Jack Smith

Special counsel Jack Smith is reportedly looking into former President Donald Trump's interest in seizing voting machines as part of his effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Investigators want to know whether the former president chose to buy into baseless claims by Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn that alleged problems with the voting machines as a pretext to send the election back to Republican-controlled state governments, reported CBS News correspondent Robert Costa.

A leak from former top Homeland Security aide Miles Taylor's new book "Blowback" revealed Donald Trump was flashing classified information around to reporters. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained on Sunday that a key piece of this information can be used by special counsel Jack Smith in the classified document scandal.

Speaking to MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian, Kirschner explained that this isn't directly related to the classified documents that Donald Trump took upon leaving the White House. What there does appear to be, he explained, is a lot of "factual overlap."

Reacting to a new report from NBC on the multitude of witnesses special counsel Jack Smith summoned to testify before a grand jury looking into the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted some glaring omissions of close Trump associates who were not included.

As she explained to MSNBC host Alex Witt, those people are likely in the Department of Justice's "crosshairs."

According to CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, retired Gen. Michael Flynn's descent into a conspiracy-spouting crank who has embraced Christian nationalism had its genesis when he was ousted by former President Barack Obama as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency which led him to "go off the rails."

In an interview with CNN's Zachary Wolf, Bergen claimed Flynn then went down the conspiracy "rabbit hole," which in turn led him to be caught up in Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that could lead to federal criminal charges.

With Donald Trump likely facing more indictments coming from the Department of Justice, Republican Party lawmakers are ramping up for a full-scale war on the DOJ and the FBI, reports the Guardian.

The former president is already facing 37 counts tied to the Espionage Act in a Florida courtroom and more charges are expected related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and attempts to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

A pair of advocacy organizations that have long argued former President Donald Trump's incitement of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol legally disqualifies him from holding office again plan to make that case with a week of rallies and banner drops beginning on Sunday.

Free Speech for People and Mi Familia Vota are among various groups and legal scholars that cite Section 3 of the 14th Amendment—which bars from office anyone who has taken an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion"—to assert that Trump and some congressional Republicans can't serve in government because of the Capitol attack.

The Justice Department's two investigations into Donald Trump have cost more than $9 million in the five months since Special Counsel Jack Smith started them, CBS News reported Friday.

The probes are focusing on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election as well as his handling of classified information that he allegedly took from the White House and stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump and his longtime aide Walt Nauta were indicted in June for obstructing investigators in the documents case.