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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman had some harsh words for Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC.

In an interview with Ari Melber on Tuesday, Tacopina sparred with the MSNBC host over the specifics of the former president's case before a Manhattan grand jury that could indict him for the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal.

Michael Cohen had a message for people trying to destroy his credibility as a witness in the hush money case against his old boss, former President Donald Trump.

"It's like what I had said to Jim Jordan, ... I know what you are doing," he said, speaking to detractors through MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Wednesday. "I know the playbook. Because I helped to write it for Donald. It's not going to work for you. Truth is the truth. And as Buddha says, truth will always rise."

Donald Trump's new lawyer, Joe Tacopina, spoke to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Tuesday, but according to former lawyer, Michael Cohen, he didn't do well.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace after leaving the New York court, Cohen wouldn't answer any questions about the details he told the jurors or even whether the federal prosecutors at the Southern District of New York had reached out to him.

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, came out of a New York court on Wednesday to reveal his experience speaking to a Manhattan grand jury for the final time.

Standing with his lawyers, Cohen revealed that after speaking to the jury for a few hours, "each and every one had questions." That factoid is a major thing to highlight, said former federal prosecutor Harry Litman while speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.

Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MSNBC on Wednesday that what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said about Russia's invasion of Ukraine hasn't gone over well among Republicans on Capitol Hill.

DeSantis, who is assumed to be readying to announce his run for president in 2024, dipped his toe into foreign policy only to have it bitten off by retired generals and other military experts along with Capitol Hill Republicans.

"The View" panelists cracked up at the defense offered by Donald Trump's attorney in the alleged hush-money payoff scheme involving Stormy Daniels.

Manhattan prosecutors appear to be closing in on the former president's payment to the porn actress ahead of the 2016 election, but defense attorney Joe Tacopina insisted the money was completely unrelated to his presidential campaign and was instead made to protect his wife from rumors of his affair.

Trump Media accepted two loans from a pair of Russia-linked entities as the fledgling tech company struggled to stay afloat, and a reporter revealed why investigators started probing the transactions as possible money laundering.

Federal prosecutors in New York have expanded a criminal inquiry of Donald Trump's business venture last year and began probing the loans totaling $8 million Paxum Bank and ES Family Trust, both of which appear to be controlled by the relative of a Vladimir Putin ally, and The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explained his reporting on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

MSNBC's Ari Melber posted a clip of his interview with Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina on Tuesday when he brought up the lie that Trump didn't know about the Stormy Daniels hush money payments.

Melber showed footage of Trump on a plane being asked by reporters whether he knew about the payments. Trump claimed he didn't, and Tacopina said that the comment wasn't a lie.

After an animated interview with Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, a biographer, who wrote Trump Nation, warned that the lawyer and his client don't know what witnesses have said and revealed to the grand jury.

MSNBC's Joy Reid, began the episode with a clip of Tacopina telling George Stephanopoulos that it was all about keeping something out of the news that would embarrass his family.

Former President Donald Trump is facing the increased likelihood of indictment over his hush payments to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, at the very least as a misdemeanor falsified business record and possibly as felony campaign finance fraud.

Speaking to CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday, former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb said he thinks it's very likely at this point.

MSNBC host Ari Melber spoke to Donald Trump's lawyer on his Tuesday episode of "The Beat." The two debated whether or not Trump lied about the affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and that Trump paid the hush money payments just like a loan to his campaign.

"Sounds like you're saying one, not a campaign finance crime," Melber said, following up on that piece of the interview. "The misdemeanor, sure, maybe, but you don't want to deal with the misdemeanor. You're kind of admitting part of the misdemeanor."

MSNBC host Ari Melber hammered Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina on Tuesday about the hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Melber showed a video of Trump being asked about the payments and if he knew about them. Trump answered, "no." Yet, his lawyer argued that it wasn't a lie because it wasn't under oath.

Former President Donald Trump could soon be facing a criminal indictment over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump insisted this week that the ordeal was an "extortion plot" and nothing more than "sick, fake news."

The claim that he was being extorted by Daniels is an admission of guilt, said former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann on Twitter on Tuesday.