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Legal analyst predicts Trump's next excuse will be the 'old man' defense

Donald Trump appeared on the Fox News network on Monday, where legal analysts believe he did more harm than good for his case in the stolen documents trial.

Speaking about the segment on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal, along with Andrew Weissmann and Bradley Moss, listened to the interview on camera, shaking their heads and occasionally chuckling.

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'Colossal blunder': Legal expert says 'preposterous' Trump is his own worst enemy

Former President Donald Trump doesn't know what to do now that he has been indicted on federal charges for stashing highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago resort — and is even "scared."

That's the opinion of Andrew Weissman, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, after having listened to the former president's disastrous interview with Bret Baier on Fox News.

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'Every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse': Legal analyst slams Trump's interview with Bret Baier

During a panel discussion about Black poverty and the disproportionate number of Black women who die in childbirth, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan briefly mentioned the interview Fox News had with Donald Trump on Monday night — which resulted in people on the left mocking the former president's performance and has folks on the right scratching their heads.

Among the claims that Trump made when speaking with Fox News' Bret Baier was that he could have declassified the documents he had when he was president. It should thus continue after his presidency. Baier was asking about the recording in which Trump revealed that he "should have" declassified the document he was showing to the biographers working with Mark Meadows for his book. On the tape, Trump makes it clear that he understands he shouldn't be showing the Iran war planning document and that it was secret.

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Trump insists he won in 2020 when pressed by Bret Baier about how he'll get women back in 2024

Speaking to Fox host Bret Baier on Monday, former President Donald Trump maintained that he was not only winning in 2024, but that he won "big" in 2020.

Baier forced Trump to look at the poll numbers of women that are fleeing the Republican Party, particularly after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. While there was always support for upholding abortion rights, it was never as high as it is now. NPR cited a poll showing 4 in 5 voters now support the right to an abortion.

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Fox host blasts Trump: He 'seemed to verge on incoherent'

A Fox interview with Donald Trump left at least one Fox host fearful about the former president's mental state.

Bret Baier spoke to Republican Party's 2024 front-runners on Monday, and Brit Hume was shocked at what he witnessed.

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Trump doubles down on attacking 'coward' Bill Barr as Fox News' Baier presses him on documents

In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, former President Donald Trump was cornered about his handling of highly classified national defense information, for which he has been indicted on 37 federal charges.

Trump's reaction was to attack former Attorney General William Barr, who has become a sharp critic of his former boss' actions and has even predicted that more indictments are coming.

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'I was too busy': Former White House lawyer mocks Trump's new defense in documents case

Former President Donald Trump told Fox host Sean Hannity that one of the barriers to complying with a subpoena was his pressing schedule fighting the 2020 election results.

"I had boxes I wanted to go through and get all my personal things out. I didn't want to hand that over yet. I was very busy, as you've seen," Trump said.

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'We were embarrassed': DOJ insiders told reporter they acted on Jan. 6 only after House committee shamed them

The Washington Post revealed that the Department of Justice and the FBI were resistant to opening a probe into Donald Trump for Jan. 6 for over a year, but reporter Carol Leonnig told MSNBC on Monday they were finally shamed into acting when the House Select Committee launched an investigation into the insurrection.

Leonnig began by explaining that between her and her co-author, they interviewed more than 100 people – and many had assumed that the DOJ was already involved in a Jan. 6 investigation. What her report revealed was that, at the time, it wasn't.

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Morning Joe compares Trump to the Confederacy's 'lost cause' myth

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pointed out the similarities between Donald Trump's support within the Republican Party and the "lost cause" myth that persists in the former Confederacy.

The twice-impeached, twice-indicted former president remains the GOP's presidential frontrunner despite his losing record, criminal investigations and a recent lawsuit finding him liable for sexual assault, and the "Morning Joe" host discussed the reasons for that lingering support with New York Times columnist David French.

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'They would rather be victims than winners': Morning Joe buries GOP's Trump dead-enders

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough frequently reminds viewers of Donald Trump's losing record, but he said some Republicans must prefer feeling like a victim than being a winner.

The ex-president's chief GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, took aim at Trump's losing record during a speech in Nevada, and the "Morning Joe" host said it's long past time for other Republicans to move on from him if they want to start winning elections.

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'Much worse than it looks': Morning Joe says GOP showing signs of turning against Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough sees signs that conservatives are finally starting to break with Donald Trump.

The "Morning Joe" host played a montage of prominent Republicans, including former vice president Mike Pence, former attorney general William Barr and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, criticizing the ex-president's handling of classified documents and his campaign policies, and he was struck by how forceful those attacks have become.

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The GOP is 'enthralled to cult leader' Trump as part of 'authoritarian discipline': expert

Ayman Mohyeldin spoke to historian and fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat and walked through the ways in which the Republican Party has submitted itself to an "authoritarian discipline" while being led by a cult leader like Donald Trump.

Speaking Sunday, she explained the "authoritarian bargain" adopted by other Republican leaders.

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Watergate prosecutor says Congress could act to put cameras in Trump courtroom

Former prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks explained during an MSNBC debate that cameras have been allowed in many courtrooms over the past several years and she thinks there's no reason that shouldn't happen in the case of Donald Trump.

She also explained that audio recordings have been at the Supreme Court for years and all of the fears and excuses given to keep them out have been wrong.

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