Donald Trump’s hush money trial has put a lot of words in our mouths that we wouldn’t normally say, and stoic cable news anchors are no exception. MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” has routinely focused on the sober facts of business fraud and election interference while covering Donald Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial. On Thursday O'Donnell recapped adult film actor Stormy Daniels' strong testimony in the case and parsed the Trump legal team’s awful strategy. O’Donnell...
MSNBC anchor Ari Melber clashed with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview on Wednesday, with the host challenging how the candidate has downplayed the “danger” of former President Trump and Kennedy hitting back that Melber is “perpetuating vitriol. Melber compared Kennedy to the 2000 Green Party candidacy of Ralph Nader, pointing
Reacting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) getting into a shouting match during a House hearing with Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). MSNBC host Alex Witt suggested there may be more going on below the surface with the Georgia Republican than just trading insults.Welcoming fellow MSNBC co-host Ali Velshi, who sat with Crockett for an interview earlier Saturday morning to talk about her returning fire at Taylor Greene with her now-viral "bleach blond,...
CBS host Margaret Brennan called out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) after he claimed former President Donald Trump had brought manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. when he was president. On Sunday's edition of Face the Nation, Brennan questioned Vance, a vice presidential contender, about how Trump's proposed tariffs would make American products more affordable. "So how is the Trump-Vance idea here going to help make things more affordable for people if you're putting taxes on goods they're...
Former Republican governor of Ohio and MSNBC political analyst John Kasich stunned host José Díaz-Balart on Friday by speculating that President Biden may not end up being the Democratic Party presidential nominee. Kasich cited polling data, people’s feelings on the economy, the president’s poor public speaking events and his fear over upcoming presidential debates to say there’s a strong chance that the party will choose someone else to run against former President Trump. "I’m starting to...
Former President Donald Trump's payroll attorney William Brennan launched into a tirade on MSNBC Thursday attacking Michael Cohen, the ex-Trump lawyer who is serving as the final and most significant witness for the prosecution in the former president's Manhattan criminal hush money trial, saying he wasn't to be trusted.However, MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, himself an attorney, stopped him cold with a simple point."This guy is a whiner," said Brennan. "It's always somebody else's fault. I think...
In a lengthy sit-down with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" confronted the third-party candidate about his suspected bromance with former President Donald Trump, his opponent and presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 election. Melber mentioned how RFK Jr. "seems warm" to Trump and "he is clearly warm towards you.""I would definitely disagree with that," he said. "He just called me a 'radical effing liberal." (A Republican group...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) lashed out at Fox News host Shannon Bream, who pointed out that the lawmaker had reportedly called former President Donald Trump a "whack job." During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream asked Stefanik about her chances as a vice presidential candidate after a New York Times report quoted her saying negative things about the former president. "They say you called him a whack job at one point," Bream noted, reading from the Times: "She told a New York radio...
Daniels mentioned joking about Trump's satin pajamas during her testimony. 'Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?' she says she asked him. Liberal MSNBC legal analyst and host Katie Phang broke out laughing on air
Sunny, 55, who previously worked as a federal prosecutor, was present in court on May 9 as Trump's hush money trial continued and was keen to share some details of what went down.
Donald Trump ally and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was put on the spot Tuesday as he appeared to violate a judge’s gag order while being interviewed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Burgum, who accompanied Trump to his hush money trial, was speaking as the trial resumed after a lunch break. While repeating many of Trump’s talking points about the trial being a political witchhunt, he claimed the judge and his daughter were politically biased. He also attacked the...
Host of The Weekend on MSNBC & Former RNC Chair Michael Steele joins the Steve Cochran Show to discuss why Biden is eager to debate Trump, the heated exchange between Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and to provide an update on the Trump hush money trial. https://om