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Two former prosecutors explained that New York is accustomed to having high-profile people processed for indictments, but they've never dealt with a former president before.

Former President Donald Trump told his followers over the weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday. The New York grand jury will hear at least one witness and possibly two witnesses, as well as any closing statements from the district attorney's office. Then they deliberate on whether to indict.

Late-night host John Oliver began his Sunday show by highlighting the news that Donald Trump thinks he's getting arrested on Tuesday.

It's not happening, as it would mean the grand jury would be forced to vote to indict, and the district attorney's office would have to finish all of their paperwork on it, issue an arrest warrant and have it approved by a judge all in 24 hours. But that doesn't mean that a possible arrest isn't going to happen. If Trump's social media account is any indication, he's having a meltdown, certain that it will.

Donald Trump took to his social media site on Sunday for another all-caps rant detailing what he's thinking about as a possible indictment looms.

This time it was Trump being arrested by the New York Police Department, which he claimed would never happen because they were friends of his. He thinks that the NYPD is willing to break the law to protect him.

Donald Trump ally, Robert Costello, is headed to the grand jury on Monday in an attempt to defend Donald Trump by tearing down the testimony of Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that Cohen is also being asked to stand by to refute whatever Costello says.

Donald Trump had a meltdown on his social media site this weekend, falsely claiming that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday and begging supporters to stand in the way. The calls for "protest" were reminiscent of the comments he made leading into Jan. 6, 2021, when his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on Sunday, Dr. Mary Trump, the niece of the former president and a psychologist, pointed out that her uncle is panicking as accountability comes close. But at the same time, he's never experienced anything like it before.

Those involved in Donald Trump's world are pointing to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for refusing to lend his voice to the rest of the Republicans rushing to promote the former president.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was even one of those that jumped to defend Trump on Sunday as a possible indictment looms from the Manhattan District Attorney.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is being ridiculed for pretending in his book that he was raised in "the midwest," particularly swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

"I was geographically raised in Tampa Bay," the book says, according to excerpts. "But culturally my upbringing reflected the working-class communities in western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio — from weekly church attendance to the expectation that one would earn his keep. This made me God-fearing, hard-working and America-loving."

Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba employed the defense of "I know you are, but what am I" while in an interview on CNN Sunday about the Manhattan grand jury finishing up in the coming days. When asked about Trump's claims on his personal social media site, she dodged. Instead, she gave a confusing statement that involved Hunter Biden.

Habba began by saying that she could confirm that Rudy Giuliani's pal Robert Costello was asked by Trump to speak on his behalf before the grand jury. She said that Costello had been a critic of Cohen in the past, but Costello is the one said to have dangled a pardon before Cohen when the one-time Trump lawyer was still carrying the president's water.

Speaking to CNN, former federal prosecutor Shan Wu explained that lawyer Robert Costello presenting himself to the grand jury for Donald Trump could lead to under-cutting his credibility later.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported Sunday that Costello was the "secret witness" that Trump's lawyers were presenting to the grand jury to dispute the reliability of Cohen's testimony that happened last week. The problem with Costello as a witness, however, is that he is the one that dangled a pardon to Cohen if he agreed to take the fall for Trump on the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

New York attorney Robert J. Costello has been named as the secret witness that is being presented in defense of Donald Trump to discredit Michael Cohen. Only briefly mentioned in New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's report, however, is that Costello was the one that dangled the pardon before Cohen on behalf of the former president.

"As a Republican lawyer with ties to Mr. Trump’s legal team, Mr. Costello offered to serve as a bridge between Mr. Cohen and the president’s lawyers," she wrote. At one point, Mr. Costello contacted one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers to ask if the president might pardon Mr. Cohen."

Chinese businessman Guo Wengui was arrested by the FBI in 2015, but only after handing over millions in political donations to Republicans. Reporting for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos argues that it leaves many questions about what exactly he was doing.

The piece categorizes him as a "smooth-talking middle-school dropout who served time in jail before somehow finding his angles in the real-estate boom of the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands." The high-end property empire he built was not unlike Donald Trump, but he had to flee to the United States after his patron in the Chinese government had his downfall. He applied for asylum in the United States and then for membership at Mar-a-Lago, befriending key members of Trumpworld along the way.

Officer Harry Dunn was one of the Capitol Police officers that led Jan. 6 attackers away from the doors where lawmakers were hiding. It has been 800 days since then and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace wants to know why the Justice Department hasn't moved against Donald Trump or his close allies.

Speaking with her was former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who remarked that conservatives love to talk about how they "back the blue" but when it comes to Jan. 6, they couldn't possibly care less. He recalled the officers that lay in hospital beds after Jan. 6, noting that there are "gruesome photos of stitches and bruises and swollen limbs where they've been sprayed with bear spray and everything else."