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One name came up repeatedly Monday night when a group of legal experts discussed on CNN a new gag order request against former President Donald Trump in his upcoming hush money trial.

"The Michael Cohen issue is a concern," said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. "If Michael Cohen continues to speak out about Donald Trump, Donald Trump will say he has a right to respond."

Former President Donald Trump is so vainglorious about his looks that everything else, including the Constitution plays second fiddle, according to his former aide.

Sarah Matthews, who served former the Trump administration as deputy press secretary, laughed with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace over the former president's singular vanities.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley lashed out at former President Donald Trump after he pushed to install his daughter-in-law, Lara, as Republican National Committee co-chair.

Following her loss in the South Carolina primary, Haley used a new line of attack in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday. She argued Trump was transforming the Republican Party.

After stating "I'm not happy" about changes coming to the Republican National Committee with chair Ronna McDaniel's resignation announcement Monday, an RNC board member stated donors can't be asked to foot Donald Trump's legal bills — only to be reminded on-air that it had already happened.

During an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Henry Barbour of Mississippi explained his misgivings about Trump stacking the leadership with MAGA loyalists like his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and complained the RNC's mission is to support all GOP candidates — not just the embattled ex-president.

"I'm willing to take a stand that may not be popular with some right now," he told the CNN host. "The RNC has one job, Dana, and that's to win elections and we should spend our finite resources on political operations and actually winning elections and paying any candidate's legal fees, or frankly any other outside fees or expenses is not the RNC's job. "

He continued that after asking donors to send their $28, it "would be totally misleading to take that money and then go and spend it with some big fat law firm's legal fees for something that has nothing to do with winning the election cycle."

Conservative Marc Thiessen warned Fox News viewers on Monday that former President Donald Trump appears to be struggling to win over key voters in his third run for the White House.

Although Trump bested former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley easily this week in her home state of South Carolina, Thiessen noted that it was still striking that 40 percent of voters in the state voted against him, even though the 2024 Republican primary essentially appears to be over.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones lashed out at Elon Musk, the owner of X, and claimed he had been "massively censored" by the billionaire's social media platform.

On his Monday InfoWars program, Jones said that he had important news.

The very fact that former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) has been able to draw the votes of a substantial number of Republicans away from presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump should be setting off alarms among Republicans.

That is the opinion of former Trump White House communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin

With a victory in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary tucked in his belt, both Donald Trump and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) are looking towards Michigan as the next stop.

However, both candidates are facing headwinds for different reasons.

Former Republican strategist Ana Navarro and GOP pollster Sarah Longwell both urged Nikki Haley to stay in the 2024 presidential race, even as they both acknowledged that she has no shot at overtaking former President Donald Trump.

Appearing on CNN on Monday morning, Longwell made the case that Haley is performing a valuable service to the country by staying in the race.

According to the Rev. Al Sharpton — a longtime acquaintance of Donald Trump going back 40 years — the former president is reeling under the weight of a flood of civil lawsuits, adverse judgments and criminal prosecutions.

What's more, said Sharpton, Trump knows he will never get out from under them unscathed.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Sharpton was asked whether Trump "seems to be, frankly, even more unhinged by the day."

'Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough scolded the press on Monday morning for accepting at face value claims from Donald Trump's campaign and allies that he will do extraordinarily well with non-white voters when he has repeatedly flopped in the past..

Speaking with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Scarborough recalled the many times it was predicted that the former president had a huge following among Black voters only to come up woefully short after the ballots were counted and election post-mortems were conducted.s

With that in mind, the MSNBC host admonished news editors to get their acts together for 2024 and quit buying the hype.

"I just want to circle back really quickly," he began. "Again, we're talking about the media and its coverage. We have been hearing now since 2020 breathless coverage because this is what Trump campaign people are constantly are telling the media: 'We're going to do really well with Black voters. Black voters are breaking to us, it'll be historic. 'I had one of their top people say, we're going to get 20 percent of the black vote, you wait and see, you just wait we're doing better.' And it's all we hear."

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"Rev, you hear it all the time, 'Why is Donald Trump doing so much better with Black voters historically? Perhaps it is because Black men like him because he plays a macho,'" he continued. "You know? Can we just actually deal with the facts here for a second? In 2020, Donald Trump, according to AP, got 8 percent of the Black vote. It's about what he got in 2016. — 8 percent. Editors, think about it. [Senator] John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 got 12 percent of the Black vote — not a landslide. You know, maybe Donald Trump will get 8, 9, 10, 11 percent of the Black vote in 2024 if he's the Republican nominee."

"Could you bust open this lie about Donald Trump doing well against Black voters because it's a lie," he said turning to Sharpton. "The data shows it's a lie. The data shows that people in the media keep repeating this lie, that Trump somehow has some magic with Black voters and is doing better than other Republicans when he's just not."

"He is not doing what they are saying," Sharpton replied. "He clearly, as you stated, did less than John McCain and other Republican candidates."

"Let's be real clear," he continued. "We're talking about a man that was just found liable for lying about how many square feet he had in his bedroom. Why are we being surprised he'd lie about how many Blacks are voting for him? He did not get the overwhelming majority or even a significant amount of Black male voters, and he won't get them this time."

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