[Music] If it's Thursday, President Trump and his justice department look to send a message to another Trump critic and sources tell NBC News that federal prosecutors are seeking a grand jury indictment against the president's former national security adviser, John Bolton, right now. Plus, President Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet face to face to discuss ending the war in Ukraine as he warns Hamas that the US will quote go in and kill them if Hamas violates the ceasefi ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, resulting in several contentious exchanges with Democrats on the committee. I'm not sure what was accomplished. We'll try and figure that out here.At several points, Bondi launched into personal attacks against many of them when they accused her of deflecting or refusing to answer their questions. Specifically, Democrats asked Bondi about National Guard deployments and immigrant arrests in US cities, President Trump direct ...

But we begin with a lot of breaking news on Donald Trump's retribution campaign thanks to two MSNBC exclusives. MSNBC is reporting that Trump's handpicked US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindseay Halligan, could not find any career prosecutors in her own office who were willing to pursue charges against former FBI director James Comey. Because of that, Halligan is taking an extremely rare step, recruiting prosecutors from outside her office to take Comey to trial.That is according to two pe ...

I if Don Mcan in 2018 said no and Eric Sebert in 2025 said no, I refuse to do this and Pam Bondi allows it to happen on her watch and Lindsay Halligan signs off on it. What does it say about the independence of this Justice Department. >> This Justice Department has no independence from the president and Pam Bondi has already made that clear.She sent a memo to the entire workforce on her first day in office saying, "We all work for Donald Trump." She believes this is an army of lawyers that amount to Donald ...

Let's bring in Democratic Senator Amy Clolobashar of Minnesota. She's a member of the Judiciary Committee. Um I'd love for you to weigh in on the Jimmy Kimmel situation, but also on other sites that the president seems to have set his eyes on in terms of um threats and actually asking the attorney general to press certain people.Sure. Uh you can't see any of this in a vacuum. You know, he is the man be behind those truth social posts in which he is literally telling his attorney general to go against a very ...

Let's bring in MSNBC's Justice and Intelligence correspondent Kendallian, MSNBC political contributor and Atlantic staff writer Mark Lieovich, and MSNBC legal analyst and former Manhattan assistant DA Katherine Christian. Ken, are you hearing any push back or concerns from inside the DOJ. Well, yes, of course, Anna.And it's consistent with what I've been hearing from sources inside the building almost since the beginning of the Trump administration because again, I keep saying this, we've never been here be ...