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U.S. Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) is blasting Donald Trump, after the President-elect held a rambling 70-minute press conference aired live by cable news stations on Tuesday, during which he declared he will rename the Gulf of Mexico, threatened the possible taking of Greenland and the Panama Canal by military force, threatened annexing Canada as the 51st state via "economic coercion" if necessary, suggested Hezbollah was part of the January 6 insurrection, criticized the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the day his body is set to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol before his funeral Thursday, declared rain comes "down from heaven" while ranting about states trying to conserve the precious commodity, claimed windmills are "driving the whales crazy" while threatening to ban them, and threatened if the Gaza hostages are not released by the time he is sworn in to office, "all hell is going to break out."

Congressman Himes railed against Trump's remarks, noting that, "Mexico is really, really important to us in stopping fentanyl, and helping us with the migration problems we have that at the southern border. Canada's really important to us, another NATO ally. We should not be gratuitously pissing these people off."

Any notion that President-elect Donald Trump is riffing when he suggests buying Greenland is flatly wrong, but his suggestions to annex Canada are clearly a "troll" meant to be a "dominance play," CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said Tuesday.

"The idea that he's just coming up with this on the fly, that's not the case," Collins told fellow CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Tuesday evening, referring to his remarks about purchasing Greenland.

Far-right Trump-appointed district judge Aileen Cannon has no authority to block special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his report on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday evening.

This comes as other legal experts have speculated Cannon herself knows such an order to block the report is invalid, and she just wants to run out the clock long enough for Trump to appoint officials at the Justice Department who can prevent it from being released.

Despite his best efforts, President-elect Donald Trump is still scheduled to be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions this Friday in New York.

Trump was hoping to push his sentencing date past his January 20 inauguration date, after which any sentencing is unlikely given that it would interfere with his duties as commander-in-chief. But on Tuesday, Justice Ellen Gesmer of the First Judicial Department's Appellate Division in New York denied the president-elect's motion to delay his January 10 sentencing date.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced a huge list of changes and hires that appear directly calculated to ingratiate himself to President-elect Donald Trump — but it's unlikely to give him the mileage and goodwill he's hoping for, political strategist Chai Komanduri told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday's edition of "The Beat."

"What do you see in the politics here?" asked Melber. "Zuckerberg previously had different policies, he said he had frankly different views, so had Trump lost, had the vote swung a point and a half the other way, presumably, we would be moving past some of this."

President-elect Donald Trump has lately doubled down on his obsession with annexing new territory into the United States, from his desire to buy Greenland to his ultimatum for Canada to become a U.S. state if it wants to avoid tariffs, to most recently calls to reclaim the Panama Canal Zone and turn the Gulf of Mexico into the "Gulf of America."

But even all of this wasn't enough for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon. On his latest "War Room" episode on Tuesday speaking to far-right activist Jack Posobiec, he fantasized about Trump seizing the entirety of the North American continent.

Meta tech tycoon Mark Zuckerberg was raked over the coals as a "surrender monkey" by The Bulwark's Jonathan Last on Tuesday over his new spate of changes at his company that appear directly calculated to ingratiate himself to President-elect Donald Trump.

This comes after Zuckerberg paid a visit to Trump's estate at Mar-a-Lago, and as a number of tech billionaires are under fire — even from some Trump supporters — as their companies give millions to fund Trump's inauguration festivities.

Donald Trump could be setting up congressional Republicans for an early failure by going for a big legislative victory right out of the gate.

The president-elect is pushing for one "powerful" reconciliation bill combining his biggest priorities to make sweeping changes to fiscal policy by using special rules regarding economic legislation that requires only half the Senate's approval and would not be subject to a Democratic filibuster, but Washington Post analyst Aaron Blake is doubting its passage.

President-elect Donald Trump continues to be fascinated by Greenland, which he thinks the United States should acquire from Denmark. This week, Trump sent his son, Donald Trump Jr., along with far-right activist Charlie Kirk, to visit the island off the coast of Canada.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Democratic strategist Richard Goodstein said that this likely reminds foreign leaders of Trump's ignorance of foreign affairs.

A new report from the Department of Justice's inspector general shows that three of Donald Trump's officials may have worked to influence the 2020 election from their posts in the department.

Top officials at Trump's Justice Department may have tried to influence the election by pressing investigations into Democratic governors and then leaking private details about those investigations to right-wing news, ABC News reported Tuesday.

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's language changed drastically on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump answered questions about his fantasy of using "economic force" to take over Canada.

Trump spoke at Mar-a-Lago about his desire to make Canada a state. Trump told reporters he wouldn’t rule out using military action to regain control of the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland from Denmark. When asked if he would consider the same to obtain Canada, Trump replied, “No — economic force.”

David Clements, an attorney for Jan. 6 riot defendant Jacob Lang, demanded that the government seize the assets of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to be used as "restitution" for those who were charged with participating in the Capitol attack.

At a Monday news conference on the fourth anniversary of Jan. 6, Clements pleaded with President-elect Donald Trump to pardon his client, who remains in prison awaiting trial.

Jan. 6 defendant William Pope has been granted his request to attend Donald Trump's inauguration despite his bail rules.

Pope, who fired his lawyer and asked to represent himself in 2022, filed the request before the end of 2024 to delay his trial for two weeks until after the inauguration. Judge Rudolph Contreras granted it Tuesday and gave permission for him to go to D.C., Politico's Kyle Cheney wrote on BlueSky.