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New tapes from Bob Woodward's conversations with Donald Trump reveal what the former president was telling his own family behind the scenes.

Previously, recordings showed that Trump always wanted to play down the pandemic because, "I don't want to create a panic."

Among new recordings that reporter Bob Woodward is revealing is a tape in which Donald Trump complained he couldn't hold rallies – and that the COVID crisis wasn't measured in deaths but in rallies he was missing out on.

"What is the first person who made you see how serious this was going to be?" asked Woodward in the tape, played on MSNBC's The Beat.

More information is coming out about the Republican's so-called witness, Gal Luft, who alleged a Joe Biden bribery scheme with China. Among the many revelations in his recently released indictment is that he never worked for the company he told Republicans he worked for – and that he's accused of being an unregistered foreign agent for China and an arms dealer.

He's the latest so-called "whistleblower" that's been discredited and never filed for legal whistleblower protections. Republicans have responded to the news with more conspiracy theories. Among the allegations are that because Luft spoke out, he is being targeted by the president, though the indictment actually dropped before Rep. James Comer (R-KY) was reelected and months before he took over the Oversight Committee.

Monday night, CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on his claim that he didn't know what a white nationalist is. Chatting about the interview Tuesday, the co-hosts of "The View" didn't buy it.

"A white nationalist is racist, Senator," said Collins.

Chris Christie called out Donald Trump's false bravado and predicted he would eventually accept a plea agreement to avoid prison.

The former president has been indicted on fraud charges in Manhattan and dozens of federal charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and the Trump ally-turned-Republican presidential challenger told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that his braggadocious response to the criminal cases was just an act.

Chris Christie warned that Donald Trump would be unable to push through any of the policies that voters might support because his second presidency would be even more chaotic than the first.

The former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential candidate pledged he would not vote for Trump should he win the GOP nomination, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the ex-president had proven himself incapable of executing his duties and serving the interests of the public.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Republican lawmakers as their conspiracy theories about the Biden family fall apart.

A so-called whistleblower who repeatedly accused President Joe Biden and his son of corruption was indicted by the Justice Department with arms trafficking and acting as a foreign agent for China, as well as violating Iran sanctions, and the U.S. attorney for Delaware knocked down claims by another purported whistleblower about the Hunter Biden prosecution.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow listed off some of the bizarre things happening in the Republican Party around the country that has popped up in the news over the past week or so.

Last week, at a GOP convention in Michigan, a man wiggled the doorknob of one of the meeting rooms when another guy came out swinging and kicking him "in the balls."

Over the weekend, Donald Trump told his supporters that the charges against him were "bulls---," but former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal thinks that the claim is "BS" itself.

Speaking with legal expert Bradley Moss on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell program on Monday, Katyal explained that the only thing that is "BS" is Trump's defense.

Former NBA basketball player Royce White was the player that sported a pro-Donald Trump message on his head during the last Big 3 League games on Sunday night. When he was welcomed onto Steve Bannon's online streaming show today, it became clear what he has in common with the far-right.

Bannon explained that saying "culture war issues" is really just another way of saying "rude, white, rural Christian, heterosexual, male, nationalists that are just focused on their wives being too, too mouthy, sir."

The far-right House Freedom Caucus has plunged into turmoil over the last week, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was expelled from the group over her perceived status as an inside person for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and other members attacking founding member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as a "RINO" [Republican In Name Only].

CNN's Melanie Zanona described the chaos on Monday, as a Republican caucus once unified against the "establishment" is turning on each other.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace lambasted her former party, which, until Donald Trump, she had dedicated her entire professional life to. She is now taking them down further, this time due to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who has left the U.S. Marine Corps without a leader due to his own personal crusade against abortion.

For 164 years, through two world wars, the Marines have had a leader. Today is the first time without.

Former President Donald Trump has already been indicted in two cases — state charges of business fraud brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to his alleged hush payment to, and federal Espionage Act and obstruction charges for hoarding highly classified national defense secrets at his Mar-a-Lago country club. And he could possibly be charged as part of the January 6 investigation as well.

One indictment against a former president and presidential candidate is already unheard of in American history; but having to juggle three would be complete chaos, said former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Monday.