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Stephen Colbert returned to late-night along with other comedians who were part of the writer's strike. In a 10-minute joke-a-thon, the CBS host walked through the top stories he missed during the 154 days that they were away from television.

"It was a crazy summer to be off," he began. "It was just packed with events. obviously, it would be stupid to try to recap everything that happened over the last five months. So here we go...."

New York Times reporter Susanne Craig revealed many of the colorful details about Donald Trump and his lawyers in the first day of court on Monday. Among them was the speech that Alina Habba made before the court in which she outright lied and misconstrued facts to the judge.

"She wasn't getting [facts] wrong because they were honest mistakes," said MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.

PBS Newshour reporter Laura Barrón-López revealed a Congressman was the victim of a crime in Washington, D.C. near his apartment.

"Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint tonight outside his apartment building in DC, multiple sources confirm to me. And Cuellar is safe, they say," she tweeted late Monday evening.

Raw Story reported on Donald Trump's former lawyer speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, appearing to test a new legal argument that blamed Sidney Powell.

Speaking to Tapper, lawyer Tim Parlatore revealed that "Trump co-conspirators" like Bernie Kerik are "turning on Trump alleged co-conspirators," as Just Security's Ryan Goodman tweeted.

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.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has filed a motion in the House of Representatives to "vacate the chair," setting up a vote to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

It's the first time in over 100 years that such a challenge has been filed against a Speaker. The last Speaker to be challenged in this way was Joseph Gurney Cannon, near the turn of the 20th century. Gaetz has been vague about why specifically he wants to oust McCarthy, beyond his anger over spending and general claims that he has violated agreements he made with the far-right House Freedom Caucus.

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.