her presence there was particularly revealing to a lot of people on social media, because very recently, Boebert's own son Tyler had to appear in court on felony charges for criminal possession of identity documents, strapped for cash and complaining to the judge he couldn't afford a lawyer.

As House Republicans move to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over the audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Joe Biden, the White House Counsel has notified two House committee chairmen President Biden is invoking executive privilege on those tapes.

"The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal—to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House Counsel Edward Siskel wrote in his letter to Republican Chairmen Jim Comer and Jim Jordan, as Politico reported. "Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate."

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has signed a lease for a building project at the site of the former Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade that was bombed in US-led NATO strikes in 1999.

The project has ruffled feathers in Serbia as the site is a painful symbol of the NATO bombing campaign that put an end to the war in Kosovo, with the breakaway province later declaring independence.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer questioned the narrative about Donald Trump's hush money trial that Robert Costello, Michael Cohen's former lawyer, has been peddling in support of the former president.

Costello spoke to Fox News after telling a House "weaponization" committee that Cohen was lying about Trump's involvement in hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The attorney claimed Cohen told him six years ago that he had no damaging information about Trump.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called out Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for trying to appease the "MAGA political base" by spending $20 million on hearings to investigate the Biden administration.

At a hearing on Thursday, Jordan complained that Attorney General Merrick Garland had not turned over audio tapes of an interview with President Joe Biden in an investigation that did not lead to a prosecution.

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were among those in the audience to support Donald Trump on Thursday — and the Colorado Republican was reportedly staring daggers at the former president's critics.

Photos were taken of the lawmakers positioned directly behind the ex-president as his trial began and Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, continued his testimony.

Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo was thrown for a loop by a Republican claiming he could show her proof that president Joe Biden used some type of stimulant to boost his performance during the State of the Union address.

Donald Trump claimed the president was "jacked up" on cocaine during the widely praised speech, and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) echoed that statement and told Bartiromo that Biden would likely need drugs again to compete against his Republican rival in the upcoming debates.

As former President Donald Trump's one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen testifies as the star witness at the former president's Manhattan criminal trial, Republicans have gathered at the courthouse to support him — and in so doing, have highlighted a key point of Cohen's testimony, writer Amanda Marcotte argued for Salon.

In courthouse rants, delivered by people like Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, they've relentlessly attacked the court process — and in many cases attacked people Trump is prohibited from going after under his gag order, like Judge Juan Merchan's daughter.

Former President Donald Trump's turncoat attorney Michael Cohen has been a star witness in the Manhattan criminal hush money case, but he still has one more day of cross-examination to get through — and there are many ways he could tank.

One of the biggest, said former Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore on CNN, is if the defense team catches him in a new lie.