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MSNBC's Ari Melber read some further pieces of the transcript from the recent courtroom scene in which the judge warned former President Donald Trump about threats towards the district attorney and other officials.

"We had legal experts on talk about how this could be a five, ten-minute thing, but the D.A.'s team made an unusually aggressive choice not to waste any time and risk people saying, 'oh, why was this different for the defendant?'" said Melber. "And they would say, not for any reason about the courts of bias, but because the defendant already had acted in a way that even those accused of violent crimes don't — by attacking court officials. They actually spent a considerable amount of time doing that, and it worked."

Timothy Heaphy, the former lead investigator for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has a list of questions that special counsel Jack Smith could ask of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Heaphy first addressed her questions about why Pence refused to get into the car in the basement of the Capitol that day. Pence had said to his aide that he didn't know who was driving and didn't trust that person. Trump aide Marc Short said that Pence was afraid of how the appearance of the VP's motorcade fleeing from the Capitol might look to the world at a time when the United States Capitol was under attack.

"The View" co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin clashed over the seriousness of charges unveiled against Donald Trump.

The former president was indicted Tuesday on 34 counts of business fraud related to hush money payoffs to two alleged mistresses before the 2016 election, and Griffin – a former Trump White House staffer – listed reasons she thinks the case didn't amount to much.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said Donald Trump's presidency ended the same way it began.

The ex-president appeared Tuesday in court for his arraignment on 34 counts of felony business fraud, and the "Morning Joe" co-host said it didn't matter whether or not he eventually beat the charges because the allegations revealed the shady dealings he conducted while running for the White House.

Donald Trump reacted to his first court appearance with an airing of grievances at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough doesn't think the spectacle will help him win over any new voters.

The former president lashed out at Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg hours after his arraignment, but the "Morning Joe" host said the case is weak enough on its merits that Trump quite likely won't suffer political consequences that aren't of his own making.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was underwhelmed by the allegations detailed in the Manhattan district attorney's indictment of Donald Trump, but George Conway believes it showed substantial evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

District attorney Alvin Bragg accused the former president of falsifying business records as part of a corrupt scheme to influence the 2016 election by silencing two alleged mistresses, but the "Morning Joe" host said he didn't see strong enough evidence to bump the charges up to felony counts.

April will not be a good month for Donald Trump, as several court appearances and procedures for many of the former president’s other legal troubles are scheduled this month.

"While he's campaigning!" Joy Reid noted Tuesday night during a panel discussion with Rachel Maddow and other MSNBC hosts.

Former President Donald Trump has attacked the charges against him in New York as a politically motivated crusade by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — a claim that many pundits across the media, even some skeptical of him, have suggested as well.

But former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) feels differently, as he explained on CNN Tuesday evening.

Former President Donald Trump sabotaged his own ability to set the narrative about the criminal charges against him in New York in the Stormy Daniels hush payment case.

That is the argument of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, on CNN Tuesday evening following a bizarre speech the former president made at his Mar-a-Lago country club after flying home from his arraignment in Manhattan.

The Daily Beast obtained early videos of "The Daily Show" in which former host Jon Stewart appeared to address the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Trump is being charged with 34 felonies around the false business records he's accused of crafting to hide his affairs. “Today was one for the history books,” The Daily Show guest host Roy Wood Jr. said at the top of Tuesday night’s show, calling Donald Trump’s arraignment “the craziest day in New York since the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man came to town and busted a nut on the whole city.”

One of the things that Dr. Mary Trump, Ph.D. talks about in her book is that Donald Trump has had a number of people take care of things for him throughout his life. Mentioning that, MSNBC host Joy Reid remarked that each of the scandals cited in Alvin Bragg's statement of facts in the indictment are examples of people simply trying to fix Trump's problems.

"Donald Trump has always relied on more intelligent, powerful men, to fix everything," she said. "When it was his financial issue, his father would fix it. He would burn money, essentially, throw it in the incinerator. The father would give him more. He even got extra money from the father's will because he took it from his siblings. The father's money fixed it. He lost $317 million of his inheritance! Went deep into the hole. The courts fixed it. Roy Cohn, who could step in and fix everything. The courts always fixed his problems. He had Michael Cohen whose job was to fix this. And he had AMI [American Media Incorporated, the parent company of the National Enquirer], whose job was to fix this."

On Monday, an ally of Donald Trump compared the former president to rappers like Tupac or The Notorious B.I.G. Given Ari Melber's expertise in hip-hop, it was something that he refuted.

A Biggie song, for example, has a character crafted for the purpose of the song in which the character appears before a judge to plead not guilty. The character tells the judge he's kidnapped his daughter, and then enters his plea.

Donald Trump's aides and staff lost their appeal to avoid testimony before the Washington, D.C. grand jury over Jan. 6. It's something that New York Times reporter Luke Broadwater said could open the special counsel's probe even further.

"They have been no-commenting everything about these investigations, but my understanding is George Terwilliger is still representing him," said Broadwater. "They participated enough with the Jan. 6th committee to, in the Justice Department's eyes, to avoid a contempt of Congress charge. But now this is really the big moment, because if Mark Meadows has to come in and testify, you know, that could potentially open up the entire investigation."