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A former senator reacted Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi's combative and stumbling responses to questions about the Jeffrey Epstein files before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, warning that "juries see that pause."

Attorney and former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that eventually, more information would come out.

"When I was a courtroom prosecutor and I had a witness on the stand, and they looked the way she looked when he asked that question, what was flashing through her brain was her telling the FBI agents and Kash Patel to go through those records and flag Donald Trump's name," McCaskill said....

Former President Donald Trump spent much of 2020 accusing then-candidate Joe Biden of campaigning from the basement while trying to avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus. Now, Trump is facing questions over campaigning from home.

At the top of MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline White House," former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) mocked Trump for campaigning from the back nine.

"If he wants to get out on the campaign trail and talk about his tax plan, if he wants to talk about what he is proposing for this country and he says it with any shred of truth, then he should be covered like a presidential candidate," McCaskill complained about media giving Trump too much oxygen. "Otherwise, he should just stay in his golf cart eating cheeseburgers."...

Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill highlighted clear differences between the Republican National Convention and its Democratic counterpart.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, the former Missouri lawmaker described the RNC as some clubhouse with a kind of political "no girls allowed" sign.

"Yeah, look at the split-screen, Nicolle, between the Republican convention and this one so far," said McCaskill. "The Republican convention was a testosterone-laden grievance machine, and coming out to the song 'Men Rule the World' and Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirt and you know. It was just ridiculous. It is like women don't have the right to vote."...

Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is filled with glee as Vice President Kamala Harris takes on Donald Trump.

During the MSNBC show "Deadline White House" on Monday, host Nicolle Wallace called it "a phenomenon of a woman being underestimated." Meanwhile, Wallace talked about Harris' "political acumen" and "how much better she is than anyone expected."

McCaskill called the Harris smackdown of Trump the perfect example of "karma."
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MSNBC panelists couldn't help but chuckle Monday afternoon after The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes identified former President Donald Trump as being in the "fat Elvis stage of his career."

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised Sykes's comment on Monday morning, which started the network off.

"I've got to give a shout-out to my friend Charlie Sykes," McCaskill said at the top of Nicolle Wallace's show. "I spit coffee over the weekend when I saw how he referred to Trump, that Trump is in the fat Elvis stage of his career."...

Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill struggled Wednesday to figure out why former President Donald Trump went to the National Association of Black Journalists, and in doing so, set his campaign aflame.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, questioned, "What did he think he was going to get?"

Trump kicked off the session by attacking it, refusing to answer questions, attacking the moderators, and questioning the legitimacy of Kamala Harris' race and identity. ...