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Trump's new court filing 'sort of asks Garland to prosecute him': Harvard Law professor

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe walked through his observations of Donald Trump's recent court filing over the documents seized by a search warrant at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Monday, Tribe called the court documents "very strange," a non-legal term reserved for extraordinarily bizarre cases.

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Florida prosecutor: Trump's new lawsuit is a 'delay tactic' — and bound to fail

On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," Palm Beach County Attorney Dave Aronberg weighed in on the new lawsuit Trump filed in South Florida to try to block the Justice Department from reviewing the materials the FBI seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The key problem for Trump, said Aronberg, is that this is being done after the fact.

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Mueller prosecutor explains why Garland will view the Trump document scandal as a very black and white issue

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace returned from vacation to walk through the ongoing scandal of the government documents Donald Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Speaking to Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller, Wallace asked about classified documents and distinctions on the criminality with the various classifications.

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Police capture suspected Atlanta shooter after 3 people shot

UPDATE: police have announced that they caught the suspected shooter.

The Atlanta Police Department is reporting an active shooter in Midtown Atlanta, according to a tweet from the department's account.

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Proud Boy school board candidate gets into tense confrontation with another candidate over 'hate group' claims

A Proud Boys member confronted a California school board candidate who compared the right-wing militant group to the Ku Klux Klan.

Jeffrey Perrine went with a photographer to a candidate event Saturday for Ben Avey, who is running for San Juan Unified school board and posted criticism of the group he called the "modern day Klan," reported the Sacramento Bee.

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Legal expert explains why Fox will probably settle the infamous Dominion lawsuit

Former federal prosecutor and law professor Joyce Vance thinks that the Fox network will likely look to settle their lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over the false portrayals of them on numerous shows after the 2020 election.

Speaking to host Ayman Mohyeldin on MSNBC Saturday, Vance explained that defamation lawsuits are incredibly powerful and that it's unusual to see one that is as one-sided as Dominion's.

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John Dean throws cold water on Trump lawyers' demand that the full search affidavit be released publicly

The judge in the Mar-a-Lago document search is giving the Justice Department until Thursday to turn over their redactions of the affidavit for the search warrant of the president's club. Analysts are anticipating that the redactions won't deliver much information, particularly if the DOJ can make an argument that the safety of the informants is at stake.

Watergate witness John Dean walked through some of the complexities of the case and the need for the public to understand the reasons for doing the search and the need to protect informants inside Trump's universe. Trump's lawyers have said that the affidavit will either be released in its entirety or they'll redact it because they don't want to tip their hand to the fact that they "don't have anything." Dean had another approach.

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Michael Cohen says there are more than enough low-level charges to go after Trump already — just like Al Capone

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen spoke with CNN's Jim Acosta Saturday in a wide-ranging interview about the recent guilty plea involving Trump Org. CEO Allen Weisselberg and the documents found at Trump's golf club.

Weisselberg, who has been with Trump for more than 40 years, pleaded guilty this week and agreed to spend 100 days in jail and testify against the Trump Organization, but not against the company's boss. While Weisselberg is going to the infamous Rikers Island prison, he'll only spend five months there. Cohen thinks he deserves much more.

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Ex-Trump official: Donald is desperate to know who is 'ratting him out' — and fears what they might say next

On Friday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor broke down how former President Donald Trump is desperate to figure out who tipped the FBI off about the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

This comes as lawyers representing the former president, including Christina Bobb, make the rounds on right-wing media to defend against the investigation.

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DOJ 'concerned something nefarious was going on' with Trump and top-secret documents: WaPo reporter

The Department of Justice believes former President Donald Trump may have been up to "something nefarious" by stashing top-secret government documents at his private resort in Florida.

FBI agents searched Mar-A-Lago last week and seized 11 sets of documents the National Archives had been seeking for more than a year, and Washington Post reporter Amber Phillips told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that recent court filings showed investigators were interested in more than simply getting those papers back.

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George Conway exposes three games Trump's lawyers are playing with FBI affidavit

Attorney George Conway revealed the games Donald Trump's lawyers are playing after the FBI search of Mar-A-Lago.

Multiple media outlets have asked a judge to unseal the affidavit that justified the search, and Trump and his lawyers have publicly called for that evidence to be revealed -- but Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that it's telling that they haven't joined the request in court.

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'The candidates suck!' Morning Joe mocks Trump for screwing over Mitch McConnell once again

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blamed Donald Trump for wrecking Republican chances for taking back the Senate majority.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell knocked the "quality" of candidates endorsed by the former president and chosen by GOP primary voters, saying they appeared unlikely to win, and the "Morning Joe" host said they would likely prevent Republicans from gaining legislative majorities.

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Mueller prosecutor explains why Trump probably shouldn't have suggested the FBI search was about Russiagate

Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann responded Thursday after former President Donald Trump highlighted a "memorandum on declassification."

On Truth Social, Trump posted a link to his archived White House news site saying in a memo that he declassified a lot of material related to the Russia investigation, which was code named Crossfire Hurricane. The memo was posted less than 24 hours before Trump left the White House.

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