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The Trump Organization is facing existential threats with a new lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Letitia James and a tax fraud trial scheduled to start next month.

The attorney general filed a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, his three eldest children, his family-owned business and some of the company's top executives, alleging that they wildly inflated property values for personal gain and underreported assets for tax purposes -- and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weismann told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that's not the only peril they face.

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal addressed New York Attorney General Letitia James's recent announcement that she was filing civil charges won't land Donald Trump in prison. One of the things that James said while giving her briefing about the 200-page legal filing is that there are criminal actions that could be charged and that she was referring it to the Southern District of New York for their investigation.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Katyal explained that there might be serious criminal probes forthcoming.

New York Times reporter Susanne Craig was anonymously mailed Donald Trump's tax information during the 2016 election after the candidate pledged that after he was audited he would turn over everything. Trump never turned over anything and it was only thanks to years of lawsuits that even the House Oversight Committee was finally able to see the information. She has become among the go-to people when it comes to investigating the finances of Trump and his businesses.

Speaking to MSNBC on a panel of reporters and experts about the New York attorney general's announcement Wednesday, Craig explained that the piece of AG Letitia James' investigation that will be difficult for Trump to explain is his appraiser.

Attorney general Letitia James warned Donald Trump that he could leave New York but would still face consequences for his alleged crimes there.

The attorney general announced a $250 million criminal fraud lawsuit against the former president, his three eldest children, their family-owned business and other top company executives, but she said Trump's move to Florida would not allow him to get away with the years-long pattern of criminal behavior.

Donald Trump loves to stall out investigations with lengthy legal battles, but his effort to do that in the Mar-a-Lago documents case probably won't drag things out quite as long as he'd like.

District court judge Aileen Cannon granted the former president's request for a special master to examine the government documents seized at his Florida resort, apparently hoping that would drag out the process past the election or beyond, but NBC News reporter Tom Winter said that doesn't seem like it will work.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser spoke about their new book The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, which talks about the "self-abasement" of Republicans who have dedicated themselves to holding his hand for six years.

Showing videos of Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), the authors talked about the Republican senator's former opposition to Donald Trump, but now he has become a Trump loyalist. Glasser explained that it has gone further than that.

Among those in the audience for the first hearing of Donald Trump's hand-picked special master was a former adviser and prosecutor to Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, who described the court as finally being run by an "adult in the room," referring to Judge Raymond Dearie.

New York University law professor Ryan Goodman, who also writes at Just Security, made it clear that the demand to appoint a special master “royally backfired on Trump."

As Donald Trump heads to court to meet his requested special master on Tuesday, he was being asked for anything proving that he declassified any of the stolen government documents.

The court filings never allege that Trump declassified any of the documents, but it's something that he'd been saying on his social media sites and in radio and television interviews. It had become such a part of the narrative, that Judge Aileen Cannon put the unsubstantiated information in her own ruling.

National security lawyer Brad Moss said that up until this point, Donald Trump has lucked out of his hand-picked judge, Aileen Cannon, handing him wins in court.

Trump demanded a special master in the court, and even went so far as to ask for Judge Raymond Dearie. After the DOJ agreed to Dearie, Trump's legal team is refusing to cooperate ahead of the first meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump's lawyers are set to appear in court with their hand-picked special master, Judge Raymond Dearie.

Ahead of the meeting, Dearie asked the Trump team for some specifics about the former president's claim that he declassified documents. The claim never appeared in any of the court filings from Trump's lawyers, but it did appear in Judge Aileen Cannon's decision.

The speculation and preparation for what will unfold in Donald Trump's document scandal continued during Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline White House" on Monday.

Welcoming Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice Wallace asked about the recent filing by the DOJ and what Americans should anticipate from the meeting with Judge Raymond Dearie, which is set to happen Tuesday. Dearie has been appointed the special master in charge of looking through the documents to see if there is any executive privilege or attorney-client privilege that should not have been taken by the FBI.

Republicans have already been measuring the curtains of the House Speaker's office with the anticipation of there being a so-called "red wave" in November that ushers in many new Republican members of the House of Representatives.

At the start of the year, once redistricting had settled, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy bragged that they would take over at least 60 seats. That has significantly been reduced, however.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress in 2020 that it was once white supremacists and racially motivated groups who were responsible for the majority of violence, but that has changed to be anti-government groups.

Last week, reporter Ben Collins tweeted a series of strange incidents involving QAnon-linked acts of violence. In one case, a QAnon Trump supporter in a rainbow wig stormed into a Dairy Queen with a loaded gun. A father shot and killed his wife and injured his daughter, after his other daughter said that he was spiraling out of control due to QAnon.