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Donald Trump's former White House communications aide is another in a long line warning the former president's valet, Walt Nauta, to find a safe exit for himself. Nauta is the aide accused of following Trump's orders to move boxes full of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago and has been charged as a co-conspirator.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked former aide Sarah Matthews if someone like Nauta could end up being a cooperator with federal authorities.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann pointed to a few things that he found missing in the federal indictment of Donald Trump. One of those could say a lot about a plan B for special counsel Jack Smith.

"I think there are two things that are not in the indictment that were notable," he said on MSNBC Tuesday.

Law enforcement officials and those who witnessed the Jan. 6 attack were shocked to see that the U.S. Marshals decided to use police tape to protect the Miami courthouse on Tuesday amid Donald Trump's arraignment.

After the Jan. 6 riots, the Capitol Police were criticized for using nothing more than bike racks as barriers around the U.S. Capitol entrances. Since then, on serious occasions, the Capitol and Supreme Court have started using the fence as a barrier.

Legal analysts debated the nuances of the actual trial that is forthcoming in Miami with former President Donald Trump.

Former top prosecutor for Robert Mueller's team, Andrew Weissmann, noted how unusual it is to see such a high-profile case without high-profile lawyers to match.

The co-hosts of "The View" think Donald Trump "is going down."

Speaking about the indictment on the morning before the former President was set to be arraigned, Whoopi Goldberg introduced a clip of Republican responses to it, showing members clamoring for excuses.

Extremism expert Jeff Sharlet spoke to MSNBC about Donald Trump's recent post that uses language to call on the extremists who are preparing for a Biblical end times.

Sharlet said Trump's call was akin to his "stand back and stand by" comment during the presidential debates in 2020.

Correction: A previous version of this story inaccurately called Walt Nauta a co-conspirator. Neither Nauta nor Donald Trump have been found guilty of the allegations against them.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen appeared on MSNBC Monday as part of the conversation about the former president's legal problems and his knack for throwing his lawyers under the bus.

In a discussion between MSNBC's Ari Melber and Chris Hayes on Monday night, the hosts argued that Donald Trump's future once again hinges on one of his former lawyers. First, it was Michael Cohen. But now it's Evan Corcoran, whose notes and documentation about Trump have been allowed in court.

Melber and Hayes posted a graphic showing that one of Trump's former lawyers was convicted, another spoke out, 12 have been subpoenaed and four have resigned — so far.

Every day in America, people are charged with federal crimes and must appear in federal courthouses. There's rarely any violence and never an uprising. But as June 13 approaches, there is a fear that the "thinly veiled threats" about potential violence, at a federal courthouse in Miami, are more than bluster.

Mary McCord, who previously worked as the acting assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice, spoke to MSNBC about it on Monday, saying that she was fearful Trump's arraignment could turn into another Jan. 6.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace played several clips of Donald Trump attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. Among his pledges was the promise that things would be different under his administration when it comes to classified documents — a reference to Clinton’s use of a private email server that housed government communications

"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law," Trump said Aug. 2016.

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent doesn't think there are a lot of options available to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who might be looking for ways to save Donald Trump from prosecution.

Writing Monday, Sargent quoted Jordan as he struggled to defend Trump on CNN Sunday. "This is as political as it gets!" the congressman fumed.

Analysts have spent most of Monday fearful that Donald Trump will be able to delay his arraignment because he doesn't have a lawyer on the Florida Bar. Trump is known for searching for delays for legal challenges, and analysts voiced concern that the lawyer problem was just another attempt by him to slow progress.

But, speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former impeachment lawyer Robert Ray doesn't think that it will be a problem.

The judge initially assigned to oversee the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump will likely be subject to a recusal request from the Department of Justice, an expert said Friday.

Judge Aileen Cannon was initially assigned, ABC reported. She's a Trump appointee who was previously humiliated by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for her earlier actions around the case when she tried to block the FBI from reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.