We’re just days away from the confirmation hearing for Trump’s former defense attorney and now acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become the 88th U.S. Attorney General. During his tenure, political rivals have been targeted, journalists have been subpoenaed, and election officials have been threatened not in the pursuit of upholding the rule of law, but upholding the rule of one man. Plus, MS NOW is reporting that “Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump administration’s investigation of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election,” according to three people familiar with the matter. MS NOW legal analysts Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann join “The Weekend” to discuss. 

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Jacob Soboroff shares a reminder that it is ALREADY illegal for noncitizens to vote and that cases of noncitizens voting are extraordinarily rare (even according to conservative think tanks)!

Is the White House searching for a problem that simply does not exist?

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Watch live as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination to take Tulsi Gabbard’s former role as Director of National Intelligence.

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#jayclayton #senate #confirmationhearing

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MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how the baby name Donald has hit its lowest point in popularity in American history as Trump’s war in Iran now has at least one Republican senator saying that Iran has made Donald Trump the victim of a “rope-a-dope” strategy.

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#trump #approvalrating #iran

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“There is no humane and orderly, under-the-radar way to do what they want to do. And so, cruelty and chaos will inevitably follow,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump administration’s immigration policy in the wake of two fatal ICE shootings in less than a week.

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#trump #ICE #immigration

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