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In this special comedy interview, actor and impressionist Matt Friend brings his best political impressions to “The Beat.” Among them are Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. Friend also discusses his comedy heroes with MSNBC’s Ari Melber.Jan. 25, 2023.

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

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...

As Speaker Kevin McCarthy prepared to kick two Democrats off the House Intelligence Committee, even using this as the basis for political fundraising, some of his own GOP members weren’t altogether pleased with the plan. Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, for example, issued a statement yesterday describing the...

The hammer assault has led to unfounded conspiracy theories about former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, and any footage may in time be manipulated.

A Russian soldier is suspected of taking his own life this week shortly after being ordered to return to the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, RadarOnline.com has learned.Mikhail Lyubimov, 25, allegedly jumped from his mother’s tenth-floor apartment one day before he was scheduled to return to the Ukraine combat zone.The young Russian soldier reportedly plummeted more than 100 feet before hitting the ground and dying on impact.According to Daily Mail, Lyubimov, had been suffering from severe panic attacks and started drinking heavily after he initially returned from the war in Ukraine on leave.The soldier’s 43-year-old mother, Natalia Lyubimov, indicated...

Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC political analyst, talks with Alex Wagner about Meta's decision to allow Donald Trump back onto Facebook and Instagram after banning him in the wake of the January 6th insurrection he inspired. Jan. 26, 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.

MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber debunks Bill Barr’s defense of his conduct handling the Mueller Report, and draws on legal precedent and MSNBC's real-time reporting to fact-check Barr's claims. Jan. 26, 2023.

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.

See MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber's special report breaking down three federal sedition trials launched by the Garland Justice Dept. The report documents why sedition cases are legally rare; new evidence of Trump allies' contacts with militias; and how sedition convictions are vindicating part of the DOJ’s aggressive strategy. Melber also reports on evidence against Trump and Trump allies who did not physically storm the Capitol, but may have legal exposure.Jan. 25, 2023.

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Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the platforms over incendiary posts about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The Morning Joe panel discusses.Jan. 26, 2023.

On Joe Biden’s first day as president, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki assured reporters that he was committed to bringing “transparency and truth back to government.” Implicit in Psaki’s assertion was that former President Donald Trump wasn’t nearly as committed. But as the scandal surrounding Biden’s mishandling of classified materials continues to develop, the public has every reason to question both Biden’s commitment to transparency and whether the contrast between his behavior and Trump’s is as stark as the White House insists it is.

“I personally did not think Mike Pompeo could sink any lower. But he has now surpassed my already low expectations of him,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump Secretary of State’s new remarks about murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Jan. 25, 2023.

At face value, the dispute between DirecTV and Newsmax seems like the sort of corporate clash that occasionally arises in the telecommunications industry. The provider and the cable channel have a disagreement over funding, so the former decided this week to cut ties with the latter. The Daily Beast ran...

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.

John Eastman, the former Donald Trump lawyer and possible future Trump co-defendant, has added the potential loss of his California law license to his list of troubles. If the state plucks Eastman’s license, that could put the former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk’s Supreme Court bar membership in further jeopardy as well. As it happens, on the subject of fringe election efforts, he’s lead counsel on a Supreme Court amicus brief — meaning a brief filed by an outside party not directly involved in the case — supporting North Carolina Republicans and the so-called independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper.

Meta announced Wednesday that it will allow former President Donald Trump to return to Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension that followed his "acts of incitement" leading up to and during the Capitol riot in 2021. Facebook suspended Trump "indefinitely" on Jan. 7, 2021, after...

When it comes to White House aides, Donald Trump clearly had his favorites. And thanks to a recent move Trump made in court, that fact is probably hitting former White House adviser Peter Navarro with the force of an 18-wheeler right about now. Navarro’s contempt of Congress trial for refusing...