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LIVE: Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the president of Finland

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 9h

BREAKING: A Virginia grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on at least one count of bank fraud following intense pressure from Trump to bring the case, according to three people familiar with the matter.

@carolleonnig.bsky.social reports.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 9h

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan on Thursday presented evidence to bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to two people familiar with the proceedings.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 10h

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the president of Finland
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LIVE: Trump holds Cabinet meeting amid Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and gov't shutdown

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 13h

“They should be released on Monday or Tuesday.”

BREAKING: President Trump comments on Israeli hostages as Israel, Hamas agree to first phase of peace deal.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 13h

Watch live: Trump holds Cabinet meeting amid Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and gov't shutdown

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 13h

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

@chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote.

Yikes! Trump may have DOOMED Comey case with 'vindictive' confession on Truth Social

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

Trump may have DOOMED Comey case with 'vindictive' confession on Truth Social

Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to Congress in 2020. @arimelber.bsky.social reports and is joined by former FBI general Counsel @weissmann.substack.com.

‘We took the freedom of speech away’: On First Amendment, Trump says quiet part loud

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

OPINION by MSNBC Political Contributor Steve Benen:

“None of this made any sense. At least in this country, the president doesn’t have the power to make legal speech illegal, and he can’t decide on his own what kind of sentences will be imposed on Americans.”

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A week after the White House boasted that Trump “is a strong supporter of free speech,” the president’s legal gibberish pointed in the opposite direction.

Lawrence: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

OPINION:

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com explains during James Comey’s arraignment, the judge knew he was “watching a legal Trump clown show” while the “humiliated inexperienced lawyer” Lindsey Halligan sat by silently.

Opinion | Trump's White House is struggling to pretend it hates the shutdown

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social:

“The White House's strongest efforts to end the shutdown clash heavily with the long-standing goals of the MAGA agenda.”

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Any threats the administration can muster to force Democrats to back down wind up sounding like long-standing MAGA goals.

SHOCKING video shows ICE shoot Chicago pastor in head with pepper ball

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

SHOCKING video shows ICE shoot Chicago pastor in head with pepper ball

Newly video shows feds shooting a pastor in the head with what appears to be a pepper-spray projectile while speaking outside an ICE detention facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reacts.

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

New WSJ reporting reveals Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a private message to AG Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute James Comey and other perceived enemies. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports.

Democrats proved the insiders wrong on the shutdown

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 15h

Tensions high on Capitol Hill as government shutdown enters day 9. @alivitali.bsky.social reports.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 15h

TODAY: Courts challenge Trump's National Guard deployment to Chicago, Portland @ahylton26.bsky.social has the latest

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 1d

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side youtu.be/rJMzk75fuaw?...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: "the honor of my life"

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 17h

OPINION by @symonedsanders.bsky.social:

“Republicans could have avoided this fight if they had extended the subsidies earlier this year. The longer the shutdown drags on, the more foolish they look for opposing something so popular and necessary.”

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The conventional wisdom was that a shutdown was a losing fight.