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Judge Merchan 'not doing himself any favors' in jury selection for Trump's hush money trial
Jury selection for former President Trump's hush money trial is supposed to begin today in New York. Our legal panel weighs in on the latest updates with the case.
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Trump team's 'first attack point' should be 'credibility' of witnesses in hush money trial
Jury selection for former President Trump's hush money case begins today in a Manhattan courtroom. This is the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Our legal panel provides more insight and legal analysis on the historic trial.
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On Ukraine, GOP’s Vance pushes claims that Russia wants to hear
It’s been a couple of weeks since House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul was surprisingly candid about one of his party’s direction. “I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” the Texas Republican complained. Less than a week later, the House Intelligence Committee’s Republican chair, Ohio’s Mike Turner, echoed the sentiment, conceding that some of his GOP colleagues are peddling rhetoric...
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First look at pictures of Trump inside courtroom at hush money trial
A first look at pictures of Trump inside courtroom at hush money trial.
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'An assault on our country': Trump speaks ahead of historic criminal trial
Former President Trump speak ahead of his historic criminal trial.
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John Kirby: What Iran did was truly unprecedented
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications at the White House, John Kirby, joins Morning Joe to discuss Iran's retaliatory attacks against Israel.
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The shady, sometimes amusing facets of the Trump hush money case make one thing clear
Based on my years of experience prosecuting complex fraud cases, the New York County District Attorney’s Office case against former President Donald Trump has all the hallmarks of a major fraud case, with tremendous jury appeal. For starters, the alleged cover-up of a presidential candidate’s hush money payments to a porn star to try to win an election is captivating and easily comprehensible — in stark contrast, for example, to the financial statements and property valuations from Trump’s civil...
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How Senate Republicans killed the child tax credit and made Tax Day 2024 worse for families
By the end of Monday, tens of millions of American families will have claimed their child tax credit on their 2023 tax returns. But for many families, that credit will be hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars smaller than it could have been. And all the blame for those smaller credits belong to Senate Republicans. In 2021, the American Rescue Plan temporarily increased the tax credit from $2,000, where it was set under the 2017 tax cuts, to $3,000 (or $3,600 for children under 6). It also made...
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How Trump's lawyers will try to pick the perfect New York jury
The twice-impeached former president of the United States, Donald Trump, begins the first of his four criminal trials on Monday. He faces 34 class E felony counts of falsification of business records in the first degree, and if convicted of one of those felonies, he could be looking at a maximum sentence of four years in state prison. Approximately 6,000 jurors have been subpoenaed to appear for jury duty this week in the Manhattan Criminal Courts, with about 1,500 being called to appear Monday...
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'He will go to jail': Advisor to Michael Cohen on why Trump could serve jail time if convicted in NY
Lanny Davis, legal advisor for Trump trial witness Michael Cohen, joins Jen Psaki to discuss the start of Donald Trump's first criminal trial.
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Biden, G7 leaders unanimously condemn Iranian attack
President Joe Biden and G7 leaders unanimously condemned Iran’s attack on Israel. Biden conveyed to Netanyahu that the U.S. will not be a part of any counteroffensive.
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Biden tells Netanyahu Israel should not retaliate against Iran
MSNBC’s own Andrea Mitchell joins Alex Witt with the latest on Israel’s assessment of Iran’s overnight attack and what can be expected from the two countries going forward.