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Rachel Maddow began her weekly show by comparing Democrats and Republicans and crushing what she said is an all too frequent narrative that both parties are the same. All politicians are the same.

She began with a story about former President Jimmy Carter trying to cure guinea worm before he died. As of today, the Carter Center says, there are just 6 cases in the world. He also wanted to solve Middle East Peace, but it has proved to be much harder than eradicating a global disease.

Former President Donald Trump is probably not going to make good on his vow to testify in his own defense at the civil fraud trial, argued former SDNY prosecutor Preet Bharara on MSNBC.

The case, which was brought by the New York State Attorney General Letitia James, had the first trial Monday, despite Judge Arthur Engoron having already found him liable by summary judgment on one charge.

Economics reporter and Donald Trump biographer Tim O'Brien thinks that the former president already knows that he's lost the New York case. According to O'Brien, the image of Trump as a business tycoon has been swapped for a more lucrative persona and that's as a cult leader.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Monday after the day's proceedings, O'Brien reinforced what another biographer, David Cay Johnston, said about Trump's knack for lying about his financial worth. Johnston said Trump told him he was worth $3 billion, but then told O'Brien he was worth $6 billion, but struggled to figure out where the financial proof of that was.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) laid into far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on CNN Monday, as the latter ramps up his threats to call a vote to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) following his bipartisan deal to temporarily keep the government open.

Far from McCarthy breaking the caucus rules like Gaetz claims, Lawler told CNN's Jake Tapper, it's Gaetz who is breaking the rules.

Donald Trump's identity is wrapped up in his money, said one of his former biographers David Cay Johnston.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday after Trump's first day of trial in his New York case, Johnston explained that no case matters more than this one because it is about the persona the self-described billionaire has built up around himself.

Raw Story reported weeks ago that Donald Trump's lawyers were making a huge mistake by electing not to have a jury trial. On Monday, however, Trump pretended it was something he was being denied. Trump had a two-week period in which he could have changed the bench trial to a jury trial, but never did it.

Speaking about the legal flub on MSNBC, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said that it's hard to tell if the decision was intentional or a mistake.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton warned CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday that former President Donald Trump may actually want one of his followers to take matters into their own hands and mete out vigilante justice against former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, whom he recently accused of treason and suggested should be executed.

This comes as former Trump's one-time Chief of Staff John Kelly goes public to confirm various accounts of Trump's attacks on servicemembers and war heroes.

Details are starting to come out about the first full day of court for Donald Trump in New York.

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, Trump's previous cases have been "noticeably different" than what unfolded Monday. She called the classified documents case "solemn" and "sober" with a "silent" proceeding. "You could hear a pin drop before it started."

The judge in Donald Trump's New York case was forced to tell the former president's lawyers to stop yelling at him Monday, according to a reporter who was in the courtroom.

Judge Arthur Engoron was all smiles in court, despite Trump staring him down with his arms crossed. But when Trump's lawyer Alina Habba stood to complain about a number of issues, she got so animated that her voice became louder and louder.

Donald Trump appeared in court in New York on Monday, glaring at the judge and prosecutors as the final leg of a fraud trial involving the Trump Organization began. While the judge has already decided on one charge, there are still six others that Trump must fight.

But one long-time legal analyst thinks Trump will struggle to persuade the judge.

MSNBC'e Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump supporters for laughing at his "sick" joke about a violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband.

The former president brazenly mocked the former House speaker and her husband Paul Pelosi, who was attacked in their home last October by a hammer-wielding assailant, and the "Morning Joe" host was sickened that the rowdy crowd of California Republicans laughed and jeered Trump's remarks.

After his Iowa speech on Sunday, Donald Trump went to a farm to inspect a giant tractor. While there, he attacked Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) a second time for pulling the fire alarm in the House office building during the main Saturday vote.

Bowman released a statement Sunday saying that he was trying to get out of a locked door in one of the office buildings to race over to the Capitol to vote. He did not, as previously rumored, pull the fire alarm to stop the vote. The alarm would not have stopped the vote, as they were in two different buildings.

CNN's Jim Acosta spoke with Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) Sunday about the next steps Republicans must take to craft a budget deal in the 45 days left before the deadline of the latest continuing resolution (CR).

The fight between Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reached a new level on Saturday evening when McCarthy did a bait and switch to pass the CR when the far-right members were missing in action.