Special Counsel Jack Smith is telling Republicans, "Game on. " In a letter just released from his attorneys to Congressman Jim Jordan and Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committee, Jack Smith is offering to testify, but he wants to do so in a public hearing about the investigations he conducted. Jack Smith's attorneys writing this quote, "Given the many mischaracterizations of Mr. . Smith's investigation into President Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents ...

Legal & Compliance - Two major fraud cases are announced, one involving sports betting and the other involving illegal gambling [1] - The indictments contain only allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty [4] Sports Betting & NBA - A sports betting corruption scheme exploited confidential information about National Basketball Association athletes and teams [2] - The scheme is described as one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States [1] Illegal Gambling & Poker - A nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games involved 31 defendants [2] - Millions of dollars were stolen from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed using high-tech cheating technology [2] - The games in the New York area were backed by the Banano, Gambino, and Genovves crime families of Lazinostra [3] Individuals Involved - Three overlapping defendants are charged in both cases: Damon Jones, Eric Ernest, and Shane Hennan [3] - Former professional athletes are among the defendants involved in the illegal poker games [2]

I've got a great group to talk to about this. MSNBC senior White House correspondent Von Von Hillyard. Julian Zeazar is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton.Reed Galen is an independent strategist and a co-founder of the Lincoln Project. Sarah Matthews was uh knows the East Wing well. She was deputy press secretary in Trump's first term.She is currently spokesperson for the group Home of the Brave. Okay, Von, give us first a sense of the push back that seems to be growing and what the White ...

We've got some breaking news now. Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have launched a joint investigation into the Trump Department of Justice over President Trump's demand for a reported $230 million payout over past investigations into him and his campaign. Let's bring in MSNBC congressional reporter Kevin Fry.Kevin, tell us more. Yeah, I mean and this all of course stems from the complaint that Trump has pursued when it comes to both uh the investigation, the special counsel investi ...

President Trump's second term is drawing alarm from protests to experts over this drift away from democracy and towards an autocratic slide that can be understood sometimes not so much by looking to our own history but those of other countries from Turkey to Hungary where systems that once used elections and law as a baseline began to bend to autocrats where scenes of troops abroad resonate differently now for many in America as Trump repeatedly deploys soldiers inside our country to US cities that he views ...

We're watching the White House slowly get chipped away on the east wing or >> you call that chipping away. You call that shipping. >> I mean that is like a wrecking ball complete demo.>> It it raises the question like is there no oversight. Could a president tear down the entire White House if he wanted to. I think Charlie Sykes was asking that question yesterday.It's >> kind of surprising like you know there will be people say well presidents have done this and that and that. Yeah, that's right. They have, ...

Is everybody down with what's happening. Do you ever look around during this term and say, "How did we get here? Do people want this?" Well, most people are opposing the Trump second term. Now, we know he won more votes last year.That was for what he campaigned on. And if you think about it like this, last year in July, Biden dropped out of the campaign after that debate. His disapproval was 58%.So, we all remember the anti-Biden vibe that actually led to the displacement of the Democratic nominee was 58. W ...

And I know that you know that space intimately. So I wonder what goes through your mind when you've seen those images and now this reporting in just the last few minutes from the Associated Press which has been documenting it that it's gone. >> You know, it's just sad.Honestly, it's it's so sad because we did so much good work there in the East Wing. It wasn't just about the building. It wasn't just about what it stood for or the history.is about the fact that it was the people's house and we welcomed peopl ...

Just one day after cancelling an upcoming summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Trump announced new sanctions on the Kremlin targeting its most valuable export, oil. >> That they'll certainly have an impact there. They're massive sanctions.It's sanctions on oil. Uh the two biggest oil companies, among the biggest in the world, but they're Russians. Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations and then uh they don't go anywhere. They just don't go anywhere.You never know with war, but ...

America's cattle ranchers and some of the biggest organizations representing them are voicing heated opposition to President Trump's decision to help Argentina. They say his plan to quadruple beef imports from Argentina will seriously hurt their bottom line just when they've had some rare years of profitability. But the president dismissed that criticism, writing on Truth Social, the farmers don't understand how they're benefiting from his tariffs.Our MSNBC teams are reporting live from cattle ranches in bo ...