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Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Israel's Prime Minister and opposition leader will visit the White House next week to discuss...

Trump's team will launch its defense of the president on Saturday, with the key question of whether the Senate will call new witnesses or subpoena documents set to be decided around the middle of next week....

Current President Trump news covering the Senate impeachment trial from NBCNews. The latest impeachment news on the Trump impeachment trial....

On Wednesday, Donald Trump wrote his name in the history books. Or, more accurately, tweeted it....

The White House says President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement Wednesday...

I'm late to this. But yes, at Davos yesterday President Trumped bragged that he can't be convicted because his team......

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke on stage with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at the Riverside Church in Harlem. The two discussed King's legacy and the oversimplification of his message. Coates pointed out that while...

The move, which would be unlikely to happen until after the Senate impeachment trial, could enhance her chances of becoming vice president but could also anger liberals in California....

Abdulrahman Almutairi is a Saudi social-media influencer who criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. If not for the FBI, he says, he might've met Jamal Khashoggi's fate....

Lawmakers, required to sit through the trial in silence and without their phones, have grown increasingly comfortable testing those rules as the trial wears on....

Chris Matthews thinks that the impeachment trial is actually 'in the sentencing phase' of the impeachment trial, that lawmakers have their mind made up on whether Trump committed abuse of power....

Stopped in a hallway outside the Senate chamber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked what she'd seen that was "new." Her immediate response — the presentation that had just finished from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Warren is right. The facts that ...

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The senator quickly shot down the idea that President Trump should attend the trial, a possibility the president floated this week....

White House advisers warned Trump that outreach would not help his cause, while Democrats say there is no serious effort to privately lobby the key Republicans....

President Donald Trump is set to hold a re-election "Keep America Great" rally in New Hampshire the night before the state's first-in-the-nation primary....

Democrats argued that President Donald Trump sought a phony investigation of a political rival and pursued a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukraine, while restless senators played with a new toy Thursday during Trump's impeachment trial...

Mixing video, some levity, and senators' words from the Clinton impeachment era, Democrats' overstuffed pre-buttal sought to discredit the Trump defenders' case before it starts....

President Donald Trump says he'll likely release the long-awaited White House Mideast peace plan ahead of his meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz...

Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—and in case there was any doubt he's guilty, he's bragging about obstruction . But that's not enough for Senate Republicans determined to protect him at all c...

Jason Johnson, politics editor of The Root, tries to explain the difference between Democrats' aims on the first and second days of the Senate impeachment trial - comparing Day One to the fill-in-the-blanks of 'Wheel of Fortune' and Day Two to...

A mystery dark money group called "American Workers for Progress" has booked $720,000 in TV time to help Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar ahead of the March Democratic primary, according to data provided by a source with knowledge of media buys in the dis...

On Trump's defense team not using much time compared to the House Managers during the impeachment trial, Lawrence O'Donnell says the legal team "don't have the facts to argue ... They want this to be over fast."...

It's day two for House Democrats to convince senators that President Donald Trump should be removed from office — and a test for senators who seem to be growing more restless by the hour as the impeachment trial drags on....

President Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg are two wealthy, swaggering New Yorkers, but the similarities end there...

Impeachment was partially undertaken to deter future misconduct. That hasn't worked out....

The panel - Ari Melber, Chris Hayes, Chris Matthews, Jason Johnson and Claire McCaskill - discuss the president's actions and why Rudy Giuliani and his associates even had to be involved if the Ukraine plot was truly above board and "nothing wrong...

CNN and The Des Moines Register will release their final Iowa caucus poll on Saturday, February 1, providing key insight into where Democratic presidential candidates stand just two days before the caucuses on February 3....

MSNBC analyst and former Sen. Claire McCaskill discuss how the House managers and senators are preparing for the White House defense team being able to end opening arguments, by going last....

Democrats used old video and statements from Trump allies like William Barr and Lindsey Graham to press their case that the president abused his power...

Sen. Kamala Harris says House impeachment managers are doing a good job emphasizing the point that President Trump was using a political operative, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to try and achieve his goals in Ukraine....

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' admonishment to House impeachment prosecutors and President Donald Trump's defense team followed a note written by Sen. Susan Collins of Maine...

In this "The Beat Breakdown: Trump on Trial", the second day of opening arguments from the prosecution, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber breaks down the key moments, escalating tensions and one Democratic Senator's challenge to her c...

On Thursday, Jan. 23, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin brazenly dismissed climate activist Greta Thunberg by asking, "Who is she?" and questioning whether she is actually qualified to talk about potential economic challenges and fossil fuel dives...

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says a move by the Trump administration to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet would make it easier for terrorists and criminals to access weapons...

Sure, the bogus investigations that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to launch into Joe Biden and the 2016 election were conspiratorial......

Rep. Adam Schiff is the face of the House's impeachment case against President Donald Trump...

The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday to make it more difficult for foreign nationals to travel to give birth on US soil to ensure their children become American citizens, a practice commonly known as...

President Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg are two wealthy, swaggering New Yorkers...

All the president's talking points. Plus: Is a Senate impeachment trial that's called no witnesses unconstitutional?...

A day after President Trump suggested he was open to cutting entitlement programs in a second term, he insisted he would protect Social Security....

In 1999, he directly contradicted a core plank of Trump's current defense....

The revelation was the latest to underscore the flaws in the F.B.I.'s surveillance of Carter Page....

For the entirety of Donald Trump's presidency, I have gone through the transcript of a good number of the speeches and interviews he has given. In doing that, one thing has become crystal clear to me: He is one of the least articulate -- if not the le...

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Why attend an Iowa caucus in Des Moines or Cedar Rapids when you can do it from Tbilisi?...

Everything is up for grabs....

In this edition: Why you can't see negative ads in Iowa, why Democratic voters aren't focused on impeachment, and what the senators trapped in Washington are doing with their time....

Just when you thought Maine Sen. Susan Collins couldn't get any worse, you find out she's a tattle-tale . Yes, the one thing that woke Chief Justice John Roberts out of his stupor during the ongoing impeachment trial was a note from Collins tattli...