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    Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: May 3

    19:54
  • Noem's book runs into fact-checking buzz saw; dog execution not among refuted stories, however

    02:53
  • How Trump's sex scandal secrets were exposed and spilled into public awareness

    07:08
  • Rare non-scoundrel witness, Hope Hicks, obliterates Trump's defense with credible testimony

    09:51
  • Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: May 2

    19:12
  • Undeterred by past Big Lie failures, Trump primes followers for poll confrontations

    07:02
  • Trump trial casts light on dirty side of celebrity tabloids

    06:01
  • 'Cattle call': Trump faces limited options as VP hopefuls gather at Mar-a-Lago

    06:06
  • Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: May 1

    18:51
  • On abortion, Trump buck-passing to states is backfiring as voters prepare to override bans

    02:50
  • Imperial presidency: Trump lays out plan to enlist military in deporting millions

    06:20
  • Toxic U.S. political themes distort view of campus Gaza protests

    09:38
  • Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: April 30

    13:37
  • Trump paints vivid picture of extremist plans for second term in new interview

    08:35
  • 'Tragic': Columbia community laments involvement of police in campus protests

    05:01
  • Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: April 26

    19:40
  • Trump defense falls short in effort to undercut strong prosecution witness

    12:00
  • Trump presidential immunity case exposes conservative Supreme Court's true colors

    07:38
  • Justice Jackson raises a red flag on the idea of a president with no legal liability 

    10:47
  • Watch Alex Wagner Tonight Highlights: April 24

    19:32

'Incarceration is an option': Trump appears to want the judge to throw him in jail

06:15

At a contempt hearing to determine whether Donald Trump should face punishment for violating the gag order in his New York criminal trial, the prosecution observed that Trump appears to be angling for an incarceration penalty. Former federal prosecutors Joyce Vance and Duncan Levin join Alex Wagner to discuss how Judge Merchan should address Trump's disregard for the gag order, particularly given Trump's apparent eagerness to pick a fight with the court that he can exploit for political gain.