Back with us are Philip Bump and the Honorable Shar Shenland. Philip, do you see any theme in the pardons we have seen so far in this administration. >> Yeah, I mean the theme is people that Donald Trump wants to be nice to and who are nice to him.I mean the the the letter I don't know if people saw but the letter that was sent by by the former president Honduras is just like this masterclass in pushing Donald Trump's buttons and it's just like oh you two were targeted by an unfair justice process and you k ...

New questions today about Defense Secretary Pete Hegsf's orders when elite military commandos struck an alleged drug boat near Venezuela on September 2nd. News reports suggest the military launched deadly strikes on two men who survived the initial strike. MS Now has not independently confirmed that report.>> I don't know if I believe that at all because we're doing alleged sources. Nothing has been verified by this. Uh, we do know that a survivor that did survive in later attacks was picked up by the Unite ...

Welcome back. The White House has announced that President Trump is pardoning a long list of political allies who were part of his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Rudy Giuliani, who was Trump's lawyer during the 2020 election fight, is among the 77 people who are receiving full, complete, and unconditional pardons.The list also includes former Trump attorney Sydney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Cheeseboro, and Jenna Ellis, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and f ...

MSNBC White House reporter Laura Baron Lopez is back with us. And joining us now, MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler. Laura, none of these people of the, you know, some dozen plus that are pardoned faced federal charges.Many were charged with state crimes for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. So, what's the significance here of these pardons. >> That's right.any of them were a part of that Georgia case uh listed as co-conspirators with President Trump in Georgia, inclu ...

I'm Antonia Hilton in tonight for Ari Melbour. We begin with the Jeffrey Epstein whirlwind all around Donald Trump. The New York Times surfacing long buried communications between the two men. Protest groups holding Trump's feet to the fire with garish public displays. And reporters bombarding Trump with questions. This morning, as Trump prepared to go overseas to Scotland, he was asked directly about Galileain Maxwell. The Epstein accomplice, of course, convicted of child sex trafficking. His DOJ interview ...