As he seeks to smash and grab 230 million bucks, Donald Trump's reckless campaign to wreck the rule of law with his prosecutions is today wobbling a bit like a Jenga tower that got a little too tall. today in two jurisdictions in the Eastern District of Virginia and in New Jersey. Trump's handpicked prosecutors, both with zero experience as prosecutors, but totally down with going after Trump's critics, regardless of the facts in the cases, are both facing challenges to their appointments, to the legality o ...

JD Vance, the vice president, is in Israel today trying to keep hold of the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. He plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as other regional leaders. But when asked about what's next for the peace process, the vice president told reporters it was too soon to ask.>> Remember, this peace deal was struck under the president's leadership literally a week ago. The hostages returned what, six days ago, 5 days ago. So, we're in the phase now where we're actually ...

Joining us now, MSNBC justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delaney and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, former deputy assistant attorney general Tom Dri and lawfares legal fellow and courts correspondent Anna Bower. Anna had an interesting few days. We're going to get to that in just a moment. Ken, let me start with you. This legal filing, a lot of words, a lot of different ways to say one thing. This case is political retribution and that is illegal under the law. Yeah, that's right, Katie. And ...

Legal publication Lawfair is reporting that the interim US attorney started a 33-hour signal text exchange with one of their reporters discussing the recent indictment of New York Attorney General Leticia James. So, in those messages, Halligan criticizes the reporter Anna Bower's social media post that summarize a New York Times report on grand jury testimony, calling them biased and not true. Bower wrote this in her piece.My exchange with Hallagan was highly unusual in a number of respects. She initiated a ...

Officials say they just thwarted a mass shooting at the busiest airport in the world. NBC's Laura Hayley is here following it all for us. What exactly happened.I've been in direct contact with the Atlanta Police Department and they told me how it all went down. 49year-old Billy Kaggel walked in to Atlanta's International Airport Monday morning and police say he headed right for that TSA security line. they say to scope it out all while his pickup truck was parked directly outside the terminal doors.Inside o ...

And joining us now, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Senator Warren, it's great to have you. I want to talk about where I left off with Jackie here, which is Leader Thun telling me last week he could guarantee a vote on reformed ACA subsidy extensions for Democrats. Why doesn't that offer work for you and your colleagues? >> Look, it's not about having a show vote. It's about sitting down and negotiating to roll back the health care cuts that are going to hammer tens of millions of peop ...

And joining me now here to talk about where we go next, Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Holland, member of the budget committee. Good to see you, Senator. I mean, look, um, I know Democrats are trying to spare people the pain of higher health care costs.You've been articulate about it. You fought long and hard about it, but you alone also have, for example, nearly 700,000 people on food stamps just in your state. You just heard what Kevin had to say.um you know, SNAP benefits, missed paychecks. What d ...

You know, you cannot help but wonder if President Donald Trump didn't wait until after this weekend's massive no kings protests. You can't help but wonder if he didn't wait until these protests were already done before today he started literally physically tearing down the White House. This is not AI.That is a real thing. I mean, the No Kings Day protests saw 7 million Americans turning out in the streets, coast to coast, protesting against him this weekend. Imagine how many millions more there might have b ...

in front of the facade of the White House. It is not being obliterated. Uh as Donald Trump who promised that he was not going to take a wrecking ball to the existing structure has taken a wrecking ball to existing structure. I got to say m it really is it's it is it is hard to watch that and it's hard to believe that any president could destroy the White House uh and and take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic.That is what's happening. It'd be one thing if if you were building on or you we ...

And Gracias is um scheduled to face the Homeland Security Committee later this week, but we just heard again today from some Republicans in the Senate who literally laughed at the idea that there should be a hearing for him. What are you hearing. >> Yeah, Chris, things are not looking good right now for Paul Ingracia's nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel.as you mentioned, political reporting on those text messages yesterday and they are reverberating here up on Capitol Hill. He's supposed to si ...