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During a Monday press conference about a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club, reporters asked officials about the shooter, who has a history of making dangerous threats. The previous charges has prompted law enforcement experts to ask why the police didn't enact the red flag laws in place in Colorado that would have removed the guns from the shooter.

Answering questions from reporters, District Attorney Michael Allen implied that there might be more information about the shooter and enacting red flag laws but they could be sealed by the court

On Monday, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias announced that a Georgia appeals court has denied a motion by Republican officials in Georgia to reverse a lower court decision ordering the state to allow counties to hold Saturday early voting for the upcoming Senate runoff in December.

Republicans had originally claimed ahead of the election that early voting on Saturday would be allowed. However, they subsequently reversed this position and claimed it would not be allowed, because it would conflict with a November state holiday.

The GOP's efforts to question elections, pass so-called voter fraud laws, and suppress votes is now working against them.

Elections lawyer Marc Elias explained on Monday that one of the excuses from Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is that her voters were blocked from voting due to voter suppression efforts. Those efforts have long been part of the conservative attempt to restrict the electorate as much as possible and make it more difficult for people to vote.

Five days before the 2022 election, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's son, John, was arrested for a DUI in a car full of guns. There wasn't a peep about it until after the election, however. Now, the strong arm of the law is coming down on Stitt's son.

The Oklahoman reported Monday that Logan County Sheriff Damon Devereaux said that no one should be given special treatment and Stitt's son wasn't in this situation. He stands by his deputy's actions on Oct. 31, he said.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said that there has long been enough evidence for New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg to go after Donald Trump had he wanted. Instead, he put the case aside, resulting in the resignation of two top prosecutors who blew the whistle on Bragg's decisions.

It has been public what Trump did and the motives were obvious, said MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday. Yet, Bragg still refused to act and it was never clear why. No one has been able to uncover if there was corruption involved or if Bragg was benefitting somehow from letting Trump off, but it's something Cohen has spoken in the last year.

The latest large mass shooting in Colorado Springs is raising questions about the attacker, who had a history of violence and had even made bomb threats in the past, resulting in federal charges.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former FBI counterintelligence official Frank Figliuzzi mentioned red flag laws, noting that it's something that most Americans support.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed on Monday that the Club Q shooting suspect was a member of their church.

The shooter killed five people and injured nearly two dozen more at the LGBTQ club, which was celebrating Transgender Day of Remembrance -- a day devoted to those lost in the trans community to violence.

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl described a scene of Donald Trump flying in the helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base to give a final speech as president and then jetting off to Mar-a-Lago before incoming President Joe Biden could be inaugurated. Republican Party chair Ronna Romney McDaniel called as a kindness to the outgoing president only to get an ear full about his determination to start his own party.

After some discussion, the GOP told Trump that he could abandon the GOP and start his own party, but he would no longer have any of his legal bills paid by the party. Trump ultimately held back, but now that he has taken over power and control of the party, it means that no candidate can make it through a Republican primary without the blessing of Donald Trump.

Former White House communications chief, Stephanie Grisham, confessed that Donald Trump's announcement speech wasn't quite what she thought it would be.

Speaking to Alex Witt on Sunday, Grisham agreed that it was "low energy," an attack Trump once lobbed at Jeb Bush. She said that it appeared that in his speech they were doing some message testing with the speech, which may have been why he was reading it from the TelePrompter.

Former FBI counter-intelligence official, Frank Figliuzzi, cited reports that someone matching the suspected shooter's name, age, and hometown as the Club Q shooting called in a bomb threat. It prompted Figliuzzi to ask how the shooter was allowed access to guns.

"Even the complainant may have been his mother and the target of the threat may have been his mother's home," he explained. "If that comes out to be accurate and confirmed, of course, it will raise questions of why this individual was permitted to possess a weapon. And the larger question of what criteria should forbid or preclude someone from possessing a weapon? This person reportedly, according to police, had two weapons -- including a long gun that he used in this episode. Here we are again talking about mass violence. Talking about what looks right now in the early stages to be a targeted event. As the reporters said, November 20th is Transgender Remembrance Day. It's important in the law enforcement community when they are investigating things like this to look at anniversaries, days of remembrance, and what does the calendar say about maybe a possible motive."

The shooter of the LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs had a strange legal history, an ABC News reporter confirmed on Sunday morning.

In June 2021, Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested in Colorado Springs after making a bomb threat to a neighborhood. The report matched the name, age and location of the shooter Sunday.

Donald Trump was restored to Twitter on Sunday along with all of his previous tweets and a large following that is 20 times larger than his following on Truth Social. It sparked Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to assume that the former president was about to bail on his social media site.

"Well, look, I get that people are on all sides of the debate. The fact that he did it with a poll of however many of those could be bots, they aren't real people voting in that. Secondarily, I don't know if that decision should be made by some poll," said Kinzinger.