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'The excuse for doing this is so paper thin': Trump sends National Guard to DC
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 21:21
[Applause] So that's what violent crime in DC looks like. And Donald Trump sat in the White House watching that happen for hours and did nothing. Police officers were brutally beaten as America's tradition of a peaceful transfer of power was ended on that day, January 6.Trump supporters chanted to hang Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence. Yet today, in a very peaceful day in Washington that looked nothing like that, and amid a 30year crime low in the nation's capital, Donald Trump decided to claim that n ...
'Get your stories straight': Nicolle Wallace calls out JD Vance contradicting Trump on Epstein
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 21:05
Now, just as a general rule of thumb, if you are trying to convince the public that there's nothing to see here, nothing at all, it's a very good idea to get your story straight. Not that Donald Trump has ever been particularly consistent on the matter of Jeffrey Epstein, but today, yet another whiplash moment in the Trump administration having to do with what exactly the American people are being asked to believe. For starters, just so it's top of mind, recall the way Donald Trump himself spoke of the cont ...
D.C. Mayor on Trump deploying National Guard to city: 'Unsettling and unprecedented'
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 21:01
All right, that's Mayor Muriel Bowser. She's uh said that she wasn't um entirely surprised by this move from President Donald Trump. She believes that the president's view of DC was shaped by his COVID area era experience uh in the city and and that was when crime was spiking.But as we have noted, crime has been on the decline. Joining us now, MSNBC justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delaneian, staff writer for the Atlantic, Michael Sharer, author of the Red Letter on Substack, Tara Palm Mary, and r ...
Trump's Revenge Tour: DOJ targets Schiff, Comey and more
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 20:41
PROSE. >> ANGIE JOB'S DONE WELL. >> NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES, SENATOR ADAM SCHIFF, SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY.WHAT DO THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON. WELL, ALL HAVE PLAYED KEY ROLES IN INVESTIGATIONS INTO DONALD TRUMP, AND ALL ARE NOW LEGAL TARGETS OF THE PRESIDENT'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS HIS REVENGE TOUR ESCALATES. JOINING US NOW, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY AND MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST JOYCE VANCE, NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT GLENN THRUSH IS ...
Trump puts D.C. police under federal control, deploys National Guard
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 20:24
Joining us now, NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba, NBC senior national security correspondent Courtney Kubie and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin. U Monica, I want to begin with you. Give me a little bit of background on where the president is getting these numbers and what led him to this.So, this is actually something the president has been talking about for months, Katie. He even signed an executive order back in the spring that was focused solely on DC. But then in the last week or so, ...
Redistricting Fight Latest: Texas Dems remain out of state to block vote
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 20:15
To those absent members, you can go to another city, another state, even another time zone. But you cannot escape your responsibility to the people of Texas. Eventually, you will be here.Tomorrow, when the gavl drops, the question is simple. Will you be in that chair to vote for these critical disaster recovery bills, or will you be remembered as one who did not show up. The choice is yours.And that happened just a couple minutes ago. That's the speaker of the Texas Legislative State House um basically sayi ...
Working class will become 'poorer' due to Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': Dem lawmaker
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 19:56
In just minutes, the Congressional Budget Office will release its updated report on President Trump's signature spending law. The CBO's final word on who Trump's so-called big, beautiful bill benefits and who it hurts. It will reflect the changes made before the bill was signed into law on July 4th.The CBO previously estimated it would add $3.4% trillion to the national debt, but that number is expected to rise in this final report. Joining us now, Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman and ranking member of t ...
Washington state mother and 6-year-old son detained by ICE
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 19:53
Another ICE arrest this weekend that just really makes you scratch your head. I want you to take a look at this photo. This is Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son Isaac.Sarah's from New Zealand. A mother of three has been living in Everett, Washington. Well, this weekend she drove her older kids into Canada to drop them off for a flight back to New Zealand.And on her way back, she and Isaac were detained by ICE. Now, Sarah thought all of her paperwork was set. her work authorization had been approved, but h ...
Carjackers lead police on DRAMATIC high-speed chase in LA on LIVE TV
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 19:31
Overnight, a dramatic chase and suspects still on the loose. This is now the California Highway Patrol that is in pursuit. On a California freeway, police in pursuit of carjackers who they say took over a series of vehicles, including a semitr.Authorities say the chase began after law enforcement received a call of a carjacking at gunpoint. Is believed to be carjacking suspects inside of this Ford F-150. They even shot at the rightful owner.The suspect's driving on the wrong side of the freeway. Move out of ...
Judge denies DOJ's attempt to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell documents
MSNBC· 2025-08-11 19:07
break this down for us. What are we hearing from this judge. >> This was a resounding ruling, Anna.totally repudiating the Justice Department's request to unseal these transcripts really saying that there are no special circumstances here and it's not in the public interest to violate grand jury secrecy by throwing this stuff out to the public. In part because the judge said these materials would reveal nothing new. They're basically a summary of things that are already in the public record from the trial o ...