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No celebrity 'should be a damn president': Leslie Jones
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 17:14
When I go someplace and people tell me you should run for president. I said listen this is the problem with that theory. No celebrity should be a damn president.People who are in politics should do the political. I would be just as bad as Trump. I'm going to shut down a city if a dude don't text me back. Detroit don't get until Tyrone text me back.Like I'm just as ridiculous. I'd like to see that. >> I would make ghosting illegal.I You can't ghost me. I'm a ghostbuster. I'mma find your, >> you know.So, I th ...
‘It’s unnerving and it was predictable’: Epstein Survivor reacts to partial release of Epstein files
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 16:35
Joining us now, Jess, Jeffrey Epstein survivor. Jess, it has been a momentous week. I would love to just get your reaction on how you're doing.You, you know, your view of the files that have been released so far and what more that you want right now. >> Good morning. Thank you so much for having me and thank you for asking.I'm feeling every single emotion across the spectrum. It's unnerving and it was predictable because this is exactly what all of us have dealt with at to some degree for the last 30 years. ...
‘Families don’t know where to turn’: HHS Cuts millions in grants to American Academy of Pediatrics
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 16:34
The Department of Health and Human Services may be following through on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. .'s long-standing goal to change the childhood vaccine schedule.According to the New York Times, in the new year, the health secretary is expected to announce that American children should be immunized according to a different schedule with fewer vaccines, which aligns with the schedule used by the much smaller country of Denmark. Medical experts say the change would almost certainly lead to more cases of infectiou ...
Reverend slams ‘hypocrisy on display’ as young conservative Christians embrace Trump
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 14:48
As millions of Christians across the country gear up to celebrate one of their biggest holidays of the year, self-proclaimed Protestant Donald J. Trump is getting a stinging rebuke from religious leaders for his demonstrably uncchristian-like behavior. But at the grassroots and among young conser Christian conservatives, many believers remain behind the flawed president.From his shocking comments following the murder of Rob Reiner, accusing him of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome to his latest repo ...
‘The real point is authoritarianism’: Illinois official slams Trump’s renewed border patrol push
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 14:33
President Trump's border patrol commander, Gregory Bino, and his squad of masked federal agents returned to Chicago to continue the administration's immigration crackdown. Bino and the agents have since left, but not before snatching a popular tumali vendor near a home depot, according to the Chicago Tribune. Our next guest, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, opposes the actions of ICE and the Border Patrol in Chicago and went toe-to-toe with Bavino on X, writing, quote, "Stop the tough guy act. ...
‘Deeply disturbing’: House Dem blasts ‘anything but’ transparent DOJ after Epstein files disappear
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 13:47
Joining us now, Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balant of Vermont, a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. I want to get your reaction first off on the 16 images that just up and disappeared from the DOJ's website. >> This is deeply disturbing. I just want to remind everybody, let's start with the name of the act. It's the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And from the very first release of these documents, we're seeing anything but transparency. ...
Latest Epstein files release vindicates survivor
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 13:25
Across the hundreds of pages of the Epstein files released on Friday, much of what the public got was heavily redacted. You see it right there. Buried in those documents, though, was a revealing detail that confirmed Epstein survivor, Maria Farmer, warned the FBI all the way back in 1996 that Jeffrey Epstein was seeking out child pornography.That's more than a decade before federal investigators actually investigated him. Farmer, who later accused Epstein and his associate, Gla Maxwell of sexually assaultin ...
'LOOK CLOSER': Photo editor praises Vanity Fair's EXTREMELY intimate White House photoshoot
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 13:25
It's a modern tradition for Vanity Fair to photograph White House administrations, but the magazine's take on Trump 2.0% has caused quite the stir. This photo spread included incredibly zoomedin, not always flattering portraits of top officials like JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Steven Miller, and Trump chief of staff Susie Wilds. Other shots show them posing awkwardly or clearly showing people in the background.The photographer Christopher Anderson told the Washington Post he has used this style many times before ...
'Chasing women and chasing sex': NYT reporter on Epstein & Trump relationship
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 13:24
With all of the focus centered around the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, there has been a renewed interest in how the late sex offender who was once a teacher at New York City's prestigious Dalton school accumulated his massive wealth and ended up in circles with high-profile figures and orchestrated a vast sex trafficking operation. Now, two investigations by the New York Times unpack Epstein's rise to prominence, including one on how the college dropout got so rich. In it, Epstein is described as q ...
Reporting by MS NOW anchor leads to pastor's arrest after decades worth of child sex abuse crimes
MSNBC· 2025-12-21 13:22
We have a major update for you on a story that we first brought seven months ago about an influential Pentecostal children's pastor, Joe Campbell, who ministered to children across four states for over half a century in this country. Just this week, Campbell was arrested and charged with first-degree rape and lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16. When we first talked about this story, my colleagues Mike Hixenba, Roberto Daza, and I had just completed an NBC News documentary looking at decades of accusa ...