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MSNBC host Katie Phang had a suggestion for former President Donald Trump as he laments he has too many legal woes to deal with.

The long-time legal analyst was asked about Trump's attorneys writing: "The defendants believe there should be simply no secret said nor any facts concealed from the public view relative to the prosecution of a leading presidential candidate by his political opponent. Our democracy demands no less than full transparency."

Former President Donald Trump was given a target letter from the Justice Department on Sunday after its investigation into actions around the 2020 election and the attack on the Capitol – and a Jan. 6 committee member thinks he shouldn't be alone.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who sat on the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 and the attempt to overthrow the election, listed off some of her observations to MSNBC host Peter Alexander, who asked who else deserves a target letter.

Donald Trump is facing a new legal threat from special counsel Jack Smith, but a former official from the Obama White House doesn't think it will hurt his chances with Republican voters.

The former president revealed he had received a target letter Sunday from the special counsel, but former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told MSNBC's Peter Alexander that he doesn't expect Trump to face any political blowback if he's charged for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Legal analyst Danny Cevallos said that getting a target letter from the Justice Department and then taking part in a town hall on Fox probably isn't the best move for Donald Trump legally.

Trump announced that on Sunday night he was sent a target letter telling him he was the focus of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and incitements to attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Donald Trump is scheming to consolidate power under an obscure legal theory if he's re-elected to a second term, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski described the plot as "fascist."

The former president and his allies are planning to reorganize the executive branch to give him unprecedented power in a potential second term, and the "Morning Joe" co-hosts expressed grave concerns about his plans to stack the government with loyalists and sycophants.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm about Vanderbilt University, which willingly turned over the private medical records of families whose children were getting gender-affirming care at the University's medical center. But on Monday, Maddow points out that it isn't about LGBTQ issues anymore.

"These records were seized without the consent of these patients," Maddow explained. "Without any way to opt-out. [The Tennessee attorney general] just took them. His office still has them. He's had them for months. Now, in Tennessee, like in every state where Republicans are in power, Republicans in that state have been going after trans people and the medical records...some of you watching me now are thinking, oh, that's what this is. This is one of those things about transgender-affirming care. That's too bad for trans people in Tennessee. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But we know that Republicans are really coming after those people, so that's bad for them, but it's not really a surprise."

Historian Michael Beschloss sounded the alarm on MSNBC Monday about Donald Trump's new 2024 presidential campaign that appears to be running on dictatorship.

He's "the only person in all of American history who has said if you elect me, my intention is to establish a presidential dictatorship," he told host Joy Ann Reid. "Telling you the American people, your families, everyone you know, your friends, others, [that] every private aspect of your life — if you're running a business, there's not going to be an independent Federal Trade Commission. Donald Trump will tell your business what to do. If you're part of a media organization as we are, there will not be, for instance, an independent Federal Communications Commission. Donald Trump, if he hears something on MSNBC or another network that he doesn't like, something he reads in The New York Times, which is probably pretty likely, he can do a lot to have what we do, what all of us do, stilled and perhaps even those organizations abolished."

The recent New York Times report details Donald Trump is promoting authoritarianism and anticipating throwing out career staff in the government to replace them with his own ideologues. It was a plot he attempted to deploy in Oct. 2020 with a personnel chief that began sorting through the government employees for just such a purge of "disloyal" staff.

Speaking about it on Monday, MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid and historian Michael Beschloss compared the ideology to Hungary's Viktor Orban, which the far-right has promoted over the years.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, the former Robert Mueller assistant and former national security official at the Department of Justice predicted that Donald Trump and his lawyers would do whatever they can to exploit every possible window of attack against special counsel Jack Smith and his case.

The conversation with Brandon Van Grack began by discussing part of the predictions for how Trump's first hearing will go. A protective order is being sought to help ensure the classified documents don't end up plastered on the front pages of tabloids. It means that Trump's lawyers must sign off on the protective order for the documents.

Speaking to Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell with the Bulwark, new MSNBC host Jen Psaki explained why she'd like to see President Joe Biden stop playing nice.

In a conversation about how to beat Donald Trump, Psaki explained that there is a question of talking about accomplishments to rally support for what has been done or if it's about running against Trump directly, and how to balance the two.

The New York Times wrote Monday about Donald Trump's weekend speech at a far-right conference that outlined some of his authoritarian visions for his next presidency. Going deeper, the Times explained that Trump aims to recreate the U.S. government so that it would be an extension of the president's whims rather than independently operating to carry out the laws and the regulations of the nation.

It isn't the first time Trump has made such a proclamation, nor is it an ambition that he's hidden from the public. Toward the end of 2020, Trump began to enact such a plan, moving to craft a "personal goon squad" of loyal career staffers that goes against measures enacted centuries ago to ensure friends, family and donors weren't handed jobs.

A reporter who recently profiled Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis believes "indictments are coming" in her investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

Wall Street Journal reporter Cameron McWhirter interviewed the Fulton County district attorney as she weighs potential charges against Trump and his allies, and he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Willis appears to be on a collision course with the former president.

Former Republican Rick Wilson explained that former President Donald Trump will likely bring down the Republican Party in the Iowa Caucuses with one debate. That is, if he's willing to do one.

Former Republican chair Michael Steele substituted for the MSNBC Sunday night crew and asked Wilson what the other Republican candidates have to do to have any hope in the early primary and caucus states.