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The Jan. 6 Committee has received thousands of new pieces of evidence from the U.S. Secret Service, and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said the latest developments in that investigation have struck fear into Trumpworld.

Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said Wednesday that investigators had received text messages, radio traffic and other "significant" evidence from the agency, and panel member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) agreed lawmakers had received a "large volume of information" the Secret Service fought against releasing.

Donald Trump's claim that his widely-mocked effort to buy Greenland was his own inspiration was undermined by a report by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker.

"One of the odder moments of Donald J. Trump’s presidency came when he publicly floated the idea of buying Greenland. It caused a predictable furor, generated gales of late-night television jokes and soured relations with Denmark, which rejected the idea of selling the giant Arctic territory," Baker reported. "But it was no passing whim. While many assumed at the time that it was just Mr. Trump being Mr. Trump, expressing a far-fetched thought that came into his head, in fact the idea had been planted by one of his billionaire friends and became the subject of months of serious internal study and debate that flabbergasted cabinet secretaries and White House aides."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough wondered how furious Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell must be with his fellow Republicans who are endangering their chances of retaking the majority.

The "Morning Joe" host has been pointing out that Donald Trump has endorsed weak candidates in multiple Senate races, and he also said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were also undermining their election hopes by pledging the elimination of widely popular social programs and introducing abortion bans.

A newly unsealed court filing sheds more light on the investigation of top-secret materials stashed at Mar-a-Lago, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said it's already clear that Donald Trump is guilty of at least one crime.

The now-lifted redactions in the search warrant shows that investigators were told the only place those documents might be was a storage room, but they learned about surveillance video that might show otherwise -- and the Trump Organization turned over that evidence a month before a search found classified materials in the former president's office.

The Justice Department has issued dozens of subpoenas and seized at least two phones related to Donald Trump's fake electors scheme, which represents a substantial escalation in the criminal probe against the former president and his efforts to remain in office.

Investigators targeted Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, who had already been subpoenaed by the House select committee, and Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, and NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the significance of these new developments.

Online videos have prompted new calls to search Donald Trump's other properties for classified materials, but investigators may not have enough evidence yet to obtain a warrant.

The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago last month and seized boxes of top-secret documents, and videos that circulated over the weekend raised suspicions that other materials may have been carted to other properties owned by the former president.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump's indictment seems inevitable because he has no justification for taking top-secret materials to Mar-A-Lago, and he said the U.S. Supreme Court couldn't possibly bail him out.

The former president has demanded those documents be returned to him, and a federal judge he appointed has agreed to let a special master sort through them and potentially shield some from the Department of Justice, but the "Morning Joe" host said Trump was bound to lose his fight.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough examined Bill Barr's declaration that the Department of Justice had enough evidence to indict Donald Trump -- but shouldn't.

The former attorney general has criticized Trump for absconding with classified documents to Mar-A-Lago, where FBI agents seized them after months of trying to get them back, but the "Morning Joe" host said Barr's conclusion was absolutely wrong.

Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes attempted to delay his trial involving the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, reported ABC News.

Rhodes had asked to pause so he could get a new lawyer because the ones he had were not providing good counsel. The judge didn't buy it, calling it "complete and utter nonsense."

One of the more unsettling obsessions the former president had was with his power over nuclear weapons, according to Washington Post reporter Ashly Parker. She spoke with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday about the long-running history of Donald Trump consuming information about American nuclear capabilities, which continued until the final days of his administration.

Parker recalled that in the very early days of the reports about the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago there was a conversation about nuclear information included in the documents that Trump had. Trump immediately called the story "fake news" and said that it was a lie.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said MAGA followers are finding out the hard way that the impunity that Donald Trump seems to enjoy doesn't extend to them.

Newly obtained surveillance video shows Cathy Latham, a former Republican Party official from Georgia who's now under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector, escorting a group of pro-Trump operatives into Coffee County's election office on Jan. 7, 2021 -- the same day a voting system there was breached -- and the "Morning Joe" host said she'll suffer the fate of other insurrectionists.

The revelation that Donald Trump kept materials related to a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities puts intense pressure on the Department of Justice to bring charges against the former president.

FBI agents found those highly classified documents -- which many high-ranking national security officials aren't even aware of -- at Mar-A-Lago during a search last month, and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade told "Morning Joe" that prosecutors had to indict Trump for holding onto those top-secret government records.

Former President Donald Trump appears to have a weak defense if he's prosecuted for taking classified documents to Mar-A-Lago, but he may be able to hold the court hostage by threatening to reveal some of that top-secret information.

The FBI found boxes of highly sensitive materials in Trump's office and other areas of his private resort, and his attorneys have asked for them back, or at least an inventory of what was taken -- which NBC News reporter Marc Caputo told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" signaled his possible strategy.