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Jail for threats? In Trump case, RICO lawyer says real attacks land defendants in jail, not ‘gagged’ | MSNBC

November 20, 2023

Donald Trump’s legal team argued against a gag order in federal appeals court today. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the gag order and responds to audio from the court hearing. Manny Arora, attorney for convicted Trump aide Kenneth Chesebro, joins “The Beat” to weigh in on Trump’s clash with the DOJ in appeals court over his gag order in the DC election case, adding “If someone truly makes a threat to a witness or a prosecutor… You put them in jail.”

MSNBC: Young people want to feel good about their president and country, says pollster

November 6, 2023

Director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, John Della Volpe, joins Morning Joe to discuss new New York Times/Siena College polling on the 2024 election.

MSNBC: Something in him just snapped: ‘Profoundly disappointed’ Romney rips Trump Republicans in new book

October 25, 2023

Senator Mitt Romney, former Republican presidential nominee, has announced his retirement at the end of his current term, but he is not going quietly. On his way out he is making his feelings about past and current colleagues abundantly clear, with particular scorn directed at Donald Trump and his acolytes for what they’ve done to the Republican Party and the country broadly. McKay Coppins, author of the newly published “Romney: A Reckoning,” talks with Alex Wagner about his interactions with Romney in the course of writing the book.

‘Absolutely disgusted’: Town hall audience member says not all cheered Trump

October 6, 2023

Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett, who was among the Trump town hall audience: “There were others there that sat bewildered or absolutely disgusted to hear him talk about January 6 or to hear him talk about the liable case.”

Amb. Deborah Lipstadt on monitoring and combatting antisemitism | One-on-one with Stephanie Ruhle

October 6, 2023

Stephanie Ruhle sits down with the U.S. Special Envoy for monitoring and combatting antisemitism to discuss the troubling rise of antisemitic incidents over the past year.

Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities

March 28, 2023

Rachel Maddow looks at how school shootings have touched the lives of so many Americans that journalists who survived school shootings as children find themselves reporting on new school shootings as adults while their colleagues report on their own children in lockdown and some students live through multiple tragedies.