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Former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff cast doubt on Mark Meadows’ assertion Monday that he was acting in his official capacity in his efforts to try to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election.

Marc Short, during an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” shot holes in the claims Meadows was making that are considered pivotal in his effort to move his Fulton County indictment to federal court.

During the hearing on setting a trial date for the 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump, the former president's lawyer, John Lauro, brought up an unlikely person in the debate before Judge Tanya Chutkan: Hunter Biden.

Speaking to former federal prosecutor David Kelley on MSNBC's "The Beat" Monday, anchor Ari Melber — himself a former lawyer — laid out the absurdity of this play.

Several of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case are trying to get their trials removed to federal court, where, the thinking goes, they would have a more favorable jury pool and possibly a more favorable judge to throw out some of the charges. But the only one of them who has any chance of winning these motions is former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

That's the view of former federal prosecutor Harry Litman, who walked through all of Trump's allies' cases on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Monday.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows appeared in federal court on Monday to make the case he was acting in his capacity as a federal employee when he worked with Donald Trump to overthrow the 2020 election. Therefore, he argued, his case in Fulton County should be sent to federal court.

Among the most "telling" pieces of the trial came toward the end of Monday's proceedings, said Just Security editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers blew their chance to get a deal for a favorable trial date, argued former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on MSNBC on Monday. The legal team repeatedly highballed their demand in the face of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's repeated requests to propose a reasonable compromise.

As the trial in the election subversion case begins to take shape, Trump's lawyers have demanded the trial be delayed until 2026 — which special counsel Jack Smith's team has blasted as ridiculous. Chutkan ultimately decided on a date next March, still well before the presidential election.

Chris Christie on Monday called out Donald Trump over what he described as the former president’s authoritarian impulses.

The former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential nominee during an appearance on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” pushed back after the host asked him to comment on a suggestion by a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who wrote that the news media is failing to frankly describe the Republican party’s authoritarian streak, before taking aim at Trump.

Fresh off the Fox News outrage claiming the White House is going to ban Americans’ gas stoves and ceiling fans, the right-wing cable channel’s reporter, Peter Doocy, on Monday suggested President Joe Biden wants to “limit” the number of beers Americans are allowed to drink.

In January, Fox News had claimed “a gas stove ban may be imminent,” after “a commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) suggested regulators were considering banning the appliance due to health and safety concerns.” And while there has been no plan to ban existing gas stoves, the home appliances are responsible for 650,000 children having asthma, one study showed. Similar studies for decades have shown similar results.

A Christian nationalist musician during a Washington state prayer event last week called for a blaze to ‘consume’ Spokane as a deadly fire sweeping across the state neared the city, Rolling Stone reports.

Sean Feucht was joined at the Aug. 20 “Let Us Worship” event by Matt Shea, a former state representative accused of domestic terrorism who has since become a pastor, and Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, the report said.

A Kroger employee in Tennessee died on the job during extreme heat conditions, The Guardian reported.

Tony Rufus, who worked in the distribution center, was trying to cool off in the produce section after working in an area of the store with no air conditioning.

A Trump-supporting tax attorney in Shaker Heights, Ohio has been sentenced to three years for illegally voting twice, reported the Cleveland Scene.

This comes a week after the attorney, 53-year-old James Saunders, was convicted.

The rapper Eminem sent Vivek Ramaswamy a cease-and-desist letter over the long-shot Republican presidential candidate’s rapping to his music and using his songs on the campaign trail, The Daily Mail reports.

Marshall B. Mathers, the musician who goes by Eminem, contacted music licenser BMI seeking the Ramaswamy campaign’s license to use his music be revoked, the report said.

Federal prosecutors say an Alabama deputy sheriff kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman he had pulled over, the Miami Herald reported.

Joshua Davidson, 33, was sentenced to over a decade in federal prison in regards to the incident where he pulled over a woman in 2020 who told him her license was suspended and she was driving her sister's car.