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Former President Donald Trump's former aides and advisers, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli, and former strategist Stephen Miller, are being ordered by a judge to testify to special counsel Jack Smith's federal grand jury investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — a complete rebuke of Trump and his allies' claims they are shielded by executive privilege.

None of this should be a surprise, former federal prosecutor Shan Wu told MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Friday.

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg rebuffed a Republican House demand for a peek inside an investigation involving Donald Trump as "unlawful," and MSNBC's Al Sharpton agreed it amounted to "tampering."

Bragg's general counsel denied a request for documents and an interview with the district attorney by Judiciary, Oversight and Administration Committee chairs Jim Jordan (R-OH), James Comer (R-KY) and Bryan Steil (R-WI), calling the congressional inquiry an "unprecedented" intervention into a pending local prosecution undertaken at Trump's request.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and John Heilemann called out Donald Trump for stoking violence with rhetoric "straight out of Nazi Germany" as he attempts to stave off criminal charges.

The former president used language reminiscent of his calls for action ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection as Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg weighs an indictment, and the "Morning Joe" panelists believed Trump was trying to threaten the prosecutor.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who has long resisted any effort to give information to investigators about what happened on and during the leadup to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appears ready to acknowledge he has no choice but to speak to special counsel Jack Smith.

Speaking to MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Thursday, former Georgia-based U.S. Attorney Michael Moore outlined what that could look like — and what sorts of questions Smith might want answered by the former vice president.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) attacked members of the Republican Party for being willing to associate themselves with what he called Donald Trump's "crimewave."

Speaking to MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Thursday, Raskin name-checked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, for demanding Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg answer to his committee. There's just one problem with that: Bragg doesn't answer to Congress.

Former Manhattan Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo speculated that Donald Trump's desperation to score donations or attention is all part of a plot to bait District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Speaking to MSNBC's Michael Steele, Agnifilo explained the DA's office appears to be trying to decide whether they need another witness to rebut Robert Costello, who testified to the grand jury to attack the character of Michael Cohen.

One-time Republican George Conway agreed with reports that former President Donald Trump is panicking.

Speaking to Conway on MSNBC, former Republican Party chair Michael Steele asked if Trump was freaking out over a possible indictment or if he was just trying to raise money. Steele cited reports that claim Trump pulled in $1.6 million off of his announcement that he was being arrested on Tuesday. He wasn't arrested on Tuesday.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) unleashed on his former colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives he claims are wasting time with nebulous hearings instead of focusing on the needs of their constituents.

At issue are Republican demands that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg come in to answer questions about the Trump grand jury. Grand jury investigations are secret, so Bragg couldn't provide any information if he wanted to or not. Congress doesn't have any jurisdiction over Bragg's office. Still, Bragg said in a statement that he would be happy to testify before Congress on any "legitimate legislative inquiry."

"The View" host Whoopi Goldberg questioned whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had a chance to become president, and the audience laughed and jeered.

The show's producers rolled video from the governor's interview with Fox Nation host Piers Morgan, and then Goldberg opened the topic for discussion by asking about his chances in the 2024 election — which elicited guffaws from the studio audience.

The deadline Donald Trump set for getting arrested for falsifying financial records has come and gone, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out his claims as just another "fundraising grift."

The twice-impeached former president claimed on his Truth Social platform over the weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan, which has set off days of media speculation and helped funnel $1.5 million into his campaign coffers.

A legal expert explained why an appeals court ruling forcing Donald Trump's lawyer to turn over evidence is a "huge deal" for prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell directed Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran to produce documents in a case involving classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that was a damaging blow to the ex-president.

Conservative gadfly Bill Kristol dismissed the seriousness of the charges against Donald Trump for the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Some legal experts have a different take.

Kristol compared Trump to former presidential candidate John Edwards, who engaged a third party to make the hush money payments. The jury ultimately acquitted Edwards — but Trump's case is more complicated.

Speaking to MSNBC, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal and former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann homed in on the importance of all the legal woes hitting Donald Trump at once.

For example, the judge in the classified documents case last night demanded a seven-hour turn-around time on new responses from the DOJ. Calling it "extraordinary," Katyal said that he's never seen anything like it before.