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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked and scorned Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) for their show of support for Donald Trump at the Manhattan courthouse where he's standing trial for falsifying business records to cover up illegal campaign contributions.

The Republican senators attended portions of Monday's trial, which featured testimony from former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen, and the pair complained about the courtroom's dreary décor and prosecutors' use of the honorific "mister" instead of "president," and the "Morning Joe" host said both men should be ashamed of themselves.

From Monday through Friday, around 5,200 employees of Mercedes-Benz in Alabama will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers—which has set its sights on the U.S. South after contract wins at the industry's "Big Three" in Michigan last year.

While Republican leaders in the state, including Gov. Kay Ivey, and at least one worker have publicly attacked the unionization effort, multiple Mercedes employees have signaled their support for the UAW going into this week's voting at an assembly facility in Vance and battery plant in Woodstock.

Former Trump White House official Sarah Matthews said on CNN Tuesday that she was amazed at how many people still want to work for former President Donald Trump.

While discussing the aggressive lobbying being made by Republican vice presidential hopefuls, Matthews tried to remind them of the grim fates that had befallen many of her former colleagues who worked at the Trump White House.

Former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen in damning testimony Monday told jurors about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's fears in 2016 when the "Access Hollywood" tape dropped, and what his real concerns were about the bombshell audio that nearly ended his nascent political career.

Cohen revealed that in 2015 when the then-real estate magnate announced he was running for president, Trump told him, “Be prepared. There’s going to be a lot of women coming forward,” according to Courthouse News.

During one of several rants outside the courtroom Monday during his New York trial for alleged criminal business records falsification, election interference, and "hush money," Donald Trump repeatedly complained falsely that the judge overseeing the case was appointed by "Democrat politicians."

Trump is well-acquainted with New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.

Former Trump White House official Sarah Matthews said on Tuesday that she believed it was telling that Melania Trump wasn't by her husband's side as he went on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

During an appearance on CNN, Matthews discussed testimony from both Daniels and former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen indicating that the former president didn't sincerely care about Melania's potential reaction to revelations about his adulterous behavior.

Michael Cohen effectively wrecked Donald Trump's argument that he made hush money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with him to protect his marriage, according to a legal expert.

The former president is standing trial for falsifying business records to cover up those payments, which prosecutors say amounted to illegal campaign contributions before the 2016 election, and legal analyst Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump's former lawyer had delivered damning evidence of that conspiracy.

CNN's Abby Philip on Monday had an awkward discussion with a former Trump official about whether the former president is really a racist.

During an interview, former Trump White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci made the case that Trump's long history of racist remarks aren't necessarily indicative of a deeply held racism along the lines of David Duke.

Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with the other political criminal trial grabbing headlines Monday — that of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

And, after ridiculing the ‘cartoonishly blatant corruption” he’s been charged with, the comedian schooled him in how he was perfectly placed in the U.S. Senate to enjoy corruption — without breaking the law.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial earned praise Monday night for a courtroom tactic one legal expert said effectively elevated the credibility of the former president's onetime fixer Michael Cohen.

Cohen's credibility has been the frequent target of Trump's attacks, the most recent of which saw the former president delivering Monday a furious courthouse rant proclaiming his innocence.

Michael Cohen's former attorney Lanny Davis dared former President Donald Trump Monday night to make good on a pledge to testify in his historic criminal hush money trial.

"Michael Cohen did his time and they found that he was directed by Mr. Trump," Davis said while appearing on CNN. "So if Michael Cohen did the time for the crime, so should Mr. Trump."

The slate of elected officials who appeared with former President Donald Trump Monday for his criminal hush money trial only highlighted the absence of the person he needs most to be there, a onetime aide argues.

Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House deputy press secretary, made this argument during an appearance Monday evening on CNN's "The Situation Room," after a day in Manhattan criminal court that saw the former president flanked by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH ) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).