"Trump knows he's in big trouble if he starts spouting violent rhetoric again. He's going to have the people around him do it for him...we're entering a very heightened threat environment." -@FrankFigliuzzi1

Before becoming a vocal Trump critic, George Conway actually voted for him. @mehdirhasan asks: "Why didn't you see what so many of us saw in 2016?" "I wanted to see a Republican win," Conway says, adding: "I was projecting positive qualities onto him."

Everybody knows about Pravda in the USSR, but Mehdi asks: How bad is Russian propaganda today, compared to the Soviet era? "What we have today is much worse," says Russian independent journalist @zygaro. Watch him explain why:

If convicted, could Donald Trump really see prison time? Experts have doubts, given Trump's Secret Service protection. But before we assume the only option is house arrest at Mar a Lago, @mehdirhasan notes that other countries have figured out how to imprison former leaders.

Is it even possible for any of Donald Trump's criminal cases to be decided before the 2024 election? "Absolutely," @gtconway3d tells @mehdirhasan, adding: "I want to see the January 6th case go first."

The latest Fox News defense of Trump is that his fake electors scheme was no big deal, because JFK did something similar in 1960, in Hawaii. "Completely inapplicable here!" says @gtconway3d. Hear him explain why:

Trump’s adult sons “just keep pretending that it’s the Democrats who are targeting their political opponents with prison, not them.” @MehdiRHasan and @AymanMSNBC on the hypocrisy of Don Jr. and Eric Trump in tonight’s #handover.

"Republicans, apparently, want you not to believe your own lying eyes," @MehdiRHasan says of desperate spin efforts from the GOP after their hearing with Hunter Biden's associate Devon Archer - sold as a bombshell event - fizzled and fell flat.