President Trump's Justice Department is weighing potential charges against former FBI Director James Comey. >> This is a surprise. >> Three sources familiar with the matter.>> No, it's not cuz Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to do this last week and fired a US attorney because the US attorney couldn't get evidence to go after his political enemies. Three sources familiar with the matter tell MSNBC the department is considering charging the former bureau chief with lying to Congress for his respons ...

Watch live coverage as President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House as Trump has indicated that the U.S. government’s hold on sales of advanced fighter jets to Ankara may be lifted. U.S. officials have cited concerns about Turkey’s human rights record under Erdogan and the country’s ties with Russia. Tensions between Turkey and Israel, another important American ally, over Gaza and Syria have at times made relations difficult with Turkey. For more ...

Well, right now the White House is telling federal agencies to prepare for another possible round of mass firings unless Congress can pass a measure by the end of Tuesday, which is when government funding is set to expire. As we said, one point of contention dividing the two parties is funding for healthcare. For more on that, let's bring in former Treasury official and Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Ratner.Steve, your first chart takes us through projections on how many Americans could lose their healt ...

are learning more details about the deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas yesterday and the suspect behind it. Investigators say one person was killed and two others critically wounded in the attack. No ICE officers were injured and the shooting victims were all detainees.Their identities have not been released. Authorities identified the gunman as 29-year-old Joshua John. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Now, DHS officials say John fired indiscriminately at the facility from the rooftop of ...

The majority of men in America want a return to traditional gender roles, but most women aren't so sure. That's just one finding from a brand new poll from the nonprofit news publication, The 19th, along with Survey Monkey. We're the first folks to get a look at this.And the study also takes a look at Americans views on toxic masculinity as well as abortion access and stay-at-home parenting. There's a lot to dig into here with editor at large for the 19th, Aaron Haynes. Erin, I was so happy when I started l ...

We're learning more details this morning about the deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas yesterday, as well as the suspect behind it. Investigators say one person was killed and two others were critically wounded in this attack. No ICE officers were injured and the shooting victims were all detainees.Their identities have not yet been released. Authorities identified the gunman though as 29-year-old Joshua John. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.DHS officials say John fired indiscriminately a ...

Well, the breaking news of the night reported by MSNBC's Kendallian, who will join our coverage this hour, is that federal prosecutors have written a memo arguing against trying to charge former FBI director James Comey with crimes. Donald Trump has publicly demanded that James Comey be charged with lying to Congress, which is only possible in the next six days before the statute of limitations would run out and make it impossible to charge James Comey on that. This week, Donald Trump forced out the US atto ...

Okay, so last night, as I think all of you know, Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC after the broadcaster's parent company, Disney, abruptly pulled his late night show last week. Now, that suspension, of course, followed Donald Trump's FCC chairman and total lackey, Brendan Carr, publicly warning ABC, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." How direct is that. Now, since then, Brendan Carr and some administration allies have desperately tried to spin those comments as not a threat to use the government's r ...

All right. So, as I just alluded to and you've probably all seen, MSNBC was the first to break the news today that the Trump administration is officially preparing to indict former FBI director James Comey. Now, in just a second, as I just mentioned with Chris, I'm going to talk to Pre Bar. He's standing by. He's a longtime friend of Comey's and he also, of course, succeeded him as the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. Now, to state the complete obvious, what we're all thinking, indicting t ...

Senate Democrats are up against this funding deadline and there is a a standoff about whether there is going to be a shutdown. Um, Donald Trump has had these like really super long posts in which he sort of goes off on a litany of things that he hates about you and the Democrats and how awful your politics are and he canceled the meeting with Chuck Schumer. The last time Democrats voted to fund this government, um, you were one of the votes that gave them uh that that kept the government open, right.How are ...