Sen. Bob Menendez's trial to proceed without his wife due to her health issues nbcnews.com/politics/polit… via @nbcnews

Just asked Speaker Mike Johnson what the focus of this will be. “You’ll have to see,” he said. “I look forward to going down there.”

Asked to elaborate on the election integrity theme, he said it has to do with “free and fair elections.”

News: Senator Lee says the impeachment articles for Secretary Mayorkas will come on Monday

NEW: AZ Supreme Court rules that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a bombshell decision that adds the state to the growing lists of places where abortion care is effectively banned.
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Another view of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

I did this story for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt before SCOTUS officially overturned Roe in May 2022. It was clear even then that abortion pills would be the next frontier. Stunning how quickly it’s moving, with SCOTUS hearing oral arguments today on mifepristone. nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…

BIG #NJSEN news... First Lady Tammy Murphy drops out - says in a video that she 'wouldn't waste resources tearing down a fellow Democrat' but doesn't endorse Rep Andy Kim, once seen as an underdog but now the clear frontrunner.

She realized her path was 'unwinnable', per source.

Senate vibe check from Fetterman:

“If anyone finds a banana stuck up Rand Paul’s tail pipe, it wasn’t me”

Democrats across the country are campaigning on protecting democracy. In New Jersey, it’s complicated: nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… #NJSen

Just about five months after this photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 has filed a motion to oust Speaker Johnson.

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.Julie Tsirkin and Scott Wong report that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a resolution to motion to vacate the chair — AKA oust Speaker Johnson. Two sources tell them this will NOT be a privileged motion, meaning it will not come up for a vote imminently.

Sen. Bob Menendez teases a Senate run as an independent if he is exonerated:
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MENENDEZ: 'I will not file for the Democratic primary this June, I am hopeful that my exoneration will take place this summer and allow me to pursue my candidacy as an independent Democrat in the general election.'

We traveled to Mississippi to meet that 13 yr old rape victim & her mother.

She gave birth to a baby boy.
She's only in the 7th grade.

Her doctor said even though the state has exception for reported rape cases— few doctors are willing to provide an abortion.

Rubio tells me he hasn’t spoken with Trump, or anyone in his campaign about being VP

“Anybody who would be offered that should be honored, but I’ve never spoken to anybody in the Trump world about it,” he said.

SCOOP: The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep Ken Buck from the group last night.

Source tells me it's in-part because 'he hasn’t been with conservatives on several major issues” & “is leaving the conference hanging w/ a historically narrow margin.'
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Senate Republicans have requested Capitol Police push reporters and staff down the hall from their closed-door lunch because they’re concerned people could overhear what Israeli PM Netenayu is telling them during a video Q+A: