As Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to shepherd a package of foreign aid bills, including one with vital aid for Ukraine, through the House of Representatives, all eyes are on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s threat to oust him. So far, only Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has backed her efforts, but other far-right members surrounded Johnson on the House floor Thursday to express their disagreements. Greene and her fellow ideologues may want to tread carefully. There is a growing backlash on the Christian...
All this outrage over WNBA pay is uninformed, misguided and defeatist. Yes, Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary seems unjust when compared to her NBA peers’ salaries. But as Kavitha Davidson wrote this week, the details matter. Because the WNBA cannot and should not be compared to the NBA, which is expected to generate $13 billion this year. The WNBA will not match that. Nor can it match the NBA’s massive national media deals, which are expected to pay the league $2.8 billion this year alone. The WNBA...
MSNBC Legal Contributor Katie Phang breaks down what happened during day three of former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial.
As part of her opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson's foreign aid package, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a slew of amendments to the bills Wednesday, including one that directs funding for the "development of space laser technology on the southwest border." That's correct: The Georgia Republican — whose reputation was wounded early in her congressional career when Media Matters unearthed her previous claim that space lasers caused a wildfire in California — put forward what appears...
Tim O'Brien, Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg Opinion and NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with the mob boss tactics of Donald Trump now impacting the jury selection process and throwing into the question whether this trial can be conducted fairly if Trump is not held accountable for violating gag orders.
On Monday afternoon, University of Southern California Provost Andrew T. Guzman made an announcement: “After careful consideration, we have decided that our student valedictorian will not deliver a speech at commencement. While this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety.” While the student valedictorian wasn’t named, Guzman was referring to Asna Tabassum, a first-generation South Asian American Muslim, who was scheduled to address some 65,000 people at USC's commencement next...
Andrew Weissmann, Former top official at the Department of Justice and Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the issues involving the privacy of prospective jurors in the Trump Hush Money case and how Trump and his favorite media outlet are causing chaos by bringing potential jurors backgrounds into the limelight before the trial even begins.
Jury selection in the Manhattan criminal case against Donald Trump started off slowly, but has since picked up some steam, with multiple jurors seated after day 2 For some lawyers, the jury selection process is the most important stage of the trial. For others it’s a waste of time, an exercise in astrology, and they would take the first 12 people who walk through the door. But no matter how hard his lawyers try, Trump could lose this jury before they are even seated. Jury selection in...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambition may have gained him national attention — especially given the threat that some Democrats believe he poses to President Joe Biden’s re-election — but it certainly has not endeared him to all of his family. On Thursday, 15 Kennedy family members — including six of RFK Jr.’s 10 siblings — publicly endorsed Biden during a campaign event with the president in Philadelphia. The endorsement is not surprising. Most members of the political dynasty have not...
Prominent members of the Kennedy family have endorsed President Biden's bid for re-election, choosing him over Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
House Speaker Johnson is getting pushback by some fellow Republicans for moving forward with foreign aid funding bills. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin and MSNBC political analyst Brendan Buck discuss the potential political impact.
Since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, and Israel’s subsequent onslaught on Gaza, American college campuses have been seized by protests as the death toll in Gaza has risen past 34,000. Jewish students charge that these demonstrations are fostering an environment rife with antisemitic rhetoric, intimidation and even violence. Congress has been eager to investigate these claims. In December, it summoned the presidents of Harvard University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania for a fateful...