Rep. Aguilar: Funding for Covid, Ukraine aid the important priority for December

Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country's most important issues, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Neither party's congressional leadership earns majority approval, and Republicans are particularly likely to express discontent with their own party leadership.

Tyre Nichols died after encountering Memphis police officers. Now five ex-officers are being charged with his murder after being fired. MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler joins Joy Reid on this debacle of justice saying, "It's the Republicans in Congress that have stood in the way of passing legislation that would make a difference and prevent more tragic cases like this one."Jan. 27, 2023.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-NY, joins Morning Joe to discuss a new bill to strengthen federal policies and procedures around classified documents. Rep. Torres also discusses House Speaker McCarthy's blocking of Reps. Schiff and Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee and the naming of George Santos to two committees.Jan. 26, 2023.

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ, both of the Problem Solvers Caucus, discuss the fight over the debt ceiling.Jan. 26, 2023.

Trump, who referred to Putin as a "genius" the week Russia invaded Ukraine, was once impeached over his dealings with Kyiv.

Vladimir Putin, who is believed to be about 5 feet 7 inches, was photographed with students of Lomonosov Moscow State University on Students' Day on Wednesday.

About a month before the 2022 midterm elections, Donald Trump went after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an unusually ugly way, suggesting the Republican lawmaker “has a DEATH WISH” for legislating in ways the former president didn’t like. But Trump didn’t stop there. In the same...

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust on Friday filed a complaint requesting the Office of Congressional Ethics investigate Rep. Adam Schiff for alleged violations.

Many expected a Russian victory over Ukraine in "a matter of days or weeks," but not US National Guardsmen, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson said this week.

Inflatable tanks are a staple of Russia's deception doctrine known as maskirovka, or masking, meant to boost stealth tactics and sow confusion.

MAGA firebrand and serial conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is rumored to be angling for the position of Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in the 2024 election. Whether that’s remotely likely is hard to say at this point. But the fact that at least some figures on the right see it as plausible speaks to the catastrophic state of the GOP’s establishment politics today.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how George Santos’s newest lie that his response to the press will be “comprehensive,” along with his failure to answer questions about his possible campaign finance crimes, shows how “House Republicans are fully accepting of lies told to them that they know are lies.”Jan. 27, 2023.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder to discuss the news announced by President Biden that the U.S. and allies are sending tanks to Ukraine to aid its fight against Vladimir Putin's army.Jan. 26, 2023.

A New York Times bombshell investigation exposes new details and "ethical" breaches in the failed effort by Trump Attorney General Bill Barr to tarr the DOJ, and find a "deep state" bias against Donald Trump. Barr's handpicked prosecutor failed to find supporting evidence or win the few cases he filed, and the Times reports intelligence agencies contradicted Barr's theories -- and ultimately his “strained justification” for the probe fell apart. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber analyzes the story on the day it broke, and, while carefully noting there were no alleged crimes, the account raises other questions of ethics and abuse of power by Barr.Jan. 27, 2023.

Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) joins Andrea Mitchell to react to Speaker McCarthy’s decision to kick Democrats Swalwell and Schiff off the Intelligence Committee and threat to kick Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee. “This is hypocrisy,” says Spartz. “I want to defend the due process of this institution, because we're becoming like a theater full of actors in the circus and this unacceptable.”Jan. 25, 2023.

Freshman Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, an auto mechanic shop owner who became the first Democrat elected in Washington's rural third district in 12 years, joins MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss her plans to make the federal government "more effective and more accessible" through her assignments on the House Small Business & Agriculture Committees.Jan. 27, 2023.

“DeSantis, Pompeo, Haley, Pence—any of them—are going to have to confront Trump face-to-face," says Chris Hayes. "So far none of the serious contenders have been willing to do so. Stunts, soundbites, subtweets, subtext—it doesn't work. It only gets you so far."Jan. 27, 2023.

Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News is causing headaches for the network and boss Rupert Murdoch. Political Strategist Chai Komanduri joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber, and discusses Fox’s recent programming “pivot” toward Ron DeSantis. Komanduri argues Murdoch views Trump as a financial liability in several ways, and is ready to “get off that train.”Jan. 27, 2023.

“McCarthy has been specific in my case that this was a promise that he made to his donors,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar. “It should be unethical for a speaker, for a leader to exchange dollars in removing a duly elected member from a committee.”Jan. 26, 2023.

“This is what everyone needs to know, as we watch what happens with this new Republican House committee—the investigation into the ‘weaponization of the federal government.' It has already been done. It cost $6 million. It went on for 4 years. It failed," says Chris Hayes, discussing new reporting on the Durham investigation. Jan. 27, 2023.