Just Security Fellow Adam Klasfeld and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann join MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss day two of jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial which began with Trump defending his hush money payments to reporters.
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The former president’s criminal hush money is set to resume in Manhattan Friday when former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker returns to the witness stand to face cross-examination by the defense.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell faces a new round of ominous comparisons to the mid-1970s as inflation concerns heat back up and political pressures intensify.
The president of the United States would probably have a hard time firing a Federal Reserve chair over interest rates. But nobody is totally sure what would happen if he tried.
Congress is finally providing more of the aid Ukraine needs to survive. Here's why this is money well spent.
While it’s expected to pass, the resolution will likely expose a bitter divide between moderate and progressive Democrats over the war in Gaza.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in a landmark case regarding former President Donald Trump's bid for criminal immunity. Here are the key takeaways.
The Fed chairman went out of his way to make it clear this week that the Fed is free from personal or political bias as he continues to navigate a red-hot political year.
The disappearance of inflation is one break President Biden seems unlikely to get in his reelection bid.
An appeals court judge rejects former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay the start of the hush money trial on the grounds that presidential immunity protects him from being prosecuted.
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The controversial politician revealed in her new book that she killed her dog.
Starlink internet terminals are reportedly being widely used in Ukraine by Russian forces. There’s a thriving black market for the devices which stretches beyond Ukraine into Sudan.
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This week, the Supreme Court held a nearly three-hour hearing on whether Trump can be held criminally liable for trying to undo his 2020 election loss — or for anything else he did during his presidency.
Former President Donald Trump's historic trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records got underway in Manhattan on Monday.
In what amounted to incredibly damning testimony, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker laid out the 2015 deal he reached with Donald Trump “to help the campaign.”
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On the first day of Trump’s first criminal trial, prosecutors asked Judge Juan Merchan to fine Trump $3,000 for three social media posts attacking witnesses who will testify in the hush money case against him that they say violate a gag order put in place by the judge last month