Tim Scott just refused — six times — to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election. Meet the Press

At a private donor event, closed to the press, Trump said President Biden was 'running a Gestapo administration' — likening the admin to the secret police force of Nazi Germany.

He called Biden a 'Manchurian candidate.' He called Jack Smith an 'evil thug' and 'deranged.'

Trump…

Rep. Ruben Gallego has rejected an offer from Kari Lake to debate on abortion. A Gallego campaign spokesperson:

'There's nothing to debate. Kari Lake's record is clear: she supports the 1864 ban with no exceptions for rape or incest and called on sheriffs to enforce it.'

A California man has been indicted by an Atlanta grand jury on charges of threatening Fulton County DA Fani Willis over her prosecution of Trump.

The man, Marc Shultz, suggested Willis 'will be killed like a dog' in one of several comments he posted under two separate YouTube…

A coalition of reproductive rights advocates say they've submitted the required number of signatures to get a proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in Missouri's constitution on the November ballot.

380,000 signatures were collected — far more than the 172,000 needed.

Breaking on MSNBC:

Donald Trump has paid the $9,000 fine stemming from his gag order violations.

A coalition of reproductive rights advocates say they've submitted the required number of signatures to get a proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in South Dakota's constitution on the November ballot.

55,000 signatures were collected — far more than the 35,000 needed.

Hope Hicks says that when she learned in 2016 the Wall Street Journal was planning to publish a story about Karen McDougal — including details that McDougal had a story that was purchased by the Enquirer about her relationship with Trump that was never published — she went to…

Hope Hicks says she learned of Karen McDougal on Nov. 4, 2016, after receiving an inquiry from a Wall Street Journal reporter about McDougal and the National Enquirer.

Stormy Daniels was mentioned in that same story, Hicks says. She first heard of Daniels a year earlier, when…

Hope Hicks says she was 'stunned' when she heard the Access Hollywood tape and thought it would be 'a damaging development'that would push the campaign 'backward.'

Hicks says she interrupted debate prep to discuss the tape with Trump and top campaign advisers. 'Everyone was just…

Hope Hicks says Trump thought it was 'great reporting' when the National Enquirer published a story about Ted Cruz's dad being associated with Lee Harvey Oswald. David Pecker testified earlier that the story was totally manufactured.

Breaking: Prosecutors have just called Hope Hicks to the witness stand in Trump's criminal trial.

Judge Merchan just corrected Trump:

Yesterday, Trump claimed, 'I'm not allowed to testify because of an unconstitutional gag order.'

Merchan made clear this morning: 'As the name of the order indicates, it only applies to extrajudicial statements,' not those in the courtroom.

The Biden admin is changing HHS rules to allow DREAMers — DACA recipients — to apply for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for the first time.

Rep. James Clyburn, Al Gore, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Michelle Yeoh are among the just announced names who'll receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Biden.

The Vatican played an integral role in helping to create drugs that worked for IVF:

In 1957, endocrinologist Bruno Lunenfeld and one of Pope Pius XII's nephews Don Giulio Pacelli met after one of Lunenfeld's presentations about IVF. Lunenfeld's problem was this — he needed…

Prosecutors entered into evidence a transcript of a tape of Trump and Cohen discussing paying off Karen McDougal:

Cohen: 'I need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend, David, you know, so that — I'm going to do that right away. And I've…

Doug Daus, the tech expert who took the stand, showed a photo Michael Cohen on Feb. 8, 2017 in the White House.

The date corresponds to a meeting between Trump and Cohen, which prosecutors allege is the date Trump agreed to begin repaying Cohen $130,000 for the Stormy Daniels…

BREAKING:

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed into law the repeal of the state's 1864 abortion ban.

Trump's attorneys present Judge Merchan with a series of articles that Trump would like to post about online that discuss the case.

Merchan says he won't review them: 'I appreciate you bringing it to my attention, [but] I'm not going to be in the position of looking at posts and…